Over the years, I’ve had a lot of ‘favourite’ songs from The Bends — “Fake Plastic Trees”, “Black Star”, “The Bends” itself — but it’s elegiac closer “Street Spirit (Fade Out)” that’s always seemed most likely to endure, and so it’s proved, at least to the present. It speaks to and for a part of me now as much as it ever did, increasingly buried though I fear that part may be.
