JB – Nicknames
In addition to “The Godfather of Soul”, James Brown has a number of other, less well-known nicknames. These names, picked up during his childhood and remaining with him throughout his overlong career, include: Music […]

JB – Godfathers
And what?s this business about The Godfather of Soul? Let?s see, godfathers in the traditional sense of the word are male friends or relatives of the parents, who are generally pretty up for being a godfather at the start &#821[…]

James Brown – Sexual Gymnast
“Ooooooowwww!”
This would seem to me to be a perfectly understandable reaction to James Brown?s music. Only instead of wetting my pants at what is meant to be orgasm-inducing “ooowwww!”s, &#[…]

Get on the scene, like a sewing machine
I was ill.
I am ill no more.
From my sickbed, I have just heard three James Brown songs back-to-back on the radio.
Mr Brown – your day of reckoning has come.[…]

SICK NOTES
Where have I been? In bed. What have I been? Ill. “Am I still ill?” Morrissey asked once in a thinly-disguised bid to break his Rough Trade contract and sign to Def Jam. The answer was in that sense no, though anyone hearing hi[…]

TEENAGE FANCLUB
Oh, the irony! You’re old men and you have no fans.
Anyway, Teenage Fanclub shot to non-fame sounding like Big Star played by apes: the public’s tolerance of this carnivalesque novelty was short-lived indeed, though the d[…]

TWO MORE SONGS ABOUT WAR
To continue this freewheeling mindset which, once it has been stumbled upon is nagging like a horse, there are a couple of songs about War I would like to mention in passing. One is routinely noted as one of the worse songs o[…]

WARRING FACTIONS – IHM LYRIC WATCH 4
Of course, along with my own attempts at peace making in the bitter Middle Eastern conflict, Mr Philip Oakey of the Human League tried his damnedest to point out the ironic contradictions of life in Beirut,[…]

TANYA SOLVES THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT
As far as I understand it, the main sticking point of the Middle East Peace Process which has been chuntering along with little success of late is real estate based. Holy cities cause conflict when said city is b[…]

IF I WAS A FUCKER
There is one hymn, though, that I hate more than any other, more even than the one Fat Les did. That hymn is not often sung in church, for the reason that the parish budget won’t often stretch to a guitar synthesiser and hexag[…]