Favourite songs by Scottish artists

I’ll just go ahead and split 9 songs among 3 bands, leaving the 10th spot for when I finally give Frightened Rabbit a proper shot or remember which We Were Promised Jetpacks songs I really like.

In no particular order:

Mogwai - Christmas Steps
Mogwai - Mogwai Fear Satan
Mogwai - May Nothing But Happiness Come Through Your Door

Mastersystem - Proper Home
Mastersystem - Old Team
Mastersystem - Bird Is Bored of Flying

Twilight Sad - And She Would Darken the Memory
Twilight Sad - Alphabet
Twilight Sad - Don’t Look at Me

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Meursault - Pissing on Bonfires / Kissing with Tongues

1. “Salt (Part One)” 6:23
2. “Statues Of Strangers” 2:11
3. “The Furnace” 3:46
4. “Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues” 3:52
5. “Salt (Part Two)” 3:18
6. “The Dirt And The Roots” 3:46
7. “A Few Kind Words” 3:09
8. “A Small Stretch Of Land” 4:58
9. “Ampersand After Ampersand” 1:07
10. “Lament For A Teenage Millionaire” 3:35
11. “Oh, Neighbourhood!” 3:15

Scratch track 9 since it’s just an interlude and you’re sorted

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Most of my first choices have already been mentioned but here’s someone not yet featured

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The Delgados - No Danger
The Second Hand Marching Band - A Dance To Half Death
Meursault - I Will Kill Again
My Latest Novel - Sister Sneaker Sister Soul
Out Lines - There Is A Saved Place
Kathryn Joseph - Weight
Admiral Fallow - These Barren Years
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - The Greatest Story Ever Told
Broken Records - If The News Makes You Sad, Don’t Watch It
The Phantom Band - Everybody Knows It’s True

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Not sure what in the name of fuck the visuals are here.

It’s not a great song by any means and I know everyone hates them, but it’s worth remembering Travis were just about the only mainstream band to release a song protesting the 2003 Iraq war

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Also how have we not had

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Alphabetical order by band:

Ballboy - Where Do The Nights Of Sleep Go To When They Do Not Come To Me?
Belle & Sebastian - The State I Am In
Boards Of Canada - Chromakey Dreamcoat
Chvrches - The Mother We Share
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
Conquering Animal Sound - The Future Does Not Require
Honeyblood - Killer Bangs
Mogwai - Ratts Of The Capital
Primal Scream - Higher Than The Sun (A Dub Symphony In Two Parts)
The Twilight Sad - Mapped By What Surrounded Them

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I love that latest novel song… Not heard it in years. Got the cassette single somewhere bought when they supported the pixies…

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Bobby Gillespie on bass

been finally getting into their post-Three EPs albums this year. some gems.

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Regulars at king Tut’s and always great…

Loved this song so much when I was young… Teasing the fat kids is such a great record.

this is absolutely glorious

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I know it’s new but being an exiled Scot it makes me seriously miss home… The whole album is amazing

Banger

Have to have proper think but, this is number 1 with a bullet

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could’ve gone for pretty much anything off this album tbh

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