Pieces Recently listened to, Old Stars Reflected Gold

as my Eighth Musical Body of 2018

while last fresh autumn leaves dies
and another old space is born

7 (or 9) songs, some discoveries
and some still growing deeper




Crown chakra

STARSHIP TROOPER : a) LIFE SEEKER b) DISILLUSION c) WÜRM

by Yes
[Anderson, Howe, Squire]
from The Yes Album -71




Eye chakra

PROVIDENCE
[rather than those night mares]

by King Crimson
[Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford]
from RED -74




Throat chakra

JUDY DO

by Thompson Twins
from Quick Step & Side Kick -83




Heart chakra

ITALIAN SONG

by Jon Anderson & Vangelis
via The Best of Jon & Vangelis -84




Solar Plexus chakra

(Tell Me Why) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS

by The Boomtown Rats
from The Fine Art of Surfacing -79

more brilliantly overwhelming than ever
as I realise it also got bits of sci-fi potential




Sex chakra

UNDER LIME
"...if you never get caught..."

by Elvis Costello & The Imposters
from Look Now -18

where Costello's singing style
suddenly reminds me much of Bowie's!?!
= never compared them before




Root chakra

(What am I doing Wrong?) I DON'T KNOW

by Paul McCartney
from Egypt Station -18








Below and/or Above All


TO CATCH THE MOON

by Stefan Andersson
from Emperor's Day -92
 +

(Talking to the) MAN IN THE MOON

by Titiyo
from Titiyo -90

better songs than I believed
when finally heard them again, never since then




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Continuing of Tomiro's Novaettir Book

Friday 44:th of October 2048

Do you have too much to do, Tomiro?!?! Almost 1/4 of official time is spent expecting how much time you really spend. Seems you never get finished.... Parallell to your work as cave cleaner in our biggest bicycle labyrinth, you control small clouds before they develope chaotic air behaviour. Tonight you succeded relax enough to read two pages in Metro 2033, the sci-fi-novel you found forgotten under "floor corner 8" in our human appartment you lend. The Moscow-based story was created fourty years ago, long before we dissolved Sweden. Exciting whether you will experience it as nostalgia or still futuristic?!?!




Saturday 45:th of October 2048

Finally we've got an upgrade version of your reality to November [named no.00]. It's tailor-made for non-humans, especially easy to use for your 8-fingered sort of people. Nonetheless you seem to be rather satisfied being stuck in October?! These dirty oil-colours, streaming down & upside every kind of street, you find completely cosy?! Like you have no need for Sankta Tomas to come closer.... Or do you fear that our system would lock your senses inside eternal confusion? Tomiro, you must be conscious without us! Well, we won't install no.00 - until you show more clean curiousity or some deeper shame.






Sunday 71:st of Novaettir 2048

Tonight you felt a new signal behind your heavier heartbeats. Afraid some pieces of darkness gonna rain down from space?! Tomiro, why not light up that strange owl on chimney top, becoming your guardian angel?! Rather you crawl deeper inside this mushroomish sofa, under a castle of blankets. Believe you've already written down your recent dreams?! It's we who makes your total recall. While you're snoozing... inbetween movie scenes left from electrified badger brains. Finally we start what humanity would've called November. Immediately we put you faraway through Novaettir, so you've got more time to reflect - at least back upon.







= more stories made of 100 Words per episode

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Into The Gap with Thompson Twins

Strangely enough I've never really discovered T.T. until now

Well, what a spiritually joyful band they seem to be
without loosing some robotic coolness
like a balance act between the superficial and deep

or at least a tremedously creative record Into The Gap is!!

Don't know if anything can ooze more of 80's than this??
even if more dance pop than my ordinary taste -
had I heard it contemporarily in -84, I would've loved it


as my Autumn Album # 18:6
by kinda chakra based evaluation


most Whole Soulful song : YOU TAKE ME UP

most Introspective Dreamlike song : SISTER OF MERCY

most Expressively Amusing song : DAY AFTER DAY

most Beautifully Lovable song : HOLD ME NOW

most Mighty Strongfelt song : DOCTOR DOCTOR

most Sexy Teasing song : INTO THE GAP

most Survive-Struggling song : STORM ON THE SEA


Above and/or Below everyone : NO PEACE FOR THE WICKED
with a very tricky intro... leading to something quite else



Thompson Twins Reminds me most of : 
Duran Duran
Talking Heads
a-ha
Alphaville
Ultravox
Yazoo
a bit Alan Parsons' Project
Baltimora
Herrey's Brothers
and especially early Tomas Di Leva




Whole Album

(6) compositions
(7) instrumentations
(6) singin' /playin' feelin'
(3) lyrics (incl titles)
(7) variation
(5) synchronization
(4) cover /concept
(6) historical importance

= 44

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


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Returning to Costello's masterpiece Imperial Bedroom

Dynamic as hell and heaven, really bitter and really happy, emotionally a bit more complex than the six albums before... still these actual "classical" arrangements makes some pieces the most "pop" Elvis ever has done.

Recorded in October -81. Released in July -82. Discovered by me first -05, deeper -13, now again -18. During -81 the boy I was was rather occupied by discovering Beatles. Only saw Costello on idol cards modern then.

Fantastic work! Produced by Geoff Emerick, who lend a hand to Beatles' post-Pepper records. Cover picture is playing with Picasso's "three musicians", which may represent the band members = The Attractions.


as my Autumn Album # 18:5
by kinda chakra based evaluation


most Whole Soulful song : HUMAN HANDS
["whenever I put my foot in my mouth and you begin to doubt..."]


most Introspective Dreamlike song : BEYOND BELIEF
["through a two-way looking glass you see your Alice"]


most Expressively Amusing song : AND IN EVERY HOME
["sliding down the banisters in your Sunday suit"]


most Beautifully Lovable song : A LONG HONEY MOON
["there's no money back guarantee on future happiness"]


most Mighty Strongfelt song : THE LOVED ONES
["we break wise guys just like matches"]


most Sexy Teasing song : LITTLE SAVAGE
["you do something very special to Mr. Average"]


most Survive-Struggling song : SHABBY DOLL
["in this dress... in distress"]




Above and Below everyone : TOWN CRYER
["just a little boy lost in a big man's shirt"]
also the fast bonus version becomes greatest contrast


Even More Above and Even More Below everyone  : MAN OUT OF TIME
["the high heels he used to be has been ground down"]
still a bit tired on this since I heard it endless times the last time





Whole Album

(7) compositions
(7) instrumentations
(5) singin' /playin' feelin'
(6) lyrics (incl titles)
(5) variation
(2) synchronization
(5) cover /concept
(7) historical importance

= 44

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




Harder to grasp for me is why he/they have put almost every slower, melancholic or harsh tune on the A-side - and almost every faster, bouncy or spiritual song on the B-side!! Surely I experience some moods differently than other listeners, but anyhow potential reasons :

Maybe it gives a strange kind of (un)balance? Or he/they prefered a clearly divided album? Or just created them in that order? Or intended to lead from despair up to joy in a longer process? Or to reward the audience who survived the first side?





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Beginning of Tomiro's Never Ending October Book

stories built by 100 words for each diary page



Saturday 31:st of October 2048

Hello, Tomiro! Today you played with some other vaettir. You went out in the swedish streets, where almost no humans live anymore. Many houses miss their doors and windows, so your friends believe they can visit anyone's appartment. Summer has suddenly come back, making it too hot to stay inside your cave. Here those angelic seagulls move air and dust around. You've been told to jump from shadow to shadow, but some little longer sun glimpses won't hurt?? Tomiro, the older vaettir knows more than you think!! However they haven't grasped yet how many humans really died in last tornado.




Sunday 32:nd of October 2048

Good evening, Tomiro! Today you discovered more traces of this Earth's growing ending ...or what you believe to be destructive. Mushrooms have begin intertwining themselves with books and even smartphones left after dead cities. Monstruous flies pretend to be weak, then eat up swollen spiders too lazy to crawl away. Close to a castle you saw Big Ants' Parade collecting human gold for their church. You don't know whether that's a perverted or progressive sign. Today was less hot than yesterday - so we hope you vaettir people will catch classical autumn inbetween?! Though tonight Sweden dives fast, facing ice again.




Monday 33:rd of October 2048

This frosty morning you saw some kind of nuclear robot?!? It just stood there, outside the never closed food store, and stared at you!?! Tomiro, we think you felt that creature was of russian heritage - and had something clearly mystical to do with the disappearance of humans, in parallell to these ordinary tornados. So you didn't dare fixing some breakfast... but strolled around from museum to museum of every half-empty kind, which during human times were closed on mondays... until early evening when your vaettir companions made a party of today's collected treasures. Tonight the summer warmth has come back.







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Remix from My Trips : Paintings in Street

Octogon # 2
in Valencia, in Lisboa, on Capri, in Saint Tropez,
in Zaragoza, in Nice, in Vienna, in Granada

Bonus from Krakow, kind of Jesus Meets Jazz

Small Town Talk by Per Gessle and more

Since I've heard his swedish, preceding versions
these in english becomes an exciting retrospective
collected in a slightly different order
+ almost half of the pieces new

mainly made in Nashville, while
the nice sound hasn't changed at all?!
still featuring mostly Helena Josefsson


as my Autumn Album # 18:4
by kinda chakra based evaluation


most Whole Soulful song : FOR THE FIRST TIME

most Introspective Dreamlike song : IT CAME TOO FAST

most Expressively Amusing song : SIMPLE SOUND ("I look at your smile while you're dancing")

most Beautifully Lovable song : FAR TOO CLOSE (with Savannah Church)

most Mighty Strongfelt song : NAME YOU BEAUTIFUL

most Sexy Teasing song : RUDY & ME (with Jessica S)

most Survive-Struggling song : SMALL TOWN TALK (with Nick Lowe)


Above and Below everyone (my favourite now) : HOLD ON MY HEART



Whole Album

(7) compositions
(6) instrumentations
(6) singin' /playin' feelin'
(4) lyrics (incl titles)
(3) variation
(3) synchronization
(5) cover /concept
(6) historical importance

= 40

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


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Moonlandingz First & Best Album

Interplanetary Class Classics from 2017
I discover now

"the matter that matters on the mattres"


as my Autumn Album # 18:3
by kinda chakra based evaluation


most Whole Soulful song : BLACK HANZ

most Introspective Dreamlike song : LUFTHANSA MAN

most Expressively Amusing song : THE RABIES ARE BACK

most Beautifully Lovable song : THE STRANGLE OF ANNA

most Mighty Strongfelt song :  VESSELS

most Sexy Teasing song : GLORY HOLE

most Survive-Struggling song : SWEET SATURN MINE




Reminds me most of : Sparks
Stranglers
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Depeche Mode
NEU!
Army of Lovers
Arcade Fire




Whole Album

(4) compositions
(5) instrumentations
(5) singin' /playin' feelin'
(7) lyrics (incl titles)
(5) variation
(3) synchronization
(6) cover /concept
(6) historical importance

= 41

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


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Pieces Recently Listened to, as Autumn Soon Arrives

seven songs growing deeper
as my Seventh Musical Body of 2018
(the sixth one disappeared in too much sun)




Crown chakra

NORTHERN WIND (Death of Billy The Kid)

by Yusuf (former Cat Stevens)
from The Laughing Apple -17

his new interpretation of some of his songs from -67




Eye chakra

DOWNSTREAM (took a boat on Sunday)

by Supertramp
from Even in The Quitest Moments -77




Throat chakra

SAY IT'S ALRIGHT JOE!

by Genesis
from And Then There Were Three -78
[Banks, Rutherford & Collins]




Heart chakra

THANK YOU (if the Sun Refuse to shine)

by Led Zeppelin
from Led Zeppelin II -69




Solar Plexus chakra

AMAZING JOURNEY

by The Who
from Tommy -69




Sex chakra

FEM MINUTER I HIMMELEN
[FIVE MINUTES IN HEAVEN]

by ORUP together with Lena PH
from Dubbel -08




Root chakra

BALLAD OF BILLY THE KID

by Billy Joel
from Piano Man -73







Below or Above All

BABY BLUE

by Badfinger
from Straight Up -71

as this familiar power ballad suddenly appeared
to close the very last episode of Breaking Bad




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The Original Soundtrack by 10cc

Gouldman, Stewart, Godley, Creme 1975

Without being a film score, but maybe pretending it is...
Like a good movie this album has a great bit of everything : Humour, Beauty, Thrill, Drama, Philosophy, Form, Mystery.


as Autumn Album # 18:2
by kinda chakra based evaluation


most Whole Soulful song : THE FILM OF MY LOVE

most Introspective Dreamlike song : BRAND NEW DAY

most Expressively Amusing song : UNE NUIT A PARIS (part 1), THE SAME NIGHT IN PARIS (part 2), LATER THE SAME NIGHT IN PARIS (part 3)

most Beautifully Lovable song : I'M NOT IN LOVE

most Mighty Strongfelt song : LIFE IS A MINESTRONE

most Sexy Teasing song : BLACKMAIL

most Survive-Struggling song : THE SECOND SITTING FOR THE LAST SUPPER


Above or Below everyone (my favourite piece now) : FLYING JUNK



Reminds me most of : 
A Night at The Opera with Queen
A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing with Sparks
Breakfast in America with Supertramp



Took me at least ten years before experiencing this to be their most rich record... felt more immedite for Deceptive Bends -77 and Bloody Tourists -78. Believed just Gouldman & Stewart did really nice, but now realise how great role Godley & Creme must have played for the experimental drive as well as big (satiric) ambition.


Whole Album

(6) compositions
(7) instrumentations
(4) singin' /playin' feelin'
(5) lyrics (incl titles)
(7) variation
(5) synchronization
(7) cover /concept
(5) historical importance

=46

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


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The Big Blue : Le Grand Bleu

Rediscovered Movie 18:2
seen on BluRay

story and direction by Luc Besson
production by Patrice Ledoux
music by Eric Serra

France /Italy 1988


Happy Role [Joy] : JOANA BAKER (Rosanna Arquette)

Grumpy Role [Conflict] : LA MAMMA (Alessandra Vazzoler)

Sneezy Role [Thrill] : ENZO MOLINARI (Jean Reno)

Sleepy Role [Process] : DR. LAURENCE (Paul Shenar)

Dopey Role [Humour] : UNCLE LOUIS (Jean Bouise)

Doc Role [Idea] : NOIREUTER (Jan Rouiller)

Bashful Role [Mystery] : JACQUES MAYOL (Jean-Mac Barr)

Snowwhite Role [Beauty] : someone among the Dolphins (some dolphin)



my favourite scene now : inside the capsel down... as belgian diver Noireuter tries to convince the sicilian Enzo about the absolute danger of tasting alcohol on that big depth... but only get playful responses to his seriousness... inspiring even Jacques to behave childish, like Enzo is king of the sea even if he's not...



my experience of the whole movie 
(compared to last time 2012 I saw it
has risen most in humour and meaning
not sunken in any aspect at all)

5 (4) Characters
6 (7) Scenery
7 (6) Camerawork

4 (4) Thrill
5 (5) Conflict
6 (3) Humour

6 (5) Psychology
4 (2) Philosophy
3 (2) Fantasy

3 (3) Timeline
7 (7) Music
6 (5) Concept

= 62 (53)



I now give 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7, where 3 is good
and total possible 7 x 12 = 84 never exist(?)


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Madman Across The Water : Elton John

among his 70's albums the piece which last
has found its magic place in my piano puzzle

as Autumn Album # 18:1
by kinda chakra based evaluation


most Whole Soulful song : LEVON (or maybe All The Nasties)

most Introspective Dreamlike song : MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER

most Expressively Amusing song : HOLIDAY INN

most Beautifully Lovable song : GOODBYE

most Mighty Strongfelt song : ROTTEN PEACHES (or maybe Razor Face)

most Sexy Teasing song : TINY DANCER

most Survive-Struggling song : INDIAN SUNSET



Reminds me most of : Billy Joel
somewhere between Piano Man and Streetlife Serenade


"And he shall be Levon"
which I thought he sang
"And he shall believe in"


Whole Album

(6) compositions
(6) instrumentations
(7) singin' /playin' feelin'
(4) lyrics (incl titles)
(5) variation
(4) synchronization
(2) cover /concept
(5) historical importance

= 39

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


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