One song that says Glastonbury festival to you?

[Cooter]

Mine, Tom Pettys Learning to Fly. Wandering past the pyramid many years ago on a sunny festival Thursday mid-morning and this blasted out as a very loud sound check. As I stopped, looked around and took everything in at that moment, for me, everything was perfect in the world.

 

[themuel]

New Radicals - Get What you Give - 2003 Pyramid Greenpeace video. 

[BigMarv]

Editors - Blood

Switch - A Bit Patchy

[Chinakat]

I know this is beyond obvious, but has to be Waterboys. I've seen it live several times but hopefully this year where it belongs!

 

 

[clarkete]

49 minutes ago, Chinakat said:

I know this is beyond obvious, but has to be Waterboys. I've seen it live several times but hopefully this year where it belongs!

 

 

I've seen them there several times, but at least a couple of those were before this song, so whole of the moon was the one everyone knew and really responded to. 

Some of those years it seemed like Hothouse Flowers were always there, in their case don't go was the one that always got a big response. 

[bexj]

The Kinks, Waterloo Sunset, always used to be played on the Pyramid between bands

The Chemical Brothers, Keep on getting me high, from the BBC coverage a few years back but sums up the feels really 

 

[kalifire]

Jolene.

[FloorFiller]

I don’t even like this band, but after going to the festival in 2010 I started university and then despite making a bunch of student friends, couldn’t convince anybody to go with me in 2011 and so had so sit at home glumly watching it all on TV. This was the song that the BBC used that year and it is totally engraved in my head as the ‘Glastonbury song’, for better or for worse (mostly worse, although tbf it is catchy as fuck). Still expect it to kick in every year when I’m rewatching old Glastonbury sets:

 

[westholtschic]

was a fantastic set in the sun

[Cooter]

5 hours ago, Chinakat said:

I know this is beyond obvious, but has to be Waterboys. I've seen it live several times but hopefully this year where it belongs!

 

 

Yep, I actually listened to this yesterday and I said to my daughter "it's the music in this rather than the words that remind me of glasto".

[blutarsky]

Other stage, 2019 

 

[whitehorses]

1 hour ago, westholtschic said:

was a fantastic set in the sun

Came to post this. 

Edited April 12, 2022 by whitehorses

[Meerkat]

A Head Full of Dreams always reminds me of the 2016 Coldplay set with the fireworks to open the set

[elgatonegrofabricwardrobe]

Happy Song by Herbie Treehead. He hasn't been at the last couple though unfortunately.

[Robofish]

I don’t think I ever hear Paranoid Android by Radiohead without being transported back to a sticky, muddy Pyramid field in 1997.

[Obiginnaw]

Maverick Sabre- Drifting 

hazy sunset , suitably drunk/buzzed, that’s the one. 

[TheGChild]

2009. Notion by KoL seemed to be on a loop on the pyramid stage between acts. That "dont knock it, dont knock it" bit always takes me back to the field.

[Chubby Dude in a Tiny Car]

for me its the Levellers' version of Lowlands of Holland.

seen the Levs at Glasto a bunch of times - in fact they were the first thing i ever saw at the festival in '94 - and really there are a few songs i could choose, but for some reason that i dont even actually understand "Lowlands..." in particular always transports me right back to that field on that night - pure magic.

[BluePaul]

Com. Mon. Peo. Ple.

[moogster]

Somehow My number from Foals. Probably due to multiple viewings of the BBC footage that year.

[Boilingtent]

Arcadia 2011 or maybe 2012 anyone?

Edited April 12, 2022 by Boilingtent

[mjfiddy]

Karma Police 🔥

[gigpusher]

2 hours ago, westholtschic said:

was a fantastic set in the sun

Yep I even change the lyrics to one week like this a year will see me right. 

[Respectfatfrog]

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2 hours ago, westholtschic said:

was a fantastic set in the sun

This song will always take me back to the farm 

[gigpusher]

1 minute ago, mjfiddy said:

Karma Police 🔥

Yep reminds me 100% of 2010.