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Ross (3282 KP) rated White Blood Cells by The White Stripes in Music

Apr 30, 2020

Rolling Stone's 497th greatest album of all time

The White Stripes' second album was huge when it was released. A stunning breathe of … not fresh air, but musty smoky garage air. Hotel Yorba and Fell in Love with a Girl were massive refreshing anthems. Jack White's powerful grungy over-distorted guitar and perfect shrill voice made each and every song soar, despite the basic drumming underneath it (which really does stand out as being the bare minimum). There are some mediocre songs or just pointless noodling and jamming that could have been left off, but as an album this is a total wallop in the face.

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Mis-An-Thrope by Ded

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A hard-hitting American nu-metal troupe based out of Tempe, Arizona, Ded was formed in 2016 out of...

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Relax with Moodtapes

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Escape To Your Own Personal Paradise... as the Deeply Soothing Natural Sounds of the Ocean and...

David McK (3280 KP) rated Yes Man (2008) in Movies

Jul 25, 2020

Yes Man (2008)

2008 | Comedy

6.4

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Jim Carrey comedy vehicle, in a return to his more physical comedy of his earlier years, as a man who - after attending a self-help (Cult?) seminar - must say "yes" to every opportunity that comes his way.

Queue a fortuitous meet up with Zooey Deschenal, learning Korean, to play the guitar and how to fly (all of which later come to his aid), in a romcom that pretty much does exactly what you'd expect it to do.

I think, personally speaking, that the main problem with this is that you could forget it pretty quickly: indeed, I'd forgotten I'd ever seen it before until I got about halfway through!

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Almost Famous (2000)

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Set in 1973, it chronicles the funny and often poignant coming of age of 15-year-old William, an...

Ben Watt recommended Sketch for Winter VI: Other Stories by Danny Paul Grody in Music (curated)

"I love altered tunings, and guitarists who use them like Michael Chapman, whose Train Songs album was great. To me, this is like a lost film soundtrack, full of soft beauty, powered by this overdriven electric guitar against found sounds and synths. It makes me think of this trip I did to the Joshua Tree National Park: I hadn't known what was there, and I'd thought the Joshua Tree was just one tree! But walking in the high sierra, the quietest place I'd ever been, the idea of cars, planes, city noise, feeling so far away…there was this silence. This reminds me of that. "

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Ross (3282 KP) rated Master of Reality by Black Sabbath in Music

May 22, 2020

Rolling Stone's 300th greatest album of all time

Great album by the grandfathers of metal. Kicking off with the coughing fit at the start of Sweet Leaf and its slow doom-laden pace. While Ozzy isn't the greatest singer, the rest of the band more than make up for it, with superb guitar and bass and fairly intricate, almost jazz-like drumming (which would become unusual for a heavy metal band). Sweet Leaf and Children of the Grave are superb, but the rest of the album is also really good and merits another listen (I usually stick to the We Sold Our Souls for Rock and Roll collection).