Seven Songs for the Week #159 - 22nd Apr 26

Record Store Day happened this week - prices have gone up and so I was a bit more selective compared to other years. Just the four albums. One was a 2LP version of The Who's A Quick One from 1966 - the album in mono and and album of other tracks. I'd forgotten about Cobwebs & Strange. It's wild how badly recorded some of The Who's stuff is - this album came out in Dec 1966, while the Beatles were recording Strawberry Fields Forever.

New TMBG album this week, and it's been a while since I've picked up one of their new albums on release day. There's a lot to love on The World Is To Dig. It opens with its oddest track: Back In Los Angeles. I had wondered if Brooklyn's ambassadors of love had softened towards the West Coast, but I needn't have worried. Back In Los Angeles is a mocking, woozy effyoo to LA:

"Say hello to the boys on Vandersnipe Boulevard
Bring a sandwich and a gun cause you never can tell
Which one you're gonna need when the snakes descend
Put me down for skeleton removal
It's great to be back in Los Angeles
Where ladies wear hundred-gallon hats"

Yay/. TMBG.

Exciting to have a announcement for a new Madonna album. It still feels like a lowkey thing though. This first song (also the opening track on the album) is purely introductory, an inoculation for a bigger banger I hope.

I picked up the Shaft soundtrack on CD in Berlin for €2. You're damn right.

Ten year gone this week. Gett Off is such a great song, why not have more of it?

Another RSD record - what an album this is. It has such a great sound, it's what Lodger should've sounded like.

A new song from Massive Attack and Tom Waits which sounds Exactly like you'd expect.