The Battle of the Songs: Ready or not!

Yeah! This time my two little girls have survived!



Another reason to adore this game is the chance to discover things unknow. I didn't know about this fact: Could you tell me something more about it?

And now lets go with the plain thing:

First choice is pretty clear: Open Your Heart '84, one of the masterpieces in Europe's career, a jewell. But after that, I will choose Seven Doors Hotel. I like a lot that mix of teenanger 's epic and heroic and innocent attitude, a lot of Lynnot's stile.

I'm feeling a very bad person leaving Scream Of Anger and Ninja behind but, as we, 70's guys learnt in The Highlanders, there can only be one. Two in this case. Luckily.

Mmh, let me see…
Lucio Fulci was an italian movie director, well known between the seventies and the eighties for his horror “B-movies”. He had a very graphic and “gory” style and that’s why I’ve never liked that much his movies and I’ve never seen myself “The beyond”. But he’s been a sort of pioneer of the splatter genre and he’s recognized as a master and an inspiration by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez (among the others).
In 1981 “The beyond” was released and Joey saw the movie. He was so struck by it that he decided to write a song about it. In the booklet of the compilation 1982-1992, about SDH, Joey writes: “note the classical influences in this song which were inspired by a horror movie called <Beyond>”.
As a matter of fact the piano intro has a “thrilling” mood and the lyrics resume the plot of the movie. The “Seven doors” Hotel in the movie is the place where “a massacre took place and a young man died”. This event “opened one of the seven gates to Hell”. Later in "1981" the hotel is inherited by a young girl that tries to re-open it for business. But the “door” is still open and all sorts of horrifying events happen ("traces were found that could not exist in one's mind"), included the presence of the ghost of a blind girl (note that the lyrics insist very much on the “view” aspect: "without your knowing she's blind", “use your eyes to read and learn”, “do always watch out for things that you see…”) . The “Eibon” is a mystic book that should contain the answers to the strange events happening in the hotel (that's what you should "read and learn").
This is more or less all I know and deduced about this fact. If you wish to know something more you can take a look to the English Wikipedia pages of Lucio Fulci, The Beyond, Seven doors hotel and Book of Eibon.

So interesting, very complete information about the magnificent "Seven doors hotel", ... is great, thx ent  

I'm thinking about Ninja , I guess in this case this film had no influence on Joey, Right?