‘Change’ is this week’s broad theme for Song Lyric Sunday. David Bowie’s ‘Changes’ is a bit too glaringly obvious, even for me, so instead I’ve gone back to one of the first records I ever bought. I don’t think it needs any further introduction. Your baby doesn’t love you anymoreGolden days before they endWhisper secrets…
Last week’s Song Lyric Sunday was about artistes with food-related names, so it’s a logical progression this time to find a song about food (or nutrition generally). As is distressingly common these days, I found that I’d already deployed my first two ‘ideas’: The Beatles’ ‘Honey Pie’ and Led Zeppelin’s ‘The Lemon Song’. So there…
“Oh what it is to be young” This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is to find a track from a band with a food-related name. My immediate thought was Humble Pie, but – much as I liked Humble Pie – I thought that was too obvious. My next thought was The Electric Prunes, but…
“If you get confused just listen to the music play” Jim’s left it to us to choose this week. I thought of quite a few, but when I searched my back catalogue of previous contributions I discovered that I’d already used most of them. Unaccountably though, not this one, which contains probably my most favourite…
This week, Jim is seeking songs recorded at the famous Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama. As he notes, there are certainly plenty to chose from. However, I had already made my own choice before I finished reading Jim’s post last week, when he indicated that he was going to write about Bob Dylan’s ‘Gotta Serve…
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…
This week, Jim’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is artistes who haven’t been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but who we think should have been. Naturally, the first thing I did, in a process of elimination. was to check out who was actually already in there. Pretty much all of the…
This week for Song Lyric Sunday, Jim is looking for a song by an artiste inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There’s no question that Pink Floyd deserve their place in that pantheon and this is a lovely, often overlooked, song from the 1970 album ‘Atom Heart Mother’. If I were a…
This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is – perhaps a little morbidly – something that you would like to be played at your own funeral. That isn’t to say that I haven’t thought about it occasionally (who among us has not?, as Anthony Trollope might have put it.). However, it’s a bit tricky as…
This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is the so-called ‘British Invasion’, referring to those British performers who ‘made it’ – however briefly – in the US, initially on the back of The Beatles’ extraordinary success. Appropriately enough, this is a Lennon/McCartney song (on which they did actually co-operate), which they very generously gave away…
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