Forms of wealth provide the key words for Song Lyric Sunday this week. Naturally one of these is ‘gold’. And that’s the only excuse I need to offer up this dystopian Neil Young classic, released in 1970 and on heavy rotation throughout my student years. Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming,Saying…
This week the sartorial theme for Song Lyric Sunday goes straight to the top, with songs about headgear. My first thought was David Bowie’s ‘Queen Bitch’ and that ‘bippity boppity hat’. Unfortunately, it had also been my first thought about three years ago for another prompt. So instead, here’s something naught but niiiice…. Baby, take…
Maintaining last week’s sartorial theme, today’s Song Lyric Sunday is all about footwear and led me to this tale of romantic angst from Bob Dylan’s third studio album, ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’, released in January 1964. As with ZZ Top, I also saw Dylan at the old Wembley Arena back in the nineties. He…
Sartorial elegance is the order of the day for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, so here’s a well-known catchy little number by ZZ Top that fits the brief and probably requires no further introduction. I saw ZZ Top once, at the old Wembley Arena back in the nineties. They were okay… Clean shirt, new shoesAnd…
There is a whole range of emotions to choose from for Song Lyric Sunday this week. Fortuitously, one of these feelings – more of an emotional response, as Jim points out – is ‘pain’, which allows me to present one of the Grateful Dead’s most consistently played (over 340 times between 1969 and 1995) slow…
There’s a clear seaside theme to Song Lyric Sunday this week, and when one of the prompt words is ‘surf’, it’s inevitable that the Beach Boys spring almost immediately to mind. However, I haven’t gone for one of their earlier, teenybopper celebrations of California life but this rather more thoughtful song, from the album of…
This week’s Song Lyric Sunday has a military theme to it. Following on from last week’s Clive Davis fest, I recalled that one of the great man’s very first signings was the Irish folksinger Donovan, and I certainly remembered this protest song from my schooldays. Donovan released his cover in 1965, although the song’s author,…
There’s an intriguing twist to Song Lyric Sunday this week, with the theme being artistes who at some point have been signed by the legendary producer Clive Davis. I had heard , almost peripherally, of Clive Davis. Thus, I knew that at some point he had signed up the Grateful Dead to his new Arista…
I must have been doing Song Lyric Sunday for too long, because this week, for the theme of ‘thought’ (broadly speaking), I realised that I had already deployed my first two choices: Pink Floyd’s ‘Brain Damage/Eclipse’ and John Lennon’s ‘Mind Games’. However, this is surely up there with the best of them: a vision that…
Song Lyric Sunday this week takes ‘rain’ as its theme. The real standout choice for me would be Carole King’s ‘It Might As Well Rain Until September’; unfortunately it’s such a standout that I’ve already deployed it. Same with my second choice, the Grateful Dead’s ‘Looks Like Rain’; indeed, I used that for Helen’s prompt…
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