Old music
It's out with the new, in with the old as Guardian writers take turns daily to select a song from the past that moves them
Old music: Cocteau Twins – Crushed
The Cocteau Twins were not a band to be understood – instead they invited you to fly into the mystery
Old music: Stevie Wonder – Visions
A dash of vintage Wonder brought a sense of wonder to spotty teenager's musical life
Old music: Bruce Springsteen – Racing in the Street
Bruce Springsteen knows rock'n'roll tells us lies – he loves the falsehoods, but he wants us to know the truth, too
Old music: Soft Cell – Say Hello Wave Goodbye (12in version)
Whoever thought to pair Marc Almond with an oboe for nine minutes turned out to be some sort of genius
Old music: Young Disciples – Apparently Nothin' (Soul River Mix)
Sitting in the back of a car, and the Young Disciples come on. Time to annoy the parents with headrest drumming
Old music: Stephen Foster – Hard Times (Come Again No More)
A song written nearly 160 years ago still resonated down American history. And you don't need to be American to be blown away
Old music: Ross – Swallow Your Dreams
A chance encounter with a busker, a horse sanctuary in Kent – sometimes songs take you on the strangest journeys
Old music: The Mighty Wah! – Come Back
Pete Wylie could hit and he could miss. But when he hit, he could knock your socks off, as John Peel testified
Old music: Sinéad O'Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U
This song was so pervasive precisely because its emotions were so universal – and its performance so truthful
Old music: Robert Wyatt – At Last I Am Free
In which a hero of the English counterculture embraces the hedonistic disco of Chic, and plays a blinder
Old music: Bob Dylan – Boots of Spanish Leather
You don't need to have been jilted to be moved by this early Dylan masterpiece – just to have felt the pain of upheaval
Old music: Simon & Garfunkel – A Most Peculiar Man
Paul Simon's English period produced some of Simon & Garfunkel's best-loved work – including this understated song inspired by four lines in a London newspaper.
Old music: Golden Earring – Twilight Zone
The best AOR record of the early 80s? Something by Fleetwood Mac, maybe? No, it was made by four Dutch blokes
Old music: Baader Meinhof – Mogadishu
What kind of musician decides to write a concept album about terrorism and its consequences? Luke Haines, that's who
Old music: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – The Intro and the Outro
Charles de Gaulle on accordion? Vivian Stanshall took introducing the band to ridiculous extremes in 1967
Old music: Depeche Mode – See You
Jon Lloyd: Conventional wisdom held that boys weren't supposed to like early Depeche Mode. Conventional wisdom was wrong
Old music: REM – Feeling Gravity's Pull
Michael Hann: The greatest of bands can be as opaque as they wish – you'll still somehow understand exactly what they mean
Old music: Julian Cope – Charlotte Anne
Maxton Walker: It was a record so good, so beautiful, that Radio 1 played it twice in a row one Saturday morning
Old music: Manic Street Preachers – Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)
Who'd have thought the Manics' big chart breakthrough would be soft-rock cover of a 70s sitcom theme?
Old music: Rod Stewart – Maggie May
A reminder of Rod the mod at his peerless best, before the Atlantic crossing that robbed him of his soul
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