Seven Songs for the Week #148 - 4th Feb 26

My mind wandered this week to songs that have the lyrics "et cetera" in them. This is one of them.

This week I am of the opinion that this is the best Beatles song. I spent the weekend at the Kinsale Beatles Festival and putting together the quiz I was listening to this song backwards. It's only two minutes long and was recorded in one session in October 1968. The band are so tight it is remarkable that the track only took a few hours to get onto tape. They were quite good.

It's quite hard to sing along with this song. It's all over the place.

This month's new PG song. It's enjoyable to hear the word "bucket" used repeatedly. He means "put the burden down", when one's emotional bucket is full, you can't carry it anymore. For a guy who waited over 20 years to put out new original material, PG has been on quite a streak recently.

What needs to be said? Written on the day Alex Peretti was shot, recorded two days later, released two days after that. The digital distribution of music means that this should be happening a lot more often, like when Kendrick and the other guy were putting out their songs. Although Streets of Minneapolis uses standard ballad forms of melody, it is still very well put together, and I welcome Bruce's singing being clear and powerful. I really can't get behind that mumbling western voice he uses.

New Kneecap. More protest music, but a banger, as they say. I don't see a credit for Marc Bolan because I can hear a riff from 20th Century Boy. Ocras orm arís!

And we shall end on another song that prominently uses "et cetera".