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 –…
Times of day is Jim’s theme this week, so here’s a fine song – in an exceptionally good version – by the man they used to call ‘God’ After midnight, we’re gonna let it all hang down. After midnight, we’re gonna chug-a-lug and shout. We’re gonna stimulate some action; We’re gonna get some satisfaction. We’re…
Jim at A Unique Title For Me is celebrating the USA’s Mothers’ Day in this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. In the UK, Mothers’ Day always takes place during Lent, so I don’t feel under any obligation to post a paean of praise to my own mother, well-deserved though it would be. Instead, we go back…
Well, after Jim let the good times roll last week, this Song Lyric Sunday has a much darker theme – pain and suffering. Which naturally leads us to Leonard Cohen. And, more specifically, me in my room at university, listening to ‘Songs Of Love And Hate’ and wallowing in my teenage angst. Well I stepped…
It’s rock ‘n roll time for Song Lyric Sunday this week, as Jim at A Unique Title For Me has set the theme of ‘Boogie/Rock/Rolling Stone’. I decided to go with the first of these and the prompt reminded me – for what must be the first time in many years – of this offering…
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