Jim’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week consists of words intended to attract someone’s attention – including the ever-popular ‘Hey’. I completely overlooked what is arguably the most well-known song featuring that word in its title – The Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’, which I suspect will be – quite rightly – a popular choice and…
The traditional trappings of a wedding – ‘something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue’ constitute Jim’s keywords for Song Lyric Sunday this week. This has nothing to do with nuptials, but ask me what’s my favourite Grateful Dead song and although I would be hard-pressed to make a single choice, this would always be…
Jim’s Song Lyric Sunday this week is looking for a sense of place, be it town or city – or, indeed, country. In the week of Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday, this strikes me as an appropriate choice. It was the second track on the ‘Freewheelin’ album that was released almost exactly 58 years ago this…
Song Lyric Sunday this week has a particularly interesting theme. Jim has challenged us to write about two associated songs in a ‘compare and contrast’ kind of way (rather like a student essay). Last week, when the theme was ‘Elevator Music’, I wrote about two versions of the same song, but this is rather different.…
This week’s Song Lyric challenge is an interesting one: ‘elevator music’. I know what Jim means but it doesn’t mean I have to like it. On first reading this challenge I was reminded of the great Robin Williams film ‘Good Morning Vietnam’. As I remember it, until Robin’s character burst onto the scene the forces…
Jim’s prompts for this week are ‘Heaven’ and ‘Hell’. Although both are imaginary concepts, I’ll take heaven every time. For Madame. Oh, thinkin’ about all our younger yearsThere was only you and meWe were young and wild and free Now nothin’ can take you away from meWe’ve been down that road beforeBut that’s over nowYou…
The prompts for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday leave me at something of a disadvantage. Making and fixing, it would be fair to say – and I freely acknowledge it – are not among my strengths (insofar as I have any to speak of). However, this seminal British mid-seventies song by Steve Harley and Cockney…
Hellos and goodbyes are the themes of Song Lyric Sunday this week. Apart from The Beatles and their covering of both bases, I immediately thought of this Cole Porter classic. Ev’ry time we say goodbyeI die a littleEv’ry time we say goodbyeI wonder why a little Why the Gods above meWho must be in the…
The challenge this week is to post a song containing a girl’s name beginning with ‘S’. There are plenty of possibilities, for sure. The first one that came to my mind was Leonard Cohen’s ‘Suzanne’, but I thought I’d look elsewhere on this occasion. Way back in simpler times, there was the devil’s music –…
It’s a very broad category for Song Lyric Sunday this week – songs with one-word titles. Anyway, this is the one that came to my mind first – one of my favourite Pink Floyd sonic landscapes. The piece was, it seems, put together from various, previously unconnected, studio noodlings. Much like the lyrics, by the…
