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Clarer3 (2 KP) rated The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Original Soundtrack / Various Artists in Music

Oct 26, 2018  
The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Original Soundtrack / Various Artists
The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Original Soundtrack / Various Artists
2017 | Soundtrack
6
8.7 (178 Ratings)
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People had been going on about this film for a few months before I decided “right everyone’s going on let’s see what the fuss it about” and damn why did I wait so long and miss out on seeing this on the big screen! It was fabulous! The colours, wardrobe, songs and cinematography was amazing! And a film you could watch on repeat.

Your transported away and back to the 19th century to P.T Barnums childhood pointing out the social hierarchies and the struggles he grew up with, while growing up and falling for a girl that’s upper class and showing he sacrifices she also made for love.

Fast forward a couple of years and there’s still a struggled combined with keeping his promises to his wife and children. Until he realised his dream of showcasing the worlds oddities,we follow his journey into success, downfalls, love, loss and an ongoing battle. A story that keeps you locked to the screen,smiling, crying and defiantly singing along!

A lovely addition to my favourite musicals list!
  
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BookwormLea (3034 KP) rated Motown: The Musical in The Shaftesbury Theatre (London, United Kingdom) in Shows

Jul 21, 2020  
Motown: The Musical
Motown: The Musical
2013 | Musical
10
9.0 (2 Ratings)
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I loved this musical. My auntie who I went with said she didn't like the actor who played Berry Gordy (on our night, the main actor was sick so they used the understudy) she said he didn't sing the songs right. But as someone who is too young to have known Motown in its golden years, this was the best I could get. And it really was the best. All the songs are covers so i knew a lot of them and could sing along. And the actors who played the singers were so fantastic! Stevie Wonder was the spitting double of the real deal and it honestly could have been the real Diana Ross singing.... so believable! They even did this cute little bit were they let the audience sing. They picked some lady who was a bit shy but turned out to be amazing! And some over confident young fellow who is lucky we were too polite to laugh at his futile attempt at Stop In The Name Of Love...

Overall, fantastic play! Up there in my top 5 for sure!
  
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Anand Wilder recommended Muswell Hillbillies by The Kinks in Music (curated)

 
Muswell Hillbillies by The Kinks
Muswell Hillbillies by The Kinks
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"Well that was a big influence for their take on Americana, and I just like the juxtaposition of their extreme Britishness and singing about Oklahoma. And it's funny, Ian Svenonius has this whole thing about how Americans only accepted black music once it was taught to us by our British overlords. The Beatles and The Stones lacked the context to realise that maybe it's inappropriate to take on this Southern accent. I feel like Ray Davies has a little more tact, like, "No, I'm not going to sing like that!" A lot of the time I will sing in a kind of an English accent - not total English, but definitely more English than country, because my context is growing up and listening to The Beatles and thinking I like the way John Lennon sings it. It's easier not to sing a hard "r", it always sounds country when you sing an "arr". I would never do a Jamaican accent. I'll leave that to Sting. Once again, see we forgive Sting, 'cause he doesn't have the context."

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Andy Bell recommended Explosions in the Glass Palace by Rain Parade in Music (curated)

 
Explosions in the Glass Palace by Rain Parade
Explosions in the Glass Palace by Rain Parade
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"Again, a similar time in my life; I was listening to a few American psychedelic bands. There was a band called Long Ryders who did a track called ‘Looking for Lewis and Clark’ that I played, learned, used to sit and sing although I had no idea what the lyrics were. I was pretty much singing nonsense, although the song did get me into Tim Hardin! Anyway, they were one of a few bands [that were important to me], like Opal, Screaming Trees and Rain Parade, but Rain Parade was the one that changed me. This album was like an explosion in my mind. I don’t know what program it was, but I saw them perform ‘No Easy Way Down’ on TV, a filmed concert, and it was like, ‘Here is something I can fully get behind.’ It’s a slow, sludgy, drone rock anthem; the guitarist is doing the Kevin Shields tremolo thing with the guitar, but in 1985. It’s just incredible, and I have to say would have been pretty influential on the early Ride sound for sure."

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Brian Fallon recommended track Romeo And Juliet by Dire Straits in Making Movies by Dire Straits in Music (curated)

 
Making Movies by Dire Straits
Making Movies by Dire Straits
1980 | Rock
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Romeo And Juliet by Dire Straits

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"In more recent years, I decided if I was going to play acoustic punk music I wasn’t going to be the guy that just bangs on a guitar. I wanted to learn how to play guitar and use it to dictate what I needed to say, as well as my lyrics. So I took online lessons to learn about finger picking and I learnt Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits, note for note. I think it’s one of the most beautiful love songs in the world, and I love the fact that he doesn’t even sing it. He just talks it. I adore Mark Knopfler for that. He seems so unaffected in this song. He didn’t care about Wham! or Oingo Boingo or whatever was popular at the time. He just said, ‘I’m singing like this and I’m finger picking because that’s what I love.’ That goes right back to Bob Dylan for me: from Just Like a Woman to Romeo and Juliet. And when I finally learn how to play that song note for note I’m going to play it for people."

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