The rather vulgar subject of money is the theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. Well, it’s either that or taxes, which holds no appeal – it just encourages them. A little over a year ago, I used the song ‘Doctor, doctor’ by The Thompson Twins for an SLS contribution. I explained then that it…
For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, Jim asks us to present a song whose title contains the word ‘black’. Well, fair enough, there’s a lot of them about, including many that I wouldn’t be ashamed of putting forward for the challenge. However, for various reasons I settled on ‘Black Magic Woman’. Although this was written…
This week, Jim invites us into the shady world of drugs. Admittedly, that topic doesn’t preclude the possibility of pharmaceuticals with a proper medical purpose, but has anyone ever written a song extolling the virtues of paracetamol? There’s plenty to choose from in the seamier parts of the drugs world of course, including such blatant…
Weather is the broad theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday – a little more specifically perhaps, bad weather. Leaving aside the more obvious selections – ‘Hard Rain’, say, or ‘It’s Rainin’ Men’ – for me it came down to a choice between Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Thunder Road’ or this, a Hunter/Garcia song that was certainly…
This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday could be described as the edges of the day: sunrise and sunset, or dawn and dusk, for example. Which leads me to this rather lovely yet sad song by The Eagles, from the album ‘Desperado’ and written by Glenn Frey and Don Henley (him again). The epitome of…
Jim has decreed that our Song Lyric Sunday contributions this week should contain the words ‘get’ and/or ‘over’. An obvious double-whammy – and slightly mischievous to boot – would be ‘I’ll Never Get Over You’, originally performed by British band Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, which reached #4 in the UK singles chart in 1963.…
Jim’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week put me in a bit of a quandary. He is seeking a song that contains my name. Here’s the thing(s): Firstly, I don’t use my actual name on this blog and never have. In previous prompts it has been elicited that my initials are BC, but that’s…
Initially, I was stumped by Jim’s challenge for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. He’s looking for a song used as the title of a movie. The only one I could think of at first was ‘Saturday Night Fever’ – except, of course, the song’s title is just ‘Night Fever’. Then there’s most of the James…
“Thinking young and growing older is no sin” This week, Jim is looking for a version of a song that’s better than the original. As it happens, back in the mists of time (2017, to be more precise) I wrote a post that’s quite relevant to this prompt, the premise being that there are versions…
There’s a song by Sade titled “Never As Good As The First Time”. I’m not sure this is universally applicable, but it is probably true in the majority of cases when it comes to once great bands getting back together. The case with regard to Pink Floyd is a moot one. The breakup was acrimonious…
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