For this New Year’s Eve edition of Song Lyric Sunday, Helen has set the theme of ‘Sugar/Candy’. Certainly appropriate for the time of year, but apart from the immediately obvious ‘Brown Sugar’ I wanted something that included ‘Candy’ but wasn’t too saccharine. I think this song, written by Lou Reed and performed by The Velvet…
Here is an important announcement. Over the past year or so, it has become increasingly clear that our good friend Mr Deadhead – Deaders as he is known to some – has been rather losing his grip on this whole blogging thing. Posts have become sporadic at best, various initiatives have been begun but not…
“Is anybody using those last two mince pies?” One-Liner Wednesday 27 December 2017
Confession time: as a rule,when responding to Helen\s Song Lyric Sunday themes I try to come up with a song that, however peripherally, I’m already familiar with. However, this week’s topic of ‘Danger’ had me beaten. There were (are) a few odd lines with ‘danger’ or ‘dangerous’ in them running round in my head, but…
Does anybody happen to know what an occasional table is the rest of the time? Asking for a friend.One-Liner Wednesday 20 December 2017
Everyone pretends, at least sometimes. The public face often bears no relation to what’s going on in the internal dialogue. It’s not surprising, therefore, that there are many songs that would fit Helen’s theme this week of ‘pretending’. Bob Dylan almost certainly had his tongue wedged firmly in his cheek when he famously described Smokey…
“You only think it’s there because you can see it.” – – – – – – – – – Perhaps a little explanation would be helpful. Those of a certain age may remember that when you turned off an old television set the screen went black but there was a white dot that took a…
And finally….Frank Zappa – or my brother would want to know the reason why. What I know about Zappa may possibly be more than that of the average music fan: but it’s no more than the tip of the iceberg in terms of the prodigious quantity and range of his output. To be honest, not…
‘Falling’ is the theme that Helen has set us for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge. Lots of songs out there about falling in love, of course, but while this is certainly a love song, it has a rather different take on ‘falling’. I’m a recent convert to Spotify and one very agreeable consequence of…
Helen has chosen the theme of ‘courage’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. There are clearly plenty of songs out there that fit the theme in a broad sense. Many of them, though, I’d consider to be off limits for me, in the sense that they are about the challenges of being a woman. To…
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