“The situation, without of course being of an alarming nature, might well be envisaged as serious and even, from certain angles, as susceptible of being regarded as critical” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 30 December 2020
To the best of my knowledge, I haven’t featured Duran Duran in my Song Lyric Sunday contributions before now. Truth be told, they are a little after my time. However, the lyrics of this perfectly respectable song meet Jim’s brief for this week of ‘Aroma/Flav(o)ur’. Dark in the city, night is a wire Steam in…
“Our past, and the physical lesions in which it is recorded, determine our future” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 23 December 2020
Jim’s key words for Song Lyric Sunday this week are geometric shapes. It wasn’t as easy as usual to find something to match the brief, but there is this, the opening track on Bowie’s third studio LP, ‘The Man Who Sold The World’. The title track is by far the best-known song on this album,…
Jim offers us a range of soft fruits as prompts for Song Lyric Sunday this week. There is no more than a handful of songs that I can truly say were life-changing on first hearing. This definitely was and would have been the first. I suspect that I won’t be the only participant in SLS…
“So long as things are possible, we postpone them” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1liner Weds 9 December 2020
the only deadhead in the hameau 