When I was a young man, well, younger still than I am now, I wasn’t used to listening to music. Sure I listened to the radio from time to time, and there were a couple of songs that I liked, but I didn’t have any favourite bands, and I knew only a handful by name. There were no songs I had learnt by heart, I did not have any CDs that I could call my own, and I had never downloaded a song.

And then the year 2005 came along, and with it, the movie Sin City, which I grew to like quite a bit. One day, I was watching videos over at YouTube and I stumbled upon the trailer, and I discovered that the trailer music made something inside mi tick. Another video about the same movie used the same song – an instrumental version of Cells by The Servant – so I checked the comments and found its name. For the first time, there was a song I wanted to download. Soon I had that song, both in instrumental and regular versions, and then other songs by The Servant, and later on by other bands as well.

All of a sudden, I had become an alternative rock junkie, and all because of one song. A song that, even without all this meaning, would still top my list of favourite songs. A song by a band high up there in my list too.

So I raise my glass to Cells and to the former band The Servant, and to their then front man, Dan Black. Cheers!