Imperiet - Var e vargen

We continues on the Record Madness and play a song from the letter that we previously went through.

Imperiet was a Swedish 1980s rock band from Stockholm, that existed from 1983 to 1988. They were arguably the most influential band in Sweden of the period, but definitely dominated the new wave scene, which at the time was seen as the same as the punk rock scene.

Todays tune "Var e vargen", originally released as a single in 1986. The tune is one of the most frequently recorded songs in the Imperiet's production, no less than seven different versions exist on record, three of which is the English version "The Wild World". Initial proposed name of the song was "Den vilda världen" (The wild world).

After the Imperiet's breakup in 1988, have Joakim Thåström during his solo career, and during the period with Peace, Love & Pitbulls played "Var e vargen" at numerous tours. One interpretation of the text is that it is about the revolution that they much talked about, but that never comes.



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Record Madness: I

Record Madness is a project between Metal blog and Tune Of The Day, a project that have now been running for some time.

In short, its based on a closer look at our record collection, and the rules are relatively simple.

There will be challenges between us. Everything is about to dive into the shelf and pick up the records with the letter which you have been challenged with. One tells stories, shows pictures, a little anecdotes, or anything that affects the character that is current at the moment. The posts ends with a challenge in the form of a letter from the alphabet sent to Chief Rebel on Metal blog. Then he makes the same thing with his record shelf (hey CD!) But with his twist and his angle on it before he sends back a letter. Then it all goes back and forth like a pinball machine, but in slow motion.

Everything started with "Chief Rebel" who dived into the letter "A", and wrote a mammoth post with lots of pictures of what was in his record shelf under the letter A. Then he has described what he has under "R","G", "U", "S", "T", "H" and now latest "E" (ARGUS THE)

Now we have come up a bit in the process and I have harvested both the letter "L", "Q", "B", "U", "D", "F", "E" and today we'll see what is hidden behind the letter  "I" (LQBUDFEI)

This time I'm really on it so you guys didn't have to wait for ages to see what's hidden behind todays letter. Even if i have had a really busy schedule I manage to take some time for this. 
Time to stop "Monkey About" and gets this party rocking....so in short "I" is a pretty average letter, that contains a pretty big mix lot of artists and genres, "I" has a pretty good place to the right and still in a standing height in the record shelf, thanks for that, guess I need to crawl on my knees soon...haha.

Once I have browsed through the albums I quickly notice that it contains a really mixed output, but far off to be a complete set of records.  And as I always mention, I do miss some records as they are to faraway to be able to be here.

First out is Roy Samuel Reid or better known as I-Roy who was a Jamaican DJ who had a very prolific career during the 1970s. Here with the album "Don't Check Me With No Lightweight Stuff" (1997)

AOR band i-Ten with the record "Taking a cold look" from (1983)

American heavy metal band Iced Earth with the tenth studio album "Dystopia" (2011)

Here is a classic with the American heavy/glam metal band Icon, with the record "Night of the Crime" (1985)

The British progressive rockers in IF with the album "Not Just Another Bunch of Pretty Faces" (1974) 

angL is the second full length solo album of Emperor frontman Ihsahn. Writing began in early 2007, after Ihsahn had completed touring with Emperor. (2008)

 

American hard rock band from long island, New York, The Illusion with the records"Out of the mist" (1977) & "If It's So" (1970)

Between 1968 and 1977, Randy's Studio 17 was the site for some of all-time greatest reggae recordings including seminal albums by The Wailers and Burning Spear. Impact All-Stars, the album featured such influential musicians as Aston Barrett (bass), Carlton Barrett and Sly Dunbar (drums), Tyrone Downie, Earl Lindo and Augustus Pablo (keyboards) and Tommy McCook (tenor saxophone). With the addition of five previously-unreleased tracks, the album was reissued in 1998 by the British reggae label, Blood And Fire.

Kingdom of Conspiracy (2013) is the ninth studio album by American death metal band Immolation.

The Swedish rockers Imperiet with the albums, Rasera (1983), Kickar (1990), Tiggarens tal (1988), Imperiet (1984), Blå himlen blues (1985), Synd (1986), Imperiet (1988), 2:a Augusti 1985 (1985) & Du ska va president (1984)

Imperial State Electric is a rock band with the former front man of The Hellacopters Nicke Andersson. Here with the records Imperial State Electric (2010), Pop War (2012) x3, In Concert 10" (2011) and a bunch of 7"

Incredible Hog with the album "Volume One" (1973)

The (International) Noise Conspiracy (abbreviated T(I)NC) were a Swedish rock band formed in Sweden in the late months of 1998. Here is the album "The Cross of My Calling" (2008)

Norway´s most peculiar band "In The Woods" with the album "Heart of the Ages" (1995)

The  Swedish heavy metal In Solitude with the records In Solitude (2008), The World. The Flesh. The Devil (2011), Sister (2013) and the 7" Lavender (2013)

The Swedish Progressive death metal band In Mourning with the albums Monolith (2010) & Shrouded Divine (2008)

The Swedish melodic death metal In Flames, yes this is Thetania's favourite band. Here is the albums A Sense of Purpose (2008), Come Clarity (2006), Sounds of a Playground Fading (2011) and A Sense of Purpose - CD (2008)

The Canadian rockers Indian Handcrafts with the album 

"Civil Disobedience For Losers" (2012)

Internal Void is a doom metal band from Frederick, Maryland with the record 

"Standing on the Sun"  (1992)

Intronaut is a progressive metal band from Los Angeles, California that incorporates complex polyrhythms, progressive rock, and jazz. Here is the fourth full length album "Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words with Tones)" (2013)

 

The Aussies INXS with the album Kick (1987)

The Incredible String Band (sometimes abbreviated as ISB) were a psychedelic folk band formed in Scotland in 1966. I got only two records at home with these guys and they are "The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion" (1967) & Hard Rope & Silken Twine (1974)

Iron Maiden, well I guess it is a must have in a rockers record collection. Here is 3 12"  Running Free, 2 Minutes to Midnight , Flight of Icarus and a Vinyl box set "Best Of The Beast" (1996)

    More Iron Maiden, here are the albums from top left "Killers" (1981), "The Number of the Beast" (1982), "Powerslave" (1984), "The Final Frontier" (2010), "Somewhere in Time" (1986), "Piece of Mind" (1983) & "Live After Death" (1985) 

Bon Iver is an American indie folk band founded in 2007 by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. The band also includes Michael Noyce, Sean Carey, Colin Stetson and Matthew McCaughan amongst others. 

Here are the records "Blood Bank" (2009), "For Emma, Forever Ago" (2007) & "Bon Iver, Bon Iver" (2011)

Here is a collection of artist on the label Island, an excellent collection of good music!

A bunch of Imperial State Electric singles.

A few CD's Interpol - Interpol (2010), Billy Idol - Songs (1988), It's Alive - Earthquake Visions (1994), Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death (2006) & Iron Maiden - Dance of Death (2003)

Here is a few signed CD's, from top left Incite, The International Noise Conspiracy, In Flames, Enrique Iglesias, Interpol & India Arie

3 pieces of 7" singles, In Solitude, The Incubators & Iron Maiden

Last picture contains Iron Maiden - Killers on CD, Karin Inde on CD & last one is a Cassette (MC) with Chris Isaak :)

That is the end of this record Madness

I really hope I got it all covered this time.
 Anyway, I hope it was an interesting reading.

Now we throw the ball to Cheif and challenge him in the letter "D", it will be very interesting to see what he can come up with here, who knows, maybe some Dio I guess among others?
 
Todays tune will be posted later on this evening, based on the letter "I" of course and as it's sunday it will be a classic tune of one of the records that has been showed here, stay tuned.

Cheers
/Stones 

Electric Light Orchestra - Dont Bring Me Down

Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) were a British rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001. ELO were formed to accommodate Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne's desire to create modern rock and pop songs with classical overtones. After Wood's departure following the band's debut record, Lynne wrote and arranged all of the group's original compositions and produced every album.

Despite early singles success in the United Kingdom, the band were initially more successful in the United States, billed as "The English guys with the big fiddles". They gained a cult following despite lukewarm reviews back in their native United Kingdom. By the mid-1970s, they had become one of the biggest-selling acts in music. From 1972 to 1986, ELO accumulated 27 Top-40 hit singles in both the UK and the US, with 20 Top 20 UK singles and 15 Top-20 US singles (as charted by Billboard magazine). The band also holds the record for having the most Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hits, 20, of any group in US chart history without ever having a number one single.

ELO collected 19 CRIA, 21 RIAA and 38 BPI awards and sold over 50 million records worldwide during the group's original 13 year period of active recording and touring.

Todays tune "Don't Bring Me Down" is the last track from their 1979 album Discovery. It is their highest charting hit in the US to date.

A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Lynne shouts "Bruce!". According to the liner notes of the ELO compilation Flashback, he is saying a made-up lyric, "Grroosss," which some have suggested sounds like the Bavarian expression "Grüß Gott." After the song's release, so many people had misinterpreted the word as "Bruce" that Lynne actually began to sing the word as "Bruce" for fun at live shows.



Here is the official video from 1979, enjoy!



"It's a great big galloping ball of distortion. I wrote it at the last minute, 'cos I felt there weren't enough loud ones on the album. This was just what I was after.”

—Discovery remaster (2001), Jeff Lynne

The drum track is in fact a tape loop, coming from "On the Run" looped and slowed down 

More info @

Official Electric Light Orchestra Web

Listen to "Electric Light Orchestra - Dont Bring Me Down" on Spotify here!

Follow tuneoftheday.blogspot.com on Spotify here

Record Madness: E

Record Madness is a project between Metal blog and Tune Of The Day, a project that have now been running for some time.

In short, its based on a closer look at our record collection, and the rules are relatively simple.

There will be challenges between us. Everything is about to dive into the shelf and pick up the records with the letter which you have been challenged with. One tells stories, shows pictures, a little anecdotes, or anything that affects the character that is current at the moment. The posts ends with a challenge in the form of a letter from the alphabet sent to Chief Rebel on Metal blog. Then he makes the same thing with his record shelf (hey CD!) But with his twist and his angle on it before he sends back a letter. Then it all goes back and forth like a pinball machine, but in slow motion.

Everything started with "Chief Rebel" who dived into the letter "A", and wrote a mammoth post with lots of pictures of what was in his record shelf under the letter A. Then he has described what he has under "R","G", "U", "S", "T" and now latest "H" (ARGUS TH)

Now we have come up a bit in the process and I have harvested both the letter "L", "Q", "B", "U", "D", "F" and today we'll see what is hidden behind the letter "E" (LQBUDFE)

That it this has taken some time is simply that the time was not there to be used for this, but it is what it is and this serial will take the time to go through was something we agreed in the beginning of this journey, mostly because of my profession that takes most of my time, but as they say, the one who waits for something good always waiting forever for it!  (:

Alright let's get it going. "E" is a pretty average letter, that contains a pretty big mix lot of artists and genres, "E" has a pretty good place to the left and still in a standing height in the record shelf.

Once I have browsed through the albums I quickly notice that it contains a really mixed output, kinda funny indeed. But like some other letters, there are a lot of holes to fill in. There a few records that not is displayed here, as they are standing in a box a long way from here and hopefully will be here in a few years :)

This time we start off with the digital media and going thru the pile of CD's that I have. And yes it's backward :)

First out from the top left is the Melodic Progressive Metal band from Budapest, Hungary, "Everwood" - Mind Games (2005), German band "Everon" - Fantasma (2000), Swedish "The Exploding Boy" - Exploding Boy (2007) and the supergroup "Explorers Club" - Age Of Impact (1998)

 

From top left we have the country-rock band "EZT" - Goodbye Little Doll (2003), "Evanescence" - Fallen (2003) & "Evanescence" -The Open Door (2006), A signed "Extreme" - Saudades De Rock (2008) and "Everlast" - Love, War and The Ghost Of Whitey Road (2008)

From top left a double album with "Eurythmics" - Live 1983 - 1989 (1993), "Eskju Divine" - Darkness All Around EP (2004), "Enigma" - The Screen Behind The Mirror (2000), "Roky Erickson" - True Love Cast Out All Evil with Okkervil River, "Stefan Elmgren's Full Strike" - We Will Rise (2002) and the British heavy metal band "Elixir" - Lethal Potion (1990)

Two Jazz records, first one is Duke Ellington with the CD The Far East Suite and the second is Bill Evans with Big Fun

Steve Earle is cool guy, here is 2 excellent records with him, Copperhead Road (1988) and a live recording from Austin (2004) this record is also signed by Steve :)

"Europe" - Bag Of Bones (2012),  the heavy psychedelic "Elf Power" - Back To The Web (2006) and a signed cover from Exodus

 

Steve Earles "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" (2011) , Heart On is the third studio album from American rock band Eagles of Death Metal (2008) and "Exodus" - Exhibit B: The Human Condition (2010)

A huge pile of signed stuff, contains albums with Entombed, Extreme, Eldkvarn, Europe, Electric Boys, Electric Banana Band, Lisa Ekdahl among others.

So time to dive in to the Record Shelf and see what we can find under the letter E among the real records!

First out from the left is the fifth studio album "Hotel California" by Eagles (1976), The Swedish glam rockers Easy Action with their first self titled album (1984) and Chris Eaton with the album "Vision" (1986)

Two records with the pioneers of drone doom "Earth", from left "A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra-Capsular Extraction" (2010) and the sixth full-length studio album Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I (2011)

Here we have the Swedish punk band Ebba Grön with the albums "We're Only In It For The Drugs" (1979), "Ebba Grön" (1982) and "Kärlek & uppror" (Love & Uprising) (1981)

"Blood and Fire" (2010) is the third album by the British psychobilly band The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster.

 Various ‎– El Pea (1971) 

Contains band like Amazing Blondel, Traffic, Sandy Denny, Jethro Tull, Alan Bown, Mountain, Free among others

The Swedish funk metal band Electric Boys with the albums
Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride (1990) x2 and Groovus Maximus (199)

Here is a bunch of records with the British rockers Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) from left
A New World Record (1976), Out of the Blue (1977), Discovery (1979), On the Third Day (1973), Part Two (1990) and Time (1981)

More records with "ELO" from left 

Eldorado (1974), The Electric Light Orchestra (1971), Secret Messages (1983), Olé ELO (1976), Xanadu (1980) and Face the Music (1975)

The doom metal band "Electric Wizard" from Dorset, England,
with two excellent albums "Witchcult Today" (2007) and "Black Masses" (2010) 

Here is a bunch of Jazz records where Duke Ellington albums are dominated on the letter E,  Ellington Moods (1978), Ella & Oscar (1976), Play The Blues - Back To Back (1959),  The Nutcracker Suite (1960), Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (1962), Duke Ellington and His Orchestra (1960), New Orleans Suite (1971), Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (1963), The Popular (1966)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970), Brain Salad Surgery (1973), Tarkus (1971), Live Puerto Rico 1972, Emerson, Lake & Powell (1986), Pictures At An Exhibition (1971), Trilogy (1972) and Works Volume 1 (1977)

The Norweigan progressive black metal Enslaved with the records 

Axioma Ethica Odini (2010), RIITIIR (2012) and Vertebrae (2008)

Two great records were the first is Swedens finest Entombed with the album "Clandestine" (1991) and The psychedelic rockers "Earthless" from San Diego with the album "From the Ages" (2013)

3 records, first on the left is the Norwegian black metal "Emperor" with the album "Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise" (2001), The Swedish Heavy Metal band "Enforcer" with the album "Diamonds" (2010) and "Entombed" with the record "Serpent Saints: The Ten Amendments" (2007)

 

Here is a nice signed copy of "True Love Cast Out All Evil" (2010) with Roky Erickson

 Here is a bunch of records with the rocking Swedes in Europe with the albums Almost Unplugged (2008), Bag Of Bones (2012), Wings of Tomorrow (1984) and Out Of This World (1988)

Here is two signed copys of Europe, A maxi single with the tune "I'll Cry For You" (1991) and "Prisoners in Paradise" (1991)

Here is three records with the Post-bop dude Bill Evans
Sunday at the Village Vanguard (1961), Moon Beams (1962) and Waltz for Debby (1961)

Here is one with the Scottish punk rock band "The Exploited" and the album Troops of Tomorrow (1982) were I do have some pretty good memories from, maybe one day I will tell the story behind this record.

Next in line is the American rock band, headed by frontmen Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt in Extreme with the albums
Pornograffitti (1990), III Sides to Every Story (1992), Extreme (1989) and "Hole Hearted" Box version (1991)

Last out is Eyes with the selftitled album (1990), AOR powered by the voice of underated Jeff Scott Soto.

That is the end of this record Madness

I really hope I got it all covered this time.
  Letter "E" was really fun letter to go thru with a pretty wide spectrum of music.
Anyway, I hope it was an interesting reading.

Now we throw the ball to Cheif and challenge him in the same letter "E", it will be very interesting to see what he can come up with here, who knows, maybe some Entombed I guess among others?
 
Todays tune will be posted later on this evening, based on the letter "E" of course and as it's sunday it will be a classic tune of one of the records that has been showed here, stay tuned.

Cheers
/Stones