Seven Songs for the Week 42

I was watching a thing on YouTube, a film about the building of the LWT Television Studios in the early 70s and this piece of funky library music appeared. Hooray for Shazam. Herbie Flowers played the bass part on Walk On The Wild Side - should he have got a writing credit for it? Because he didn’t.

Billy Joel has announced a new single. He hasn’t put out a “proper” single in 31 years. He’s the best, Billy. The artist Springsteen could have been.

A new album this week that I’ve been dipping in and out of on streaming. It’s good. This is the last track. I don’t know much S-K to be honest. Which one’s Sleater?

This album is almost 10 years old and I listened to it a lot that summer. The track has popped up in the last week or two and it’s always good to hear. Must sit down and give the whole album a listen soon. Produced by John Congleton, who also did the new Sleater-Kinney album.

My teenage kids have become quite into this song, and I’ve no idea why. I’m not a big Queen-head, I hadn’t played it around the house… maybe it’s in a tickytock video. Who knows? Anyways, it’s a lesser-known Queen single so it hasn’t been blunted by overfamiliarity.

This song is in an ad at the minute. So that’s where I spotted it.

The ending of the Stereolab song goes all Krautrocky, so why not have ten glorious minutes of the real thing. The Killers turned this into a song, Dying Breed, on their last album.