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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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Feb 18, 2025
Manic Street Preachers: Critical Thinking
Feb 18, 2025

New album: The veteran Welsh rockers’ 15th studio album delivers everything you’d expect - direct lyrics on big social and political themes, huge, surging melodies and powerful choruses, variously wistful, playful, angry, sincere, and even includes a slanted dedication to the Smiths with one of their strongest for years

Feb 18, 2025
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Feb 18, 2025
John Glacier: Like A Ribbon
Feb 18, 2025

New album: The Hackney, east London producer-vocalist and model, who presents a persona as evasive, oddball, deliberately obfuscating “20,000-year old” “alien”, releases an esoteric, at times beguiling debut of offbeat trip-hop, filled with talking, stream-of-consciousness vocals mixed variously with guitar, assorted samples and electronica, also co-produced by Kwes Darko and Flume

Feb 18, 2025
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Feb 16, 2025
Hifi Sean and David McAlmont: TWILIGHT
Feb 16, 2025

New album: Twinned with last summer’s LP DAYLIGHT, the duo of Scottish musician and the English soul singer return with the darkside – an absorbing adventure from dusk to dawn, with evocative, cinematic, experimental, old-school synths and electronica and McAlmont’s extraordinary, wide-ranging voice

Feb 16, 2025
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Feb 16, 2025
Horsegirl: Phonetics On and On
Feb 16, 2025

New album: Minimalistic, pithy, nostalgically twangy, wistful, undersyated indie-folk-pop by the Chicago/New York trio of Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece in this second LP with a refreshing sound produced by Cate Le Bon

Feb 16, 2025
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Feb 15, 2025
Richard Dawson: End of the Middle
Feb 15, 2025

New album: Extraordinary songs about ordinary lives by the wonderful Newcastle alternative folk singer-songwriter – poetic, strikingly detailed, touching, warm, gently humorous, melancholy, original and gorgeously profound, bringing beauty to banality, private tragedies and small joys

Feb 15, 2025
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Feb 13, 2025
Nadia Reid: Enter Now Brightness
Feb 13, 2025

New album: Warm, tender, thoughtfully profound, intelligent, finely crafted indie-folk with Laurel Canyon-era and Americana elements by the now Manchester-based New Zealand singer-songwriter on themes of hemes of change, motherhood, home, and heartbreak

Feb 13, 2025
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Feb 11, 2025
HONESTY: U R HERE
Feb 11, 2025

New album: Moody, dark, atmospheric, cross-genre inventiveness comes aplenty in this debut LP for Partisan Records by the Leeds-based collective who bring a hard-to-define fusion of ambient, restless electronica, shoegaze, goth, abstract industrial, krautrocky momentum, soulful trip-hop and alt-pop

Feb 11, 2025
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Feb 9, 2025
Helen Ganya: Share Your Care
Feb 9, 2025

New album: The Brighton-based Scottish-Thai singer-songwriter’s new LP is inspired by the death of her grandmother in 2021, exploring and celebrating her east-Asian heritage in a gorgeously warm, eclectic collection that includes sounds of the Thai dulcimer.

Feb 9, 2025
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Feb 9, 2025
Squid: Cowards
Feb 9, 2025

New album: Fabulously strange, inventive and and cleverly unsettling third album by the Brighton experimental post-punk, alt-rock quintet with a series of first-person narratives and inner monologues by fictional, disturbing characters - from cult leaders, serial killers, cannibals, sociopaths and arsonists

Feb 9, 2025
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Feb 9, 2025
Heartworms: Glutton For Punishment
Feb 9, 2025

New album: After a series of outstanding singles, the British artist Jojo Orme releases her debut full LP of inventive, goth-tinged post-punk, with echoes of Siouxsie Sioux and PJ Harvey, and produced the the ever inventive Dan Carey on his Speedy Wunderground label

Feb 9, 2025
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Feb 8, 2025
Sharon Van Etten: Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
Feb 8, 2025

New album: With a strong, seasoned new band, the acclaimed New Jersey singer-songwriter takes a new direction, from her more recent country and folk output, into an expansive sheen of synth, indie, rock and a hint of goth, and themes of emancipation, letting go, and relationships

Feb 8, 2025
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Feb 7, 2025
Matt Berry: Heard Noises
Feb 7, 2025

New album: The British comic actor, known now for 20 years, from Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place to Toast of London to What We Do In The Shadows, returns with his other great indulgent passion, as eccentric multi-instrumentalist and singer of 60s and 70s-inspired psychedelic rock and pop on this impressive 11th studio album

Feb 7, 2025
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Feb 5, 2025
Brooke Combe: Dancing At The Edge Of The World
Feb 5, 2025

New album: Classy, classic soul full debut LP by the young Scottish singer from Edinburgh, following 2023’s EP, Black Is the New Gold with finely controlled, mature voice and influences from the likes of Marvin Gaye, Baby Huey, and William DeVaughn

Feb 5, 2025
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Feb 5, 2025
Dilettante: Life Of The Party
Feb 5, 2025

New album: Clever, wry, humorous, refreshing, quirky, experimental pop and art rock from the Manchester-based singer and multi-instrumentalist Francesca Pidgeon and her revolving musical collective, a talented artist known also for playing in BC Camplight’s band

Feb 5, 2025

new songs …

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Feb 18, 2025
Song of the Day: Peter Murphy - Swoon (featuring Trent Reznor)
Feb 18, 2025

Song of the Day: Dark, smoky, gothy, simmering, bizarre and Bowie-esque, the Bauhaus singer joins forces with old friend and the frontman of Nine Inch Nails, relating to the state of performer and audience, and heralding his upcoming album Silver Shade out on 9 May via Metropolis Records

Feb 18, 2025
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Feb 17, 2025
Song of the Day: The WAEVE - Love Is All Pain
Feb 17, 2025

Song of the Day: A new single of catchy, punchy dynamic electro-pop-rock by the couple duo of Rose Elinor Dougall and Blur guitarist Graham Coxon (also adding meaty saxophone), heralding their new EP Eternal, out on Transgressive Records

Feb 17, 2025
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Feb 16, 2025
Song of the Day: Rebekka Karijord - Sanctuary
Feb 16, 2025

Song of the Day: Delicate, exquisite, but melancholic new single by the Norwegian Stockholm-based singer and composer about the beauty of the natural world, and the grief involved with watching it slowly be erased. It heralds her forthcoming album The Bell Tower due out on 25 April via Bella Union

Feb 16, 2025
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Feb 15, 2025
Song of the Day: Japanese Breakfast - Mega Circuit
Feb 15, 2025

Song of the Day: A mix of melancholy with an uplifting shuffle colours this engaging latest single by the Philadelphia experimental pop band fronted by singer-songwriter Michelle Zauner heralding their upcoming For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women), out on 21 March via Dead Oceans

Feb 15, 2025
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Feb 14, 2025
Song of the Day: Ezra Furman - Grand Mal
Feb 14, 2025

Song of the Day: A striking, slow, simmering, smoky, shivery strings-laden new single by the acclaimed American artist, heralding a tenth studio album Goodbye Small Head, out on 16 May on Bella Union

Feb 14, 2025
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Feb 13, 2025
Song of the Day: Divorce - Hangman
Feb 13, 2025

Song of the Day: A clever, passionate, powerful new single with an extended game metaphor by the Nottingham indie band from their forthcoming album Drive to Goldenhammer out on 7 March via Gravity Records / Universal

Feb 13, 2025
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Feb 12, 2025
Song of the Day: The Nightingales - Same Old Riff
Feb 12, 2025

Song of the Day: “The powerless are the problem, as if, as if … it’s the same old riff.” The cult Birmingham post-punk band fronted by Robert Lloyd return with a catchy, caustically witty number inspired by UK national unrest, David Bowie’s Queen Bitch rekindling class war struggles and other repeating events, heralding their next album, The Awful Truth, out via Fire Records

Feb 12, 2025
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Feb 11, 2025
Song of the Day: Caity Baser - Watch That Girl (She’s Gonna Say It)
Feb 11, 2025

Song of the Day: Undeniably infectious, catchy, cheeky, flamboyant confidence-boosting, table-turning pop with brassy embellishments by the charismatic Southampton-raised, Brighton-based artist, out on Chosen Music / Capitol / Polydor

Feb 11, 2025
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Feb 10, 2025
Song of the Day: Jadu Heart - Post Romance
Feb 10, 2025

Song of the Day: A simple, gentle, but wonderfully effective new single with a beautiful building melody across a four-chord sequence with guitar and orchestral string arpeggios by the Bristol experimental dream pop duo of Alexander Headford and Diva Jeffrey

Feb 10, 2025
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Feb 9, 2025
Song of the Day: Dora Jar - Lucky
Feb 9, 2025

Song of the Day: A gentle, simmering, intimate, delicate, sensitive, insecure-but-thankful love song by the New York-born singer-songwriter Dora Jarkowski, in this first single album last year’s debut album No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire, out on Made of Elves / Island Records / UMG

Feb 9, 2025
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Feb 8, 2025
Song of the Day: Nxdia - Boy Clothes
Feb 8, 2025

Song of the Day: With a fabulously bendy, woozy-feel bass line and an explosive chorus, thrilling alternative pop/postpunk about gender identity and fluidity by the charismatic, Cairo-born, Manchester-based non-binary artist Nadia Ahmed, out on Bxdger Records

Feb 8, 2025
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Feb 7, 2025
Song of the Day: Lord Huron - Who Laughs Last (featuring Kristen Stewart)
Feb 7, 2025

Song of the Day: Dark, alluring, dream-like fuzz rock by the Los Angeles four-piece band featuring a mysterious, existential, road-movie escapism, spoken-word first-person narrative by the Hollywood actress

Feb 7, 2025

Word of the week

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Feb 11, 2025
Word of the week: withershins / widdershins
Feb 11, 2025

Word of the week: Also variously spelled widershins and widderschynnes, this Lowland Scots dialect word term derived from German means counter-clockwise, literally “against the way”, not only on a clock face, but originally against the perceived motion of the sun in the northern hemisphere

Feb 11, 2025
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Jan 29, 2025
Word of the week: xenodocheionology
Jan 29, 2025

Word of the week: It’s something in which many of us may indulge during the thick of winter, planning for holidays via booking websites, this noun meaning the study of hotels, extending also to researching their lore and history

Jan 29, 2025
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Jan 16, 2025
Word of the week: yepsen
Jan 16, 2025

Word of the week: A timeless noun emanating from Middle English ȝespen and first used in around 1325, meaning a unit of measurement being the amount of that can be held in two hands cupped together

Jan 16, 2025
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Jan 9, 2025
Word of the week: zingiberaceous / zinziberaceous
Jan 9, 2025

Word of the week: Two alternative spellings, spicily evocative and colourful, they are adjectives pertaining to the Zingiberaceae family of flowering plants that variously bring that distinctive flavour of, and are a rather fancy way of saying – ginger

Jan 9, 2025
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Dec 12, 2024
Word of the week: aquabob
Dec 12, 2024

Word of the week: Sounding like some water-based children’s TV superhero, it’s actually a particularly apt and descriptive word for wintertime, being an 18th-century English Kent dialect noun meaning icicle

Dec 12, 2024
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