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How to return Seuras' favor? The themes are often my choice - with some co-conspirators' support (but the bloomers mention was an aside, and he dodged it very well , I admit.)
Where ...beyond bloomers ... can you go with this theme? Ostensibly geared to the current season; things that bloom. Howsomever, suffering from the fact that SMM has covered the season(s) inside and out, and facing the fact that more or less anything "pop" has its roots in blooming love ... entertain this post.
Myself? Zappa's Overnight Sensation happens to be a favorite: I avere that I know every line of lyrics and find the "dirty love" perfectly suited to my taste. Rancid bloomers included. I mean theZappa-esque, nasty image rather than the bloomers themselves, of course.
Known to occur in spring or as a summer emotion most commonly associated with those of school age, love is said to bloom. Sometimes personified as a flower that does the same?
Love (or love in full bloom) is, after all, a major theme of much music - classical (perhaps extoling a love of Jesus), Broadway (Porgy and Bess), and countless pop hits (Love Me Do).
Some are much more accessible to a general audience - catchy and kinda ditzy as they aim to achieve mass-market popularity, demanding little of the listener as they trip along through the babbling lyrics and the pro-forma I-VI-V chord structure of most pop music.
Build Me Up Buttercup: (Love could be in bloom .. and why this song of all possible love in bloom songs? Well... it means something to me. Maybe like "puppy love"]
Others are considerably less accessible, requiring a concerted effort to appriciate or replicate. The "love" here is often that of a higher power of the sort John Coltrane claimed was his driving inspiration.
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
Coltrane aside, there is something about Carlos Santana's signature sound that always makes me feel alive. Nay, blooming, I would say. There is a life force/energy that emanates from his fingers that is like a flower in bloom. Like a love supreme. Great respect for John Coltrane, though he is not a musician that I normally listen to. On the other hand, the same song by Santana and McLaughlin:
