My Top 1000 Songs #789: The True Wheel

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

Yes, it's Brian Eno's more introspective, ambient pieces that have a truly life-enhancing hold on my soul. Yes, I'd be perfectly content loading up this list with excerpts from Another Green World and side two of Before & After Science. But hey, let's give another shout-out to his weird little rock & roll songs! Taking a second trip back to 1974's Taking Tiger Mountain for "The True Wheel," a perky little romp with the tingly synth sound and the female backing vox and that unrelenting 3-chord progression in 3/4 time. Undercutting the thesis that Roxy Music was entirely Bryan Ferry's project with Eno just offering some keyboard whiz-bang, it out-Roxies early Roxy in the endearingly fun and askew glam department.

Live cover version from Music for Enophiles:

Live cover from Head of Femur (quiet audio, turn it up):

2004 studio cover from Hilsinger & Beatty: