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Genre by Genre #5

Welcome to the ocean

welcome to the sea

welcome to the jungle...

 Is all I need to tell. Sorry of the break, last weeks was full of everything "which had to be done" so I can say I was kinda busy. We were first few days at our summer cottage and then two nights sleepover at my friend's house. That kind of stuff.

I decided to continue this, 'cause now I really haven't done anything else than listened to music. And genre is glamrock, by the way. I love almost everyting of it; the attitude, the style, music, everything. Genrely, most of my favorite bands are punk bands, that's maybe 'coz for that there're millions of little punk bands. But glamrock has been always closer of my heart.

ATTENTION: Don't mess Glamrock with 80's heavy (Europe, Bon Jovi etc.) Cause those two genres are totally different and I don't like the last one at all. Glamrocks attitude was far more revolting and shocking, ya'know.

First rockband that I have ever liked is Guns N' Roses. Or, actually it's the second one, but first that I liked that much I can say I'm the fan of it. In case you understand what I'm saying. Anyway, I started to listen to it in winter 2007-2008, so now I've liked it about 4,5 years. And I still like it. 

Glamrock is the best thing that happened in music in 80's, believe me. Guns N' Roses' music was something different, compared to those nowadays rockbands. Two guitars' rock like the Rolling Stons but mixed with so much more, pop, punk etc. GN'R made three perfect albums, Appetite for distruction, Use your illusion I and Use your illusion II, and few not as famous records. Everything shoud have ended, when Slash and Duff McKagan left the band 1994, they just got fed up with Axl Rose's huge ego. I don't wonder; Axl has hard kind of personality. GN'R didn't stop. Axl got new guitarists to band and continued, thinkin that he's all GN'R himself. Unfortunately. But I'll have always a place in my heart for 80's GN'R. 

Izzy, Slash, Axl, Steven and Duff <3

I didn't buy Chinese Democracy.

I've bought Velvet Revolver albums and I like it, as I like Slash's solo music too.

( I think Slash is the reason why I started to listen to GN'R. Or maybe it was his hair.)

But there's a band which was an idol for Axl Rose and Slash. And, believe it or not, it's Finnish.

I've liked it for a year, but the problem is, that nobody ever plays it anywhere. When I listened songs last fall from youtube, I hadn't heard any of them. That pissed me off. 'Cause the music I listened from youtube was the best Finnish music I've ever heard. Do Finns have attitude problem when they can't be proud of that unfinnish attitude and unfinnish style? I couldn't have ever believed that actually Finnish people have created glamrock. Cocatil of classic rock, pop and punk.

Hanoi rocks. Nasty Suicide, Sami Yaffa, Razzle, Andy McCoy and Michael Monroe.

OK, maybe I can say I'm proud of being Finnish. Sometimes.

Guns N' Roses: Civil War.

One of my favorite songs of GN'R, sad that they can't do that kind of music anymore.

GN'R: My Michelle

Hanoi Rocks: Underwater World

Doesn't sound Finnish, can you claim so? By the way, some people who have listened to GN'R's first album may have noticed, that GN'R admired Hanoi rocks on some level. Listen to words of this song and names of the songs of GN'R. Got it? 

Hanoi rocks: Don't you ever leave me

Don't say this is cliche, please. Just love it.

Two steps from the move from 1984. In the same year Razzle was in car crash, Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil drove the car drunk and Razzle died. Somebody said that Razzle's greatest wish was to get to Los Angeles on their American tour. Nowadays, you can find his grave from there.

Too fast to live, to you to die.

I'm gonna tattoo that sentence to my arm.

  

Somebody should stop the time.

I feel like have done nothing last days. Or in few last weeks. Just watched TV and slept and listened to music. Is it even life?  Time's going by even I wouldn't do anything at all, it's annoying.
Someone could say, that at least I have time to relax, but it's making me crazy. I need to do something, cause otherwise the thing what happens is this; I lay on sofa for weeks without doing anything and then I wake to understand that I really haven't done anything.

I've had time to watch TV that mch, that I started to follow " In Treatment" again. I've seen before about half from the first season, and some episodes from the second, but now I decided to watch it all.

Gabriel Byrne as the therapist Paul Weston. In Treatment is interesting, cause everything happens almost always in one room, and there are two people talking to each other. But it's just damn adictive...The third season starts next monday, but after that HBO is not going to continue making the serie. Have to find the seasons on DVD from somewhere. (it come on YLE1 at 22.45 from monday to friday and i'm not so sure about the channel... can be YLE2)

Not only In Treatment, but I found one other serie too. Absolutely nothing to do with therapy. I've read few first Naruto books (or mangas, whatever) and my little sister have 2 first seasons of it on DVD. I thought it would be good ( I liked the books) and or course I'm hooked to it now. 

I couldn't have ever believed that some anime would be this good, cause my first experiences of anime where something horrible (like Pitchi pitchi pitch and that kind of stuff that I really can't stand at all)

  

I think my little sister knew I'm gonna love it.. anyway, there are Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto, and their sensei Kakashi. You know it's about ninjas XD

I like some anime movies like Hayao Miyazaki's films, but this is the only serie I like. 

I know my little sister knows lot more about this than me and she likes Gaara and Sasuke and many other people, but I have only one guy who I like... 

Yeah, I know I'm an idiot and this prooves that I have too much time to do everything senseless on vacation, but I love Kakashi. He is somehow... you know, interesting is wrong word... mysterious? He is quiet and somehow gloomy most of the time, at least compared to others like Sakura and Naruto, who are screaming all the time or fighting with each other XD

And Kakashi is cute name ♥ (it means scarecrow)  

So, time has gone by watching TV. And I'm soon bored to death, so I need to make up something else to do. My little sister'll get soon angry 'cause her Naruto season boxes can suddenly dissappear... Yeah, I'm sure I have the most boring life in the world.

Clashie calling, it's raining here.

Indian party in the middle of Tallin?

Now I could tell about our Tallin trip.. We travelled there by ship (what else?) with those hundreds of finnish booze tourists, which wasn't cool at all. Maybe somebody can understand why I don't like to speak finnish in Tallinn, after seeing those drunk idiots on the ship. And how a middle age, fat woman who has wenty boxes of booze and beer with her, dare to whine about russian car driver?

And, about the post name, we really actually saw some Hare Krishna (do they write it like that?) thing in the middle of Tallinn. There were a lot people and one dude who was singing the Hare Krishna song, just like in TV serie Pasila. In Tallinn. Let me say; weird.

We also visited in modern art museum KUMU in Tallinn. It wasn't as boring as I expected Estonian modern art to be. There were lot of stuff about times of Soviet Union, which wasn't a miracle, but also many different art works of other things.

Dark room which was full of beautiful shining Earths.

Yeah I know it's Lenin, but I like that.. is it red sun? And from down corner, where are the buildings, style is like from Monty Python animations, at least in my mind.

You should be afraid of squirrels.

I didn't even see any. Fail. Or lie.

I know my hair's from ass but I hope you'll forgive me.

Tallinn at the night time.

We were in Tallin two nights as I've said thousand times already, and then we went back to Helsinki. There we visited modern art museum Kiasma, here some pics of that.

There were photos of many important African of African- American people, here's photos of Martin Luther King Jr. Baptist priest who talked about black and white equality and fought against rasism. He was shot dead in 1968, when he was only 39 years old.  

Protest against vaccines, as I thought it was. There was a video about it, like about many other things. One video was about genocide of Rwanda, that made me almost cry.

There was Helsinki Pride week going on. On saturday there was Pride Parade, and they walked through all Helsinki downtown. I really wanted to attend but I'm wuite sure that probably my parent could have killed me after that. They say they wanted to protect me but I don't understand of protecting from what? What could happen? Somebody comes with a gun and kill us all? Or I'll embarrass myself? I don't understand. 

And to the end all pics of clothes and music I bought from Helsnki and Tallinn..   

Jeans (damn light picture) from Terranova 20€

Kurt and Courtney shirt from Cybershop 20€

Zip shoes from.. I don't know the store's name, it sells little higher quality shoes than .. for example Andiamo. anyway they cost about 51€

Neon green rivet belt from Backstreet Helsinki, that was on sale about 17€

And albums:

David Bowie: Heroes from Levykauppa Äx only 10 €

Hüsker Dü: Songs and Stories from Levykauppa Äx 8 €

Bad Religion: All Ages from Levykauppa Äx 10 €

U2: The Joshua Tree from Stockmann 21 €

That kind of things. Now soon I'm leaving to my summer cottage to Virrat (in English city's name would be Rivers) about 50-100 kilometers to north from Tampere. I need some quietness for a while. For me it's hard to be doing nothing so I need to get to place where I don't have anything to do. You know.

Genre by Genre #4

Blues

You won't believe it from me easily, but I've always liked.. how I could call it.. black music? If I start from blues, I could say, that I've loved it actually quite long time ('cause for I play piano, and those pianoplaying books are full of classical little dances and then when there's one blues song it's different enough that I love it. You'd understand if you played piano in some music school. ). Books full of shit and one blues song. You'll see if you go to library and take some random piano school book.

Anyway, blues songs are usually in major, but inside of them is minor, that's called "blue note". It's same in minor songs, you can hear the blue note very clear in the song "St. James Infirmary" (the first guitar note in major, if somebody knows what I'm talking about).

About the blues music itself, I could say I love it's rythm. This is also a thing you'd understand after few years of piano lessons. It has its own little sad sound and rythm, especially about the rythm I could say, its not normal boring 1 2 3 4 rythm at all, it has.. you don't know how hard it is to explain. 

OK, back to blues. One of my favorite blues artists is Hugh Laurie. Believe it or not, he just is damn good. He has the sound and the style and the heart. His voice suits perfectly for singing blues. He just is perfect. I still think the best things of TV serie "House" are the ends when Hugh plays piano. Yeah, he's perfect.  

Other my favorite artists are.. who should I even mention? Professor Longhair was damn good piano player, Janis Joplin is woman who everybody knows, but blues as a genre would almost strech to Eric Clapton... Well, I think there are two lines of blues; original New Orleans blues with trumpets and pianos and more rocking 60's blues. Now I mention one finnish woman too, name is Erja Lyytinen, who plays nice blues too. It doesn't sound finnish at all, at is quite rocking ( I saw one live video). And she sings in English. Not bad.    

I think of all black music genres (jazz, blues, funk, soul, gospel...) my favorite is blues. It's not as sad or wining as people like to always think. Old blues songs bring some old hotels and mafia clubs from 1920's into my mind, men with stetson hats and suits and women wearing old style dresses, ya know. Sitting at table, smoking cigarettes and drinking wine, and listening some blues band which plays at the hotel's bar's stage. Ain't it cool? Like from some Goodfater I & II ♥

Rock blues sounds still like 60's. Janis Joplin died for drugs when she was 27, and all ten years were full of everything crazy from rock n' roll, drugs and sex to hippies and Bob Dylan, and to cold war, James Bond and Vietnam war... Weird times. 

That's what I think, but my opinion is that people need to hear music to understand what it really is. And by the way, we were in Tallinn for 2 nights and one night in Helsinki, I'll post photos from there and clothes and albums that I bought from there. 

St. James' Infirmary is originally partly traditional song, partly blues. The most famous version is from 1929 by Louis Armstrong, one of the most famous blues trumpetists of all time.

"Tipitina" by Dr. John. He is one of the greatest blues pianists of 20th century, and played Professor Longhair's song at French Jazz Festival in 1986 (Professor Longhair died in 1980). I'd like to put HUgh Lauries version of this song here too, put my f***ing internet doesn't work and I can't pick up more songs from youtube. Damn. Of course I like this version too, I'd like to be as good piano player as Dr. John.

Damn, look at his hands!

I think that was all. And now if I could post this writing, it would be nice too. 

Keep waiting for my shopping post, it will come next when my computer'll work again.

Bye, dears.