Supertramp : Take The Long Way Home [ purchase ] What exactly was Supertramp, anyway? They started out as a prog band financed by a m...

purchase [ Sweet Home Alabama ] If you are talking about coming home, you cannot dismiss this. Granted, I already have a name for pos...

Our Homecoming theme got off to a great start, but then seems to have wilted. So I propose to define it as “songs about coming home, or wa...

OK, so it was only when the facebook link to my last post alerted me that I realised Homecoming to be peculiarly and specifically an ame...

purchase [ Homeward Bound ] OK. Sorry. With this post I show my age, but I can't help myself. Simon & Garfunkel's [Parsl...

U2 : A Sort of Homecoming [ purchase ] “A Sort of Homecoming” is a strange song in the U2 canon. It was not a hit, it is rarely pla...

Ain't this just the saddest song, a heartfelt plea, no, a searing moan, from a fading and failing heart, stranded out on the road, ...

Glossary : Headstones and Dead Leaves [ purchase ] I’m trying hard to write about bands that I haven’t written about before, and this ...

Cannonball Adderley : Autumn Leaves [ purchase ] During this theme, there has already been a mention of “the elephant in the room.” ...

Peter Frampton : All I Want Is To Be (Is By Your Side) [ purchase ] It is far from an original thought to note that Frampton Comes Al...

There is always going to be an elephant in the room of this theme, what with the sort of leaf and leaves seeming to be of, um, such appeal ...

purchase [ Leaves ] As the theme generator, I fuss with the Blogger tools to check previously-used themes. I keep my own Ex...

For someone who barely dented America until fairly late in her her career, KB has certainly had her fair share of posts here over the yea...

purchase [ Nazar Degdi ] Taking some liberalities with the theme, I replace Awesome with Amazing. (Hey... J. David said as much: relat...

[ purchase ] I know that I write about the Mets way too often, most recently a few weeks ago , but whether they are good or bad, they h...

Two for one here, a band with amazing in their title and amazing in the song, which is, um, amazing. And my "research", the sea...

Purchase My Morning Jacket's "I'm Amazed" I have to be honest: I don't really get My Morning Jacket. I like what ...

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band : Amazing Grace [ purchase ] I feel like I need to hurry if I want to write about this song for this theme...

purchase -[ Maybe I'm Amazed ] I recently came across a lengthy interview with Paul McCartney in GQ mag (Untold Stories of Paul Mc...

purchase [  album ] purchase [  album ] For me, Fresh Cream was seminal and gound-breaking music, but mostly in hind sight. I cam...