A reader combs through your suggestions on the theme of self-satisfaction – but will songs from the Ramones, Taylor Swift and Jimmy Cliff come before a fall?
Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of suggestions on last week’s callout. Thanks for taking part. Read more about how our weekly series works at the end of the piece.
Pride is a funny thing: there’s nothing wrong with a little self-satisfaction in a job well done, but too much vainglory can, according to proverb, lead to a fall. I’m not sure I’m terribly proud of my first selection, which is there mainly for reasons of nostalgia – it being one of the very first records I ever owned. But I still think Val Doonican’s Walk Tall has some merit; perhaps it’s the guitar of Jimmy Page that makes the difference.
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