Last week, I proudly asserted that, as a general rule, I try to go with my first instincts when responding to Song Lyric Sunday prompts. This time, though, it may be a case of all the best rules being more honoured in the breach than the observance. That’s because Helen has chosen the theme of…
As I’ve noted before, I try as a matter of principle to go with the song that first comes into my head when I see Helen’s ‘Song Lyric Sunday’ prompt. Sometimes that’s easy, other times it’s much more difficult. This was one of the easiest ones ever. It’s four in the morning, the end of…
Being neither eco-warrior nor climate-change denier, I have no particular sabre to rattle in coming up with a song to match Helen’s theme of ‘Earth’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. Rather like fellow-contributor Brandejwin, I went for a song from a ‘psychedelic rock’ group formed in 1965 in San Francisco, but in my case…
Songs about telephone calls for Helen’s theme this week are almost as ubiquitous as the devices themselves. It’s not hard to reel off a few titles almost without thinking (maybe they’re on a kind of mental speed-dial). However, this one was easy for me – the mighty Undertones, from 1979. Two and a half minutes…
I do tend to take Helen’s Song Lyric Sunday prompts quite literally, so this week’s theme of ‘Truth’ needed a little self-discipline in order to avoid conflating ‘true’ with ‘truth’. Coincidentally, as I first saw Helen’s prompt this morning I was listening to Bob Dylan’s ‘True Love Tends To Forget’: a very fine song, but…
I’ve had more than my share of goodbyes, thank you very much, so when Helen set the theme of ‘Goodbye/Farewell’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, I knew immediately whay my pick would be. For ten years, from 1985 to 1995, I was only around at weekends – and not all of them. That’s what…
This week’s theme, as set by Helen at This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time is ‘comfort’. Is it too soon for another Pink Floyd song? Probably, so that rules out ‘Comfortably Numb’. Pity. But it’s never too soon for another bit of the blues. so here’s a Willie Dixon song, as performed…
I must admit that this week I got completely wrong-footed by Helen at This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time. Based on the prompt she shared from Simply Marquessa, I thought I was well ahead of the game. Not so. But no matter.This week’s theme turns out to be the rather cheery one…
“There’s someone in my head but it’s not me” Helen’s chosen the theme of ‘Madness’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. You might say that – for me at any rate – that was a complete no-brainer. It’s pretty obvious from the title of this blog what my favourite group is, but Pink Floyd is…
For this New Year’s Eve edition of Song Lyric Sunday, Helen has set the theme of ‘Sugar/Candy’. Certainly appropriate for the time of year, but apart from the immediately obvious ‘Brown Sugar’ I wanted something that included ‘Candy’ but wasn’t too saccharine. I think this song, written by Lou Reed and performed by The Velvet…
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