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It is the second side of the mission of Il_paolo summarized in the dichotomy expressed by omahaceleb at no. 12.
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I don't know the new works, I remember it being more syncopated and restless in older funky records like "Brooklyn," which honestly wasn't a great album.
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Colored Lies, produced by Peter Gordon.
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The panoramics...only a lover of the sounds of Martha and the Muffins or Polyrock could remember them :)
Free Live
15 jan 09
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@backdoor man, the album by Martyn you’re talking about is Live at Leeds which, more than copying the cover of Free, resembles the homonymous live record by The Who, the one with the packing cart and the shipping-like stamp. This one by Free is collector's stuff since the "stamps" were actually stuck on and not printed on top. I agree that they had already broken ranks after Highway and the tour in the Far East; in fact, Island played on this "advertising" to release the live album.
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Come on, this is a fake having fun. It cites "Fragole e sangue" as the best film about student protest (but what does student protest have to do with Zabriskie Point?). Isn't the American setting forced? Antonioni wanted to make a film about America, not Belgian Congo. Why do they kiss in the desert right at Zabriskie Point? And why does Alex Supertramp go to Alaska today? Mark rejects society by returning to nature just like Alex. You say there's too much malice in the description of law enforcement, and then you praise the cheesy "Fragole e sangue" with its tearful final beating of the kids who sing "Give Peace a Chance" in a circle. It's not very clear why the convoluted final explosion of the luxury house happens? But even magazines like Novella 2000 have written that it occurs only in the girl's imagination and is a critique of the U.S. consumerist society, and that five-minute sequence of televisions and refrigerators exploding in slow motion with the background of Pink Floyd's Ummagumma is something that will last for ages. Forget about the cheesy film by commercial director Stuart Hagmann. By the way, what happened to him? At least Mark Frechette, the young actor from this film, made some films in Italy like the great "Uomini contro" by Francesco Rosi, before dying in prison in 1975. Maybe that's why he didn't have a career as IMDB says.
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Ah well, buddy, then if you believe that the problems for conservative Thatcher came from characters like Burns or Boy George with their mothers bringing their children to ask for autographs during album launches in chain stores, then we’re all set: it's pointless for us to continue the discussion. Maybe the problems for Thatcher came from the homosexual collectives that revolved around anarchic situations like the Crass or the Poison Girls, who truly gave a voice to gay and lesbian people without being harmless trained clowns in the hands of record companies.
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If Burns is an icon of sexual emancipation for having dressed with an eye patch and sung "I wanna be your toy," who knows what it might represent to see some footage of Lou Reed dressed in leather singing "Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather" in 1967, or Iggy who in 1969 writhes half-naked on the ground shouting "I wanna be your dog." But please, these Dead or Alive, in their intentions and music, were no more or no less original than today’s Tokyo Hotel.
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And you know what that cover reminds me of, which let's be honest is very 70s? The Live Santana / Buddy Miles where when you flip it (the vinyl, of course) the two are back to back. Anyway, I "should" still have a turntable lying around from a lost bet; if he agrees to the exchange, could you do me the favor of sending it to him? ;)
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intellectual honesty? but there’s no sea on the cover of John Martyn... on Crosby's cover, however, there is Ingrandisci questa immagine