A few months back I was invited to a music evening with a few friends. The theme of the evening was based on the five series of a famous TV show. What the five of us had to do was pick a song based on the theme of each series of The Wire, so we had to pick tunes on Drugs, Unions, City Hall, Education and Media. Part of the task was to try and pick some tracks that the others may not know which would prove to be quite a difficult feat considering that all five of us had all worked for a few years each in various record stores, in fact I think we worked out that between us we had worked for over 60 years in record stores. As you could imagine there was much debate after each track as we had to discuss each one, as you do, and there was 25 tracks in total throughout the evening. We started the evening at about 8 P.M. and finished roughly 9 hours later by which time most of us could barely string 2 words together never mind debate the merits or otherwise of any of the tracks. I think I managed to introduce the guys to a couple of tracks that they didn't know before the start of the evening and also discovered a couple of tracks that I was not aware of such as Minutemen's This Ain't No Picnic. But for me there were 2 tracks that that stood out that night, both tracks that we all knew well but personally I had not heard for years....
Sadly there appears to be no promo video for The Crown but for somebody who is not a huge fan of the rap music this is by anyone's standard a classic....
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