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Look here! Songs about searching, seeking and quests

April 13, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Search engines … Monty Python and The Holy Grail. The low-budget classic film was variously funded by among others, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, Charisma Records, and possibly Elton John

Love, food, shelter, identity, meaning? Rare vinyl? Most of our existence is about searching for something, but in what ways is this expressed in song lyrics? Here’s some other forms of inspiration and, after all, what is the true holy grail?

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Playlists: ideal songs for driving and road trips

April 12, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Off we go …

Fasten your seatbelts. From steel-wheel rock to bounce-in-your-seat pop, classic krautrock or breezy Americana to beautiful Spanish sunbathed vistas, we take a fantastically varied road trip courtesy of lead driver pejepeine, picking lists from last week’s topic

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The feel of the wheel: ideal driving songs

April 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

It’s an open road for songs and music that capture the experience of driving and the journey …

This is not so much songs about roads and cars, instead those that best accompany the journey, shows not tells, enhances the sensations and capture that strangely magical movement of human and vehicle through a landscape. Enjoy here some road movies for inspiration …

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How does it end? Songs with notable outros and codas

March 30, 2023 Peter Kimpton

What goes around …

The end has to come, but how, in an outro or coda, does a song or piece offer something different, original, unusual or memorable, musically or even lyrical form, a twist, a mood change, upbeat, downbeat or even a sense of unresolved mystery?

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Playlists: songs about the circus

March 28, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Flying trapeze in 1890

It’s time to fly high with all the triumphs and tragedies of the arena, from escaping elephants to crazy clowns, tentative tightropes to human cannonballs! This excellent entertainment is provided by guest Loud Atlas, picking songs from last week’s Big Top-ic

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Coming to your town: songs about the circus

March 23, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Getting into the swing of it: Trapeze artists, 1890

Roll up! Roll up! This week we’re going under the big top and looking to capture the excitement, the artistry, the adventure, tragedy and also cruelty of circus culture. For audience or performers, it’s all about the show, in music and lyrics

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Playlists: songs about illusions

March 22, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Spellbinding Siouxsie ...

Can you believe your eyes? You’d better believe your ears, as, from mirages to tricks of the light, we reveal playlists inspired by last week’s illusion topic, as chosen by the sharp senses of guest picker Maki

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Fantastic, it's for real: songs about illusion

March 16, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Shadowplay: from the video for Come, by French singer-songwriter Jain

Visual, auditory, via media, rumour, or any other distortion of perceptions, from personal experience to the political, this week we search for songs about the interplay of the senses and idea of illusions as a primary focus

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Playlists: songs about butterflies and moths

March 15, 2023 Peter Kimpton

This week’s topic attracted a rainbow range of music and lyrics

Multi-coloured and international, from caterpillars to these winged insects in their full glory and the beauty, tragedy and majesty that they represent, all are captured in beautiful playlists gathered by guest Severin from last week’s topic

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Fancy a flutter? Songs about butterflies and moths

March 9, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Hey, this way. Don’t forget the moths, says the rosy maple

Fragile mutability, intangible beauty, or a hairy horror with collecting obsessives? Metaphor or more, in lyrics or music, with a four-stage life cycle, from egg to pupae, caterpillar to winged wonders, let’s hear it for all these wondrous lepidoptera, with as much for the moths as for the butterflies

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Pussy-footing? Perhaps it's songs about indecision. Is it?

March 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Are you fur staying on the fence?

From the many various situations and vacillations of love to shopping, voting, moving or staying and more, it’s finally time to plump for indecisiveness on song lyrics. The choice of what to nominate is yours. If you can …

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Playlists: songs about using your imagination

March 1, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Aldous Harding: intense imagination … about her man

Childhood dreams to grownup fantasy, emotional flowering to practical, creative necessity, this week’s playlists, picked from last week’s topic by guest Shiv Sidecar, perfectly stimulating our brains and ears, cerebrally and musically

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Think different: songs about using your imagination

February 23, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Vladmir Kush’s African Sonata

From practical life problems, work, relationships, craft or crisis, to all sorts of creative problems, or even channelling dreams, it’s time to access the right hemisphere and see how the imagination can be used, as expressed in song lyrics. Read on for more stimulation …

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Playlist: songs about markets and fairs

February 21, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Take a world tour of music that captures market culture here under one roof

Apples, ackee, okra, all odds and sods are for sale from Africa to South America, Turkey to Vietnam, Jamaica and more, a vibrant, tasty, colourful selection of world markets and genres are all here under one roof, expertly picked by guest Suzi from last week’s topic

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Playlists: songs about everlasting love

February 15, 2023 Peter Kimpton

A whole lotta love: the great Barry White

Feel the huge embrace: following last week’s Song Bar seventh Birthday celebration that brought a huge heap of thematic nominations, guest of the week magicman plucks out an excellent, all-loving array of songs that capture those everlasting feelings

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Song Bar Seventh Birthday Special: songs about everlasting love

February 9, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Sands of time …

It’s time to celebrate the Bar’s seven years with poetic inspiration for a topic that also endures – and songs about romantic love or friendship that’s perpetual through life, or forever enshrined in in the memory even if tragically cut short

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Playlists: songs about rare events

February 7, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Rare, and always on the move: Halley and Billie

From celestial to historical, the fictional to the emotional, while rarities are exactly as described, there’s a huge variety, and many songs about them. Picking from last week’s huge range of nominations, guest Marco den Ouden makes heavenly choices

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The comet is coming: songs about rare events and experiences

February 2, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Some activities are rarer than others … Thomas Rowlandson’s satirical work of 1811

Looking up or down, from sights of rare astrological bodies to unusual encounters with unusual or unique people or events, from birth to death, it’s time to capture the rare in song form, from personal or universal perspectives

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Playlists: songs featuring conversations

January 31, 2023 Peter Kimpton

The Shangri-Las in full conversational flow …

Duelling tablas to bar-room or bandmate banter, flirty duets to star-crossed lovers, chatty parody to skilful dissing, all the questions and answers are here in a creatively conversation playlist picked by guest Amylee from an enormous offering of nominations last week

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Back and forth: songs featuring conversation

January 26, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Pointed dialogue: John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction

Can you tell me what this is all about? Sure. Whether between two or more vocalists, or reported within the lyrics by one, or even involving instrumentalists, songs that include communication between more than one person. There’s lots of examples to get your ideas flowing. OK, thanks.

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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

new songs …

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Nov 22, 2024
Song of the Day: Franz Ferdinand - Night or Day
Nov 22, 2024

Song of the Day: Glasgow’s favourite art-pop-rockers, fronted by the articulate Alex Kapranos, return with another catchy, jaunty new love song heralding their forthcoming album, The Human Fear, out 10 January 2025 on Domino Records

Nov 22, 2024
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Nov 21, 2024
Song of the Day: Sunny War - Walking Contradiction
Nov 21, 2024

Song of the Day: With sharp, socio-political lyrics on modern paradoxes, absurdities and inequalities, this beguiling duet with the legendary singer from anarcho-punk band Crass, heralds a new album by the Nashville born, LA-based folk-punk artist Sydney Lyndella Ward, Armageddon In A Summer Dress

Nov 21, 2024
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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

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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