his songs I find strongest now
among them he recorded 1967-78
some I never really noticed during the first 78 rounds...
...until now when I love them as much as someone else ever
White CROWN chakra SPIRIT
1
LIFE
2
HOME IN THE SKY
3
I THINK I SEE THE LIGHT
4
THE ARTIST
5
THE VIEW FROM THE TOP
6
MILES FROM NOWHERE
7
NEVER (gonna be another You)
Lilac 3:RD EYE chakra DREAM
1
INTO WHITE
2
MOONSTONE
3
FILL MY EYES
4
JZERO
5
CRAZY
6
LOVELY CITY (WHEN DO YOU LAUGH?)
7
ANGELSEA
Blue THROAT chakra EXPRESSION
1
CAN'T KEEP IT IN
2
ON THE ROAD TO FIND OUT (Kick out the devils within and pick up a good book now)
3
A BAD PENNY
4
BABY, GET YOUR HEAD SCREWED ON
5
MAJIK OF MAJIKS
6
MAYBE YOU'RE RIGHT
7
(I NEVER WANTED) TO BE A STAR
Green HEART chakra LOVE
1
KING OF TREES
2
RUBYLOVE
3
LADY D'ARBANVILLE
4
SUN C 79
5
WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?
6
HOW CAN I TELL YOU?
7
LAST LOVE SONG
Yellow SOLAR PLEXUS chakra PRIDE
1
THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST
2
SITTING (on my way I know I am)
3
THE HURT (Until I got hurt I didn't knew what love is)
4
HARD-HEADED WOMAN
5
I'VE FOUND A LOVE (hidden in a back street)
6
(House of) FREEZING STEEL
7
KITTY
Orange SEX chakra PLEASURE
1
HERE COMES MY BABY
2
HERE COMES MY WIFE
3
READY (to love)
4
IT'S A SUPA (DUPA) LIFE
5
BANAPPLE GAS
6
THE LAUGHING APPLE
7
SCHOOL IS OUT
Red ROOT chakra HOME
1
HOME (Forever)
2
OH, VERY YOUNG
3
CHILD FOR A DAY
[one of few he didn't compose himself]
4
FOREIGNER SUITE (...over to that sunny side road...)
5
FATHER
6
GRANNY
7
RUINS (so nice to see you coming back in this town again)
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27 February 2011
25 February 2011
Master Stevens Oldest Kittens 'n' First Cuts
Moonstone and The Laughing Apple of this Supa Dupa Life
Stevens music feels funny as the end of a school day but at the same time serious as a black board. The rythms twists and turns like cartoon figures around supernaturally beautiful themes. Stevens' voice makes the gown-up focus, an exciting contrast to his childlike music. The voice is angry, anxious, amused, rich of every emotion, though always soulful and serious.Therefore I don't take his many ironies as superficial irony, neither as destructive sarcasm, rather as the most honest way of expressing social life which is frustrating and confusing.
I love them all, those songs of Cat Stevens. Especially "I love them all" and the other tracks on "New Masters". This was his second album and is described as a too splitted version of his first masterpiece (both 1967, before a three year break). I don't see the split, I hear the same kind of unique, wide-eyed variation which every good record showed during that Sgt Pepper-era. Together with the bonus single sides and "Mathew & Son" the album could have been world's greatest double album. And with more voices and a more experimental mission, it would've been a forerunner to "White Album".
The overwhelming flora of instrumentation already grows there, a palette which Stevens later gave up and concentrated into more guitar-based folk music, and then broaded again out to his kind of jazz-soul-rock. Here in his 1967 things we are almost put in front of a symphony orchestra, trying to play something like a Prokofiev balette rather than a Mahler symphony. Anyway he chooses different instruments for each song, wanders from woodwinds to brass, along accordion to cello, through cembalo to xylofon, soon completed by other clocks and wooden blocks. Often these flexible surprises feels really funny, plays with the superficiality of "just too much", in perfect contrast to Stevens' serious soul.
I understand he didn't wanted to be just a pop star or manufacturer of schlager pearls. But all togehter I think these early attempts best captures Cat's urgent ground in magic storytelling. His drawings and lyrics suggests a love for carrols. Only on Numbers (1975) he seems to intentionally have found back to that fantasy road.
"The first cut is the deepest" - indeed! But my first impressions of Cat Stevens came quite late, when my life had passed 31. A female friend mentioned that other artist's songs I was giving her reminded of Stevens' songs. Then I went through his eleven main albums within some months. Until then I hadn't react on the few tracks I must have heard sometime. Now everyone was flashed in a new, old, fantastic light, like "a sparkle from a Moonstone".
Well, not immediately in love with every track was I, and still am not. Realised anyhow how Stevens had to be one of my very favourite songwriters. That Cat had a swedish mother and a greek father made the kinship feel even more strong. Some tracks I can't clearly remember even after the 19th time I heard them, but that I regard as a strength in his music. It contains such complexity parallell to the easy chewing gum-character of some songs. However I keep returning to Cat Stevens and he grows every time.
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Stevens music feels funny as the end of a school day but at the same time serious as a black board. The rythms twists and turns like cartoon figures around supernaturally beautiful themes. Stevens' voice makes the gown-up focus, an exciting contrast to his childlike music. The voice is angry, anxious, amused, rich of every emotion, though always soulful and serious.Therefore I don't take his many ironies as superficial irony, neither as destructive sarcasm, rather as the most honest way of expressing social life which is frustrating and confusing.
I love them all, those songs of Cat Stevens. Especially "I love them all" and the other tracks on "New Masters". This was his second album and is described as a too splitted version of his first masterpiece (both 1967, before a three year break). I don't see the split, I hear the same kind of unique, wide-eyed variation which every good record showed during that Sgt Pepper-era. Together with the bonus single sides and "Mathew & Son" the album could have been world's greatest double album. And with more voices and a more experimental mission, it would've been a forerunner to "White Album".
The overwhelming flora of instrumentation already grows there, a palette which Stevens later gave up and concentrated into more guitar-based folk music, and then broaded again out to his kind of jazz-soul-rock. Here in his 1967 things we are almost put in front of a symphony orchestra, trying to play something like a Prokofiev balette rather than a Mahler symphony. Anyway he chooses different instruments for each song, wanders from woodwinds to brass, along accordion to cello, through cembalo to xylofon, soon completed by other clocks and wooden blocks. Often these flexible surprises feels really funny, plays with the superficiality of "just too much", in perfect contrast to Stevens' serious soul.
I understand he didn't wanted to be just a pop star or manufacturer of schlager pearls. But all togehter I think these early attempts best captures Cat's urgent ground in magic storytelling. His drawings and lyrics suggests a love for carrols. Only on Numbers (1975) he seems to intentionally have found back to that fantasy road.
"The first cut is the deepest" - indeed! But my first impressions of Cat Stevens came quite late, when my life had passed 31. A female friend mentioned that other artist's songs I was giving her reminded of Stevens' songs. Then I went through his eleven main albums within some months. Until then I hadn't react on the few tracks I must have heard sometime. Now everyone was flashed in a new, old, fantastic light, like "a sparkle from a Moonstone".
Well, not immediately in love with every track was I, and still am not. Realised anyhow how Stevens had to be one of my very favourite songwriters. That Cat had a swedish mother and a greek father made the kinship feel even more strong. Some tracks I can't clearly remember even after the 19th time I heard them, but that I regard as a strength in his music. It contains such complexity parallell to the easy chewing gum-character of some songs. However I keep returning to Cat Stevens and he grows every time.
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19 February 2011
HIJOSHI ZUKAN
is six short movies
on the common theme "What Girls Want"
from Japan 2009
Each movie I've seen two times
No one feels disappointing
Everyone gives both funny and thoughtful experience
Here I present in different aspects
how strong I believe they are
Maximum possible is 56 but that's almost impossible
so four around 40 is quite fantastic
First movie about Tamae
DRAWFORTUNES!
by Keisuke Toyoshima
6 Beauty (SnowWhite)
4 Joy (Happy)
7 Humour (Dopey)
3 Conflict (Grumpy)
5 Action (Sneezy)
5 Timeline (Sleepy)
6 Idea (Doc)
6 Mystery (Bashful)
= 42
Second movie about Mitsuka Ishimaru
FIRST FIGHTER MITCHAN
by Yudai Yamaguchi
3 Beauty (SnowWhite)
2 Joy (Happy)
6 Humour (Dopey)
2 Conflict (Grumpy)
6 Action (Sneezy)
1 Timeline (Sleepy)
1 Idea (Doc)
2 Mystery (Bashful)
= 23
Third movie about Miho Sugayama
B FOR BRA!
by Yoshihiro Fukagawa
4 Beauty (SnowWhite)
3 Joy (Happy)
5 Humour (Dopey)
5 Conflict (Grumpy)
3 Action (Sneezy)
4 Timeline (Sleepy)
5 Idea (Doc)
6 Mystery (Bashful)
= 35
Fourth movie about Jun Karasawa
WHO'S THE MAN?
by Koji Kawano
4 Beauty (SnowWhite)
2 Joy (Happy)
6 Humour (Dopey)
6 Conflict (Grumpy)
7 Action (Sneezy)
6 Timeline (Sleepy)
7 Idea (Doc)
3 Mystery (Bashful)
= 41
Fifth movie about Chiaki Tsutsumishita
HOT SPRING HEAVEN
by Yuuka Osumi
6 Beauty (SnowWhite)
6 Joy (Happy)
4 Humour (Dopey)
5 Conflict (Grumpy)
2 Action (Sneezy)
5 Timeline (Sleepy)
4 Idea (Doc)
6 Mystery (Bashful)
= 38
Sixth movie about Ryoko Nakatani
I WILL THIS YEAR!
by Renpei Tsukamoto
5 Beauty (SnowWhite)
1 Joy (Happy)
6 Humour (Dopey)
4 Conflict (Grumpy)
5 Action (Sneezy)
7 Timeline (Sleepy)
7 Idea (Doc)
2 Mystery (Bashful)
= 37
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on the common theme "What Girls Want"
from Japan 2009
Each movie I've seen two times
No one feels disappointing
Everyone gives both funny and thoughtful experience
Here I present in different aspects
how strong I believe they are
Maximum possible is 56 but that's almost impossible
so four around 40 is quite fantastic
First movie about Tamae
DRAWFORTUNES!
by Keisuke Toyoshima
6 Beauty (SnowWhite)
4 Joy (Happy)
7 Humour (Dopey)
3 Conflict (Grumpy)
5 Action (Sneezy)
5 Timeline (Sleepy)
6 Idea (Doc)
6 Mystery (Bashful)
= 42
Second movie about Mitsuka Ishimaru
FIRST FIGHTER MITCHAN
by Yudai Yamaguchi
3 Beauty (SnowWhite)
2 Joy (Happy)
6 Humour (Dopey)
2 Conflict (Grumpy)
6 Action (Sneezy)
1 Timeline (Sleepy)
1 Idea (Doc)
2 Mystery (Bashful)
= 23
Third movie about Miho Sugayama
B FOR BRA!
by Yoshihiro Fukagawa
4 Beauty (SnowWhite)
3 Joy (Happy)
5 Humour (Dopey)
5 Conflict (Grumpy)
3 Action (Sneezy)
4 Timeline (Sleepy)
5 Idea (Doc)
6 Mystery (Bashful)
= 35
Fourth movie about Jun Karasawa
WHO'S THE MAN?
by Koji Kawano
4 Beauty (SnowWhite)
2 Joy (Happy)
6 Humour (Dopey)
6 Conflict (Grumpy)
7 Action (Sneezy)
6 Timeline (Sleepy)
7 Idea (Doc)
3 Mystery (Bashful)
= 41
Fifth movie about Chiaki Tsutsumishita
HOT SPRING HEAVEN
by Yuuka Osumi
6 Beauty (SnowWhite)
6 Joy (Happy)
4 Humour (Dopey)
5 Conflict (Grumpy)
2 Action (Sneezy)
5 Timeline (Sleepy)
4 Idea (Doc)
6 Mystery (Bashful)
= 38
Sixth movie about Ryoko Nakatani
I WILL THIS YEAR!
by Renpei Tsukamoto
5 Beauty (SnowWhite)
1 Joy (Happy)
6 Humour (Dopey)
4 Conflict (Grumpy)
5 Action (Sneezy)
7 Timeline (Sleepy)
7 Idea (Doc)
2 Mystery (Bashful)
= 37
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18 February 2011
Old Records I Rediscover or just Discover
Second Elevator of 2011
0
IN CASE YOU'RE IN LOVE
Sonny & Cher (-67)
CHERYL'S GOIN' HOME
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
1
FREAK OUT!
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention (-66)
YOU'RE PROBABLY WONDERING WHY I'M HERE
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
2
THINGS & OTHER THINGS
Bobby Darin (-62)
NOW WE'RE ONE
[also with Buddy Holly]
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
3
HERB ALPERT PRESENTS : SERGIO MENDEZ & BRAZIL '66
Sergio Mendez & Brazil '66 (-66)
ONE NOTE SAMBA /SPANISH FLEA
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
4
WHERE AM I GOING
Dusty Springfield (-67)
(If you don't want me Forever) TAKE ME FOR A LITTLE WHILE
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
5
UNDER THE BOARDWALK
The Drifters (-64)
UP ON THE ROOF
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
6
THE ORBISON WAY
Roy Orbison (-66)
TIME CHANGES EVERYTHING
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
7
THAT'LL BE THE DAY
Buddy Holly (-58)
TING-A-LING
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
8
TOTO
Toto (-78)
ANGELA
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
9
ZOOT ALLURES
Frank Zappa (-76)
MS. PINKY
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
10
CAFÉ BLEU
Style Council (-84)
HEADSTART FOR HAPPINESS
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
11
HERE'S LITTLE RICHARD
Little Richard (-57)
SLIPPIN' AND SLIDIN'
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
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0
IN CASE YOU'RE IN LOVE
Sonny & Cher (-67)
CHERYL'S GOIN' HOME
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
1
FREAK OUT!
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention (-66)
YOU'RE PROBABLY WONDERING WHY I'M HERE
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
2
THINGS & OTHER THINGS
Bobby Darin (-62)
NOW WE'RE ONE
[also with Buddy Holly]
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
3
HERB ALPERT PRESENTS : SERGIO MENDEZ & BRAZIL '66
Sergio Mendez & Brazil '66 (-66)
ONE NOTE SAMBA /SPANISH FLEA
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
4
WHERE AM I GOING
Dusty Springfield (-67)
(If you don't want me Forever) TAKE ME FOR A LITTLE WHILE
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
5
UNDER THE BOARDWALK
The Drifters (-64)
UP ON THE ROOF
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
6
THE ORBISON WAY
Roy Orbison (-66)
TIME CHANGES EVERYTHING
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
7
THAT'LL BE THE DAY
Buddy Holly (-58)
TING-A-LING
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
8
TOTO
Toto (-78)
ANGELA
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
9
ZOOT ALLURES
Frank Zappa (-76)
MS. PINKY
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
10
CAFÉ BLEU
Style Council (-84)
HEADSTART FOR HAPPINESS
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
11
HERE'S LITTLE RICHARD
Little Richard (-57)
SLIPPIN' AND SLIDIN'
= Song that Speaks most Strong to me Now
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14 February 2011
Recently seen seVen new Movies
I give from 1 star to 7 stars
by 8 cathegories they become maximum 56 stars
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
by Woody Allen
USA, Spain - 08
with Javier Bardem and some really good actresses
7 Beauty (SnowWhite)
6 Joy (Happy)
3 Humour (Dopey)
7 Conflict (Grumpy)
6 Action (Sneezy)
4 Timeline (Sleepy)
5 Idea (Doc)
6 Mystery (Bashful)
= 44
KOOKY [Kuky se Vrací]
by Jan Sverak
Czech -10
doll animation
seen on Gothenburg Film Festival
7 Beauty (SnowWhite)
4 Joy (Happy)
7 Humour (Dopey)
5 Conflict (Grumpy)
5 Action (Sneezy)
4 Timeline (Sleepy)
6 Idea (Doc)
5 Mystery (Bashful)
= 43
KICK-ASS
by Mathew Vaughn
UK, USA -10
6 Beauty (SnowWhite)
5 Joy (Happy)
6 Humour (Dopey)
5 Conflict (Grumpy)
6 Action (Sneezy)
4 Timeline (Sleepy)
7 Idea (Doc)
3 Mystery (Bashful)
= 42
JUNO
by Jason Reitman
USA -07
with Ellen Page
4 Beauty (SnowWhite)
6 Joy (Happy)
7 Humour (Dopey)
6 Conflict (Grumpy)
6 Action (Sneezy)
4 Timeline (Sleepy)
6 Idea (Doc)
2 Mystery (Bashful)
= 41
GUILTY PLEASURES
by Julie Moggan
UK, Japan -10
documentary around harlequin books
seen on Gothenburg Film Festival
3 Beauty (SnowWhite)
4 Joy (Happy)
6 Humour (Dopey)
6 Conflict (Grumpy)
5 Action (Sneezy)
4 Timeline (Sleepy)
5 Idea (Doc)
5 Mystery (Bashful)
= 38
ODJURET [The Beast]
by Emil Larsson & Martin Jern
Sweden -10
seen on Gothenburg Film Festival
4 Beauty (SnowWhite)
1 Joy (Happy)
5 Humour (Dopey)
7 Conflict (Grumpy)
6 Action (Sneezy)
4 Timeline (Sleepy)
2 Idea (Doc)
6 Mystery (Bashful)
= 35
BRIGHT STAR (around John Keats)
by Jane Campion
UK (Australia, France) -09
7 Beauty (SnowWhite)
4 Joy (Happy)
1 Humour (Dopey)
4 Conflict (Grumpy)
2 Action (Sneezy)
2 Timeline (Sleepy)
1 Idea (Doc)
3 Mystery (Bashful)
= 24
454
by 8 cathegories they become maximum 56 stars
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
by Woody Allen
USA, Spain - 08
with Javier Bardem and some really good actresses
7 Beauty (SnowWhite)
6 Joy (Happy)
3 Humour (Dopey)
7 Conflict (Grumpy)
6 Action (Sneezy)
4 Timeline (Sleepy)
5 Idea (Doc)
6 Mystery (Bashful)
= 44
KOOKY [Kuky se Vrací]
by Jan Sverak
Czech -10
doll animation
seen on Gothenburg Film Festival
7 Beauty (SnowWhite)
4 Joy (Happy)
7 Humour (Dopey)
5 Conflict (Grumpy)
5 Action (Sneezy)
4 Timeline (Sleepy)
6 Idea (Doc)
5 Mystery (Bashful)
= 43
KICK-ASS
by Mathew Vaughn
UK, USA -10
6 Beauty (SnowWhite)
5 Joy (Happy)
6 Humour (Dopey)
5 Conflict (Grumpy)
6 Action (Sneezy)
4 Timeline (Sleepy)
7 Idea (Doc)
3 Mystery (Bashful)
= 42
JUNO
by Jason Reitman
USA -07
with Ellen Page
4 Beauty (SnowWhite)
6 Joy (Happy)
7 Humour (Dopey)
6 Conflict (Grumpy)
6 Action (Sneezy)
4 Timeline (Sleepy)
6 Idea (Doc)
2 Mystery (Bashful)
= 41
GUILTY PLEASURES
by Julie Moggan
UK, Japan -10
documentary around harlequin books
seen on Gothenburg Film Festival
3 Beauty (SnowWhite)
4 Joy (Happy)
6 Humour (Dopey)
6 Conflict (Grumpy)
5 Action (Sneezy)
4 Timeline (Sleepy)
5 Idea (Doc)
5 Mystery (Bashful)
= 38
ODJURET [The Beast]
by Emil Larsson & Martin Jern
Sweden -10
seen on Gothenburg Film Festival
4 Beauty (SnowWhite)
1 Joy (Happy)
5 Humour (Dopey)
7 Conflict (Grumpy)
6 Action (Sneezy)
4 Timeline (Sleepy)
2 Idea (Doc)
6 Mystery (Bashful)
= 35
BRIGHT STAR (around John Keats)
by Jane Campion
UK (Australia, France) -09
7 Beauty (SnowWhite)
4 Joy (Happy)
1 Humour (Dopey)
4 Conflict (Grumpy)
2 Action (Sneezy)
2 Timeline (Sleepy)
1 Idea (Doc)
3 Mystery (Bashful)
= 24
454
08 February 2011
Recently seen seVen Movies among Old American ones
I give from 1 star to 7 stars
by 8 cathegories they become maximum 56 stars
REBECCA
by Alfred Hitchcock -40
with Laurence Olivier & Joan Fontaine
7 Beauty (SnowWhite)
5 Joy (Happy)
3 Humour (Dopey)
7 Conflict (Grumpy)
6 Action (Sneezy)
6 Timeline (Sleepy)
4 Idea (Doc)
7 Mystery (Bashful)
= 45
RAIN MAN
by Barry Levinson -88
with Cruise & Hoffman
2 Beauty (SnowWhite)
2 Joy (Happy)
6 Humour (Dopey)
7 Conflict (Grumpy)
6 Action (Sneezy)
6 Timeline (Sleepy)
7 Idea (Doc)
6 Mystery (Bashful)
= 42
A SAILOR-MADE MAN
by Fred C. Newmeyer -26
with HAROLD LLOYD
4 Beauty (SnowWhite)
6 Joy (Happy)
7 Humour (Dopey)
6 Conflict (Grumpy)
7 Action (Sneezy)
5 Timeline (Sleepy)
4 Idea (Doc)
2 Mystery (Bashful)
= 41
TARZAN'S NEW YORK ADVENTURES
by Richard Thorpe -42
with Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan
Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane
Johnny Sheffield as Boy
Cheetah as Cheetah
6 Beauty (SnowWhite)
5 Joy (Happy)
6 Humour (Dopey)
5 Conflict (Grumpy)
7 Action (Sneezy)
4 Timeline (Sleepy)
4 Idea (Doc)
2 Mystery (Bashful)
= 39
TAXI DRIVER
by Martin Scorsese -76
with Robert DeNiro & Cybill Shepherd
also with Harvey Keitl & Jodie Foster
6 Beauty (SnowWhite)
3 Joy (Happy)
5 Humour (Dopey)
7 Conflict (Grumpy)
4 Action (Sneezy)
3 Timeline (Sleepy)
2 Idea (Doc)
6 Mystery (Bashful)
= 36
ALIEN 3
by David Fincher -92
with Sigourney Weaver
4 Beauty (SnowWhite)
1 Joy (Happy)
2 Humour (Dopey)
6 Conflict (Grumpy)
6 Action (Sneezy)
5 Timeline (Sleepy)
3 Idea (Doc)
6 Mystery (Bashful)
= 33
FANTASIA
by Walt Disney -40
portraying music, for example Stravinsky's "Spring Sacrifice" as an evolution of Earth. I miss his other earliest, when I watch this abstract attempt.
5 Beauty (SnowWhite)
4 Joy (Happy)
2 Humour (Dopey)
2 Conflict (Grumpy)
2 Action (Sneezy)
3 Timeline (Sleepy)
4 Idea (Doc)
5 Mystery (Bashful)
= 27
454
by 8 cathegories they become maximum 56 stars
REBECCA
by Alfred Hitchcock -40
with Laurence Olivier & Joan Fontaine
7 Beauty (SnowWhite)
5 Joy (Happy)
3 Humour (Dopey)
7 Conflict (Grumpy)
6 Action (Sneezy)
6 Timeline (Sleepy)
4 Idea (Doc)
7 Mystery (Bashful)
= 45
RAIN MAN
by Barry Levinson -88
with Cruise & Hoffman
2 Beauty (SnowWhite)
2 Joy (Happy)
6 Humour (Dopey)
7 Conflict (Grumpy)
6 Action (Sneezy)
6 Timeline (Sleepy)
7 Idea (Doc)
6 Mystery (Bashful)
= 42
A SAILOR-MADE MAN
by Fred C. Newmeyer -26
with HAROLD LLOYD
4 Beauty (SnowWhite)
6 Joy (Happy)
7 Humour (Dopey)
6 Conflict (Grumpy)
7 Action (Sneezy)
5 Timeline (Sleepy)
4 Idea (Doc)
2 Mystery (Bashful)
= 41
TARZAN'S NEW YORK ADVENTURES
by Richard Thorpe -42
with Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan
Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane
Johnny Sheffield as Boy
Cheetah as Cheetah
6 Beauty (SnowWhite)
5 Joy (Happy)
6 Humour (Dopey)
5 Conflict (Grumpy)
7 Action (Sneezy)
4 Timeline (Sleepy)
4 Idea (Doc)
2 Mystery (Bashful)
= 39
TAXI DRIVER
by Martin Scorsese -76
with Robert DeNiro & Cybill Shepherd
also with Harvey Keitl & Jodie Foster
6 Beauty (SnowWhite)
3 Joy (Happy)
5 Humour (Dopey)
7 Conflict (Grumpy)
4 Action (Sneezy)
3 Timeline (Sleepy)
2 Idea (Doc)
6 Mystery (Bashful)
= 36
ALIEN 3
by David Fincher -92
with Sigourney Weaver
4 Beauty (SnowWhite)
1 Joy (Happy)
2 Humour (Dopey)
6 Conflict (Grumpy)
6 Action (Sneezy)
5 Timeline (Sleepy)
3 Idea (Doc)
6 Mystery (Bashful)
= 33
FANTASIA
by Walt Disney -40
portraying music, for example Stravinsky's "Spring Sacrifice" as an evolution of Earth. I miss his other earliest, when I watch this abstract attempt.
5 Beauty (SnowWhite)
4 Joy (Happy)
2 Humour (Dopey)
2 Conflict (Grumpy)
2 Action (Sneezy)
3 Timeline (Sleepy)
4 Idea (Doc)
5 Mystery (Bashful)
= 27
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07 February 2011
Making an Angel of Neil Sedaka's Seducing little Devil
first story around a song
Neil Sedaka seems to have been an ever smiling, elegant clown. He contributed to the early rock'n'roll arena with sweet compositions as well as own singin'. To me his music feels more like a slick, grown-up magician's work than a kind, boyish dreamer's prayers. The songs may be happy as a puppy or sad as losing that puppy, but Sedaka is shining of some spiritual craftmanship, overshadowing the need for expressing straight emotions, though still expressing them without a doubt.
"(Hey) Little Devil" (1961) is the song I've chosen. It's as yeah-yeah-yeah-ish as "She Loves You" soon became, but rather pretty and jumpy, like the do-woop they did before the guitar bands had filled the world. Anyway, the girl is called a little DEVIL, and the young man is prepared to make an ANGEL out of her, like taming the wild creature who's always running around. Well, in another song it is himself who's the luckiest devil in town, living next door to an angel...
During same years Elvis sang of the Devil in Disguise and Paul Anka about the two in Eden. Maybe the biblical themes were extra useful in order to build a concept of the real teenager, evolving strongly by those years on the border to the 60's. There were much forbidden love becoming possible. Some songs portray "Destiny" as strong as "free lustfulness".
Paul Anka's adolescent voice and symphonical pop is the closest to Neil Sedaka I know. Many pearls feels like the masters have tried to make chewing gum out of opera (and succeeded). It sounds uncompromisingly sweet but also feels a bit dangerous, almost in an italian sense, more thrilling than ordinary old teenage music. Neither Presley nor Orbison possess the same sting, even though their way of singing could have reached closer to an opera stage.
In this "Little Devil", as in many real schlagers, the underlying strings are playing not only beautiful but dramatic (compared to disco and later pop where the classic drama has disappeared into a nice but neutral wall-paper). Drums and bells are marking clear breaks.
Also the wide awake choir makes interesting comments, like the choirs did in the late 50's. The sax comes with rapid riffs, sounds funny. For my taste it could as well had been a basoon or tuba, in these times when woodwinds or brass still wasn't something you only found on occasional tracks.
It surprised me the first time I saw it printed on the disc - that this Sedaka was one of the composers to ABBA's first hit, "Ring, Ring". However now I realise the truth in that, though still haven't heard his later works. Sedaka could surely have made golden Motown music too, if he would have wanted.
Only one Sedaka song I get more aroused by listening to now. And that is "I Go Ape", where he's swinging himself tougher than in any other song, glaring back to Little Richard or forward on Lennon. With some irony he has garnished this piece of rock'n'roll with a romantic moonlight prelude.
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Neil Sedaka seems to have been an ever smiling, elegant clown. He contributed to the early rock'n'roll arena with sweet compositions as well as own singin'. To me his music feels more like a slick, grown-up magician's work than a kind, boyish dreamer's prayers. The songs may be happy as a puppy or sad as losing that puppy, but Sedaka is shining of some spiritual craftmanship, overshadowing the need for expressing straight emotions, though still expressing them without a doubt.
"(Hey) Little Devil" (1961) is the song I've chosen. It's as yeah-yeah-yeah-ish as "She Loves You" soon became, but rather pretty and jumpy, like the do-woop they did before the guitar bands had filled the world. Anyway, the girl is called a little DEVIL, and the young man is prepared to make an ANGEL out of her, like taming the wild creature who's always running around. Well, in another song it is himself who's the luckiest devil in town, living next door to an angel...
During same years Elvis sang of the Devil in Disguise and Paul Anka about the two in Eden. Maybe the biblical themes were extra useful in order to build a concept of the real teenager, evolving strongly by those years on the border to the 60's. There were much forbidden love becoming possible. Some songs portray "Destiny" as strong as "free lustfulness".
Paul Anka's adolescent voice and symphonical pop is the closest to Neil Sedaka I know. Many pearls feels like the masters have tried to make chewing gum out of opera (and succeeded). It sounds uncompromisingly sweet but also feels a bit dangerous, almost in an italian sense, more thrilling than ordinary old teenage music. Neither Presley nor Orbison possess the same sting, even though their way of singing could have reached closer to an opera stage.
In this "Little Devil", as in many real schlagers, the underlying strings are playing not only beautiful but dramatic (compared to disco and later pop where the classic drama has disappeared into a nice but neutral wall-paper). Drums and bells are marking clear breaks.
Also the wide awake choir makes interesting comments, like the choirs did in the late 50's. The sax comes with rapid riffs, sounds funny. For my taste it could as well had been a basoon or tuba, in these times when woodwinds or brass still wasn't something you only found on occasional tracks.
It surprised me the first time I saw it printed on the disc - that this Sedaka was one of the composers to ABBA's first hit, "Ring, Ring". However now I realise the truth in that, though still haven't heard his later works. Sedaka could surely have made golden Motown music too, if he would have wanted.
Only one Sedaka song I get more aroused by listening to now. And that is "I Go Ape", where he's swinging himself tougher than in any other song, glaring back to Little Richard or forward on Lennon. With some irony he has garnished this piece of rock'n'roll with a romantic moonlight prelude.
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06 February 2011
Michigan Monchhichis (maybe more American Limericks)
Seems I'm making another round of this half-made series of states. In Michigan Motown was the "black music" company in Detroit, close to french-canadian climate. Monchhichis were japanese monkey dolls.
Moving their pick-up allright upto Motown
grammophone putting some new wheels on old clown
before the monchhichis
stole Michigan's kisses
groovy grew monkeys in costume 'n' night-gown
454
Moving their pick-up allright upto Motown
grammophone putting some new wheels on old clown
before the monchhichis
stole Michigan's kisses
groovy grew monkeys in costume 'n' night-gown
454
05 February 2011
Songs with MOTOWNish Mood Loved Most by Me
Motown was (is) both a music genre and a record company. In this list I pick tracks not only made in Motown but also some moving in similar patterns, reminding me much of motownish moods. Almost everyone are from the 60's when Motown was fresh and big. [by... means the composers, while with... is the performers]
0
LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSE-MARY GOES)
by Barry Mason & Tony Macaulay
with Edison Lighthouse
1
RIVER DEEP - MOUNTAIN HIGH
by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector
with Ike & Tina Turner
2
I WILL FOLLOW HIM
by Arthur Altman, JW Stole, Jacques Plante, Del Roma, Norman Gimbel
with Little Peggy March
3
WALK AWAY RENEE
by Bob Calili, Michael Brown, Tony Sansone
with The Four Tops
4
DON'T FORGET ABOUT ME
by Carole King & Gerry Goffin
with Dusty Springfield
5
IF I WERE A CARPENTER
by Tim Hardin
with Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mich and Tich
(=even better than Four Tops' version)
6
LOVE CHILD
by Deke Richards, R. Dean Tyler, Frank Wilson, Pam Sawyer
with Diana Ross & The Supremes
7
EVERLASTING LOVE
by Buzz Cason & Mac Gayden
with Love Affair
8
HERE COMES MY BABY and/or HERE COMES MY WIFE
by Cat Stevens
with Cat Stevens
9
THE LOCOMOTION
by Gerry Goffin & Carole King
with Little Eva Narcissus Boyd
10
BACK TO BLACK
by Amy Winehouse & Mick Ronson
with Amy Winehouse
11
CARE OF CELL # 44
by Rod Argent
with The Zombies
12
STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF LOVE
by Holland, Dozier, Holland
with The Four Tops
13
I WAS MADE TO LOVE HER
by Henry Crosby, Syliva Moy, Stevie Wonder, Lula May Hardaway
with Beach Boys (or Little Stevie Wonder)
14
BABY, NOW THAT I'VE FOUND YOU
by Macaulay & Macleod
with The Foundations
15
I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER
by Burt Bacharach & Hal David
with Dionne Warwick
16
O-O-H CHILD
by Stan Vincent
with Nina Simone
17
LIVING FOR YOU
by Sonny Bono
with Sonny & Cher
18
UP ON THE ROOF
by Gerry Goffin & Carole King
with The Drifters
19
I'LL MEET YOU HALFWAY
by Gerry Goffin & Wes Farrell
with David Cassidy & The Partridge Family
20
I JUST CAN'T HELP BELIEVING
by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
with Elvis Presley
21
A MAN AND A HALF
by Chambers, Jackson, Leakes, Moore
with Wilson Pickett
22
STAND!
by Sylvester Stewart
with Sly & The Family Stone
23
(CLIMB UP!) STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
by Neil Sedaka
with Neil Sedaka
24
LET THE BELLS KEEP RINGING (from the town of Napoli)
by Paul Anka
with Paul Anka
25
LEADER OF THE PACK
by Barry, Greenwich, Morton
with Shangri-Las
26
(LOVE IS LIKE A) HEAT WAVE
by Holland, Dozier, Holland
with The Who
(or original Martha Reeves & The Vandellas)
27
I JUST WANNA BE THERE
by Ashford & Simpson
with Dusty Springfield
28
YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE
by Holland, Dozier, Holland
with Diana Ross & The Supremes
29
I'LL NEVER NEED MORE THAN THIS
by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector
with Ike & Tina Turner
30
AWAITING ON YOU ALL
by George Harrison
with George Harrison
31
HUM ALONG AND DANCE
by Strong & Whitfield
with The Temptations
32
HUMBLE BUMBLE BEE
by Buck Ram
with The Platters
33
LOVING YOU IS SWEETER THAN EVER
by Ivy Hunter & Stevie Wonder
with Phil Collins
(only one he does as good as The Four Tops)
34
IN MY LONELY ROOM
by Holland, Dozier, Holland
with Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
35
BURNING IN THE BACKGROUND OF MY MIND
by Macaulay & Macleod
with Tina Tott
36
YOU KEEP ME HANGIN' ON
by Holland, Dozier, Holland
with Kim Wilde
(or original The Supremes)
37
I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU
by Hawker & Raymonde
with Samantha Fox
(or original Dusty Springfield)
38
MAKE 'EM WAIT
by Ike Turner
with Ike & Tina Turner
39
THE NEXT STEP IS LOVE
by Paul Evans & Paul Parnes
with Elvis Presley
40
LET'S MAKE IT UP!
by Arnold, Martin, Morrow
with Edison Lighthouse
41
GIMME A LITTLE SIGN
by Brenton Wood
with Betsy Kaske [I believe it must have been, beside the original of Brenton Wood
...thought it goes "Just Give Me Some Kind of Sand, Girl" and weren't able to locate this song until now I realised it must be SIGN]
42
GROOVY KIND OF LOVE
by Carole Bayer Sager & Toni Wine
with Sonny & Cher
(or with Phil Collins)
43
DEEP PURPLE DREAM
by Mitchell Parish & Peter DeRose
with Marie & Donny Osmond
44
I HEAR A SYMPHONY
by Holland, Dozier, Holland
with Jackson 5
45
BERNADETTE
by Holland, Dozier, Holland
with The Four Tops
46
TAKE ME FOR A LITTLE WHILE
by Trade Martin
with Dusty Springfield [=Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien]
47
SHE WANDERED THROUGH THE GARDEN FENCE
by Gary Brooker & Keith Reid
with Procol Harum
48
GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE
by Paul McCartney
with The Beatles
49
THEN (S)HE KISSED ME
by Barry, Greenwich, Spector
with Beach Boys
50
AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH
by Ashford & Simpson
with Björn Skifs, kör av Svenne & Lotta
[GE VARANN EN VÄNLIG HAND]
51
SUNNY
by Bobby Hebb
with Bobby Hebb (or maybe Wilson Pickett)
52
WHAT'S NEW, PUSSYCAT?
by Burt Bacharach & Hal David
with Tom Jones
53
IN THE BAD BAD OLD DAYS (BEFORE YOU LOVED ME)
by Macaulay & Macleod
with The Foundations or Edison Lighthouse
54
BRINGING ON BACK THE GOOD TIMES
by Phil Cockell & Philip Goodhand-Tait
with Love Affair
454
0
LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSE-MARY GOES)
by Barry Mason & Tony Macaulay
with Edison Lighthouse
1
RIVER DEEP - MOUNTAIN HIGH
by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector
with Ike & Tina Turner
2
I WILL FOLLOW HIM
by Arthur Altman, JW Stole, Jacques Plante, Del Roma, Norman Gimbel
with Little Peggy March
3
WALK AWAY RENEE
by Bob Calili, Michael Brown, Tony Sansone
with The Four Tops
4
DON'T FORGET ABOUT ME
by Carole King & Gerry Goffin
with Dusty Springfield
5
IF I WERE A CARPENTER
by Tim Hardin
with Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mich and Tich
(=even better than Four Tops' version)
6
LOVE CHILD
by Deke Richards, R. Dean Tyler, Frank Wilson, Pam Sawyer
with Diana Ross & The Supremes
7
EVERLASTING LOVE
by Buzz Cason & Mac Gayden
with Love Affair
8
HERE COMES MY BABY and/or HERE COMES MY WIFE
by Cat Stevens
with Cat Stevens
9
THE LOCOMOTION
by Gerry Goffin & Carole King
with Little Eva Narcissus Boyd
10
BACK TO BLACK
by Amy Winehouse & Mick Ronson
with Amy Winehouse
11
CARE OF CELL # 44
by Rod Argent
with The Zombies
12
STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF LOVE
by Holland, Dozier, Holland
with The Four Tops
13
I WAS MADE TO LOVE HER
by Henry Crosby, Syliva Moy, Stevie Wonder, Lula May Hardaway
with Beach Boys (or Little Stevie Wonder)
14
BABY, NOW THAT I'VE FOUND YOU
by Macaulay & Macleod
with The Foundations
15
I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER
by Burt Bacharach & Hal David
with Dionne Warwick
16
O-O-H CHILD
by Stan Vincent
with Nina Simone
17
LIVING FOR YOU
by Sonny Bono
with Sonny & Cher
18
UP ON THE ROOF
by Gerry Goffin & Carole King
with The Drifters
19
I'LL MEET YOU HALFWAY
by Gerry Goffin & Wes Farrell
with David Cassidy & The Partridge Family
20
I JUST CAN'T HELP BELIEVING
by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
with Elvis Presley
21
A MAN AND A HALF
by Chambers, Jackson, Leakes, Moore
with Wilson Pickett
22
STAND!
by Sylvester Stewart
with Sly & The Family Stone
23
(CLIMB UP!) STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
by Neil Sedaka
with Neil Sedaka
24
LET THE BELLS KEEP RINGING (from the town of Napoli)
by Paul Anka
with Paul Anka
25
LEADER OF THE PACK
by Barry, Greenwich, Morton
with Shangri-Las
26
(LOVE IS LIKE A) HEAT WAVE
by Holland, Dozier, Holland
with The Who
(or original Martha Reeves & The Vandellas)
27
I JUST WANNA BE THERE
by Ashford & Simpson
with Dusty Springfield
28
YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE
by Holland, Dozier, Holland
with Diana Ross & The Supremes
29
I'LL NEVER NEED MORE THAN THIS
by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector
with Ike & Tina Turner
30
AWAITING ON YOU ALL
by George Harrison
with George Harrison
31
HUM ALONG AND DANCE
by Strong & Whitfield
with The Temptations
32
HUMBLE BUMBLE BEE
by Buck Ram
with The Platters
33
LOVING YOU IS SWEETER THAN EVER
by Ivy Hunter & Stevie Wonder
with Phil Collins
(only one he does as good as The Four Tops)
34
IN MY LONELY ROOM
by Holland, Dozier, Holland
with Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
35
BURNING IN THE BACKGROUND OF MY MIND
by Macaulay & Macleod
with Tina Tott
36
YOU KEEP ME HANGIN' ON
by Holland, Dozier, Holland
with Kim Wilde
(or original The Supremes)
37
I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU
by Hawker & Raymonde
with Samantha Fox
(or original Dusty Springfield)
38
MAKE 'EM WAIT
by Ike Turner
with Ike & Tina Turner
39
THE NEXT STEP IS LOVE
by Paul Evans & Paul Parnes
with Elvis Presley
40
LET'S MAKE IT UP!
by Arnold, Martin, Morrow
with Edison Lighthouse
41
GIMME A LITTLE SIGN
by Brenton Wood
with Betsy Kaske [I believe it must have been, beside the original of Brenton Wood
...thought it goes "Just Give Me Some Kind of Sand, Girl" and weren't able to locate this song until now I realised it must be SIGN]
42
GROOVY KIND OF LOVE
by Carole Bayer Sager & Toni Wine
with Sonny & Cher
(or with Phil Collins)
43
DEEP PURPLE DREAM
by Mitchell Parish & Peter DeRose
with Marie & Donny Osmond
44
I HEAR A SYMPHONY
by Holland, Dozier, Holland
with Jackson 5
45
BERNADETTE
by Holland, Dozier, Holland
with The Four Tops
46
TAKE ME FOR A LITTLE WHILE
by Trade Martin
with Dusty Springfield [=Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien]
47
SHE WANDERED THROUGH THE GARDEN FENCE
by Gary Brooker & Keith Reid
with Procol Harum
48
GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE
by Paul McCartney
with The Beatles
49
THEN (S)HE KISSED ME
by Barry, Greenwich, Spector
with Beach Boys
50
AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH
by Ashford & Simpson
with Björn Skifs, kör av Svenne & Lotta
[GE VARANN EN VÄNLIG HAND]
51
SUNNY
by Bobby Hebb
with Bobby Hebb (or maybe Wilson Pickett)
52
WHAT'S NEW, PUSSYCAT?
by Burt Bacharach & Hal David
with Tom Jones
53
IN THE BAD BAD OLD DAYS (BEFORE YOU LOVED ME)
by Macaulay & Macleod
with The Foundations or Edison Lighthouse
54
BRINGING ON BACK THE GOOD TIMES
by Phil Cockell & Philip Goodhand-Tait
with Love Affair
454
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