This week, Jim is looking for the the title track of an album. My very first thought was Neil Young’s ‘After The Goldrush’, but checking back, it seemed I’d already used it in an earlier post. A shame, but no problem – I went for the gentle, lilting ‘Harvest’ instead. Both those albums were on…
This week, Jim is looking for a track from a second album. That’s a pretty broad field but Madame had just happened to mention The Kinks as I set to my task, so here is the closing track on Side 1 of their second album, ‘Kinda Kinks’, which was released in March 1965. Surely it…
The slightly morbid theme of Song Lyric Sunday for this week is to present a song that was released after the death of the performer. It’s often been said (mostly, I suspect, by the marketing guys at the record company) that dying is a really excellent career move – although, of course, the artistes themselves…
This week, Jim is seeking a song based on true events. Of course, there are plenty to choose from, but this particular one popped into my head quite quickly. A few days in the life of a Beatle… (Until I pulled up the lyrics, I’d never noticed that truly clunky rhyming of ‘Seine’ with ‘Gibraltar,…
Like most people, I suspect, when I saw that this week’s Song Lyric Sunday prompt was calling for an acoustic version of a song more familiar in an electric version, my thoughts turned immediately to the MTV ‘Unplugged’ show. There have been many iconic performances delivered there, with perhaps Eric Clapton and Nirvana being the…
This week’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge is to present a song from a ‘concept’ album. I confess to not being the biggest fan of that particular genre, because it makes me thing of Genesis or Yes, neither of which have ever sparked any interest in me. Of course there are honourable exceptions, perhaps most notably…
I’ve pretty much always enjoyed live shows and live recordings over studio albums, which can often sound too stylised and over-engineered to my ears. Just ask yourself whether there would ever have been such a following for the Grateful Dead if all we had were the studio recordings. It’s really a case of ‘you had…
When I saw this week’s Song Lyric Sunday prompt – the final song ever played – two possibilities sprung immediately to mind. The first was the Grateful Dead’s ‘Box of Rain’ from their last show, at Soldier Field in 1995, but I’ve already used that for a different prompt some years back. But the second…
This week’s Song Lyric Sunday theme kicks off an interesting three-week sequence. Next week we need to find the final song ever played, and on the following Sunday, something from a live album. This week, however, the task is to feature a song from a final album. In 2007, the mighty Led Zeppelin (with the…
To be honest, I wasn’t exactly sure what constituted a ‘breakout’ album when I saw this week’s theme on the Song Lyric Sunday schedule. However, I was enlightened by the fact that ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine has an article that defined it, in broad terms, as not a debut release but the first commercial (and critical?)…
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