Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP
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In Chasing Sound, Susan Schmidt Horning traces the cultural and technological evolution of recording...
Harry Partch, Hobo Composer
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Harry Partch (1901-74) was one of the most distinctive and influential American composers of the...
Round the Horne: Classic Comedy from the BBC Archives: Complete Series 3
Marty Feldman, Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Horne and Barry Took
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Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden and Hugh Paddick star in 20 episodes of the anarchic...
Camp Lo's Uptown Saturday Night
Patrick Rivers and William Fulton
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Two emcees from the Bronx, NY entered the American hip-hop landscape of the mid-1990s with...
Music in Disney's Animated Features: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the Jungle Book
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In Music in Disney's Animated Features James Bohn investigates how music functions in Disney...
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
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Well, bless my beautiful hide! Director Stanley Donen invests this rollicking musical with a hearty...
The Hamilton Affair: The Epic Love Story of Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler
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Love Hamilton: An American Musical? You'll adore The Hamilton Affair. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...
Anand Wilder recommended Bugsy Malone Soundtrack by Paul Williams in Music (curated)
Darren Fisher (2447 KP) rated Sandinista! by The Clash in Music
Dec 11, 2020 (Updated Jan 15, 2021)
Sandinista! can be a tough call if you decide to listen to it from start to finish, clocking in at around the 2hr 20mins mark, but I would recommend doing this on the first listen. It sets a trippy, mesmerising, and (albeit) uneven journey of a group realising there is a much bigger world out there than just London.
One critic described the album as 'music for people who work on oil rigs'. I like that...
Album highlights:
The Magnificent Seven
Look Here
The Street Parade