purchase [Steve Hackett's Darktown ] I memorized the lyrics to Selling England and still have them in my head to this day. I love...

Well, clearly I had to sneak this in as the shutters pull down, ashtrays empty and lights go out. Prompted by J.David's last post , his ...

Semisonic : Closing Time [ purchase ] One reason that people love listening to music, particularly older music, is that songs, like sm...

Purchase: Goat's Head Soup , Highway to Hell , Purple Rain , Who's Next It's been a while since I've posted on SMM. N...

purchase [ Anthology I ,  Anthology II   ] I have done a post or two about the Beatles here , here and here before: one of my most fel...

Tautology, surely? Isn't air always open? Or, put another way, what is closed air? Apart from this being little more than contrived open...

Renaissance : Opening Out [ purchase ] It’s been a while since I’ve reached into my prog-rock bag, so let’s talk about Renaissance. I...

Late to the game as ever, here I am banging on about closing the honky-tonks, just as some sectors are begging for them to be opened up agai...

purchase [ Little Criminals - R Newman ] purchase [ Hearts and Bones - P Simon ] No, there was not even the slightest premonition...

Dropkick Murphys : The Warrior’s Code [ purchase ] I suspect that many of you who read this blog also attend live music performan...

It's funny, I had never really quite appreciated this song to have actually been about a battle or, indeed, warfare at all. It had alway...

purchase [ Willy and the Poor Boys ] War is raw. Peace maybe a little less so - unless maybe you are trying to wage it - [see Kent St...

(I've Never Known) Peace on Earth I'm struggling with this as a theme, not for want of material on the subject, there being as...

Alexander “Skip” Spence : War In Peace [ purchase ] I know that many people—and not only people in the 50+ demographic—think that the ...

purchase [ sound track version from Top Gun ] If no one wants to record for your film, does that put you in the Danger Zone? Is it dan...

Trying for a double whammy, associating both the song and the performer with the theme, doncha know! Well, no, not as it turns out. And, any...

I was going to go off on one again, lambasting and/or lampooning the various bouffant topped orange faced men leading the free(!) world, but...