After two days living off the grid, here is tonight's play list....

[surfered]

After the outage the day before, our Cable TV and internet went out again yesterday. Our cell service, from a separate provider, also went down which, I’m sure, was to prevent me from calling someone to complain. We had no TV, no phone, no news, and no DU! I'm sure it was some grand conspiracy to make me read a book! At least the CD player was working, so it’s been a couple of days of music and I’m sharing what I found and there’s a theme:

Here Comes The Sun written by George Harrison for the Beatles’ Abbey Road album released in 1969.

“There’s little black spot on the sun today” is the opening lyric from King of Pain by The Police from their Synchronicity album released in 1983.

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Sunny Afternoon by the Kinks (Ray Davies) from their album Face to Face released in 1966. The song was inspired by the same British tax policy, which resulted in George Harrison’s own protest song, Taxman, also released in 1966. So, you can thank Prime Minister Harold Wilson for two good rock & Roll songs..

Walkin’ On The Sun from Smash Mouth’s album Fush You Mang was released in 1997. As suspected the album title was taken from a line slurred by Al Pacino in Scarface. Which is similar to Iron Butterfly’s In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, where the composer was just so drunk he slurred the words of In the Garden of Eden and just went with it. Anyway, the song was written after the Rodney King beating as a protest and a call to action, asking why can’t we all just get along. Who knew the story behind that song? Sadly, everybody getting along seems about as possible as walking on the sun, but we have to keep trying.

Synchronicity was a a theory developed by psychiatrist Carl Jung that, for some reason, Sting was very intrigued with. Synchronicity II by The Police has nothing to do with the sun, but it was on the same album as King of Pain, I like the energy of the song, and it’s been too long since I’ve heard it . Why is it we like some music more than others? Maybe if Carl Jung was still alive, he could explain to us.

Peace, Love, and Happiness!