This week our task, should we choose to accept it, is to feature a song about jewelry. I’m almost ashamed to say that the first song that came into my head was a now problematic ballad called ‘She wears my ring’ by an American crooner called Solomon King. Why problematic, you may ask? Well, the…
Thanks to Jim’s very helpful habit of giving us up to a month’s notice of future themes for Song Lyric Sunday, when I was mulling over what to select for last week’s Brit Album of the Year challenge, I was able to see that one of my strongest possibilities – David Bowie, with the (posthumously…
This week, Jim is looking for one of Rolling Stone’s Top 500 songs ‘of all time’. I used the most recent iteration of this long-established list, so there are a number of songs by more modern artists – ones which are certainly well past my sell-by date. Apart from these young(ish) whippersnappers, most of the…
As Jim is kind enough to give us a few weeks heads up of his weekly themes for Song Lyric Sunday, I’ve known that ‘Automated, Mechanical, Robots’ has been looming for some time. Jim himself rightly pointed out that it could be difficult to find something that matches this rather unusual brief (I was certainly…
From the posthumously released album ‘Black Star’, the haunting, deeply moving and, yes, disturbing ‘Lazarus’. Look up here, I’m in heavenI’ve got scars that can’t be seenI’ve got drama, can’t be stolenEverybody knows me now Look up here, man, I’m in dangerI’ve got nothing left to loseI’m so high, it makes my brain whirlDropped my…
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,…
Unusually, I was almost spoilt for choice this week in finding a song to fit Jim’s latest Song Lyric Sunday prompt. There are quite a few titles featuring ‘John’ or its diminutive ‘Jack’. My first choice – ‘Jack straw’ by the Grateful Dead – had to be ruled out because I used it for another…
Jim’s list of subjects for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday centre on the overall theme of clothing. With ‘her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat’, this works. This one needs no introduction: Bowie’s nod to the Velvet Underground from ‘Hunky Dory’ I’m up on the eleventh floor And I’m watching the cruisers below He’s down on…
The BBC screened an excellent, highly popular and innovative crime series back in 2006. The scenario was that a modern-day detective was involved in a car accident and came round to find himself – still a detective – back in 1973. The series was called ‘Life on Mars’. Nothing else to say, really – just…
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