Genesis with Genesis

...in 1983 they still were only three: Collins, Banks and Rutherford, while many says their prog-rock had become really pop(ular). Anyway, to me this is a strong and beautiful collection of Collins persona, easy to confuse with his close solo albums, but at the same time contains those dynamic harmonies they always have mastered (already under Gabriel's hand).


as my Summer Album 14 : 67



most Soulful song: SILVER RAINBOW

most Mysterious song: THAT'S ALL

most Amusing song: ILLEGAL ALIEN

most Beautiful song: TAKING IT ALL TOO HARD (to heart)

most Strong song: MAMA

most Sexy song: JUST A JOB TO DO

most Grounded song: HOME BY THE SEA [second and first parts]



Reminds me most of
Supertramp
Cat Stevens
Camel
Marillion
Elton John
Alan Parsons' Project



Overall Album

5 compositions

7 instrumentations

6 feeling

4 lyrics

5 synchronization + variation

4 concept (titles, cover)

5 historical importance

= 36


I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 7 x 7 = 49 never exist(?)






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Honest with Dave Stewart and his Spiritual Cowboys

Stewarts "solo" album from 1991 (short after Eurythmics) contains four of my favourite pieces ever. But maybe I'm the only one to choose the wildflower "You're Lost", the post-ELO:esque "Fade Away", the short intermezzo "Impossible" and most of all the surrealistic story "Cat With a Tail"?

First four tracks on the actual album I could easily have got along without - if he would've spared "Love Shines (on every little thing)" for this record. Maybe Dave could have been the sixth Travellling Willbury by that time?!



as my Summer Album 14 : 66


most Soulful song: (Find them all before they) FADE AWAY

most Mysterious song: IMPOSSIBLE

most Amusing song: CAT WITH A TAIL (a total stranger)

most Beautiful song: YOU'RE LOST (forever from my memory)

most Strong song: HERE SHE COMES

most Sexy song: FOOL'S PARADISE

most Grounded song: CROWN OF MADNESS



Reminds me most of
Peter Gabriel
Jeff Lynne
George Harrison




Overall Album

4 compositions

6 instrumentations

6 feeling

5 lyrics

3 synchronization + variation

3 concept (titles, cover)

7 historical importance

= 34


I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 7 x 7 = 49 never exist(?)







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Madame McLennons Wax Museum (not so sexy)

Some twisted mirror images inspired by Sexy Sadie, the hottest honey pie on Beatles White Album. Here I maybe have "made a fool of everyone" as Lennon sings in the song, or rather tried to understand their characters a bit better...




Lucy Diamond,
where in this sky
can we see nude ones in disguise?


El'nor Rigby,
whose face you wear?
Are we all lonely out of fear?


Sergeant Pepper,
which submarine
do you prefer, the pink or green??


Lovely Rita,
what will we pay?
to get our bus along your way...


Miss Madonna,
your mum's still big!
I'd like you also more a pig


Mr. Mustard,
how do you mean?
Are you as mean as Mr. Bean?


Sexy Sadie!
we melt like wax
Your body makes it hard relax


John & Yoko!!
how do you sleep??
is there some secret you still keep?


Dearest Prudence,
why be so shy?
it's only love and that is why


Blackbird Baby,
who paints you white?
The Eggman Walrus wants a bite


Captain Marvel,
what did you kill?
some minutes or Bungalow Bill?


Joan of Maxwell,
when are you free?
to see museums here with me!


Desm and Molly!!
Ha-ha ha-ha!!
Have you been taken ob-la-da??


Girl Norwegian,
not made of wood?
your birch bark fills our neighbourhood


George McKenzie
plays real guitar
when there were yet no Rocky Starr...

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Sixth Music Chakra Race of 2014

14 Pieces which Rode Closer and Closer to my Heart
or just made most rounds

during June into July

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






Crown chakra


1
WONDERFUL LAND

driven by Mike Oldfield
cover of The Shadows

from QE2 1980


2
LIFE IS WHITE

driven by Big Star
from Radio City 1974




Brow /third EYE chakra


3
ROCKY RACCOON

driven by The Beatles
from "White Album" 1968
also Esher Demo
also version from Anthology Box


4
THE GRAND VIZIER'S GARDEN PARTY (part 2 : Entertaintment)

driven by Pink Floyd
from UMMAGUMMA 1969




Throat chakra


5
HAT AND BEARD

driven by Eric Dolphy
from Out to Lunch 1964


6
RUN OF THE MILL
("Everyone's got choice
when to or not to raise their voices")

driven by George Harrison
from All Things Must Pass 1970




Heart chakra


7
HÄR ÄR DU ETT HÅN
(Du är så fin!)
"HERE YOU ARE SOME SCORN"
("You are so fine!")

driven by Anna Järvinen
from Man Var Bland Molnen 2009


8
LADY, LADY, LADY

driven by Joe Esposito
[Keith Forsey, Giorgio Moroder]

from FLASHDANCE (Original Soundtrack) 1983




Solar Plexus chakra


9
WATCH ME BLEED

driven by Tears For Fears [Roland Orzabal]
from The Hurting 1983


10
SEXY SADIE

driven by The Beatles
from "White Album" 1968
also Esher Demo
also version from Anthology Box




Sex chakra /Sacred chakra


11
SUN

driven by The Proper Ornaments
from Wooden Head 2014


12
IN THE DUST

driven by Atomic Swing
from A Car Crash in The Blue 1993




Root chakra


13
IN A BIG COUNTRY

driven by Big Country
from The Crossing 1983


14
NEW BLOOD, OLD VEINS

driven by Ian Anderson
from Homo Erraticus 2014












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by Pandora's door

Adorable Pandora!

How would your

box even be

able to contain

every pain in

our whole world...?

Hardly possible!

not even for a story

to be so mean

in giving you such

a bomb to hold...

I must have missed some other door

in your divine

castle, Pandora...?

Probably it's just

every man

and woman who

full of loneliness

opens their own

curiosity and then

naked

like in Paradise

full of regrets

doesn't have the nerve to keep

themselves open

for neither biggest pleasure

or greatest pain

again and again?!?

Why must millions

of them blame

you for their shortcoming

to live and love like

proud whores

paying apples with apples...

How come

people among people

projects their same old shame

on you;

for their need for only

one goddess

the holy virgin

which they never

had been able to fulfill

yet...

Anyway,

you dared to return

to this fucking BOX

quite empty of experience,

'cause now I finally

got a missing puzzle piece :

You not just opened

it once

but you opened it twice!!

So clever and

how beautiful, Pandora!

First time

sick madness went out

and second time

the world became full of hopefulness...!

Perhaps our sorrows of

your box is just

potential -

if we forget to grasp some

ground and reach to

the bottom

of things...

Probably our hope

lies in how much

of each content we

make us able to see...!

(but in this case

I might still be blind)








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The Hurting with Tears For Fears

...never realised the makers of single Sowing The Seeds of Love, already had made such a splendid record in 1983, softly hard and seriously soaring. Still haven't got the least bored by listen to it every night for a week. And my experience of their music must be less painful than their concept gives hints about...

as my Summer Album 14 : 63




most Grounded song: WATCH ME BLEED

most Sexy song: MAD WORLD

most Strong song: THE HURTING

most Beautiful song: MEMORIES FADE (but the sky still lingers)

most Amusing song: SUFFER THE CHILDREN

most Mysterious song: THE PRISONER

most Soulful song: CHANGE




Reminds me most of
Alphaville
Ultravox
XTC
Human League



Overall Album

6 compositions

7 instrumentations

6 feeling

3 philosophy

4 timeline (order of tracks)

3 concept (titles, cover picture)

5 historical importance

= 34


I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 7 x 7 = 49 never exist(?)






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seVen seen : Pink Panthers, Yellow Dogs and Perverted Birds

7:th tower of 2014

my Recent Discoveries
among Movies and Series

with stars from 1 to 7







Crown chakra


THE BIRDS
by Hitchcock
USA 1963

6 stars


Roles who impressed me most


1. THE BIRDS (many different birds : seagulls, crows and love birds)

2. ANNIE HAYWORTH (Suzanne Pleshette)

3. MELANIE DANIELS (Tippi Hedren)

4. MITCH BRENNER (Rod Taylor)







Brow /third EYE chakra


ALICE IN WONDERLAND
by Jonathan Miller
based on Lewis Carroll

UK version 1966

5 stars


Roles who impressed me most


1. ALICE (Anne-Marie Mallik)

2. FROG FOOTMAN (John Bird)

3. MAD HATTER (Peter Cook)

4. KNAVE OF HEARTS (Peter Eyre)







Throat chakra (with a Touch of the smaller Turquoise Thymus)


THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY

by Sophie Fiennes
UK 2013

4 stars


Roles who impressed me most


1. SLAVOJ ZIZEK in THIS VERY MOVIE (Slavoj Zizek)
presenting his philosophy throung dissecting many movies

2. LAURA in BRIEF ENCOUNTER (Celia Johnson)
"I wish you'd stop talking. I wish you'd stop trying and trying to find things out."

3. MOTHER SUPERIOR in SOUND OF MUSIC
inspiring Maria to reach out... even in a sexual way?

4. ALEX in CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Malcolm MdDowell)
approaching two dream girls in big record shop







Heart chakra


KEULRAESIK : THE CLASSIC

by Jae-young Kwak
South Korea 2003

7 stars


Roles who impressed me most


1. JOO-HEE, the mother as young (Son Ye-jin)

2. JOON-HA, a boy in the old days (Jo Seung-woo)

3. JI-HYE, the daughter now (also Son Ye-jin)

4. TAE-SOO, another boy in the old days (Ki-woo Lee)



movie tune interpretation/transformation of Pachelbel's Canon?! which is also played in the movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMaXdjuukTk







Solar Plexus chakra


"YELLOW DOG" [GULA HUND]

by Hasse Alfredson & Tage Danielsson
Revue show for television
Sweden 1966

6 stars


Roles who impressed me most


1. Lazy Woman with Unperfect Garden (Sonya Hedenbratt)

2. News Reporters Pretending to Swim (Hasse & Tage)

3. Poet (Gösta Ekman)

4. The Door-knocking "Whore Apprentice" (Birgitta Andersson)






Sex chakra /Sacred chakra


BARBARELLA

by Roger Vadim
based on Jean-Claude Forest

France 1968
in english language

3 stars


Roles who impressed me most
(though the characters are empty shells, I just adore the aestetics)


1. PROFESSOR PING (Marcel Marceau)

2. CONCIERGE /DURAND-DURAND (Milo O'Shea)

3. BARBARELLA (Jane Fonda)

4. THE BUDGIE BIRDS (many budgies)







Root chakra


THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI

by Rober Wiene
based on Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz
Germany 1920

6 stars


Roles who impressed me most


1. DR. CALIGARI (Werner Krauss)

2. JANE OLSEN THE GIRL (Lil Dagover)

3. ALAN THE FRIEND (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski)

4. CESARE THE SOMNAMBULIST (Conrad Veidt)












Below and Above everyone


PINK PANTHER
the animated

episodes 14-27
showed 1964-67

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Pink_Panther_cartoons

mostly by Hawley Pratt
music by Henry Mancini

6 stars


Roles who impressed me most


1. THE GREEN ASTERISK (in episode Pink Punch)

2. PINK PANTHER AS SUPERHERO (in episode Super Pink)

3. THE SHEET GHOST (in episode Pink Panic)

4. GRANNY FLASH THE DRIVER (in episode Pink Pistons)



my seven favourite episodes

1. THE PINK BLUEPRINT (18)

2. PINK PUNCH (15)

3. VITAMIN PINK (17)

4. PINK POSIES (27)

5. GENIE WITH A LIGHT PINK FUR (22)

6. PINK-A-BOO (21)

7. PINK PANIC (26)








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