When you load up Spotify, a great big chunk of the time you can’t think what to play, right? You default back to your old favourites, those albums and songs you played on repeat when you first discovered you could make them yours.
This isn’t about guilty pleasures; it’s about those songs you’ll still be listening to when you’re old and in your rocking chair. So, enter Teenage Kicks – a playlist series that sees bands running through the music they listened to in their formative years.
Next up, Brogeal.
The Clash – Somebody Got Murdered
Aidan: This is the first song I remember hearing, and it’s remained my favourite song ever since. I always wanted to play it on the guitar, and it introduced me to The Clash, who will always be my favourite band.
Wolf Alice – Lisbon
Aidan: What a tune. When this comes on, I’m instantly transported back to being a pissed teenager in a silly badge-covered denim jacket. I hung around behind Fat Sam’s in Dundee to meet the band after their show, and I’ve got a Wolf Alice tattoo. They are the soundtrack to my teenage years, and this song sums them up for me.
Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Euan: I remember finding out at an early age that Black Sabbath were basically the first legitimately heavy band. That kind of made them feel all mystical to me in a way. They’re also one of those classic bands that you learn the riffs of when you’re first learning guitar as a fifteen-year-old. All the classic tunes by Sabbath are amazing, but this track specifically always stood out. I think it’s the really heavy intro and the fact that the chorus is really calm and beautiful. A nice juxtaposition. I also played it in school for some kind of talent show on my first proper guitar. Probably very badly with far too much gain and effects.







