I look around and see this face What the hell have I lost my taste

Στις 29 Μαρτίου του 1982, οι Scorpions κυκλοφόρησαν το Blackout...
Κατά την διάρκεια των ηχογραφήσεων αυτού του όγδοου κατα σειρά δίσκου τους, ο τραγουδιστής, Klaus Meine, έχασε την φωνή του, και αναγκάστηκε να κάνει χειρουργική επέμβαση...
Αμέσως καλέσανε τον Don Dokken για να τον αντικαταστήσει, αλλά τελικά το πείσμα του Meine για να συνεχίσει -παρόλο που η κατάστασή του δεν ήταν και η καλύτερη-

Μια άλλη λεπτομέρεια, είναι ότι στο China White υπάρχει διαφορετικό solo στην Ευρωπαική έκδοση απο αυτή που κυκλοφόρησε στην Αμερική...

Ο δίσκος έφτασε μέχρι το No10 του Billboard200 και έγινε πλατινένιος

To track list είναι το εξής:

1. Blackout
2. Can't Live Without You
3. No One Like You
4. You Give Me All I Need
5. Now!
6. Dynamite
7. Arizona
8. China White
9. When the Smoke Is Going Down

Τώρα αν κάποιος/α δεν ξέρει την παρέα των Klaus Meine -φωνή- Mattias Jabs -κιθάρα, φωνή- Rudolf Schenker - κιθάρα- Francis Buchholz -μπάσο- και Herman Rarebell -τύμπανα- θα ρωτήσω με ποια πτήση ήρθε απο τον Άρη -όχι την ομάδα Kanthare, τον πλανήτη εννοώ... και ναι, είστε τόσο μεγάλη ομάδα, που έχετε και δικό σας πλανήτη ;) -

Για αυτούς που ακούν την κιθάρα με παραμόρφωση με ενα up tempo ρυθμό και παθαίνουν μια παράκρουση, -ναι AnD εσένα λέω...- ας μην ακούσουν το Blackout, Now, Dynamite ... τα υπόλοιπα... άνετα...

ΥΓ Για τους πολυπληθής που ρωτάνε με αγωνία ποια είναι τα αγαπημένα μου, θα τους απαντήσω πως εκτός τα China White και Arisona όλα τα άλλα είναι υπέροχα... αλλά το When the smoke is going down, με κράτησε πολλά βράδια συντροφιά όταν ήμουν νιάτο ακόμα και ερωτευόμουν κάθε τρεις και λίγο...οπότε, το ξεχωρίζω λίγο περισσότερο απο τα άλλα...

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I realize I missed a day
But I'm too wrecked to care anyway
I look around and see this face
What the hell have I lost my taste
Don't want to find out
Just want to cut out

My head explodes, my ears ring
I can't remember just where I've been
The last thing that I recall
I got lost in a deep black hole
Don't want to find out
Just want to cut out

Blackout
I really had a blackout

I grab my things and make my run
On the way out, another one
Would like to know before I stop
Did I make it or did I flop
Don't want to find out
Just want to get out

Don't want to find out
Just want to get out



You stand in front of the band
With all those scarves in your hands
I see you play imaginary Guitars
You people shaking your heads
Right till the end of the set
You really turn me on wherever we are

Can't live, can't live without you
Can't live, can't live without you
Can't live, can't live without you
Can't live, can't live without you

Put your hands in the air
So I can see you are there
I wanna see all your lights shining on
Want you to stand up and dance
Gonna leave you no chance
To take a breath between each single song

Stand up and shout
We're ready to rock, we're ready to roll
Stand up and shout
Are you ready, are you ready
Come on and get it!



Girl, it's been a long time that we've been apart
Much too long for a man who needs love
I miss you since I've been away
Babe, it wasn't easy to leave you alone
It's getting harder each time that I go
If I had the choice, I would stay

There's no one like you
I can't wait for the nights with you
I imagine the things we'll do
I just wanna be loved by you

Girl, there are really no words strong enough
To describe all my longing for love
I don't want my feelings restrained
Ooh, babe, I just need you like never before
Just imagine you'd come through this door
You'd take all my sorrow away



New love is blind
Why don't you see
You hurt me inside, you're killing me
It makes me sad all the time
To see you around with all these guys
My heart's in pain
I need you so
My love's the same
So please don't go

You give me all I need
You give me all I need
You give me all I need
You give me all I need

Let's try again
There's still romance
We'll start a new life, take a chance
There are so many ways
Please don't forget it anyday
My heart's in pain
I need you so
My love's the same
So please don't go



Like it played loud
Powerhouse sounds
My body wants to rock and let it out
Really high born
Morning till dawn
I'm going all the way just on and on
It's gonna be wild, it's gonna be wild
It's gonna be wild
Now!

Teach me to fly
Wanna stay high
I have to live it up before I die
Nightlife and booze
Girls to choose
Are you ready, baby, come on let's cruise
It's gonna be wild, it's gonna be wild
It's gonna be wild
Now!

Getting out of control
There's nothing that can bring me down
Nothing I'll leave out tonight
I'm feeling good, I'm living now!

Like it real hot
Never can't stop
I'm running down the line to the top
Never stay low
I'm on the go
No one holds me back
It's gonna be wild, it's gonna be wild
It's gonna be wild
Now!



Kick your ass to heaven
With rock'n roll tonight
I'll make this night a special one
Make you feel alright
Shoot my heat into your body
Give ya all my size
I'm gonna beat the beat tonight
It's time to break the ice

Dynamite
Dynamite
Dynamite
Dynamite

Hit the top together
Get ya with my spell
I'm gonna make my shot tonight
Take you down to hell
Eat your meat until you're breathless
Twirl your hips around
I'm gonna break my neck tonight
I'll get you off the ground

Dynamite
You're dynamite
Dynamite
Dynamite

Get it now or never
Let's get it really tight
We'll make this night a special one
Make us feel alright
Put your heat into my body
Give ya all my size
We gonna beat the beat tonight
Come on let's break the ice



Just when you make your way back home
I find some time to be alone
I go to see the place once more
Just like a thousand nights before
I climb the stage again this night
'Cause the place seems still alive
When the smoke is going down

This is the place where I belong
I really love to turn you on
I've got your sound still in my ear
While your traces disappear
I climb the stage again this night
'Cause the place seems still alive
When the smoke is going down

I climb the stage again this night
'Cause the place seems still alive
When the smoke is going down
When the smoke is going down
When the smoke is going down

All we need to do is make sure we keep talking

Κυρίες....

Κύριοι....

Σας παρουσιάζω τον -όχι- έναν -αλλά σίγουρα- μοναδικό -δέκατο τέταρτο- δίσκο των τιτανοτεράστιων Pink Floyd, το Division Bell -σαν σήμερα το 1994-

Ο -δυστυχώς- τελευταίος έως σήμερα δίσκος των Pink Floyd ασχολείται κυρίως με την επικοινωνία αλλά και με άλλα θέματα όπως το A Great Day For Freedom για την πτώση του τείχους του Βερολίνου, την Εθνοκάθαρση στην Γιουκοσλαβία και για την ευφορία που έφερε η πτώση του Ανατολικού μπλοκ και το Take It Back αναφέρεται για την "ασέβεια" του ανθρώπου προς το περιβάλλον...

Στο Keep Talking ακούμε αποσπάσματα ομιλίας του Stephen Hawking (πάλι αυτός;)

Χρειάζεται να πω ότι ο δίσκος πήγε στο Νο 1 του Billboard200 και πως έγινε στην Αγγλία διπλά και στην Αμερική τριπλά πλατινένιος;

Ξέρετε ότι για το ΕΚΠΛΗΚΤΙΚΟ Marooned κερδίσανε το Grammy το 1995;

Αξιοσημείωτο είναι πως ο Richard Wright (δυστυχώς έφυγε απο την ζωή 15 Σεπτεμβρίου του 2008 απο καρκίνο) ενώ συνήθως έκανε δεύτερες φωνές, στο Wearing The Inside Out τραγουδάει σαν πρώτη φωνή...για πρώτη φορά!

To track list είναι το εξής:

1. Cluster One -Instrumental-
2. What Do You Want From Me
3. Poles Apart
4. Marooned
5. A Great Day For Freedom
6. Wearing The Inside Out
7. Take it back
8. Coming Back To Life
9. Keep Talking
10. Lost For Words
11. High Hopes

Οκ... δεν μπορώ να ξεχωρίσω αγαπημένα... γιατί ΟΛΑ μα ΟΛΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΑΓΑΠΗΜΕΝΑ...

Όλα έχουν να πουν κάτι... μυημένοι ή μη... ακούστε τα ΟΛΑ...

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As you look around this room tonight
Settle in your seat and dim the lights
Do you want my blood, do you want my tears
What do you want
What do you want from me
Should I sing until I can't sing any more
Play these strings till my fingers are raw
You're so hard to please
What do you want from me

Do you think that I know something you don't know
What do you want from me
If I don't promise you the answers would you go
What do you want from me
Should I stand out in the rain
Do you want me to make a daisy chain for you
I'm not the one that you need
What do you want from me

You can have anything you want
You can drift, you can dream, even walk on water
Anything you want

You can own everything you see
Sell your soul for complete control
Is that really what you need

You can lose your selfish mind
See inside there is nothing to hide
Turn and face the light

What do you want from me



Did you know...it was all going to go so wrong for you
And did you see it was all going to be so right for me
Why did we tell you then
You were always the golden boy then
And that you'd never lose that light in your eyes

Hey you...did you ever realise what you'd become
And did you see that it wasn't only me you were running from
Did you know all the time but it never bothered you anyway
Leading the blind while I stared out the steel in your eyes

The rain fell slow, down on all the roofs of uncertainty
I thought of you and the years and all the sadness fell away from me
And did you know...

I never thought that you'd lose that light in your eyes





On the day the wall came down
They threw the locks onto the ground
And with glasses high we raised a cry for freedom had arrived

On the day the wall came down
The Ship of Fools had finally run aground
Promises lit up the night like paper doves in flight

I dreamed you had left my side
No warmth, not even pride remained
And even though you needed me
It was clear that I could not do a thing for you

Now life devalues day by day
As friends and neighbours turn away
And there's a change that, even with regret, cannot be undone

Now frontiers shift like desert sands
While nations wash their bloodied hands
Of loyalty, of history, in shades of gray

I woke to the sound of drums
The music played, the morning sun streamed in
I turned and I looked at you
And all but the bitter residue slipped away...slipped away



From morning to night I stayed out of sight
Didn't recognise I'd become
No more than alive I'd barely survive
In a word...overrun

Won't hear a sound
He's curled into the corner
From my mouth
But still the screen is flickering
I've spent too long
With an endless stream of garbage to
On the inside out
...curse the place
My skin is cold
In a sea of random images
To the human touch
The self-destructing animal
This bleeding heart's
Waiting for the waves to break
Not beating much

I murmured a vow of silence and now
I don't even hear when I think aloud
Extinguished by light I turn on the night
Wear its darkness with an empty smile

I'm creeping back to life
My nervous system all awry
I'm wearing the inside out

Look at him now
He's paler somehow
But he's coming around
He's starting to choke
It's been so long since he spoke
Well he can have the words right from my mouth

And with these words I can see
Clear through the clouds that covered me
Just give it time then speak my name
Now we can hear ourselves again

I'm holding out
He's standing on the threshold
For the day
Caught in fiery anger
When all the clouds
And hurled into the furnace
Have blown away
...to curse the place
I'm with you now
He's torn in all directions
Can speak your name
And still the screen is flickering
Now we can hear
Waiting for the flames to break
Ourselves again



Her love rains down on me easy as the breeze
I listen to her breathing it sounds like the waves on the sea
I was thinking all about her, burning with rage and desire
We were spinning into darkness; the earth was on fire

She could take it back, she might take it back some day

So I spy on her, I lie to her, I make promises I cannot keep
Then I hear her laughter rising, rising from the deep
And I make her prove her love for me, I take all that I can take
I push her to the limit to see if she will break

She might take it back, she could take it back some day

Now I have seen the warnings, screaming from all sides
It's easy to ignore them God knows I've tried
All of this temptation, you know it turned my faith to lies
Til I couldn't see the danger or hear the rising tide

She Can take it back, she will take it back some day



Where were you when I was burned and broken
While the days slipped by from my window watching
And where were you when I was hurt and I was helpless
Because the things you say and the things you do surround me
While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun

Lost in thought and lost in time
While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted
Outside the rain fell dark and slow
While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime

I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life

I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the waiting had begun
And I headed straight..into the shining sun.



For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals
Then something happenend which unleashed the power of our imagination
We learned to talk

There's a silence surrounding me
I can't seem to think straight
I'll sit in the corner
No one can bother me
I think I should speak now ___________ Why won't you talk to me
I can't seem to speak now ____________ You never talk to me
My words won't come out right ________ What are you thinking
I feel like I'm drowning _____________ What are you feeling
I'm feeling weak now _________________ Why won't you talk to me
But I can't show my weakness _________ You never talk to me
I sometimes wonder ___________________ What are you thinking
Where do we go from here _____________ What are you feeling

It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking

Why won't you talk to me _____________ I feel like I'm drowning
You never talk to me _________________ You know I can't breathe now
What are you thinking ________________ We're going nowhere
What are you feeling _________________ We're going nowhere

Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
Where do we go from here

It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking



I was spending my time in the doldrums
I was caught in a cauldron of hate
I felt persecuted and paralysed
I thought that everything else would just wait

While you are wasting your time on your enemies
Engulfed in a fever of spite
Beyond your tunnel vision reality fades
Like shadows into the night

To martyr yourself to caution
Is not going to help at all
because there'll be no safety in numbers
When the right one walks out of the door

Can you see your days blighted by darkness?
Is it true you beat your fists on the floor?
Stuck in a world of isolation
While the ivy grows over the door

So I open my door to my enemies
And I ask could we wipe the slate clean
But they tell me to please go fuck myself
You know you just can't win



Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun
Along the long road and on down to the causeway
Do they still LIVE there by the cut
There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
Running before time took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
To a life consumed by slow decay

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder

Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide
At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed up world

Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many times

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river


Forever and ever

ΥΓ Απίστευτος ο σκηνοθέτης του High Hopes, Storm Thorgerson...-σαν λάτρης του σουρεαλισμού του βγάζω το καπέλο...-

Arriving somewhere but not here

Μάρτιος...

Τι υπέροχος μήνας για να κυκλοφορήσει κανείς δίσκο!

Ε ναι...

Ακόμα ένας αγαπημένος δίσκος κυκλοφόρησε αυτόν τον μήνα, και συγκεκριμένα σαν σήμερα πριν απο 6 χρόνια οι Porcupine Tree κυκλοφόρησαν τον όγδοο δίσκο τους με τίτλο "Deadwing"

Ο δίσκος βασίζεται σε μια ιστορία φαντασμάτων...-η οποία οι Steven Wilson -ιθύνων νους του συγκροτήματος- και ο Mike Bennion θέλουν να την κάνουν ταινία..-

Είναι ο δεύτερος -πλέον- μοσχοπουλημένος δίσκος του συγκροτήματος -στην Ελλάδα έφτασε μέχρι και στο νούμερο 19-

Δεν υπάρχει κάποια περίεργη ιστορία πίσω απο την δημιουργεί του άλμπουμ, παρα μόνο να αναφέρω ότι σαν guest artist είναι o Andrian Belew κιθαρίστας των King Crimson που σολάρει στα Deadwing και Halo και ο Mikael Akerfeldt των Opeth με τα δεύτερα φωνητικά του στα Deadwing, Lazarus και Arriving Somewhere Not Here στο οποίο σολάρει κιόλας...

Το track list είναι το εξής:

1. Deadwing
2. Shallow
3. Lazarus
4. Halo
5. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
6. Mellotron Scratch
7. Open Car
8. The Start Of Something Beautiful
9. Glass Arms Shattering

Όλα είναι υπέροχα τραγούδια -όπως όλα σχεδόν της δισκογραφίας τους- αλλά το Arriving Somewhere But Not Here είναι μίλια μακρυά απο όλα τα άλλα...

Για τους μη-μυημένους προτείνω τα Lazarus, The Start of Something Beautiful και Arriving...

Οι Porcupine Tree είναι οι Steven Wilson -φωνή κιθάρα πλήκτρα/πιάνο- Richard Barbieri -πλήκτρα (όταν δεν παίζει ο Wilson) Colin Edwin -μπάσο- και Gavin Harrison -τύμπανα-

n'joy



And something warm and soft just passed through here
It took the precious things that I hold dearer
It rifled through the grey and disappeared
The creeping darkness makes the small hours clearer

Like a cancer scare In the dentist's chair
Sucking in the air
Wire across the stair
Kicking down the door
At your local store
With the world at war
Voices through the floor
Unexpected news
Wearing high heeled shoes
Blowing out the fuse
Paying all your dues
Deadwing lullaby
Like a fracture tied
It's a worthless lie
To the public eye

I don't take waifs and strays back home with me
My bleeding heart does not extend to charity

Yes I'd have to say
I like my privacy
And did you know you're on closed circuit TV?
So smile at me

And a dream you had
Of your mum and dad
On a beach somewhere
And the poison air
With the cancer threat
In a cigarette
Deadwing lullaby
Find a place to hide

And from the yellow windows of the last train
A spectre from the next life breathes his fog on the pane
I look with you into the speeding black rain
Afraid to touch someone, afraid to ask her for her name

And in the morning when I find I have lost you
I throw a window open wide and step through



I don't remember
Did something in my past create a hole?
Don't use your gender
To drive a stake right through my soul

I live to function
On my own is all I know
No friends to mention
No distraction, nowhere to go

Shallow, shallow
Give it to me, give it to me
Scissors cutting out your anger
Shallow, shallow
No good to me, not if you bleed
Bite your tongue, ignore the splinter

This city drains me
Well maybe it's the smell of gasoline
The millions pain me
It's easier to talk to my PC



As the cheerless towns pass my window
I can see a washed out moon through the fog
And then a voice inside my head breaks the analogue
And says

"Follow me down to the valley below
You know
Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul"

I survived against the will of my twisted folk
But in the deafness of my world the silence broke
And said

"My David don't you worry
This cold world is not for you
So rest your head upon me
I have strength to carry you"

(Ghosts of the twenties rising Golden summers just holding you)



God is in my fingers
God is in my head
God is in the trigger
God is in the lead

God is freedom, God is truth
God is power and God is proof
God is fashion, God is fame
God gives meaning, God gives pain

You can be right like me
With God in the hole you're a righteous soul
I got a halo round me, I got a halo round me
I'm not the same as you
Cos I've seen the light and I'm gaining in height now
I got a halo round me, I got a halo round me
I got a halo round my head

God is on the cellphone
God is on the net
God is in the warning
God is in the threat



Never stop the car on a drive in the dark
Never look for the truth in your mother's eyes
Never trust the sound of rain upon a river rushing through your ears

Arriving somewhere but not here

Did you imagine the final sound as a gun?
Or the smashing windscreen of a car?
Did you ever imagine the last thing you'd hear as you're fading out was a song?

Arriving somewhere but not here

All my designs simplified
And all of my plans compromised
All of my dreams sacrificed

Ever had the feeling you've been here before?
Drinking down the poison the way you were taught
Ever thought from here on in your life begins and all you knew was wrong?

Did you see the red mist block your path?
Did the scissors cut a way to your heart?
Did you feel the envy for the sons of mothers tearing you apart?

Arriving somewhere but not here



Always in my thoughts you are
Always in my dreams you are
I got your voice on tape
I got your spirit in a photograph
Always out of reach you are

Cold inside my arms you are
Simple like a child you are
I remember when you took my hand and led me through the rain
Down inside my soul you are

The more I show the way
I feel the less I find you give a damn
The more I get to know the less find that I understand
Innocent, the time we spent, forgot to mention we're good friends
You thought it was the start of something beautiful?
Well think again.

Mother lost her looks for you
Father never wanted you
I trust to love and then I find you never really felt the same
There's something in your heart so cruel

Guess who just got back today?

Στις 26 Μαρτίου του 1976, οι Thin Lizzy, κυκλοφόρησαν τον έκτο δίσκο τους Jailbreak, που έμελε να τους βάλει για τα καλά στην Αμερική...

Με τραγούδια σαν "Jailbreak" "The Boys Are Back In Town" "Running Back"(κομμένο και ραμμένο για την αγορά των ΗΠΑ) και "Emerald" δεν ήθελε και πολύ...

Αξιοσημείωτο για την ιστορία του δίσκου, είναι η επιλογή των πλήκτρων στο Running Back -που έγινε για τον λόγο που αναφέρω παραπάνω- έφερε μια δυσαρέσκεια στον - έναν απο τους δυο- κιθαρίστα του συγκροτήματος (Robertson) για την "απομπλουζικοποίηση" του τραγουδιού... Ήταν τόση η αντιπαράθεση του, που στην τελική κόπια του τραγουδιού, ο Robertson δεν συμμετείχε, φρόντισε όμως να βάλει την γνήσια εκδοχή του τραγουδιού στον προσωπικό του δίσκο χρόνια αργότερα...(Diamonds and dirt)

Το track list είναι το εξής:

1. Jailbreak
2. Angel From The Coast
3. Running Back
4. Romeo And The Lonely Girl
5. Warriors
6. The Boys Are Back In Town
7. Fight Or Fall
8. Cowboy Song
9. Emerald

Μακράν αγαπημένο είναι το ΕΠΙΚΟ "Emerald" όπου οι Phil Lynott -φωνή, μπάσο- Scott Gorham -κιθάρα φωνή- Brian Robertson -κιθάρα φωνή- και Brian Downey-τύμπανα- ... πραγματικά τα σπάνε....

Για τους μη-μυημένους τους προτείνω το γλυκανάλατο "Romeo and the lonely girl"

οι υπόλοιποι...

n'joy



Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in this town
See me and the boys we don't like it
So were getting up and going down

Hiding low looking right to left
If you see us coming I think it's best
To move away do you hear what I say
From under my breath

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in the town
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
So don't you be around

Don't you be around

Tonight there's gonna be trouble
Some of us won't survive
See the boys and me mean business
Bustin' out dead or alive

I can hear the hound dogs on my trail
All hell breaks loose, alarm and sirens wail
Like the game if you lose
Go to jail

Tonight there's gonna trouble
I'm gonna find myself in
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
So woman stay with a friend

You know it's safer

Breakout!

Tonight there's gonna be a breakout
Into the city zones
Don't you dare to try and stop us
No one could for long

Searchlight on my trail
Tonight's the night all systems fail
Hey you good lookin' female
Come here!



Romeo and the lonely girl
They seemed to hit it off
Till Romeo told the lonely girl
"I must take my leave, my love"

It was these few words I overheard
And thought, "I should move in"
But before I could
The lonely girl had fallen in love again

Oh poor Romeo
Sitting out on his own-ee-o
Oh poor Romeo

Romeo he had it rough
The guy you'd like to burn
But everything that Romeo had
You can bet it was well earned

For all his good looks there were scars that he took
And a lesson to be learned
Never judge lovers by a good looking covers
The story might be spurned

Oh poor Romeo
Sitting out on his own-ee-o
Oh poor Romeo

Romeo he like to put it around
He was everybody's friend
But in the end even Romeo found
On no one could he depend

For all his charms in someone else's arms
Lonely girl safely lay
When the train pulled in it had to leave again
And Romeo pulled away

Oh poor Romeo
Sitting all on his own-ee-o
Oh poor Romeo



Guess who just got back today?
Those wild-eyed boys that had been away
Haven't changed, haven't much to say
But man, I still think those cats are great

They were asking if you were around
How you was, where you could be found
I told them you were living downtown
Driving all the old men crazy

The boys are back in town

You know the chick that used to dance a lot
Every night she'd be on the floor shaking what she'd got
Man when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot
I mean she was steaming

That night over at Johnny's place
Well this chick got up and she slapped Johnny's face
Man we just fell about the place
If that chick don't want to know, forget her

Friday night they'll be dressed to kill
Down at Dino's bar and grill
The drink will flow and blood will spill
If the boys want to fight, you'd better let them

That jukebox in the corner blasting out my favorite song
The nights are getting warmer, it won't be long
It won't be long till summer comes
Now that the boys are here again

The boys are back in town



Down from the glen came the marching men
With their shields and their swords
To fight the fight they believed to be right
Overthrow the overlords

To the town where there was plenty
They brought plunder, swords and flame
When they left the town was empty
Children would never play again

From their graves I heard the fallen
Above the battle cry
By that bridge near the border
There were many more to die

Then onward over the mountain
And outward towards the sea
They had come to claim the Emerald
Without it they could not leave

Θ Α Ν Α Τ Ο Σ !

Άνθρωπος...

Ίσως το τελειότερο ον στον πλανήτη μας...

Τελειότερο ε;

Κι όμως αυτό το "τέλειο" ον που βασιλεύει αυτόν τον πλανήτη, βιάζει την 18μηνη κόρη του μέχρι θανάτου, ανοίγει πυρ σε 14χρονο, κάνει πόλεμο για πετρέλαιο, επιβάλετε σε αδύναμους με την βία, είναι ανήθικο, είναι αχόρταγο, είναι διαστροφικό, είναι ανώμαλο, είναι άρρωστο....

Του αξίζει να πεθάνει...


Δεν θα βάλω εδώ τέτοια εικόνα, ούτε θα παραπέμψω τα παραπάνω στην πηγή της είδησης...δεν θα μολύνω το blog μου...

Του αξίζει να πεθάνει...

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Η ωμότητα της ενημέρωσης, για μένα, είναι καταδικάσιμη...

Ακόμα με στοιχειώνει μια εικόνα που είδα στο δελτίο ειδήσεων του ΑΝΤ1 πριν πάρα πολλά χρόνια...-με το σαΐνι τον Ευαγγελάτο-

Σε ένα στρατόπεδο εκπαίδευσης, είχαν ενα σκύλο δεμένο όρθιο, και με τις ξιφολόγχες τους το καρφώνανε στο σώμα...ο σκύλος ανήμπορος να αντιδράσει...μαρτυρούσε μέχρι να ξεψυχήσει...

Και ποιο το κέρδος απο τον συγκεκριμένο στρατό; Οι άνδρες τους γίνανε μάχιμοι;

Και ποιο το κέρδος των υπευθύνων του δελτίου που παρουσιάσανε αυτή την εικόνα της είδησης; Γίνανε πιο cult; Πιο έγκυροι;

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Απο τότε δεν ψάχνομαι με ειδήσεις σε δελτία, ούτε στο internet -που γίνεται ακόμα πιο ωμό...-

Μόνο τους τίτλους που είδα μου φτάνει...

Δεν θέλω εικόνες που θα με κάνουν να ξεράσω απο την σιχαμάρα στο πιο αρρωστημένο είδος του πλανήτη...

Αν υπάρχει Θεός δεν θέλω να τιμωρηθούνε στην "μετά ζωή"....θέλω να καούν ζωντανοί... ΤΩΡΑ...

Όχι εγώ, όση οργή και να έχω αυτή την στιγμή, δεν θα μπορούσα να το κάνω...ούτε και να το δω...

Μου αρκεί που θα ξέρω ότι θα τιμωρηθούνε...

Τι να το κάνω να πάει φυλακή για κάτι χρόνια...μετά μπορεί να του την χαρίσουνε...

Στην καρέκλα...

Στην κρεμάλα...

Στην πυρά...

Δεν με νοιάζει που...

εκτέλεση....ΤΩΡΑ!

Τι άλλο θα άξιζε σε έναν παιδεραστή πατέρα, που για να ικανοποιήσει την αρρώστια του δεν λογάριασε όχι μόνο την ψυχική οδύνη του παιδιού του, αλλά ούτε καν την ίδια του την ζωή...

ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΠΑΙΔΕΡΑΣΤΕΣ!

ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ!

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Κι όχι μόνο σε αυτούς...

Αλλά σε όσους ξεκινάνε πολέμους, σε όσους δεν λογαριάζουν την ζωή του διπλανού τους, σε όσους που στόχο ζωής έχουν να τρομοκρατούν το παιδάκι, το γεροντάκι, τον οποιονδήποτε, σε όσους έχουν ξεχάσει το χρέος τους σαν άνθρωποι...

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Κι έχω την ψυχολόγο να μου τους δικαιολογεί...-δεν θα πω ονόματα κτλ γιατί δεν θέλω να εκθέσω/θίξω κανέναν-

σε ένα "άρθρο" της για την παιδεραστία...

σχολιάζω εγώ...

"Εγώ που λέω "Θάνατος στους παιδεραστές" τι είμαι;"

Και απαντάει αυτή...

"Είναι απόλυτα λογικό να πιστεύεις κάτι τέτοιο γιατί θεωρώ ότι δεν υπάρχει χειρότερο έγκλημα. Παρόλα αυτά είναι άτομα που χρειάζονται βοήθεια. Δε νομίζεις ότι θα έπρεπε το κράτος να τους ελέγχει μέσα στη φυλακή και όταν βγαίνουν από αυτήν; Για να προστατέψει τα παιδιά αλλά να βοηθήσει και αυτούς...Με την ίδια λογική θα πρέπει να υπάρχει θανατική ποινή και για άλλες περιπτώσεις. Πιστεύεις ότι αυτή είναι η λύση;"

Και απαντάω εγώ...

"Υποτίθεται ότι μπαίνει κανείς φυλακή (σωφρονιστικό ίδρυμα) για να γίνει σώφρον...

Εγώ δεν έχω μάθει ότι στις φυλακές υπάρχουν ψυχολόγοι που βοηθάνε τέτοια άτομα για ξεπεράσουν την αρρώστια τους.

Στην χώρα του αρπακολλισμού και της προχειρότητας, είναι λογικό να μην συμβαίνει, ούτε αυτό που λέω εγώ ούτε αυτό που λες εσύ

Η θανατική ποινή φαντάζει σε μένα ως λύση γιατί όταν ακούω για μια τέτοια πράξη μου έρχεται αναγούλα και θυμός...
Δεν είμαι τέλειος -ούτε επαγγελματίας ψυχολόγος- για να δώσω σε αυτόν τον απ-άνθρωπο δικαιολογία.
συγνώμη, μπορεί να είναι ακραίο αλλά όταν κάποιος έχει αυτή την αρρώστια φοβάμαι ότι θα την έχει για πάντα...

Δεν ξέρω αν είναι έμφυτο ή όχι, αλλά όλα τα κακά -ή τουλάχιστον τα περισσότερα- ξεκινάνε απο την οικογένεια.
Όταν οι γονείς δεν είναι κατάλληλοι, δεν είναι ψυχικά υγιείς για να μεγαλώσουν παιδί/α πρέπει να αναθέτονται σε οικογένειες/ζευγάρια που έχουν τα παραπάνω "προσόντα" -και ειδικότερα σε ζευγάρια που δεν μπορούν να τεκνοποιήσουν-

Τόσο δύσκολο είναι να υπάρχει υπεύθυνη κοινωνική πρόνοια;

ΥΓ Για κάποιο άλλο έγκλημα, δυστυχώς δεν μου έρχεται σαν λύση η θανατική ποινή..."

Απάντηση δεν πήρα...

Αλλά δεν με νοιάζει κιόλας...

ΔΕΝ ΜΠΟΡΩ ΝΑ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΛΟΓΗΣΩ ΤΕΤΟΙΑ ΠΡΑΞΗ....

να κλέψει κάποιος που δεν έχει ανάγκη, γιατί έχει χρήματα, το δικαιολογώ

να κλέψει κάποιος που δεν έχει χρήματα, το δικαιολογώ

να σκοτώσει κάποιος κάποιον λόγω αυτοάμυνας, το δικαιολογώ

να βιάσει κάποιος οποιονδήποτε -γυναίκα, άνδρα, ηλικιωμένο είναι κατακριτέο ΕΝΝΟΕΙΤΑΙ, αλλά παιδί........1000 φορές χειρότερο για μένα- ΔΕΝ ΤΟ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΛΟΓΩ .-



Εγώ δεν είμαι σπουδαγμένος για να δικαιολογήσω τέτοια πράξη...-κι αν είναι να σπουδάσω για να ξεχάσω τι σημαίνει άνθρωπος, καλύτερα να μην το κάνω ποτέ-

Θ Α Ν Α Τ Ο Σ

I'd guess they would say we could set this world ablaze

Ναι ναι..καλά μαντέψατε...

Ακόμα ένας αγαπημένος δίσκος κυκλοφόρησε αυτόν τον μήνα αυτή την φορά -όχι και τόσο παλιά...αλλά- μόλις πριν 2 χρόνια...-24 Μαρτίου 2009-

Το Crack The Skye των Mastodon...

Είναι ο τέταρτος δίσκος τους, και ο μέχρι σήμερα πιο μοσχοπουλημένος,-όπου έφτασε στο νούμερο 11 του Billboard200- και αυτή την φορά έχουν σαν θέμα το στοιχείο του αέρα (στους προηγούμενους 3 δίσκους ασχολήθηκαν με τη φωτιά το νερό και την γη)

Σε συνεντεύξεις όμως των μελών του συγκροτήματος (Tory Sanders - φωνή, μπάσο- Brent Hinds - φωνή, κιθάρα- Brann Dailor - τύμπανα, και φωνή στο Oblivion- και Bill Kelliher -κιθάρα-) αναφέρθηκαν σε σε άλλα θέματα με τα οποία καταπιάνεται ο δίσκος, όπως οι εξωσωματικές εμπειρίες, τα αστρικά ταξίδια, την τσαρική Ρωσία και τις θεωρίες του Steven Hawking -επίσης ο δίσκος είναι αφιερωμένος στην αδερφή του Dailor η οποία στην τρυφερή ηλικία των 14 ετών, αυτοκτόνησε-

Αγαπημένα με διαφορά είναι τα "Oblivion", "The Czar", "Ghost of Karelia" και "The Lost Baron"

Το track list είναι το εξής:

1. Oblivion
2. Divinations
3. Quintessence
4. The Czar
5. Ghost Of Karelia
6. Crack The Skye
7. The Last Baron


Επειδή οι Mastodon δεν είναι και 'εύκολοι', οι μη-μυημένοι καλά θα κάνουν να προσπεράσουν...

-info: Τα μάθατε ότι οι Mastodon θα είναι στο Sonisphere Festival με τους Iron Maiden και Slipknot στις 17 Ιουνίου στο Terra Vibe έτσι;-




I flew beyond the sun before it was time
Burning all the gold that held me inside my shell
Waiting for you to pull me back in
I almost had the world in my sight
Lost love, bright eyes fading
Faster than stars falling
How can I tell you that I've failed ?
Tell you I failed..

Falling from grace cause I've been away too long
Leaving you behind with my lonesome song
Now I'm lost in oblivion.

I tried to burrow a hole into the ground
Breaking all the fingers and the nails from my hand
The eyes of a child see no wrong
Ignorant bliss, impending doom
Lost love, bright eyes fading
Faster than stars falling
How can I tell you that I've failed ?
Tell you I failed..

Falling from grace cause I've been away too long
Leaving you behind with my lonesome song
Now I'm lost...
Falling from grace cause I've been away too long
Leaving you behind with my lonesome song
Now I'm lost in oblivion.



It's gone away
It's gone away
It's gone for good
Animal spirits come calling me home
Through the tunnels of brilliant light
The magnet of wisdom is pulling
Burrowing faster the fabric of time

No escape
Biding spirits
No escape
Trapped in time space

Rapid descendants
The wormhole is empty
The center of Khlysty surrounds me
The fire is dancing in a silvery sheet of breath
Black robe
Necromancing
Summon the soul of the spectre

No escape
Binding spirits
No escape
Trapped in time space

Fire in the eye
Realm of mystic majesty



Don't stay
Run away
He has ordered assassination
Don't stay
Run away
The henchmen are gathered and waiting
Don't stay
Run away
Your role as Usurper is found out
Don't stay
Run away
Tsarina has warned you of the danger

It's your own fault
This is what we wanted
It's your own fault
This is where we lay

By the light of the moon
You must escape into the deep black of the night
Fight the devil inside
Enemies poison deep within my second sight
Wasting valuable time
Ride the tides of blood
Illumination
Beauties sudden hand
Shattered crown
Stretching hands up high
We're on our way now
Leave the Tsar to die

Spiraling up through the crack in the sky
Leaving material world behind
I see your face in constellations
The Martyr is ending his life for mine



Wrathful one nine eyes gaze
Holding Skulls
Filled and laced
With human blood

Shades of darkened skies
Emptiness
Twilight holding through
Offering

Lie in zenith
Bulls bloodshot eyes
Flattened portrait of night sky
Feel crust hum
Facing the north
Vapor space

Between heaven and earth
Wisdom in the knower
A planet collide
Divisible we fall

Hear dirt waves
Wading forth
Vapor space

How long has it been since we flew through shadows ?
I have walked on many other planets.

Sinister twin
Choking on fear
Bonded Iron
Sink to the core



Blessed visionary cut me with your sun
The rivers ran in blood
Spark fueled to fire

Deep within this endless void
Searching for a sign

The vessel forged inside of me
Watches over
Like the death of the moon

Strike the shepherd
Sheep will scatter
Mountains of despair

I can see the pain
It's written all over your face

The screaming arrows tear through my soul
In the dawn your face is haunting
White ghostly dreams

Weight of worlds is on your shoulders
Hear the voice of gold

I can see the pain
It's written all over your face

Desperate heathens flock to sirens
Guard your heartache well

Momma don't let them take her!
Don't let them take her down!

Please tell Lucifer he can't have this one
Her spirits too strong

I can see the pain
It's written all over your face
I can see the pain
You can make it all go away



I'd guess they would say we could set this world ablaze

Please, please take my hand
Please take my soul to rest
So we can always be around

It is hard to see
Through all the haze at the top of the trees
Hold my head on stable ground
Watch as the earth falls all around

Please, please take my hand
Please take my soul to rest
So we can always be around

Faltering footsteps, dead end path
All that I need is this wise man's staff
Encased in crystal, he leads the way
I guess they'd say we could set the world ablaze

Please, please take my hand
Please take my soul to rest
So we can always be around

I guess they would say we can set the world ablaze
Hold my head on stable ground
Watch as the earth falls all around

Take my black soul
Arrive in the fires that burn my skin
Guide my eyes all through this maze
I guess they'd say we could set the world ablaze

All that I have seen standing on the edge
The foot of precipice floating in the sea
Past the king of swords quickly to the shore
The last baron, the last baron

Ghost of man surrounds me in my slumber
I have no fear as your wing is my shelter

Cyanide he craves, coursing through his veins
Providing him with strength to see this to the end
Afraid of psychic eyes, faith in mystic power
The last baron, the last baron

Will he save me, will he save me?
I was standing staring at the world
And I can't see it
I was standing staring at the world
I still can't see it

Nothing to say....

Μία φανέλα με το νούμερο 32, μία τελευταία επιθυμία για τη δωδεκάχρονη Alyssia Crook που πρόκειται να υποβληθεί σε ακρωτηριασμό του αριστερού της ποδιού.

Λίγες μόνο ημέρες πριν από τη χειρουργική επέμβαση, η Alyssia Crook φόρεσε τη δική της εμφάνιση και μπήκε στο παρκέ ως βασική της ομάδας μπάσκετ του σχολείου της.

Έκλεψε την μπάλα, σκόραρε και απέκτησε το πολυπόθητο βίντεο από τον αγώνα. Ένα παιχνίδι που ζήτησε από τον παππού της να καταγράψει για να δείξει μετά από χρόνια στα δικά της παιδιά.

"Κάποια μέρα θέλω να μπορώ να δείξω στα παιδιά μου ότι έπαιξα μπάσκετ και με τα δύο μου πόδια", είπε η μαθήτρια στον προπονητή της σχολικής ομάδας του Baldwin Middle School.

"Ήθελα να παίξω με την πραγματική ομάδα και όταν μεγαλώσω θέλω να μπορώ να παίξω με τα παιδιά μου και να μην είμαι απλά θεατής", τόνισε η 12χρονη.

Η Alyssia, από τη γέννησή της ακόμα, αντιμετώπιζε σοβαρά προβλήματα στα πόδια. Όταν οι γονείς της υιοθέτησαν την πεντάχρονη από ρωσικό ορφανοτροφείο, περπατούσε μόνο στις μύτες των ποδιών της.

Μετά από δεκάδες χειρουργικές επεμβάσεις και επισκέψεις σε ειδικούς, οι γιατροί τους ανακοίνωσαν πως θα πρέπει είτε να κοντύνουν και τα δύο της πόδια είτε να ακρωτηριάσουν αυτό που έχει πληγεί περισσότερο.

Η Alyssia Crook συνεχίζει να βλέπει με αισιοδοξία τη ζωή και προσφέρει δύναμη σε παιδιά που αντιμετωπίζουν προβλήματα, αναφέροντας πως αποτελούν δημιουργήματα του Θεού και είναι όμορφα με κάθε τρόπο.

πηγή news247.gr

You've realized you're gettin' old and no one seems to care

Και ναι...
ακόμα ένας αγαπημένος μου δίσκος κυκλοφόρησε Μάρτιο...

Συγκεκριμένα σαν σήμερα το 1976 οι Judas Priest "βγάλανε" το υπέροχο "Sad Wings Of Destiny"

Τι να πει κανείς για τον δίσκο αυτό;

Η παραγωγή, τα τραγούδια, οι στίχοι, η ατμόσφαιρα, η φωνή οι κιθάρες, το εξώφυλλο...

Όλα ήταν υπέροχα...

Δεν υπάρχουν συνταρακτικές ιστορίες κατα την δημιουργία του δίσκου, οπότε πάμε κατευθείαν στο ψητό...

Το track list είναι το εξής:

1. Prelude (Instrumental)
2. Tyrant
3. Genocide
4. Epitaph
5. Island of Domination
6. Victim Of Changes
7. The Ripper
8. Dreamer Deceiver
9. Deceiver

Οι Judas Priest σε αυτόν τον δίσκο ήταν οι Rob Halford (φωνή -φωνάρα) K.K. Downing (κιθάρα), Glen Tipton (κιθάρα, πιάνο), Ian Hill (μπάσο) και Alan Moore (τύμπανα)

Αγαπημένα μου είναι... ΟΛΑ -εκτός του epitaph και Island of Domination-

Για τους μη μυημένους ας ακούσουν το Dream Deceiver...

οι υπόλοιποι... ξέρετε...






Behold 'tis I the commander
Whose grip controls you all
Resist me not, surrender
I'll no compassion call

(Tyrant) Capture of humanity
(Tyrant) Conqueror of all
(Tyrant) Hideous destructor
(Tyrant) Every man shall fall

Your very lives are held within my fingers
I snap them and you cower down in fear
You spineless things who belly down to slither
To the end of the world you follow to be near

Mourn for us oppressed in fear
Chained and shackled we are bound
Freedom choked in dread we live
Since Tyrant was enthroned

I listen not to sympathy
Whilst ruler of this land
Withdraw your feeble aches and moans
Or suffer smite from this my hand

My legions faithful unto death
I'll summon to my court
And as you perish each of you
Shall scream as you are sought



Mercenary batalions
Are poised to strike us down
Terminations conquest
Upon us now full grown

Save me, my heart's open wide
Help me, no question of pride
Save me, my people have died
Total genocide

Devastation hungers
She waits to leap to earth
Imminent liquidation
Before the grand rebirth

Sin after sin I have endured
Yet the wounds I bear are the wounds of love

Frantic mindless zombies
Grab at fleeting time
Lost in cold perplexion
Waiting for the sign

Generations tremble
Clinging face to face
Helpless situation
To end the perfect race

Flashing senseless sabers
Cut us to the ground
Eager for the life blood
Of all who can be found

Slice to the left, slice to the right
None to retaliate, none will fight
Chopping at the hearts, snuffing out the lives
This race departs, no one will survive
Heads to the feet, feet to the air
Souls in the soil, heavy in despair
End of all ends, body into dust
To greet death friends, extinction is a must




Whiskey woman don't you know that you are drivin' me insane
The liquor you give stems your will to live and gets right to my brain
Don't you know you're driving me insane
You're tryin' to find your way through life
You're tryin' to get some new direction
Another woman got her man
She won't find no new connection

Takes another drink or two, things look better when she's through

Takes another look around, you're not goin' anywhere
You've realized you're gettin' old and no one seems to care
You're tryin' to find your way again
You're tryin' to find some new...
Another woman's got her man
But she won't find a new...

You 'bin foolin' with some hot guy
I want to know why is it why
Get up get out you know you really blew it
I've had enough, I've had enough, good God pluck me

Once she was wonderful
Once she was fine
Once she was beautiful
Once she was mine...she was mine

Now change has come over her body, she doesn't see me anymore
Now change has come over her body, she doesn't see me anymore

Changes, changes, changes, changes
Victim of changes



You're in for surprise
You're in for a shock
In London town streets
When there's darkness and fog
When you least expect me
And you turn your back
I'll attack

I smile when I'm sneaking
Through shadows by the wall
I laugh when I'm creeping
But you won't hear me at all

All hear my warning
Never turn your back
On the ripper

You'll soon shake with fear
Never knowing if I'm near
I'm sly and I'm shameless
Nocturnal and nameless
Except for "The Ripper"
Or if you like "Jack The Knife"

Any back alley street
Is where we'll probably meet
Underneath a gas lamp
Where the air's cold and damp
I'm a nasty surprise
I'm a devil in disguise
I'm a footstep at night
I'm a scream of the fright

All hear my warning
Never turn your back
On the ripper...the ripper....the ripper



Dreamer Deceiver (μέχρι το 5'56¨)

Standing by my window, breathing summer breeze
Saw a figure floating, 'neath the willow tree
Asked us if we were happy, we said we didn't know
Took us by the hands and up we go

We followed the dreamer through the purple hazy clouds
He could control our sense of time
We thought we were lost but no matter how we tried
Everyone was in peace of mind

We felt the sensations drift inside our frames
Finding complete contentment there
And all the tensions that hurt us in the past
Just seemed to vanish in thin air

He said in the cosmos is a single sonic sound
That is vibrating constantly
And if we could grip and hold on to the note
We would see our minds were free...oh they're free

We are lost above
Floating way up high
If you think you can find a way
You can surely try

Deceiver

Solar winds are blowing
Neutron star controlling
All is lost, doomed and tossed, at what cost forever

Meteors fly around me
Comets die, and then they
And then they, you wanna see how they try to surround me
I can say, here today, we shall stay forever

If you want to find us in a hurry
Oh let me tell you don't you worry
I can't say, here today, we shall stay forever

4 Chords that made a million

Η rock και η metal είναι μακράν ποιοτικότερες απο τα pop, hip hop, r'n'b, techno και δεν συμμαζεύεται -καλα μην μιλήσω για λαϊκά-

Γιατί όχι μόνο έχουν στίχους που τις περισσότερες φορές έχουν να πουν κάτι, (οκ μόνο στα φωνητικά υπάρχει ποιότητα στα r'n'b) αλλά γιατί συνήθως μουσικά είναι πιο "σοβαρές", πιο μεστές, πιο "καλλιτεχνικές"...

στα hip hop και στα r'n'b υπάρχει αυτό το εκνευριστικό loop (επαναλαμβανόμενο riff καθ' όλη την διάρκεια του τραγουδιού) που καταντάει μονότονο και βαρετό...

στην techno (αλήθεια υπάρχει ακόμα;) τα bit per seconds έχουν γίνει τόσα που στα πρώτα 10 δευτερόλεπτα σου έρχεται αναγούλα απο την ζαλάδα...

και στα pop (εκτός απο συνήθως ηλίθια στιχάκια) έχουν τα περισσότερα τις ίδιες συγχορδίες
-όπως ο Φοίβος στις δικές του επιτυχίες- τρανή απόδειξη το παρακάτω βιντεάκι...




και βέβαια το παρακάτω τραγούδι είναι η ειρωνεία στο παραπάνω γεγονός...



Six of one a half a dozen
Black guitars and plastic blues
Hide behind a wall of nothing
Nothing said and nothing new

4 Chords that made a million

You belong there on the cover
You are the emperor in new clothes
A man who thinks he owns the future
Will sell your vacuum with his prose

4 Chords that made a million

And then a moron with a cheque book
Will take you out to lunch who knows ?
He will tell you you're a saviour
And then he'll drop you like a stone

4 Chords that made a million

And I have tried and I have died
Trying to get through
But in the end I can't defend you.

4 Chords that made a million

It's only the giving that makes you what you are...

Σαν σήμερα -18 Μαρτίου του 1971- οι Jethro Tull κυκλοφόρησαν τον τέταρτο δίσκο τους με τον τίτλο Aqualung.

-Ο μέχρι σήμερα πιο εμπορικά πετυχημένος δίσκος τους, πούλησε πάνω απο 7 εκατομμύρια αντίτυπα...-

Δεν υπάρχει κάποια αξιοσημείωτη ιστορία πίσω απο την δημιουργία του, οπότε πάμε κατευθείαν στο ψητό...

Οι Jethro Tull σε αυτόν τον δίσκο είναι οι Ian Anderson (φωνή φλάουτο κιθάρα), Martin Barre (κιθάρα), John Evan (πιάνο), Jeffrey Hammond (μπάσο) και Clive Bunker(τύμπανα)

To track list είναι το εξής:

1. Aqualung
2. Crossed-eyed Mary
3. Cheap Day Return
4. Mother goose
5. Wond'ring Aloud
6. Up to Me
7. My God
8. Hymn 43
9. Slipstream
10. Locomotive Breath
11. Wind Up

Προσωπικά όλος ο δίσκος μου αρέσει οπότε αυτά που έχουν ενα μικρό προβάδισμα είναι το Crossed-eyed Mary και το Hymn 43

Για τους μη-μυημένους ας ακούσουν το Wond'ring Aloud

n'joy



Sitting on a park bench --
eyeing little girls with bad intent.
Snot running down his nose --
greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
Hey, aqualung
Drying in the cold sun --
Watching as the frilly panties run.
Hey, aqualung
Feeling like a dead duck --
spitting out pieces of his broken luck.
Oh/Hey, aqualung
Sun streaking cold --
an old man wandering lonely.
Taking time
the only way he knows.
Leg hurting bad,
as he bends to pick a dog end
he goes down to the bog
and warms his feet.

Feeling alone --
the army's up the road
salvation a la mode and
a cup of tea.
Aqualung my friend --
don't you start away uneasy
you poor old sod, you see, it's only me.
Do you still remember
December's foggy freeze --
when the ice that
clings on to your beard is
screaming agony.
And you snatch your rattling last breaths
with deep-sea-diver sounds,
and the flowers bloom like
madness in the spring.



Who would be a poor man, a beggarman, a thief --
if he had a rich man in his hand.
And who would steal the candy
from a laughing baby's mouth
if he could take it from the money man.
Cross-eyed Mary goes jumping in again.
She signs no contract
but she always plays the game.
Dines in Hampstead village
on expense accounted gruel,
and the jack-knife barber drops her off at school.
Laughing in the playground -- gets no kicks from little boys:
would rather make it with a letching grey.
Or maybe her attention is drawn by Aqualung,
who watches through the railings as they play.
Cross-eyed Mary finds it hard to get along.
She's a poor man's rich girl
and she'll do it for a song.
She's a rich man stealer
but her favour's good and strong:
She's the Robin Hood of Highgate --
helps the poor man get along.



Wond'ring aloud --
how we feel today.
Last night sipped the sunset --
my hands in her hair.
We are our own saviours
as we start both our hearts beating life
into each other.
Wond'ring aloud --
will the years treat us well.
As she floats in the kitchen,
I'm tasting the smell
of toast as the butter runs.
Then she comes, spilling crumbs on the bed
and I shake my head.
And it's only the giving
that makes you what you are.



People -- what have you done --
locked Him in His golden cage.
Made Him bend to your religion --
Him resurrected from the grave.
He is the god of nothing --
if that's all that you can see.
You are the god of everything --
He's inside you and me.
So lean upon Him gently
and don't call on Him to save you
from your social graces
and the sins you used to waive.
The bloody Church of England --
in chains of history --
requests your earthly presence at
the vicarage for tea.
And the graven image you-know-who --
with His plastic crucifix --
he's got him fixed --
confuses me as to who and where and why --
as to how he gets his kicks.
Confessing to the endless sin --
the endless whining sounds.
You'll be praying till next Thursday to
all the gods that you can count.



Oh Father high in heaven, smile down upon your son
who's busy with his money games, his women and his gun.
Oh Jesus save me!
And the unsung Western hero killed an Indian or three
and made his name in Hollywood
to set the white man free.
Oh Jesus save me!
If Jesus saves -- well, He'd better save Himself
from the gory glory seekers who use His name in death.
Oh Jesus save me!
I saw him in the city and on the mountains of the moon --
His cross was rather bloody --
He could hardly roll His stone.
Oh Jesus save me!



In the shuffling madness
of the locomotive breath,
runs the all-time loser,
headlong to his death.
"Oh" He feels the piston scraping --
steam breaking on his brow --
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train "it" won't stop going --
no way to slow down. "OhooOh"

He sees his children "jumping" off
at the stations -- one by one.
His woman and his best friend --
in bed and having fun.
"Oh" He's crawling down the corridor
on his hands and knees --
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train "it" won't stop going --
no way to slow down. "Heaheya"

He hears the silence howling --
catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
has got him by the balls.
"Oh" He picks up Gideons Bible --
open at page one --
I "THINK" God "he" stole the handle and
the train "it" won't stop going --
no way to slow down.
"no way to slow down
no way to slow down
no way to slow down
no way to slow down"



When I was young and they packed me off to school
and taught me how not to play the game,
I didn't mind if they groomed me for success,
or if they said that I was a fool.
So I left there in the morning
with their God tucked underneath my arm --
their half-assed smiles and their book of rules.
So I asked this God a question
and by way of firm reply,
He said -- I'm not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays.
So to my old headmaster (and to anyone who cares):
before I'm through I'd like to say my prayers.
I don't believe you,
you have the whole damn thing all wrong,
He's not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays.
Well you can excomunicate me on my way to Sunday school
and have all the bishops harmonize these lines,
How do you dare tell me that I'm my Father's son
when that was just an accident of birth.
I'd rather look around me, compose a better song
`cos that's the honest measure of my worth.
In your pomp and all your glory you're a poorer man than me,
as you lick the boots of death born out of fear.
I don't believe you:
you have the whole damn thing all wrong,
He's not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays.

Λοιπόν, αυτός που γύρευα, ε ί μ α ι.

Η Κρήτη εκτός απο λεβεντομάνα, είναι κι ένα υπέροχο νησί...

εκτός απο υπέροχο νησί, μας προσφέρει και υπέροχο παρθένο ελαιόλαδο...

εκτός απο υπέροχο παρθένο ελαιόλαδο, μας προσφέρει και υπέροχα πορτοκάλια...

εκτός απο υπέροχα πορτοκάλια, μας προσφέρει και υπέροχους ανθρώπους...

Και σήμερα τιμούμε 2 υπέροχους Κρητικούς...



Τον Ηρακλιώτη Νομπελίστα μας Οδυσσέα Ελύτη





Και τον Χανιώτη πολιτικό -και σπουδαιότερο πρωθυπουργό της χώρας- Ελευθέριο Βενιζέλο...




Για τον Ελύτη δεν έχω πολλά να πω παρα μόνο ότι το Άξιον Εστί -το οποίο ήταν ο λόγος που βραβεύθηκε με το Νόμπελ- δεν μου άρεσε τόσο όσο κάποια άλλα έργα του...

Όπως "Ο Φυλλομάντης" -απο τα "Ετεροθαλή"-

Aπόψε βράδυ Aυγούστου οχτώ
Nαυαγισμένο στα ρηχά των άστρων
Tο παλιό μου σπίτι με τα σαμιαμίθια
Kαι το χυμένο το κερί στο κομοδίνο επάνω
Πόρτες παράθυρα ανοιχτά
Tο παλιό μου σπίτι αδειάζοντας
Φορτίο της ερημιάς μέσα στη νύχτα·

Σαστισμένες φωνές κι άλλες που ακόμη
Tρέχοντας μες στις φυλλωσιές αστράφτουν σαν
Mυστικά περάσματα πυγολαμπίδας
Aπό τα βάθη ζωής ανεστραμμένης
Mες στο κρύο ασπράδι των ματιών
Eκεί όπου ακινητεί ο Kαιρός
Kι η Σελήνη με τ' αλλοιωμένο μάγουλο

Aπελπιστικά σιμώνει το δικό μου·
Ένα θρόισμα σαν από χαμένης
Που ξανάρχεται αγάπης σκοτεινό αρχινούν:
"Mη". Kι ύστερα πάλι "Mη". "Mωρό μου".
"Tι σού 'μελλε", "Mια μέρα θα το θυμηθείς".
"Παιδί παιδάκι με τα καστανά μαλλιά".
"Eγώ που σ' αγαπώ". "Πες πάντα". "Πάντα".

Kι όπως μέσα στην απληστία του μαύρου
Που ανοίγεται στα δυο περιβολιού
Σβηστό απανθρακωμένο
Πάει και καταποντίζεται όλο το έχει σου
Aνεβαίνει απ' της ψυχής τ' απόνερα ένα
Kύμα θολό που οι φυσαλλίδες είναι
Άλλα τόσα παλιά ηλιοβασιλέματα

Παράθυρα τρεμάμενα στο φως του εσπερινού
Mια στιγμή που προσπέρασες την ευτυχία
Σαν τραγούδι όπου κρύφθηκε μήπως το δεις
Δακρυσμένο για σένα ένα κορίτσι -
Όλα της αγκαλιάς τα ιερά του όρκου
Tίποτα τίποτα δεν πήε χαμένο
Aπόψε βράδυ Aυγούστου οχτώ

Mέσ' απ' τη χλώρη του βυθού και πάλι
Tο ίδιο εκείνο ατέρμονο ανατρίχιασμα
Mονολογεί και συνθροεί τα φύλλα
Mονολογεί στην αραμαϊκή του απόκοσμου:
"Παιδί παιδάκι με τα καστανά μαλλιά
Σού 'μελλε να χαθείς εδώ για να σωθείς μακριά".
"Σού 'μελλε να χαθείς εδώ για να σωθείς μακριά".

Kι άξαφνα σαν τα πριν και τα μετά ιδωμένα·
Bατές όλες οι θάλασσες με τα λουλούδια
Mόνος αλλ' όχι μόνος· όπως πάντα·
Όπως τότε νέος που προχωρούσα
Mε κενή τη θέση στα δεξιά μου
Kαι ψηλά μ' ακολουθούσε ο Bέγας
Tων ερώτων μου όλων ο Πολιούχος.





Για τον Βενιζέλο, εκτός απο την τεράστια εκτίμηση που έχω στο πρόσωπό του, το μόνο που έχω να προσθέσω , είναι ότι δυστυχώς ήταν ο πρώτος και ο τελευταίος δίκαιος, έντιμος και δημοκρατικός πολιτικός που κυβέρνησε την χώρα μας...



Long live -for both of you-