This week’s Song Lyric challenge is an interesting one: ‘elevator music’. I know what Jim means but it doesn’t mean I have to like it. On first reading this challenge I was reminded of the great Robin Williams film ‘Good Morning Vietnam’. As I remember it, until Robin’s character burst onto the scene the forces…
Jim’s prompts for this week are ‘Heaven’ and ‘Hell’. Although both are imaginary concepts, I’ll take heaven every time. For Madame. Oh, thinkin’ about all our younger yearsThere was only you and meWe were young and wild and free Now nothin’ can take you away from meWe’ve been down that road beforeBut that’s over nowYou…
The prompts for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday leave me at something of a disadvantage. Making and fixing, it would be fair to say – and I freely acknowledge it – are not among my strengths (insofar as I have any to speak of). However, this seminal British mid-seventies song by Steve Harley and Cockney…
Hellos and goodbyes are the themes of Song Lyric Sunday this week. Apart from The Beatles and their covering of both bases, I immediately thought of this Cole Porter classic. Ev’ry time we say goodbyeI die a littleEv’ry time we say goodbyeI wonder why a little Why the Gods above meWho must be in the…
The challenge this week is to post a song containing a girl’s name beginning with ‘S’. There are plenty of possibilities, for sure. The first one that came to my mind was Leonard Cohen’s ‘Suzanne’, but I thought I’d look elsewhere on this occasion. Way back in simpler times, there was the devil’s music –…
It’s a very broad category for Song Lyric Sunday this week – songs with one-word titles. Anyway, this is the one that came to my mind first – one of my favourite Pink Floyd sonic landscapes. The piece was, it seems, put together from various, previously unconnected, studio noodlings. Much like the lyrics, by the…
Jim’s Song Lyric Sunday has a floral theme this week – which made me think of this. ‘Flower of Scotland’ is the quasi-official sporting national anthem of Scotland. It’s always heard at its best when, as in the accompanying video, belted out at maximum volume by a full house at Murrayfield, the national rugby stadium…
Jim is taking the long view with his key words for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. This was the first song that came into my head when I saw what he was after, although II suspect I won’t have been the only one. From back in January 1968, what I always thought was a one-hit…
Song Lyric Sunday this week is all about mobility. I first encountered this 50s classic in the version shown in the video below, as performed by Sha Na Na at Woodstock in 1969. Talk about high energy….and certainly no lack of mobility. This is probably one of the seminal pieces of mid-fifties rock and roll,…
“Philosophers are only men in armour, after all” – Charles Dickens: ‘The Pickwick Papers’ – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 17 March 2021
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