From 2014, on being an international jet-setter… Faraway Laughter “Far from home. Tell us about the farthest you’ve ever travelled from home.” There’s a website – of course there is: did you really think there wouldn’t be? – that will tell you the precisely opposite position on the globe to wherever you are in the world. Useful…
From way back in 2012, a playlist… Life: The Soundtrack Yesterday’s Daily Prompt struck a chord (as it were): “Put together a a musical playlist of songs that describe your life, including what you hope your future entails.” I guess that this is something many people think about doing but don’t actually set about it…
I’ve pretty much always enjoyed live shows and live recordings over studio albums, which can often sound too stylised and over-engineered to my ears. Just ask yourself whether there would ever have been such a following for the Grateful Dead if all we had were the studio recordings. It’s really a case of ‘you had…
There’s a song by Sade titled “Never As Good As The First Time”. I’m not sure this is universally applicable, but it is probably true in the majority of cases when it comes to once great bands getting back together. The case with regard to Pink Floyd is a moot one. The breakup was acrimonious…
This week Jim wants us to truffle out a song that was specifically written for a movie. I featured one of the more obvious choices, ‘Saturday Night Fever’, a few years ago for a different prompt, and although there are some other classic Bee Gees songs on that soundtrack, I decided to look elsewhere. For…
Song Lyric Sunday this week is about mental health. I resisted the temptation just to throw in something containing the word ‘crazy’ (‘Still Crazy After All These Years’; ‘Mama Weer All Crazee Now’) and I’ve already deployed what, to my mind, is one of the finest evocations of madness ever written – ‘Brain Damage/Eclipse’ by…
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…
One of the themes for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday is memories, which – appropriately enough – reminded me of this poignant ode to the all too brief innocence of childhood. From Pink Floyd’s 1968 ‘Saucerful Of Secrets’ album and written by keyboard player Richard Wright. Remember a day before todayA day when you were…
The broad theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week could be described as the ‘circle of life’. This is a song about moving on in life – life goes on: until it doesn’t. Where were you when I was burned and brokenWhile the days slipped by from my window watchingAnd where were you when I…
Jim’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week consists of words intended to attract someone’s attention – including the ever-popular ‘Hey’. I completely overlooked what is arguably the most well-known song featuring that word in its title – The Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’, which I suspect will be – quite rightly – a popular choice and…
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