From way back in 2012, a playlist… Life: The Soundtrack Yesterday’s Daily Prompt struck a chord (as it were): “Put together a a musical playlist of songs that describe your life, including what you hope your future entails.” I guess that this is something many people think about doing but don’t actually set about it…
Jim is clearly taking his theme for this week from the old adage ‘sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me’. There seems to be some debate about the origins of this saying, but it appears to be from the Book of Nehemiah in the Bible Old Testament. Anyway, the…
When I saw that Jim’s prompt for Song Lyric Sunday this week was the closing track of an album, as if by magic four possibilities just jumped into my head. But hang on: haven’t I already used these? ‘Brain Damage/Eclipse’ from ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ – check; ‘See Me Feel Me’ from ‘Tommy’ –…
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,…
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…
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…
This week for Song Lyric Sunday, Jim is looking for songs that contain the words ‘hard’ or ‘work’. I must admit that ‘Work Harder Day’ is a new one on me; we live and learn. I’ll also freely concede that hard work is something to which I have a strong natural aversion. However, for the…
For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, Jim asks us to find a song that stands as a great album closer. You need look no further than this. There’s a school of thought that believes ‘Revolver’ is an even greater album than it’s successor, ‘Sergeant Pepper’ and I must say that I’m minded to agree. I…
This week’s challenge for Song Lyric Sunday is to post an underrated deep album cut. Tricky, because who knows what other people consider to be underrated – it could be a firm favourite for someone. It may seem counter-intuitive to select a Beatles album, but everything is relative and a song that’s on the same…
This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is the so-called ‘British Invasion’, referring to those British performers who ‘made it’ – however briefly – in the US, initially on the back of The Beatles’ extraordinary success. Appropriately enough, this is a Lennon/McCartney song (on which they did actually co-operate), which they very generously gave away…
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