“Everything all the time” I mean, it’s good to have something a bit on the highbrow side as an inspiration for Song Lyric Sunday every so often, but I hadn’t reckoned on an excursion into Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theories as a theme for this week. More specifically, Jim is seeking a song about ‘exhibiting instinctual…
It’s all about the drugs this week for Song Lyric Sunday. This could include alcohol and tobacco and even other legal substances, but as this was the first song that came to mind when I saw the prompt, I’m going with it. This was originally released on ‘The Velvet Underground and Nico’ in 1967, the…
This week’s subject for Song Lyric Sunday is the broad one of weather. There’s plenty to choose from out there, but this was the first that popped into my head and now it just won’t go away. One comment on the video describes it as ‘campy post-disco at its very finest’. Difficult to argue with…
This week for Song Lyric Sunday, Jim is looking for a song with a great intro. Well, I can think of lots of those – which of course is the whole point. However, I’ve already posted many of them in response to other SLS challenges: to name a few, there’s ‘ Dazed and Confused’, ‘Pretty…
I like this idea of featuring, for the first Song Lyric Sunday of each month, an artiste or songwriter who was born in that month. However, as usual, I needed to resort to the web to check out a list of March birthdays. But I didn’t need to trawl very far down the list to…
This week, Jim wants to hear about a song that reminds us of home. It seems to me that this is not as straightforward as it seems, however. My regular reader (sic) will probably be aware that Madame and I live in the depths of La France Profonde in what is very much our home,…
We all suffer from them: those tunes that come, unbidden, into your head and steadfastly refuse to leave until ousted by another random nuisance. More often than not, my current earworm will be the song that I’m planning to use for the next Song Lyric Sunday. This may or, less frequently, may not be perfectly…
“It’s life and life only” We’re going profound this week on Song Lyric Sunday, as Jim has asked us for a song that makes us think about life. Back in August, as I recall, we were asked to submit a ‘philosophical’ song, a concept of which I was somewhat dismissive: to the extent that I…
This week we are being called upon to feature a song performed and/or written by someone born during the month of February. Naturally I had to have resort to the internet to discover who might qualify on those grounds, and that is where I discovered that no less an eminence than Johnny Cash was not…
When I saw that the prompt for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday was ‘cold’, my immediate thought – and one I just haven’t been able get past – was this: a regular on the Grateful Dead’s set-list from the very early days. And it seems particularly appropriate if you have the misfortune to be in…
the only deadhead in the hameau 