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…
Once again, I’m playing along with the weekly Song Challenge hosted by Laura at lauravent69. Here are the rules: Copy rules and add to your own post, pinging back to this post. Post music videos for your answers to the musical questions. Tag two people to participate I’m not tagging anyone, but if you happen…
Some discretion is called for in dealing with Jim’s prompt for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. My family reads this blog, after all. Ah well. Anyway, we should be on fairly safe ground with this offering, from the endearingly bonkers Iggy Pop. Here comes Johnny Yen again With the liquor and drugs And a flesh…
Here is the fourth instalment of my contribution to the 30-Day Song Challenge currently running. 19 A song that makes you think about life: ‘Five Years’ “My brain hurts a lot” So, what would you do if you definitively knew the date of your own demise (and, more particularly, that it was not that far…
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