Magical Musical Mystery Tour -or- The Song Book I Write

For Patrizia

As Time Goes By -or- All You Need is Love

Music videos, poetry and dreams all tell stories. Some of those stories are narratives of love, its' destiny and destinations. Each generation enters the playing field of the dream of love thinking that they were the first. Often couples have "their song", which recalls the time they were dating. Casablanca's (the film) signature theme song As Time Goes By archetypally speaks to all of us who have loved "once upon a time". Feelings and songs of love are not restricted to couples, but also includes parents, friends and even pets. The Beatles have told us in their Magical Mystery Tour album All You Need is Love.

The Song Book I Write -or- Good Vibrations

Dreams of music can be traced back to ancient Greece and Rome, and most likely even further. Cicero's Dream of Scipio provides a musical voyage through the cosmos and would influence future music artists including Mozart. The modern popular music culture industry has produced many memorable songs. Rolling Stone has published their top 500 songs of all time. Casey Kasem in his internationally syndicated radio program American Top 40 continues to provide his audience with songs to remember. 

The perennial kaleidescopic frame story of love's memories, fantasies and moods, allow us to experience the emotional color spectrum of love and can move us much like Dante's Divine Comedy from lyrical darkness to light. The dreams and music videos of a variety of music artists that are found as individual interpretations at this website, find a archetypal connection and poetic synthesis in a common plotline, namely the stories of love in all their vicissitudes. The music mirrors the dream of love's moods of comedy and tragedy; the thrills of love, the agonies of love, the grief and despair of lost love and the bitter resentment of failed love.

Many music videos speak of the dream of love, such as Shania Twain's Your Still The One, Shania tells us, that her lover is the only one she dreams of. The psychologist Carl Gustav Jung, asked "what myth am I living?" in this context, I ask what songs you are dreaming? The kaleidescope of sound tracks of your dream diary will show you.

Hollywood Musical Dream Factory -or- That's the Entertainment of the Sound of Music

Once sound was added as an entertainment dimension of film, the birth of the musical was not far down the road. Since the 60's musicals such as "Hair", "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Saturday Night Fever", "Victor, Victoria", "All That Jazz", "Rochy Horror Picture Show", "Moulin Rouge", "Chicago", and "Across the Universe" are some of the stories set to music that have entertained us. Each of these films expressed their thoughts, ideas and feelings to the audience through their music. Dream soundtracks superimposed onto the oneiric visual images provide a musicological perspective of our dreams. As a universal form of media, music can have a therapeutic expressive archetypal effect.

Note; click on link to dream, then click on the link in the interpretation to watch each music video).

  1. Archimedean Point features The Beatles The Fool on the Hill
  2. Freud's Revolutionary Dream features The Beatles Revolution
  3. The Romantic Dreams of Don Quixote features The Impossible Dream 
  4. Hero with a Thousand and One Faces features Bonny Tyler's I Need a Hero
  5. Silent Spring in the Global Village features Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring
  6. Dreams of a Spirit-Seer features Trains Calling All Angels
  7. Elvis is Still in the Building features Elvis Unchained Melody
  8. Perennial Education on Magic Mountain features Jay and the Americans This Magic Moment
  9. Figments of My Imagination features Alan Parsons Project Dream within a Dream
  10. Psychological Survival features the Beatles Fool on the Hill
  11. Meditation and the Star Maker's Universe features the Beatles Across the Universe
  12. Semiotics of Dream Vision features Five Man Electrical Band's Signs
  13. Postmodern Perspectives feature the Beatles Let it Be
  14. Dream Diaries features Spoon's The Book I Write.
  15. Global Village Voice features Michael Jackson's We are the World
  16. City on the Edge of Forever features Starship's We Built this City
  17. Travel the World in 1001 Nights feature Eurhythmic's Sweet Dreams
  18. Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness features Sheryl Crow's If It Makes You Happy
  19. The Well Educated Imagination features John Denver's Take Me Home Country Roads
  20. Inner World of Humanity features Audrey Hepburn singing Show Me
  21. Titanic features Celine Dion's My Heart will Go On
  22. Limerence and Lovesickness features Sweet Love is Like Oxygen
  23. May the Force Be With You features Faith Hill's Breathe
  24. The Anatomy of Destructiveness features The Scorpions Humanity
  25. Dream Vision and the Black Box features the Pixies Where is My Mind?
  26. Suffering in the Global Village features Children of Bodom In the Shadows
  27. Boulevard of Broken Dreams (in the Global Village) features Green Day's song by the same name.
  28. Human Trafficking in Singapore features Murray Head's One Night in Bangkok
  29. America's Moveable Feast features Supertramp's Breakfast in America
  30. Journey to Fantasy Island features Bette Middler's I Put a Spell on You
  31. Who Wrecked the Car? features Roger Cook's Talking in Your Dreams
  32. Welcome to the Machine features Pink Floyd's song by the same name.
  33. The Dreams of Caesars features Now We Are Free.
  34. Third Reich of Dreams features Mozart's Magic Flute
  35. Poetics of the Macabre features Blue Oyster Cult Don't Fear the Reaper
  36. Hell is Other People George Harrison's My Sweet Lord
  37. Games People Play features Joe South's Games People Play
  38. The Many Faces of Betrayal features The O'Jays Back Stabbers
  39. The London Underground features Nancy Sinatra's You Only Live Twice
  40. The CIA World Factbook features Sheena Easton's For Your Eyes Only
  41. Once Upon a Dream? features Disney's Sleeping Beauty Once Upon a Dream and Cinderella A Dream is a Wish that Your Heart Makes
  42. Dream Research of Markets features The Beatles Elinore Rigby (at the bottom)
  43. Proust's Involuntary Memory features Billy Joel's Piano Man
  44. Boy-Friends and Girl-Friends features Elton John's Your Song
  45. Psychological and Emotional Baggage features Freddie Mercury's The Great Pretender
  46. Sexual Education features Nat King Cole's Fascination  
  47. The Dreams of Ludwig van Beethoven features Chuck Berry's Roll Over Beethoven 
  48. Let us Pray features Aretha Franklin's I Say a Little Prayer for You
  49. The Awe of Starry Night features Aerosmith Dream On
  50. Face-work in Dreams features John Denver's Sunshine On My Shoulders
  51. Gideon's Bible in the Global Village features Led Zepplin's Stairway to Heaven
  52. Inner World of Humanity features Emiliana Torrini's Telepathy
  53. The Roman Catholic Church features We Three Kings
  54. The Dreams of Wally Schirra features Frank Sinatra's Fly Me to the Moon
  55. There's No Place Like Home features Judy Garland's Somewhere Over the Rainbow
  56. Beatles on the Cover of the Rolling Stone features Dr Hook's Cover of the Rolling Stone
  57. Groundhog Day features Nat King Cole's It's Almost Like Being in Love.
  58. Numinous Dreams in the New Testament features Jesus Christ Superstar
  59. Arcade Dream Games features The Who's Pinball Wizard
  60. Who Will Write the History of Sexual Dreams? features Madonna's Girl Gone Wild
  61. Photo Shoot in Pakistan features The Beatles While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  62. Valley of the Dolls features Megan McCauley's Porcelain Doll
  63. It's a Wonderful Life features You're a Mean One, Mr Grinch
  64. The Dream as a Problem Solving Tool features Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now
  65. All Seeing Eye of Richard Nixon features Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall
  66. Men's Dreams features a combination of the film High Noon and Green Day's music, creating High Noon of Broken Dreams
  67. Hearts of Men features Sting's If I ever loose my Faith in You.
  68. Honor Your Mother and Father features Luther Vandross Dance With My Father Again
  69. A Kodak Moment features Jim Croce's Photographs and Memories.
  70. Nature's Gift features Elton John's Your Song 
  71. American Idol features Led Zepplin Stairway to Heaven, and A Whole Lot of Love as well as David Cook's I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For.
  72. The Celluloid Closet in the Gay Global Village features Tom Robinson's Glad to be Gay.
  73. Dating Game features Bobby Darrin's Dream Lover 
  74. Finding Never-Never Land features The Monkey's Daydream Believer
  75. Students Rites of Passage features Connie Francis Where the Boys Are.
  76. Developmental Dream Psychology features Lee Roy Parnell's Hearts Desire
  77. Bi-Curious features Ray Steven's The Streak
  78. I Love You features Faith Hill's This Kiss and Jim Croce's I had to say I love you in a song
  79. City of Angels features Sarah McLachlan's In the Arms of an Angel
  80. The Devil in Disguise features Cliff Richard's Devil Woman and Elvis The Devil in Disguise.
  81. Marriage of Heaven and Hell features Avril Lavigne's What the Hell
  82. Flirting features Gerry and the Pacemakers Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying and BJ Thomas's Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head
  83. American Woman features the Quess Who's American Woman
  84. The Nightmare of Future Shock features the Eagles Life in the Fast Lane
  85. Dreaming of Whitney Houston features Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You
  86. What is the Nature of a Loving Relationship? features Kelly Clarkson's Because of You
  87. Paris Hilton in San Francisco features Queen's Don't Stop Me Now
  88. If You Could Read My Mind features Gordon Lightfoot's If You Could Read My Mind
  89. Unrequited Love features The Association's Cherish, The Everly Brothers All I have to do is Dream, and David Bowie's If I'm Dreaming My Life.
  90. House Calls features The Rolling Stones You Can't Always Get What You Want.
  91. Cliche of Romantic Horror? features Michael Jackson's Thriller
  92. Theosophy in India features "Weird Al" Yankovic's That's Your Horoscope Today
  93. Starstruck Lovers features Dean Martin's That's Amore
  94. The Pick Up Artist features Janis Joplin's One Night Stand
  95. Thong Girl features Sisqó's Thong Song
  96. Soulmates features Secret Lover
  97. The Dream Argument features Marily Munroe's Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend
  98. Playboy features The Scorpions Rhythm of Love.
  99. Burlesque features Britany Speers I'm a Slave 4 U, and Madonna Justify My Love
  100. Das Auto features Billy Ocean's Get Outta of my Dreams, Get into my Car
  101. Feelings of Love features the Fifth Dimension Wedding Bell Blues, Morris Albert's Feelings, Chicago's If You Leave Me Now  Scorpion's Still Loving You  10 CC's I'm Not in Love Eric Carmen's All By Myself
  102. The Holy Prostitute features John Mellencamp's Dance Naked
  103. Vagina Monologues features Anita Ward's Ring My Bell
  104. Poetry of Young Love: Part 1 features Pink's Family Portrait
  105. Shakespearean Dreams of Young Love: Part 2 features Roger Water's album Amused to Death
  106. High School Students features Lulu's To Sir with Love
  107. The Global Banking Industry features Madonna's Material Girl
  108. If I had a million$ features the Barenaked Ladies If I had a million dollars
  109. Retirement features Chicago's Does Anybody Really KNow What Time it Is?
  110. The Engagement Ring features Elton John's Circle of Life and Can You Feel the Love Tonight
  111. The Female Nude, features Belouis Some's rather explicit dream Imagination 
  112. Cheating on Your Mind, features Gary Puckett and the Union Gap Woman, Woman
  113. Ex-Files features Tammy Wynette D.I.V.O.R.C.E. and Carrie Underwood Before He Cheats
  114. Baby I love Your Way -or- More Ex-files features Peter Frampton's Baby I Love Your Way
  115. Running with the Wolves features the Trogg's Wild Thing and Steppenwolf's Born to be Wild.
  116. ET Phone Home features Richard O'Brien's Science Fiction Double Feature.
  117. Bewitched -or- The American Culture Industry features The Rolling Stones Satisfaction
  118. Who Will Write the History of Tears? features Roy Orbison's Crying, Nazareth's Love Hurts, and REM's Everybody Hurts
  119. Dreaming With a Broken Heart features Jimmy Ruffin's What Becomes of the Broken Hearted, and John Mayer's Dreaming With a Broken Heart
  120. Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold features Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive
  121. Ease Her Pain feature Gavin DeGraw's Not Over You
  122. Moral Judgment in Dreams features The Beatles Maxwell's Silver Hammer
  123. Black Comedy features Vera Lynn's We'll Meet Again
  124. Anti-Semitism features the Fidler on the Roof song Anatevka
  125. To Russia with Love features John Barry's To Russia With Love
  126. Remembering the Cold War features the Rolling Stones Jumping Jack Flash
  127. Forgiveness in Lebanon features Bryan Adams Please Forgive Me
  128. My Heart Will Go On features Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On.
  129. Mysteries of Femininity features Jennifer Warnes It Goes Like it Goes, Helen Reddy I am Woman and Marlene Dietrich's Falling in Love Again
  130. The Big Chill features Percy Sledge When a Man Loves A Woman and Barbra Streisand's The Way We Were
  131. Griefwork features Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven
  132. MV Princess of the Stars as there is no song yet (that I know of) that memorializes the loss of life on the MV Princess of the Stars, I have featured Gorden Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to express the collective sentiment and lament those loved ones lost at sea.
  133. Dreaming of Princess Diana features Elton John's reworked Candle in the Wind
  134. The Seminary Student features Jeff Tweedy How to Fight Loneliness
  135. Scenes from a Marriage features Rod Stewart's The First Cut is the Deepest
  136. The Man in the Mirror features Michael Jackson's The Man in the Mirror
  137. Film Noir: The Stuff Dreams are Made Of (the article) features Roy Orbison's In Dreams
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