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This post is long overdue as I just kept procrastinating to do this for the longest, but finally, it's here.
The start is kind of tricky to figure out but the end is very easy. The start is most likely going to be with Richard Nixon's inauguration on January 20, 1969 and the end will be the Paris Peace Accords on January 27, 1973. I know early-mid 1969 does kind of seem like a stretch to include the transition (although some are even willing to start the 1970s in 1968, so maybe not a stretch after all), unlike late 1969-1972/early 1973ish, as that period still screamed "60s" in many ways with Woodstock, the Moon Landing, and such, but I think even that period had enough "70s" things to exclude it out of the "core '60s" territory, especially by the time you hit the summer of '69.
I know most will disagree with the timespan but this is just my opinion. This is gonna be much longer so this will probably be done in two or three parts, one again.
Let's begin.
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The inauguration of Richard Nixon - January 20, 1969

After the chaotic year that was 1968, with the incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson not running for a second time, Richard M. Nixon had narrowly defeated Hubert Humphrey, the incumbent vice president, in the presidential election. Nixon became the first non-incumbent vice president to be inaugurated as president, something that would not happen again until Joe Biden in 2021. I'd say this is appropriate to begin the transition into the tumultuous decade that was the 1970s.
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Sly and the Family Stone's 'Stand' album releases - April 1969

In the spring of '69, soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone released their fourth album Stand. Written and produced by lead singer and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, Stand! is considered an artistic high-point of the band's career. Released by Epic Records, just before the group's celebrated performance at the Woodstock festival, it became the band's most commercially successful album to date. This album was another sign of the 70s era that was beginning to emerge with its soul and funk rock sound.
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Lew Alcindor becomes the #1 pick for the NBA Draft - April 7, 1969

The 1969 NBA draft was the 23rd annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on April 7 and May 7, 1969, before the 1969–70 season. The first overall draft pick this year would be none other than Lew Alcindor (or later, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, as we all know him as) from UCLA for the Milwaukee Bucks organization. This would be the changing of the guard for the National Basketball Association as the veteran Boston Celtics dynasty were about to come to an end while a new dynasty has officially been born.
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The Boston Celtics win the 1969 NBA Championship - May 5, 1969

After defeating the highly-favored Los Angeles Lakers team of Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, and Jerry West, the aging Bill Russell-led Boston Celtics team win the 1969 NBA World Championship Series to end off the 1968-1969 NBA season, acquiring win their 11th championship as an organization. This was a significant Finals series as this marked the end of the Bill Russell Celtics dynasty that began in 1956. This would be their final championship as a team as Russell would retire shortly after this playoff series.
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Star Trek ends with the "Turnabout Intruder" episode - June 3, 1969

"Turnabout Intruder" is the twenty-fourth and final episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Arthur H. Singer (based on a story by Gene Roddenberry) and directed by Herb Wallerstein, it was first broadcast on June 3, 1969. In the episode, a woman switches bodies with Captain Kirk and then tries to take over command of the Enterprise. This was the last original episode of Star Trek to air on NBC.
"Turnabout Intruder" not only marked the final appearance of all main and supporting cast members of the show but also the last appearance of regular background actors David L. Ross (Lieutenant Galloway), William Blackburn (Lieutenant Hadley and DeForest Kelley's stand-in), and Roger Holloway (Lieutenant Lemli and James Doohan's stand-in). The episode drew Nielsen ratings of only 8.8, in contrast to rival shows Lancer on CBS and The Mod Squad on ABC, which gained ratings of 14.7 and 15.2 respectively, a drop of over fifty percent since the show premiered. Cultural theorist Cassandra Amesley states that this episode is "agreed to be one of the worst Star Trek episodes ever shown" by Star Trek fans.
The original Star Trek series ending would be another shedding off of 60s culture.
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Brian Jones dies - July 3, 1969

Rolling Stones star Brian Jones passes away at the age of 27 in the summer of 1969 after reportedly drowning in his swimming pool. Long story short, a lot of theories would surface surrounding his death years later saying that he was killed. And more importantly, this would be the beginning of the "27 Club" deaths that would occur with 60s musical acts between 1969 and 1971.
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The Apollo 11 spaceflight to the moon - July 20, 1969

Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, and Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface six hours and 39 minutes later, on July 21 at 02:56 UTC. Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later, and they spent about two and a quarter hours together exploring the site they had named Tranquility Base upon landing.
Humans walking on the Moon and returning safely to Earth accomplished Kennedy's goal set eight years earlier. In Mission Control during the Apollo 11 landing, Kennedy's speech flashed on the screen, followed by the words "TASK ACCOMPLISHED, July 1969". The success of Apollo 11 demonstrated the United States' technological superiority; and with the success of Apollo 11, America had won the Space Race.
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The Manson Family murders - August 8 to 10, 1969

The Tate–LaBianca murders were a series of murders perpetrated by members of the Manson Family during August 9–10, 1969, in Los Angeles, California, United States, under the direction of Tex Watson and Charles Manson. The perpetrators killed five people on the night of August 8–9: pregnant actress Sharon Tate and her companions Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski, along with Steven Parent. The following evening, the Family also murdered supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, at their home in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles.
On the night of August 8–9, four members of the Manson Family – Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian – drove from Spahn Ranch to 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, the home of Sharon Tate and her husband, film director Roman Polanski. The group murdered Tate (who was 8½ months pregnant), and guests Jay Sebring, a celebrity hairdresser; Abigail Folger, heiress to Folgers Coffee; her boyfriend Wojciech Frykowski, an aspiring screenwriter; and Steven Parent, an 18-year-old visiting the guest house caretaker. Roman Polanski was not home as he was working on a film in Europe. Manson was a cult leader and aspiring musician who had tried to get a contract with record producer Terry Melcher, who had previously rented the house.
The following night, those four people, in addition to Manson, Leslie Van Houten and Steve "Clem" Grogan, committed two more murders. Manson had allegedly said he would "show them how to do it". Linda Kasabian drove the group to 3301 Waverly Drive. Manson left with Atkins, Grogan, and Kasabian in the car and told the others to hitchhike back to the ranch. Watson, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten killed the couple in the early morning hours of August 10.
The Tate–LaBianca murders "profoundly shook America's perception of itself" and "effectively sounded the death knell of '60s counterculture". Additionally, the ritualistic nature of the murders laid a foundation for the rise of the Satanic panic.
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The Woodstock festival - August 15 to 18, 1969

Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock. Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it attracted more than 460,000 attendees. Thirty-two acts performed outdoors despite overcast and sporadic rain. It was one of the largest music festivals in history and became synonymous with the counterculture of the 1960s.
The festival has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as a defining event for the Silent and Baby Boomer generations. The event's significance was reinforced by a 1970 documentary film, an accompanying soundtrack album, and a song written by Joni Mitchell that became a major hit for both Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Matthews Southern Comfort.
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! premieres on CBS - September 13, 1969

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is an American animated comedy television series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS. The series premiered as part of the network's Saturday morning cartoon schedule on September 13, 1969, and aired for two seasons until October 31, 1970. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of a long-running media franchise primarily consisting of animated series, several films, and related merchandise. This show played a huge impact on Generation X "70s kid" culture.
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The Brady Bunch premieres on ABC - September 26, 1969

The Brady Bunch was a new series that premiered on ABC for the 1969-70 fall season. It starts with the episode "The Honeymoon", which gives this description on Fandom:
"Michael Brady, an architect and widower with three sons (Greg, Peter and Bobby) marries Carol Ann Martin, a mother with three daughters (Marcia, Jan and Cindy). Mike and Carol have a chaotic backyard wedding, in which the boys' dog, Tiger, chases the girls' cat, Fluffy. Mike and Carol admonish their children, yelling at them to go catch their pets. The newlywed couple goes on a honeymoon later that day, while the children sit at home thinking that their parents hate them. While on their honeymoon, Mike and Carol realize that they were too hard on their children, and they decide to bring them along on the honeymoon. They also bring along Alice (the housekeeper), Tiger and Fluffy."
This show would give another huge sign to 70s culture as a whole.
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Sesame Street debuts - November 10, 1969

In the fall of 1969, “Sesame Street,” a pioneering TV show that would teach generations of young children the alphabet and how to count, makes its broadcast debut. “Sesame Street,” with its memorable theme song (“Can you tell me how to get/How to get to Sesame Street”), went on to become the most widely viewed children’s program in the world. It has aired in more than 120 countries.
The show was the brainchild of Joan Ganz Cooney, a former documentary producer for public television. Cooney’s goal was to create programming for preschoolers that was both entertaining and educational. She also wanted to use TV as a way to help underprivileged 3- to 5- year-olds prepare for kindergarten. “Sesame Street” was set in a fictional New York neighborhood and included ethnically diverse characters and positive social messages.
Taking a cue from “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In,” a popular 1960s variety show, “Sesame Street” was built around short, often funny segments featuring puppets, animation and live actors. This format was hugely successful, although over the years some critics have blamed the show and its use of brief segments for shrinking children’s attention spans.
From the show’s inception, one of its most-loved aspects has been a family of puppets known as Muppets. Joan Ganz Cooney hired puppeteer Jim Henson (1936-1990) to create a cast of characters that became Sesame Street institutions, including Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, Grover and Big Bird.
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The 'David Bowie' album releases - November 14, 1969

Originally released in the UK, David Bowie's self-titled album would be his second studio album released, which would be titled under the genres of folk rock and psychedelic rock. Space rock was another genre that this album experimented with due to its only released single "Space Oddity", which came out in July 1969 to capitalize on the Apollo 11 Moon landing, received critical praise, and was used by the BBC as background music during its coverage of the event. That song is considered to be one of the most musically complex songs he had written up to that point, it represented a change from the music hall-influenced sound of his debut to a sound akin to psychedelic folk and inspired by the Bee Gees.
David Bowie has received mixed reviews in later decades, with many finding a lack of cohesiveness. Bowie himself later stated that it lacked musical direction. Debate continues as to whether it should stand as Bowie's first "proper" album.
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The Altamont Free Concert takes place - December 6, 1969

The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture rock concert in the United States, held on Saturday, December 6, 1969, at the Altamont Speedway outside of Tracy, California. Approximately 300,000 attended the concert, with some anticipating that it would be a "Woodstock West". The Woodstock festival had taken place in Bethel, New York, in mid-August, almost four months earlier.
The event is remembered for its use of Hells Angels as security and its significant violence, including the stabbing death of Meredith Hunter and three accidental deaths: two from a hit-and-run car accident, and one from a drowning incident in an irrigation canal. Scores were injured, numerous cars were stolen (and subsequently abandoned), and there was extensive property damage.
The concert featured performances (in order of appearance) by Santana, Jefferson Airplane, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY), with the Rolling Stones taking the stage as the final act. The Grateful Dead were also scheduled to perform after CSNY, but shortly before their scheduled appearance, they chose not to due to the increasing violence at the venue. "That's the way things went at Altamont—so badly that the Grateful Dead, the prime organizers and movers of the festival, didn't even get to play," wrote staff at Rolling Stone magazine in a detailed narrative on the event, terming it, in an additional follow-up piece, "rock and roll's all-time worst day, December 6th, a day when everything went perfectly wrong."
Many people would mark this event to be the end of the cultural 60s.
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The 'Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5' album releases - December 12, 1969

Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 is the debut studio album from Gary, Indiana-based soul family band the Jackson 5, released on the Motown label on December 12, 1969. The Jackson 5's lead singer, a preadolescent Michael Jackson and his four older brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon, became pop successes within months of this album's release. Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5's only single, "I Want You Back", became a number-one hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 within weeks of the album's release. The album reached number 5 on the US Pop Albums chart, and spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the US R&B/Black Albums charts. To date, the Jackson 5's debut album has sold estimated 5 million copies worldwide.
If none of the events that described previously had transitioned us into the 70s to any of you, then this certainly did.
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MAS*H releases in theaters - January 25, 1970

M*A*S*H (stylized on-screen as MASH) is a 1970 American dark war comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr., based on Richard Hooker's 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. The picture is the only theatrically released feature film in the M*A*S*H franchise.
The film depicts a unit of medical personnel stationed at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. It stars Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, and Elliott Gould, with Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, René Auberjonois, Gary Burghoff, Roger Bowen, Michael Murphy, and in his film debut, professional football player Fred Williamson. Although the Korean War is the film's storyline setting, the subtext is the Vietnam War – a current event at the time the film was made. Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau, who saw the film in college, said M*A*S*H was "perfect for the times, the cacophony of American culture was brilliantly reproduced onscreen".
M*A*S*H became one of the biggest films of the early 1970s for 20th Century-Fox and is now considered one of the greatest films ever made and also won the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, later named the Palme d'Or, at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.
This film was a another huge sign of 70s culture as it inspired the television series M*A*S*H, which ran from 1972 to 1983. Gary Burghoff, who played Radar O'Reilly, was the only actor playing a major character who appeared in both the movie and the TV series. Altman despised the TV series, calling it "the antithesis of what we were trying to do" with the movie.
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Paul McCartney announces his break from the Beatles - April 10, 1970

On April 10, 1970, when promoting the release of his forthcoming solo album, Paul McCartney announces that he is taking a break from the Beatles, the legendary rock band he had been a part of for a decade. It wasn't that much of a surprise. The Beatles spent the better part of three years breaking up in the late 1960s—and even longer than that hashing out who did what and why. By the spring of 1970, there was little more than a tangled set of business relationships keeping the group together. Each of the Beatles was pursuing his musical interests outside of the band, and there were no plans in place to record together as a group. But as far as the public knew, this was just a temporary state of affairs. No one had yet gone on the record with a definitive break-up statement. Paul, for his part, hedged his bets.
By year’s end, Paul would file suit to dissolve the Beatles’ business partnership, a formal process that would eventually make official the unofficial breakup he announced on this day in 1970.
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The Kent State Massacre - May 4, 1970

In the spring of 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close. H. R. Haldeman, a top aide to President Richard Nixon, suggests the shootings had a direct impact on national politics.
In The Ends of Power, Haldeman (1978) states that the shootings at Kent State began the slide into Watergate, eventually destroying the Nixon administration. Beyond the direct effects of the May 4, the shootings have certainly come to symbolize the deep political and social divisions that so sharply divided the country during the Vietnam War era.
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Jimi Hendrix passes away - September 18, 1970

On September 18, 1970, American musician Jimi Hendrix died in London at the age of 27. One of the 1960s' most influential guitarists, he was described by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music."
Hendrix's death was reportedly due to him aspirating on his own vomit, later dying of asphyxia, while intoxicated with barbiturates. At the inquest, the coroner, finding no evidence of suicide, and lacking sufficient evidence of the circumstances, recorded an open verdict. Dannemann stated that Hendrix had taken nine of her prescribed Vesparax sleeping tablets, 18 times the recommended dosage.
Jimi Hendrix's death was another huge blow to 60s culture and he would be another number added to the new "27 Club" list of celebrities that would continue with none other than.....
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Janis Joplin passes away - October 4, 1970

On Sunday evening, October 4, 1970, Joplin was found dead on the floor of her room at the Landmark Motor Hotel by her road manager and close friend John Byrne Cooke. Alcohol was present in the room. Newspapers reported that no other drugs or paraphernalia were present.
According to a 1983 book authored by Joseph DiMona and Los Angeles County coroner Thomas Noguchi, evidence of narcotics was removed from the scene by a friend of Joplin and later put back after the person realized that an autopsy was going to reveal that narcotics were in her system. The book adds that prior to Joplin's death, Noguchi had investigated other fatal drug overdoses in Los Angeles where friends believed they were doing favors for decedents by removing evidence of narcotics, then they "thought things over" and returned to put back the evidence.
Noguchi performed an autopsy on Joplin and determined the cause of death to be a heroin overdose, possibly compounded by alcohol.
Joplin's death, just like Hendrix's, was a huge blow to the more optimistic culture of the 1960s, and the 27 Club list of celebrity deaths are continuing.
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Other events that also had an impact that happened around this time period (give/take) that I could not fit on this list:

• Richard Nixon wins the presidential election, defeating incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey, and the American Independent Party nominee, former Alabama governor George Wallace (November 5, 1968)
• Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower passes away (March 28, 1969)
• Creedence Clearwater Revival's hit single "Fortunate Son" releases (October 1969), which was arguably the quintessential Vietnam War song.
• Pink Floyd's fourth album Ummagumma releases (November 7, 1969)

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And this will conclude the first part of this transition. Stay tuned for the second part to this.
I hope you enjoyed it and I would appreciate it if you would comment on these.

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(Mods, if this is not allowed, I apologize and will delete.)
I have a theory and I wanted to speak it out into existence and see what y’all might think about it.
I think we’re definitely due for a comeback from Billlie. But when?
Monday is definitely not a common release day from them, but it has happened before (side-b: moeu), so it’s not completely out of the realm of possibilities.
Tuesday is not a common release day from them either (snowy night and tbop3)
Wednesday, on the other hand, is a more common release date from them (tbop1, tcsou1, tbop2, gmy (jpn ver), k-oe).
What does that information have to do with anything?
Monday, November 11th happens to be the day after their third anniversary and with the date 11/11, how could they not do something special for a lore respecting date like that? Also, November isn’t just the name of a month, it’s also the name of the spiritual guardian for Billlie! To possibly add more, they have a song named ‘the eleventh day’. What do we think could happen during the eleventh day of the eleventh month?
Wednesday, November 13th can also be a possible release date due to the cryptic symbolism of the actual date:
13/11—> novem13er —> novemBer —> B in November? (13 could be seen as the letter ‘B’, a letter very important to their lore)
Also, this is probably not relevant and I’m def reaching with this one: but 13+11=24, written in date format: 13/11/24, November 13th, 2024.
Could it possibly mean anything?
TLDR; Billlie might release an album on the day November 11th or November 13th bc both dates are not only extremely close to their anniversary, but the dates could be more of an indicator to the importance of the number 11 and the letter ‘B’ in their lore.

The FOURTH PART with forgotten treasures of shoegaze and closely related styles. Most bands are pretty much forgotten with less than 200 monthly listeners on Spotify, despite excellent songs.
Artist name: Pray TV Country: Naarm/ Melbourne, Australia Latest release (Spotify): Horizontal Life (2016) Highlight song: Spent (1991)
Artist name: Technicolor Teeth Country: Wisconsin, US Latest release (Spotify): Teenage Pagans (2012) Highlight song: Magick Sunlamp (2012)
Artist name: The Rosemary Beads Country: Perth, Australia Latest release (Spotify): Shine (2016) Highlight song: Wedding Song (1994)
Artist name: The Rosaries Latest release (Spotify): Engine Common (compilation, 1993) Highlight song: Leaving (1992) Info: A short-lived indiepop group who released one 7" single on the legendary Sarah Records label in 1992
Artist name: Sonic Discruptor Country: Brazil Latest release (Spotify): Poppers (1995) Highlight song: Landscape Lane (1995)
Artist name: Deardarkhead Country: Atlantic City, NJ (US) Latest release (Spotify): Strange Weather (2016) Highlight song: Alone With You (1999)
Artist name: Hideous Town Country: Naarm/ Melbourne, Australia Latest release (Spotify): Disquiet Living (2016) Highlight song: Don’t Forget (2016)
Artist name: The Sky Drops Country: Wilmington, Delaware (US) Latest release (Spotify): Bourgeois Beat (2009) Highlight song: Swimming with Fishes (2009)
Artist name: Juned Country: Seattle, Washington (US) Latest release (Spotify): Every Night for You (1996) Highlight song: Kyuss (1996)
All songs can be found in one playlist! (The playlist will be updated in the coming weeks with further posts here on this channel and more lost songs from great bands. So stay tuned...)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ovQMkvtun2jVbmJ1Yjpnc?si=04069e5d77104072
🔥P*laylistcover: OLD MAGIC PALLAS *(Brazil) (just remastered their brilliant album „Pull My Daisy“ from 1995)

I enjoy doing some reading, thinking, and writing after watching a thoughtful film. A friend who enjoys arthouse cinema introduced me to Tarkovsky's work, and "Stalker" (1979) was the first of his films I ever watched. It proved to be enigmatic and thought-provoking, and I've now watched it three times. I'd love to get some interaction from others on my thoughts below about the film, or any key aspects I missed.
First, a brief introduction to Tarkovsky himself. Russian director and screenwriter Andrei Tarkovsky is highly regarded by fans of arthouse cinema, and is widely considered one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema. His greatness is evident from what famous director Ingmar Bergman said about him: "Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream". He received critical praise for films like Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975), Stalker (1979), Nostalghia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986). Unlike all his other films the latter two were filmed outside the Soviet Union.
"Stalker" was my introduction to Tarkovsky’s work. It’s a Russian language film that runs for three hours. It’s been described as combining elements of science fiction and fantasy with dramatic, philosophical, psychological and theological themes. Critical reviews of the film have been very positive, and it has been listed among the greatest films of all time, and has also won awards.
So what’s it about? It is loosely based on a novel from 1972 written by the brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, entitled "Roadside Picnic," which describes what happens following an extraterrestrial visit. In the book, a Zone of a few square kilometers remains after the aliens leave. This area exhibits strange phenomena and contains artifacts with unexplained properties, including a magical wish-granting “Golden Sphere”. But entering this dangerous and forbidden area requires the assistance of a professional guide known as a “stalker”.
The movie takes this basic concept from the book, which accounts for the title. Stalker is the main character of the film, which is held together by a narrative that departs from the novel in a lot of significant ways, and becomes its own story. Stalker’s role is to guide people into and through the mysterious and hazardous area called the Zone, which has been sealed off from the public by the government. Getting there requires going with him on a risky journey, and navigating it will prove difficult because apparently the normal laws of physics don’t apply there, and there may even be remnants of extraterrestrial or supernatural activity. At the center of the Zone is a place called the Room, which holds the promise of granting a person's innermost desires. The two men who join Stalker on his mission as part of their quest to get to the Room are a Writer and a Professor (never named), each with their own motives for entering the Room.
The first part of the movie is quite accessible for the most part. First we meet Stalker at home with his wife and child, and his wife unsuccessfully begs him not to go into the Zone. Next we meet his two clients. There are even some exciting moments as they begin their expedition, because entering the dangerous terrain of the Zone requires breaking through the military blockade of government security. Stalker has given them strict instructions that once they are inside the Zone, they must do exactly what he says to survive the dangers of this forbidden area. The shortest path to their destination is not necessarily the best one, and to navigate the potential hazards and traps, he throws metal nuts tied to cloth strips.
As the expedition continues, gradually we discover the reasons why the Writer and the Professor want to visit the Room. It also turns out that completing their quest won’t prove easy. The Room is located in a rundown industrial building, and they must make it through what is called the “Meat Grinder”, which requires someone to die in order to enable another person to enter the Room. The corresponding novel is helpful in explaining how this works: to get to the place where wishes are granted, one of the individuals has to die in order to temporarily deactivate an invisible phenomenon known as the "Meat Grinder".
But that’s not the only challenge that arises here. The Professor actually wants to destroy the Room to prevent anyone using it for evil. At this point a spiritual, psychological, and physical conflict between the characters ensues. After some climactic scenes around the notion of entering the Room, all three characters make the journey home. The film closes with some scenes between Stalker and his wife, followed by a contemplative monologue from Stalker’s wife, and a glimpse of their daughter’s telekinetic powers.
Viewers will be immediately struck by the artistic aspects of Tarkovsky’s creative film-making. Tarkovsky has a unique style, with a special fondness for very long shots without cutting away. Stalker uses slow camera movement, and lengthy takes that average at least a minute each, with many shots even running for more than four minutes. This technique is something Tarkovsky believed to be important, and had to do with his view of bringing his viewers into the time of the moment. His fondness for slow pacing and dreamlike visual imagery is very much on display throughout the film. Colour was also important to Tarkovsky, and it is only when we enter the Zone that we merge out of the black and white sepia that the movie starts with. Extended dialogue and monologues are also typical of his style, at least in this film.
But what is all this art trying to communicate? At times one might wonder whether Stalker is reliable, and whether the dangers of the Zone are real, or whether the Room is just a superstitious fallacy. Sceptics might want to view the film rationally and scientifically, and explain away the Zone as the site of a nuclear accident like Chernobyl. Taken as a whole, especially in light of Tarkovsky’s own rejection of a purely materialistic view of life, I’m convinced the film wants us to accept that the threats in the Zone are real, along with the Room and the reward it promises to all who are prepared to complete the religious quest needed to reach it.
This interpretation is supported by the fact that we see a wind arise when The Professor tries taking a shortcut, and also the impact that the Zone has had on Stalker’s daughter and her apparently telekinetic powers. It’s also supported by what happened with Porcupine, a previous Stalker who committed suicide after obtaining his inner desires upon entering the Room. Additional evidence in favour of this interpretation is the main premise of “The Roadside Picnic”, the novel that the movie is based on. Reading a synopsis of the book’s plot can be helpful to discard wrong interpretations of the film that were clearly not intended. So even if there are parts of the film hard to explain, it seems clear that the character of Stalker needs to be accepted as a trustworthy character, and that what he says about the Zone is true, even if Stalker’s own journey of faith has flaws and imperfections.
But what makes Tarkovsky’s contribution to cinema all the more important for me personally are the religious themes that he works with. He has the same Russian Orthodox Church background as literary greats like Dostoevsky, so it should come as no surprise that he employs similar themes. Like Dostoevsky, Tarkovsky rejected the idea of a materialistic, disbelieving world. So it seems plausible to interpret the film with Stalker representing the “holy fool” that is a common motif in Russian literature. His role typifies the importance of following a spiritual guide rather than following our own path, and the importance of viewing life through the eyes of faith. Navigating the Zone is like a religious quest or trial that requires believing and following a guide. For me as a Christian, this suggests something about the essence of faith, where we are led by God's Word, and follow what He says.
The Writer and The Professor are never named, and are presented as two intellectuals, possibly representing arts and science respectively. The Professor is a sceptic and unbeliever, while the Writer is an agnostic, and both struggle to accept the apparent powers and dangers of the Zone. In the end, both end up following Stalker, who is a man of faith, but this is only after their own personal failures to accomplish what they came to do in the Zone. This also explains the closing scenes, where Stalker laments humanity’s loss of the faith needed for going through the Zone and for living the good life. In a world of increasing secularism, materialism, rationalism, and scientific thought, Tarkovsky wants us to hold on to the importance of faith and religious thinking.
Another important theme is about human desire. While the Room holds the promise of tremendous power, it is also very dangerous. An account of a previous Stalker named Porcupine is offered as a cautionary tale in this regard. He took his brother into the Zone, but sacrificed him at the Meat Grinder in order to enter the Room himself. Porcupine later won the lottery and became very rich, but subsequently hanged himself. His stated desire might have been to restore his brother back to life, but what if his greatest secret desire was actually different from what he thought, and was just a materialistic craving for money? Realizing this afterwards made Porcupine realize he wasn’t a very good man, and brought him to suicide, perhaps in part to expiate himself for his guilt.
Could Tarkovsky be saying something similar to the message of Ecclesiastes, that if you look for your deepest desires to come true (apart from God), in the end it leads only to disappointment? Wisdom is to come to the same realization that the Writer and the Professor eventually arrive at: because of the corruption and depravity in our hearts, entering a Room which grants our greatest secret desire would only result in something that will haunt us. We don’t have the spiritual goodness to enter such a place, and the conclusion of the film grieves over fallen humanity’s inability to live the good life.
In contrast, Stalker’s daughter (Monkey) seems to be presented as a Miracle Child who does have a noble heart, as evidenced by her mind being filled with works of poetic greatness. On the one hand she bears the marks of Stalker’s frequent visits to the Zone, because being a stalker comes with the risk of genetic mutations in your children, which is evident in Monkey’s visible handicaps and imperfections. Yet her demonstration of telekinesis suggests she has the power of miracles which the Room promises. This also explains why she is the only object in colour, because the power of the Zone is embodied in her. Perhaps redemption is possible after all, even for those who are wretched and otherwise without hope.
Modern viewers won’t be the first to find themselves wondering if too much is made of this film, and cynics may even suggest that part of the obsession with and admiration of this film is just a case of the Emperor’s New Clothes. I’m convinced it has a plausible story and deep themes, as I’ve explained above. But I’ll also concede that a great deal of the film eludes the ready grasp of the viewer, and remains perplexing. I often found myself wondering about the importance of the obscure images the film constantly throws at us.
For instance, what are we to make of the lengthy dream sequence, where we are get a series of images of debris and flotsam in water: fish, a religious icon, money, a rusted gun, a lock, barbed wire, a spring, a human hand? And what is the significance of the dog that roams freely in the Zone, and follows the trio back out? At times the imagery is deeply religious, such as a moment when the Writer has a crown of thorns on his head, but what does it all mean? Without an interpreter, I often found myself baffled, but also intrigued and deeply curious. It’s certainly a demanding film, and the fact that it is somewhat inaccessible and that its meaning is somewhat hidden is also somewhat frustrating.
At the same time we should be careful not to allegorize the film too quickly, and want to interpret all its details as symbols. Tarkovsky himself shied away from the concept of symbols and preferred to speak about metaphors. In interviews, he said that while a symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, a metaphor is an image and is indefinite in meaning, and cannot be fully deciphered. He wanted his films to be works of art, but not in the sense that everything can be explained, because he believed that there were aspects of his films that are abstractions that transmit truth which can only be comprehended in one’s own heart. If we’re going to take his own vision for his films seriously, we must be cautious not to analyze everything, but also allow the images to touch our soul.
On the other hand, some viewers insist that this movie should just be enjoyed as a story without trying to interpret anything at all. I wouldn’t go that far, because clearly it is intended as a metaphysical fable that has something to say about faith, and about the nature of human desire. Tarkovsky has also stated that he wants his films to create a certain spiritual state in his viewers, even if they encounter fragments they don’t understand. So clearly there are deeper themes behind the story that we have to draw out. That requires effort on the part of the viewer, and a modern audience brought up on Hollywood action films and needing a suspenseful plot will find a film like Stalker disappointing, and perhaps even stupid and anti-climactic. Tarkovsky would dismiss such critics as unbelieving materialists, and might even see his film-maker role functioning like a stalker to help bring them back to an awareness of the need for religious faith.
I’ve also watched Tarkovsky’s film “Mirror” (1979), which is considered by many to be his magnus opus. That is a much more enigmatic film with a non-linear structure and unconventional structure that jumps between three different timelines, and a stream-of-consciousness feel with dreamlike images. While critically acclaimed by some, others consider it completely incomprehensible. In contrast, “Stalker” is much more accessible, much like his sci-fi film “Solaris” (1972), which is also more narrative driven, while still raising deep questions.
Stalker is an excellent place to get introduced to Tarkovsky’s creative, artistic, and thoughtful genius. While parts of it will remain perplexing, it has enough narrative to keep you interested, and it’s not so opaque that it defies comprehension on first viewing. As has well be said: "Only in the hands of a genius like Tarkovsky can the simple narrative structure of three men on a journey be transformed to a complicated moral and spiritual examination of humanity, anchored to references of classical poetry, literature, music and art."

I know I’m not interesting or important enough for people to conspire against me but perhaps people collectively hate me enough to warn others about me and to spread the message to all who I am in contact with.
These people for sure hate me, this guy I used to work with (M) continued to ignore my messages and bursted out in anger at me after I refused to sleep with him, but we stayed friends on social media, he’s also friends with my other good work friend K. K invited me to go quadding at christmas and at the last minute K says that this guy will be there so I told him “I’m sorry I can’t make it, you guys enjoy I’ll go with you another time” This guy isn’t working at my job anymore but I wanted to mend the bad blood to keep things civil, so I tried texting M a bunch of times but he would just read the messages, so I unfriend him. Then a few days later I’m sitting at my job and no one’s there and the place is all closed up lights off and these two cars pull up and I think nothing of it but they go to the back, then I see them peeking thru the front window and they saw me and I go outside and say hey to M and his friend and M puts his hand on other dudes shoulder and is like “oh this is my friend D he’s going to be working here” etc etc and M was fake nice to me asking about my family and pet etc and I say bye. It was awkward.
I have had this one crazy old woman (S) I work with whisper in my ear “I want to strangle you” and walks into my office pulls a knife out towards me as an intimidating tactic and says “oh the handle on this is broken, should we keep it in the back?” And her grandson named G has tried to get with me, but I just wanted to be friends. He’s an idiot who everytime we hang out or talk he tells people about it and brags that we are really close, but I’ve been paranoid and he gave me a camera detector so I can scan my house and he said he got it from a paranoid person who’s a crackhead and he told me that day that he’s worked for “secret societies” as a way to sound cool to me and I got scared and my back got up because I found out he sells drugs and he talks to bad people. He started acting weird though, like nothing was wrong and I kept ignoring his texts but he still texts me like we are great friends and doesn’t even ask me why I’m not texting him back or what’s wrong, just sending me paragraphs about his problems like he’s talking to himself. Another person who I believed was my friend (D) was at S’s house and G texts me that D was there and he said he felt that D was very fake and not trustworthy, and he asked if I agreed with him. I got angry and said to stop involving me in this shit I have my own problems and I don’t care about this drama, fuck off. It was odd that D went to S’s house cause I know they are “work friends” but 2 hours before I was at work telling D that S was being nasty to me. I don’t trust D, I can feel her vibes and how she studies my reactions and face. D is also Facebook friends with someone (V) from my past and another town over who over one year ago accused me of talking to her ex when I did because he somehow got my Snapchat and I was just making conversation but completely forgot who he was because I only remembered his first name, but this guy said that we were talking and that I was into him apparently to this ex friend of mine. A year ago I had to justify that nothing happened and prove nothing happened because I was scared she would say false shit about me and I felt hurt that she didnt trust me. She said she did in the end, but then like 6 months ago she texted me again accusing me of similar shit but this time I got angry at her. I live like 5 hours away, I’m in school, I’m trying to just get by, who the fuck am I to her anymore and why’s she accusing mee again? And then recently before I return to work I see she’s friends with D on Facebook and I’m like hmmm. I wonder why they’re friends? And I felt cold fake vibes from D from the beginning so I ask D how she knows V and blah blah blah I forget but I say “what has she said about me” and D denies it at first but then partially admits that V said something about me talking to this guy. And I get fucking angry because V is like hours away from here and I haven’t seen her in 5 years, why the fuck would she be telling D false shit about me when i just met D a year ago and we aren’t close? Just in general it feels like at work all the blame is put on me and that there’s a conception that for some reason everyone assumes im the one responsible for things I have no control over. Im the same age as these people but im technically the manager who doesn’t have the actual authority as manager but does more work for more money. These people only seem to be salty to me, not older people with similar roles to me. Anyways these people make backhanded comments like “I don’t know how you do it, it’s so boring doing this” just to hurt me. I’d like my job if people were nice to me, and S is like 67 and I’m above her but she always says “okay BOSS” as a mocking thing, when I try to make things easy for her and I just do my job and I’m easy going and always considerate and I’ve bought her creamer for work done shit for her and she doesn’t even say thank you she said “the creamer you bought is running out” so what the fuck do you want me to do? Do you want a young girl with student loans to pay for your creamer again? Or give you another ride just because your old and didn’t pay into your pension? She doesn’t ask anyone else but me for these favours and I’m the only one who gets to see her nasty side and only one who’s her personal punching bag. Also, all these people even if they’re not close to me will have the nerve to say shit about my mom to my face “I’m scared of your mom” “your moms so intimidating” “your moms a dry drunk” and then act like my friend. And I’ve let them do this. Other than that, well there’s a lot more but it’s 3am, so I’ll keep it brief, other than that I see on my people you may know is all the people who have absolutely despised me over the last 9 years that I have wronged in some way or we had different views on things and different personalities (it happened 5 years ago, I was going through shit that people go though so I was hot and cold with answering their texts and didn’t think before I spoke, I was always nice tho. they were all snotty anyways, but yeah once they started hating me it seemed that everyone started to hate me or pretend to be my friend but I’ve been bullied since I can remember so I wasn’t exactly well liked) but yeah these people are constantly on my people you may know and shit and it weirds me the fuck out. So that is all the real shit that has happened.
Now this is the paranoid thoughts I’m having: I’m paranoid that they’re all saying shit against me, like the ones from the past are either messaging current people I know, warning them about me and telling them to continue to slyly snub me when I have my back turned, and to continue to spread the word and eliminate all positive opportunities in my life until I give up and pull the trigger on my plans. I just think it’s really a damn shame they would do that. I’ve told these people I only have one person who I fucking love and who I need to provide for and make sure they’re okay, and they know I don’t have things easy. They know I need to be strong for my mom and they still find ways to hurt me, they still act like fake ass bitches to my face and they know I know they do it and that’s what hurts more. Because they try to personally make me feel alone in this world. But how could they know shit about my life? They know about my problems, why do they only know about my problems and not the good? Why am I still nice to these people and after one good day of treating me right I start to give them the benefit of the doubt but as soon as I do and let my guard down they immediately initiate some other tactic to psychologically hurt me and tear down my boundaries and and I tell them more about my issues and how alone I feel with it and how much the overthinking affects my ability to enjoy life.
I constantly live my life in fear. I wonder what made them hate me so much, I just pray that’s it’s all a coincidence and they don’t give a shit but it just feels off. I get bad gut feelings about it. I start to get angry. I want to install cameras in my house. I always feel watched at home. I go outside and threaten whoever is out there. Every bump in the night I believe is someone waiting for me to fall asleep. I am scared they know my Reddit. I talk to no one. The ones I trust I trust but I try not to bother them with my shit because I know it’ll drive them away and call me crazy. I have isolated myself from everyone pretty much. I feel better and I sort of feel how irrational it is but this work stuff just happened this week and I have to see these people. Idk what to do. I try to search how to se how I come across to make myself less desirable target me try to joke around and show my vulnerabilities to try and prove myself as a human to these people but I know they see it’s fake and they still chose to hate me when I’ve only ever been nice to them and all I ever wanted was peace and not involving them in this shit. Not “let me chat you up to see how much information I can get from you that I can use against you.” Because that how I feel people feel about me. I’ve tried confronting them on there weird behaviour but im always left feeling like im the weird one that im the one who’s acting irrational. This S character gaslights me I say “I want you to stop making me out to be the villain after I’ve told you I don’t make the rules I just follow them so I don’t lose my job” and she does it in a sly way and she says “what did I say? Huh? See I didn’t say anything, you can tell whoever you want that I’m a bitch” I I say “I will if you keep playing these games and carrying this shit forward” and she’s like “you’re the one carrying things forward” and I say “I’m going to take my 15 minute break” I go outside and call my mom upset and trying to get her to talk me down and as I go outside she immediately goes outside through the front door and then when I walk back inside she goes right back in, and the boss was right in the office and they heard all of this shit but they just tell me “oh don’t take it personal, S did the same shit to me last year” oh but now S is nice as pie to the boss and the boss gave her a ride home because she got her car taken because she’s had 3 duis in the last two years and she was caught driving with a suspended license but they still keep her there. It’s so fucked.