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Haiku Review

jimmyshoes01's picture

Can you review your favourite album in the form of a haiku?
I can't, but I tried anyway.

Television - Marquee Moon

Two guitars converse
Fractured howls envelop stark
Urban New York scenes.

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The Fall - Extricate

First album post-Brix
Contains some dance elements
It's really good uh

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Spartacus Mills | 15 September 2011 - 3:08pm

Three

Manics- The Holy Bible

James Dean Bradfield
Spits out the disturbing words
Of Richey Edwards.

The Decemberists- The Hazards of Love

A shape-shifting fawn
And a young girl fall in love.
No happy ending.

Any Nick Cave album

More songs about God
And sex from PJ's former
Squeeze. Contains murder.

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Tom | 15 September 2011 - 3:13pm

Pet Sounds

Smile was meant to be
a teenage symphony to God.
This really is.

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ganglesprocket | 15 September 2011 - 3:21pm

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

Deranged hobo stares
Into a glass of bourbon,
Growling children's rhymes.

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Gatz | 15 September 2011 - 3:37pm

Psychocandy

Two brothers fighting
Stop to kiss Phil Spector's feet
Avalanche of noise

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Lemon Kitten | 15 September 2011 - 4:22pm

For Your Pleasure

Perverse pleasurable dreams
pop art crooning noise adorned
catchy original masterfulness

Dirty Work

Mick and Keith
fall out. Resulting crapness intimated
by cover photo.

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Sven Garlic | 15 September 2011 - 6:38pm

The Wall

School life not a success.
Mother proves wanting.
Numb = comfortable.

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MrLovegrove | 15 September 2011 - 7:15pm

Hounds of Love

Drowning concept beside
Hills, dogs, cloudbusters.
Extraordinary.

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MrLovegrove | 15 September 2011 - 7:23pm

Not an album review, but an excellent haiku

courtesy of John Cooper Clarke:

To express a mood
In seventeen syllables
Is very diffic.

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Douglas | 15 September 2011 - 7:33pm

As is...

Haikus are easy,
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator.

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Bob | 15 September 2011 - 7:41pm

So far

I prefer the All Blacks' one but Tonga are damn scary too.

(That was a jokey reply but I just noticed it's got 17 syllables. Jings!)

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LuxExterior | 15 September 2011 - 8:10pm

Ah yes of course

17 syllables - I remember now there was a bit more to it than I thought.

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Sven Garlic | 15 September 2011 - 8:40pm

Larks' Tongues in Aspic

A delicate dish
Best served cold
Brutal

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James Blast | 15 September 2011 - 8:23pm

The embodiment of brevity

Playing 21 questions with former members of Anal C**t in Hokkaido prefecture, circa 1671

Is it animal,
vegetable, mineral ?
Is it gay? Spring tides.

Discussing consequences with Pixie Lott

What would mama do?
Get hammered on Bacardi.
Reveal underwear.

Open Letter To Tori Amos

Pixies don’t exist.
Unicorns died to make your
piano keyboard.

Getting ready to see Ocean Colour Scene perform live at The Shepherds Bush Empire on 12th March 1997

Branding tongs, Ball gag
Studded gimp mask, Hair slides, Lube
Green Ford Cortina.

Geri Halliwell makes an announcement of major archaeological importance while on a promotional holiday in Cairo.

Hello! photoshoot
Cleopatra sixth Spice Girl
Pet owl in handbag.

Gary Numan contemplates a power cut

City lights blink out
like expired match heads. Dark sky;
Electric friends mute.

The one true death of Bruno Mars

Pool of congealed blood
One knife, many fingerprints
Hundreds red handed

Trite observations on making music uttered during an interview by the lead singer of up and coming U.S. college rock band (influences Nickelback, The Cure) who have recently signed with a major record company

“Rock and roll is math.”
Record label accounting
Sorry, you’re broke dude

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backwards7 | 15 September 2011 - 9:57pm

The White Album

Fabs Get Long-Winded
George Martin Patches Mess With
Orchestral Duct Tape

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Pax Romana | 15 September 2011 - 10:19pm

Nevermind

Quiet loud quiet
- Something Like The Pixies - But
Without Bible tales

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Pax Romana | 15 September 2011 - 10:27pm

Achtung Baby

Off goes the stetson
on go the wraparounds and
Out comes Adam's Cock

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Pax Romana | 15 September 2011 - 10:35pm

Screamadelica

Some dub, some Beach Boys
A smattering of acid,
The usual Stones.

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Pax Romana | 15 September 2011 - 10:42pm

Every U2 album

Shite, shite, shite, shite, shite.
Fucking really shite indeed
Total fucking shite.

3
ganglesprocket | 15 September 2011 - 10:43pm

Blue Lines

You can't dance to this
Unless you're a tortoise or
partial to hot knives

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Pax Romana | 15 September 2011 - 10:48pm

Different Class

Synthetic Fibres
Are brought back into fashion
By a skinny bloke

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Pax Romana | 15 September 2011 - 10:58pm

Station to Station

Scorched plains. Sound of water.
White powder. Black light.
Future manuscript. Now

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Sheev | 16 September 2011 - 7:56am

Paul McCartney

Solo stuff is crap
Eleanor Rigby
Thumbs up

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Mousey | 16 September 2011 - 8:13am

XTC Apple Venus Vol 1

water drops pizzicato strings
horns blare
first track,magic begins

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MrRadio | 16 September 2011 - 8:26am

This one's called 'North West Mingle'

Ken Dodd's Greatest Hits
Wogan and Hoff
Add Wasabi -
It's Beany's bag!

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tkdmart | 16 September 2011 - 11:53am

Any Eric Clapton solo album

Woke up this morning
still playing the same solo
I'm boring myself

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Cobweb Steve | 16 September 2011 - 2:54pm

R.E.M. Reveal

Monkeys flinging shit
Is better than this album
According to Bob

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Spartacus Mills | 16 September 2011 - 4:06pm

Liam Gallagher contemplates mortality during a canoeing accident

Gotta roll with it
My beady eye spies dead leaves
on the river bed.

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backwards7 | 16 September 2011 - 6:55pm

New Order

Nazi funereal goth dream
gets funky groove hook. E.
Ageing builders.

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Sven Garlic | 16 September 2011 - 7:05pm

Minimal

Thoughts occurring to Neil Tennant as politeness forces him to sit through a mimed version of The Cherry Orchard.

This tie has to go.
Muted browns do not belong
at warehouse parties.

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backwards7 | 17 September 2011 - 8:22am

Déjà Vu

Beyonce’s Proustian rush while attending a charity buffet to promote breast cancer awareness

Pink frosted cupcake
pink bike buried in leaf pile
The church and the school.

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backwards7 | 17 September 2011 - 9:21am

Never too far

Mariah Carey’s PA reflects on being far from home, while haggling with a farmer over the price of an antique gate, spotted while driving through Dorset on the way to a video shoot.

This is not L.A.
That tree, those black and white cows
This peeling green paint

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backwards7 | 17 September 2011 - 9:43am

Porcelain god

Paul Weller takes delivery of a life-size porcelain giraffe

Africa freeze-dried
in through the first floor window
like the piano

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backwards7 | 17 September 2011 - 11:55am

Don't you want me?

Mike Read recalls the 1980s glory days of the BBC Radio One Roadshow

Blackpool in July
Noise of the rollercoaster
drowns out The Human League

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backwards7 | 17 September 2011 - 12:02pm

That is a wonderful little poem B7

Larkinesque

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Sheev | 17 September 2011 - 3:59pm

Slighty

Ronthemanageresque too. ;)

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clivetemple | 17 September 2011 - 6:29pm

Treasure

The Cocteau Twins

Peepo Pompor Poo
Yada yada om dom frou fou
Pra da da dee parp

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Ahh_Bisto | 17 September 2011 - 1:35pm

Rockaway Beach

New york chewing gum
sun is out and they want some
Ramones two three four

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paulwright | 17 September 2011 - 1:38pm

Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot

Sparklehorse
Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Fantastic

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Neil Dyson | 17 September 2011 - 2:39pm

Loveless

A sinclavier
Attached to a fuzz pedal
Prompts armageddon

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Pax Romana | 17 September 2011 - 2:45pm

Parklife

A mockney tunesmith
With a fetish for peasants
Bops in Tacchini

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Pax Romana | 17 September 2011 - 2:50pm

Dog Man Star

Fake bisexual
Dumps floppy-haired friend after
Inventing smack-prog

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Pax Romana | 17 September 2011 - 2:55pm

The Velvet Underground and Nico

Drug dealers, trannies,
Hitting women: all this AND
A free banana?!

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Pax Romana | 17 September 2011 - 3:01pm

Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works Vol 1

How will it sound if
I stand this fan on top of
My old spin drier?

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Pax Romana | 17 September 2011 - 3:08pm

Live to tell

Madonna discovers the carcass of a griffin on her estate

A mirror image
this mobbed, crow-pecked chimera
returned to the earth

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backwards7 | 17 September 2011 - 6:05pm

Pop is dead

Radiohead play the Reading Festival

Swaying backlit phones
Fake plastic breasts during Creep
Synthetic fire smoke

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backwards7 | 17 September 2011 - 6:07pm

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

Jazz goes electric
Tension in repetition
In a silent way

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

Trane with tempered sax
Ev'rybody digs Evans
Cool trumpet brushstroke

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Ahh_Bisto | 17 September 2011 - 8:26pm

The soil sessions

Joss Stone takes an apple from The Rolling Stones rider while backstage at the O2 arena

This forbidden fruit
grown in the roof garden of
Fortnum and Mason

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backwards7 | 18 September 2011 - 7:25am

Move it

Cliff Richard plays Tennis against Natalie Portman and George Lucas

Two on one, I face
new balls that come thick and fast
Is this a threesome?

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backwards7 | 18 September 2011 - 7:36am

5-7-5

Zombie Haiku
Zombie Haiku by Robert Frost
Two lobes in the skull.
I eat the bloodier one –
not much difference.

Zombie Haiku by e.e. cummings
if anyone lived
in this wretched how town (they)
would be soon eaten.

Zombie Haiku by Walt Whitman
Every skin atom
form’d from this soil, this air,
tastes like chicken meat.
from http://zombiehaiku.com/

Zombie Haiku by William Shakespeare
To bite through the skull
or beat it against the wall?
That is the question.

Zombie Haiku by Edgar Allen Poe
Beside of the sea
I killed my Annabel Lee
because zombies do that.

Zombie Haiku by Theodore Roethke
I knew a woman,
piled up once I ate her,
lovely in her bones.

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badartdog | 19 September 2011 - 10:14pm

Hunky Dory

Dave's a hippy. Twelve
string guitar and curly perm.
It's "hol" as in "holes."

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Billybob Dylan | 20 September 2011 - 8:22pm
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