Entertainment For Lively Minds
Haiku Review
Posted by jimmyshoes01 on 15 September 2011 - 2:53pm.
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
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.
Pet Sounds
Smile was meant to be
a teenage symphony to God.
This really is.
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Deranged hobo stares
Into a glass of bourbon,
Growling children's rhymes.
Psychocandy
Two brothers fighting
Stop to kiss Phil Spector's feet
Avalanche of noise
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.
The Wall
School life not a success.
Mother proves wanting.
Numb = comfortable.
Hounds of Love
Drowning concept beside
Hills, dogs, cloudbusters.
Extraordinary.
Not an album review, but an excellent haiku
courtesy of John Cooper Clarke:
To express a mood
In seventeen syllables
Is very diffic.
As is...
Haikus are easy,
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator.
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!)
Ah yes of course
17 syllables - I remember now there was a bit more to it than I thought.
Larks' Tongues in Aspic
A delicate dish
Best served cold
Brutal
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
The White Album
Fabs Get Long-Winded
George Martin Patches Mess With
Orchestral Duct Tape
Nevermind
Quiet loud quiet
- Something Like The Pixies - But
Without Bible tales
Achtung Baby
Off goes the stetson
on go the wraparounds and
Out comes Adam's Cock
Screamadelica
Some dub, some Beach Boys
A smattering of acid,
The usual Stones.
Every U2 album
Shite, shite, shite, shite, shite.
Fucking really shite indeed
Total fucking shite.
Blue Lines
You can't dance to this
Unless you're a tortoise or
partial to hot knives
Different Class
Synthetic Fibres
Are brought back into fashion
By a skinny bloke
Station to Station
Scorched plains. Sound of water.
White powder. Black light.
Future manuscript. Now
Paul McCartney
Solo stuff is crap
Eleanor Rigby
Thumbs up
XTC Apple Venus Vol 1
water drops pizzicato strings
horns blare
first track,magic begins
This one's called 'North West Mingle'
Ken Dodd's Greatest Hits
Wogan and Hoff
Add Wasabi -
It's Beany's bag!
Any Eric Clapton solo album
Woke up this morning
still playing the same solo
I'm boring myself
R.E.M. Reveal
Monkeys flinging shit
Is better than this album
According to Bob
Liam Gallagher contemplates mortality during a canoeing accident
Gotta roll with it
My beady eye spies dead leaves
on the river bed.
New Order
Nazi funereal goth dream
gets funky groove hook. E.
Ageing builders.
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.
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.
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
Porcelain god
Paul Weller takes delivery of a life-size porcelain giraffe
Africa freeze-dried
in through the first floor window
like the piano
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
That is a wonderful little poem B7
Larkinesque
Slighty
Ronthemanageresque too. ;)
Treasure
The Cocteau Twins
Peepo Pompor Poo
Yada yada om dom frou fou
Pra da da dee parp
Rockaway Beach
New york chewing gum
sun is out and they want some
Ramones two three four
Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Sparklehorse
Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Fantastic
Loveless
A sinclavier
Attached to a fuzz pedal
Prompts armageddon
Parklife
A mockney tunesmith
With a fetish for peasants
Bops in Tacchini
Dog Man Star
Fake bisexual
Dumps floppy-haired friend after
Inventing smack-prog
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Drug dealers, trannies,
Hitting women: all this AND
A free banana?!
Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works Vol 1
How will it sound if
I stand this fan on top of
My old spin drier?
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
Pop is dead
Radiohead play the Reading Festival
Swaying backlit phones
Fake plastic breasts during Creep
Synthetic fire smoke
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
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
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?
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.
Hunky Dory
Dave's a hippy. Twelve
string guitar and curly perm.
It's "hol" as in "holes."