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Song of the Day #6,630: ‘Sweet Sounds of Heaven’ – The Rolling Stones

When I started my Rolling Stones deep dive in 2023, I figured I’d never have to revisit it. What were the odds that 80-year-olds Mick Jagger and Keith Richards would put out another album seven years after the career-capping Blue & Lonesome, on which they covered a selection of blues and R&B classics, just like they had on their debut 52 years earlier?

Before I’d even finished, the band announced a new album of original material, their first in nearly two decades. Hackney Diamonds didn’t come out in time for me to fit it in, but I’m remedying that now.

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Song of the Day #6,629: ‘Danceteria’ – Madonna

Madonna waited seven years after 2019’s Madame X to release her next studio album, her 15th. That album, titled Confessions II, is a sequel to her celebrated 2005 dance album Confessions on a Dance Floor.

I ranked the first Confessions as my fourth favorite Madonna album, agreeing with the critics and fans alike who deemed it her last truly relevant release.

So, did going back to that well pay off? In my opinion, yes. This is Madonna’s best album since its namesake two decades ago.

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Song of the Day #6,628: ‘This is the Picture (Excellent Birds)’ – Peter Gabriel

I’ve written about some albums so often that I’m just shy of covering the whole tracklist. I’ll be filling in the gaps on some of those in the coming weeks, so I can add them to the Albums page.

Peter Gabriel’s So has been one song short of 100% coverage for about a year now. I was seven-for-nine as of June 2022, before posting ‘That Voice Again‘ last October.

Any guesses as to which song remains?

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Song of the Day #6,627: ‘A Little Soon to Say’ – Jackson Browne

A month after my deep dive of Jackson Browne’s studio catalog, and seven years after the singer-songwriter’s last record, Browne released his 15th album. If he’d moved a little quicker, or I’d moved a little slower, it would have been part of that series.

Instead, I’m getting to 2021’s Downhill from Everywhere five years late.

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Song of the Day #6,626: ‘New Blue Moon’ – Traveling Wilburys

While building out artist and album pages, I’ve realized there are quite a few instances where I’m just an album or a song short of a complete set.

It might be a Deep Dive artist who put out an album after I did the Deep Dive. Or an album I’ve covered so extensively over the years that I’m just a song or two short of representing the whole tracklist.

Over the next couple of weeks I’m going to fill in some of those blanks.

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