Hang on. ‘Acoustic rock’? Isn’t that a contradiction in terms – an oxymoron, if you will. Like ‘military intelligence’? Well, apparently not. It’s rock music played on acoustic instruments, apparently. Personally, I don’t get it. I’m a simple man, and for me, it’s an either/or. However, there are, admittedly, lots of songs that in their…
This week’s challenge for Song Lyric Sunday is to post an underrated deep album cut. Tricky, because who knows what other people consider to be underrated – it could be a firm favourite for someone. It may seem counter-intuitive to select a Beatles album, but everything is relative and a song that’s on the same…
The Moody Blues were at the peak of their popularity – and arguably also their powers – when I was in my late teens (late sixties, early seventies). I wouldn’t say they were my favourite band (probably not even top five in truth), but they produced some good stuff and I clearly remember being awestruck…
‘Change’ is this week’s broad theme for Song Lyric Sunday. David Bowie’s ‘Changes’ is a bit too glaringly obvious, even for me, so instead I’ve gone back to one of the first records I ever bought. I don’t think it needs any further introduction. Your baby doesn’t love you anymoreGolden days before they endWhisper secrets…
Last week’s Song Lyric Sunday was about artistes with food-related names, so it’s a logical progression this time to find a song about food (or nutrition generally). As is distressingly common these days, I found that I’d already deployed my first two ‘ideas’: The Beatles’ ‘Honey Pie’ and Led Zeppelin’s ‘The Lemon Song’. So there…
“Oh what it is to be young” This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is to find a track from a band with a food-related name. My immediate thought was Humble Pie, but – much as I liked Humble Pie – I thought that was too obvious. My next thought was The Electric Prunes, but…
“If you get confused just listen to the music play” Jim’s left it to us to choose this week. I thought of quite a few, but when I searched my back catalogue of previous contributions I discovered that I’d already used most of them. Unaccountably though, not this one, which contains probably my most favourite…
This week, Jim is seeking songs recorded at the famous Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama. As he notes, there are certainly plenty to chose from. However, I had already made my own choice before I finished reading Jim’s post last week, when he indicated that he was going to write about Bob Dylan’s ‘Gotta Serve…
This week, Jim is looking for one of Rolling Stone’s Top 500 songs ‘of all time’. I used the most recent iteration of this long-established list, so there are a number of songs by more modern artists – ones which are certainly well past my sell-by date. Apart from these young(ish) whippersnappers, most of the…
This week, Jim’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is artistes who haven’t been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but who we think should have been. Naturally, the first thing I did, in a process of elimination. was to check out who was actually already in there. Pretty much all of the…
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