From Hunky Dory, which you probably know. But Soul Love isn't the one everyone plays at retrospectives. It's dreamier. More patient. Like Bowie decided, just for one track, not to be famous.
People hear "Supertramp" and think stadium rock. This is the opposite of that. An acoustic thing from Even in the Quietest Moments that sounds like it was recorded on a porch.
A Dylan cover, which feels almost rude to say. Harrison makes it so entirely his own. From All Things Must Pass, which is one of those albums that rewards you every time you go back to it.
This one is just fun. Some songs are just fun. I feel like we don't say that enough.
From Ram, which was the album McCartney made after the Beatles and a lot of people didn't know what to do with it. It's folky and strange and sort of perfect.
It has the quality of music that doesn't need you to be paying attention to it, which somehow means you end up paying close attention. Jazzy and unhurried.
From Forever Changes, which is one of those albums people with good taste mention quietly, like a password.
The Stones slowed everything down and got bluesy and patient. It's from Sticky Fingers and it's maybe the best thing on it.
I couldn't tell you why this one stuck. I've tried to explain it to people and failed every time. Just put it on.
Not the Fleetwood Mac you're thinking of. The earlier, stranger one. Atmospheric and a little hypnotic and completely unlike The Chain.
I find this song comforting. That's probably all you need to know about it. It sounds like someone telling you, not aggressively, that things will probably be okay.
I included this one partly because it's wild and partly because it'll make you feel like you know something the other people at the dinner party don't. A two-parter that goes places.
Rod Stewart, before everything, was in a band called the Faces who made this deeply gentle song about his dad. I don't want to oversell it. Just listen to it.
Hull was from Newcastle. He wrote songs that sounded like weather. I found this one on a forum thread at 11pm once and haven't stopped thinking about it since.
I know. It's not the seventies. I put it in anyway. A collaboration nobody expected, which is exactly the spirit of the whole playlist.