Seven Songs for the Week #186

New single heard on the radio and drawn to it’s 70s pop styling. I’ve featured Ashe before on one of these lists and had forgotten about it.

It there’s a theme this week it’s “listening to 90s CDs I have not listened to in a long time, maybe since the 90s, oh this is quite good”. Exhibit A - I won this CD when it came out in 1992 - I was sitting in my dad’s car waiting for him to reappear from somewhere and there was a phone in competition on the radio. So I phoned in (dad was rocking the mobile phone since about 1989) and had to turn up at the station to collect the CD. I probably would never have bought it. It’s very good, and this song is the best.

I was asked by an offspring if I knew this song, I did not, I listened, it’s very good.

90s CD number two. An album whose first 8 tracks are hugely familiar to me, but the last 4, less so. The CD era allowed you to just listen to singles or flick around, I was guilty of that.

90s CD number three. Again, I hadn’t listened to this in a looooong time and was surprised by how much of it I still knew. Very well-recorded album. Still sound great.

I ended up playing solo Syd and 67 Floyd at the weekend, and then coincidentally the “official” 2023 documentary came on Sky Arts on Saturday night so I watched it. Well worth checking out, there’s a lot of love in it. I didn’t know whether to include this or Scream Thy Last Scream on the playlist - for years both were legendarily unreleased SydFloyd songs, recorded post-Piper with a view to being their next “new” release and the start of their next phase. Deemed too uncommercial/unpleasant they were shelved and Apples & Oranges became the last Syd song. When I eventually heard them off some bootleg, they sounded weird and worrying. Now easily available on The Early Years set, they sound ... like the next 1967 Pink Floyd song. Scream Thy Last Scream is actually sung by Nick, which I hadn’t realised before.