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Nicky Wire recommended Zuckerzeit by Cluster in Music (curated)

 
Zuckerzeit by Cluster
Zuckerzeit by Cluster
1974 | Dance, Electronic, Metal, Pop, Rock
(0 Ratings)
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"You could be generic and call it krautrock but I think it’s much more than that. I really think it’s the most modern of that era, you can hear it on so many records, especially on The Good, The Bad & The Queen, those kind of filtered drums that just shuffle. You can hear it everywhere. The track ‘Hollywood’ - we were touring America and I had it on repeat. That, ‘Caramel’, ‘Marzipan’... Damon [Albarn] must have nicked ‘Caramel’ for a title for a Blur song, on 13. I love the cover as well. Artwork has always been really important. I think every band will admit that there’s at least three Neu! tracks they love or three Can tracks, but it’s hard to love a whole album. I genuinely love Zuckerzeit."

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Stephin Merritt recommended Songs by Charles Ives in Music (curated)

 
Songs by Charles Ives
Songs by Charles Ives
1992 | Vocal
(0 Ratings)
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"Ives's 114 Songs has been a major source of inspiration for me (particularly for my 69 Love Songs and 50 Song Memoir). But that wasn't all he wrote: from 1887 to 1926 Ives wrote 193 songs, and here they all are on six CDs: lullabies, Christmas carols, German operetta emulations, mortal laments, parlor ballads, cowboy dirges, and even election-day commentary on 'Nov. 2, 1920 (An Election)', and 'Vote for Names! Names! Names!', of which Ives says, ""The [three] pianos represent three political candidates, each uttering his own 'hot air slogan'; the singer represents the disillusioned voter."" The texts come 80% from poets (Keats, Kipling, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and many anonymous sources) and 20% from Ives himself, whose aw-shucks Americana (as on 'Slugging A Vampire') and gleefully jarring harmonies keep the surprises genuinely surprising. "

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated His Mercenary (Mercenary In Love, #1) in Books

Jan 12, 2021  
His Mercenary (Mercenary In Love, #1)
His Mercenary (Mercenary In Love, #1)
Vanessa Sims | 2014 | Erotica, Fiction & Poetry, LGBTQ+
4
3.5 (2 Ratings)
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Well I might like my short stories but I should be wary if freebies--many of them or good, but some I just don't like/can't get into--and that was the case with this one.

It didn't hold enough romance for me. I get lust and that seemed what this was but the fact that they'd known each other three days and had sex all of those three days and suddenly wanted to be together...it just didn't ring true to me. Added in that erotica isn't my favourite genre and the spelling of "come" as "cum" pees me off, I wasn't exactly enjoying it that much.

The crime side of the story didn't hold my attention either, and I felt the ending was rather sudden.

Not for me.
  
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Ross (3284 KP) rated Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf in Music

May 18, 2020  
Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf
Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf
1977 | Rock
10
8.8 (9 Ratings)
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Rolling Stone's 343rd greatest album of all time
I'm still in shock at how early in the top 500 this appears. I would have thought it would be at least top 200, if not top 50. The title track is one of the best known rock songs ever, and yet so many people won't have heard the full album version - in my opinion the section removed for the single is the best part of the song.
Added to this the superb Paradise by the Dashboard Light, Two out of Three Ain't Bad (I was told off by my wife for suggesting this referred to our three kids) and You Took The Words Right Out My Mouth, as well as the sombre heartfelt Heaven Can Wait.
Just an utterly superb album.