Autumn Fifty - number 1

England my country, the home of the free, such miserable weather

A fitting end, and a deserved number one: voted higher than the remixed Manchester hybrid sound, a beautiful, wonderful timeless, song, and the only one written by a woman in the whole F50; Harriet Wheeler was a role model to a generation of girls who lurked in libraries whilst wearing cardigans.

I've very much enjoyed this two months of wading in nostalgia and may well repeat it next Autumn, although I might skip 1990 as there are two Farm songs in there and I think I'd rather listen to Coldplay. Listening to these songs has brought back acute feelings of being a teenager, those feelings being frustration, melancholia, high emotion, longing and excitement. Mostly frustration.

and it's my life
and though I can't be sure what I want any more
it will come to me later