I always loved Casiopea, I've mentioned them on here many moons ago, and they have once again blown my mind with their song "Smiles." When I hear this song, its like being in love. My heart literally moves. Call me corny, call it what you will, but this song has that power behind it. If I close my eyes and listen to this, it transcends me. The obvious bass guitar is like warm butter, but the organs that come and go are just fantastic. The whole song in general plays my chakras like a musical instrument. I can just meditate on colors and breathing and focus and happiness. Almost like doing drugs to stabilize a deficiency or to remind you to just slow down and realign yourself physically and mentally. Re-listening to this while I write this, just gives me the sensation of dropping weight, spraying colors and energy like a wet dog shaking away the rain water. Life is good. We just tend to not realize it because we are so distracted by what its supposed to be and look like. What it smells like and tastes like and is acceptable by others.. Casiopea does a superb job of making all of that noise go away for a little while.

Sharif don't like it

A man who dressed like a sheikh stood amongst the broken stones on top of the sun baked hill. With his sunglasses and binoculars he spots an armadillo running in the desert and these guys with guitars are jamming in front of an oil rig. For reasons currently unknown, the man flees with a red boombox in hand....

That is all I saw and all I needed to know when I first saw this video and heard this song. I was only 5 and it made a huge impression on me and how I saw the world. There were these guys on TV who were dressed like they were from the future, and it dawned on me that there is a whole world out there, and it listens to music and is expressive and creative and different. I was too small too understand the messages in the video or behind the lyrics but I didn't care. This was the early 1980s, there were people from the future on TV playing music in the desert with that armadillo and I loved it.

Fast forward to 2012 and you find me listening to this song before the sun comes out to play. The love is still there, the music is still there, the only difference is now I watch the Clash on YouTube and I love the messages I never saw as a kid. To me, this song, and video is timeless and will forever kick ass.