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29 February? A rare leap ... at songs about jumping

February 29, 2024 Peter Kimpton

One giant leap: Bob Beamon’s long jump record at the Mexico City 1968 Olympics stood for at an unusually lengthy 23 years

A Thursday on 29 February rarely happens, so let’s not skip it: Songs about jumps, leaps, bounds, hurdles, vaults of all kinds, literal and metaphorical, no t random occurrence of a related words, but where the leap in question is central to to the song's theme. Get inspired by many varied contexts and guests in the Bar …

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Just count on this: songs with unusual time signatures

February 1, 2024 Peter Kimpton

After a short paws …what happens next?

Hard to beat? Not necessarily. While most songs are in 4/4 time, and others in 3/4 waltz, there are many fascinating variants that push the boundaries, often in a catchy way. It’s not necessary here to name the numbers, just how it feels when you count …

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Bookmark this: songs about reading

September 14, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Voluminous …

It’s an essential part of life - defined as a cognitive, active process of decoding these symbols to arrive at meaning, perhaps for a purpose to direct or extract information, to focus a goal, to simply to discover and escape, but how does it come up in song?

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Like a butterfly: songs about the meaning of life

October 6, 2022 Peter Kimpton

The monarch butterfly: a profound life cycle, and ‘a rainbow of chaos’

It’s a big question. But how might it be answered in song lyrics? Not merely through broad definition or metaphor, but also through philosophy, practical advice or experience. See many inspirational ideas here, but it’s also time to let your answers take flight …

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So, who's next? Songs about hope

January 20, 2022 Peter Kimpton

From 1920s speakeasy …

Even in the face of despair, it’s something in our DNA, focusing on the unknown immediate or distant future, where there's a feeling, a desire, a belief, or confidence that something good might happen that can be expressed in all sorts of lyrics and stories

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Goodbye 2020: songs for the spirit of 2021

December 31, 2020 Peter Kimpton
And this bird must sing …

And this bird must sing …

Hope, fear, dreams, resolutions, giving the finger to 2020, but a welcome thumbs up to 2021? However you feel about this new chapter in the calendar of our lives, it’s time to express it in the form of song suggestions

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Wiccan work it out: pagan-themed songs – a Halloween special

October 29, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Austrian Krampus … where paganism does a Christmas album …

Austrian Krampus … where paganism does a Christmas album …

Ritualism, celebration, sacrifice, worship of nature, sex and food? Ancient and 20th-century traditions come a procession of all kinds of colourful characters in this week’s theme that heralds horror or pleasure in equal measure

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Letters of note: songs about written correspondence

October 22, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Correspondence captures time, place, culture and emotions …

Correspondence captures time, place, culture and emotions …

Love letters to rejection replies, friendship, work or leisure, written correspondence are the preserved leaves of history, revealing human nature in all its states and culture, but how does it come up in songwriting? Reply here …

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Face the music: songs about masks

September 17, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Frank Sidebottom, aka Chris Sievey

Frank Sidebottom, aka Chris Sievey

From Ancient Greeks to pop personas, they are a fascinating indication of what it is to be human – wearing them, looking at them, putting on or removing, and what they do to the self - projecting, hiding or expressing. Here’s some inspiration …

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Here's a thought: songs about the brain

April 2, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Which way are you thinking?

Which way are you thinking?

Let’s celebrate the cerebrum and engage with the encephalon through lyrics and song subject, whether it is the biological makeup of this squidgy Tardis, or mindful thoughts and functions it can control. Worth a thought, anyway …

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Search the web: spin your songs about spiders

June 6, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Let’s build something special …

Let’s build something special …

Let’s take a spin on for what might seem a creepy subject, but the more you look into it, the more fascinating and beautiful it becomes. Deadly? Sometimes, but also intricate, amazing, reflecting fear, attraction and more in human nature

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We're only human: songs using lyrical personification

March 14, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Faces in rock: Samples from Japan’s famous Rock Museum

Faces in rock: Samples from Japan’s famous Rock Museum

Rock face? This week we explore lyrics that attribute human characteristics to objects, concepts, natural forces and many other non-human things. Enjoy a few famous, inspiring examples in songs, poetry, literature and photography

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Unforgettable? Songs about the first time … or last time

January 26, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Once in a lifetime? Felix Baumgartner takes one giant leap in 2012

Once in a lifetime? Felix Baumgartner takes one giant leap in 2012

There's nothing quite like the emotions or physical impact of first, formative experiences. From first sex to seeing New York to new sounds, revisit your innocence in song, and also any that try to say 'never again'

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New Albums …

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Nov 19, 2024
Fazerdaze: Soft Power
Nov 19, 2024

New album: This sophomore album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Amelia Rahayu Murray is dreamy, soft-sheen, shoegazey “bedroom stadium” electro-pop and indie on themes of womanhood, devotion and compassion

Nov 19, 2024
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Nov 19, 2024
She Drew The Gun: Howl
Nov 19, 2024

New album: Powerful, passionate highly accomplished fourth indie-rock album by singer/songwriter Louisa Roach and band from Wirral in Merseyside, one broadening her musical scope and perspective, not just socio-political and soul-searching personal, but also spanning eons, fuelled by some personal heartbreak

Nov 19, 2024
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Nov 18, 2024
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp: Ventre Unique
Nov 18, 2024

New album: Wonderfully energetic, rhythmic stylish, inventive and witty sixth album by the 12-piece experimental Geneva collective who sing politically in French and English, their music decorated with oodles of of clever brass, violins, double-bass, marimbas, percussion and more

Nov 18, 2024
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Nov 18, 2024
Sofie Royer: Young-Girl Forever
Nov 18, 2024

New album: The California-born, Vienna-based Iranian-Austrian multidisciplinary artist’s newest LP is a very catchy mix of eclectic, political and mainstream, electro-pop, disco and new wave, centred on the contradictions of being a female artist today with all of its freedoms and capitalist trappings

Nov 18, 2024
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Nov 17, 2024
Du Blonde: Sniff More Gritty
Nov 17, 2024

New album: With a startling new look, the multi-talented British singer-songwriter and video artist Beth Jeans Houghton returns with her powerfully anthemic glam rock, grunge pop and fuzz guitar indie in this follow-up to 2021’s Homecoming

Nov 17, 2024
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Nov 16, 2024
Warmduscher: Too Cold To Hold
Nov 16, 2024

New album: The mischievous mayhem post-punk band of Clams Baker Jr.), Mr. Salt Fingers Lovecraft, Quicksand, The Witherer, Three Piece aka the Worm and Bleucifer return with more songs on the seedier side of life, but also one of their most musically adventurous LPs of their five, with guest vocalists including Lianne La Havas, Janet Planet and Coucou Chlo

Nov 16, 2024
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Nov 14, 2024
Fie Eike: Water
Nov 14, 2024

New album: A delicately beautiful distillation through fluid subject in different contexts by the Copenhagen-based artist composer and singer, Anne Sofie Strandheim Eike, with Norwegian roots, creating a soundscape from piano, electronic elements and natural field recordings

Nov 14, 2024
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Nov 14, 2024
Friedberg: Hardcore Workout Queen
Nov 14, 2024

New album: A wonderful engaging, energetic third LP by Anna Wappel, aka Anna F, the Austria-born singer-songwriter and indie band, with witty, eccentric, warm, humorous, hair-in-the-wind LP with the feel of a road trip

Nov 14, 2024
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Nov 12, 2024
Our Girl: The Good Kind
Nov 12, 2024

New album: The London indie trio of singer/guitarist Soph Nathan, drummer Lauren Wilson and bassist Joshua Tyler’s new LP has a beautiful warmth of sound and optimistic honesty in lyric, borne from a theme of celebrating of determination against difficulty

Nov 12, 2024
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Nov 12, 2024
Lou Hayter: Unfamiliar Skin
Nov 12, 2024

New album: Sleek, smooth, shimmering synth-pop and and funky disco, very much with an 80s retro sound by the London-based musician, DJ, singer, producer and former New Young Pony Club member, comes with echoes of artists such as Bananarama to Axel F and Harold Faltermeyer

Nov 12, 2024
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Nov 12, 2024
Haley Heynderickx: Seed of a Seed
Nov 12, 2024

New album: Delicious, intelligent, playful, gorgeous, witty folk with a country flavour by the honey-voiced Oregon singer-songwriter, packed with lyrically vivid images and perceptive, humorous lyrics, with fabulous finger-picking guitar, with added cello and trombone

Nov 12, 2024
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Nov 8, 2024
Primal Scream: Come Ahead
Nov 8, 2024

New album: Looking cool in shades, a 1960 photograph the father of frontman Bobby Gillespie decorates the band’s 12th LP, and their first for 8 years, serving very much as a inspiration with a Glaswegian phrase, but musically filled with 70s Philly soul and funk, and with the input of Belfast producer David Holmes, it’s one of PS’s most stylish for years

Nov 8, 2024
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Nov 8, 2024
Soccer Mommy: Evergreen
Nov 8, 2024

New album: Wistful, melancholy, candid country-folk, but also punchier, passionate indie in this fourth LP by the American singer-songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee – Sophia Regina Allison, with a release that goes back to her roots, but also adds some gentler acoustic guitars, strings and flutes

Nov 8, 2024
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Nov 8, 2024
THUS LOVE: All Pleasure
Nov 8, 2024

New album: This second LP by the post-punk quartet self-style queer post-punk band from Brattleboro, Vermont, is pulsating, visceral, panache-filled, and themed about the so-called nourishing euphoria that comes from real-life experiences rather than easy-access digital dopamine hits

Nov 8, 2024

new songs …

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Nov 20, 2024
Song of the Day: Echolalia - Odd Energy
Nov 20, 2024

Song of the Day: Mesmeric, magical, adventurous psychedelic folk with eclectic Robert Wyatt echoes come all aswirl in this first single by a new Nashville group featuring Spencer Cullum, Andrew Combs, Jordan Lehning and Dominic Billett and friends heralding a self-titled forthcoming album, out on 28 February via Full Time Hobby

Nov 20, 2024
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Nov 19, 2024
Song of the Day: Getdown Services - Dog Dribble
Nov 19, 2024

Song of the Day: Droll, catchy, glam-rock hip hop disco grooves by the enterainingly downbeat Bristol duo of Josh Law and Ben Sadler taken from their new EP, Your Medal’s In The Post, out on Breakfast Records

Nov 19, 2024
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Nov 18, 2024
Song of the Day: FEET - Number One
Nov 18, 2024

Song of the Day: Following the excellent Make It Up album in the summer, a strutting, catchy new indie single by the London five-piece band, out on Submarine Cat Records

Nov 18, 2024
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Nov 17, 2024
Song of the Day: Beirut - Caspian Tiger
Nov 17, 2024

Song of the Day: This beautiful, melodic, gentle new release by the American experimental rock band fronted by Zach Condon was written to accompany the performance the idiosyncratic Stockholm-based contemporary circus group Kompani Giraffe

Nov 17, 2024
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Nov 16, 2024
Song of the Day: Decius - Birth Of A Smirk / Walking In The Heat
Nov 16, 2024

Song of the Day: A pair of entertainingly sensual and alternative acid house/ electronica numbers in this fun side project featuring Lias Saoudi from Fat White Family, brothers Liam and Luke May (founders of Trashmouth Records) and Quinn Whalley from Warmduscher

Nov 16, 2024
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Nov 15, 2024
Song of the Day: Squid - Crispy Skin
Nov 15, 2024

Song of the Day: This epic, enigmatic experimental new track, featuring harpsichord sounds alongside intricate guitars, driving beats and menacing lyrics, heralds the Brighton art-rock-post-punk band’s third LP, Cowards, out in February 2025 on Warp Records

Nov 15, 2024
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Nov 14, 2024
Song of the Day: BADBADNOTGOOD featuring Tim Bernardes - Poeira Cosmica
Nov 14, 2024

Song of the Day: The Toronto instrumental trio of Chester Hansen, Alexander Sowinski, and Leland Whitty return with a fabulous jazz-Brazilian poetic fusion with the smooth, tender, soaring voice of singer-guitarist of the São Paulo band, O Terno

Nov 14, 2024
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Nov 13, 2024
Song of the Day: Julia Holter - The Laugh Is In The Eyes
Nov 13, 2024

Song of the Day: A gorgeous, delicately quirky, synth-laden and gently percussive new single by the brilliantly innovative Los Angeles artist whose previous acclaimed works include the 2024 album Something in the Room She Moves and 2018’s Aviary

Nov 13, 2024
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Nov 12, 2024
Song of the Day: Celeste - This is Who I Am
Nov 12, 2024

Song of the Day: The welcome return of the golden-voiced British soul singer from Brighton feels like another timeless classic – slow falling bassline, soaring coda, powerfully emotive, with piano and orchestra, it comes from the new TV drama version of The Day of The Jackal

Nov 12, 2024
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Nov 10, 2024
Song of the Day: Låpsley - Church
Nov 10, 2024

Song of the Day: The singer-songwriter from York, Holly Lapsley Fletcher, returns with a beautiful, candid, autobiographical, acoustic finger-picking number about still waiting to find life’s directions, and with a Joni Mitchell namecheck

Nov 10, 2024
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Nov 9, 2024
Song of the Day: Doves - Renegade
Nov 9, 2024

Song of the Day: The Manchester indie band return forthcoming album Constellations For The Lonely with a dark, powerful, cinematic number inspired by the film Blade Runner and the speech by Roy Batty speech on inevitable death, yet “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe”

Nov 9, 2024
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Nov 8, 2024
Song of the Day: Oracle Sisters - Alouette
Nov 8, 2024

Song of the Day: Pacy but serene, perky, witty indie by the Paris-based trio of Lewis Lazar, Christopher Willatt, and Finnish musician Julia Johansen, featuring an entertainingly ironic, demonstrative video, and out on Wizard Artists

Nov 8, 2024

Word of the week

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Nov 15, 2024
Word of the week: circumbendibus
Nov 15, 2024

Word of the week: Not a snaking elongated piece of public transport but still a very evocative 17th-century word for a circuitous, long-winded route or way of doing something or telling a story …

Nov 15, 2024
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Oct 16, 2024
Word of the week: doch-an-dorris
Oct 16, 2024

Word of the week: From the17th-century Scottish Gaelic phrase, deoch an doruis (and also with the form deochandorus), this literally means “door-drink” – a toast made with, or to honour, someone about to depart

Oct 16, 2024
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Oct 4, 2024
Word of the week: eel-skins / excruciators
Oct 4, 2024

Word of the week: Aside from the literal outer layer of the ray-finned slippery fish, this evocative, slightly suggestive 19th-century slang means very tight trousers, while this week’s bonus word, excruciators, points to the experience of wearing very tight shoes

Oct 4, 2024
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Sep 19, 2024
Word of the week: flittermouse
Sep 19, 2024

Word of the week: With other variants such as flickermouse and flinder-mouse, this rather charming Tudor-period English noun is a rather evocative and onomatopoeically descriptive one for that quietly sonic-guided night creature – the bat

Sep 19, 2024
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Sep 5, 2024
Word of the week: gnomon
Sep 5, 2024

Word of the week: From the Ancient Greek, γνώμων (gnṓmōn)this pointed noun literally means one that knows or examines, but it is specifically the part of a sundial that casts a shadow as well as referring to other mathematical terms

Sep 5, 2024
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