When looking for a song for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday prompt, there was intent to find something brand new to me. It also had to have meaningful lyrics. So the scroll at lyrics.com commenced. Many page turns later my eyeballs screeched to a halt at a collaboration between Brandi Carlile and Pearl Jam. Reading…
Category: Song Lyric Sunday
#SLS — “The Seeker,” by Pete Townshend
It suffered from being the first thing we did after Tommy, and also from being recorded a few too many times. We did it once at my home studio, then at IBC where we normally worked then with Kit Lambert producing. Then Kit had a tooth pulled, breaking his jaw, and we did it ourselves. The results are…
#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…
#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…
#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…
#SLS – “Singing from the Windows” by Dave Matthews Band, from Walk Around the Moon
Dave Matthews Band “Walk Around the Moon” album cover (link takes you to Pitchfork review) image link My first thought on great album closer is something that has every instrument vibing full blast with echoing screams by a long-haired 1970’s musician like Robert Plant or Steven Tyler. A song, when it ends, the silence is…
#SLS — “War Child” by Jethro Tull (1974)
back cover image link that also takes you to a decent review and more info about the album I’m a big fan of Jethro Tull and have most of their albums. War Child is not one of them and I have yet to listen to it, strangely. I’ve come across the title track here and…
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