Ah, bubblegum: mindless, shallow stuff for kids, dismissed snootily by moody teenagers in its late-sixties heyday. Oh, that would be me then. It would be idle to pretend that I’ve ever been a fan of this sort of stuff, but this, it must be said, is pretty catchy. And the video’s probably worth watching as…
So, ‘Sunshine Pop’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. That’s not a description I’d heard before, although sandwiched between last week’s Yacht Rock and next week’s Bubblegum, it wasn’t too hard to find myself somewhere in the ball-park. Naturally, I googled it and, among other things, the search threw up a list of the top…
“I wouldn’t if I were you” I didn’t need to resort to Google when I saw that the genre for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday was ‘yacht rock’. However, I did have a problem in moving past the mental image of the official video for Duran Duran’s ‘Rio’ (it’s here if by some chance you’ve…
“When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed” This week’s genre for Song Lyric Sunday is New Wave. Well, I’ve a pretty good idea of what that means, although there’s a bit of a risk that it could slide into New Romantic. However, while a band like Spandau Ballet is clearly New Romantic,…
Yee haw. Genre of the week for song Lyric Sunday this time is ‘country’. I think I have a basic understanding of what that is. However, on further reflection there is a whole range of sub-genres, as with last week’s ‘Metal’ (but not like metal obviously). I would not say that I’m a great fan…
For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, the musical genre of choice is ‘Metal’. At least I didn’t have to look that one up, even though it’s not as straightforward as it seems: heavy metal? thrash metal? Saints preserve us, death metal? And even trickier – at what point does rock music become metal. Well, I…
The last few weeks of Song Lyric Sunday have been quite a journey of discovery. I now know that garage rock isn’t the same as garage and that power pop isn’t the same as pop. And now I realise that Paisley Underground has nothing to do with Prince (that would be Paisley Park). Paisley Underground,…
I thought I knew (roughly) what ‘garage music is or was – electronic dance music from the 1990s. And so it is, but fortunately I yet again reverted to the internet and felicitously discovered that it is not at all the same as ‘garage rock’, which is the theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday.…
This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is ‘punk’. At least I didn’t have to resort to Google (other search engines are available) to determine what that was. In fact. punk was about the last musical ‘wave’ – for want of a better word – that really interested me. Come the late seventies, I had…
You know what they say: you can take the boy out of Liverpool, but you’ll never take Liverpool out of the boy. So, this week’s Song Lyric Sunday prompt of Mersey Beat is very much a home fixture for me. When I was eleven or twelve years old, I wanted to be Billy Fury. He…
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