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10 of the Best Songs Celebrating Ecstasy
All the highs with none of the lows
6 Primal Scream ‘Don’t Fight It, Feel It’
In truth, almost any song off Primal Scream’s career-defining album ‘Screamadelica’ would have done. The whole thing is a paean to the MDMA-munching dance culture explosion these Scottish indie rockers had fallen in love with. From ‘Movin’ On Up’ to ‘Come Together’ to ‘Higher Than The Sun’ to the post-chemical ballad ‘I’m Coming Down’, it’s the ultimate Ecstasy concept piece, with the defiantly live-for-today ‘Don’t Fight It, Feel It’ a contagious, foot-mover.
Sample lyrics: “Rama lama lama fa fa fa/Gonna get high ‘til the day I die”
5 The Streets 'Blinded By The Lights'
Mike Skinner’s greatest success, the concept album, ‘A Grand Don’t Come For Free’, contains this gently chatted story of a night out. The narrator is looking for his girlfriend in a club but ends up completely twatted (“Who cares? I’m mashed!”). Skinner’s precise focus on the particulars makes it all too believable; that the E “tastes like hairspray”; that he takes a second, thinking the first is “a dud”. Both funny and poignant, the true shape of everyday urban Brit hedonism.
Sample lyric: “Maybe I shouldn't have done the second one/I feel all fidgety and warm”
