image link I scrolled through a ton of lyrics, searching for various spices, including the word spice itself, before I happened across, “Pepper” by Butthole Surfers. I’d heard the band’s name before, and the song was familiar, but I hadn’t put the two together. The song is compelling and should have an earworm warning with…
Category: Song Lyric Sunday
#SLS Phil Lynott (8/20) “A Song for While I’m Away,” from Thin Lizzy’s, Vagabonds of the Western World (1973)
The search was half of the fun on this week’s prompt. Memorizing musician’s and songwriter’s birthdays is not my area of expertise, so I went through the days in wikipedia until I hit on Phil. A few years or so ago, when I was listening to Spotify’s Release Radar, I came across a song by…
#SLS — “Someone Saved My Life Tonight,” by Elton John (1975)
When I saw the theme this week, so many songs came to mind, but so many of them were ones I thought others might choose, so I went to lyrics.com and put all three search terms in. There were a plethora of new tunes I came across that were good as I built a list…
#SLS — “Any Road” by George Harrison, on Brainwashed (2002)
I’ve recently watched a few more episodes — only watching one at a time, to make them last — of the Beatles documentary series (on Disney+) which has gotten me falling under their spell all over again. So when I saw Jim’s prompt for this week, I went looking for one of their songs. “Any…
#SLS Bonnie Pointer (DOB 7/11) of The Pointer Sisters (previously posted WMM 2024 Day 16)
The Pointer Sisters, photo by Chris Foster/Shutterstock(link takes you to Rolling Stone’s article about when they hit the country charts) Please click on each sister’s name link to take you to The Pointer Sister’s website for a full bio Ruth Pointer (b. 3/14/1946)Anita Pointer (b. 1/23/1948 — 12/31/2022)Bonnie Pointer (b. 7/11/1950 – d. 6/8/2020)June Pointer…
#SLS — “What is this thing called love?” written by Cole Porter, from The Great American Songbook
One of the things I didn’t realize when I picked this song is that it would have so many covers. I saw the name Cole Porter and ran with it. I see it is one of Porter’s most often played compositions. Can you imagine writing a song that ends up with a legacy like this…
#SLS — (Nothing But) Flowers by Talking Heads
Byrne told Record Mirror in 1988 that many of the songs on Naked are “about human beings stripped of their pretensions; stripped of their surface trappings“, which in turn inspired putting a picture of a chimpanzee on the album cover. Naked is the eighth and final studio album by American rock band Talking Heads, released on March 15, 1988, by Sire Records. Following the more straightforward new…
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