This week’s Booking Through Thursday is about songs, because they have words too.
The question is: What songs, either specific songs or songs in general by a specific group or writer have words that you love? Why? And do the tunes that go with the fantastic lyrics live up to them?
This is a hard one as I listen to a lot of music and have quite a few favourite songs (about 140 that I would classify as favourites on my iPod) but the two stuck most in my head at the moment are:
“Upside Down” by Barenaked Ladies
“Fearless” by Pink Floyd
About thirty years apart but both little gems of perfection. And I have been known to sing along with each of them very loudly (and mostly out of tune).
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January 15, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Book Psmith
Oh, Pink Floyd…a lot of their songs are “little gems of perfection”. Good choices.
January 22, 2009 at 2:32 am
elizabethwillse
Came here via your link from Booking Through Thursday.
“Bride of the Book God” is too perfect of a name! What album is Upside Down on? I thought I knew BNL pretty well.
And I know I’ve never heard “Fearless” before… Lovely!