I had considered asking for "Bob Dylan songs" this week because, as you may have noticed, it was the great man's birthday on Tuesday. But after Richard Williams beat me to it, I plumped instead for birthdays.
Birthdays are great when you're a kid. Even better than Christmas, in some ways. You get to be a year older! When you're actually old, less so. My great-grandmother lived until she was 103, which must have been interesting for her, but all her peers were long gone. So birthdays can be bittersweet.
What do songwriters make of it? Birthday parties provide work for plenty of musicians, but what about songs themselves?
Leave your suggestions below.
The toolbox:
* Listen to others' suggestions and add yours to a collaborative Spotify playlist.
* Previously on Readers Recommend.
* Guide to "donds", "zedded" and other strange words used by some of the RR regulars (courtesy of the Marconium).
* The Marconium (blog containing a wealth of data on RR, including the songs that are "zedded").
* The 'Spill (blog for the RR community).
Please do:
* Post your nominations before midday on Tuesday if you wish them to be considered.
* Write a few lines advocating the merits of your choices.
But please don't:
* Post more than one third of the lyrics of any song.
* Dump lists of nominations. If you must post more than two or three at once, please attempt to justify your choices.
