Seven Songs for the Week #67 - 17th July 24

I'm not a Phish fan but I read this engaging interview with lead man Trey Anastasio [ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/trey-anastasio-phish-jerry-garcia-new-album-drugs-1235053957/ ] and had a listen to the new album on streaming. It's very pleasant - I don't mean that as a diss. I have spent more time listening to Analyse Phish, the podcast, than Phish the band. If you don't know Analyse Phish, it was a short run podcast from 2014 between Scott Aukerman (who disliked Phish) trying to be convinced by Phish uber-fan (the late, great) Harris Wittells, and it's very amusing. I relisten to it every few years. [ https://www.earwolf.com/show_archive/analyze-phish-archive/ ]

DIY and stuff meant that my record player was out of action for a few weeks. I was putting it back together and playing a variety of things to test it out including Steel Wheels, my first Stones album. This was their last US top ten single, btw. Have they played it live since 1990? Don't think so.

I'm a big Robert Fripp fan but I've never listened to his collabs with David Sylvian. I saw that this track was on a Now That's What I Call Music compilation (NOW Yearbook 1993 Extra), a first appearance for Fripp on a Now comp AFAIK. Good song, unsurprisingly, but I can't help but feel that Sylvian is too-Bowie.

This song is 20 years old? Really. I'm not sure how it crossed my path originally, maybe via the Pop Justice website. It's a song that comes from that post-CD/pre-streaming era, and it propably lives on an iPod in a drawer somewhere in my home. Never owned a physical copy.

I have been listening to the new John Lennon Mind Games box a lot and was going to include Meat City but remembered I already have included it on a previous list. So instead here's this awesome song I heard on the radio. Number one in the US in 1971 for one week - I'd never heard of it or the band before, which is odd because I thought I had learned Fred Bronson's book of Billboard number one hits off by heart as a teen.

Will Butler, the cool one from Arcade Fire, who couldn't have left the band at a better time, is BACK baybay. Going to see him next week in a very small venue.

I wasn't intending to watch a 90 minute documentary about Dolly Parton last Friday, but I did. I realised I'd seen the end of it before but had missed the section about this early song. If you don't know it, then just listen to it, and give it all your attention.