Second Music Chakra Horse Race of 2014

14 Songs which Rode Closer and Closer to my Heart

or just made most rounds, during February

Here's my most important "Horses"
two for each chakra




Root chakra


14
FOUR LITTLE DIAMONDS

driven by Jeff Lynne & his Electric Light Orchestra
from Secret Messages 1983


13
I GOT STRIPES (I GOT CHAINS)

driven by Johnny Cash
from Old Golden Throat 1968





Sex chakra /Sacred chakra


12
DUMB BLONDE

driven by Dolly Parton
from Hello, I'm Dolly 1967


11
RIP THIS JOINT

driven by Rolling Stones
from Exile on Main Street 1972





Solar Plexus chakra


10
TUMBLING DICE

cover of Stones
driven by Jill Johnson with help from Kim Carnes
from Music Row 2007


9
THIS MUST BE DONE

driven by The Obits
from Bed & Bugs 2013





Heart chakra


8
ON MY WAY TO WORK

driven by Paul McCartney
from NEW 2013


7
I'LL BE THE ONE

driven by Badfinger
from Straight Up 1971





Throat chakra


6
BLUE MOON

driven by Flamingo-kvintetten
from their sixth album 1975


5
LONG DISTANCE RUNAROUND

driven by Yes = Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman, Bill Bruford
from Fragile 1972





Brow /third EYE chakra


4
(Gotta Do it Again) ON THE RUN

driven by Jeff Lynne & his Electric Light Orchestra
from Discovery 1979


3
MERLIN THE MAGICIAN

driven by Rick Wakeman
from The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and The Knights of The Round Table 1975





Crown chakra


2
JESUS WAS A CAPRICORN

driven by Kris Kristofferson
from Jesus Was a Capricorn 1972


1
LAVENDER ('s Blue, Dilly Dilly)

driven by Marillion
from Misplaced Childhood 1985








Above All and Under Everyone


0
ANTON BRUCKNER'S SEVENTH SYMPHONY
First Movement : Allegro Moderato

driven by Giuseppe Sinopoli & Staatkapelle Dresden
performed 1993
composed 1883




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Sweetie Turning Winter into Spring

Secret Messages with Electric Light Orchestra

Next after Time (-81) one of ELO's very most well-produced records still I feel is Secret Mesages (-83). And I even think it captures the nerve of that very electronical time better than Out of The Blue or Discovery captured the late 70's.

Resembling rather 10cc and Alan Parsons' Project in it's soundscape, the preceding decade is of course more than present. But for being so old-fashioned this album feels surprisingly full of fresh 80's.

At the same time Jeff Lynne succeeds to bring his diamonds of pure early rock & roll. And ELO's beatlesque signum gravitates more here around A Hard Day's Night than Magical Mystery Tour. I'm almost inspired to notice that Lynne travelled backwards...?

Maybe no one will get the idea of putting Secret Messages on a best albums' list of 1983. While I surely would've done, next to Animation by Jon Anderson, yes!




most Amusing song: ROCK 'N' ROLL IS KING

most Beautiful song: BLUEBIRD

most Sexy song: DANGER AHEAD (The Endless Summer is Dead)

most Loving song: (Looking Through The Eyes of A) STRANGER

most Growing Strong song: FOUR LITTLE DIAMONDS

most Melancholic song: LETTER FROM SPAIN

most Smart song: SECRET MESSAGES (Calling On You Endlessly)

most Mysterious song: AFTER ALL (Bonus track)




as my Spring Record 14 : 58


7 sound

5 melodies

7 accompaniment

5 rythms

3 singin' feeling

5 playin' dynamics

4 concept

6 variation

2 lyrics

2 titles

3 order of tracks

6 cover picture

7 historical importance

= 62


I now give 1 to 7 in thirteen cathegories
where 3 is good
and total possible 7 X 13 = 91 never exist(?)






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Creatures Drawn when I was Fourteen

with coloured ink pencils simply
from a series of imaginary portraits (first part)

Kristofferson by Kris Kristofferson

His first record, released 1970, later named Me And Bobby McGee. This shows to be overfull with good country songs, for Christ's sake! a compelling mixture of conservative with socially liberal, maybe the best from each field.

Kris' compositions has taken some time for me to appreciate... at first they seemed quite boring, but finally begins to feel really good. For me sounds most similar to : Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Roger Miller and Gordon Lightfoot. Among best of all is the use of xylophone or marimba in some songs.



most Amusing song: BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS

most Beautiful song: HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT

most Sexy song: JUST THE OTHER SIDE OF NOWHERE

most Loving song: TO BEAT THE DEVIL

most Growing Strong song: CASEY'S LAST RIDE

most Melancholic song: SUNDAY MORNIN' COMIN' DOWN

most Smart song: THE JUNKIE AND THE JUICEHEAD, MINUS ME

most Mysterious song: DUVALIER'S DREAM




as my Spring Record 14 : 57


5 sound

7 melodies

7 accompaniment

3 rythms

5 singin' feeling

4 playin' dynamics

3 concept

4 variation

6 lyrics

5 titles

1 order of tracks

4 cover picture

7 historical importance

= 61


I now give 1 to 7 in thirteen cathegories
where 3 is good
and total possible 7 X 13 = 91 never exist(?)






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First Fourteen Films seen during 2014

among those I've never watched before




1. most Spiritual

LA PLANÈTE SAUVAGE
[THE WILD PLANET /"FANTASTIC PLANET"]
directed by René Laloux
designed by Roland Topor
France & Czechoslovakia 1973



2. most Memorable

JODOROWSKY'S DUNE
with Alejandro Jodorowsky and more
by Frank Pavich
2013
documentary about the biggest movie ever made
which never even were released



3. most Comic

RANGO
by Gore Verbinski
2011



4. most Mysterious

SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
by George Roy Hill
1972
made between Butch Cassidy and The Sting
based on Kurt Vonnegut



5. most Serious

A MAN HAS ESCAPED [Un Condamné à Mort s'est Échappe ou le Vent Souffle où il Veut]
by Robert Bresson
1956



6. most Wise

WALK THE LINE
by James Mangold
2005
based on JOHNNY CASH



7. most Thrilling

LAUREL & HARDY : SUGAR DADDIES
by Guiol & McCarey
short silent 1927



8. most Beautiful

DJANGO
by Quentin Tarantino
2012



9. most Sexy

THE THREE MUSKETEERS
by Paul W.S. Anderson
2011



10. most Painful

LORE
by Cate Shortland
Germany /Australia 2012



11. most Meditative

LADYHAWKE
by Richard Donner
1985



12. most Personal

HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
by Woody Allen
1986



13. most Provocative

AI WEIWEI : NEVER SORRY
by Alison Klayman
2012
about Ai Wiewei



14. most Loving

KÄNN INGEN SORG (FÖR MIG GÖTEBORG)
by Björn Stein & Måns Mårlind
Sweden 2013
maybe known as SHED NO TEARS (FOR ME GOTHENBURG)





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Zebra Montages

my First Music Horse Race of 2014

I try to figure out which FOURTEEN SONGS fought the hardest to ride close to my heart. Among them I've listened to during first four weeks of this very year, well, now already five weeks.

My potential love for country grows again, so I believed every horse trotting along here would be a country song. But other styles from any time always runs in parallell. Especially strange contrast is my attempts to grasp pop music from 1983. 1983 seems to be the most bad year in music history, but of course there are gold runners even there.


We start from the bottom. Stones can roll, but can they make country? COUNTRY HONK [Honky Tonk Woman] brings up some amusing energy. Stones play, but do they sing? This still too bluesy horse gets stuck in the jam, falls asleep in 14:th position. Doesn't help how much Stones shout - the music bleeds to death and Brian Jones don't come back to save the body.


13:th horse at least gets alive from the race, though galloping so bad (more than allowed in a trot competition). Probably because this 2013 jewel is so new, eager and unexperienced? Nonetheless Alice Smith has a good grip on oldish vibes, played with fresh soulfulness. CABARET could as well have won the race, especially if it had been held in Motown.


Many car drivers must've been heading for Detroit City (or riding out from). Now this is a horse race, so the classic diamond DETROIT CITY (I WANNA GO HOME) doesn't go far. To slow the track down further, we let dear Gunnar Wiklund sing it in swedish here. Wiklund is often compared to Jim Reeves. I love the whole feeling, but it gets nowhere, just clings on to the crowd.

Same goes for I'M GETTING GOOD AT MISSING YOU, though it's more alert and amusing. Sung by Don Williams, an old country boy from the 70's, and composed by Wayland Holyfield who has made more country pearls, G.G. Miss anyhow seems to be very unknown..? I don't understand why - and I'm ashamed of myself to leave it by just the last four horses ;-)


The crowd they follow mostly consists of (the backside of) LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE, an up-tempo song which has existed in many forms, even reggae and punk. A new wave version was performed by Paul Young + female "choir" pushing it with enthusiastic nerve. Long before that Waylon Jennings sung the most soulful and elegant version (reminding me much of my favourite Gordon Lightfoot). Even if Waylon's country mode gets this horse unable to run full ahead, it's satisfied here with a 10:th position.


9:th horse is incredibly slow, but usually a surprisingly mighty spurter. This time it begins to gallop too early, a totally confused and slow gallop, following it's own STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN. What could've happened if Led Zeppelin instead had send in one of their straight, down-to-earth tracks? It could've blend in well into the field of rustique country, or gone from UK all the way to California. But they were blinded by Camille & Kennerly, who makes a sweet harp cover of this stairway. Like ghosts in a castle these Harp Twins completely takes over the horse body. The girls plays it so beautiful that they forget to rock, even though otherwise both Harp Twins and Zeppelin are not afraid to use their bodies.


In the middle of the field dwells a mysterious one, by a band I've waited to experience until this very moment. Marillion makes such a unique thing as progressive rock in 1983. Suddenly it finds a track outside of the whole group, tryin' to pass them all in it's own clear line. Yes, my immediate Marillion darling seems to be GARDEN PARTY, though impossible to tell in just some rounds, since many pieces runs for 7-8 minutes. Gets a bit tired, started too late to get in time for the top right now. Maybe by summertime it's ready to shine like the most majestic flower in our deep grass.


6:th + 7:th place seems to go to Dolly Parton and/or Bellamy Brothers. By B.B. you maybe would've bet on the song we can call Rodeo Road (or Rainy, Windy, Sunshine). But for me NOTHING HEAVY (just my Baby in the Back of my Chevy) feels like an even more comfortable ride. About young and curiuos love, still too comfortable to get to position six. Parton puts up much more speed with TRAVELLING MAN, who sweaps by so fast that her mother gets picked up by mistake, instead of Dolly herself.


KEEP FEELING FASCINATION has been on the track before, but so many years ago that I had forgot it's existence. Keeps though a high position out of pure positivity. Where other 83-singles dwell in just rythms, K.F.F. really combines creative rythms with melodical harmonies. The same goes for KARMA CHAMELEON, a bright cloud full of colour and mixed culture, as close to Beatles one can come with a typical 80's tune. Becomes hard to see which melody takes the 4:th and which gets the 5:th place. But neither is a winner, since they're still too soft and superficial in some way.


A little more stuff actually lies within WHY'D YOU COME IN HERE LOOKING LIKE THAT, which ain't performed by Dolly Parton now again, but swedish Jill Johnson. Written by Bob Carlisle and Randy Thomas, the country has moved into late 80's in this case.


Through last listening curve, the fight becomes harder and harder between our two remaining master pieces. BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS seems to hold the gold medal just by it's name, not to mention it's witty pace. Kris Kistofferson has furthermore composed the horse by himself. However, in this world he gets second best.


Wins the whole great race does, to my cool surprise, a man I haven't really appreciated until now. We're talking 'bout no one less than Johnny Cash. Maybe his horses is going all the way to Memphis (or from), but here we're just trotting straight round and straight round, as he runs I WALK THE LINE.


Result list:


1
I WALK THE LINE
driven by Johnny Cash

from Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar -57


2
BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS
driven by Kris Kristofferson

from Kristofferson -70


3
WHY'D YOU COME IN HERE LOOKING LIKE THAT
driven by Jill Johnson
(with help from Nina Persson)

from Music Row -07


4
KEEP FEELING FASCINATION
driven by Human League

from single/EP -83


5
KARMA CHAMELEON
driven by Culture Club

from Colour By Numbers -83


6
TRAVELLIN' MAN
driven by Dolly Parton

from Coat of Many Colors -71


7
NOTHIN' HEAVY
driven by Bellamy Brothers

from Let Your Love Flow -76


8
GARDEN PARTY
driven by Marillion

from Script For a Jester's Tear -83


9
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
driven by Camille & Kennerly = Harp Twins

from youtube -10
cover of Led Zeppelin


10
LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE
driven by Waylon Jennings

from Love of The Common People -67


11
I'M GETTING GOOD AT MISSING YOU
driven by Don Williams

from collection Just A Country Boy


12
DETROIT CITY (Nu Reser Jag Hem)
driven by Gunnar Wiklund

from a collection, recorded -65


13
CABARET
driven by Alice Smith

from She -13


14
COUNTRY HONK
driven by Rolling Stones

from Let it Bleed -69








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