{"id":1686,"date":"2026-08-11T21:31:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2026-08-11T21:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:31:06","slug":"now-thats-what-i-call-stuarts-favourite-music-106-big-country-one-great-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/uncategorized\/now-thats-what-i-call-stuarts-favourite-music-106-big-country-one-great-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Now That\u2019s What I Call Stuart\u2019s Favourite Music 106 \u2013 Big Country \u2013 One Great Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1687\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.8651801959970632;width:341px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-5.png 847w, https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-5-260x300.png 260w, https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-5-768x888.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now here\u2019s a fantastic feel-good song from 40 years ago (yes &#8211; I feel old) that really deserved to do so much better when it was originally released back in September 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne Great Thing\u201d by Scottish band Big Country entered the UK charts at number 27 on Sunday 14th September 1986, climbing to a peak of number 19 the following week before gradually slipping back down the chart over the weeks that followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Released as the third single from their third studio album, The Seer, this is one of those songs I love putting on whenever I\u2019m feeling a bit down. It\u2019s upbeat, uplifting and an almost guaranteed toe-tapper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"(HD) Big Country - One Great Thing (Upscaled Music Video) 1986\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J7arNGU81zo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now here\u2019s a fantastic feel-good song from 40 years ago (yes &#8211; I feel old) that &hellip; <a title=\"Now That\u2019s What I Call Stuart\u2019s Favourite Music 106 \u2013 Big Country \u2013 One Great Thing\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/uncategorized\/now-thats-what-i-call-stuarts-favourite-music-106-big-country-one-great-thing\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now That\u2019s What I Call Stuart\u2019s Favourite Music 106 \u2013 Big Country \u2013 One Great Thing<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1564,1373,1346,1565],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-big-country","tag-favourite-music","tag-music","tag-one-great-thing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}