Showing posts with label Blues Section. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blues Section. Show all posts

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Blues Section: 'Semi-Circle Solitude' (1968)


Blues Section: 'Semi-Circle Solitude' (1968)


Blues Section: 'Cherry Cup-Cake Twist' (1968)


Blues Section: 'Hey Hey Hey' (1967)


Blues Section: 'Call Me On Your Telephone' (1967)

'Semi-Circle Solitude' is probably my all-time favourite track from Blues Section, a late-60s Finnish rhythm & blues/psychedelic band fronted by a great British ex-pat singer-songwriter, Jim Pembroke (later of Wigwam, another band worth checking out and don't let the "progessive rock" tag put you off, because there's some memorable songwriting here, too). The film excerpts for 'Semi-Circle Solitude' and 'Cherry Cup-Cake Twist' are from Jaakko Pakkasvirta's documentary film Eläköön nuoruus ("Viva Youth", 1968). 'Hey Hey Hey' was used in Mikko Niskanen's 1967 film Lapualaismorsian, in a sequence depicting how students in Helsinki celebrate Mayday.

YouTube also has Blues Section's 'Kuka kertoisi minulle?' ("Who would tell me?"; as vocalist Pepe Willberg, formerly of The Jormas), from Timo Bergholm's drama film Punahilkka ("Little Red Riding Hood"), another movie from 1968. Furthermore, there's a clip of 'End of a Poem', from their 1996 comeback gig.

  • Lyrics @ Mikko Meriläinen's excellent Blues Section/Wigwam site

  • 60s Garage Rock & Psychedelia in Finland @ pHinnWeb

    And as bonus, more Jim Pembroke songwriting, 'Simple Human Kindness' from Wigwam's "deep pop" album Nuclear Nightclub (1975); this studio live is from 1976:


    Wigwam: 'Simple Human Kindness' (1976, off Pop-Liisa TV show)
  • Friday, September 30, 2005

    Answer To Life




    I've searched in the depths of my mind to find
    The answer to life is be kind not blind
    Show love above all
    And your life won't be so hard no more

    People may fight and make war and roar
    The answer to life is make love, no war
    Show love above all
    And your life won't be so hard no more


    I go with the gang called the Vegetable Men
    I smash up the hippies whenever I can
    They get on my nerves with their flowers and love
    They sit in Soho while I'm in a pub
    Eating minced tarts, playing my darts
    I see if there's any crumpet near
    I don't want nothing more than my beer

    I go with the gang called the Vegetable Men
    I like to kick cops whenever I can
    They say that I weren't too bright at my school
    But if I can beat cops I can be no fool
    Breaking their bones, I'm chucking 'round stones
    I'm spreading 'round fear and hate
    I don't want nothing more than my beer

    Breaking their bones, I'm chucking 'round stones
    I'm spreading 'round fear and hate
    I don't want nothing more than my beer

    -Blues Section: "Answer To Life" (lyrics: Jim Pembroke)