Crucial Track for January 22, 2026

"1933" by Frank Turner

What song do you wish you had written?

With all that's going on in the world right now, it's hard not to look around and think "damn, this feels uncomfortably like the stories I've heard about the lead up to WWII". It's scary and frustrating. I've lived most of my life thinking that we had moved past that (admittedly that's revealing a bubble that was never really true, but it felt true for a while). This song was written years ago but I only heard it last year and it felt like it was written specifically for how I was feeling in the exact moment.