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Raul Esparza recommended track Every Day a Little Death by Stephen Sondheim in A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim in Music (curated)

 
A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim
A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim
1975 | Soundtrack
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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Every Day a Little Death by Stephen Sondheim

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"I was a student at N.Y.U. in the ’90s. It was the first semester of a musical theater class, and one of the students got up and sang “Every Day a Little Death.” It was dark outside and snowing, and I remember hearing the song and thinking, “What is this?” It’s such a simple series of tiny moments that make up a day, that seem to be completely pragmatic descriptions of everyday life, played against the unbelievable torrent of sweeping emotion underneath in the music. And that is such a classic skill of Steve’s, where lyric plays against music, and the two things together, in the ear of the listener, tell you the whole story."

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Quentin Tarantino recommended I Ain't Marching Anymore by Phil Ochs in Music (curated)

 
I Ain't Marching Anymore by Phil Ochs
I Ain't Marching Anymore by Phil Ochs
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"OK, from now on these aren’t in any order. It’s the same with movies: I have my three favourite – Taxi Driver, Blow Out and Rio Bravo – and after that it depends on my mood. This is one of my favourite protest/folk albums. While Dylan was a poet Ochs was a musical journalist: He was a chronicler of his time, filled with humour and compassion. He’d write songs which would seem very black and white, and then , in the last verse, he’d say something which, like, completely shattered you. A song I love very much on this album is ‘Here’s To The State of Mississippi’ – Basically, it’s everything the movie Mississippi Burning should have been."

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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
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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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Andy Bell recommended Once Upon a Time... by Donna Summer in Music (curated)

 
Once Upon a Time... by Donna Summer
Once Upon a Time... by Donna Summer
1977 | Rock
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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"Speaking of Giorgio Moroder, you have to give it to the guy. What a brilliant team, him and Donna. From the very opening 'Once Upon A Time’, this is a kind of a mini-musical and completely sums up the studio 54 NYC disco era in one fell swoop. This record could actually turn a straight man gay - especially the trilogy 'Now I Need You', 'Working The Midnight Shift' and 'Queen For A Day' It must have cost an absolute fortune to record with all the brass and string arrangements, but this is Donna at her absolute post 'I Feel Love' best. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall."

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