What The Fuck It's The American Tradition???

This is a question that Mr. Kiedis asks himself in the lyrics of "Green Heaven"...And I consequently ank myself:"Is There such a thing as an American Tradition?".I always believed that the United States of America was a meltin pot.A spot of gathering for the great minds of the world,so instead of inventing a term like "American Tradition" we can as well parallelize this hybrid with the word:fucked-up-euro-asio-africanologically bastardized brat*.I prefer not going farther with the word's analysis.So as I was saying that aforementioned song apart from being a satyric interlude to the cosmos' current catastasis* it is a vivid ,but also surealistic in a way, overlook to the doped universe* of nowadays.Flea was so excited about Kiedis writting this song that as he himself writes* in the booklet of their first album:"I was so excited when Antony wrote the lyrics for Green Heaven.I used to call everybody I knew and read 'em to them over the phone.I remember that when we recorded the demo,while furiously banging away on my bass,I felt this ethereal floating feeling,I was just disappearing into the beat and I am sure we all shared it".THIS IS FUCKIN' GOOD MUSIC!!!


The asterisks are mentioned in order of appearance:
*I'm very proud of myself for coming up with that word
*I don't even know if such a word exists in reality.Seize the moment so...
*This is a reference to one of my previous posts about Pulp Fiction

Ok,I just finished watching "Pulp Fiction" of Quentin Tarantino and I'm listening to "Show Me Your Soul",a track which was included in the "Pretty Woman" soundtrack.I do not believe that there is a real connection between the two but it was just an incident them being written simultaneously in this blog entry.Talking about the movie now I should say that it was not what I expected.Having seen "Kill Bill Vol.1&2" and "Reservoir Dogs" I expected Pulp to be something like its predecessors.Unlikely I realised that Mr.Tarantino decided to adopt a quite different approach to filmmaking in his debut.The film in my opinion was mostly based on the one-of-a-kind acting and the nothing-but-wafer-thin plot which was based on the characters' psycological outline and reactions under extreme pressure.Travolta,Kitel,Roth,Jackson and Willis(underestimated till now) gave their best to stand up to the requirements of the roles while Uma Therman was something like a dope queen in the kingdom of wealthiness.The moment the film ended an uncontrollable need sprang in head:I Had To See The Scar Tissue Video.It was more like an after-drag without side-effects than a need now that I reconsider.Nevertheless,I looked the movie from another angle at the end of the video.Is Bible a source of answers to our still unanswered questions?Can we give justice to the evil men's unjustifiable deeds?Is there a borderline between bad and evil?Or the limit that seperates them is adjustable?Can four interwining tales of violence and redemption make us see our true selfs and lead us to the correct road in the conundrum of life???
In the end,regardless of its lack of action and of its rather stationary scenery or even unnecessary plot unravelling I was left with a bitter sweet taste of blood and love,a story of heatred but also of lust for life.
Tommorow I am sitting a Physichs' exam so I better be going...I may alter this entry later for its creation was rather fast I must confess.See you later zero fans of the site!!!

This Velvet (g)Love

This is an attempt to make an article about the greatest love songs I have ever heard and being based on the principle of the surealistic artistic movement,like Salvador Dali, I will write this lines according to my inner percpective and subconcious. By that I do not refer to incomprehensible sum of mambo-jambo but to the thought's limestone also known as automatic writting*.
I am going to inaugurate this effort of recording those heartbreaking songs by reffering briefly to the bands that have given as the honour and pleasure to be born in our lifetime. First and foremost I must express my deepest satisfaction to have lived in an era where Led Zeppelin made history in worlwide music and have composed tracks of adamand ciezeld beauty.One of these diamonds is "Stairway To Heaven". The one-of-a-kind Plant's lyrics combined with the God Gimmy Page's outstanding musical creativity result on an better-than-fiction ballad which our children and the children of our children will still hear and will still pour their guts out from crying.
Now I would be a fool and an infidel to my musical beliefs if I was not to mention my being in love with The Pink Floyd(and I'm using a capital T for let's face it...THEY ARE GODS!!!). In my reference to them I must mention"Hey You" with the knee-cutting last crave from David Gilmour: "Together We Stand Devided We Fall" and their more widely known and acclaimed ballad "Wish You Where Here", a song not only about love but also about the super materilastic world whose debut was made back in 1975 when the album "Wish You Were Here" was marketted."Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage???".
In order to be objective in my presentation of these facts I ought to make a brief reference to the numerous ballads of Scorpions and some more metallic ones like "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica."Soldier of Fortune" from Deep Purple as well as "Europa" from the virtuose of guitar Carlos Santana...
Time now to take you to a different place (where peace loving whales flow through liquid outter space!IRRELEVANT!!!).I believe there are some modern ballads that will be remembered by those who still try to find something more in music. For instance no one can deny that the voice of Sivert Hoyem has given ,to the ones that have heard him, one of the most sensual and dark experiences. I will just mention "Only when You're Gone" and "Salt".Here is a useful list:
1)Doves - Last Broadcast
2)Norah Jones - The Nearness Of You
3)Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad
4)Nick Cave(solo) - Into My Arms
5)Elvis Costello - She
6)Oasis - Wonderwall
7)KT Tunstall - Other Side Of The World
8)James - Sometimes
9)U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own(I'm placing it here only because of its recent publication)
10)Radiohead - Karma Police
11)Keren Ann - Not going Anywhere
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Those are just a few of the best...
It is time now to start talking about my personal favourite whose creators were my motive to make this blog.So to cut a long story short not only my favourite ballad but also my most beloved song ever,the track that makes me weep,laugh and cry at the same time is "This Velvet Glove" from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I would like to write so many things about this song but I should refrain from doing so. I will just say that I have never heard a song with such density of meanings."This Velvet Glove"* contains the ammount of truth and honesty that you do not come across so often these days in the music indusrty.Every lyric is the summarization of a whole way of life .The outbearst in the chorus is like a storm with such a strength and indensity that can blow away the clouds of misery and vissisitude,it is the exact expression of love's deepest feelings,an elegy to unconditional love.Ok that's all I should say,if you would like to learn more buy "Californication".
Oh shit I almost forgot "Don't Forget Me" which Flea composed and wrote, you should hear this one too.Bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Hope you liked the article.See you soon:In school or via net.

*Automatic Writing is a part of Mr Frusciante's Discography
*I do not know why it hasn't been given any credit to this song yet.I hope it will be a post mortem success : )