Should songs that offend be banned?
The Rolling Stones have been in the news this week as it’s been revealed that they have dropped their famous hit ‘Brown Sugar’ from the set list for their 2021 […]
Alice Cooper
The 7 albums that most influenced my taste in music (Part 1)
There has been a meme doing the rounds on Facebook where people have been invited to select the albums that had the biggest influence on their taste in music. It’s […]
A Grunge Cut Up Technique case study – Something Awful Happens
It’s been almost a year since I first read about the Cut Up technique and how artists such as David Bowie and Kurt Cobain used it to create the lyrics […]
How to create a character to base a song around – part 1
In my last post I recommended re-using main protagonists from your lyrics in other songs. I talked about how artists such as Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, and David Bowie have […]
Re-using characters in songs
I came to writing lyrics having first of all spent several years writing comedy sketches. In the world of comedy sketch writing it’s considered normal, indeed extremely desirable, to re-use […]