“It is the passage of time that causes us to forget our antipathies, our contempts, and the very causes which gave birth to them” – Proust: ‘Time Regained’ (Le Temps Retrouvé) – – – – – – – – – – – #!linerWeds 10 February 2021
This week’s theme is ‘colours’, so why not have them all? ‘She’s A Rainbow’ is another track from the Stones’ relatively brief skirmish with psychedelia on their 1967album ‘Their Satanic Majesties Request’. That’s an album that divides opinion if ever there was one. This song and ‘2,000 Light Years From Home’ are clearly the stand-out…
“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible” – Proust: ‘Time Regained’ (Le Temps Retrouvé) – – – – – – – – – – – #1liner Weds 3 February 2021
Call me a sentimental old fool if you will, but there aren’t many who can hold a candle to Barry Manilow when it comes to sweepingly orchestrated power ballads, such as ‘I Write The Songs’ and ‘Can’t Smile Without You’ – and, fitting Jim’s prompt for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday – this one. Even…
“Since I could expect to have no other than frivolous pleasures, what was the use of not accepting them?” – Proust: ‘Time Regained’ (Le Temps Retrouvé) – – – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 27 January 2021
This week, Jim has given us various types of utterance – chat, talk, laugh and scream – as the prompts for Song Lyric Sunday. My immediate thought was ‘Foxy Lady’ by Jimi Hendrix – probably because I used to have it as Madame’s special ringtone on my Blackberry back in the day.. If only I…
“Men who do their work intelligently and earnestly have an aversion to those who want to make it important” – Proust: ‘Time Regained’ (Le Temps Retrouvé) – – – – – – – – – – – #!linerWeds 20 January 2021
Jim’s third and final letter-themed Song Lyric Sunday prompt is D or J. You can have both if you like. ‘Julia Dream’ was originally the B-side of the 1968 single ‘It Would Be So Nice’ – a song which, I have to confess, passed me by completely. Which must mean that I first heard this…
“Those who create their own world, their own interior life, are little concerned with the importance of events” – Proust: ‘Time Regained’ (Le Temps Retrouvé) – – – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 13 January 2021
Week two of Song Lyric Sunday’s mini-series of letters of the alphabet gives us M or A. It occurred to me that if Jim can have a short season, so can I, so here is another song by Pink Floyd. ‘Astronomy Domine’ is rather different from last week’s ‘Green Is The Colour’, although I suspect…
