Spotify Discover Weekly Discoveries

Such a great feature, even if it's sometimes slightly off I always listen with interest. First song on my list this week is a Sonny & Cher track called "I Walk on Gilded Splinters", total proto Pretenders, it rocks:

https://open.spotify.com/track/7F2IaTyLeWoayfSAldvGgO

Kinda curious about the width of DW, maybe we're all getting similar recommendations, time will tell. Share your favorite discoveries itt!

B-b-but isn't that a Cher solo track, a cover of the Dr. John song from Gris-Gris?

And recorded at Muscle Shoals?

Anyway, good idea for a thread.

Hehe, it's definitely a cover - for all I know it sounds like Cher solo but the Spotify info credits it to SOnny & Cher as artist

Probably was drawn from a comp.

haven't heard cher's version of this before so i checked it out. muscle shoals or no, i'm not super taken with it - marsha hunt's version is better. (I had no idea she was married to Mike Ratledge! It was a green card marriage, but still.) google seems to believe "i walk on guilded splinters" is a paul weller song... ouch.

B-b-but what about the Humble Pie version?

Spotify algorithms have provided with almost as many versions of this song as it has of “That’s How I Got To Memphis.”

the more "alive" frampton is, the more dead i feel

I haven't been actively updating this since 2016 and haven't pruned it of "wow you had never heard of that? what a fraud" but

https://open.spotify.com/user/1239159458/playlist/2b8qsigIW5aigW6lTGjcoI?si=wnz4QEWsQ92XW8PgChFZGg

Know the feeling.

Came back to note the legal, more voodoo-seeming title of the first song mentioned: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Walk_on_Guilded_Splinters?wprov=sfti1

“Aretha, Sing One For Me,” by George Jackson. Was certainly aware of his songwriting and the existence of this song, which I must have heard through the Cat Power version but have never actually heard him perform before.

this weird electrofunk oddity popped up on my discover weekly a while back: https://open.spotify.com/track/3RHPM4OAfWl1hOKQMNtRnn?si=UfFDjm_GSHmbKxK6V5l21A

it's a weird oddity!

been having a great dw this week, standout track being Lift Him Up That's All by Washington Philips which has a rather unique spiritual/ghostly vibe that really gets to me
https://open.spotify.com/track/5a8ZioujRjSHsLGpVu3kSn

this Kinks demo of "I Go To Sleep" is interestingly eerie
https://open.spotify.com/track/76ta9aJq4kwhngTjpdsaU2?si=tC29i9bBSg6ak2TtA0znxQ

https://open.spotify.com/track/7dFNFPS3Wcrdo9aJnpgfdh

highlight on my DW playlist this week was this jaunty Monks number that I never heard before

Today's DW introduced me to Zuider Zee, whose second album got shelved by Columbia back in '75 until Light in the Attic finally released it last month. Tasty power pop reminiscent of Ram-era Macca and Big Star.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Pa2D0PXZEeyyljoR1Hrvs?si=IyVMaomHRymhppKFFrPgXg

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