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Cassandra Wilson - a slinky, sultry flavour of sweetness ...
Chocolate to coffee, lemon to wine, honey to a buttery biscuit base, our very tasteful guest writer severin picks a perfect pickle of this week's delicious selection from the larder of your aromatic suggestions
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Flavour for the tongue, nose, eyes and ears ...
Where in the cuisine canon are songs that mention cardamon, chilli, citrus or coconut? Whether in food, drinks or even in metaphor, check your spice and CD racks or palate-pleasing MP3s to fill this week's theme with flavour. It's all in the best possible taste …
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Unit Delta Studio in 1966, set up by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
From the dark, discordant and disturbing to the bright lights of virtuosity, this week's guru Flatfrog chooses playlists of cutting-edge creativity and evolutionary leap from your song suggestions
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Frank Zappa ... no yellow fellow when pushing the musical envelope
Unexpected key changes? Surprise jumps in style? Multiple sections? Experimental or an unusual mixture of genres? Suggest music that keeps you guessing in parts or breaks the overall musical mould
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Covered in gold: the Pointer Sisters have a Springsteen in their step
Amy to Beck, Bobby to Apple, this week's fabulous playlists by takeitawayGuru of versions by the other gender go much further than A to B, and show sometimes a cover can be Miles better
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Ella and Louis. They sang together, but also did many covers apart.
Beatles, Stones, Dylan or Bowie songs by women? Or ladies' Motown and soul classics given the masculine treatment? Suggest your covers by the other gender to see what different range and perspective can bring
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Fist of fingers ... Janis Joplin's smile comes at a price
Joplin to Harris, Moyet to Mann, Waits to Wainwright, Barbryn's wonderful playlists from last week's topic are soaked in pity, heartbreak, drinking, plus a dash of black humour, so make sure you have a handkerchief handy …
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Marguerite ... singing in the key of life
Hard-luck humour to human frailty, comedy compassion to sentimental sadness, suggest songs that inspire this complex mix of feelings stirred up in lyrics, setting or performance
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Where are they now? David Bowie and mates in Berlin
Britain to Berlin, Bangkok to Baghdad or Buenos Aires, our guest writer Marco den Ouden takes a truly global tour of Earth-spanning eclecticism inspired by last week's Song Bar topic
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A classic boring postcard. Or is it?
Billericay to Barrytown, Rock Creek Park to Reno, Solsbury Hill to Stonehenge, Warwick Avenue to Waterloo? Whether inside cafes, under station clocks or in a tiny box, suggest songs that take you to a specific or lesser-known place
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John Bonham (second from left) was a rock on which Led Zep could roll. Photograph: RV1864
Spoons to syncopation, Bonham to big beats, Africa to India, this week's music guru Ravi Raman, keeps up the 'Paice' with a global selection of percussion masterpieces chosen from last week's topic
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Terry Bozzio's big one
Castanets to cowbells, drums to daxophones, maracas to marimbas, vibraslaps to xylophones – suggest songs where the rhythmic and percussive element plays a role/roll that makes it special
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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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Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians. Photograph: yooperann
Saintly suffering to possibly mad miracles, heroic behaviour to horrific martyrdom, cite songs where the famous and unheralded are mentioned in lyrics, suggesting where they got their titles
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Rockin' out? Hanging out. Some stimulating music-inspired Nordic images by the Finnish painter Markku Laakso
Sex and saunas, nature and technology? You bet. From the attractive to the ironic and meta, Song Bar regular DiscoMonster presents a sensual, cultural and exceptionally entertaining personal discourse on Nordic culture with a selection from last week's nominations
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Summer in Scandinavia?
Beautiful and sparse, acoustic to electronica, folk to metal, share your musical discoveries that capture the cultures of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland
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Vivian Stanshall – masterful procurer of nonsense. Photograph: Ian Burt
Magical mondegreens to oddball earslips, tongue-twisting turns to total incoherence, guest writer swawilg takes us on an inspired and entertaining playlist journey into lyrics that just aren't quite how they sound
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I'm Terry Wogan? The opening lyric of one of Chaka's biggest hits. Photograph Peter Tea
Why did the Bee Gees like steak and a knife? Is Duffy obsessed with birdseed? And why do it in the road with the Beatles. This week indulge in creative lyrical earslips and a whole load of other lovely nonsense
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Pete Doherty fronting Babyshambles. No shortage of breakup stories ... Photograph: Patrik Ragnarsson
Babyshambles to Beautiful South, ironic response to frantic fornication, this week's guest writer angryirishpunk puts the passionate past behind him with an equally powerful playlist
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Breakups? Never again? Don't bet on it, Adele. Photograph: Tammy Breece
Is the heartbreak over? Perhaps, but this week it's time to name songs with a positive element, showing that, whether in lyrics or style, the sadness is shifting to gladness
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