Crucial Track for 04 August 2026

“Sorted for E’s & Wizz” by Pulp Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song makes you want to take a midnight drive? Are you bonkers? I’m 52, have a 4 year old son, so a midnight drive means some horrible emergency that I don’t even want to contemplate. However, back in my youth, with my first car at my disposal —a bright red Renault Clio— I’d probably have gone for this track. Indie rock was still riding high, pop music was vibrant, and somewhere in the middle this band appeared and gave us a wonderful, brutally, view of life as a young person in the current society, struggling to get by, having whatever fun they can to just make it through another night. Raves in distant fields, club parties in abandoned barns, all propped up with a pill or two, none of these things were my experience but the sentiment was the same. Escape reality for a while, and what better way than to head out at midnight and drive some quiet country roads, signing at the top…