Breaking up is hard to do

The Winner Takes it All - Abba
- harsh truths about broken marriages. Agnetha wails - "The judges will decide/The likes of me abide"


Heart of Glass - Blondie
Harry brings jaded cynicism with regard to the subject of men.


He wasn't Man enough - Toni Braxton


Should I Stay or Should I go - The Clash


About the guitarists split with Meat Loaf backing singer Ellen Foley

Friend of Ours - Elbow

I demur .....

Straight to Hell - The Clash

a mournful look at the displacement of immigrants and the effects of war. MIA samples this in Paper Planes

Alabama - John Coltrane

'After the murder of 4 girls in the Ku Klux Klans bombing of the Sixteenth Street baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama. Coltrane apparently patterned his saxophone playing on Martin Luther King's funeral speech.'
A masterpiece.

Brother Can You Spare A Dime - Bing Crosby

'They used to tell me I was building a Dream' - the bewilderment of someone grappling with shattered pride.

The Times They are a changing - Bob Dylan

'It's a feeling'

John Walker's Blues - Steve Earle

Very powerful and significant