Jim’s third and final letter-themed Song Lyric Sunday prompt is D or J. You can have both if you like. ‘Julia Dream’ was originally the B-side of the 1968 single ‘It Would Be So Nice’ – a song which, I have to confess, passed me by completely. Which must mean that I first heard this…
Week two of Song Lyric Sunday’s mini-series of letters of the alphabet gives us M or A. It occurred to me that if Jim can have a short season, so can I, so here is another song by Pink Floyd. ‘Astronomy Domine’ is rather different from last week’s ‘Green Is The Colour’, although I suspect…
To begin the New Year, Jim is embarking on a three-week season of Song Lyric Sunday prompts consisting of a choice of two letters of the alphabet, the title of the selected song having to begin with one of them. First up is P or G, and my first thought was this Pink Floyd beauty,…
To the best of my knowledge, I haven’t featured Duran Duran in my Song Lyric Sunday contributions before now. Truth be told, they are a little after my time. However, the lyrics of this perfectly respectable song meet Jim’s brief for this week of ‘Aroma/Flav(o)ur’. Dark in the city, night is a wire Steam in…
Jim’s key words for Song Lyric Sunday this week are geometric shapes. It wasn’t as easy as usual to find something to match the brief, but there is this, the opening track on Bowie’s third studio LP, ‘The Man Who Sold The World’. The title track is by far the best-known song on this album,…
Jim offers us a range of soft fruits as prompts for Song Lyric Sunday this week. There is no more than a handful of songs that I can truly say were life-changing on first hearing. This definitely was and would have been the first. I suspect that I won’t be the only participant in SLS…
“I have tried in my way to be free” Jim’s broad theme of ‘domesticated animals’ for Song Lyric Sunday this week gives me an opportunity to post my favourite, most resonating, Leonard Cohen song. Although the title includes ‘bird’, the very last thing that this song is about is domestication, however. Like a bird on…
Jim’s called his overarching theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday ‘spouse in the house’. However, one of his key words is ‘lover’ (which obviously isn’t mutually exclusive). The highlighted lines in these Bob Dylan lyrics were the first thing that came into my head. Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby, Can’t buy a…
Ends and beginnings are the key themes for Jim’s Song Lyric Sunday this week. It’s hard to think of a better show-opener than this Rolling Stones classic If you start me up If you start me up I’ll never stop If you start me up If you start me up I’ll never stop I’ve been…
Jim has chosen days of the week for Song Lyric Sunday this week. I have no doubt at all that there are many options for all seven days, but this is the first one that came to my mind. When this song was released, in 1992, not only was my daughter a big fan of…
