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.”
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.
