Free World - Kirsty MacColl

[GormousGorre]

remember driving across the USA listening to this when i was 7 or 8 :) much love

[CroxleyEducator]

What an amazing talent she was / is.....gritty yet vulnerable, sassy yet sensitive - a survivor thru' so many ups and downs until that horrific, tragic end.

[geostar616]

This track sounds rather political...

[jontallon1]

Remember feeling like the world had ended the day that Kirsty McColl died and time hasn't healed it. This brings a tear to my eye everytime I play it (which I do often).

[j0gan673]

What are the asterisks in the lyrics for?

[wisdominnature7]

Twenty two years on; and still bang on the money politically.

[tNJippoes]

Love this song - her best for sure. She was magic!

[UKbiker08]

such a great song - thank you

[Rich27014]

Brilliant, brilliant track....

[waverleysteps]

This song is so relevant right now.

[Spankypenguin1]

This is one of my favourite tracks. Thanks for posting it.

I sing it myself at folk clubs and it is the hardest one I do, simply because of all the chord changes.

[bjorn2run]

Haven't heard this song in decades. I always loved her smooth, soft voice. She left us much too soon. Thanks for posting.

[mnaran]

Kite was an absolutely brilliant album....Her best and should be her legacy! Miss her.

[richardgilbert2]

Why was this song never released?? Was great one of my fav tracks from her Album Kite xx

[shallowfriday]

@richardgilbert2 It was released - had to rush out and get it after Garry Davies played it twice one after each other on the afternoon show on Radio 1 Does anyone rember that? or was i dreaming it - Excellent song though and thanks for the memory

[learue8]

i really really loved her...i got to speak to on the phone once, (she was a guest on a radio chat show and i just called as her interview ended and asked "can you ask her to talk to me for a moment please?" and she picked up! : )

i asked her about morrissey and marr, what the deal was (this was a year after the smiths broke up, ) she said "they just really hate each other."

[1dragonflyz]

this is def her best track! although i adore all her stuff. Such a loss to our world :( thanx for the post xx

[TalkToTheBody]

Fab song, great artist and a great matched pair with Johnny Marr

[7223Tanya]

This is BLISS. My fave KM song. "Got to get it up and shag it*"

Johnny marr on guitar!

RIP Kirsty!

[mike0310]

Genious and well missed :(

[tab6812]

miss you

[JuilliardReject]

I had the CD (Kite ?), and used to just play the daylights out of it. Had to be 20 years ago. Great find, thanks for the upload.

[grandeleonel]

when she die? how she die?

[21shergar]

Wikipedia provides a decent precis.

[gtristdan]

I just found out today, june 1st,,,,,, and I can not believe it. I know it was quite a while ago...

I just had not heard about it... killed by a speeding boat while scuba diving in Mexico...unbelievable...sad

[KennBurch]

It's time the clans SHOULD be rising again, to bring down the pillars of this dying system and then build a new and just one in its place.

Thanks for the song, Kirsty. Your body died too young, but your spirit lives in these times.

[Sugarjunkiexox]

Aw wow, awesome song, her voice is just amazing. All my friends would probably laugh at me for liking these kind of "old" songs but i love her music to bits :) RIP Kirtsty :'(

[Kittielips]

Why would your friends "laugh at you?"

Be yourself, you don't need to "follow the rest of the flock."

Kirsty wrote plenty of meaningful songs, and she is sorely missed by many.

Thank you for posting this song.

5*****.

[rockolav]

go on jonny marr,play that guitar...

[MisterKamikazi]

Great song. Very "Smith's Inspired". It's no surprise that she worked closely with guitarist Johnny Marr

[benitez1]

lyrically brilliant

[punkrockfan182]

i always thought that kirsty died the sort of quirky death that her lyrics had a similar influx of strangeness about them. and as you say, brave,talented, and greatly missed. x

[hellbeast31]

I always thought this was a great song. I find it amazing that more people don't know it or that it was never a bigger hit. Was Johnny Marr involved with this song?

[21shergar]

Just why was this not a bigger hit? It's a mystery to me.

[KennBurch]

Kirsty had three record labels collapse while she was signed to them, and she never got proper label support for any of her music.

[jemb2000]

This should've been a hit - but then again the pop charts tend not to be full of songs with sharp, witty lyrics like this.

[icequeen55uk]

I adore this song so much, it is definitely my favourite Kirsty song. Thanks so much for posting it, I can't find an mp3 of it and I only have it on cassette, (God, I'm old!), so its fab to know its here on youtube. RIP Kirsty. What an amazing talent she had, its such a tragedy that she died so young and in such a pointless, preventable way. What a brave woman though to sacrifice her life for that of her child. At least she left behind so many great songs. I miss her. :-(

[TohruKirby]

Yeah, well said and I'm sure most Kirsty fans agree with you completely -me at the very least :-)

[Kittielips]

Ah, well, as long as you receive your mp3 and manage to 'get' this song on to it, I'm sure you'll feel better. Kirsty is sadly missed; and, in my opinion, should have shone more.

Take care.

[mrduckspeak]

@icequeen55uk - You can download this track - from the album "Kite" - as MP3 from Amazon.

[danhjersey]

thanks for this, remember this on the NME video that I threw away =(

[21shergar]

How better to die than saving your child's life. It just came too soon.

[21shergar]

Great memories from the 1980s. Freeworld's my favourite KM track.

[Rottamies]

Aivan huippu. Ihana laulu. Greetings from Finland.:)

[TohruKirby]

Hi! Greetings from the UK :D

[Rottamies]

My mom made that comment...

She said: "Totally great. Lovely song."

Well, hi to you too. :P

[TheAlsatianLover]

@Rottamies

So true. :) Greetings from the UK.

[dregmaster]

TOP BOLLOCK!!!

[p1xiepops]

I love this - it's what I play on my mp3 player when I'm on the last few minutes on the treadmill at the gym

[TohruKirby]

lol, yeah, I'll bet it gives you that extra bit of energy at the end, right? I just can't help but want to dance every time I hear it ;)

[devilskitchen08]

legend nice tune kirsty macoll fantastic thanx 4 posting