As ‘Wuthering Heights’ was the first single I bought when I was 10 this was the first song I downloaded from the Internet and onto my ipod in December 2007 when I was 39! As a result it is (I suppose) the computer equivalent of the first record I bought and as such deserves a mention. It is also another great song!
I have always been a bit of a Scott Walker fan since Marc Almond did a few covers of his songs on his ‘Untitled’ album and I sought out the originals from where I discovered the rich tones and diverse style of his work.
Scott Walker has a fabulous voice and even now sounds fantastic on the stereo or in the headphones (I must admit I love ‘Bat for Lashes’ and have the song that Scott recorded with Natasha on her latest album ‘The Big Sleep’ recently).
In December 2007, I was lying in bed with the most terrible flu and chest infection over Christmas and was unable to move from my bed. I could not even summon up the energy to venture downstairs for Christmas dinner (and some champagne) but I did have the lovely new ipod that Kerry had bought me and as I sat up in bed and loaded the itunes software I found myself thinking how much I loved this song, how I did not have it anywhere in my collection and if it were true that itunes pretty much had anything you could ever want maybe I should find it and download it. That is precisely what I did and 79p later (only 4p more than I had paid for my first record some 29 years earlier) I was listening to ‘No Regrets’.
Hope you like listening to it as well….
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