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Playlists: songs about lakes, canals, and smaller watercourses

April 15, 2025 Peter Kimpton

Songs will pour out …

Inspired by the hypnotic, relaxing and therapeutical flow of nominations for last week’s topic, guest playlister TatankaYotanka channels this joy into instrumental and sung streams. Water great idea!

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In African, avant-garde, blues, calypso, classical, country, dance, disco, drone, dub, easy listening, electronica, exotica, experimental, folk, funk, indie, instrumentals, jazz, krautrock, lounge, music, musicals, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, punk, reggae, rock, showtime, ska, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional Tags lakes, water, streams, canals, Hermeto Pascoal, Cosmo Sheldrake, Brian Eno, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Lanterna, Dave Brubeck, Life On Mars, Neu!, Oregon, The Kathryn Tickell Band, Kathryn Tickell, Henry Texier, Wadada Leo Smith, The Cougars, Harry Choates, Leo Kottke, Jamaal Meeks, Peter Erskine, I Am Kloot, Fergus McCreadie, M83, Vashti Bunyan, Gilberto Gil, Taylor Swift, Felt, Gabby Young and Other Animals, Dengue Fever, Tower Of Power, war, The Meters, Tom Zé, The Cats, Guillermo Portabales, José Brito, The Joy Formidable, Altai Kai, Nancy Kerr, Yank Rachell, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Nickel Creek, Arctic Monkeys, The Band, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Makoto Kawamoto, Gary Shearston, Akiko Yano, Anita Carter, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, The Groanbox Boys, David Childers, Jackie Leven, Ralph Vaughan Williams, TatankaYotanka, Robert Louis Stevenson
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Playlists: songs about items bought in a hardware store

December 4, 2024 Peter Kimpton

The full works …

Need to nail down that job you’ve been putting of? Short of tools and other materials? Inspired by songs nominated from last week’s topic, guest TatankaYotanka has a superb musical shopping list and gets it all stylishly done

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In African, avant-garde, blues, calypso, classical, comedy, country, dance, disco, drone, dub, easy listening, electronica, exotica, experimental, folk, funk, hip hop, indie, instrumentals, jazz, krautrock, lounge, metal, music, musical hall, musicals, playlists, pop, postpunk, prog, psychedelia, punk, reggae, rock, rocksteady, showtime, ska, songs, soul, soundtracks, traditional Tags songs, playlists, tools, hardware stores, Weird Al Jankovic, The Heptones, Pete Seeger, Dave & Ansell Collins, Ambrose Slade, The Fall, Arrogant Worms, Nora Dean, Albert King, Einstürzende Neubauten, The Other Two, Stereolab, King Tubby, World Saxophone Quartet, The Soft Boys, The White Stripes, Alt-J, Moderat, fiona apple, Blink-182, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Gilbert & Sullivan, Doyle Carte Opera Company, Leadbelly, The Breeders, Roky Erickson, Mudhoney, Fleetwood Mac, Spencer Davis Group, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Bob Marley, The Staple Singers, Sarah Blasko, The Go-Betweens, David Rudder, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Van Der Graaf Generator, Perfect Giddimani, Peter Hammill, David Thomas, Two Pale Boys, The Gaylads, Leo Graham, Wilfred, The Legendary Pink Dots, TatankaYotanka
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Playlists: songs about fabrics

December 6, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Let the needle drop … it’s darned good

The needle might normally drop on to spinning vinyl, but it’s also embroidered a wonderful tapestry of songs in playlists – superbly knitted together by guest of the week Tatanka Yotanka, who picked up the threads from last week’s topic

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Playlists: songs about nudity and nakedness

May 17, 2023 Peter Kimpton

Ars Poetica: Lizzo and friends strike an artistic pose

High art to big bum beauty, it’s time to fling off those garments and let it all hang out as guest playlister Tatanka Yotanka goes au naturel with a double dozen pair of playlists inspired by last week’s nominations that brilliantly buff

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Playlists: songs about formal agreements

September 6, 2022 Peter Kimpton

Gang of Four peer closely at the small print ….

Reggae to punk contracts and beyond, it’s time to sign on the dotted line, but only when you’ve read all the small print. With no obligation to express your reaction until you’ve heard it all, come and check out these fabulous playlists picked by guest Tatanka Yotanka from last week’s theme and nominations

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Playlists: songs about nuts and edible seeds

November 30, 2021 Peter Kimpton

Put your hands together for these tasty playlist treats ….

Coconuts to nutmeg and kandy corn, peanuts to pistachio to pecans, the seed store has been filled up to the brim with tasty musical treats from last week’s topic, picked and served up in a delicious set of lists by clever top nut Tatanka Yotanka

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Playlists: songs about bodily motion, exercise and physiotherapy

December 16, 2020 Peter Kimpton
Vitruvian Man by Leonardo Da Vinci

Vitruvian Man by Leonardo Da Vinci

‘The heart’s a muscle. I pull it constantly’. Stretching not only the body, but also the mind and musical boundaries, these week’s playlists, expertly exercised by guest TatankaYotanka, help find parts we didn’t even know we had

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Playlists: songs about September and October

October 2, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Feast for the eyes, and ears: Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Autumn

Feast for the eyes, and ears: Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Autumn

The time is ripe, the harvest has arrived, and this week’s guest TatankaYotanka reaps the rewards of all the fruitful song suggestions of the the past week into two brilliantly bountiful playlists that straddle this fertile pair of months

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In avant-garde, blues, classical, country, electronica, experimental, folk, funk, instrumentals, indie, jazz, music, musicals, playlists, pop, postpunk, punk, prog, songs, soul, traditional Tags songs, playlists, autumn, September, October, harvest, Mary Ann Haynes, Amy Winehouse, Witch, Captain Beefheart, Tricky, Alison Goldfrapp, Yves Montand, Pet Shop Boys, Incognito, XTC, Sun Ra, Tommy McCook, Centipede, Astor Piazzolla, Chris & Cosey, Chet Baker, Stevie Wonder, Bert Jansch, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Carole King, Jackie O Motherfucker, Israel Vibration, International Harvester, Robb Johnson, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, TatankaYotanka
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Playlists: songs about silver and other non-ferrous metals

August 22, 2018 Peter Kimpton
What's cooking in the Song Bar foundry? Silvery and other sounds are in this week's melting pot

What's cooking in the Song Bar foundry? Silvery and other sounds are in this week's melting pot

Things are hotting up at the Song Bar foundry, as guest alchemist TatankaYotanka, filled with treasures from last week’s nominations, smelts up a priceless recipe of musical riches ready to play to you

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In blues, comedy, country, dance, dub, electronica, folk, gospel, metal, jazz, music, pop, playlists, postpunk, prog, punk, reggae, rock, ska, songs, soul Tags songs, playlists, silver, non-ferrous metals, Hawkwind, Skinny Puppy, Echo and the Bunnymen, T Rex, U-Roy, Frenzal Rhomb, The The, Royal Trux, Yabby You, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Rosalía, Jackie Leven, Steve Tallis, The Rolling Stones, Waxahatchee, The Paragons, Throwing Muses, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Wintersleep, Townes Van Zandt, John Grant, Joan Baez, Pennywise, The Commodores, Peter Hammill, TatankaYotanka
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Playlists: positive songs for the new year

January 4, 2017 Peter Kimpton
How do you know it's really gonna happen? Because it's the Undertones

How do you know it's really gonna happen? Because it's the Undertones

Got a ticket to ride? This week's guest writer TatankaYotanka takes us on a lyrical, journey inspired by last week's topic. The bus is filled with hope for 2017. Where does it go? Hop in and find out

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Tags songs, Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth, Sounds of Blackness, The Undertones, Patti Smith, Brother D & The Collective, Billy Bragg, Wilco, Mischief Brew, Jimmy Cliff, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Thea Gilmore, Prahlad Tipanya, Queen, Bob Marley, Funkadelic, The Whites, William DeVaughn, Prince Jazzbo, Earl Jean, Oysterband, The Gladiators, Utah Saints, Three Dog Night, Redskins, Belle Perez, Louis Jordan, Willie Nile, James Maddock, Peter Hammill, TatankaYotanka, Earl-Jean McCrea, Kabir
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Playlists: songs about saints and martyrs

March 23, 2016 Peter Kimpton
Saint or sinner? A singer from this week's A-list bows in martyr mode ... Photograph: Amy Jett

Saint or sinner? A singer from this week's A-list bows in martyr mode ... Photograph: Amy Jett

St Louis to St Vitus, Malcolm X to Bauhaus's Stigmata Martyr, this week's playlists selected by Song Bar's regular TatankaYotanka from last week's topic come with a particularly poetic air

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Tags songs, Saint Vitus, Mary Lou Lord, Louis Armstrong, Dennis Brown, Depeche Mode, Warren Zevon, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Estrella Morente, Michael Nyman, The Animals, Bauhaus, David Bowie, Band of Holy Joy, Jane Siberry, Frank Zappa, Benjamin Britten, Graham Moore, John's Children, Jackie Leven, Victor Jara, Cammille, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Jacques Brel, Van Morrison, Sex Gang Children, Veda Hille, TatankaYotanka
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New Albums …

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Dec 9, 2025
Dove Ellis: Blizzard
Dec 9, 2025

New album: An extraordinarily mature, passionate, poetic, and outstandingly powerful debut by the Manchester-based Galway-born singer-songwriter, whose soaring delivery has instant echoes of Jeff Buckley and lyrics that go above and beyond

Dec 9, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Ólöf Arnalds: Spíra
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A gorgeous, delicate, ethereal first release in a decade by the Icelandic singer-songwriter, acoustic instruments and her gentle, high, pure voice, all in her native language, caressing this listening experience like pure waters of some slowly trickling glacial stream

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Melody's Echo Chamber: Unclouded
Dec 5, 2025

New album: A fourth album, here full of delicious uplifting, dreamily chic, psychedelic soul pop by the French musician Melody Prochet, with bright, upbeat, optimistic numbers and a title lifted from a quote by the acclaimed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, about achieving equilibrium

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
anaiis: Devotion & The Black Divine
Dec 2, 2025

New album: Following a summer Song of the Day - Deus Deus, a review of the autumn release and third LP by the London-based French-Senegalese singer-songwriter of resonantly beautiful, dynamic, sensual soul, gospel, R&B and experimental and chamber pop, with themes of new motherhood, uncertainty, religion, self-love and acceptance

Dec 2, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
De La Soul: Cabin In The Sky
Nov 26, 2025

New album: The hip-hop veterans return with their first without, yet including the voice of, and a tribute to, founding member Trugoy the Dove, AKA Dave Jolicoeur who passed away in 2023, alongside many hip-hop luminary guests, with trademark playful skits, and all themed around the afterlife

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan
Nov 26, 2025

New album: An evocative musical journey of a concept album by the indie-folk band from Claremont, California, fronted by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, based on a dream of his in 2023 about a voyage to a fictional island by the titular captain, charting adventure, wonder and tragedy

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 26, 2025
Allie X: Happiness Is Going To Get You
Nov 26, 2025

New album: A hugely entertaining, witty, droll, inventive, chamber and synth-pop fourth LP with a goth twist by the charismatic and theatrical Canadian artist Alexandra Hughes, who brings paradox and dark themes through sounds that include string quartet, harpsichord, classical and pure pop piano with killer lyrics

Nov 26, 2025
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Nov 25, 2025
Tortoise: Touch
Nov 25, 2025

New album: A welcome return with a cinematic and mesmeric groove-filled first studio LP in nine years, and the eighth over all by the eclectic Chicago post-rock/jazz/krautrock multi-instrumentalists Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire and Jeff Parker

Nov 25, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover: What of Our Nature
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Beautiful, precise, poignant and poetic new folk numbers inspired by the life and music style of Woody Guthrie as the Portland, Oregon and New Yorker, now Portland, Maine-based singer-songwriters bring a delicious duet album, alternating and sharing songs covering a variety of forever topical social issues

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Oneohtrix Point Never: Tranquilizer
Nov 24, 2025

New album: Ambient, otherworldly, cinematic, mesmeric, and at times very odd, the Brooklyn-based electronic artist and producer Daniel Lopatin returns with a new nostalgia-based concept – constructing tracks from lost-then-refound Y2K CDs of 1990s and early 2000s royalty-free sample electronic sounds

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
Iona Zajac: Bang
Nov 24, 2025

New album: A powerful, stirring, passionate and mature debut LP by the 29-year-old Glasgow-based Scottish singer with Polish and Ukrainian heritage who has toured as the new Pogues singer, and whose alternative folk songs capture raw emotions and the experience of modern womanhood, with echoes of PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Aldous Harding and Lankum

Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 19, 2025
Austra: Chin Up Buttercup
Nov 19, 2025

New album: This fifth studio LP as Austra by the Canadian classically trained vocalist and composer Katie Stelmanis brings beautiful electronica-pop and dance music, and has a bittersweet ironic title – a caustically witty reference to societal pressure to keep smiling despite a devastating breakup

Nov 19, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World
Nov 18, 2025

New album: A timelessly classy release by the veteran soul, blues and gospel singer and social activist from the Staples Singers, in a release of wonderfully moving and poignant cover versions, beautifully interpreting works by artists including Tom Waits, Curtis Mayfield, Leonard Cohen, and Gillian Welch

Nov 18, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
Stella Donnelly: Love and Fortune
Nov 18, 2025

New album: Finely crafted, stripped back musical simplicity combined with complex melancholic emotions mark out this beautiful, poetic, and deeply personal third folk-pop LP by the Australian singer-songwriter reflecting on the past and present

Nov 18, 2025

new songs …

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Dec 12, 2025
Song of the Day: Peter Perrett - PROUD TO BE SELF-HATING (irony and provocation)
Dec 12, 2025

Song of the Day: The veteran British artist, originally frontman of The Only Ones, and now with three solo albums, who actually has Jewish heritage, releases a gently powerful, nuanced, pro-Palestine acoustic number as a response to ongoing genocide by the Israeli government, out on Domino Records

Dec 12, 2025
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Dec 11, 2025
Song of the Day: Maddie Ashman - Jaded
Dec 11, 2025

Song of the Day: Magical, delicate, eclectic, intricate, experimental microtonal music by the London musician and singer, released alongside a longer track, In Autumn My Heart Breaks

Dec 11, 2025
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Dec 10, 2025
Song of the Day: Ye Vagabonds - The Flood
Dec 10, 2025

Song of the Day: Wonderfully warm, rich, lively fiddle-driven Irish folk by the award-winning band fronted by Carlow brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn with a heartbreaking number about the housing crisis, heralding their upcoming new album, All Tied Together, out on Rough Trade’s River Lea Recordings on 30 January

Dec 10, 2025
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Dec 9, 2025
Song of the Day: DBA! A Poet And A Clown
Dec 9, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy fuzz-guitar indie rock with a swagger by the Liverpool-formed trio of Sam Warren, James Lindberg and Joshua Grant in a song described as “a confessional story of desire tangled with religious guilt”

Dec 9, 2025
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Dec 8, 2025
Song of the Day: Puma Blue - Croak Dream
Dec 8, 2025

Song of the Day: A dark, esoteric, mysterious and stylish title track with a hint of Radiohead and playing with the idea of knowing your future death, from the experimental indie/goth/ambient London artist Jacob Allen’s forthcoming album out on 6 February via Play It Again Sam

Dec 8, 2025
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Dec 7, 2025
Song of the Day: ELIZA - Anyone Else
Dec 7, 2025

Song of the Day: Stripped-back, bluesy, fuzzy funk with slight echoes of Prince and alt-R&B are conjured up in this love song by the London-based singer-songwriter Eliza Caird, her first single for two years, now off the mainstream and out on Log Off Records

Dec 7, 2025
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Dec 6, 2025
Song of the Day: Tiga (featuring Fcukers) - Silk Scarf
Dec 6, 2025

Song of the Day: A fun, sensual, quirkily oddball electronica dance single with a slick, fetish-flirtatious ode to a favourite smooth material by the Montreal musician (Tiga James Sontag) joined here with vocals by the New York band (Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis), and heralding Tiga’s upcoming album Hotlife, out in April on Secret City Records

Dec 6, 2025
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Dec 5, 2025
Song of the Day: Flea - A Plea
Dec 5, 2025

Song of the Day: A striking, powerful new single by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers bassist (aka Michael Balzary), who brings a fusion of jazz and spoken word with a fabulous band on an impassioned number about the state of the US in a culture of hatred, social and political tensions, out now on Nonesuch Records

Dec 5, 2025
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Dec 4, 2025
Song of the Day: The Lemon Twigs - I've Got A Broken Heart
Dec 4, 2025

Song of the Day: Despite the title, this new double-A single (with Friday I’m Gonna Love You) has a wonderfully uplifting guitar-jangling beauty, with echoes of The Byrds and Stone Roses, but is of course the brilliant 60s and 70s retro sound of the Long Island brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario, out on Captured Tracks

Dec 4, 2025
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Dec 3, 2025
Song of the Day: Alewya - Night Drive (featuring Dagmawit Ameha)
Dec 3, 2025

Song of the Day: A sensual, stylish, dreamy electro-pop single by the striking British singer-songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist and model Alewya Demmisse, musically influenced by her rich Ethiopian-Egyptian heritage and early childhood upbringings in Saudi Arabia and Sudan

Dec 3, 2025
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Dec 2, 2025
Song of the Day: Radio Free Alice - Rule 31
Dec 2, 2025

Song of the Day: Stirring, passionate indie postpunk by the band based in Melbourne, Australia, with echoes of The Cure’s core sound, new wave, and 90s indie-rock influences, and out on Double Drummer

Dec 2, 2025
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Dec 1, 2025
Song of the Day: Sailor Honeymoon - Armchair
Dec 1, 2025

Song of the Day: Catchy, punchy, fuzz-guitar indie rock with a droll lyrical delivery and some echoes of Wet Leg come in this new single by the trio from Seoul, South Korea, out on Good Good Records

Dec 1, 2025

Word of the week

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Dec 4, 2025
Word of the week: crapulence
Dec 4, 2025

Word of the week: A term that may apply regularly during Xmas party season, from the from the Latin crapula, in turn from the Greek kraipálē meaning "drunkenness" or "headache" pertains to sickness symptoms caused by excess in eating or drinking, or general intemperance and overindulgence

Dec 4, 2025
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Nov 20, 2025
Word of the week: discalceate
Nov 20, 2025

Word of the week: A rarely used, but often practised verb, especially when arriving home, it means to take off your shoes, but is also a slightly more common adjective meaning barefoot or unshod, particularly for certain religious orders that wear sandals instead of shoes. But in what context does this come up in song?

Nov 20, 2025
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Nov 6, 2025
Word of the week: erythrophyll
Nov 6, 2025

Word of the week: A seasonally topical word relating to the the red pigment of tree leaves, fruits and flowers, that appears particularly when changing in autumn, as opposed to the green effect of chlorophyll, from the Greek erythros for red, and phyll for leaves. But what of songs about this?

Nov 6, 2025
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Oct 22, 2025
Word of the week: fennec
Oct 22, 2025

Word of the week: It’s a small pale-fawn nocturnal fox with unusually large, highly sensitive ears, that inhabits from African and Arab deserts areas from Western Sahara and Mauritania to the Sinai Peninsula. But has it ever been seen in a song?

Oct 22, 2025
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Oct 9, 2025
Word of the week: gongoozler
Oct 9, 2025

Word of the week: A fabulous old English slang term for someone who tends to stand or sit for long periods staring at the passing of boats on canals, sometimes with a derogatory or at least ironic use for someone who is useless or lazy. But what of songs about this activity and culture?

Oct 9, 2025

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