In the Madness I'm going to stick with the sanity and sense delineation, not least as there is seeming so little about of late. An...

The Blues Brothers : Rubber Biscuit [ purchase ] If you knew that the original version of this song was released in 1956 by The Chips...

Of course there is nonsense and nonsense. It can vary from, at one extreme, merely that with which you disagree, through entertaining whimsy...

(the video and audio do not match, but the combination is an interesting mix) purchase [ Goats Head Soup ] Had enough of the doo-doo...

The Police : De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da [ purchase ] Would it surprise you to find out that Sting believes that this song, with its no...

purchase [ Da Doo Ron Ron ] There are two ways to look at a non-sense song: (1) it makes no sense to anyone, but that's the whol...

purchase [ Ubangi Stomp ] A confluence of auspicious days as I write/post. Today is Friday the 13th. Sunday is the Ides of March. B...

Now that we all know that it is often hard surfaces that carry the droplet particles we excrete contracted coronavirus out and about into th...

U2 : An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart [ purchase ] When you think about U2’s great debut album, Boy , “An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart” is probab...

"I'm Lucky, I'm Lucky", sang Joan Armatrading, "I Walk Under Ladders", on the song that gave the title, Walk Und...

So, looking ahead to next year, how can I and how will I serenade my significant? Of course, I wouldn't dream of singing myself, my Funn...

purchase [ Blue Valentines ] I've been turning this idea over in my head for 10 days: do... don't do .. do. I can't beli...

Miles Davis : My Funny Valentine [ purchase ] What makes a standard a standard? Clearly, there has to be something timeless about t...

Answering to the earlier post, oddly I think it apt we cover the event after the event. Valentines Day, or the Feast of St. Valentine, has n...

Old 97’s : Valentine [ purchase ] We’ve had a tough time getting this theme started, maybe because it began after Valentine’s Day. So,...

purchase [ Time Loves a Hero ] The phrase <rocket in my pocket> is pretty suggestive. The lyrics themselves ... not so much. He...

Too tenuous? Well, how else can you fly to the sun other than by rocket? Plus, I've been dying to post this song for aeons. I first...

Hang on, I hear you mutter, that's a song by Bruce Cockburn, pride of Canada, and it's already had a shout here, why, a mere 12 year...

Billy Preston : Outa-Space [ purchase ] When I was 10, in the summer of 1971, my parents sent me to sleep away camp for the first time...

Well, this is a first, as I have never knowingly sat and listened to anything by this venerable institution of a band, finding the pictures ...