Spotify Discover Weekly Discoveries

he he that one was also on mine, did not care too much for it though

this weeks highlight Jane Birkin covers "Harvest Moon":
https://open.spotify.com/track/7sx41M0GEQPLMYt3FjCnSw

whole album turned out to be great, Fictions from 2006

“Ad Gloriam” by Le Orme is great psych-pop!

https://open.spotify.com/track/5O7ANZV5S43Sb8yHQoAAda?si=CDkFWkorQWeFVvBGOpKWgw

it is indeed, wonderful cover too

https://i.imgur.com/xHSkW0w.png

anyone know when this GC tune thats from? its great

https://open.spotify.com/track/4lezDlHsdIfTgOPqdtEBQg

past few weeks had somewhat disappointing DWs (maybe because I've been too explorative in my listening) but this week brought the gem "1677" by Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita, and would you believe it's from 2018!

https://open.spotify.com/track/2JsVNmmJ7DyrUIgvSWmJPX

last weeks track #30 was this lovely song by Willie Wright:
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kwxZlmb5EQ1diJWpp9QfE

that whole album turns out to be golden - very much its own, sometimes reminds me of old Van, Toots, Bill Callahan...

this thread inspired me to look at my Spotify Discover and three tracks in I got this & I'm totally in love:

https://gorankajfes.bandcamp.com/album/the-reason-why-vol-3

(the track was "Le Monde Avait 5 Ans")

^That Willie Wright album is glorious.

yes, it's really one of my best finds this year, I can just listen again and again

tbh my entire DW is just great this week:
https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZEVXcHkCbzvlCkSv

iirc Discover Weekly is largely influenced by what tracks other users have been adding to playlists, and this may explain the two songs about rain in this week's playlist - autumn is here

still felt eerie when "Chimacum Rain" (which I swear I've listened to on my Spotify account before, but nevermind) came on this Monday morning as I was looking out into the rain (followed by a nice cover of Link Wray's "Fallin' Rain")

weirdest track on the list was probably "Yip Roc Heresy" by Slim Gaillard and his Orchestra but the one I want to share with y'all is the synth pop gem "Pourquoi Tu Me Fous Plus des Coups?" by An Luu:

https://open.spotify.com/track/5qslwtsb10gXzmA6p1APKZ?si=env8ZsvETkSsOZYUqOXNsg

it's obviously a beautiful song, but my limited grasp of French led me to believe that there was something troubling about the lyrics, and upon closer inspection they seem to trade in metaphors of domestic abuse, but I can't really decode it and I don't know the context

through Google I came across this essay which mentions a similar encounter with the song https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/11/27/565968260/within-the-context-of-all-contexts-the-rewiring-of-our-relationship-to-music

to discuss the concept of obscurity in the age of streaming and algorithmic discovery I've started a new thread: obscurity in the age of streaming

i'm glad there's a thread where i can cite the new greatest song ever, "bad feeling" by cobra man.

aim to please

this Langley Schools Music Project rendition of Band on the Run kicks off my DW this week and I don't mind at all
https://open.spotify.com/track/4sXIXRexbOve8Qrsa2uW49?si=KAl2UauUQ2uhB8h6IYq5fw

So good this past week, don’t have time to cherry pick the best ones now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjN4BNPNzBU

Don't care for the most part about j-pop, uk baggy, or fey indie, so this collision is suprisingly enjoyable:

https://open.spotify.com/track/0Pnd9r3NqvXg63G8eXfist?si=7RlWhaUUReOjMS89o6IN-Q

I wish my Discover Weekly threw up more random discoveries like this glorious thing: Jessye Norman's version of Richard Strauss's Im Abendrot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=envQ-ZqGQu8

Did anyone else get thrown by the Discocover Weekly? D’oh!

I recently discovered the 2016 5+ hour Dead tribute "Day of the Dead" through BPB's cover of Rubin and Cherise, and it's bringing me good cheer lately

through that on my discover weekly, I mean

This may well just be a stopped clock thing but my Discover Weekly - after months of being pretty ordinary - is brilliant today. This Jah Wobble/Bill Laswell thing is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAZKBOa_K5Q