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Apropos of nothing: James Blunt's '1973'. What a massive, massive tune

  • August 18, 2009
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAq0AbxhawI

This track was on 'Smooth Radio' last night.

It was the first time we'd heard it in some time — well over a year — and it struck us, as we washed up some cutlery, what an incred­ible and pwoerful song this is. It contains all the best bits of a great pop song: wist­ful­ness, nostalgia and ref­er­ences to dancing, music making the people come together and happier times, all with a very slight sense of emo cling­i­ness and possible 'you really have to stop phoning me now' tend­en­cies.

Do you remember when it came out and we were like 'it would be amazing if there was a dance remix of this', and then there was a dance remix, and it was shit? They were bleak days, viewers. Bleak days.

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