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Playlists: comedic songs

January 28, 2026 Peter Kimpton

Heated exchanges: Rita Moreno and Animal of the The Muppets

Silly ballads to battles of the sexes, parodies to social commentary, odd duets and witty wordplay and musical japery, guest jester Marco den Ouden picks a bundle of lyrical and other laughs inspired by last week’s comedic songs theme

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In African, avant-garde, blues, bossa nova, calypso, classical, comedy, country, dance, disco, easy listening, dub, exotica, experimental, folk, funk, indie, instrumentals, krautrock, jazz, lounge, music, musical hall, musicals, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, punk, reggae, RnB, rock, rocksteady, samba, showtime, ska, soul, soundtracks, traditional, trip hop Tags songs, playlists, comedic songs, comedy, Victoria Wood, Tony Ferrino, Steve Coogan, Bjork, Loudon Wainwright III, Garfunkel And Oates, Riki Lindhome, Kate Micucci, Frankie Howerd, June Whitfield, Rita Moreno, The Muppets, Jacques Dutronc, Val Doonican, Weird Al Jankovic, Groucho Marx, Lonzo & Oscar, The Dubliners, Steve Martin, Billy Idol, Stan Freberg, Bongwater, Tom Lehrer, Kenneth Williams, Bodo Watke, Marti Fisher, Rachmaninov, Igudesman, Joo, Marty Feldman, Father Ted, The Jolly Boys, Tom Waits, Flight of the Conchords, Flanders and Swann, Jimmy Durante, Spike Jones, Bernard Cribbins, Afroman, Lonnie Donegan, Les Dawson, Jane Bond & The Undercover Men, Johnny Cash, Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards, Ross & Sargent, Butthole Surfers, Ray Stevens, Dr Hook, Vivian Stanshall, Cheech & Chong, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Philip Jeays, Cream, Mighty Sparrow, The Mighty Sparrow, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, Arrogant Worms, Nicolay Ramm, National Lampoon, Marco den Ouden
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Playlists: songs that reference David Bowie

April 1, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Bowie in reference …

Comedy songs to Major Tom, Ziggy to Thin White Duke, all the way to Blackstar, his sheer inventive influence extends across musical time and space. Inspired by last week’s topic, big Bowie fan Vikingchild takes us on a wonderfully entertaining journey of range and reference

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In avant-garde, blues, comedy, country, disco, easy listening, dance, drone, electronica, experimental, folk, indie, instrumentals, krautrock, metal, music, lounge, musicals, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, punk, rock, ska, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional Tags David Bowie, Isabelle Adjani, Built To Spill, Lloyd Cole, Bongwater, Ian Hunter, LCD Soundsystem, Manic Street Preachers, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Elton Motello, Momus, Peter Schilling, Lana Del Rey, Def Leppard, Plastic Bertrand, William Shatner, Barclay James Harvest, Five Star, A Perfect Circle, Flight of the Conchords, Chris Hadfield, Marizane, Pet Shop Boys, Bauhaus, David J, VikingChild
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Record makers or breakers? Songs about superlatives

April 18, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The GOAT? Or just a goat?

We’re not exaggerating, from most beautiful to the fastest, craziest hottest or worst, this week it’s songs centrally featuring that adjective or adverb that expresses that the thing or person described has possessing more of that particular quality than anything or anyone else of that type

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In African, avant-garde, blues, calypso, classical, comedy, country, dance, disco, drone, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, gospel, hip hop, indie, instrumentals, jazz, krautrock, metal, music, musical hall, musicals, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, punk, reggae, rock, rocksteady, showtime, ska, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional, trip hop Tags songs, superlatives, language, Record Breakers, Guinness Book of Records, Roy Castle, Isabella Bird, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Neruda, Dorothy Parker, The Simpsons, Flight of the Conchords, Wyndham Lewis, Claude C. Hopkins, Elias Canetti, Rudyard Kipling, US presidents, Donald Trump
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Playlists: songs about artificial intelligence (AI)

June 13, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Assimilation complete: Kraftwerk

You put in the data and ideas, but what came out? Choosing from many highly non-artificial acts of the intelligence and imagination, guest Loud Atlas used his sharp human instincts create excellent playlists and see what an AI chatbot thought of them.

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In drone, disco, electronica, experimental, dance, blues, avant-garde, funk, indie, instrumentals, jazz, krautrock, metal, music, playlists, musicals, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, punk, reggae, rock, songs, soul, traditional, soundtracks, showtime Tags artificial intelligence, robots, robotics, ChatGPT, Vangelis, Kraftwerk, The Flaming Lips, Stephen Moore, Kimi Wong, The Whiskey Rebellion, The Alan Parsons Project, France Gall, Roy Wood, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Looper, Silver Bullet, Flight of the Conchords, Supercell, Hatsune Miku, Janelle Monae, Brian Wilson, Daft Punk, Mr Bungle, Styx, Kate Bush, Rush, Grandaddy, Regurgitator, Grace Slick, Rocky's Filj, The Broken Family Band, AC/DC, Marco Beltrami, Bright Eyes, Desro, Tenacious D, Brad Fiedel, Loud Atlas
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Come here often? Songs with pick-up lines and marriage proposals

August 11, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Of all the bars ….

What’s your line, from chat-ups to marriage proposals that appear in the lyrics or tenets of songs? This is not just love songs in general, but must contain lines with some ice-breaking approach, declaring attraction or more, with the most immediate short- or longer-term intentions

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In African, avant-garde, blues, calypso, classical, comedy, country, dance, disco, drone, dub, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, gospel, hip hop, indie, instrumentals, jazz, metal, music, musical hall, musicals, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, punk, reggae, rock, rocksteady, showtime, ska, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional Tags songs, playlists, Victor Hugo, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, James Joyce, Clark Gable, Film, Charlotte Bronte, Jack Lemmon, A Tribe Called Quest, Dolly Parton, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Radiohead, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, Bellamy Brothers, George Michael, Robyn, Alicia Keys, television, Comedy, romance, romantic comedy, Napoleon Dynamite, Flight of the Conchords, Natalie Portman, Russell Crowe, Ice Cube, Ellen Degeneres, food, money, marriage
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All you need is: songs about platonic love

December 13, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Not so strange bedfellows: Eric and Ernie

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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In blues, classical, comedy, country, dance, disco, dub, electronica, folk, gospel, hip hop, indie, jazz, metal, music, musical hall, musicals, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, punk, reggae, rock, rocksteady, showtime, ska, songs, soul, traditional Tags songs, platonic love, love songs, Morecambe & Wise, Thyra Samter Winslow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oscar Wilde, relationships, friendship, family, animals, Plato, Socrates, philosophy, psychology, Georgios Gemistos (Plethon), Marsilio Ficino, William Davenant, Flight of the Conchords, The Mighty Boosh, Eddie Braben, Laurel & Hardy, Marx Brothers, The Likely Lads, comedy, Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, The Beatles, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, books, Film, Jane Austen, Jack Kerouac, Cervantes, Mark Twain, Withnail & I, Richard E Grant, Paul McGann, Easy Rider, Shaun of the Dead, The Odd Couple, Thelma & Louise, Star Trek, Mencius, Seneca, Euripides, Plutarch, CS Lewis, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marcel Proust, Jim Morrison
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Playlists: songs about cannabis / marijuana

June 13, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Peter Tosh. No need to ask which side of the fence he's on.

Peter Tosh. No need to ask which side of the fence he's on.

Bongs to the Byrds, ditch weed to Nick Drake, spliff to Steppenwolf and tea’n’tree to Peter Tosh, everybody must get stoned with a woozily wonderful playlists by guest writer megadom from last week’s theme

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In blues, dance, electronica, folk, indie, jazz, music, playlists, pop, reggae, rock, rocksteady, ska, songs Tags Songs, playlists, marijuana, cannabis, drugs, medicine, Kevin Ayers, Flight of the Conchords, The Association, Nick Drake, Joe Boyd, Parquet Courts, Culture, Steppenwolf, Eek-a-Mouse, Fraternity of Man, The Stairs, Peter Tosh, The Wailers, Bob Marley, The Supremes, The Byrds, Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, Georges Garvarentz, Black Uhuru, Bobby Darin, Keith Hudson, Cab Calloway, Neil Young, Dub Syndicate, Barrington Levy, Joe Gibbs, Joe Gibbs & The Professionals, Man, Steel Pulse, Lindisfarne, The Toyes, Creedence Clearwater Revival, megadom, The Big Lebowski
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Playlists: songs about alternative outcomes

October 25, 2017 Peter Kimpton
Beyoncé ... imagining herself as a boy, if that's not a stretch …

Beyoncé ... imagining herself as a boy, if that's not a stretch …

If only, maybe or perhaps it happened differently? From Beyoncé to Beach Boys and Belle & Sebastian, this week's guest playlister EnglishOutlaw skilfully treads alternative paths inspired by last week's song nominations

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In indie, folk, country, music, playlists, rock, punk, songs, soul, comedy Tags songs, playlists, Bruce Hornsby and the Range, Belle & Sebastian, The Actress, Barenaked Ladies, The Beach Boys, Glasvegas, Hello Saferide, Paul Kelly, Moddi, The Steeldrivers, Beyonce, Tim Minchin, Flight of the Conchords, Pulp, Kate Miller-Heidke, The Call, Willie Nelson, Judy Garland, Dusty Springfield, John Lennon, Gene Pitney, Counting Crows, Olu Dara, Tom Petty, Tyla J Pallas, EnglishOutlaw
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New Albums …

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June 17, 2026
Fruit Bats: The Landfill
June 17, 2026

New album: Written as usual with his first-thing-in-the-morning, stream-of-consciousness technique, the singer-songwriter Eric D. Johnson, also one-third of the folk trio Bonny Light Horseman, returns with a new collection of melodic, often beautiful, and profound, reflective, gentle, folky rock now 30 years since the first album

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Horse Lords: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
June 17, 2026

New album: The Berlin-based, Baltimore quartet return with their special brand of mesmeric, experimental rock, weaving a rich maze of African polyrhythmic patterns and fascinating tessellations of percussion, guitar, bass, saxophone, microtones, electronic and voice loops

June 17, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Widowspeak: Roses
June 17, 2026

New album: Deliciously gentle-paced and languid, warmly twangy and romantically nostalgic, poetic indie-country-rock by the New York band of spouses vocalist Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas, with delicate musical echoes of Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, REM, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo and Cat Power in this finely crafted seventh LP

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Olivia Rodrigo: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
June 16, 2026

New album: The 23-year-old American singer-songwriter, actress, and evidently big fan of The Cure returns with consummately crafted, smart, witty pop and indie rock, featuring an appearance by Robert Smith, and charting the arc of a romantic relationship from unbridled joy to bitter aftermath in her third LP

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
La Sécurité: Bingo!
June 15, 2026

New album: Fabulously fun, vibrant, feisty, catchy, wittily droll post-punk, new wave and art-punk in this pacy, vivacious sophomore LP by the Montréal collective with themes from mental health, dysfunctional relationships, food to enjoyable elderly activities, with styles reminiscent of The B-52s and Devo

June 15, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God
June 13, 2026

New album: Luxuriant, ethereal, dramatic and passionate experimental and chamber dream pop by the American singer-songwriter and cellist, with their second LP, seven years since 2019 debut Blood, with guests including Sampha, Kamasi Washington, Kim Gordon, and co-producer Jack Antonoff

June 13, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Vince Staples: Cry Baby
June 10, 2026

New album: The Compton/ Long Beach, Californian rapper returns with a potent, punchy, overtly political rock-hip hop seventh LP that heavily critiques American society and power, racism, police violence, gun culture, media and the music industry, largely accompanied by a tight, riff-heavy electric guitars, bass and drums

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Liz Lawrence: Vespers
June 9, 2026

New album: More acoustic, stripped back and lo-fi than her previous four albums, yet with deeply powerful and moving songwriting and performance, the British artist’s latest is suffused with grief, reflection and devotion for the premature loss of her sister Jessie, capturing life and death, poetically expressing devotion and reflection

June 9, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Bedouine: Neon Summer Skin
June 9, 2026

New album: A serenely beautiful, but also nostalgically sorrowful fourth LP by American singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian who has Armenian-Syrian heritage, with songs about displacement and identity, very mindful of Middle Eastern conflicts, atrocities and her family history, while broadening her sound into the lush mould of 1970s Carole King and Laurel Canyon

June 9, 2026
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June 8, 2026
Lee "Scratch" Perry and Mouse on Mars: Spatial, No Problem
June 8, 2026

New album: This wondrously eclectic and entertaining final official album project by the legendary Jamaican producer and artist, made before his passing in 2021, is a collaboration with the German electronic duo Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, mixing reggae, krautrock, ambient, dub, jazz, New Orleans brass and more, alongside Perry’s distinctive voice

June 8, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Jalen Ngonda: Doctrine of Love
June 7, 2026

New album: Following his acclaimed 2023 debut Come Around And Love Me, the American UK-based impressive soul singer’s second LP is another classy collection of beautifully uplifting, sublime Northern soul and Motown-era love songs

June 7, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Death Cab For Cutie: I Built You A Tower
June 7, 2026

New album: Elegantly expressed emotional turmoil unfolds across 11 cleverly crafted songs in this 11th album by the Seattle indie rock band fronted by Ben Gibbard and produced by the brilliant John Congleton around a metaphor for post-marriage grief

June 7, 2026
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June 6, 2026
Zoh Amba: Eyes Full
June 6, 2026

New album: The NY-scene free jazz saxophonist forms an indie-folk-country-rock-muddy-blues trio with fabulously strong results in this passionate, raw, free-flowing debut as guitarist-singer-songwriter, lyrics themed around their original hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee, and coloured by Appalachian roots

June 6, 2026
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June 5, 2026
ear: Rumspringa
June 5, 2026

New album: Minimalistic, introverted, nuanced quirky laptop experimental electronica by the New York duo Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan, following last year’s debut The Most Dear and the Future, this one named after a a rite of passage for Amish adolescents translated as "running around" in Pennsylvania German

June 5, 2026

new songs …

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June 20, 2026
Song of the Day: Pan Amsterdam & The 1FS - Szechuan Beef
June 20, 2026

Song of the Day: Themed around his favourite subject of food, but also going to many other places, American jazz trumpeter, composer and vocalist Leron Thomas returns with the New York composer and visual artist in an eclectic, eccentric fusion of jazz and hip-hop

June 20, 2026
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June 19, 2026
Song of the Day: Julia Jacklin - Get Away From Me (I Think I'll Love You Soon)
June 19, 2026

Song of the Day: A cleverly nuanced, emotionally ambiguous beautifully stirring indie-pop love song by the Australian singer-songwriter, in this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album The Gem, out on 25 September via 4AD

June 19, 2026
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June 18, 2026
Song of the Day: Paycheque - Heatwave
June 18, 2026

Song of the Day: Stylishly solemn, 80s-influenced synth and scything guitar indie pop with big drums by the Los Angeles duo of Allison Goldfarb and Jackson MacIntosh, from their recently released self-titled debut album, out on Mansions and Millions

June 18, 2026
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June 17, 2026
Song of the Day: Hanna Tuulikki and Tommy Perman - We Came Out (Lesser Horseshoe bat)
June 17, 2026

Song of the Day: A pair of wondrously striking experimental electronica tracks infused with field recordings of the nocturnal winged mammal by the experimental artists and designer based in Scotland

June 17, 2026
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June 16, 2026
Song of the Day: Surusinghe - FRIED
June 16, 2026

Song of the Day: A mesmeric, eclectic opening track by the Naarm/Melbourne-raised, London-based electronic artist, DJ and producer aka Suze Gurusinghe, from her recently released EP, Cutting Thread, out on Dh2

June 16, 2026
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June 15, 2026
Song of the Day: L'Rain - Soulless Cycle
June 15, 2026

Song of the Day: A whoosh of thunderous, mesmeric alternative rock marks this striking new single by the Brooklyn experimental composer, musician, artist and singer Taja Cheek, heralding her upcoming fourth album Fata Morgana, out on 14 August via Mexican Summer

June 15, 2026
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June 14, 2026
Song of the Day: Fenne Lily - Uh Huh
June 14, 2026

Song of the Day: Beautiful, banjo accompanied, reflective wistful indie folk-pop by the the Brooklyn-based British singer-songwriter with this first single heralding her upcoming fourth album, Win Win, out on 23 October via Nettwerk Music

June 14, 2026
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June 13, 2026
Song of the Day: Interpol - See Out Loud
June 13, 2026

Song of the Day: Pulsating indie rock by the seasoned New York band fronted by singer Paul Banks and guitarist Daniel Kessler, heralding their upcoming eighth album This Mirror Weighs a Ton, out on 28 August, and newly signed to Partisan Records

June 13, 2026
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June 12, 2026
Song of the Day: Jack White - Dollar Bill
June 12, 2026

Song of the Day: The White Stripes man returns with a blistering, bluesy rock guitar, Led Zeppelin-ish single, heralding his upcoming seventh solo album, Frozen Charlotte, out on 10 July via Third Man Records

June 12, 2026
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June 11, 2026
Song of the Day: Sylvan Esso - Hot Slob
June 11, 2026

Song of the Day: A proudly messy, rowdy, pointed and punchy new indie rock single embracing the spirit and chaos of living in the glitch by the North Carolina duo of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, here featuring Jenn Wasner and TJ Maiani and out on Psychic Hotline

June 11, 2026
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June 10, 2026
Song of the Day: Rodrigo y Gabriela - Monster
June 10, 2026

Song of the Day: The hugely popular and Grammy-winning Mexico City-raised guitar duo return with a dextrously brilliant new single mixing acoustic and rock styles, heralding their new upcoming new album OurHome out 18 September via ATO Records

June 10, 2026
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June 9, 2026
Song of the Day: JJerome87 - Mr. Alligator
June 9, 2026

Song of the Day: A bluesy, smooth, luxuriantly produced Americana number about a dubious authority figure by the British songwriter and musician Joe Newman, frontman of the Mercury winning band alt-J, in this latest single from his debut solo album, The Canyon, out on 26 June via Mushroom Music/ Virgin

June 9, 2026

Word of the week

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June 11, 2026
Word of the week: phialiform
June 11, 2026

Word of the week: This rare but oddly beautiful rare adjective means "saucer-shaped" or having the form of a small, shallow cup or vessel, from the Latin root phiala (a shallow bowl or phial) and the suffix -iform, meaning shape

June 11, 2026
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June 4, 2026
Word of the week: quamoclit
June 4, 2026

Word of the week: Also known as cypress vine, cardinal creeper, cardinal vine, star glory, star of Bethlehem or hummingbird vine, this striking climbing flower, Ipomoea quamoclit, is native tropical regions of the Americas and has a distinctive trumpet with five-point star-shaped petals

June 4, 2026
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May 21, 2026
Word of the week: riqq
May 21, 2026

Word of the week: An appropriately onomatopoeic noun for name for Middle Eastern tambourine, able to produce a range of percussive sounds, and commonly heard in traditional Egyptian, Arab, Greek and Turkish music

May 21, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Word of the week: salpinx
May 7, 2026

Word of the week: This very imposing, loud, resonant noun is an ancient Greek, trumpet-like instrument used as a tactical signal on the battle field, as well as to signal the beginnings of gatherings, or of races in sport

May 7, 2026
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April 23, 2026
Word of the week: throstle
April 23, 2026

Word of the week: An archaic, evocative noun with two connected meanings, originally for the song thrush, then later a textiles industrial frame for spinning, twisting and winding machine for cotton, wool, and other fibres simultaneously

April 23, 2026

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