Crucial Track for February 14, 2026

"I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)" by Stevie Wonder

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What is a song that feels like home to you?

Home is a fluid concept when you're young and move around a bit. But this prompt made me think of the first time I felt truly settled as an adult—finally finding a nice flat, a good job, great friends. Going hi-fi shopping on Gray's Inn Road and letting the salesman talk me into spending more than I should have on my first separates system: Cambridge Audio components and Bowers & Wilkins speakers with eye-catching Kevlar cones. Cabbing it back across London, excitedly wiring it up, putting on Talking Book, and being astonished by how good it sounded. Listening to it now takes me back to Adys Road, Peckham—the place I happily called home for a few years in the 2000s.