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Amanda Palmer recommended Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes in Music (curated)

 
Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes
1983 | Alternative, Rock, Punk
8.0 (2 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"Violent Femmes was a huge high-school record. I probably got it when I was 14 or 15. I just played the entire album on stage with [Femmes bassist] Brian Ritchie, Brian from the Dresden Dolls and [Bad Seed] Mick Harvey, so I found myself revisiting the record and my early experiences of it. The one thing I remembered was that when I heard that record for the first time, I thought Gordon Gano was a girl. But really sexy! The songs were so sexy and raw and filled with beautiful, actually relatable teenage angst. The music and the production was all so immediate. My cool friends and my older brother were all listening to punk. I tried to be cool and tried to like the Sex Pistols, but I just couldn't get into the records. There just wasn't enough song there for me. But the Violent Femmes was like punk music that my brain could actually follow. I played that tape into the ground, just a non-stop soundtrack. Another thing I realised revisiting it was there's just not a bad song on that record, not a single moment that isn't essential. There's not two seconds of filler."

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Brian Fallon recommended Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen in Music (curated)

 
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
1975 | Compilation
8.4 (7 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"This record convinced me that no matter what anyone said about making music as a career that I had to try. I didn’t know if I’d “make it” or if I will yet, but I knew that when I heard this record I had to try. I’ve always heard Born to Run in my mother’s car, but it wasn’t until my late teenage years and early twenties that I understood what was being said here. To me, this was my ticket out. Born to Run gave me the permission to leave everything sensible and practical behind and go for my own dreams. It still makes me pause when I hear those piano intros on ""Thunder Road"" and ""Backstreets."" In the same way Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. spoke to me as a teenager, this record spoke to the guy in his twenties who really wasn’t very good at much, except maybe music, and that was a big maybe. It also comforted me in times of great heartache and self doubt. This is an encouraging record. It’s a masterpiece. I would take this record over almost any other “classic” album by any artist."

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Kirk Bage (1775 KP) rated Upgrade (2018) in Movies

Feb 25, 2021  
Upgrade (2018)
Upgrade (2018)
2018 | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
6
8.1 (45 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Probably the most interesting of the three here by some way, Upgrade comes at the angle of cybernetic amendments to human capability in an almost, but not quite, original way. It postures and ponders a lot of pseudo-science and cod philosophy before getting to the bits people are going mad for: the fight scenes, which are indeed jaw dropping, feel new and are brutally graphic enough to amuse even the most hardcore gamer. Trouble is… this makes it almost a torture-porn movie, because the only real thrills are in the grossness of the violence. The acting is of negligible importance, because character and plot are not that important to the success of Upgrade as a spectacle. It feels cheap and B movie grade in places, which of course it is. If you enjoy seeing impressive things done with less than a premium budget then this could be worth watching. But… there is a nastiness and a somewhat teenage / pothead vibe to it that ruins anything remotely good. It is also shamelessly derivative. Not bad then, but by no means good, or properly recommended.
  
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Emma (229 KP) rated The Snowmelt River in Books

Mar 10, 2021  
The Snowmelt River
The Snowmelt River
Frank P Ryan | 2010 | Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I picked this book as an irish theme for my book club.
At first I struggled with it, for the first 200 pages his over excessive use of description really bugged me and I found myself skim reading parts of it.
And although I really love Irish mythology and folklore, his use of it seemed irrelevant in places. As though he was trying to show off with the amount of folklore he knew.
After a while though the story started to flow better, and it captured my attention a lot more. I connected to the characters more and enjoyed the adventure in the story. There were still parts where I didnt exactly know what was going on. It seemed sometimes that the author was only half including you in the story he was envisioning in his mind.
I also didnt feel there was much need for a love story between two of the teenage characters, I felt that those parts were slightly cringey to read and thought the atory would have evolved just aswell without it included.
In all though I enjoyed it and will read the next installment.