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Song of the Day #6,616a: ‘Bobby’ – Phoebe Bridgers

Continuing my ranking of the songs on Phoebe Bridgers’ Lost Weekend…

#6. ‘Bobby’

One of the funny things about Bridgers’ catalog is that she almost never writes upbeat songs, but when she does they are absolute bangers. Such is the case with ‘Bobby,’ a full-on love song written for (and, amusingly, co-written by) Bo Burnham. This song captures the infatuation of early love just beautifully. It’s also the only love song I can think of with a reference to a vibrator (though the lyric is made less explicit in streaming versions of the song).

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Song of the Day #6,616: ‘I Can’t Wait’ – Phoebe Bridgers

Continuing my ranking of the songs on Phoebe Bridgers’ Lost Weekend…

#9. ‘As Above’

The final song (before a brief reprise of the title track) finds Bridgers drifting through her past, present, and future while watching Hot Tub Time Machine over a seat mate’s shoulder on a plane. Its delicate piano-backed verses give way to an explosive bridge before settling back into a moment of resignation: “As it was, so it goes.”

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Song of the Day #6,615a: ‘The Outside’ – Phoebe Bridgers

Continuing my ranking of the songs on Phoebe Bridgers’ Lost Weekend…

#13. ‘Other Plans’

The last song written for the album, and an exercise by Bridgers in writing a melody containing only one note. It’s a successful enough experiment that my tin-eared self didn’t catch that limitation until I read about it.

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Song of the Day #6,615: ‘Panorama’ – Phoebe Bridgers

A month or so back, I did a two-week Phoebe Bridgers Deep Dive to prepare for the release of her new album, Lost Weekend. Now that album has arrived, and it’s her first release that I received as a bona fide fan.

This week I’ll rank the tracks on Lost Weekend according to my preference and process the album as a whole while I’m at it.

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Song of the Day #6,614a: ‘Higher Love’ – Steve Winwood

Steve Winwood owned the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of August 30, 1986, with ‘Higher Love,’ the lead single of his fourth solo album, Back in the High Life.

Surprisingly, this is the first Steve Winwood song featured on the blog (though I did use a Traffic song in a post about Avengers: Endgame in 2019). Winwood has had a very successful career, as a member of three popular bands as well as a solo artist. I just haven’t found the right time to write about him.

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