Comes Now a RumpusComes now a rumpuspinned on no compasssound brass trumpetsdispel fear from us.Gathered alumnusprepare in onenessas crucible of fundushath made toughness.Resolve, cuprous cutlass’,survey bulbous buttress’;we steel-smelted puppetsshall refuse interruptuswill forge new twas thus. I have this live album. Bought it after hearing them at our Irish (and Celtic) Music Festival many moons ago. …
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#SLS — Strange Little Girl – Tori Amos Cover
image is from Tori Amos’ website In 2021, I was introduced to a Tori Amos cover of “Strange Little Girl” by Steve for the Deaf. Written by The Stranglers in 1974 and re-recorded and released in the UK in 1982, it was their last single while signed to Liberty Records (part of EMI.) Strange Little Girls is a concept album released…
#FF — End One Way
PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox End One Way “It needs more cowbell,” says John. Yoko, holding the cowbell, smirks and nods. “I can’t keep proper time with it gonging in my ear,” says Ringo. “Forget the cowbell. We need some horns to offset the piano,” says Paul. Billy had mentioned this to Paul last night…
#MMB 25 August – “Wharf Rat,” by The Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead album cover opened Let me begin by saying I know next to nothing about The Grateful Dead and am familiar only with the songs that got airplay, like Casey Jones and Truckin’. When I first started blogging at WordPress and started following Jim Adams’ blog, I learned he was a dedicated Deadhead. I…
#SLS — “Blue,” by Joni Mitchell
Blue, songs are like tattoosYou know I’ve been to sea before— from, “Blue,” by Joni Mitchell You may find other opening lines as good as this one but you will never find better ones. The way Joni manifests the first WORD sets the tone. There is nothing more you need to know about what comes…
#MMB 2025 — “Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show,” by Neil Diamond
For anyone who has read my blog, they’ve heard me mention the couple whose kids I used to babysit in my early-mid teens. The mom was a hairdresser, and the dad worked third shift in a factory. While the kids were outside playing and the dad was sleeping upstairs, I had free use of the…
#SLS – “More Than This,” by Roxy Music (1982)
Veronica Veronese (cover for single release)By Dante Gabriel Rossetti I’ve often thought I should do an album where the songs are all bound together in the style of West Side Story, but it’s always seemed like too much bother to work that way. So instead, I have these 10 poems, or short stories, that could, with…
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