Sign up
Search
Advanced search settings

Search only in certain items:

Search results
All (3880)
Content
People
Apps
Books
Orbs
Movies
Music
Podcasts
Shows
Tabletop Games
Tech
TV
Video Games
YouTube Channels
Videos
40x40

Ariel Pink recommended Paradieswarts Duul by Amon Duul in Music (curated)

 
Paradieswarts Duul by Amon Duul
Paradieswarts Duul by Amon Duul
(0 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"Paradieswärts Düül is the best. The first group, they allowed all the kids, all the mothers, all the dogs, it was true democracy. Chaos in action. There’s those four beautiful records that are all from the same forty-eight-hour jam that are unlistenable. But then there’s this record that came after Amon Düül began making an amazing career for themselves. The guys that were a bit more musican-ly than the other ones shuffled off into a room and started to make their own record. It’s just so fragile, it’s almost like the first death-folk record. It’s just so beautiful. The musical interplay is great. They are very much of their times, too. There’s an idealism there, that you can't substitute. It’s the darkest, dimmest, saddest, obscure record."

Source
  
40x40

Toni Louise (34 KP) rated Lore in Podcasts

Jul 13, 2019  
Lore
Lore
Society & Culture
9
8.8 (35 Ratings)
Podcast Rating
Wide range of topics,for example; serial killers, horrific old "treatments", terrifying "monsters" and loads more. (0 more)
Lore is the first podcast I listened to, my boyfriend got me into it and it's still my favourite. I ended up binge listening to it, and despite the fact that it had been released years prior to my starting to listen to it, I was soon waiting eagerly for new episodes to be released, as I had caught up.I am particularly interested in episodes about real life things like serial killers and old "treatments" but I also love episodes on paranormal/folk lore topics.Some episodes are actually terrifying one such episode is about dolls, I was listening to it late at night and had to turn it off until the next day.
  
40x40

David McK (3562 KP) rated Arabian Nights Volume One in Books

May 7, 2020  
Arabian Nights Volume One
Arabian Nights Volume One
Marty Ross | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
"Arabian nights, like Arabian days,
more often than not
Are hotter than hot
In a lot of god ways …"

(Sorry, that's from Aladdin …)

Audible's full-cast dramatization of several Arabian folk-tales, this covers:

1) the set-up for the telling of the tales (Scheherazade telling her Sultan the tales each night so she won't be beheaded!)
2) the tale of Ali-Baba and the 40 thieves
3) Julnar of the Sea

While I was knew of the first and (more famously) the second above, I probably couldn't have told you the full ins and outs of the stories until now; only a general outline of what happened. I have to admit, also, that Julnar of the Sea was completely new to me.

Now to pick up Volume Two (Sinbad the Sailor) ...
  
40x40

Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Lights out Liverpool (Pearl Street #1) in Books

Feb 26, 2023  
LO
Lights out Liverpool (Pearl Street #1)
Maureen Lee | 2023
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
22 of 235
Book
Lights out Liverpool (Pearl Street #1)
By Maureen Lee
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The folk of one small Liverpool street cope with the first year of World War II. They find the war affects each of them in a different way. One woman worries about her twin sons who are called up, another is liberated from a loveless marriage, whilst Jessica Fleming's life is changed irrevocably.

I love a good saga! This one kind of hit home with the start of WW2 and in comparison to what we are dealing with now and it’s quite frightening to think of what they were facing and the loss that was felt. It was a little heartwarming to read and have a break from my usual reads.
  
40x40

Ian Anderson recommended Beethoven Symphony No.9 by Von Karajan with Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Music (curated)

 
Beethoven Symphony No.9 by Von Karajan with Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Beethoven Symphony No.9 by Von Karajan with Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
(0 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"This was originally going to be last but instead I put Alfie Boe last, and I thought I’d bookend things with classical music, without wanting to sound snobbish. Actually I do want to sound snobbish – there’s nothing wrong with being snobbish when what you’re being snobbish about is the gold dust of our musical worth. Beethoven to me is the consummate classical composer. He learnt stuff from Bach, and Mozart, but he came at a time when he could bring all of his many influences together and not only from the classical tradition. He had an awareness of folk music and rhythm that I think is demonstrated in the ninth. The scherzo from the ninth symphony is a very rhythmic affair and one of those occasions where he utilised elements of rhythmic folk music, which is kind of interesting I think. A lot of composers looked down on the traditions of more naïve music forms but Beethoven seemed to recognise their worth. And of course towards the end of his days he would leave the symphonic work behind and concentrate on string quartets, and that again is a very disciplined, controlled fine art in music, to work with finite musical resources and treat them almost as if they are a symphony orchestra. So Beethoven is kind of the guy for me, he’s the top man. I probably first became aware of Beethoven’s ninth through A Clockwork Orange and that took me through the electronica versions of Walter - now Wendy - Carlos, and then to the original score by von Karajan. That is the one I still enjoy best to this day, the Sixties Deutsche Grammophon recording, where the tempo’s just right. I’ve listened to lots of other variations that are too fast, too slow, a bit sloppy, too cacophonous, but von Karajan in spite of his rather dictatorial nature, did the job."

Source