Sous les floorboards,….la plage!!
(We’ve been to the Mayflower pub in Rotherhithe. It’s got some decking at the back which goes out over the River. If you look closely you can make it out)

Sous les floorboards,….la plage!!
(We’ve been to the Mayflower pub in Rotherhithe. It’s got some decking at the back which goes out over the River. If you look closely you can make it out)
Gary Oldman in this week’s Radio Times
"Camouflage" by Stan Ridgway
Possibly the last I a series of hit songs with a spooky ending such as Johnny Remember Mr, Big Bad John and, obviously, Ernie
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"Train In Vain (Stand By Me)" by The Clash
Not necessarily my favourite Clash song but it always puts a spring in my step
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"Summer Breeze" by The Isley Brothers
It's unseasonably warm in The Shire today
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My thoughts on the top 20 songs from Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. These thoughts clearly say more about me and my taste in music than they do about the songs themselves…but I thought it was fun
Robyn: “Dancing on My Own” ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I’m a sucker for a sad banger
John Lennon: “Imagine” ⭐⭐⭐ I like the simplicity, but, contrariwise, I’m a bit bored with it
Prince and the Revolution: “Purple Rain” ⭐⭐⭐ The only act in Rolling Stone’s top 20 that I’ve seen live, but there are a dozen Prince songs I like better
Queen: “Bohemian Rhapsody” Dreadful drivel.
Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z: “Crazy in Love” ⭐⭐ Resistance is futile
The Beatles: “I Want to Hold Your Hand” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The best at their best
The Kinks: “Waterloo Sunset” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The other best at their best…although to be honest his voice often doesn’t work for me, for some reason
The Rolling Stones: “Gimme Shelter” ⭐ Every 10 years they came up with a song I loved. Gimme Shelter isn’t one of them.
Stevie Wonder: “Superstition” ⭐⭐⭐ I’d like to like Stevie Wonder more than I do, but as with Ray Davies, I don’t quite get on with his singing voice
The Beach Boys: “God Only Knows” ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A work of genius, but it came on the radio when someone close to me was seriously ill. I’ve not been able to listen to it since
Outkast: “Hey Ya!” ⭐ I can sort of see why people like this…but I don’t. Maybe it’s too tricky for my simple taste.
Fleetwood Mac: “Dreams” ⭐ Pleasant enough
Missy Elliott: “Get Ur Freak On” ⭐⭐ I prefer Work It
The Beatles: “Strawberry Fields Forever” ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cleverer than I Want To Hold Your Hand, but not quite as good
Marvin Gaye: “What’s Going On” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ All the stars aligned, magically
5.Nirvana: “Smells Like Teen Spirit” ⭐ A bit heavy for me….and a pale imitation of punk rock
Bob Dylan: “Like a Rolling Stone” ⭐⭐ I am not a big Dylan fan, but I like the Greatest Hits
Sam Cooke: “A Change Is Gonna Come” ⭐⭐ I am a big Sam Cooke fan…but this isn’t my favourite. I think this polls well with critics because they are endorsing the message as much as the song
Public Enemy: “Fight the Power” ⭐⭐⭐ Loses one star for slagging off Elvis,
Aretha Franklin: “Respect” ⭐⭐ It goes without saying, this is a great song, but it’s not as good as I Say a Little Prayer.
Further to the above….if I’d done a list there would be folk, and reggae, and Elvis, Eddie, Buddy, Chuck, and Smokey on it
I think the psephology of it is, in at least some cases, that some of my favourite artists had a lot of songs to choose from, whereas, say, Queen has one obvious choice, Aretha has two, Nirvana has one, and the Kinks have one.
Back in the olden days, when Twitter was a nice place to be, there was a hashtag called #PostASongLyricYouLove
“And I can play hide and seek with my fears And live my days instead of counting my years”
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Melvyn Bragg once perceptively said that the 1970s McCartney had made a “magnificent attempt to be seen as, and to behave as, a very ordinary young English man” to hide the fact that “he was a most extraordinary young English man”.