This week, Jim has posed a it of a tricky one for Song Lyric Sunday – a song that references the name of another group. I know that there’s a song out there somewhere that references a ‘Grateful Dead sticker on a Cadillac’ (is it The Eagles?), but I’m going for John Lennon here drawing…
It’s not all time-warp tie-dye here at Brokedown Palace, you know…..although it mostly is, if I’m honest. This week, Jim is looking for a song that name-checks somebody famous. It’s fair to say that Napoleon Bonaparte fulfils that criterion. This was the song that announced Abba to the world in 1974 when it walked away…
The BBC screened an excellent, highly popular and innovative crime series back in 2006. The scenario was that a modern-day detective was involved in a car accident and came round to find himself – still a detective – back in 1973. The series was called ‘Life on Mars’. Nothing else to say, really – just…
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…
