100 Great Scottish Songs: Scotland's Best Loved Songs

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heart/never *1985*: https://www.youtube.c*m/watch?v=xCEFysCT1a4 this album would go 5x plat. and yield 4 top 10 hits. i was 10 yrs old this year and madonna's like a virgin album & the 'we are the world' single would be so big, so any artist that could compete with them is extraordinary.

Ivor Cutler is a self-described "oblique musical philosopher" who gained the unlikeliest of cult followings following his appearance in The Beatles 'Magical Mystery Tour' in 1967. In "Life in a Scotch Sitting Room #2 Episode 11" Cutler recounts the depressing years he spent growing up in the Scottish countryside which inspired many of his songs. Accompanied by his trademark Harmonium, Ivor's storytelling is bleak, hilarious and deeply touching all at the same time. The absurd nature of his songs only emphasises the fact that he was clearly a deeply troubled man. He is a Scottish national treasure that will be forever missed. The exciting new 18-year-old artist from Bathgate is at his best on this darkly twisting electro-synth epic which comes over like a poppier Nine Inch Nails from his superb debut The Storm EP. He says it’s about the internet and how you see everyone posting about things they are going to do and achieve but nothing really ever happens. A delightfully tender acoustic guitar strum is the glue that make this refreshing wide-eyed summer breeze of a "sunshine man is here" love song from the folk-pop combo originally formed in Edinburgh, and who now hail from all over. They say: "Orange Nights is the song that brought the band together many moons ago. Its upbeat melody and optimism shine through in this eclectic mix of dancing, singing and home work-out eccentricity."If the winter of 1985 heralded a musical epiphany of sorts - ground zero even - then the seeds were sown twelve months earlier. Almost to the day in fact. As debut singles go, nothing could have prepared the synthetic pop landscape of the 1980s for the three minutes of visceral noise that was 'Upside Down'. Borne out of frustration from living in a deadend smalltown (East Kilbride), records like this only come around once in a blue moon. Guitar music would never be the same again. Here is a collection of around 200 Scottish songs which we all know and love - but sometimes forget the exact words. They have either been written by Scots or about Scotland.

The singer-songwriter is adept at spouting her stark warped Tori Amos songs of 'abusive c*nts; through the most minimal of instrumentation. This transcendent highlight from her SAY Award-nominated album For You Who Are The Wronged hits through with a killer hook. Cruel Summer’ returning to the Top 3 thanks to the incredible concert film is amazing to see! Glad it was able to top the Billboard charts more than four years after its release too. :) Calvin's Number 1s are: Dance Wiv Me (with Dizzee Rascal & Chrome); I'm Not Alone; We Found Love (with Rihanna); Sweet Nothing (with Florence Welch); Under Control (with Alesso & Hurts); Summer; Blame (ft. John Newman); Feels (ft. Pharrell, Katy Perry & Big Sean); One Kiss (with Dua Lipa); Promises (with Sam Smith) and Miracle (with Ellie Goulding). It’s got drum and bass rhythms, prime Depeche Mode-style synths and fantastic vocals. "It’s a song that we’re very proud of and we hope you like it too," they said. The Scots-Swedish duo led by ex-Geneva singer Andrew Montgomery produce one of their most seductive four minutes yet. We have a 10-day return policy, which means you have 10 days after receiving your item to request a return.It is a mix of the known, little known and the unknown, leftfield and mainstream, immediate pop anthems and challenging (very) experimental projects. He was born and raised in England, that's the problem. You only have to listen to his speaking voice to know Sir Rod's technically a Londoner. But at the same time, he's one of the most famously and proudly 'Scottish' people around, so it is a bit of a conundrum... There’s a lot of pressure in your 20s to be social but also be hard working. To drink and party but be healthy. It’s a rollercoaster of emotions and we are still learning who we are. I wanted to write this song because I think a lot of people think they are the only ones going through it (including myself), when really we all have our struggles. I wanted to remind people we all have our own chapters and stories to tell."

Singer Alice Johnson said: "Kill you is about being in love and wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone... It’s about the confidence you feel when you are in a good relationship and you feel comfortable enough to show your true self. I didn’t want it to be your stereotypical love song, which is why I chose the title ‘Kill You’, it’s funny feeling vulnerable whilst writing a song about vulnerability.” I was writing that for my cousin who I grew up with who then, from the age of maybe 10 or whatever, I never really saw again. In the song I was saying ‘whatever was then, maybe that’s something that’s forever’. Because it happened all them years ago maybe you can’t touch it, you can’t feel a memory, it’s not tangible, but that’s not to say that doesn’t last forever because that’s maybe floating somewhere. Wherever you are in your thoughts, keep me a space’," says crooner James Allan. Do they need to get brought into this conversation though? No other regulars from there have even commented here in weeks, if not months.

It is taken from her glorious third EP Take Care Of Yourself which she describes as a "meditation on self-care, a rap to emotional openness, an ode to feeling okay (maybe even great) about you, yourself, and everything." An enchantingly spacey leftfield electro-glitch pop gem from the Edinburgh duo Fern Morris and Brian Pokora's debut album Closer For Comforting. "The Soft typifies our sound quite a bit, though it’s the more poppy end," said Morris.