Jimi Hendrix - Auld Lang Syne (mp3)

Jimi Hendrix - Auld Lang Syne (mp3)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New Year from the entire wonderful BENBENEK BLOG family!

This illustrious BLOG started off as a mere adjunct to Houseplant Picture Studio and now it seems to have been given an actual life of it's own and I suppose that's a good thing...especially if people (I assume) are visiting in sizable numbers.

At the very least, this dubious internet-based forum gives me (and me alone!) a chance to practice my typing and it's also a good place to use fancy three dollar words and phrases...out-dated and otherwise.

So, all around a good deal for one and all!

It'll be another month or so until we reach POST 1000, at which point I'll put together a little giveaway multi-media prize for three or four visitors (for no particular reason) - so stay tuned!

> B E N B E N E K

Tom and Allene - Sheltered in the Arms of God

Well, well, well...here we are at the last major BLOG POST of 2007 and we've got a good one for you...mmm, and it's a BLOG POST you can listen to with your ears!

It's an album by evangelists Tom and Allene Ogdon and it's from the special year of 1969...and it's called Sheltered in the Arms of God...and it features a lot of (what sounds like) mellotron and much reverbed electric guitar and soft, envious and forlorn drums.

Tom and Allene sing mostly good (sort of) and most of the time stay on key (though Tom tends to rush his phrasing)...everything seems like it was recorded very HOT and IN THE RED...Tom especially sometimes sounds like he's gonna jump out of the speakers and personally drag us to The Lord...and the way things are going in the world these days, that might be a dang good thing!



It would be really nice if this album (by Tom and Allene) were to be embraced by the often-xenophobic greater internet "weird" music community (you know who you are...) and turned into one of those annoying online "weird" music album digital fetish objects!

The internet crackpot fringe "weird" music community (and world at large) sure needs more fleeting "musical weirdness" to bask in (and lose itself in) briefly (and fleetingly!) from week to week - anything less would be A MORTAL SIN.

As you know, most of what passes for inspired "weird" pop culture "product" (on the internet) is generally pretty stupid (just look at YouTube or TMZ.Com) - so it would be fairly easy for Tom and Allene to ride a short wave of fetish "cult" music fame on the internet...so, let's get at it....start downloading! Start downloading before I start concocting more nonsensical sentences!

High-rated internet cult status for Tom and Allene is but a click away!

Oh yes...Happy New Year 2008 everybody and always remember that friends don't let friends drive Hummers...and good friends don't let friends drive blindfolded.

> B E N B E N E K

Tom and Allene - Sheltered in the Arms of God (zipped mp3 album)

Dolly Parton - Don't Drop Out (mp3)

Obviously, this is from Dolly's early career when she was being styled as a teenage Spector-esque rock chick. Not bad and fairly catchy!

The song is from WHERE THE GIRLS ARE - VOLUME ONE which is one of a series of great 60s fem-pop music compilations.

By the way, kids - we're wiping all the mp3s off the server and starting over, so if there's anything you want you better grab it now.

Dolly Parton - Don't Drop Out (mp3)

Dolly Parton - Official Website

INTERVENTION - A&E TV

Personally, I used to think that COPS was the greatest ever TV show on television...it always seemed to have "what it took" to make a great REALITY SHOW...and it seldom failed to satisfy.

But times have changed and there's another (much more mighty) reality show on the block....INTERVENTION...yes...INTERVENTION!

INTERVENTION is on A&E cable TV and it's got everything...painfully graphic heroin stabs, meth snorting, booze gulping, rampaging, crying, sensitive personal discussions on front lawns, heavy duty prostitution (guys AND girls!) and flagrant use of marijuana and of course more cigarette smoking than you can shake a disposable lighter at!

Yeah...COPS is sort of OK, but...where else but on INTERVENTION can you see wide-open displays of HARDCORE HUMAN DEPRAVITY on a regular televised basis?

INTERVENTION - ON A&E TELEVISION

POST #877 - HOUSEPLANT PICTURE STUDIO

In terms of blatant public output, this narrow time of year (call it a slice) is no time for doing anything...no time even for posting junk on this BLOG (blog...what an ugly word...the internet's ruining our very language...egads!)

Post-Christmas, Pre-New Year...whatever you want to call it, everybody (and their pets) is submerged (hibernating!) in a kind of somnambulant goo...too stuffed to activate and too expectant to boogie...even AM RADIO gets even worse during this annual time period! And that's saying something!

So, once again I urge you to visit the main HPS website, because if there aren't MAGICAL LINKS here, there certainly will be some there...plus music and more comical ramblings and whatever.

(descriptions are often elusive and transitory...)

HOUSEPLANT PICTURE STUDIO

MOTOWN ACAPPELLA - 3 NEATO TRACKS (mp3s)

The dog dropped these mp3s on the doorstep last week...they're part of a huge collection of killer accapella (that means no instruments) selections from the golden days of MOTOWN RECORDS.

Don't think I've heard anything better this year than Rick James and his ridiculously-fucked-up "no music" version of SUPER FREAK (he's practically drooling into the microphone...jeez!) and The Velvelettes rip it up like they're having their own party and Smokey just digs in and nails it...yes, decidedly yes! Where have the authorities been keeping this stuff?

It's fun to hear the punch-ins and punch-outs and teeny-weeny traces of music and tambourines here and there among these magnificent vocals...and, well, it's sort of like really stripped-down DUB or like when yer needle gets stuck between the darn grooves.

Lots of silence between the singing, so be patient...

Rick James - Super Freak (mp3)

The Velvelettes - Really Sayin' Somethin' (mp3)

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Tears of a Clown (mp3)

THE GRAND MYSTERY OF THE PLAYING CARDS!

I really don't know why it is...throughout my life (or throughout most of my tender adult life) I've had a hitherto undisclosed talent for finding playing cards...gosh I mean, nearly every week I find either single or many (usually strewn) playing cards on the street or in the passing mud or in dark, recalcitrant alleyways.

I remember one time when I was about 19 years old and some friends and I were strolling and sightseeing up on Hollywood Boulevard (afterwards we saw a TV taping of "Wheel of Fortune" but that's a different tale) and we went into a strange, metaphysical bookshop (actually a Theosophical bookshop) and I think I only bought a small pamphlet of essays by stoic anti-metaphysician and former boy genius J. Krishnamurti - my friends didn't buy anything...and...

And on the way out I found a new-ish playing card right in front of the bookshop and I picked it up and stuck it in my pocket...probably later used it as a bookmark, because playing cards are good for that.



Well, fast forward a few decades and JUST TODAY I found maybe about 20 PLAYING CARDS strewn near the bustop at Junipero and Broadway over here in Long Beach.

(see bustop photo above)

And I truly don't know why I continue to come across playing cards...I don't care for card playing (maybe a little gin rummy once in a while) and I basically think that people that play cards are somewhat misguided.

But continue to find playing cards I surely will do...and I assume the reasons behind such lucky playing card findings shall never rise to the thin and harshly-lit surface of reality in which we all dwell...because such things are best left unknown to us who dwell on the thin and harshly-lit surface of reality.

And as you know, we are known collectively as The Human Race and whether we find playing cards or not, it's all in the hands we play and it's not in the lack of the many playing cards we may or may not find on this (or future) horizons.

The Krishnamurti Foundation of America

BENBENEK - COMPETITION (mp3)

This is a meager (great word!) vocal demo in an early stage of infancy in search of lyrics and a stable melody line so it can be placed on the upcoming album (Spring 2008) which is called LISTENING TO PAINT DRY.

The complete working title of this soon-to-be melodic song is (I Don't Wanna Think About) Competition, but things always tend to change, so don't hold your breath...in fact, don't hold your breath anyway, you might pass out!

BENBENEK - COMPETITION (mp3)

RECORD ENVELOPE

This very nice blogsite was making the rounds a few weeks ago...forgot to post it until now.

As we all know, a lot of record cover and inner sleeve art sites are ruined by overly-zealous and talkative webmasters (who seem to think they're God because they bought an album at a garage sale for 50 cents), but the very nice RECORD ENVELOPE is sleek and simple and the 45 sleeve scans are actually elegant and thought-provoking.

Overly-zealous and talkative webmasters please take note!

RECORD ENVELOPE- 45 SLEEVE ART!

The Plumstead Common - Rockminster Abbey

Rockminster Abbey as recorded by The Plumstead Common was the very first official Houseplant Recordings (Ltd) compact disc album ever released...and it was released exactly 10 years ago this week...which means it's the 10th Anniversary of Rockminster Abbey as recorded by The Plumstead Common which was released in late 1997 right on the cusp of 1998...sweet, oh so sweet!

Are you excited yet?...nah, didn't think so...

The Plumstead Common were (and still are somewhat) from Woolwich, London UK and still record near what is now THE POUND STORE at the derelict and slippery western end of Powis Street where people speak relentlessly on their mobile phones whilst nibbling on delicate and yummy Gregg's Pink Cakes...no shit!



For some reason, the severely over-rated (and kind of sad) Archive.Org has allowed us to permanently post Rockminster Abbey on their poorly-utilized (streaming rancid Grateful Dead, anyone?) website for several years now...and this is where you will find the album in fractured form, along with cyberiffic liner notes (hopefully) and not much else.

We'll be posting an actual SEAMLESS (aah, great word!) version of the album in a couple of weeks because it's basically one big slab of annoyances and big slabs of annoyances should never be rendered non-seamless by human means...regardless of intentionality.

Enjoy as you've done many times before...and carry on!

The Plumstead Common - Rockminster Abbey (mp3s)

Greggs - Greggs Official Website

HOUSEPLANT PICTURE STUDIO

HOUSEPLANT PICTURE STUDIO

BENBENEK - Close Your Eyes (mp3)

Back in my good old SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COLLEGE DAYS between classes (Canning Fruit 101, Advanced Skydiving...) I used to lock myself up in one of the two student union piano rooms and play free-form piano junk. I never bothered to use a piano theory book and never bothered to teach myself real piano music songs, but I did manage (over a hectic 4-year period) to learn how to get a general grasp of the keyboard and where the basic notes are...I still only hunt and peck, but sometimes do manage to come up with something fairly lukewarm and unlistenable from time to time (musically speaking)

Here's something, not sure exactly what...it seems to be a pathetic search for a melody line...done piano style. I wish I had time to add more reverb and delay but I must go and can't be delayed.

The complete title of the song is:

Close Your Eyes and Imagine Yourself in Your Perfect Home

Here are the lyrics so far:

Close your eyes and imagine yourself in your perfect home
It might be an igloo or it might even be a dome
Think of a treehouse if you want
Or another dwelling place that you might flaunt

Needs some work...

BENBENEK - Close Your Eyes (mp3)

SPARKS - GET IN THE SWING (mp3)

A song dedication (Huggy Boy style) for everybody who needs to go into work today (which is definitely the day after Christmas or as Sonny Liston used to call it...Boxing Day)

Get in the Swing is from one of the most intentionally "over-produced" (whatever that means) albums of the past 1000 years (INDISCREET) and oh yeah I got some very nice things for Christmas...lotsa books and gift certificates and many hugs and kisses from loved ones who ALSO seemed to get lotsa gift certificates for Christmas...so yeah lotsa gift certificates all around and hugs and kisses, too...gosh!



We also did our 7th Annual Christmas Eve Theological Fish Fry at Norm's Restaurant over there in Lakewood, CA (home of the very first shopping mall in the world, look it up) - big turn out...but I personally froze in the parking lot (90 minutes!) listening to friends of mine talk ceaselessly and with very little purpose. But, then again I suppose that's what Norm's Restaurant parking lots are for...true? Oh yes.

SPARKS - WHERE DID THE GROOVE GO?'

SPARKS - GET IN THE SWING (mp3)

Norm's Restaurants - Official Website!

Stan Freberg - Bang Gunleigh US Marshall (mp3)

Just today (Christmas Eve) I remembered that at one time (probably when I was in junior high) I met famous voice actor DAWS BUTLER during an afternoon school field trip to HANNA BARBERA STUDIOS (Burbank?) - he was giving some sort of enthusiastic pep talk to teenagers and I just happened to be there.

And none of this would be important other than the fact that I've been listening to lots of STAN FREBERG lately and DAWS BUTLER did a lot of work with STAN FREBERG who was a big time advertising brain as well as a guy who did his own radio shows and TV shows, etc

Sometimes the best comedy (for instance this comedy) is the most SURREAL and some comedy (like this comedy) is built on...long...pauses and nice sound effects and nice voice acting from voice actors like DAWS BUTLER...

Stan Freberg - Bang Gunleigh US Marshall (mp3)

Stan Freberg - The Tip of the Freberg (4 vol set) @ Amazon

Daws Butler - Official Website

Ted Nugent - Live at Cal Jam II (zipped mp3s)

Just out of the belated blue, I figured we really needed one last powerfully-pungent poker-faced post here at THE BLOG in order to fully kick open the magical (and heavy) bronze doors of Christmas.

And by golly, here's our good, arrow-shootin' buddy Ted Nugent ripping it up at the not-so-legendary CAL JAM II which was held in March of 1978 out in the middle of an Ontario, California junk yard...back "in the day" when Jack Daniels ruled the land (still does, really...) and the hairy (and generally coked-up) members of Fleetwood Mac were our unofficial ambassadors to the world.

GOD BLESS AND KEEP THE 1970s, FOR THEY ARE WONDERFUL!

Nothing ever says Christmas like Ted Nugent...so, hear him say it and say it well! Let the bronze doors of Christmas open-eth!

Ted Nugent - Live at Cal Jam II (zipped mp3s)

BAD VINYL - MORE PHOTOS!

BAD VINYL - MORE PHOTOS!

The Beach Boys - 5 tracks (mp3s)

The highly perverse and twisted (dis-)advantage of growing up in Southern California and spending CHRISTMAS in Southern California is that nearly EVERY FUCKING Christmas song contains some elements which are totally alien to everyday, normal Southern Californians.

SNOW, SLEDS, SNOWMEN, CHESTNUTS ROASTING...ALL ALIEN CONCEPTS!

So best to simply celebrate the Christmas season with our own native sons...The Beach Boys...whose own Christmas album kinda sucks, so let's just post a few of their OTHER songs and learn to live with it.

Little Saint Nick (mp3))

Gettin' Hungry (mp3)

Wind Chimes (with John Cale on organ) (mp3)

Solar System (mp3)

The Monkey's Uncle (with Annette Funicello) (mp3)

Report from the Front Line - Beach Boys Landmark Ceremony

Van Dyke Parks - 4 tracks (mp3s)

OK hey all you visitors...I'm sure your brains are all hooked into the very accurate and welcoming WIKIPEDIA already and forever, so no reason to bore you with numerous pseudo-facts about world reknown musician/lyricist/carpenter/spaceman Van Dyke Parks...look the facts up yourself!

I guess Van Dyke Parks is most known for his work with Hawthornian Brian Wilson, but he's done arrangements for scores of worthy artists, including Phil Ochs and others...as well as releasing a bunch of albums under his own name.

Anyway, folks...I know you're dying to buzz off to your precious WIKIPEDIA...so buzz off why doncha!

Come to the Sunshine (mp3)

Datsun Commercial (mp3)

Ice Capades Commercial (mp3)

San Francisco (with Brian Wilson) (mp3)

The Replacements - The Shit Hits the Fans (mp3s)

Maybe one of the best LIVE albums ever...and on an even keel (funny-wise) with Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip. Vital and highly recommended...indeed!

Oh and please ENJOY! - it's a standard requirement!

The Replacements - The Shit Hits the Fans (mp3s)

MORE INFORMATION!

LADY IN A PINK ROBE AT THE 99 CENT STORE

If you've never seen high-class artistic photography on the internet, then this is your lucky day...go for it...



LADY IN A PINK ROBE AT THE 99 CENT STORE

Johnny Otis Show - Ice Water in Your Veins (mp3)

Hey, c'mon...it's The Johnny Otis Show! - and as I've so eloquently mentioned before, I once gave Johnny Otis advice on how to use LIQUID PAPER and this song was chosen because it's been very cold (icy) out here in normally warm and sunny Southern California. What the HECK'S up with that?!

And also...this song features the immortal lines:

"You've got hot sauce in your brains and
ice water in your veins..."

Wow, now THAT'S a nice comical (yet pointed) blues lyric for ya!



Check out Johnny Otis World for more high class info!

Johnny Otis Show - Ice Water in Your Veins (mp3)

Houseplant Picture Studio

A lot of people write in (usually drunk) and ask me:

"Hey dude, BENBENEK BLOG is pretty cool...but do you have another internet site on the web that's maybe more dimensional and idea-oriented and fun that me and my friends can visit regularly?"

And my answer always is:

Houseplant Picture Studio - the website your eyes can follow!

A SHORT HISTORY OF EGG NOG (POST #859)

Did you know that the ancient VIKINGS invented EGG NOG a way long time ago to ward off the effects of a large plague that was making them (the VIKINGS) die?

Houseplant Picture Studio - the website your eyes can follow!

The Asiaticos - I've Got the Love of Jesus (mp3)

The whole warped concept of "THRIFT STORE ALBUM AS PECULIAR FETISH ITEM" is quite repulsive to me. Don't you agree?

Yes, it's indeed pleasurable to perhaps once in a while purchase a cute little old ancient vinyl LP at a cute little dependable thrift store (always for 50 cents or a dollar...of course! How could it be otherwise!)

However, anything beyond taking the cute little LP home and playing it with a turntable is superfluous un-American hocus pocus.

I myself have quite a large and hefty "collection" (hate that word) of thrift store albums (or "finds" as the natives call them) and other than perhaps once in a while setting up a religious praying altar in front of them and burning incense (and chanting), all I ever tend to do is once in a while PLAY THEM and enjoy them (in the internet sense of "enjoyment") as a well-adjusted person of musical refinement tends to do from time to time.



So, I've got a cute little thrift store album by a (probably dead by now) musical husband and wife called The Asiaticos and it's all rather too much "LES PAUL AND MARY FORD" for me (blecch, ugh!) other than this stand-out track which most THRIFT STORE MUSIC COLLECTORS would probably be skipping ropes and jumping through hoops trying to do their unique promotional hoodoo over (how's that for a sentence?)

Basically it's the son (STEVE!) of The Asiaticos (ERVIN AND MYRNA!) singing a cute little song about JESUS and oh boy THRIFT STORE MUSIC COLLECTORS REALLY GO APESHIT over this type of perceptually-awful little kid-type Jesus music (because it's oh-so-kitschy and post-modernly precious! That's the thrift store ticket!)

Well, screw all that and just listen to the gosh-darned song...
because, after all it's from a gosh-darned thrift store! Thanks!

The Asiaticos - I've Got the Love of Jesus (mp3)

Pooh Sticks - tracks from Million Seller (mp3s)

Man, I never have been able to figure out The Pooh Sticks...maybe because I never took the time to do scholarly musical research on them. Used to have several albums by The Pooh Sticks, and even still have a whopping big ETCHED maxi-single they put out with kinda X-RATED writing all over it.

I tend to think that somehow The Pooh Sticks are related to The Pastels and maybe even also to The Jazz Butcher or even The Telescopes (weren't they all at some point on the Creation Label?) but I know not much about music history...so let's just leave music history to the uptight snobs (and obsessed fans) of the world.

As the late brother of Abraham Lincoln's sister once said: "Music is for listening and if you can't listen then it's time to pack it in and go and deport oneself to a log cabin and write an Address...Amen!"

So let's get on with this post...



These are songs from The Pooh Sticks album MILLION SELLER, although some wise people consider THE GREAT WHITE WONDER to be their ultimate best record...and THE GREAT WHITE WONDER is neat because it uses actual excerpt samples from actual BOB DYLAN BOOTLEGS...but more about that next time!

Please ENJOY! this one,
because one day you won't be able to ENJOY! this one.

The Pooh Sticks - tracks from "Million Seller" (zipped mp3s)

(at the top of the page...)

Barbeque Bob - Chocolate to the Bone (zip album)

Frankly, Earth People...I'm starting to think that this'll be the final major post-o-roonie until the beginning of the new year. I've been known to fudge and smudge on the truth, but there's a whole lot of egg nog-fueled CHRISTMAS CHEER (the non-alcoholic kind) surrounding my brain and I can't even think about zipping albums and being all clever and articulate and stuff for at least another couple of weeks (oh, even though I love the writing process...)

And anyway, quality control around here has really become pathetic...it's surprising that Health and Human Services hasn't come in here and put my typing fingers under quarantine. And doncha know that many of the carefully picked jpegs around here are infested with micro-digital splork bugs that'll have your head-spinning if your firewall ain't attached or isn't at least in the vicinity (especially if your name is Vince or Trinity)



Also...I mean, have you ever noticed that this BLOG is completely DEVOID of any sort of expert music testimony whatsoever? Well, have you?! There's really not much to this thing (if you examine closely...) and so it might be better if we all ditch our computers and hang with our loved ones and friendly ones for at least a couple of weeks and let this haggard BLOG catch it's dogged breath (unless your name is Merle in which case, what are you doing here?)

In the meantime, here's the legendary BARBEQUE BOB with just about (and pert near) a 20-song compilation sure enough built to knock out any Christmas blues that might've invaded your shook-up and senseless brain...and please don't forget that alliteration is where it's at! It's interesting and insane, unless you're insensitive!

Barbeque Bob - Chocolate to the Bone (zip album)

The Pandoras - It's About Time (mp3)

The cool and outstanding thing about selling a CD on eBay is that the seller (in this case, me) can simply convert his or her CD to mp3s and send the CD to the buyer and (yet) continue to own the music!

Take for instance this song by The Pandoras which is from an entire CD album which I sold on eBay - but before I mailed it to the buyer, I converted the album to mp3s...sweet!

It's basically selling and NOT selling at the same time! It would be like selling a car and then still being able to drive it magically! How great is that! Very great I must say! And economical!

The Pandoras - It's About Time (mp3)

The Pandoras -Official Website

WHAT I GOT FOR MY $25 BORDERS GIFT CARD

I don't use my credit card a lot (cash rules!) but I use it enough to build up premium points and when I reach 4000 premium points I usually cash-in and get a magical store card in exchange.

This time around I chose a $25 BORDERS BOOKS gift card and it arrived quickly and I was out and about today anyway and I hate hanging on to gift cards (and junk) so I went to BORDERS and looked around so I could spend that gift card credit!

Right off the bat, I noticed there was a stack of R. Crumb's Coffee Table Art Book for sale...$14 BUCKS can't beat that! I have a few Crumb books and original WEIRDO COMIX but had never even leafed through this big coffee table book of his! What a find! And especially impressive to find in a boring little BORDERS BOOKS!

R. Crumb's Coffee Table Art Book @ Amazon.Com



So, hmmm...I wanted to "spend" exactly (or close to it) $25 (it's the principle of the thing) so the next item was slightly harder to pin down price-wise. Most books at BORDERS are insanely over-priced. Even rinky-dink novels and cookbooks tend to run in the $40 range. Whatta rip off!

Anyway, I browsed and browsed and came close to buying an autobiography by Alan Watts and came close to buying books about artists Joan Miro and HR Giger (nahh, too depressing)...but I ended up buying a little collection concerning Swiss artist Paul Klee (my favorite artist of all time...ahh!)

Paul Klee by Susanna Partsch @ Amazon.Com

So, that's the name of that gift card tune...gift cards are great and they certainly afford one many opportunities to choose and buy things without worrying too much about paying for them! Does that make sense? Yes of course that makes sense!

United States of America - Hard Coming Love (mp3)

The only (as far as I know) United States of America album is one of the most breath-taking examples of psychedelic psychosis hard rock ever...makes Surrealistic Pillow sound like an Olivia Newton John album.

Joe Byrd was the boy-genius behind the album and he masterminded all the electronic effects and stuff, some of which sound dated (but most don't) and anyway there are some unusual mixes on the record and the whole thing is overpinned by vocal person Dorothy Moskovitz who could easily beat up (even an elderly) Grace Slick in a rock boxing match.

Hard Coming Love has a very long intro but then it's slides into a nice lyrical groove with lots of sound effects and isn't THAT special?!

Oh yeah...listen closely for the way out of tune BASS...aaargh!

United States of America - Hard Coming Love (mp3)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - CD @ Amazon.Com

George Harrison - 2 songs (mp3s)

We've garnered quite a few new visitors lately and have basically doubled our visitorship over the past three weeks. Thank you everybody! I sure think it's great that all you visitors to BENBENEK BLOG (where you are now) take special time out of your busy, hectic and dramatic schedules so that you can spend it (your time) in more creative and life-affirming ways right here!

Just so all the newcomers don't think that I'm just some heartless, ironic smart-ass who just makes up shit of the top of his head (which I sort of am) I've decided to post a couple of quite diverse George Harrison songs, coincidentally from the same Phil Spector-produced album. Phil Spector...the guy who will probably be re-tried for the murder of Lana Clarkson and who produced that Ramones album.



Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) is about as sensitive and non-ironic as a song can get and it was a MASSIVE hit when it first came out. George Harrison was a Beatle member and when the band broke up he was able to pour his heart into more sensitive songs such as this one which is very sensitive and which continues to be sensitive throughout the ages.

I have always wondered what the "KEEP ME FREE FROM BIRTH" lyric was about...was Harrison saying that he didn't like children or was he trying to stay off of the GREAT KARMIC WHEEL OF BIRTH AND DEATH? I guess we'll never know!

Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (mp3)

This next song is also by George Harrison and on it Harrison takes a decidedly more harsh view of modern-day life and stuff, as if he is but a "spiritual being" stuck in a money-grubbing, nonsensical world. Yeah, I think that's what this song is about but don't fuckin' quote me.

Living in the Material World (mp3)

George Harrison.Com