Let's flog this blog series dead horse, with a third and final batch of posts featuring songs that have a day of the week in the title. Relax, it's Saturday, this nonsense is nearly over.
I do love a bit of Monkees, so here's Saturday's Child. It was written by David Gates, before he found his own fame in Bread (the band, not the sitcom), and it sounds like Micky is on lead vocals. There's probably a website somewhere that tells you which Wrecking Crew members were playing which instruments on this, but I don't care about that frankly, because, middle-eight aside, this is terrific.
Remember when The Enemy were the next big thing? They had those clever "Sleeping with The Enemy" t-shirts on their merch stall, as I recall. Anyway, this is Saturday which, sadly, is not very good. Maybe even their nadir. But relax, it won't take much effort to forget it completely by the end of this post.
Given his grunge roots and time with Queens of the Stone Age, the late Mark Lanegan's collaboration with former Belle & Sebastian vocalist Isobel Campbell probably surprised a fair few people. However, their 2006 collaboration album Ballad of the Broken Seas garnered a Mercury Music Prize nomination and included, amongst other things, the beauty that is Saturday's Gone.
Tomorrow, Sunday. And rest...
Sam is very much into Sam Fender's song Saturday at the moment. It's a cracker.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's better than the Enemy track, for sure.
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