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…
Jim has decreed that our Song Lyric Sunday contributions this week should contain the words ‘get’ and/or ‘over’. An obvious double-whammy – and slightly mischievous to boot – would be ‘I’ll Never Get Over You’, originally performed by British band Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, which reached #4 in the UK singles chart in 1963.…
This week we’re looking for a song that featured on the long-running BBC TV programme Top Of The Pops (or on Ready, Steady Go, which was even cooler – and if the scope had been extended to the unmissable Old Grey Whistle Test, well, the sky would have been the limit). Anyway, there was never…
Bloganuary Day 21: We have been here before….. If you could, what year would you time travel to, and why? You may recall, dear reader, that time travel was my chosen superpower earlier this week. Been there, done that – which is rather appropriate for the subject of time travel, I suppose. In the interest…
This week’s shudder-inducing theme for Song Lyric Sunday is insects and other creepy things that most right-minded people find utterly horrible. It must be said that such creatures are not typical subjects for your average songsmith. There again, The Who’s bass guitarist, John Entwistle, was far from typical. ‘Boris The Spider’ is obviously a novelty…
Jim’s theme this week offers a choice of vehicles: car/truck/bus. I’m going with my first thought – ‘Magic Bus’, written by Pete Townshend and performed here by The Who in their early-seventies pomp. There seems to be some debate about whether this is a coded-reference song about drugs, or a charming ditty about the excitement…
This is Round 19 of the Weekly Song Challenge hosted by Laura at lauravent69. The great man Fandango reckons that the underlying theme of these three challenges is ‘attitude’ and who am I to argue? Post a video of a song that makes you think about being a teenager. I’ve posted it before and I’ll…
For ‘W’ it could only be The Who. Having, notoriously, slept right through their performance at the Isle of Wight in 1970, I finally got to see them at the opening night of the Rainbow Theatre in November 1971. They tumbled onto the stage at the end of a line of high-kicking chorus girls, Moon…
Helen has set us a tester this week with the theme of ‘Heat’ for Song Lyric Sunday. I struggled to bring to mind many songs with ”heat’ in the title. Resorting, reluctantly, to other-search-engines-are-available to find lyric references to the word produced plenty of allusions, but these seemed to be mostly in the context of…
This week, Helen wants a song with a name in the title. No shortage of them, that’s for sure, but to give everyone a rest from the Grateful Dead (‘Althea’, ‘Bertha’, ‘Cassidy’, ‘Corinna’, ‘Loose Lucy’ et al) here’s a very early (1967) single by one of the greatest – and certainly the loudest – rock…
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