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The Simpsons Family History

Matt Groening and Inc Matt Groening Productions

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In 2014, The Simpsons will have been on the air for 25 years. It is the longest running American...

Social Trauma and Telecinematic Memory: Imagining the Turkish Nation Since the 1980 Coup

Pelin Basci

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This book explores responses to authoritarianism in Turkish society through popular culture by...

Hitchcock a La Carte

Jan Olsson

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Alfred Hitchcock: cultural icon, master film director, storyteller, television host, foodie. And as...

The Fantasy of Reality: Critical Essays on the Real Housewives

Rachel E. Silverman

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With over twenty different casts, multiple spin-off series, and five international locations, The...

Butch Vig recommended Marquee Moon by Television in Music (curated)

Marquee Moon by Television

1977 | Rock

9.0

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"To me this record sounds like electricity. It's sorta arty-punk. Tom Verlaine sounds on the verge of a nervous breakdown and his singing and lyrics are so dreamy and elliptical. It's brutally stark and spare. The guitar playing is so amazing, so different - there's this tension, this raw clean air playing in the guitars - it's just so well arranged and yet unlike any record I've ever heard. The album never really had any commercial success but it's such a seminal record. I think it influenced a lot of bands along the way. It opened everyone’s ears to what you can do with an electric guitar. Both Duke and Steve (of Garbage) are huge fans of Marquee Moon and every now and then this record will pop up on our references. Sometimes we'll say, “You should do a guitar that sounds like a Television riff, that real tall angular sound."" One of the songs off our new album, Man On A Wire, has a little bit of a Television influence to it."

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