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Tuesday Tunes 251: Yup, Intros Again

  Having brought the intros back last week, for a ninth time over the past two years, I realised that this is an almost never-ending well that shows no signs of running dry. So here we are again, with a tenth selection. I’ve probably played most of these before at some point but not yet for their intros, so they seem like fair game. Strap yourself in for the ride! Something rousing to get us…

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SLS: Let The Music Speak For Itself

  For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday Jim is inviting us to play a song from a compilation or greatest hits album. His post Apart From Making Money tells all. The is a rather large field from which to choose, I think, as any artist that has lasted longer than one album probably has a compilation to their name. I ran through the list of usual suspects and decided to eschew the obvious, mainstream…

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Tuesday Tunes 250: Return Of The Intros

  Today marks another little milestone for Tuesday Tunes: this is #250 in the series. I thought about doing a post to celebrate, but I did that just over a month ago to mark the fifth anniversary of the first one, so that felt like a bit too soon to do it again! So I looked back through my notes and found a theme I had used before but for which I still had some others to play, and that seemed as…

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SLS: Murmur

  Today’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday, as Jim tells us in his post First Public Appearance, is to play a song from a debut album. A pretty large field from which to choose, I think! My first thought was to play something from Steely Dan’s Can’t Buy A Thrill, which is still one of my all-time favourite albums, but as I’ve played several tracks from it before and featured the record in my Classic…

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That Was April

  As I remarked yesterday in my post for May Day, it is time for the usual review of my previous month’s posts, to give you a chance to delight in them all again or catch up on anything you might have missed. And here it is, as promised. By my standards April was a busy month, with a total of 14 posts, all but one of which were music-related. Some things never change! The odd one out was actually…

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May Day 2025

It is time for my review of last month on my blog but that isn’t quite ready yet. As my Timehop feed this morning has again reminded me that today is the 1st of May I thought I’d fill in the gap with a slightly expanded version of the post I made last year for May Day. This is where I started, by setting out my credentials for having a university degree in English Literature with a favourite…

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Tuesday Tunes 249: Dreaming Again

    Having taken last week off to do something different – marking Earth Day – I thought I’d come back to where I had been for the previous couple of weeks, and give you a third set of dream songs. There are still quite a few I could play for this! Today I’m going with a bit of a mixture: a couple of classics, an album track you may know from way back, and a pair of my favourite…

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Song Lyric Sunday: Bright Lights

  For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday Jim is inviting us to play a song from Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, from any of the four versions they have done, in 2003, 2012, 2020, or 2023. His post A Recurring Opinion Survey tells you all you need to know. I thought at first we had done this before, but I was wrong: the previous time was their list of best songs,…

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New Music

  Having dropped in an extra post for St George’s Day I was in two minds about whether to go for another midweek one, but was prompted to do so by some tunes that have appeared in my YouTube recommendations in the past few days. I’m playing you six of them, four of which are by artists I have previously featured and two that are completely new for me. They are a bit of a mixed bunch, and two of…

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St George's Day

St George slaying the dragon   I wouldn’t normally post on successive days, but consider this brief piece as being like one of YouTube’s ‘shorts.’ I thought I’d honour our national saint, St George, who, as this Wikipedia piece shows, England shares with a number of other countries. But he’s the only one we have and 23 April is his day here. It is also, coincidentally, both the birth and death…

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Tuesday Tunes 248: Earth Day

I have written about Earth Day for the past few years, and as its date – 22 April – falls on a Tuesday this year it feels like an opportunity to combine two things. So I’m following the pattern of previous years by telling you a little about the day, and by playing some songs to illustrate it: a couple that I have played for this day before, and some others to complete the set of five. Earth Day…

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Tuesday Tunes 248: Earth Day

 I have written about Earth Day for the past few years, and as its date – 22 April – falls on a Tuesday this year it feels like an opportunity to combine two things. So I’m following the pattern of previous years by telling you a little about the day, and by playing some songs to illustrate it: a couple that I have played for this day before, and some others to complete the set of five. Earth…

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Tuesday Tunes 248: Earth Day

 I have written about Earth Day for the past few years, and as its date – 22 April – falls on a Tuesday this year it feels like an opportunity to combine two things. So I’m following the pattern of previous years by telling you a little about the day, and by playing some songs to illustrate it: a couple that I have played for this day before, and some others to complete the set of five. Earth…

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Tuesday Tunes 248: Earth Day

 I have written about Earth Day for the past few years, and as its date – 22 April – falls on a Tuesday this year it feels like an opportunity to combine two things. So I’m following the pattern of previous years by telling you a little about the day, and by playing some songs to illustrate it: a couple that I have played for this day before, and some others to complete the set of five. Earth…

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SLS: Triple Def

  For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, as he tells us in his post – A Definitive List –  Jim is inviting us to play a song from the List of the 200 Definitive albums in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame which, as Wikipedia tells us, is a 2007 list of the best albums ever produced by artists or bands throughout the history of world music, according to the criteria of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and…

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Vaguely Easter Songs

For the past three years I have played some songs for Easter, and as these seem to have been well-received I thought I’d do it again. I am not particularly religious but that doesn’t stop me recognising its significance: we were all brought up here learning the story of the crucifixion of Jesus and his subsequent resurrection. My stepmother is an ordained (now retired) priest in the Church of…

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Tuesday Tunes 247: Still Dreaming

  As you seemed to enjoy last week’s set of dream songs, and as I still have so many more that I could play, I’m going with it again for this week. So here are five more songs with dream in their title, either singular or plural. All were already on my list, though a couple of these were mentioned in comments on the previous set. I’m guessing that three will be well known, one less so, and one…