Song Lyric Sunday throws up an interesting challenge this week: feature a song that references a nursery rhyme or a fairy tale. My initial response to this was ‘Eh?’. Nothing at all came to mind. So, in time-honoured fashion, I eschewed the sheer effort of having to think for myself and instead put the question…
This week, Jim is asking us to feature a song with an arresting opening line: one so familiar that you can ‘name that tune’ immediately. Perhaps it’s just my age, but most of the possibilities that sprang most immediately to mind were rock and roll classics. I see that Jim himself has chosen ‘Tutti-frutti’, but…
After last week’s challenge of choosing the closing track of an album it is of course entirely logical that this time Jim is looking for an opening track. Not too long ago, I featured Roxy Music’s ‘Remake/Remodel’, the opening track of their debut album. However,this was by no means Bob Dylan’s first LP (as we…
When I saw that Jim’s prompt for Song Lyric Sunday this week was the closing track of an album, as if by magic four possibilities just jumped into my head. But hang on: haven’t I already used these? ‘Brain Damage/Eclipse’ from ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ – check; ‘See Me Feel Me’ from ‘Tommy’ –…
This week, Jim is looking for the the title track of an album. My very first thought was Neil Young’s ‘After The Goldrush’, but checking back, it seemed I’d already used it in an earlier post. A shame, but no problem – I went for the gentle, lilting ‘Harvest’ instead. Both those albums were on…
This week, Jim is looking for a track from a second album. That’s a pretty broad field but Madame had just happened to mention The Kinks as I set to my task, so here is the closing track on Side 1 of their second album, ‘Kinda Kinks’, which was released in March 1965. Surely it…
The slightly morbid theme of Song Lyric Sunday for this week is to present a song that was released after the death of the performer. It’s often been said (mostly, I suspect, by the marketing guys at the record company) that dying is a really excellent career move – although, of course, the artistes themselves…
This week, Jim is seeking a song based on true events. Of course, there are plenty to choose from, but this particular one popped into my head quite quickly. A few days in the life of a Beatle… (Until I pulled up the lyrics, I’d never noticed that truly clunky rhyming of ‘Seine’ with ‘Gibraltar,…
Well now – this time I’m going all the way back to 2013 for this week’s flashback. Given the subject, you could maybe describe it as ‘Primal deadhead’. You may notice also that I hadn’t (and still haven’t) got to grips with WordPress’ spacing rules. An update seems appropriate here too. The relevant number has…
Like most people, I suspect, when I saw that this week’s Song Lyric Sunday prompt was calling for an acoustic version of a song more familiar in an electric version, my thoughts turned immediately to the MTV ‘Unplugged’ show. There have been many iconic performances delivered there, with perhaps Eric Clapton and Nirvana being the…
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