Breakup Ballad Lover Gifts

This next song goes out to the girl who stole my heart and my guitar.

Rejected Titles For The Canadian National Anthem.

"If you could be any Bob Dylan you wanted to, which Bob Dylan would you be?"

'Never mind singing it in rap... a simple 'I do' will suffice.'

Bashful in Nashville

"In my next album 'Gettin' Back', I refute all the strong beliefs expressed in 'Gettin' There', my previous album."

"This next one's called 'Song for Me'."

Jeff Tweedy caricature.

Jerry Lordan

'My love is like a red red rose...'

George Martin

Karaoke night.

Musical genres

"Sorry, dude. . . but you just don't fit into our group!"

"Hey, Dad, I've been working on a song for our family band!"

'Cole Porter has the lyrics checked'

'Horace spends his spare time being a rock critic.'

Music Therapy

"I'll be broadminded up in heaven, but here on earth you're still a whore..."

"Wait, so his first whole sentence was 'I don't want to work, I just want to bang on the drum all day'?!"

"Mi chiamano Mimi, il perche non so. Sola, mi fo il pranzo da me stessa."

Band alternating between whiney and angry songs.

Freestyling.

Poetry Reading. Physics Lecture. Which'll it be -- rhyme or reason?

"Well, we've for the melody down now, but I'm still not sure about the part where it goes, '...and they call the wind Dorcas Schnickelbaum.'"

"First period music always leaves me with a tune stuck in my head for the rest of the day."

Tell me about the voices in your head, Al. On the one hand, they tell me to do horrible things. On the other hand, they sing the sweetest harmonies since the Mills Brothers.

"Well of course you're depressed... You're a country and western singer."

Elvis Presley

"Coming up... more of the same mindless pop songs with repetitive lyrics and nauseating melodies!"

Nick Cave.

'Elton John'

Keyboard player

Christine McVie

Vasiliy Lebedev-Kumach