This week, Jim wants a song that featured prominently in a movie. So this is from ‘Armageddon’, by Aerosmith – and especially for Madame. I could stay awake just to hear you breathing Watch you smile while you are sleeping While you’re far away and dreaming I could spend my life in this sweet surrender…
I can see what Jim’s getting at with his prompt words for Song Lyric Sunday this week: ‘Wedding; Marry; Diamond; Ring; Cake’. It must be matrimony, right? Sorry, but I’m not biting on that one – although I have absolutely nothing against the state of matrimony; far from it. However, maybe it says something about…
An intriguing theme set by Jim this week for Song Lyric Sunday: ‘Hamlet/Magic/Mystery/Supernatural/Trick. So lots of scope for artistic interpretation – just like ‘Hamlet’ itself. This song by Lieber and Stoller surely fits the brief and was was originally a hit for US group The Clovers in 1959, but this is the version that I…
Jim has set us the task for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday of posting a song that features one of the animals that make up the signs of the Chinese Zodiac Not that I pay much – indeed, any – attention to astrology, but I suppose it is quite cool to have been born in…
Jim has selected the broad theme of ‘questions’ for Song Lyric Sunday this week, and this was the first thing that came into my head. Deadheads (guilty) often talk about what’s been called ‘the click of affinity’: the moment when you’re listening to the Dead and you suddenly get it. In my case – should…
Jim’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week comes under the broad umbrella of ‘gambling’. A couple of years ago Helen Vahdati set a similar theme, which I responded to with the Grateful Dead’s ‘Loser’. This is another offering from the Dead – a rather more upbeat one, often deployed as a rousing Set 1…
So, it’s Fathers’ Day this weekend. Bit of a Hallmark Holiday if you ask me (bah, humbug) but celebrating fatherhood works both ways. A cover version of this song was at the top of the UK charts when our lovely daughter was born, which seemed entirely appropriate. And still does. Isn’t she lovely Isn’t she…
Some discretion is called for in dealing with Jim’s prompt for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. My family reads this blog, after all. Ah well. Anyway, we should be on fairly safe ground with this offering, from the endearingly bonkers Iggy Pop. Here comes Johnny Yen again With the liquor and drugs And a flesh…
Jim’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week could be broadly classified as ‘thoroughfares’ (streets, avenues, etc). Plenty of songs to choose from, then. I’ve gone for just your basic road, however, mainly because it gives me the opportunity to post another number from The Doors’ performance at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.…
I have often thought that you can pretty well date somebody by some of the colloquial expressions they use, and I suspect that will be the case with Jim’s latest theme for Song Lyric Sunday. Of the choices he’s offered, ‘cool’ is probably the closest to what I would have been likely to use –…
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