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What’s inside the bar this week?
There’s a smoky haze in the Bar this week as dozens of suspicious individuals sit down for a quiet drink, but what are they up to? Are they real or fictional. It’s time to do the sleuth work and find some musical inspiration
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The classic poisoner’s choice …
Natural or handmade, animal or chemical, fast or slow, murderous or accidental, we inhabit a world of toxins and venoms, but how are they expressed in song? With inspiration here, the more specific and colourful the better but there’s also the mental and metaphorical …
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The monarch butterfly: a profound life cycle, and ‘a rainbow of chaos’
It’s a big question. But how might it be answered in song lyrics? Not merely through broad definition or metaphor, but also through philosophy, practical advice or experience. See many inspirational ideas here, but it’s also time to let your answers take flight …
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A wasteland of the imagination, as well as reality
It’s time to lyrically explore, literally or metaphorically, where almost no one or nothing lives, but where ideas are fertile: from scrub moorland to heath, barren lands or badlands, to urban concrete waste sites, places deserted or destroyed, unkempt, neglected, toxic, eroded, unused, overgrown, sparse or bleak
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Cross my palm with song suggestions, and I see a future where there will be wonderful new playlists …
Do we have one, or is it fake? Both. But either way, this week’s theme, inspired by approaching the Song Bar’s Sixth Birthday as all about intuition, a gut instinct, a feeling in your bones, notions of unknown source, sensing something without knowing why
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Thursday comes around so fast. What songs will win this week’s race?
Literal or metaphorical, it's time the let the cogs of lateral thinking to turn out lyrical suggestions on this topic. In one way or another it will not doubt be revolutionary …
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Something to reflect on …
Lens me your ears! This week we take more than a passing glance at eyes in song lyrics, whether as metaphor, as objects of beauty, as windows to the soul, and especially in the mystery of how what they see differs from how they are seen
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Which way are you thinking?
Let’s celebrate the cerebrum and engage with the encephalon through lyrics and song subject, whether it is the biological makeup of this squidgy Tardis, or mindful thoughts and functions it can control. Worth a thought, anyway …
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The Radiogram: perhaps he most important piece of furniture in many a 20th-century childhood home
Rockin' chairs and recliners to tables and desks, sofas, wardrobes, amoires, beds, side tables to dining suites, lyrically as passing image, or as a main subject, let’s furnish this week’s song theme with some solid support
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Not so strange bedfellows: Eric and Ernie
The non-sexual, non-romantic sort is what makes up most of the love we experience in life, so whether that concerns real or fictional experiences, let’s define and explore it as expressed in song lyrics
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There's something in the room …
What, or who is the elephant? Is anything obvious? Is it obvious when we're in love? Who is the right person to be leader? Is winter coming? This week we examine all these questions and more with lyrics and music …
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