Linger on, your pale blue eyes...

sometimes I feel so happy
sometimes I feel so sad,
sometimes I feel so happy
but mostly you just make me mad..

Warhol Factory was in the 60's something that hasn't been surpassed artistically

Edie Sedgwick is the girl in the pic..

Aslo Warhol himself, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale ..

Edie attracted Andy Warhol because of her strange sense of fashion, style and "whatever" attitude...

Anyway here the Velvet Underground..

And so she woke up...

I didn't choose this song today..

It was more than an election..

I was watching the open field in front of me..

... A resonator and the slide on my hands of a lonely wooden house in the prairie...

Running To Stand Still

And so she woke up
Woke up from where she was lyin’ still.
Said I gotta do something
About where we’re goin’.
Step on a steam train
Step out of the driving rain, maybe
Run from the darkness in the night.
Singing ah, ah la la la de day
Ah la la la de day.

Sweet the sin, bitter the taste in my mouth.
I see seven towers, but I only see one way out.
You gotta cry without weeping, talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice.
You know I took the poison, from the poison stream
Then I floated out of here, singing
Ah la la la de day
Ah la la la de day.

She walks through the streets
With her eyes painted red
Under black belly of cloud in the rain.
In through a doorway
She brings me white golden pearls
Stolen from the sea.
She is ragin’
She is ragin’

And the storm blows up in her eyes.
She will suffer the needle chill
She’s running to stand still.

Valhalla, I Am Coming ...

Led Zeppelin III is known as their acoustic album..

but the first song is Immigrant Song ...

About Scandinavian mythology and warfare

Maybe the most heavy tune they ever recorded..

(from wikipedia.org)
Valhalla is a majestic, enormous hall located in Asgard, ruled over by the God Odin. Chosen by him, half of those that die in combat travel to Valhalla upon death, led by Valkyries, while the other half go to the goddess Freyja's field Fólkvangr.

This is the one where they evoke the Hammer Of The Gods..

That's the title of the infamous biography that they'd always dismiss..

The film Almost Famous is somehow based on the groupie phenomenon that happened in the first part of the 70's to Led Zeppelin back then..

Director Cameron Crowe himself wrote liner notes for Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains The Same live record, when he was just 17 years old.. He was already working for Rolling Stone since 1972.. enough said..

Who wouldn't want to be part of those days ?



Immigrant Song

A-ah-ahh-ah, ah-ah-ahh-ah
We come from the land of the ice and snow
from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow

The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands
To fight the horde and sing and cry, Valhalla, I am coming

On we sweep with, with threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore

Ah-ah-ahh-ah, ah-ah-ahh-ah
We come from the land of the ice and snow
from the midnight sun where the hot springs FLOW
How soft your fields, so green
can whisper tales of gore, of how we calmed the tides of war
We are your overlords

On we sweep with, with threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore

S-so now you better stop and rebuild all your ruins
for peace and trust can winthe day despite of all you're losin'
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ahh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

You're happy when I'm on my knees...

Oh my oh my...

Who can resist grabbing a White Les Paul Custom though a Marshall and just strum this riff..?

Yo ho yo ho ho ...

I discovered this great song from Alela Diane in the album Folk & Proud by the record label Naïve.

She's from California and tagged as part of the psych folk and New Weird America.

This song it really sounds like a pirate song.. with the low backing vocals, the hand-claps and the rare banjo arrangement ..

Her album bears the same name and was released in 2006.

Had a time with it and must say it's a good folk thing..

Come closer and see ...

Does the Cure write songs or make movies ?

This songs are full of passages and always spark my imagination...

A Forest is quite dark and obscure... it's the most goth they have ever been..

And is one of the best songs ever from the last century..

I mean no trouble, please don't put me down, don’t get upset...

So I never knew this song existed... !!
It was on the bootleg series from Dylan... and then on the Legacy Edition of Jeff Buckley's Grace...

How come this song is not on any official release being as good as it is.. ?

this little hidden gem...

Dylan once again is undressing our feelings.. with such plain words and simple pictures.. the soul of a man trapped in the cell of love-sickness..

I really prefer Jeff Buckley's demos than his official recordings.. because it's like when he was playing in Sin-E and nobody knew who he was..

Mama, you been on my mind.

Perhaps it is the color of the sun cut flat
An' cov'rin' the crossroads I'm standing at,
Or maybe it's the weather or something like that,
But mama, you been on my mind.

I mean no trouble, please don't put me down, don’t get upset,
I am not pleading or saying that "I can't forget you."
I do not pace the floor bowed down and bent, but yet,
Mama, you been on my mind.

Even though my eyes are hazy and my thoughts they might be narrow,
Where you been don't bother me or bring me down in sorrow.
I don't even mind who you'll be waking with tomorrow,
But mama, you're just on my mind.

I am not askin' you to say words like "yes" or "no,"
Please understand me, I have no place I’m callin’ you to go.
I'm just whispering to myself so I can't pretend that I don't know,
But mama, you're just on my mind.

When you wake up in the mornin' and look inside your mirror,
You know I won't be next to you, you know I won't be near.
I'd just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear
As someone who has had you on his mind.