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The Scottish Independence Referendum: Constitutional and Political Implications

Aileen McHarg, Tom Mullen, Alan Page and Neil Walker

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The September 2014 Scottish independence referendum was an event of profound constitutional and...

The Independent Director: The Non-Executive Director's Guide to Effective Board Presence

Gerry Brown

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Non-executive directors play a very important role in modern business. Providing a rare emphasis on...

Sermon Toolbox - Illustrations, Outlines, Topical Index, and more tools for writing sermons

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Sermon Toolbox is an all-in-one resource that combines tools which can be helpful in composing...

Spike, Mike, Slackers, & Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema

John Pierson

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Disneyland Detective: An Independent Guide to Discovering Disney's Legend, Lore, and Magic

Kendra Trahan

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Gene Simmons recommended Mellow Gold by Beck in Music (curated)

Mellow Gold by Beck

1994 | Indie, Rock, Singer-Songwriter

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"So he started off as an indie guy. 'Loser' was just a song he released on an indie label, but it caught fire. MTV picked it, blah blah blah. And it was later put on a proper album on Geffen. He is an eclectic artist and a Scientologist to boot. The irony is that Beck's father [David Campbell] actually arranged the symphony orchestra that backed us up at the Melbourne stadium when we played there. Mellow Gold has got this eclectic sense to it in terms of, like, he uses drum loops, which I hate, but it sounds cool to me! He uses different kinds of instruments and seems to play them all, and the songwriting is all over the place. But at the core of it, what he doesn't do that other singers do is show off. He just gets the personality going and sings the song. So when you think of Brian Johnson and Robert Plant and Paul Rodgers, they're showing off with their vocals, singing way up on the high end of their range. I don't care if it's Steven Tyler or anybody else, you show off! Beck doesn't show off. He's just midrange or low-down. His attitude comes not from what he does vocally but it's laid back, kind of matter-of-fact, as if he's just thinking to himself. It's a unique thing. In that way, even though it doesn't have a wall of guitars or any of that, it's very rock. That sensibility he's got, although I'm sure he would consider himself an indie artist, but his sensibility is very rock."

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