House of 70's Songs Recently (Re)discovered

from my third + fourth summer week



Roof Top

GOING FOR THE ONE
(incl Rehearsal version)

with Yes
by Jon Anderson



Front Door

WITHOUT YOU

with Harry Nilsson (not with Whitney)
by Badfinger's Tom Evans and Pete Ham



Hallway

NO MATTER WHAT
"I will always be with you"

with Badfinger
by Pete Ham



Kitchen

EVERYBODY'S HAPPY NOWADAYS

with Buzzcocks
by Pete Shelley



Workroom

EMPTY CITY

with Gentle Giant
by Shulman and Shulman and Minnear



Bathroom

HEY, LADY GODIVA
"Riding throughout town
...picked a funny place to hide"

with DR. HOOK & The Medicine Show
by Shel Silverstein



Parlour

SEASONS IN THE SUN
"But the wine and the song
like the seasons have all gone"

with Terry Jacks
by Terry Jacks
based on Jacques Brel



Living TV Room

ELSTREE
"part in a B-movie... I played a man from history"

[OK then, released in early 1980]

with The Buggles
by Geoffrey Downed and Trevor Horn



Bedroom

EASY FOR ME
"The boys never fought over her company
That made it easy for me"

with Ringo Starr
by Harry Nilsson



Attic

I SAW THE LIGHT

with The Raspberries
by Wally Bryson and Eric Carmen



Stairway

LIFE'S A LONG WAY TO RUN
"Time hasn't changed your ways
I guess that's why no one stays..."

with Izhar Cohen
by Maureen McGovern



Basement

OLD MAN
"You must remember me...
Look who's come to say goodbye...
Everybody dies."

with Randy Newman
by Randy Newman



Balcony (of Backyard)

I THINK IT'S GOING TO RAIN TODAY
"Broken windows and empty hallways...
Scarecrows dressed in the latest styles"

with Neil Diamond
by Randy Newman



Tool Shed

DRUNKEN BLUE ROOSTER

with Todd Rundgren
by Todd Rundgren



Play House

TANGO ALL NIGHT
"Rumba by moonlight
But when she showed us how, I almost lost my head
...we were hoping that her mama was away"

with Ringo Starr
by Ringo Starr and Vini Poncia

from Ringo The Fourth



Garden (Border to World)

MY FATHER
"My father always promised me
that we would live in France...
On his dreams like boats
we knew we would sail in time..."

with Nina Simone
by Nina Simone






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Porto Promenade : Houses by Harbour part II

SUPER by Pet Shop Boys

I'm most surprised they didn't make this album until now... (when they're almost pensioners) since it sounds like the most youthful essence of what PSB always has been?!


Feels like I super-like half of the tracks (1, 3, 5, (7) 9, 12)
and find very boring every second track (2, 4, 6, (8) 10, 11)


Wouldn't say it's their best album, no, far from... but seems objectively they hit something important as well as relaxed, cast in one piece of electronica (even though I experience it ambivalently).



most Soulful song: INNER SANCTUM

most Imaginative song: INTO THIN AIR

most Amusing song: HAPPINESS

most Beautiful song: SAD ROBOT WORLD

most Strong song: THE DICTATOR DECIDES *

most Sexy song (my favourite): TWENTY-SOMETHING (Hard to Beat)

most Grounded song: UNDERTOW



* Most interesting Lyrics

"For I have to appear to be strong
and that's wrong...

Today I met with the generals
and the head of my secret police,
discussing conspiracies
and prison facilities
for opponents I can never release
and there'll be no peace
until they're released......."



Whole Album

(4) compositions

(5) instrumentations

(5) singin' /playin' feelin'

(5) lyrics (incl titles)

(4) variation

(4) synchronization

(6) cover /concept

(5) historical importance

= 38


I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 8 x 7 = 56 never exist(?)



Seventh Record Review since I turned fourty





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Seven Super 70's Songs

of my second summer week

this time no. seven is the most high experience



7. the Priest


AWAKEN

(Master of Images...
Master of Light...
Master of Soul...
Master of Time...)

with Yes -77
(Rick Wakeman on church organ)

by Steve Howe and Jon Anderson



6. the Mistress


SOFT AS A SUMMER SHOWER
(you fell on my thirsty life)

with David Cassidy -72
by Adam Miller



5. the People


HERE COMES THE SUN
[cover in jazz bossa ragtime soul style]

with Nina Simone -71
by Beatle Harrison



4. the Castle


WONDERWORLD
(Free from this waking world
deep in sleep's mystery)

with Uriah Heep -74
by Ken Hensley



3. the Jester


GROWING UP AND I'M FINE

with Mick Ronson -74
by David Bowie



2. the Horse


$ 15 DRAW

with Ringo Starr
by Sorrells Pickard

from Beaucoups of Blues -70
which could've been called "Cups full of Country" :-)



1. the Queen


SOME KIND OF BEAUTIFUL

with Bridget St. John
by Bridget St. John
from Jumblequeen -74






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Every Road Ends in Lisbon (second episode)

Seven Super 70's Songs

of my first summer week



1. the Queen


THE MARCH OF THE BLACK QUEEN
(Like going up to heaven and then coming back alive...
Blue powder monkeys praying in the dead of night)

with Queen -74
by Freddie Mercury



2. the Horse


NAME OF THE GAME (saw the Railway Master
and I looked him in the eye
He said "Would you go much faster?
if you thought that you would die??)


with Badfinger -71
composed by Pete Ham
(produced partly by Harrison, George Martin and Todd Rundgren)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUsbjyejoUk

[love the album version best, with piano and slower hymn-feeling
but the more guitar-based single involves nice strings + brass]




3. the Jester


BLACK DIAMOND BAY
(Upon the white veranda
she wears a necktie and a
Panama hat)

with Bob Dylan -76
by Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy



4. the Castle


BACK HOME AGAIN
(Sometimes this old farm
feels like a long lost friend)

with John Denver -74
by John Denver



5. the People


WHISPERING GRASS (DON'T TELL THE TREES)

with Ringo Starr
from his first solo album -70
by Fred Fisher and daughter Doris



6. the Mistress


ROBERTA
(you say you know me
But I see only what you're paid to show me)

with Billy Joel -74
by Billy Joel



7. the Priest


JUST NOT TRUE
(I'm not turned on
by the way you act)

with Carly Simon -74
by Carly Simon






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Super Seven seen Jodie Foster films

Though Foster was one of the first actresses I watched as an actress, while becoming really counscious of the phenomenon "movies"... still I've never seen some among her (recent) important roles/works.

Anyway, magnetized by her styles where seriously straight honesty often goes hand in hand with mystical dreamy smiles, I feel inclined to make a personal list...




the Queen

as Clarice Starling

in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
by Jonathan Demme 1991
based on Thomas Harris



the Horse

as Nell Kellty

in NELL
by Michael Apted 1994
based on Mark Handley



the Jester

as Rynn Jacobs

in THE LITTLE GIRL WHO LIVES DOWN THE LANE
by Nicholas Gessner 1976
based on Laird Koenig



the Castle

as Meg Altman

in PANIC ROOM
by David Fincher 2002




the People

as Penelope Longstreet

in CARNAGE
by Roman Polanski 2011
based on Yasmina Reza



the Mistress

as Iris

in TAXI DRIVER
by Martin Scorsese 1976
based on Paul Schrader



the Priest

as Dr. Eleanor Arroway

in CONTACT
by Robert Zemeckis 1997
based on Carl Sagan






...also since we share the "same birthday" :-) OK then, Jodi was born thirteen years before me, and were just about to become a big public girl as I crawled out. (Our birth horoscopes seems rather different overall, since she's got a Sagittarius persona along with more fire and public houses than my airy persona in private spheres. But the core of secret Scorpio I still have in common with Foster, four degrees from Mercury - for those who believe in such.)





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Every Road Ends in Lisbon (first episode)