Recently in GP's Song of the Day Category

After three songs that could loosely be considered cool, I thought I'd admit to something a bit more cheesey.

I was surfing Freeview last weekend and settled on something called 50 Best Songs of the 1980s on one of the music channels. A Good Heart by Feargal Sharkey came on and I've been singing it ever since.

The video for A Good Heart should be put into a time capsule to sum up everything that was awful about music in the 1980s: Feargal's terrible hairstyle is topped only by his buttoned up white shirt (yuck) and it's impossible to ignore the gimmick of having two female drummers playing in unison.

Oh, what a little tease I am.

Yesterday I wrote about Elbow's One Day Like This being one of my two favourite songs of the year but didn't tell you what the other one was. Well here it is: The World Should Revolve Around Me by Little Jackie.

I first heard this one Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie's Radio 2 show and I'm convinced that I was singing along before it even ended. It's insanely catchy and makes you want to dance around your house (even if you are a 36-year-man with a dodgy knee).

After yesterday's 40-year-old song of the day, I thought I'd go for something a bit more up to date today.

One Day Like This by Elbow is one of two tunes in the running to be my favourite song of the year so far. It's based around a beautiful string riff (if you can have such a thing), has some lovely lyrics and builds up to a repeated chant of "throw those curtains wide, one day like this a year would see me right".

All in all, it's one of those life affirming songs that are great to play loud on sunny days, and it really got into my head as I walked into work today.

I am GP and this is my blog about the song I've got in my head each day.

To kick things off, I thought I'd share what I consider to be the greatest song ever written: Tracks of My Tears by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.

That may sound like a bold claim - one that only a fool would make, in fact - but believe me, ladies and gentlemen, when I say that I am that fool.