THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
425-Tracy Chapman-Fast Car.
1988-Number 4 single.It re-entered the top 40 again in 2011 and once again reached Number 4.
Best Bit-At 2.01.What about this for an accolade!’Rolling Stone magazine rank the song at 167 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time,the highest ranking song both written and performed by a female artist.
On June 11th 1988 Tracy Chapman performed this song at Wembley Stadium as part of the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute.It was that critically acclaimed performance that brought both her and this song to the attention of the masses.
Fast Car tells the story of someone trying to escape a life where there is very little prospect of them bettering themselves because circumstances are heavily weighted against them.The sting in the tail is that what the narrator is trying to escape comes around full circle and history repeats itself.
I find myself thinking of Elvis Presley’s 1969 song ‘In The Ghetto.'(see best songs 442.)
‘You got a fast car but is it fast enough so you can fly away.’
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