10 Best The 1975 Songs Ranked

10. Nana

Robbers narrowly missed out on the number 10 spot. While Robbers is a catchy, anthemic tune made for crowds to scream along to, Nana is a stripped back acoustic number with Healy at the most sincere and heart-on-sleeve he has been still to this day. A simple elegy to his Nana, the singer is heartbreakingly to the point on this track.

Subtle keys provide some atmosphere musically before drums and bassline enter in the middle of the song to give it some sense of momentum, before dropping out to highlight the stark honesty of the frontman's lyrics. A song like this is difficult to elaborate on, as it’s brilliance lies in its simplicity, it’s honesty, and in the intense relatability it possesses for anyone who has had the bad fortune to have lost a loved one.

Nana is positioned as the penultimate track on the outfit's second album album, giving it the effect of feeling like a wake, mirroring the subject matter, and is a genuine tearjerker.

Standout lyric:

I wish you'd walk in again/ Imagine if you just did/ I'd fill you in on the things you missed/ Oh sleepless nights, a grown up man dressed in white/ Who I thought might just save your life/ But he couldn't, so you died/ I don't like it, now you're dead/ It's not the same when I scratch my own head/ I haven't got the nails for it/ And I know that God doesn't exist/ And all of the palaver surrounding it/ But I like to think you hear me sometimes