I’ve noticed a lot of the tracks that popped up in my Spotify end-of-year list were either old favourites or pop bangers that I’d play about a hundred times in a week before moving on.īrockhampton was the best artist I discovered in 2017.
I don’t even remember where I heard it first - I think it might have been a viral track on Spotify, but it’s annoyingly addictive - the 8m streams its racked up on Spotify definitely weren’t all by me. Canadian artist Virginia to Vegas pre-empted the “subdued banger” that would go on to dominate the charts in the later part of this year. I was surprised by this one as it’s been months since I last listened to it, but going back to it I get why I had it on repeat so much in 2017. Sail away, kill off the hours, you belong somewhere you feel free.” The chorus speaks to me as a frustrated country girl who still finds it strange to be among the concrete: “You belong among the wildflowers, you belong in a boat out at sea. But Petty played several tracks off of this album at the gig and I fell in love with them. I hadn’t paid the Wildflowers album much attention before the gig, leaning more towards the Heartbreakers’ traditional American rock sound, over the gentle folk of Petty’s solo work on Wildflowers. I started playing this track pretty much on loop after watching Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at their Hyde Park gig in July. If you’re wondering why a track for a 2016 album is being featured here, it’s for the simple and straightforward reason that, as a movie fan, I naturally watched the Black Panther trailer about 20 times then got the track stuck in my head for about three months. Proof that I am incredibly susceptible to earworms.
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