Variations On A Theme

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons I found doing the Morrissey review I did this week quite easy - aside from the fact that I've been listening to the old goat for 20 years and he barely changes - is that he's a pop star whose songs keep on returning to certain favourite themes. (This is one way in which "barely changes" isn't necessarily bad).

Who else does this? What are some of the ideas and themes your long-term favourite stars and songwriters keep coming back to? Do you think it's a good thing?

Comments

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Iron Maiden - war and history stuff! It's always great!

From Warsaw to Rome, I'll wait out of time

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

jel otm, e.g. the Maiden taught me about the siege and subsequent burning of the Cathars at Montségur!

The jetsetter's life of glamorous, dangerous and sometimes doomed romance*, as conceived by Dieter Meier of Yello = also always great!

*) includes regular boy-girl man-woman type obv, but also the romance of the Formula One ace, the pinball wizard or the piranha-endangered search for Excess in the jungle of the Amazonas.