Seven Songs for the Week #129

If you are one of the regular dozen who read these lists, you'll know that I got an Atmos set-up going last month. I still need speaker stands and things, but generally I've been cherry picking tracks for the Atmos experience. Now, I think if you are going to remix an album for Atmos surround sound, then you should go for it - make it crazy, have things appear in the rear (matron!). On the Hoffman Music Forum, Genesisheads are aghast at the decisions on this Atmos mix of reads notes Genesis' artistic triumph. I really like this new Atmos version, it's got some wild decisions and doesn't sound as flat as the usual version. I bought this album on CD as a teenager, thinking maybe I'd get into Genesis - I did not get into Genesis.

The McCartney fan mantra of "where is the Back To The Egg boxset?" continues, however, as a taster of this new Wings compilation that some people are annoyed by, here is Arrow Through Me, in Atmos! If you are Atmosing.

In January 1972, Paul went to New York to make amends with John and call a truce after 18 months of post-Beatles bad vibes and badmouthing. When Paul's plane touched down back in London, the Bloody Sunday/Bogside Massacre had happened where the British army shot 26 peaceful protesters, killing 13 of them. It's odd that Lennon & McCartney then virtually reunited via mind-meld from each side of the Atlantic, and each of them immediately wrote a song about it. Paul's Give Ireland Back to The Irish became the debut single from Wings (NOT on the upcoming compilation) and was in shops within three weeks. John's Sunday Bloody Sunday would come out a little later in the year on the Some Time In New York City album.

Some Time in New York City, and unloved album, has been stuck in limbo fort three years when a 2022 reissue was announced and then pulled. The reason was seemingly the opening track, Woman is the N***** of the World. That album reappears in the upcoming Power to the People box as New York City, remixed, resequenced, and with that one song removed. Putting the disappearance of that song to one side, this first taster of the new NYC album is streets ahead of how it has sounded before. They've shortened the intro and removed the saxophone - GOOD!

The Power to the People box is being sold as an issue of the sole Lennon gigs of his solo career. It's a lot more than that. The box should have been called Power To The People: John & Yoko in New York 1971-1972. In 12 months they left the UK forever, set up in NYC, wrote and record songs about everything they saw, and the gig was the topper.

I have been listening to Bad Bunny. He's huge, you know. He's doing ten nights in Madrid next summer in the stadium of Athletico Madrid.

This popped up this week and you know what? I have never listened to HMHB. This is quite funny and tuneful.

I remember finding out that Talking Heads had a new single out when the video from Wild Wild Life was shown on The Chart Show one Friday evening. I thought it was great, and having bought the Road To Nowhere and And She Was singles, I dutifully went to the shops to track it down. 39 years later I'm in a big hardware superstore place this week and it started playing on the speakers.

I was watching Spinal Tap on the What's In My Bag? series on YouTube. They chose this record. Good call.