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.
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.
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.
Throwing back to the week of August 29, 1976, we find the Bee Gees’ ‘You Should Be Dancing‘ claiming the #1 spot of the Billboard Hot 100 in its sole week atop the chart.
At #2 was soul singer Lou Rawls with ‘You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine,’ his top-charting single on the Hot 100. The track reached #1 on the R&B and Adult Contemporary charts but peaked at #2 on this one.
Concluding my look at the albums of 2006…
I usually come away from these Decades series with at least one artist I plan to revisit, and for 2006 it’s The Decemberists, whose fourth album — The Crane Wife — dropped that year.
I remember hearing about this album at the time, but for whatever reason I never bought it (back when we had to buy music). So this is my first real exposure to the Portland-based indie band.
Meet Me In Montauk 