Happy Easter!

So, in wishing all of you a very safe and happy Easter holiday weekend, I tried and tried to come up with some themeatically related releases, and it is what it is, most likely is going to sound stupid, or, in other words, LESS than the sum of its parts, meaning these are some great albums here, but what they have to do with each other requires stretching the imagiantion to its limits. So it is.....the mot obvious choice, of course, is Patti Smith's classic "Easter"....for my money edging out both "Horses" and "Radio Ethiopia" as Smith's most consistent, most significant, and simply BEST release, the single "Because the Night" is here, but that's only about the tenth of it.....the frantic "Babelogue/Rock N Roll Nigger" (if you have never heard it, please do so before criticizing me for putting the "N-Word" in print, to be LESS racist than Patti Smith would be quite a feat), the amazing "25ht floor/High on Rebellion", "Privilege (Set Me Free)", the pounding "Till Victory"........fantastic, must-hear, nd 5-star album. A true classic of the 1970's.

OK, here we shift gears....there ARE religious overtones to Ms. Smith's release, the 13th Floor Elevators sophomore effort is entitled "Easter Everywhere" simply because, I imagine, that Roky Erikson thought it sounded cool in whatever his "state" of the moment is.....not as well known as their debut, "The Pyschdelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators", and arguably not as good, I'll take it because it contains one of my all-time favorite songs, ever, by anyone, the quiessential "Slip Inside This House".....NO ONE ever repecated the acid experience in song such as the Elevators did with this one, the length of the song (7 minutes-plus, rare for the time), the trippy, hypnotic music, and the mind-bending lyrics, this song IS "acid rock", the song that ANY other acid rock TRIES to keep pace with......for the hell of It I am going to post the lyrics as well, read em and trip:

Bedoin tribes ascending

From the egg into the flower,

Alpha information sending

State within the heaven shower

From disciples the unending

Subtleties of river power

They slip inside this house as they pass by

If your limbs begin dissolving

In the water that you tread

All surroundings are evolving

In the stream that clears your head

Find yourself a caravan

Like Noah must have led

And slip inside this house as you pass by.

Slip inside this house as you pass by.

True conception, knowing why

Brings even more than meets the eye

Slip inside this house as you pass by.

In this dark we call creation

We can be and feel and know

From an effort, comfort station

That's surviving on the go

There's infinite survival in

The high baptismal glow.

Slip inside this house as you pass by.

There is no season

when you are grown

You are always risen from the seeds you've sown

There is no reason to rise alone

Other stories given

have sages of their own.

Live where your heart can be given

And your life starts to unfold

In the forms you envision

In this dream that's ages old

On the river layer is the only sayer

You receive all you can hold

Like you've been told.

Every day's another dawning

Give the morning winds a chance

Always catch your thunder yawning

Lift your mind into the dance

Sweep the shadows from your awning

Shrink the fourfold circumstance

That lies outside this house don't pass it by.

Higher worlds that you uncover

Light the path you want to roam

You compare there and discover

You won't need a shell of foam

Twice born gypsies care and keep

The nowhere of their former home

They slip inside this house as they pass by.

Slip inside this house as you pass by.

You think you can't, you wish you could

I know you can, I wish you would

Slip inside this house as you pass by.

Four and twenty birds of Maya

Baked into an atom you

Polarized into existence

Magnet heart from red to blue

To such extent the realm of dark

Within the picture it seems true

But slip inside this house and then decide.

All your lightning waits inside you

Travel it along your spine

Seven stars receive your visit

Seven seals remain divine

Seven churches filled with spirit,

Treasure from the angels' mine

Slip inside this house as you pass by.

Slip inside this house as you pass by.

The space you make has your own laws

No longer human gods are cause

The center of this house will never die.

There is no season when you are grown

You are always risen from the seeds you've sown

There is no reason to rise alone

Other stories given have sages of their own.

Draw from the well of unchanging

Its union nourishes on

In the right re-arranging

Till the last confusion is gone

Water-brothers trust in the ultimust

Of the always singing song they pass along.

One-eyed men aren't really reigning

They just march in place until

Two-eyed men with mystery training

Finally feel the power fill

Three-eyed men are not complaining.

They can yo-yo where they will

They slip inside this house as they pass by.

Don't pass it by

That kiddies is as close to an audio hallucination as can be created, fantastic song, and one that any fan of psychedelic rock is cheating himself if he is unfamiliar......the album also contains a few other gems, "She Lives (In a Time of Her Own)", "Earthquake", "I've Got Levitation", but to be honest it'd be maybe a 2.5 star album without "Slip Inside This House", which bumps it up to about a 4.

How about I cheat a little, I've alread posted this elsewhere on the blog (something called "The Best Black Angels post, Ever")......but why not jump from 1970's poetry/punk to 1960's acid wierdness to........well 2000's acid/stoner/psyche wierdness. As I said I've post this album before, but since I strained for albums for this "Easter" thing, I (re)give you the Black Angels fantastic 2006 album (the best album of that year by the way), entitled "Passover"......hey, I'm trying....

Well, okay.....I've been slacking a little in some of these more recent posts, with just 3-4 albums instead of the 10-12 at a time I had been doing....hey YOU think up ten decent albums that can be linked in an Easter theme....not that easy. So I'll give ya one more....what would Easter be without eggs (I hate eggs, actually, so that is something of an irrelevant question), so let's cross eras and genres again to Japan of the 1970's for the second and

final album from Flied Egg, "Goodbye"....a pretty good, hard rocking live side coupled with a more prog-rock, hard psych side, this has always been quite a listenable affair (I like the live stuff better, myself), rocks hard, many of you won't have it, AND it has "egg" in the title (well, not in the TITLE, in the BAND'S name.......give me a break)....check the cool versions of "Leave Me Woman" and "Rock Me Baby", and pay special attention to the vocals.....not near as hilarious as the Mops ("Right My File", "Lock N Loll"), but entertaining and fun.

Links in comment section....please enjoy these and leave a comment should it strike your fancy.....have a wonderful Easter weekend, if that hot twenty year old neighbor girl happens to be out in a bunny costume or something, don't hesitate to share a picture! Links will be up tonight, and have a wonderful Easter holiday!

PATTI SMITH EASTER-01 Til Victory/02 Space Monkey/03 Because the Night/04 Ghost Dance/05 Babelogue-Rock N Roll Nigger/06 Privilege (Set Me Free)/07 We Three/08 25th Floor-High On Rebellion/09 Easter

13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS EASTER EVERYWHERE-01 Slip Inside This House/02 Slide machine/03 She Lives (In a Time of Her Own)/04 Nobody To Love/05 It's All Over Now Baby Blue/06 Earthquake/07 Dust/08 I've Got Levitation/09 I Had To Tell You/10 Postures (Leave Your Body Behind)

BLACK ANGELS PASSOVER-01 Young Men Dead/02 The First Vietnamese War/03 Sniper at the Gates of Heaven/04 The Prodigal Sun/05 Black Grease/06 Manipulation/07 Empire/08 Better Off ALone/09 Bloodhounds on My Trail/10 Call To Arms

FLIED EGG-GOOD BYE-01 Leave Me Woman/02 Rolling Down the Broadway/03 Rock Me Baby/04 Five More Pennies/05 Before You Descend/06 Out to the Sea/07 Goodbye My Friends/08 521 Seconds Schizophrenic Symphony