25: Into the Valley by The Skids (iPod Challenge)

It opens with a rumbling bass line. Then a guitar joins in. It finally explodes to life complete with an e-bow, a sound quite familiar to fans of Big Country. I’ve loved this song from the first moment I heard it, which was decades after its release.

I may have seen the video on MTVback when MTV still mattered, but without radio follow up it drifted away from me. The attraction became apparent after listening and doing some reading online and it was Stuart Adamson, the guitar player.

His sound...