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Jack White rocks out on The Muppet Show
Eno, Albarn, Bowie, the Muppets and more? This week suggest outstanding outcomes when the meeting of minds brings original recorded work or memorable one-off performance. The odder, the better ...
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Bad teacher ... good teacher
Stafford? Present. Shadow? Present. Floyd? Present Fela? Present ... No one is bunking off in this week's class as guest writer DiscoMonster takes us on a highly personal perspective through good and bad lessons
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Teacher feedback? Richard Linklater's The School of Rock (2003). Oh yes.
Quiet everyone! Now listen carefully. In today's lesson, from the good, bad, angry, funny, punishing, even sexy or inspirational, we're suggesting songs about figures of learning in song lyrics. Are you paying attention? Now you can begin ...
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Whose song sees the curves of Earth through Yuri Gargarin's eyes?
Space, time, the sun; smacking sports balls to curvy bodily fun; this week's well rounded playlists by this week's guest guru Marco den Ouden arch across the far reaches of the universe from the intimate to the infinite
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Egg-centric. A view of the Salvador Dali Museum in Figueres, Spain. Photograph: Marco den Ouden
This week take a rounded look – extend your spheres of thought to music that touches on such 3D objects and places, balls and eggs to planets, circles to curvaceous figures, even lines curving all the way to the horizon …
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'Now then, Bond, makes sure Jemima does a wee-wee.' 'Yes, ma'am'.
Whether it's aspiring to be Dando or Brando, straight or a spy, this week's top-rank playlists by treefrogdemon chosen from your suggestions have it all, including some topical political humour ...
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'I'm not a politician' ... Welcome to two-faced Trumpton town ... Photograph: Flickr
Restless, bored, or ambitious? Fuelled by feelings of inadequacy? No, this isn’t a help or advice line, they’re just a few things may spark songs about wanting to become someone else, real or imagined. Can you suggest any?
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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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