100 Great Scottish Songs: Scotland's Best Loved Songs

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Singer Alice Johnson said: "Kill you is about being in love and wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone... It’s about the confidence you feel when you are in a good relationship and you feel comfortable enough to show your true self. I didn’t want it to be your stereotypical love song, which is why I chose the title ‘Kill You’, it’s funny feeling vulnerable whilst writing a song about vulnerability.” Sounding like a country classic with a definite Glasgow lilt. "I listened to the demo on the train from London to Glasgow. I had tears streaming down my face. That was when I realised, I had written something deeply personal to me," she recalled. The Glasgow-based artist/band aka Fionn Crossan produces/produce a fascinating kaleidoscopic mash of genre-bending instrumentation scattering drum n bass across the kind of dissonnant keyboard and guitar textures favoured by My Bloody Valentine.

Here is a collection of around 200 Scottish songs which we all know and love - but sometimes forget the exact words. They have either been written by Scots or about Scotland. A rabid lo-fi infectious screaming riffola beast made to melt eardrums and make moshpits [should they ever exist again] explode from the Glasgow-based experimental-metallers' barnstorming debut album No Breeze In Hell. It could be the angry son of Nirvana's Bleach. A delightfully tender acoustic guitar strum is the glue that make this refreshing wide-eyed summer breeze of a "sunshine man is here" love song from the folk-pop combo originally formed in Edinburgh, and who now hail from all over. They say: "Orange Nights is the song that brought the band together many moons ago. Its upbeat melody and optimism shine through in this eclectic mix of dancing, singing and home work-out eccentricity." The Edinburgh shoegze outfit with a dream pop meets shoegaze tune marrying a killer pop hook with dark edges from their promising debut EP Making Sense Of It All. Also, be advised that for the early ballads, the century may not be the date the tune AND words were known. The date I have used is for the original ballad or air to which the song can be linked. The tunes and words here are modern variants of the originals.I’ll see your “best Scottish song” challenge, Drowned In Sound, and raise you the best outsider anthem ever written. Released in the interim between If You’re Feeling Sinister and The Boy With The Arab Strap, ‘Lazy Line Painter Jane’ is the sound of Belle and Sebastian at the very peak of their creative powers. Cross-country running, furtive fumblings on public transport, yeast infections: Stuart Murdoch sets the minutiae of a stifling, small-town adolescence against joyous swells of Hammond organ, adds soaring guest vocals from Thrum’s Monica Queen, then slathers the whole lot in nostalgic, Super-8-style fuzz. Desperately sad, yet inexplicably uplifting, these are the finest 5 minutes and 52 seconds of music any Scot has ever committed to tape. NOW WHERE’S MY PRIZE MONEY?

Glasgow producer JD Twitch teams up with Berlin-based counterpart to create a intoxicatingly unpredictable twist of synth drone with a house twist. Like this list? Take a look at: Every Australian Number 1 ever, Every Welsh act to score a UK chart topper, ALL the Canadians to hit the Official Singles Chart top spot Related artists Like a lost James Bond movie theme song this epic string-strewn nugget, the brainchild of Paul McGeechan, keyboard player of Love & Money, features Steven Lindsay, the front man with the Big Dish, one of the great lost bands of the 80's. Scotland is indeed a beautiful country and has produced some of the most beautiful songs. These are a reminder of the rich heritage and cultural significance of Scotland.Meaning “beyond the clouds”, this is a precious avant garde folk Edinburgh-based Romanian singer-songwriter's immigrant journey, having moved to Scotland at age 18 to study. It is simply heavenly cut from her enigmatic fifth album While I Sit And Watch This Tree Volume 2. This perfectly articulated the feeling of emotional disorientation and heartache that Covid-19 brought, with the power to wash aside the isolation blues with an irresistible cauldron of indie, electronica and folk sounds and the soaring high-pitched vocal melancholy of the Edinburgh-based Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter/poet.