Some songs just make the speed dial creep up

One, I can definitely attribute to Public Enemy. Song called You're Gonna Get Yours, opening track on their first album Yo! Bum Rush The Show. Not that I'm so brazen I actually tried to blame Chuck D for those three points. Just that I know what was playing when the flash went off, and I know what that song is about and, well, if the speed dial had crept up a little, I understand why.
It's a 1987 album, so I was 23. Youthful foolishness had no influence on the other one. That's a track from 2001, so I was old enough to know better. It was the small hours of the morning, mind. Three lanes clear on the A1 coming back from

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