Coloring Club Plus — 3/22/19

The CD I borrowed from the library is titled, “The Best of Kinks: 1964-1971”. I do not see this BMG release at wikipedia. It has a lot of good music. My selection today from it is “Days.” If anyone knows who Ray was singing about, I’d like to know who it is. per wikipedia: “Days”…

Coloring Club Plus — 3/20/19

“Rise to Me” is a song on the American indie rock band, The Decemberists’ sixth album, The King is Dead. It was released as a single in 2010.  They’ve done 7 albums, are working on an 8th, and also did a fantastic collaboration with Olivia Chaney in 2017 and called the group, Offa Rex for…

Coloring Club Plus — 3/19/19

I was trying to think of an appropriate song for today. One that would speak to the mass shooting a long way from here, in NZ, but close for so many of the writers and readers on Word Press. We in the US have seen it become almost commonplace here. It sorrows me to see…

Coloring Club Plus — 3/18/19

  From wikipedia: Bruce Springsteen’s, “Darkness on the Edge of Town” is the fourth studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released on June 2, 1978. In September 2010, a documentary film chronicling the making of Darkness was first shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. Quoting Springsteen as saying “More than rich, more than famous, more…

Coloring Club Plus — 3/17/19

  per wikipedia: Richard Thompson’s Front Parlour Ballads is the eleventh studio album by Richard Thompson, released in 2005, was a literally homemade album. Thompson’s aim was to create an album that sounded small and intimate. Thompson had a small studio built in his garage at home and recorded the tracks onto his laptop computer,…

#SLS– More Than This by Roxy Music

Jim Adams is the illustrious host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: This week the prompt is School/Books/Learning. I would appreciate it if you can be patient, and wait for me to approve your pingbacks. Here are the “rules”: Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme or not. Please…