Back in my first year at Uni, a girlfriend really got me into The The.
Being a goofy 80's pop kind of kid, it really wasn't my thing—a baptism of fire!—but I was desperate to impress her so I listened to loads of it and eventually warmed to the desolate, unforgiving visions of Matt Johnson, and his gravelly voice.
I'm grateful I was pushed out of my musical comfort zone like that, because I still really love listening to The The, now! (The fact it was set to the catchiest, ear-wormiest kind of music really helped.)
Anyway, in my second year of Uni, they released a new album—the utterly brilliant Dusk—which starts with the following lyric; a lyric that really got under my skin: