Posts Tagged ‘Psychedelic Rock’

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Grateful Dead – "Touch of Grey" (1987)

2010/06/19


G sometimes tires of people in general. I know this because she'll yell at them from within the car, even if the windows are closed and there isn't any way they could possibly hear the reasons they are bad and why they should will themselves out of existance. I'm not talking suicide, just *poof* you're there one moment, you're gone the next. Unfortunately it frequently sounds more like she is yelling at me even though I am sitting quietly and tired from a long week. It is no wonder I had a dream last night that we had decided to move to a house in the forest, not another person or house in sight. Deer came to greet us at the windows. I could see the benefits but even in my dream I knew I would miss our old house, and even some sense of being part of a community in some way. Mostly I was lamenting that the "new" house was actually in need of a lot of work and investment. Ceilings coated with wallpaper that disintegrated at the touch. Plaster help up by tape. I knew it had to be a dream though because the smell was of mold and old people. G would never have accepted those smells. And yet perhaps it was not a dream about moving at all.

Perhaps it was just us, getting older. Stiffer and less patient with a touch of grey.

That was all I had to say
And it's all right
I will get by
I will survive
We will get by
We will survive


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Click here for more info on Grateful Dead – In the Dark – "Touch of Grey".

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Yes – "Roundabout" (1971)

2010/04/26


I took a generic antihistamine. That was last night. I am still out of it, but this song seems all the more brilliant. Hopefully I'll be a little less "psychedelic" before I hop in the car to go to work.


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Click here for more info on Yes – Fragile – "Roundabout".

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Dirty Little Rabbits – "Hello" (2007)

2010/02/17


This song is representative of what Dirty Little Rabbits is. It sounds like a mesh of different styles (e.g. the opening where it is like Bjork and As I Lay Dying got together) and it is indeed the coming together of a few people who already had other musical careers, including Stella Soleil and Shawn Crahan of Slipknot. I think it is a great idea. Once you've made a certain kind of music for a while, working with others will bring out other qualities and the end result will be something new, instead of the same old same old. I like it!


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Click here for more info on Dirty Little Rabbits – Breeding – "Hello".

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Orchards & Vines – "In The Darkness" (2000)

2010/02/16

Audio Stream (and Free MP3): http://www.orchardsandvines.com/music.html

Orchards & Vines


Occasionally I like to turn on my random 80s one-hit-wonders playlist. It includes songs like Franky Goes To Hollywood's "Relax", Tommy Tutone's "867-5309", and Nena's "99 Luft Balloons". Good stuff.

Somehow this song "In The Darkness" by Orchards & Vines ended up in the list even though it is not from the 80s. I thought it odd. I ask G if she knew about it or the band. Nope. So I search YouTube for "Orchards & Vines". Nothing. It materialized apparently. What is also odd is how little information about them is on the Internet. All I can find of substance are some rave reviews (like this one), the Orchards & Vines website and MySpace page, and the place on Amazon where their album, "Tomorrow's Yesterday", was sold, once upon a time. No Wikipedia page. Weird.

It is as though the band disappeared, and the album with it. However there is no indication of this Jefferson Airplane like band disbanding. There is even a mention of new albums being in the works but the only date to cling to is the 2009 copyright at the bottom of the website. Did singer Cindy Tomlinson and the band memebers Ted Koppman, Elinor Harshenin, Jesse Cullen and Ron Mann all just fall off the face of the planet? I have no idea. They are from Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. Perhaps they are at the Olympics?

I have to wonder though, how many bands that did not score radio time and whose album failed to earn much for their record label, just kind of fade away? I suppose some bands are destined to be forgotten, unable to grasp the great success they had hoped for. I'd like to believe this one should not be one of them.


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Click here for more info on Orchards & Vines – Tomorrow's Yesterday – "In The Darkness".

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King Missile – "Cheesecake Truck" (1990)

2010/01/15


Not a moment of downtime yesterday. It sucks. Perhaps I should steal a cheesecake truck, leave town, and start over. I wonder how one might go about that. I wonder if I can find a song to guide me?

….and apparently my tired state prevents me from being able to spell "cheesecake" and "missile". I misspelled every instance and had to up them all. Some twice! Oi! I don't know what a "chescale missle" is, but it is not right.


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Click here for more info on King Missile – Mystical Shit – "Cheesecake Truck".

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Sonic Youth – "Sunday" (1998)

2010/01/03


Today is the last day of "vacation". My next day off is possibly not until May. Ouch. At least it is Sunday though.

Sunday comes alone again
a perfect day for a quiet friend

i guess its true its never too late
still i don’t know what to do today

sunday comes and sunday goes
sunday always seems to move so slow

to you – lonely sunday friend
with you – sunday never ends


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Click here for more info on Sonic Youth – A Thousand Leaves – "Sunday".

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Cream – "White Room" (1968)

2009/09/10


I have read different interpretations of this song. Some say it is about Eric Clapton's cocaine habit back in the 60s. Others say it relates to the Vietnam War. I think it is just about lost and lonely people, wandering the shadows. Great song whatever Cream intended.

Oh also during the line "Platform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windows" I keep hearing it as "Platform dickhead". Perhaps it is just me?


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Click here for more info on Cream – Wheels of Fire – "White Room".

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