Seven Songs for the Week #100 - 5th Mar 24

The 100th list so here's a 100 song.

The classic "I heard it in a cafe and Shazamed it" tale. It was the noodley keyboards at the end that drew me in and I was surprised to see it was recent and it was our old friend Mk.gee.

Ringo's 2025 country album is a pleasant thing. The blend of voices with Ringo's on this tune is lovely, and it's a tune.

I went into a mini YouTube hole at the weekend of live Peter Gabriel in '77/'78. His '77 tour had a hidden Robert Fripp in the band off-stage, and the encore song was Back in NYC. Tony Levin was in the band back then, so 50% of 1980 King Crimson were present. In '78, Fripp was gone, but the encore song was The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. If that version of that track was readily available I'd add it here. Instead I'll add Modern Love, which if you listen to those early gigs, was a massive crowd pleaser, but PG moved away reasonably swiftly from songs as obvious as this one. I'm not sure has he played it since 1980.

The strings, the drums, the dry sound of it all.

As a teenage Pink Floyd fan, the next step on from The Wall and The Final Cut was to get The Pros & Cons of Hitch Hiking - Roger Waters' first proper solo album and the release that was supposed to make Rog an even bigger deal than Pink Floyd. It's a terrible album title. The cover is downright lousy, awful awful awful. The album is boring as hell. I have never been able to get into it.

Separately I was reading about The Wall film and this song is in it, sort of. The legend is that Pros & Cons was written at the same time as The Wall and Floyd were asked to chose one to record. They made the right choice. In The Wall movie, Bob Geldof in the role of Pink hides in a toilet cubicle and reads songs from a notebook, and this gets an airing. It's short!

Another connection to 100. This album is a full winner, and Smog Moon is possibly the best album closer ever.