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Strategic Risk Management Practice: How to Deal Effectively with Major Corporate Exposures

Torben Juul Andersen and Peter Winther Schroder

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At a time when corporate scandals and major financial failures dominate newspaper headlines, the...

What the World Needs Now... by Public Image Ltd

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'What The World Needs Now...', released September 4th 2015, is the 10th studio album from legends...

Trading Basics by Palm

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There are whispers in the underground: tales of a jaw-dropping live band making impossibly jagged...

What's This For? by Killing Joke

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Killing Joke started on the unemployment line. Whether fact or fiction, it was while waiting in line...

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence by Glassjaw

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For some people big is never going to be big enough. Take Long Island's Glassjaw, a band whose...

If... by Bill Ryder-Jones

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Ryder-Jones' debut solo album If... was written as a musical adaptation of Italo Calvino's 1979...

Butch Vig recommended track Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones in Leave Home by Ramones in Music (curated)

Leave Home by Ramones

1977 | Rock

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"This was the first Ramones song I heard. I was nineteen or twenty years old and I’d read about them in New Yorker Magazine and alternative music magazines like Village Voice and Trouser Press. They were getting all this press but they weren’t getting any radio play in Wisconsin, so you had to wait until it came into the record store to hear it and I was smitten the first time I heard ‘Blitzkrieg Bop.’ I bought their record and it just floored me in its simplicity, two minutes or a minute and thirty renditions of songs that were verse, chorus, verse, chorus, chorus, end of song. The songs were super precise and cut down to the bare bone, they were pop songs and had a very crude simplicity to the recordings. I think I went through three vinyl copies of their first record. I’d get up in the morning and play it twice before I’d go to the university and then I’d come back at night and just blast it non-stop. We’d have these punk rock party nights just listening to The Ramones album and ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ always set the tone for me, it’s an incredible song. We’d bring all our friends over, get kegs of beer, clear all the furniture out of our living room and jump up and down and slam-dance. The first Ramones record is the greatest punk rock record of all time, it inspired The Sex Pistols, it inspired everybody. A thousand punk rock bands were formed after they saw The Ramones, they were the first true originals to do that and I’m still a huge Ramones fan."

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