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This week our host Jim Adams for Song Lyric Sunday has given us the prompt of Atoll, Island, Key, Lagoon, Peninsula, Reef, Tropical

Please consider carving out time to read the posts of other bloggers who responded to the Song Lyric Sunday challenge.

Song Lyric Sunday Rules

Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it contains the prompt words or not.  If it does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.  Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be.
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
• Link to the YouTube video, or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

Island In The Sun

This is one week where I really thought I would be serving up a Jimmy Buffet song about something tropical but I found myself getting hooked on a band I never heard of before called Weezer. Research soon had me realizing that Weezer’s genre of music often gets labeled as alternative rock. My confession is that is not something I listen to. Yet the beauty of the challenge is you discover new tunes and artists and that happened this week.

Weezer is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1992. Since 2001, the band has consisted of Rivers Cuomo (lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards), Patrick Wilson (drums, percussion, backing vocals), Brian Bell (guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), and Scott Shriner (bass, backing vocals, keyboards).

This was the second single from the band’s self titled album called Weezer. It followed “Hash Pipe,” but it almost didn’t make the album; producer Ric Ocasek fought for it and the song ended up being a radio hit. This is the most-licensed track in the Weezer catalog

Two different videos were made for this song. One shows the band playing at a Mexican wedding, and the other, more popular version shows the band cavorting with different wild animals. 

Here is the most popular one.

Next week the prompt is rather long. Here it is songs that feature wind instruments which includes Brass instruments (horns, trumpets, trombones, euphoniums, and tubas) and Woodwind instruments (recorders, flutes, oboes, clarinets, saxophones, and bassoons).