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In 2015, Ryan Adams surprised his fans with a track-by-track recreation of Taylor Swift’s 1989, covering the entire album in its entirety. It was a much different album than Swift’s…it gave each song a more brooding feel and was performed in Adams’ unique style. Now, Adams has returned with his first album of original material since his 2014 self-titled album. In promoting and preparing his fans for the album, he hinted at an 80s style rock. So, the question is, did the album live up to expectations? Was it worth the wait?
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Posted by: Cobra Continuing the countdown of my Top 20 Films, we now reach #13, a 1992 drama, Glengarry Glen Ross. David Mamet wrote this brilliant screenplay, based off of his own stage play and James Foley directed a mammoth cast which included cinema legends Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin Spacey, and Alec Baldwin.
Posted by: Cobra A while back on Facebook, I posted a collage of my Top 50 Favorite Music Albums. I kept the rules simple:
I tried to avoid compilation albums as much as possible, but I stuck one soundtrack in there because of the sheer greatness of it. Below, view the collage, captioned with the list of albums.
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On May 29th 2007, the third season finale of House aired on FOX. The end of this episode featured a song called “Good Man” by an artist named Josh Ritter. It was a song from Ritter’s, at the time, most recent album The Animal Years.
Something about the song struck me. I loved it. The melody, the songcraft, the lyrics. It was a simple song, but undeniably amazing. I immediately had to find out more about this artist. I sought out the song and discovered this album, The Animal Years. I listened to it. And then I listened to it, again. I was in love with this album. As I sought out more of Josh’s music, discovering what an amazing musician, an amazing songwriter, and amazing singer, an amazing man, this was, I always returned to The Animal Years as my favorite of his albums. If I were a professional musician, this is the kind of album that would influence my music: it’s the kind of album I would dream of making. Posted by: Cobra Some people like to say their favorite Christmas movie is Die Hard. My favorite Christmas movie is Number 15 on my Top 20 Films list, In Bruges.
There’s very little setup for In Bruges. The film throws you right into the story. Hitmen Ray and his senior partner Ken are sent off by their boss, Harry, to Bruges, Belgium to await further orders. It is only later where the full reason why they were sent away is revealed: while on a job, Ray was to kill a priest. But he botches the job, and in the process of killing the priest, a young boy is also killed. Posted by: Cobra Biopics are tricky films to do right. It’s tough to balance presenting a factual piece while also adding in enough drama to keep an audience invested in the story as a film. Music biopics are even trickier, because of the task of presenting the actors and actresses as singers. If you overdub the singing with the actual subject’s music and voice, it sees off, and if you overdub it with a third party who is neither the singer nor the actor/actress, it seems off as well. Finding actors and actresses who can not only sing, but convincingly sing as the characters they are portraying is a daunting task.
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Here are some links to other pop culture websites and blogs worth checking out:
- Saving Country Music - Country Perspective - Farce the Music - Country Exclusive - This Is Country Music - Country Music Minds - Matt Lynn Digital Pop Culture Potpourri Writers
Cobra is a Human Resources professional from the Greater Cleveland Area with a love of good country music and a disdain for pop, rock, and rap mislabeled as country music. His favorite artists include (but are not limited to) Wade Bowen, Randy Rogers Band, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Turnpike Troubadours, Hayes Carll, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Trisha Yearwood, Dwight Yoakam, and Johnny Cash Archives
December 2017
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