Jim’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week put me in a bit of a quandary. He is seeking a song that contains my name. Here’s the thing(s): Firstly, I don’t use my actual name on this blog and never have. In previous prompts it has been elicited that my initials are BC, but that’s…
Initially, I was stumped by Jim’s challenge for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. He’s looking for a song used as the title of a movie. The only one I could think of at first was ‘Saturday Night Fever’ – except, of course, the song’s title is just ‘Night Fever’. Then there’s most of the James…
“Thinking young and growing older is no sin” This week, Jim is looking for a version of a song that’s better than the original. As it happens, back in the mists of time (2017, to be more precise) I wrote a post that’s quite relevant to this prompt, the premise being that there are versions…
There’s a song by Sade titled “Never As Good As The First Time”. I’m not sure this is universally applicable, but it is probably true in the majority of cases when it comes to once great bands getting back together. The case with regard to Pink Floyd is a moot one. The breakup was acrimonious…
The broad theme of Song Lyric Sunday for this week is about being trapped, hence Jim’s title of ‘Groundhog Day’ for his post. However, he also threw in ‘regret’. as a possibility. The one song that popped into my head when I saw that was the iconic ‘My Way’. Apparently, this is by far the…
This week, Jim is challenging us to come up with a song about various ‘warning’ sounds: bells, gongs, sirens, whistles and so on. My first thought was ‘Get It On’ by T Rex (‘bang a gong’), but looking back I saw hat I’ve already used it, albeit about five years ago. No matter, how about…
Well now, today’s prompt for Song Lyric Sunday presents an interesting epistemological conundrum. Jim wants a song from ‘a forgotten band’. Hang on though: if we can write about it, they can’t be forgotten, can they? But enough of this chop logic – on with the back story. It’s early October 1970 and my first…
This week for Song Lyric Sunday, Jim is looking for songs that contain the words ‘hard’ or ‘work’. I must admit that ‘Work Harder Day’ is a new one on me; we live and learn. I’ll also freely concede that hard work is something to which I have a strong natural aversion. However, for the…
No relation to the Grateful Dead’s ‘Terrapin Station’, this is a song written by Syd Barrett, founder member of Pink Floyd, who was born on 6 January 1946, and thus qualifies for the theme of Song Lyric Sunday this week, which is to feature a song by somebody born in this month. The reasons for…
“But I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools” This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is all things nautical, and my immediate first thought was this – one of my favourite Jerry ballads by the Grateful Dead. Searching my previous SLS posts I was relieved – indeed, pleasantly surprised…
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