Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man; a rousing ‘69 song with a driving beat and lyrics that were full of energy showed what Seger was capable of. But it wasn’t until ‘76’s “Night Moves” with the Silver Bullet Band that the energy, song-writing and pure Rock ‘n’ Roll and unforget-able B...
OK, to start with I have literally just worked out how to do categories with WordPress. Having been back to add categories to all the old entries I can see that of the 46 total I’ve written, 28 wereproper ones where I tried to work something out, 4 werelyrics & poems, 4 werestori...
But there is always the possibility that they may engulf you and that you will go wandering down a horn into a mondegreen underworld from which you can never escape. Wright got her mondegreens from poetry, newspapers, and advertisements. Popular music lyrics have been a rich source for them,...
Ghost peered through the glass door of the drugstore, but it wasn’t open. He decided to walk around town, for awhile, taking in the fall air, the beautiful colors of the trees, and the pumpkin decorations on people’s doorsteps. No stores were open yet. He figured he could go see...
In fact, the song is secretly an elegy to a lost and puddle-killed cell phone (think about it: you fell down / out of my pocket and into the sea / you lit up for me), and this contrast between the hidden, mundane inspiration and the perfectly open ended lyrics is a perfect ...
Hey all! Today, Nick and Amanda discuss why there is a rewrite of one of the best songs in Secret Garden while so many other issues in Music Theatre Lyrics have yet to be addressed, Why its NOT OKAY for two actors to go from playing Father and Daughter to LOVERS within ten years, wh...
There would be previews where the audience couldn’t decipher the lyrics or the dialogue as the theater’s acoustics were not designed for theater in the round … or for dueling bands playing in the balconies. On the first night of previews, it seem the audience was unaccustomed to the ...
Kat Vancil:My top five at the moment are: The Airborne Toxic Event, The Lumineers, Mumford & Sons, Ed Sheeran, and Imagine Dragons. Because of my dyslexia, I find it difficult to write to music with lyrics so I have two Pandora stations filled with instrumental soundtrack music, one for...
who made a thread about doing parody songs for MK characters. I took the idea and ran with it. I was a 13 or 14 year old with a whole lot of time to kill, so I looked up some song lyrics and used my love of Mortal Kombat to craft my first ever parody song. I ...
“a gothic dance party, because it’s fun on the surface, but its heart is black as coal” — is indeed unapologetic. “It comes from this angry, guttural place,” he says, “I'm terrible talking about how I feel, but if you just listen to the lyrics, they’re kind of this ...