Maiden Voyage

Blue Note, under Universal. No lyric. The discipline is the moral.

Blue Note released it. Universal holds Blue Note. There is no singer to hide behind. The record is what it sounds like when people have practiced enough to leave space.

Put it on when the house is loud for no reason. It will not preach. It will make the noise feel cheap.

The eight

Industry
9/10
Four players listening to each other. That is work.
Household
4/10
No household. A crew, which is a kind of one.
Piety
5/10
Awe, without a word for it.
Courage
6/10
A first voyage is a risk, and they take it in time.
Republic
4/10
No town. A standard other players still have to meet.
Temperance
8/10
Nothing is wasted. No solo shows off past the song.
Truth
7/10
It does not lie by adding a story it does not have.
Stewardship
8/10
A standard of attention a house can point a young player toward.

Live historicallyPlay it once with the lights low and nobody talking. If someone can name an instrument, that is the conversation.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1980

RCA · Sony Music Entertainment

9 to 5

RCA, under Sony. A joke with a true bill inside it.

RCA released it. Sony owns RCA. The cup of ambition is a joke until you have had the job. Then it is a description of a day that begins before you are awake and ends with someone else taking the credit.

Laugh, and then notice who in the house, or the shop, is the one the song is about.

The eight

Industry
7/10
The typewriter percussion is a job, done with wit.
Household
5/10
A worker who wants a life after the shift. The house is what the job is eating.
Piety
3/10
No reverence for the office. The person is the point.
Courage
7/10
She says the skim out loud, in a cheerful key.
Republic
8/10
A wage, a boss, a cup of ambition. That is a civic song.
Temperance
6/10
The anger is aimed, not sprayed.
Truth
8/10
The credit-taking is described exactly.
Stewardship
7/10
A song for the person who makes the place run and is not named.

Live historicallyThank the person who did the uncredited work this week. Do it in front of the others.