Suffragette City by David Bowie
Heros - David Bowie.
I could easily pick three Bowie songs for this - Suffragette City would be a candidate but Heroes is a definite. So...
1. Heroes - Bowie: It's become a bit of a cliché but there is a simple reason why it regularly features in lists of the greatest songs of all time: it is that good. And it makes me glad to be alive every single bloody time I hear it.
2. Psalm - Roxy Music: especially
this performance - which, as one of the YouTube commenters so eloquently puts it, is "Perfectly pitched on a knife-edge between irony and genuine sentiment". The tambourine moment makes me grin every time. As with Bowie, I could have chosen any one of several Roxy Music songs, but there's just something about this one that makes me happy.
3. Your Daddy's Car - The Divine Comedy: A joyous celebration of the reckless exuberance of young love, and living for that sublime moment because you know it isn't going to last forever. Again, I could have chosen several other Divine Comedy songs but this is the one I always go back to.
Ask me again on another day and I might pick three entirely different songs by entirely different artists.