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Song Lyric Sunday: Home Town – ‘In My Liverpool Home’
This week, Jim’s looking for a song that gives a sense of place – more specifically a place with personal connections. I’m glad that he has broadened the original remit, which was to write about either your home town or where you live now. Pretty thin pickings there. However, my spiritual home – just across…
10 Albums That Rocked My World – #3
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10 Albums That Rocked My World – #1
My esteemed brother has just started a challenge on his Facebook page in which he is going to post, daily for the next ten days, an image of the cover of an album that he regards as seminal in the development of his musical tastes. No comment, no elaboration, just the cover. My daughter has…
Song Lyric Sunday: Jewelry – ‘Diamonds Made From Rain’
This week, Jim offers us a range of precious stones as prompts for Song Lyric Sunday: diamond, emerald, sapphire and so on. Unsurprisingly, my first thought was Leonard Cohen’s ‘Diamonds In The Mine’, but I’ve already used that a few years ago for a different prompt. This, however, is a more than acceptable substitute –…
Song Lyric Sunday: Celebration – ‘Unhappy Birthday’
Jim’s key words for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday are celebratory: things to lift the spirits in these difficult times, such as ‘birthday’, ‘party’, ‘gift’ and ‘cake’. Nice try Jim. But here’s The Smiths, Manchester’s mordant miserabilists: I’ve come to wish you an unhappy birthday I’ve come to wish you an unhappy birthday Cause you’re…
Song Lyric Sunday: Touch/Feel – ‘Like A Rolling Stone’
“How does it feel? How does it feel?” Jim goes touch feely with his prompts for Song Lyric Sunday this week. I know it’s only three weeks from my previous Dylan offering, but how could you ever tire of this? And besides, it was the first song that came to mind when I saw the…
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