The prompts for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday leave me at something of a disadvantage. Making and fixing, it would be fair to say – and I freely acknowledge it – are not among my strengths (insofar as I have any to speak of). However, this seminal British mid-seventies song by Steve Harley and Cockney…
Hellos and goodbyes are the themes of Song Lyric Sunday this week. Apart from The Beatles and their covering of both bases, I immediately thought of this Cole Porter classic. Ev’ry time we say goodbyeI die a littleEv’ry time we say goodbyeI wonder why a little Why the Gods above meWho must be in the…
The challenge this week is to post a song containing a girl’s name beginning with ‘S’. There are plenty of possibilities, for sure. The first one that came to my mind was Leonard Cohen’s ‘Suzanne’, but I thought I’d look elsewhere on this occasion. Way back in simpler times, there was the devil’s music –…
It’s a very broad category for Song Lyric Sunday this week – songs with one-word titles. Anyway, this is the one that came to my mind first – one of my favourite Pink Floyd sonic landscapes. The piece was, it seems, put together from various, previously unconnected, studio noodlings. Much like the lyrics, by the…
Jim’s Song Lyric Sunday has a floral theme this week – which made me think of this. ‘Flower of Scotland’ is the quasi-official sporting national anthem of Scotland. It’s always heard at its best when, as in the accompanying video, belted out at maximum volume by a full house at Murrayfield, the national rugby stadium…
Jim is taking the long view with his key words for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. This was the first song that came into my head when I saw what he was after, although II suspect I won’t have been the only one. From back in January 1968, what I always thought was a one-hit…
Song Lyric Sunday this week is all about mobility. I first encountered this 50s classic in the version shown in the video below, as performed by Sha Na Na at Woodstock in 1969. Talk about high energy….and certainly no lack of mobility. This is probably one of the seminal pieces of mid-fifties rock and roll,…
Jim’s overarching theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is misery or angst. Excruciating stuff, in other words For my generation, the obvious source for a song to match this would be Leonard Cohen, but as I do my best to stay down with the kids, I’ve selected something a little more up to date.…
I take my coffee straight and black as a general rule, so Jim’s more specific coffee-related prompts of latte, capuccino and so on don’t mean that much to me – and a (fairly) cursory search didn’t come up with many songs about or pertaining to these elaborate confections. Plain old coffee surely serves the purpose…
Weather phenomena provide the inspiration for Song Lyric Sunday this week. The Incredible String Band – your go-to destination for sixties stoned hippy whimsy – have a cute song about a little cloud. It’s from the 1967 album ‘The 5,000 Spirits or Layers of the Onion’ – as you will all have recognised immediately, no…
