Initially I was stumped when I saw that the theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week was a one-take recording. Surely any song that comes out of a studio has been dubbed, multi-tracked and heaven knows what else? Except maybe back in the fifties. So what to do? Why, pick something from a live recording…
For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, Jim asks us to find a song that stands as a great album closer. You need look no further than this. There’s a school of thought that believes ‘Revolver’ is an even greater album than it’s successor, ‘Sergeant Pepper’ and I must say that I’m minded to agree. I…
For this week’s SLS, Jim wants us to pick a song that won a Grammy award. The Grammies have been going since 1959, so there’s plenty to choose from. A fair few of them are, in view, distinctly ho-hum, but if there was ever a song that deserved to win in this (1973) or any…
Hang on. ‘Acoustic rock’? Isn’t that a contradiction in terms – an oxymoron, if you will. Like ‘military intelligence’? Well, apparently not. It’s rock music played on acoustic instruments, apparently. Personally, I don’t get it. I’m a simple man, and for me, it’s an either/or. However, there are, admittedly, lots of songs that in their…
This week’s challenge for Song Lyric Sunday is to post an underrated deep album cut. Tricky, because who knows what other people consider to be underrated – it could be a firm favourite for someone. It may seem counter-intuitive to select a Beatles album, but everything is relative and a song that’s on the same…
The Moody Blues were at the peak of their popularity – and arguably also their powers – when I was in my late teens (late sixties, early seventies). I wouldn’t say they were my favourite band (probably not even top five in truth), but they produced some good stuff and I clearly remember being awestruck…
‘Change’ is this week’s broad theme for Song Lyric Sunday. David Bowie’s ‘Changes’ is a bit too glaringly obvious, even for me, so instead I’ve gone back to one of the first records I ever bought. I don’t think it needs any further introduction. Your baby doesn’t love you anymoreGolden days before they endWhisper secrets…
Last week’s Song Lyric Sunday was about artistes with food-related names, so it’s a logical progression this time to find a song about food (or nutrition generally). As is distressingly common these days, I found that I’d already deployed my first two ‘ideas’: The Beatles’ ‘Honey Pie’ and Led Zeppelin’s ‘The Lemon Song’. So there…
“Oh what it is to be young” This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is to find a track from a band with a food-related name. My immediate thought was Humble Pie, but – much as I liked Humble Pie – I thought that was too obvious. My next thought was The Electric Prunes, but…
“If you get confused just listen to the music play” Jim’s left it to us to choose this week. I thought of quite a few, but when I searched my back catalogue of previous contributions I discovered that I’d already used most of them. Unaccountably though, not this one, which contains probably my most favourite…
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