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Cry by Faith Hill

8.8 (4 Ratings) Rate It

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Cry is the fifth studio album by American country music singer Faith Hill. It was released October...

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Nothing Happens by Wallows

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Following the release of lead single “Are You Bored Yet? (feat. Clairo)” as well as brand-new...

Daniel Boyd (1066 KP) rated Straight Outta Compton by NWA in Music

Nov 2, 2017 (Updated Nov 2, 2017)

Straight Outta Compton by NWA

1988 | Rap, Rhythm And Blues

9.0

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I still remember the first time I heard this record and I listened to it all the way through lying in bed. Eminem was my gateway into rap music when I was in my early teens, which inevitably led onto Tupac, Snoop Dogg, Biggie, Public Enemy and the like, but when I first heard Straight Outta Compton it was like being taken on a journey in the back seat of some banged up car around the burnt out, bullet ridden streets of Compton, CA. Some people may sneer at the inclusion of this album and claim that it doesn’t deserve to be admired due to its glorification of gang violence, sexual abuse and murder. However this album isn’t glorious in any way, NWA aren’t boasting about this kind of behaviour taking place in their hometown, they’re condemning it. This is an album born out of frustration, dissatisfaction and fury for the kind of environment that these guys were brought up in and it is actually inspiring in a lot of ways to kids that come from areas where their friends are getting shot night after night and with the current situation in some American states, this album is probably more relevant than ever. The album does generalise, but it also speaks the truth, there is no denying that the US police were and still are largely made up of racist bigots that abuse the power that they are given. Drugs, sexism and violence are simply a part of the culture in some of the poorer parts of modern America and this album doesn’t shy away from that, it wears its heart on its sleeve and I think that it is one of the most powerful statements to come out of modern music and one that is unfortunately still just as relevant today, 29 years later.

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Thundercat recommended Nightfly by Donald Fagen in Music (curated)

Nightfly by Donald Fagen

1982 | Rock

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"Donald Fagen's solo album is another of those albums that kind of teaches you what it is to be a songwriter. I feel like Donald Fagen did Aja for the musicians, and The Nightfly is for the songwriter. It's very much a concentrated idea. I remember getting turned on to this album by my home girl at the time; she was very much a muso. I would spend a lot of time listening to Steely Dan, and I didn't connect the dots – sometimes you don't connect them on your own. I had to be somewhere between 18 and 22 – somewhere in those years – she played me that album and I remember again, whenever I heard somebody create progressional music that are not normal choices, it always would perk my ears up, if it was somebody that would tastefully do something different or make some really outlandish choices, and Donald Fagen is the king of that. The Nightfly is one of those albums that I can't live without, that is where I come from as a songwriter. That again definitively is what created the songwriter in me, as compared to the bass player. The choice of the covers, the jazz covers, they feel like they were his songs, the way that he's playing them on the album – he made them real special. It was like it told his actual story of who he was, and I feel like that's the way you're supposed to play standards, not the part where you just learn it because it's cool. I think that there's some emotional connection that Donald Fagen had to these songs that he chose, along with the ones that he wrote on this album, and you can feel it. You can feel it. You can feel it. The Nightfly is a definitive album for me."

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Color Splurge Pro - Photo Editor for photo splash

Photo & Video and Entertainment

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Color Splurge is a photo editor thats Lets you Selective De saturation(Popularly known as selective...

1000 Fires by Traci Lords

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1000 Fires is the debut studio album by American singer and actress Traci Lords, released on...

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Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) shared own list

Nov 14, 2017

After music purveyor Rough Trade's top 100 last year was loaded with the likes of Iggy Pop, Anderson Paak and Margo Price, this year's top 10 is topped by Aldous Harding with her acclaimed second album ‘Party’.