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…
For this week’s ‘Show’ theme, I was going to use ‘The Music Never Stopped’ by the Grateful Dead, but looking back I saw that I’d already deployed that over three years ago. So instead I came up with this song by the British group Renaissance – folk-rock favourites of mine back in the early seventies…
I have to admit that this week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday had me stumped for a while: anger, rage, fury – all very festive. Nothing came to mind. Eventually, I resorted – which I very rarely do for this blog – to throwing a cent or two into the ‘Keep Larry Page rich’ fund…
Some of us are old enough to remember when what we now call ‘old-fashioned’ telephones were the only electronic communication devices available, they were probably attached to a wall and their mobility was thus purely a function of how long the receiver cord was. Happy days. Of course there are very many songs about, or…
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