The Song Cycles began from a comment by Ian Anderson that he
has only a certain number of songs that he rewrites, an Art History
text that proposed looking at art thematically; not by "isms," and that
early operas were composed of individual songs. They began to include
various combinations of the elemental, chakra, and meridian systems
with the Pearl Jam cycle. To date, two; Sun Ra and INXS, can be
classed into what might be referred to as the "X-files" system.