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Here we are, inching our way towards Summer, yet rough winds do shake the darling buds of … errm, April, actually. Anyway, here are some splendid Earworms about measurement. If you have an Earworm you’d like to share, please send it to [email protected], together with a few words about why you’ve chosen it. Next week’s theme will be Vision. Many thanks to all contributors.
The Speed of the Sound of Loneliness – Nanci Griffith – Magicman: from the pen of John Prine and the voice of Nanci.
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils – Jackie Blue – AliM: You like your life in a free-form style / You’ll take an inch but you’d love a mile – the words popped into my head but it took another 3 days to remember where they were from. Much speculation about the meaning of the song, my favourite is: The song is about a baseball pitcher for the Texas rangers named Jackie Brown who was secretly dating OMDD’s drummer. From their excellent second album It’ll Shine When It Shines (1974).
Merle Travis – Sixteen Tons- Ravi Raman: It may say ‘various’ but it is definitely Merle Travis good naturedly giving Ernie Ford credit for boosting his song.
Annette Hanshaw – Six Feet of Papa – severin: And five feet of mama apparently. Which apparently equals heaven. They never taught me that in my A-level maths class. Probably why I failed the exam.
Susanne Sundfor – Mantra – severin: ‘I’m as empty as the earth, An insignificant birth, Stardust in a universe, That’s all that I am worth’… Large and small? Measuring yourself against the really big stuff? This might possibly be a shoehorn but I like it.
Rory Gallagher – A Million Miles Away – Ravi Raman: from the 2005 compilation album Big Guns. Always a joy to listen to him.
Half Japanese – Attack of the Giant Leeches – vanwolf: How big? We don’t really know, but what started off as a harmless prank has now put everyone in danger. No one is safe.
Plague Vendor – Anchor to Ankles – vanwolf: The treasure is only 6 feet deep. The singer knows it and appears intent on telling the whole f*king world about it.
The Who – I Can See For Miles – tincanman: Because… Keith Moon. (Here’s a YouTube link http://bit.ly/2r3h4bS so you can watch him. For bonus fun you can try and guess what song the people are dancing to, because it doesn’t seem to be this one).
STOP PRESS:
Gomez – Get Miles – Sarah: Seeing them this week on their 20th anniversary of Bring it On tour.
Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness
Jackie Blue
Sixteen Tons
Six Feet of Papa
Mantra
A Million Miles Away
Attack Of The Giant Leeches
Anchor To Ankles
I Can See For Miles
01 Get Miles
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