This week’s Song Lyric Sunday should make reference to a fruit in it’s title. This somewhat fruity piece from Led Zeppelin’s second album fills that bill. I should have quit you a long time agoOh, yeah, long time agoI wouldn’t be here, my childrenDown on this killing floor I should have listened, baby, to my…
The Book of Revelation’s four horsemen of the apocalypse – war, pestilence, famine and death – constitute the cheery theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week. My first thought was this very early classic by Bob Dylan, released on the ‘Freewhelin’ album in 1963. Although I would only have been about eleven or twelve at…
As Jim is kind enough to give us a few weeks heads up of his weekly themes for Song Lyric Sunday, I’ve known that ‘Automated, Mechanical, Robots’ has been looming for some time. Jim himself rightly pointed out that it could be difficult to find something that matches this rather unusual brief (I was certainly…
Grammatical contractions form the theme of Song Lyric Sunday this week: ‘don’t’, ‘won’t’ and, of course ‘can’t’. This is a song about jealousy. Or maybe the patriarchy. The Beatles, from ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, the album of the movie, released in 1964. I got something to say that might cause you painIf I catch you…
Back in the late sixties there were lots of space-rock bands in the UK, most of them now mercifully all but forgotten. For me, though, there were two stand-outs: Pink Floyd, of course, but also Hawkwind. As pretty well everybody surely knows, Floyd developed away from their original hard(ish) rock roots to their characteristic expansive,…
It’s movie week on Song Lyric Sunday this week, so Jim is after something from a film soundtrack that was a ‘freestanding’ hit. Back in 1977, I used to get in from work on a Friday afternoon just in time to listen to a weekly programme – whose name I have entirely forgotten – on…
Bloganuary Day 26: get a grip, WordPress. What is your favourite part about yourself? It looks like whoever comes up with these daily prompts for Bloganuary is getting as weary of the exercise as many of the participants probably are – myself included. It certainly doesn’t help when we get fed nonsense like today. What…
Song Lyric Sunday this week is looking for songs written as tributes for someone. This heart-rending piece by John Lennon was the first example that came into my mind. I think it’s quite well known that John Lennon’s childhood was neither ‘normal’ or happy. Apart from the fact that he was born during a German…
This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is centred around weaponry, with key words including ‘bomb’, ‘gun’ knife’: you know, all that good stuff. I couldn’t come up with a suitable song title containing any of these words, so instead I’ve opted for this gentle Grateful Dead ballad. Apparently, Robert Hunter’s working title for this…
The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week, as proposed by the illustrious Fandango, is all about matters of concern. Well, who would have thought it? The title of this Bob Marley song may not be familiar, but you will have definitely have heard it before many times. The title was apparently inspired by three…
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