I happened to be munching on a piece of toast, and it reminded me of that rather bizarre little ditty by Paul Young (when he was in Streetband) called “toast” where he imparts his love of grilled bread in song. I thought it might be fun to share with you some other songs with ...
The shanties (from the French chanter – meaning ‘to sing’) deserve special mention. They were work songs for male voices once commonly sung on board large merchant sailing vessels and associated with the hard labour of setting sails, raising the anchor, etc., invariably requiring co-...
Dan:Now, apparently, in many stadiums, the crowds aren’t singing as much as they used to. Some managers have complained that the fans are too quiet and that this has a negative effecton the players. So what a...
With “Million Dollar Baby,” the Woodbridge, Virginia native Tommy Richman laid bare the subtext of so many pop songs, not to mention videos on TikTok: “I wanna make it so badly.” He’d end up going viral on the platform with this earworm, a scrappy assemblage of blown-out drums, ...
No matter that the music is absolutely “unsingable” to the average congregation (it sounds great on the radio where thousands of dollars have been spent to sync, digitize, loop and process each song); the lyrics trite and shallow; not to mention that the keys are pitched for high-...
but that doesn't mean you can't make your union feel personalized. There are lots of opportunities to incorporate Christian wedding songs into your ceremony, such as the lighting of the unity candle or communion during a full mass, not to mention all of the moments during your reception when...
Every move works here, from the tolling guitar arpeggios of the first few bars to Jeff Ament’s prowling bass solo that I swear is an homage to Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain.”“I don’t want to take what you can give/I would rather starve than eat your bread,” Vedder howls at ...
Baby, I'm-a Want You (Bread)s BAR Baby, I'm Yours (Barbara Lewis)s BAR Baby, I Need Your Lovin'/It's the Same Old Song (The Four Tops)s BAR Baby, It's You (The Shirelles/Beatles)*s BAR Where Did Our Love Go/Baby Love s BAR Baby, Now That I've Found You (The Foundat...
And if our endless affairs take away from us our time and taste for true joys, e.g., that of breaking bread together and of the fraternal home—what then?We can and should recite this beautiful psalm in its original sense to praise the Lord who fills us with earthly goods and gifts....
that give us tummy aches. Eggs . . . with scaly chicken legs. Butter . . . running in the gutter. Lard . . . they sell it by the yard. Bread . . . with great big lumps like lead. Cheese . . . that makes you want to sneeze. Soot . . . they grow it by the foot. Goats...