100 Great Scottish Songs: Scotland's Best Loved Songs

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This is really important to me and I realised I couldn’t take people with me who didn’t want to put in the work to be better.

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. It was first written by Robert Burns in 1788 however the text did not appear in print until 1796 after his death.One of the most common answers we received was for The Proclaimers’ “I’m Gonna be (500 Miles)” song. A rip-roaring queer-funk that distils the best of Talking Heads, Sparks, Lady Gaga and even Bauhaus from a new EP from the solo escapade of Glasgow's Samuel J Smith, of Casual Sex and Mother and the Addicts. The song was written by Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1788 and has become synonymous with Scottish culture and heritage. The Edinburgh-formed avant-surf-pop combo are at their very best with this hook-filled acid-inflected breast-banging title track from an eagerly-awaited forthcoming album which is the music equivalent of Pringles - once you pop you can't stop. In the early 80s, whilst Postcard Records was birthing Indie, Altered Images (like compatriots The Associates and Eurythmics) rode the crest of New Pop and crashed the charts at number two with ‘Happy Birthday’.

A younger generation of Black women artists can rediscover and reclaim the banjo as an African instrument, while young ballad singers can access sound archives to learn from tradition-bearers now long gone. With a jazz trumpet, a jazzy inflection and a whole dollop of soul, this emotional, pastoral, contemporary alt-folk anthem provides guaranteed chills. Here he shows off his best Gerry Cinnamon everyman pop sensibility and adds an addictive whistle hook. Finally in 2007, Leon Jackson won The X Factor and scored the Official Christmas Number 1 with When You Believe. The Glasgow combo's first of two 2020 albums Over and Over was a delightfully unconventional mash up of different styles from doo-wop, goth, rockabilly and even elements of hip-hop, which should be wrong but is so right.I’ll see your “best Scottish song” challenge, Drowned In Sound, and raise you the best outsider anthem ever written. Or maybe that was the following year; there were three consecutive trips, and it was all quite a while ago, now.