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Dave Mustaine recommended Alive! by Kiss in Music (curated)

 
Alive! by Kiss
Alive! by Kiss
1997 | Rock
7.0 (2 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"Eddie Kramer once came up to me and told me something. I don't know if he was pulling my chain or not. He said the picture on the back wasn't even from a KISS concert, it was from a Joan Baez concert or something like that. He also said that that record wasn't really live and that shattered my dreams. For me, as a lead guitar player when I was getting into KISS in high school, I would draw Gene [Simmons]'s face all the time. But when I thought about who I was, I was Ace [Frehley]. I was that guy. I loved those songs like 'Black Diamond', 'Strutter' and 'Parasite'."

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Sharon Horgan recommended The Sun Also Rises in Books (curated)

 
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway | 2020
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"A book I read at least once a year. I took American studies as part of my degree, and found Hemingway a little late, but “The Sun Also Rises” is the ultimate of the modernist school. I’m not sure why I read it so often, but much has to do with the huge love affair at the heart of it—and the setting, between the wars, within the world of this lost generation of expats. It just completely transports me from wherever I am to Paris and Pamplona. And his writing has such hidden depths—every time I read it I find something new. It takes a lost soul to convey so much."

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David McK (3372 KP) rated The NeverEnding Story (1984) in Movies

Jan 8, 2021  
The NeverEnding Story (1984)
The NeverEnding Story (1984)
1984 | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
6
8.0 (128 Ratings)
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1984. I was all of 5.

I think I first saw this in the later 80s,round about Primary 5 or 6 or thereabouts.

I've been traumatised by the swamp of despair and what happened to Artrax ever since.

Framed as a story within a story (see also: 'The Princess Bride'), this follows Bastian who takes refuge in a bookstore when he is chased by bullies: a bookstore in which he encounters the book 'The Neverending Story': a book in which the land of Fantasia is threatened by the nothingness and which seemingly talks directly to him as he reads it whilst hiding in a school attic.

Maybe a bit dated now, but for its time? Enjoyable enough.
  
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Yannis Philippakis recommended Sounds of Soweto by Various Artists in Music (curated)

 
Sounds of Soweto by Various Artists
Sounds of Soweto by Various Artists
(0 Ratings)
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"A compilation from South Africa in the 80s of Soweto sound at the time. My mum's from SA and she had it on double cassette and would play it in the car as she drove me to school. It's full of unashamed joy and has a kind of cheesiness to it that I love. There's an innocence to the songs, which is interesting because you can sense the strange American influence in SA music at the time - which is similarly mirroring some current musical trends from abroad. You can hear Prince, a bit of Michael Jackson and American pop, but retranslated through musicians and equipment that they had access to at the time. It's a killer compilation."

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