Seven Songs for the Week #116 - 25th June 25

All hail the algorithm. Last week I mentioned how I enjoyed hearing songs that have well-known samples in their original state. This week my "radio" station on Apple Music played me this which was sampled by Public Enemy in 2007's Harder Than You Think.

I had my eye on the 2022 6CD box set and found a versions going for €10 second hand. I'd forgotten how much I liked this at the time. The curse of CDs though is I don't think I listened past Do You Realise?!

Found out that the Spoon song, Don't You Evah was not actually a Spoon song and this is the original. It's not as good though.

Listened to the Roxy debut this week, which in my head has Virginia Plain on it. Then I heard it on the radio. The coincidence!

I need to listen to this album a bit more. It's quite good actually.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Separate to the Shirley Bassey track above, I was flicking though the tv and saw a "Biggest Scandals of 1988" thing on, and they were talking about Gangsta Rap. I had to explain to the teen who NWA were, and then off we went on a mini YouTube rabbit hole, including this song. I'm such a trendy dad.