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Stephin Merritt recommended Ignite The Seven Cannons by Felt in Music (curated)

 
Ignite The Seven Cannons by Felt
Ignite The Seven Cannons by Felt
1985 | Alternative, Indie, Pop, Punk, Rock
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" The ten-year, ten-album career of Felt divides neatly in halves: with rococo lead guitarist Maurice Deebank and without. This is his last album with the band, and the first with equally hyperactive organist Martin Duffy (probably not a coincidence). The effect is like Yes if Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman just kept soloing, under and over the vocals and each other. And, the album is produced by Cocteau Twin Robin Guthrie, who flanges almost everything, hard, almost all the time. The centerpiece is the inscrutable and euphoric 'Primitive Painters'; on it there are two lead vocals (generally undecipherable), an ever-soloing guitarist, a usually soloing organist, all swimming in flangers, and then the bassist starts soloing too, and it's probably the best pop single of the 80s."

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    The Hero

    The Hero

    Lee Child

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    (From the publisher) From the Stone Age to the Greek Tragedies, from Shakespeare to Robin Hood, we...

    Innovation

    Innovation

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    Tabletop Game

    This game by Carl Chudyk is a journey through innovations from the stone age through modern times....

    Gallants (2010)

    Gallants (2010)

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    Movie

    Weedy office worker Cheung is sent to a remote village to secure property rights for his real estate...

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David McK (3377 KP) rated Aladdin (2019) in Movies

Aug 11, 2019 (Updated Dec 28, 2022)  
Aladdin (2019)
Aladdin (2019)
2019 | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
6
7.2 (156 Ratings)
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Goy Ritchie's Will Smith starring live-action retelling of the 1992 Disney cartoon: a movie that, believe it or not, is now nearly 30 years old (I can't believe I just typed that).

While this does hew pretty closely to the original, this is not quite the shot-for-shot remake I was expecting (or feared), with Jasmine in particular given far more agency here, and with Will Smith's Genie 'bookending' the entire narrative.

Talking of Will Smith: he had some big shoes to fill and - thankfully - he wisely does not attempt a Robin Williams impersonation, instead making the character more his own (although, of course, he has the same musical numbers to belt out).

On the down side, however, this version of Jafar is far less menacing than the original ...