“I remembered the days when I wasn’t afraid of the sunshine” This week, Jim is seeking a song that references climate change or the environment more generally. Quite simply, this is what popped into my head as soon as I saw the prompt. We don’t own this place, though we act as if we didIt’s…
Jim’s prompt for this week is ‘unrealised potential’. It seems to me that there are two broad reasons why the potential of an artiste or artistes could remain unrealised. Thus a band can break up because of ‘artistic differences’, which can be a polite euphemism for a clash of egos, often leading to the disappointing…
I’ve been aware for some time that it’s been too long (last October, in fact) since I featured Leonard Cohen in my Song Lyric Sunday offerings, so when I saw that the prompt for this week was to feature a song from an album written entirely by the recording artiste(s), there was no question who…
I confess to having been a little bamboozled when I saw that the prompt for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday called for a song from a ‘Super Band’. That’s not an expression I’m familiar with. However, a little exploration showed that it’s an alternative (American?) description of what would be more commonly described over here…
This week, Jim has challenged us to showcase a song containing either ‘Yesterday’, ‘Today’ or ‘Tomorrow’ in its title or lyrics. I will by no means be the only one whose first thought was Paul McCartney’s ‘Yesterday’: it’s a bit obvious, though. The Beatles’ ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ is there too, although I’ve already deployed it…
Now, I have a bit of a pedantic problem with this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, where we are asked to showcase a ‘philosophical’ song. Some readers may be aware that I actually have a university degree in Philosophy, albeit from over 50 years ago. Although that’s not so long that I still didn’t automatically respond…
Song Lyric Sunday throws up an interesting challenge this week: feature a song that references a nursery rhyme or a fairy tale. My initial response to this was ‘Eh?’. Nothing at all came to mind. So, in time-honoured fashion, I eschewed the sheer effort of having to think for myself and instead put the question…
This week, Jim is asking us to feature a song with an arresting opening line: one so familiar that you can ‘name that tune’ immediately. Perhaps it’s just my age, but most of the possibilities that sprang most immediately to mind were rock and roll classics. I see that Jim himself has chosen ‘Tutti-frutti’, but…
After last week’s challenge of choosing the closing track of an album it is of course entirely logical that this time Jim is looking for an opening track. Not too long ago, I featured Roxy Music’s ‘Remake/Remodel’, the opening track of their debut album. However,this was by no means Bob Dylan’s first LP (as we…
When I saw that Jim’s prompt for Song Lyric Sunday this week was the closing track of an album, as if by magic four possibilities just jumped into my head. But hang on: haven’t I already used these? ‘Brain Damage/Eclipse’ from ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ – check; ‘See Me Feel Me’ from ‘Tommy’ –…
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