Number 32'Baby 81' by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Trotter’s Top Ten position : 5 in 2007
UK Chart high : 15 in 2007
Doing this countdown isn't easy you know. For instance, I spent far too many hours agonising over which BRMC album should make it onto the list. Would I go for their incendiary debut, their second with the brilliant 'Stop' or the acoustic 'Howl'? Well none of those. Instead 'Baby 81' makes the Fifty mainly because it built on all those previous albums, learning from the best of each. You've got the literal call to arms of 'Weapon of Choice' (a great first salvo), the leather-clad cool of 'Berlin' but most of all the surprisingly fragile and heartfelt 'All You Do Is Talk' - my favourite song of theirs that proved they could do sensitive and melodic as well as full-on rock. This was never a single so there's no official video. Someone kindly did a 'Life on Earth' job for a video on YouTube though - which the band probably hate for its blazing colours and sentimentality - but it does work rather well. Furthermore, choosing this album meant that I found out what exactly the Baby 81 story is. Look it up, there's no way I can do it justice here.
Look at Weapon of Choice ; Berlin ; All You Do Is Talk
Listen to a sampling of the Top Fifty on Spotify as we go or the 'one from each album' version
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