microdot sleeve: This is not the original song video but, video set on a Smashing Pumpkins song "Whir."

It's past midnight and I'm working on something then after this, I'll be off for a few days and do some rewrites on "The Cheese Gallery" just like I've said on the previous rants. I couldn't sleep and I'm getting ready for the bike ride to Alpha. Anyway, on my past rants "From Earphone to Stagedive," I've mentioned something about one of my favorite Smashing Pumpkins song "Whir" off their 1994 Pisces Iscariot album. That I couldn't find a single video of that song from YouTube. Guess what? Here's the lyrics(again?) and the video. Enjoy the beautiful music about frailness and gentleness!

whir
billy corgan
© 1994 cinderful music/chrysalis songs (bmi)

i've wasted all my years
been chasin' all my fears
for another brighter than you
i gave in long ago to make it to the show,
but it's not easy when you're alone

all your prayers
in my ears
don't you care?

whir yourself around
just to fall back down
whir yourself around

my honey, little girl
c'mon, lets go for a whirl
it's still early, the sun is sleeping

she says she wants to marry me
she says she wants a baby
it's not easy when you're scared

whir yourself around
just to fall back down
whir yourself around

all your prayers
in my ears
don't you care?

After this rant, I'd take a few days off and look for somethin' I can use on "The Cheese Gallery" panel and work on it. It's been hangin' on underconstruction level up to now. So for the meantime, I'll be leaving you with what I've mentioned on the past rants "Big Hairs and Doll Dance" and my No.1 favorite Tears for Fears song off their 1985 "Songs from The Big Chair" album "The Working Hour". I'm glad that "YouTube" have this song because it's kinda' rare like "Start of The Breakdown." Anyway, perhaps on spare time and after some rewrites on "The Cheese Gallery" panel, I'll look over if there's any videos from Sisters of Mercy, Joy Division, X-Mal Deutchland, Violent Femmes, Tones on tail, Soft Cell, The Chameleons, The Waterboys, The Clash, Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Care, Bolshoi, EBTG, and a lot more. The 80's music, it's like an allergy that keeps on coming back.

The Working Hour
Tears for Fears

These things
That i've
Been told
Can rearrange
My world
My doubt
In time
But inside out
This is the working hour
We are paid by those who learn by our mistakes
This day
And age
For all
And not for one
All lies
And secrets
Put on
Put on and on
This is the working hour
We are paid by those who learn by our mistakes
And fear is such a vicious thing
It wraps me up in chains
Find out
Find out
What this fear is about
Find out
Find out
What this fear is about

As I've said yesterday, I'd go looking for some materials about Australia's No.1 rockwave band and found two of their finest songs in the 80's. I once had the album of this songs where it was taken. The 1981(Europe release) and 1982(US release) album "The Church" and 1988 album "Starfish" and of course, 1985 "Heyday." But I can't find a single song from "Heyday," so I ended up in two songs, "The Unguarded Moment" off "The Church" and "Under The Milky Way" off "Starfish." I remember Vig's band "Caffeine" cranked this songs some years ago. Anyway, here it is as promised yesterday.

Recent News: "The rows of chairs on the floor should have been a tipoff. The New York stop on the current U.S. tour by Australian sparkling-guitar band the Church – on August 10th at Irving Plaza, where it is usually standing or dancing or nothing – would not be the usual twang and levitation. In fact, the only electric guitar on stage all night was Steve Kilbey’s Fender bass, while guitarists Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper left their trademark Stratocasters and Rickenbackers in storage for this trip, instead using a variety of six- and twelve-string acoustics, supplemented by mandolin, Koppes’ occasional Dylanesque blowing on a harmonica and a guest harpist. But drummer Tim Powles played a regular kit, with characteristic force. And there was a compelling, climbing momentum to the night that was electric in all but the amp count and climaxed in the encore – to the audience’s grateful disbelief – with the first-ever live reading in New York of the Church’s 1981 jangling gem, “The Unguarded Moment.”

This tour, which ends August 20th in San Francisco, is a traveling version of the Church’s 2004 album, El Momento Descuidado, on which the band revisited songs from their quarter-century catalog in acoustic form. Many of those were in the set tonight , including “Tristesse,” from 1985’s Heyday and the Church’s solo American hit single, 1988’s “Under the Milky Way.” Tonight, the group expanded that conceit, unplugging tracks from its fine, new electric record, Uninvited, Like the Clouds (“Block,” “Day 5”). Kilbey also paid tribute to Grant McLennan of fellow Aussies the Go-Betweens, who died on May 6th, with a version of “Providence,” from the 1991 album the two made together as Jack Frost.

The Church are, at heart and their best, psychedelic electricians, and their full-volume shows in recent years have been ringing endorsements for their stubborn longevity. But these stripped-back arrangements – virtually “Elizabethan,” as Kilbey wisecracked at one point – showed how the Church continue to excel as writers as well as janglers. And don’t fret: There was still plenty of reverb."

The Unguarded Moment
The Church

So hard finding inspiration
I knew you'd find me crying
Tell those girls with rifles for minds
That their jokes don't make me laugh
They only make me feel like dying
In an unguarded moment

So long, long between mirages
I knew you'd find me drinking
Tell those men with horses for hearts
That their jibes don't make me bleed
They only make me feel like shrinking
In an unguarded moment

So deep, deep without a meaning
I knew you'd find me leaving
Tell those friends with cameras for eyes
That their hands don't make me hang
They only make me feel like breathing
In an unguarded moment





Under The Milky Way
The Church

Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty
Sound of their breath fades with the light
I think about the loveless fascination
Under the Milky Way tonight

Lower the curtain down on Memphis
Lower the curtain down all right
I got no time for private consultation
Under the Milky Way tonight

Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find

And it's something quite peculiar
Something shimmering and white
Leads you here despite your destination
Under the Milky Way tonight

Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find
Wish I knew what you were looking for
Might have known what you would find

Under the Milky way tonight..
Under the Milky Way tonight...

microdot sleeve: After this rant, I'd be looking for some materials about Australia's No.1 rock wave band in the 80's. Not Midnight Oil, not The Go-Betweens, and not Men at Work either nor Michael Hutchence's INXS, but one of my favorite Australian band back then with their "Heyday" album and recently touring the US. For the meantime, these Ian McCulloch band.
Yesterday, as I was listening over NU107, watching the rain from the window, hearing a thousand rain drops sound, I remember back in the 80's with Baltazar(an old friend), somewhere in Frisco, Quezon City, and it was raining too. We were claiming my DZBM 105 Switchers Club I.D. BM 105 was the best FM Station back then (I guess), they played New Wave, Rock Wave, Punk's and Hardcore music. But, I don't know what happened? BM 105 was gone in the airwaves now. So, back to present, NU played an Echo and The Bunnymen track. Then I remember Joy(an old friend) asked me back in the 80's, "What have you done to your hair?" Then I said, "That's the Ian McCulloch look!" Anyway, that's how Echo and The Bunnymen influenced me back then. Along with The Cure and Robert Smith, Echo and The Bunnymen was I guess one of the great British imports in the 80's. I once had their 1985 "Songs to Learn and Sing" singles album and their 1987 "Echo and The Bunnymen" album with songs like, "The Killing Moon", "Lips Like Sugar", "Seven Seas", "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo", the soundtrack from the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys and The Doors original "People are Strange," etc. Anyway, here's "Bring on the Dancing Horses" off their singles album "Songs to Learn and Sing" and a bonus song "The Cutter" originally from their 1983 "Porcupine" album and was also included in their singles album. What about "The Killing Moon?" I guess the song is as common as coffee.

Bring on The Dancing Horses
Echo and The Bunnymen

Jimmy Brown, made of stone
Charlie Clown, no way home
Bring on the dancing horses, headless and all alone
Shiver and say the words of every lie you've heard

First I'm gonna make it
And then I'm gonna break it 'til it falls apart
Hating all the faking and shaking
While I'm breaking your brittle heart

Billy stands all alone
Sinking sand, skin and bone
Bring on the dancing horses wherever they may roam
Shiver and say the words of every lie you've heard

First I'm gonna make it
And then I'm gonna break it 'til it falls apart
Hating all the faking and shaking
While I'm breaking your brittle heart
Brittle heart, brittle heart, brittle heart
And my brittle heart goes

Jimmy Brown, made of stone
Charlie Clown, no way home
Bring on the headless horses wherever they may roam
Shiver and say the words of every lie you've heard

First I'm gonna make it
And then I'm gonna break it 'till it falls apart
Hating all the faking and shaking
While you're breaking my brittle heart
Brittle heart, brittle heart
And my brittle heart goes

Bring on the new messiah wherever he may roam
Bring on the new messiah wherever he may roam
Bring on the new messiah wherever he may roam
Bring on the new messiah wherever he may roam

Jimmy Brown, made of stone
Charlie Clown, no way home
Bring on the dancing horses, headless and all alone
Shiver and say the words of every lie you've heard

First I'm gonna make it
And then I'm gonna break it 'til it falls apart
Hating all the faking and shaking
While I'm breaking your brittle heart

Billy stands all alone
Sinking sand, skin and bone
Bring on the dancing horses wherever they may roam
Shiver and say the words of every lie you've heard

First I'm gonna make it
And then I'm gonna break it 'til it falls apart
Hating all the faking and shaking
While I'm breaking your brittle heart
Brittle heart, brittle heart, brittle heart
And my brittle heart goes

Jimmy Brown, made of stone
Charlie Clown, no way home
Bring on the headless horses wherever they may roam
Shiver and say the words of every lie you've heard

First I'm gonna make it
And then I'm gonna break it 'till it falls apart
Hating all the faking and shaking
While you're breaking my brittle heart
Brittle heart, brittle heart
And my brittle heart goes

Bring on the new messiah wherever he may roam
Bring on the new messiah wherever he may roam
Bring on the new messiah wherever he may roam
Bring on the new messiah wherever he may roam





The Cutter
Echo and The Bunnymen

Cut it up, cut it up

Who's on the seventh floor brewing alternatives
What's in the bottom drawer waiting for things to give
Spare us the cutter, spare us the cutter
Couldn't cut the mustard

Conquering myself until I see another hurdle approaching
Say we can, say we will, not just another drop in the ocean

Come to the free for all with celo-tape and knives
Some of us six feet tall, we will escape our lies
Spare us the cutter, spare us the cutter
Couldn't cut the mustard

Conquering myself until I see another hurdle approaching
Say we can, say we will, not just another drop in the ocean

Am I the happy loss, will I still recoil
When the skin is lost, am I the worthy cross
Will I still be soiled when the dirt is off

Conquering myself until I see another hurdle approaching
Say we can, say we will, not just another drop in the ocean

Watch the fingers close when the hands are cold

Am I the happy loss, will I still recoil
When the skin is lost, am I the worthy cross
Will I still be soiled when the dirt is off

Am I the happy loss
Will I still be soiled when the dirt is off

microdot sleeve: Something for The Boazanian Prince. (I guess I'm just missing my Voltes V Action Figure.)

Forces from Outer Space to Invade Earth

Aliens from the planet Boazan have entered Defense Zone 3 in our Solar System. The Boazanians are very powerful and quite advanced compare to human beings in terms of technological weaponry as well as military strategies. However, their mentality is very primitive: they believe in race differences & hierarchy.
The Boazanian invasion is led by the sinister Prince Zardoz accompanied by his crew (Draco, Zuhl, and Zandra.)
The Boazanians are born with horns on their heads. Those who are born without horns are considered lower class and turned into slaves.
It won't be long when these evil creatures invade our planet and destroy everything and turn us all into their slaves for eternity.

Prince Zardoz

Draco

Zandra

Zuhl

Last week, I was asked by Sis. Rosalee about some foreign bands. Lots of talk then this. All my rants was about foreign bands anyway. I hope she'll enjoy this video of Soundgarden's "The Day I tried to Live" off their 1994 "Superunknown" album. I really miss these guys. I remember Aris cranking "Black Hole Sun" in '95 and catching those Leslie effects used on the song's main riff. Anyway, after Chris Cornell's throat operation, the band split-up. Chris Cornell gone solo then later formed Audioslave. I don't know exactly what happened to Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd? I guess they were the 90's best grunge act from Seattle, Washington, better than Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots. I still listen to my Soundgarden collection, and up to now, I still can say, they were really the best!

THE DAY I TRIED TO LIVE
Music: Cornell
Lyrics: Cornell

I woke the same as any other day
Except a voice was in my head
It said seize the day, pull the trigger
Drop the blade, and watch the rolling heads

The day I tried to live
I stole a thousand beggar's change
And gave it to the rich

The day I tried to win
I dangled from the power lines
And let the martyrs stretch
Singing

One more time around might do it
One more time around might make it
One more time around might do it
One more time around
The day I tried to live

Words you say never seem
To live up to the ones inside your head
The lives we make never seem
To ever get us anywhere but dead

The day I tried to live
I wallowed in the blood and mud with
All the other pigs

I woke the same as any other day you know
I should have stayed in bed

The day I tried to win
I wallowed in the blood and mud with
All the other pigs

And I learned that I was a liar
Just like you

microdot sleeve: Whatever it is that you will see or hear from watching the videos, things that may ruin and might affect musical understandings, has nothing to do with the integrity of my direction. This series of rants (part 1 and part 2) was written because of the Author's firm belief in the art of music. Music that is ever evolving and a lot of times influence people's lives.

"Sake Table, Chinas and Skins (Part 2)"

This will be the last part of a two part series about sticks, chinas and skins.

Again, this rant is for skin lovers like Vig, Bhab, Sis. Rosalee, Bro. Francis, Bro. Bong, and Aris, although Aris is not a drummer but a guitarist, I've included Metallica here so he can atleast relate with the drumming stuffs.(laughs!) For the meantime and on behalf of my old frustration, I will leave you with all this videos about sticks, chinas and skins. Enjoy!

Metallica: Drum solo ends up in a drum duel between Lars ulrich and James Hetfield.

Hey Vig, how about this Drum Battle of old folks?

Then finally, Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy, the best in progressive rock drumming.

Mike Portnoy during a drum clinic in Texas.

"Sake Table, Chinas and Skins (Part 1)"

This rant goes to all skin lovers.....

When I was a kid and still living in Sampaloc, Manila, we had this Japanese sake table lying at the garage. It was my makeshift drumset back then, hand tapping and sorts. I kinda annoyed our borders in those days because whenever they were playing guitars, jamming with their friends, I was there to play some hand tapping. And I remember back in '93, Vig and I were having fun on a makeshift drumset made from water containers, platform base of an electric fan (for china stand), coil spring (for pedal return-spring), some wood, and a door lock-chain (for pedal puller.) We were called back then as The Gallon Band.(laughs!) Eventually, Vig made it as a drummer of an underground rockwave band called "Caffeine" covering Railway Children's songs and stuffs from the 80's and the 90's. And I became Vig's No.1 critic on his drum playing since then. I guess playing drums is one of my frustrations in life. Anyway, enough of the drum-frustration-thing and get on with the rants.

Originally, this rant should be about John Bonham of Led Zeppelin and his "Moby Dick" drum solo. But Led Zeppelin was known for their song epicness (a song that is too long, e.g. a 30 minute song and sometimes longer) so, the video was cut in three parts. That's why I've declined to present it here considering that it was a good drum solo but, some scenes might losts its moment because the video was cut in three. Videos of drum solo or guitar solo should not be cut or else, scenes will be lost. Anyway, John Henry Bonham was one of the pioneers, but today, there are a lot of drummers better than Bonham. I've seen clips of the 2003 Modern Drummer Festival with lots of bands including Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater whom I believe was the best in progressive rock drumming. Just by looking at Portnoy's drum set-up amazes me. But still, this rant is for Vig, Bro. Francis, Bhab(I guess this will eat her Brandon Boyd, laughs!), Bro. Bong, Sis. Rosalee, and for people who always love the sound of skins. Hold your breath on this. Watch and catch the sticks with your ears.

For starters: The 12 year old Tony Royster Jr.

Then, Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy, watch the sticks of these awesome drummer.

Mike Portnoy in Tokyo doing a solo.

Finally.....
Some weeks back, Bro. Bobet asked me if this blog site plays music. "No, it doesn't! I'm having a hard time on that!" I said. One day, I told Vig that I wanted to have music on this site but I just don't know how and what website had a full length songs and music. Then I've discovered RealPlayer playing an entire Smashing Pumpkins album. Of course, like Windows Media Player, I know that RealPlayer plays music and videos. So, I made the "Sweet and Sadness" panel. But what I really wanted beside listening to Smashing Pumpkins song and album was to have music in the main blog's lyric rants. Another hard time. Usually, very few website offers a full length songs and music maybe because of royalties and stuffs. But, I really wanted to have music played on this lyrics that I'm talking about. Lyrics without music are nothing. What, lyrics just for reading? Then yesterday on posting "Kinky," I saw kids while playing Warcrafts, Dota's, Rok's, and Flyff's are also watching and listening over "You Tube" site. So, I tried if "You Tube" had songs I've posted here since "Whir" to the latest. No "Whir," no "Exploding Boy," no "Kinky." Atleast only three were not in the "You Tube" video library. ("Whir" is in the "Pisces Iscariot" vinyl on "Sweet and Sadness" panel except that it has no videos. "Landslide" video took the place of a wonderful introduction on the blog's welcome page.) Isn't that great! I'm just wanting to have full length songs and music on this blog site, instead it went into a full length videos.

Anyway, all the lyrics having "You Tube" video screen play videos from "You Tube" site. So, for Bro. Bobet, and Vig, and of course You, enjoy watching and listening through riffs, skins, and bass lines! Still, no matter what you see on the videos or read on the lyrics, things that may ruin and might affect musical understandings, has nothing to do with the integrity of my direction. So don't freak out on me! I hope you'll dig this music videos. And if you don't, then just press "STOP." But, I know someone who love this videos and songs..... Aris.

microdot sleeve: Here's one of my favorite, "Charlotte Sometimes" off The Cure's 1986 "Staring at The Sea" and "Standing on a Beach" album. A song about guilt and inspired by the eponymous book by Penelope Farmer.

Charlotte Sometimes
The Cure

All the faces
All the voices blur
Change to one face
Change to one voice
Prepare yourself for bed
The light seems bright
And glares on white walls
All the sounds of Charlotte sometimes
Into the night
With Charlotte sometimes

Night after night she lay alone in bed
Her eyes so open to the dark
The streets all looked so strange
They seemed so far away
But Charlotte sometimes did not cry
The people seemed so close
Playing expressionless games
The people seemed so close
So close
So many
Other names

Sometimes I'm dreaming
Where all the other people dance
Sometimes I'm dreaming
Charlotte Sometimes
Sometimes I'm dreaming
Expressionless the trance
Sometimes I'm dreaming
So many different names
Sometimes I'm dreaming
The sounds all stay the same
Sometimes I'm dreaming
She hopes to open shadowed eyes
On a different world
Come to me
Scared princess
Charlotte sometimes

On that bleak track
(See the sun is gone again)
The tears were pouring down her face
She was crying and crying for a girl

Who died so many years before...

Sometimes I dream
Where all the people dance
Sometimes I dream
Charlotte sometimes
Sometimes I dream
The sounds all stay the same
Sometimes I'm dreaming
There are so many different names
Sometimes I dream
Sometimes I dream...

Charlotte sometimes crying for herself
Charlotte sometimes dreams a wall around herself
But it's always with love
With so much love it looks like
Everything else
Of Charlotte sometimes
So far away
Glass sealed and pretty
Charlotte sometimes

Behind The War Mask.....
Here's another slide back in time. I was thinking early this morning about what materials I am going to use on my next rants. "Walk Away" or "This Corrosion" by Sisters of Mercy, "TV Man" by Bolshoi, "Charlotte Sometimes" by The Cure, "Sanctuary" by The Cult, "Career Opportunities" or "Tommy Gun" by The Clash, Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell's former band Soundgarden and the song "The Day I Tried to Live" or the Gang of Four comeback album. Then I remember something about last Sunday's late afternoon program on RMN, something that Don Lino(RMN's news correspondents in the U.S.) said about the Israel-Hezbollah war. Something behind the war itself, why a nation goes into war, arms deal, who's in the middle, why this nation and that nation always get involve, etc. Then I remember something about a punk band in the 80's, I immediately jump into ABC's, "Straight A's," "California Über Alles," which I usually do on guitar back in the 80's "The Prey," "Buzzbomb from Pasadena" then twing! "Kinky S_x Makes The World Go 'Round" off The Dead Kennedys 1987 album "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death." It was a narrative song, a guy calling on the phone and accidentally dialed the Secretary of War at the State Department of the U.S. while a Dead Kennedys song was played on the backgroud.

KINKY S_X MAKES THE WORLD GO ‘ROUND

Greetings…this is the Secretary of War at the State Department of the United States…We have a problem. The companies want something done about this sluggish world economic situation…profits have been running a little thin lately and we need to stimulate some growth…now we know there’s an alarmingly high number of young people roaming around in your country with nothing to do but stir up trouble for the police and damage private property. It doesn’t look like they’ll ever get a job…It’s about time we did something constructive with these people…We’ve got thousands of ‘em here too. They’re crawling all over…The companies think it’s time we all sit down, have a serious get-together - start another war…The President? He loves the idea! All those missiles streaming overhead to and fro…Napalm…People running down the road, skin on fire…The Soviets seem up for it…The Kremlin’s been itching for the real thing for years: Hell, Afghanistan’s no fun…So whadya say?…We don’t even have to win this war. We just want to cut down on some of this excess population…Now look. Just start up a draft: Draft as many people as you can. We’ll call up every last youngster we can get our hands on, hand ’em some speed, give ‘em an hour or tow to learn how to use an automatic rifle and send ‘em on their way…Libya? El Salvador? How ‘bout Northern Ireland? Or a ‘moderately repressive regime’ in South America? We’ll just cook up a good Soviet threat story in the Middle East - we need that oil…We had Libya all ready to go and Colonel Khadafy’s hit squad didn’t even show up. I tell ya…That man in unreliable. The Kremlin had their fingers on the button just like we did for that one…Now just think for a minute - we can make this war so big - so big…The more people we kill in this war, the more the economy will prosper…We can get rid of practically everybody on your dole queues if we plan this right. Take every loafer on welfare right off our computer rolls…Now don’t worry about those demonstrators - just pump up your drug supply. So many people have hooked themselves on heroin and amphetamines since we took over, it’s just like Vietnam. We had everybody so busy with LSD they never got too strong. Kept the war functioning just fine…It’s easy. We’ve got out college kids so interested in beer they don’t even care if we start manufacturing germ bombs again. Put a nuclear stockpile in their back yard, they wouldn’t even know what oit looked like…So how ‘bout it? Look - war is money. The arms manufacturers tell me unless we get our bomb factories up to full production the whole economy is going to collapse…The Soviets are in the same boat. We all agree the time has come for the big one, so whadya say?!?…that’s excellent. We knew you’d agree…The companies will be very pleased.