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The divine Joanna Newsom: diluvian shoulders to magnetic embrace, balletic and glacial, of bear’s insatiable shadow
From antirrhinums of Jake Thackray to the pretentious Pet Shop Boys to the hyperbolic hippopotamus of Sparks, this week’s guest EnglishOutlaw articulates wonderfully wordy playlists from last week’s topic
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Let’s dust off, or blow away the ‘oose’ of our vocabulary air some great words
This week let’s delve deep into the musical lexicon for instances where unusual, oddball, inappropriate, funny, pretentious, antiquated or obscure words jump out, sometimes working well, or otherwise
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I'm Terry Wogan? The opening lyric of one of Chaka's biggest hits. Photograph Peter Tea
Why did the Bee Gees like steak and a knife? Is Duffy obsessed with birdseed? And why do it in the road with the Beatles. This week indulge in creative lyrical earslips and a whole load of other lovely nonsense
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