To put it simply, music moves people. This blog is a collection of songs to move to, in some fashion or another. Whether it's physical - running, dancing, driving or what have you - or mental, music plays a tremendous role in many peoples' day to day lives. Some of these songs you'll probably have heard. Others will be completely new to you. Others still may be rediscoveries. My hope is to bring you a song each day that is not only enjoyable to listen to, but may also make your day just a little better.
Mission of Burma
"That's When I Reach For My Revolver"
I was trying to think of my favorite first track from a band’s first album (a 1/1, from here on), and I kept coming back around to three songs. The Clash’s “Janie Jones” was the first. A great song, and a classic, but it wasn’t a 1/1 for most of their audience - The Clash had a different tracklist in the U.S., and was released here after Give ‘Em Enough Rope. The second was the Wu-Tang Clan’s “Bring Da Ruckus”, which might be the best hip-hop 1/1, but is also a song that everyone has heard.
Instead, I decided to go with Mission of Burma’s “That’s When I Reach for My Revolver”, from their debut EP Signals, Calls and Marches, in part because it is one of my favorite songs of all time, but also because Burma is still wildly under-appreciated by most.
What is your favorite debut album-opening track?
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