“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…
“We are always ready to despise a goal which we have not succeeded in reaching” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 6 January 2021
To begin the New Year, Jim is embarking on a three-week season of Song Lyric Sunday prompts consisting of a choice of two letters of the alphabet, the title of the selected song having to begin with one of them. First up is P or G, and my first thought was this Pink Floyd beauty,…
“The situation, without of course being of an alarming nature, might well be envisaged as serious and even, from certain angles, as susceptible of being regarded as critical” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 30 December 2020
To the best of my knowledge, I haven’t featured Duran Duran in my Song Lyric Sunday contributions before now. Truth be told, they are a little after my time. However, the lyrics of this perfectly respectable song meet Jim’s brief for this week of ‘Aroma/Flav(o)ur’. Dark in the city, night is a wire Steam in…
“Our past, and the physical lesions in which it is recorded, determine our future” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 23 December 2020
Jim’s key words for Song Lyric Sunday this week are geometric shapes. It wasn’t as easy as usual to find something to match the brief, but there is this, the opening track on Bowie’s third studio LP, ‘The Man Who Sold The World’. The title track is by far the best-known song on this album,…
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