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Bob's Burgers - Season 4

9.3 (4 Ratings) Rate It

TV Season

Bob subs as the home economics teacher at the kids' school, Linda goes to her high scool reunion and...

comedy

Anna Calvi recommended Heaven or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins in Music (curated)

Heaven or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins

1990 | Alternative

(0 Ratings)

Album Favorite

"I think that Elizabeth Fraser is such an amazing singer. Even though she’s not singing words, there’s so much emotion in her voice. The melodies are unbelievably strong, and when you combine that with Elizabeth's voice it conveys things that mere words can’t. “I also love the way that the instrumentation is almost the same for every song. With some artists, that might not work, but the Cocteau Twins manage to take you into their own sonic world. They’re totally captivating. This is one of my favorite records ever."

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Baxter Dury recommended Chelsea Girl by Nico in Music (curated)

Chelsea Girl by Nico

1967 | Rock

8.0

(2 Ratings)

Album Favorite

"It’s one of those albums that creeps in to your life, especially that tune, ‘These Days’. I know it was written by Jackson Browne and it was a hit before that, but she just nails it. You have to be old enough, broad enough to start realising that that’s a great voice, that it’s got something in it that’s more than conventional singing. I just love all the arrangements, they’re unbelievable. I really got into strings from this, seeing how they can prop up a really fragile song."

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Butch Vig recommended Goodbye Jumbo by World Party in Music (curated)

Goodbye Jumbo by World Party

1990 | Rock

7.0

(1 Ratings)

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"I love the songs on it and I love Karl Wallinger's singing. I fell in love with it cause he sorta took all the influences that he loves from the sixties and seventies - I guess from The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan - and somehow he made it into his own style. I don't think anybody really heard this album in the States, I don't think it had any commercial success at all. It's a great record. It’s a record I played to death and it still sounds as good now as when it came out."

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The Note from Heaven: How to Sing Yourself into a Higher State of Consciousness

Githa Ben-David

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Book

The Note from Heaven is a sacred and simple healing tool for liberating your true voice and...

Cat Stevens recommended Talking Book by Stevie Wonder in Music (curated)

Talking Book by Stevie Wonder

1972 | Jazz, Rock

7.0

(1 Ratings)

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"Talking Book blew me away when I was going through a dry period in my writing. I heard Stevie Wonder and thought that I couldn’t improve on what he’s done, he’s such a genius! I just fell in love with it, it was black soul music from that era, but sounds totally, totally now. One of things he developed was the protection of funk through the electronics of synthesiser, keyboard and singing. I think Sly had a lot to do with influencing Stevie at the time as well."

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Chloe (778 KP) rated Lullaby Girl in Books

May 24, 2020

Lullaby Girl

Aly Sidgwick | 2015 | Thriller

6.0

(1 Ratings)

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Lullaby girl awakes on a Scottish Loch with no memory of her past except the Norwgian Lullaby she is singing. Read as her memories unfold to reveal a harrowing ordeal.

The story had great potential and for 75% of the book I did really enjoy it, it lived up to the suspense expected. The characters at the womens home were really different and built up so that you felt terror when they were around.

I felt the ending was rushed and repetitive in places e.g. hiding a lot.