Did Green Day derive their name from the Green Day of March 17? And I know I am a day or two late in nailing it, but it is one of many ques...

  purchase [ Mr Pitiful ] You could read about yourself if you don't already know but I'll save you the effort: back in '64, a r...

Anyone with even the most cursory knowledge of this site will appreciate that there is likely little hip hop demographic within the reading ...

  purchase [ Misstra Know It All ] Is "misstra" a variation on Mr.? - and thus a viable choice for this theme? The word <misst...

James Taylor : Hey Mister, That's Me up on the Jukebox [ purchase ] If you’ve been reading my work on this site since 2011 (!), you m...

  It's thursday night, it's 7.30, so it must be Top of the Pops, that covering most of my youth, from as early as I can recall, poss...

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers : Ms. B.C. [ purchase ]  When you’ve been a theme-oriented blog for as long as Star Maker Machine , it...

Have you ever realised how many Jones's there are in music. And I don't mean performers, I mean in the material. Is it the commonest...

  purchase [461 Ocean Boulevard] Main, to me, conjures up the Stones' Exile on Main Street, but let's that leave that aside this tim...

So this mainline Jesus is on, right, what is it actually? I always thought it was about a train, especially with the world of gospel awash w...

Quiet Sun : Mummy was an Asteroid, Daddy was a Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil [ purchase ]  For no particularly good reason, other than...

"Main Street  is a  metonym  used to denote a primary retail street of a  village ,  town  or small city in many parts of the world. It...

The Call : The Walls Came Down [ purchase ]  If we were playing a game where I asked you to guess what band I was talking about, and the...

I actually remember this song as being a banger from the minute I first heard it. It's true, quite when that minute was I don't reca...

  purchase [ Crown of Creation ] Digging around for a possible alternative using the obstruction co-theme, what to my surprise but ... the A...

  purchase [ Paradise and Lunch   ] I find myself pre-disposed to prefer the Ry Cooder version of this because that's where I first hea...

 Hang on, what the bejasus has this to do with walls, I hear you say, the perfectly decent back to Bakersfield project by Jay Farrar and his...

  purchase [get   some Hank Williams   ] This week SMM's contributing vloggers have done a remarkable job skirting the obvious- we have ...

Purchase Head Over Heels --skip the middleman, buy from the band!  I love songs that work in dichotomy. Particularly, when the upbeat melody...

Can there be a more evocative intro to a song? The pizzicato guitar plucks, with then the rolling riff of the lead guitar, sounding exactly ...