Welcome to 2025. It’s time to blow a few lyrical and musical thought bubbles and get the grey matter moving. How is thought expressed in song? Is it an inner speech? Is it through the fingers? All this and more with much to think about, here ….
Read moreIf not now, then when? Songs with conditional phrases
Dark or bright? What’s another year? 2024 …
To start the new year and an uncertain future, it’s time to set up our musical theme with conditional songs - those that usual contain the word ‘if’ and sometimes follow with or an implied or actual, ‘then’. But how will it turn out?
Read moreWould, could or should? Songs about alternative outcomes
Planet of the Apes. Already happened or may yet occur? Still a gobsmacking idea.
Songs of regret, in retrospect or about the 'if only'? This week we look at lyrics that imagine other pasts, presents or futures caused by different decisions, actions, circumstances and chains of events
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