Best albums Ever: Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (2019 Digital Mastering) - 180 Gram Vinyl - post-punk, gothic-rock, new wave

Joy Division:    "Unknown Pleasures" 

Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by English rock band Joy Division, released on 15 June 1979 by Factory Records. The album was recorded and mixed over three successive weekends at Stockport's Strawberry Studios in April 1979, and was produced by Martin Hannett, who incorporated a number of unconventional production techniques into the group's sound. The cover artwork was designed by artist Peter Saville, using a data plot of signals from a radio pulsar. It is the only Joy Division album released during lead singer Ian Curtis's lifetime.

Factory Records did not release any singles from Unknown Pleasures, and the album did not chart despite the relative success of the group's non-album debut single "Transmission". It has since received sustained critical acclaim as an influential post-punk album, and has been named as one of the best albums of all time by publications such as NME, AllMusic, Select, Rolling Stone, and Spin.

Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist Ian Curtis, guitarist/keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.

Sumner and Hook formed the band after attending a Sex Pistols concert. While Joy Division's first recordings were heavily influenced by early punk, they soon developed a sparse sound and style that made them one of the pioneers of the post-punk movement. Their self-released 1978 debut EP An Ideal for Living drew the attention of the Manchester television personality Tony Wilson, who signed them to his independent label Factory Records. Their debut album Unknown Pleasures, recorded with producer Martin Hannett, was released in 1979.

Curtis suffered from personal problems and health conditions, including a failing marriage, depression, and epilepsy. As the band's popularity grew, Curtis's condition made it increasingly difficult for him to perform; he occasionally experienced seizures on stage. He died by suicide on the eve of the band's first US/Canada tour in May 1980, aged 23. Joy Division's second and final album, Closer, was released two months later; it and the single "Love Will Tear Us Apart" became their highest charting releases.

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The remaining members regrouped under the name New Order. They were successful throughout the next decade, blending post-punk with electronic and dance music influences.

Also known as Warsaw (1977–1978)

Salford, England

Post-punk, Gothic Rock, New wave

Years active 1976–1980

Labels

Factory Enigma, Virgin Anonymous, Fast Product Sordide Sentimental

Associated acts New Order

Website:  https://www.joydivisionofficial.com/reimagined/

Past members:

Ian Curtis

Bernard Sumner

Peter Hook

Stephen Morris

Ian Curtis (guitar/vocals), Bernard Sumner (keyboard), Peter Hook (bass), and Stephen Morris (drums) released their debut, Unknown Pleasures, in 1979.

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SPONTANO SAGOREVANJE: "Ništarija" 19 | Zbirka Kratkih Priča | kratka priča, short story, histoire courte, nadrealizam, teatar apsurda, surréalisme. théâtre de l'absurde, theater of the absurd, iracionalizam, avantgarde, avangarda, irrationalism, irrationalisme

 

NIŠTARIJA

 - Znaš šta Petroviću, M. Petrovtrovću, više mi te je dosta! – pomisli Petrović besno u sebi. 

- Ti Petroviću - nastavi Petrović sa srdžbom misliti u sebi o samome sebi – Ti Petroviću nemaš ništa i obična si ništarija. Kako misliš da te ljudi poštuju i uvažavaju?! Ti bi od sebe i ogledalo trebalo da sklanjaš. I hajde, uradi ti gospodine, nešto, bilo šta, dostojno poštovanja. Delo ali ne malo delo...već takvo, da na nekoga ostavi utisak... Šta!? Veština je potrebna, a ti kao da nemaš nikakvih veština! 

- E moj Petroviću, a jel’ roditelje poštuješ? Ne! Tako je... svako ima svoje razloge. Pa šta si ti? Čovek? A ljubav? Ne, ja ne mrzim ama baš nikoga. A koga volim? Da vidimo, volim pokojnu bakicu. Uh! Petroviću... ostao si sam! Sam samcit! Ti i nemaš razloga, da se bilo kome, pokazuješ i dokazuješ. Raspusti se, pijanči, kockaj se čoveče! 

- Ne, ne... Neće ići tako lako! – Petrović pri ovoj pomisli podiže prst u vazduh i kao da preti svojim mislima, ukori samoga sebe, micanjem prsta levo-desno. 

- Besmisleno je ovoliko razmišljati a ništa ne preduzimati. Potpuno besmisleno! 

Na ove misli Petrović poskoči, navuče kaputić i izlete napolje iz svoje male podstanarske sobice. Ipak je otišao pravo u kafanu, tamo se prvo napio kao zmaj i odlučno je sa velikim samopuzdanjem da nastavi dalje, Sa verom u sebe, pade mu na pamet, da možda poseduje i telepatske sposobnosti i on doslovce ulete u prvu kockarnicu na koju je naleteo. Dočekao je jutro u kockarnici bez prebijenog dinara i bez novog kaputa, koji je na kraju, jedva uspeo da založi, za tri puta manju cenu od one koliko je kaput vredeo. Sedeo je smrknut na stolici i gledao u jednu masnu tačku na belom zidu.

- Ništarija, zauvek ostaje ništarija. - ova misao mu se dopade.

- Tako je, treba čovek po neki put biti i iskren prema sebi. Ništarija, nego šta i to je nešto valjda! I ništarija, mora da postane ništarija i za to je potreban neki trud.

Tako Petrović obodri samoga sebe, ustade teško sa stolice i odvuče se nekako do svog stana. Kada je legao u krevet i zaspao, spavao je tri dana, probudila ga je komšinica Mirka, koja je mislila da se sa njim nešto desilo pošto nije svraćao kod nje da kupi domaći, mladi sir, što je inače radio svaki dan.

- A gospodine Petroviću, Vi kao kakva ništarija, spavate li, spavate...tri dana Vas nema, a našta to ličite...juu...pa imate li vi ogledalo?

Petrović zalupi vrata komšinici ispred nosa i još pomisli: 

"Ma što joj ne udari šamarčinu!"

Smrknut i nikakav, on se uputi nazad ka krevetu.

U krevetu se malo opustio, zamišljajući kako ima sekseksualni odnos sa tri glumice, koje je on najviše cenio.

Sebastian Sava Gor

 

Best Albums Ever: Nina Simone: "Baltimore" (1978) R&B jazz blues folk soul classical gospel

Baltimore is the fourteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter and pianist Nina Simone, released in January 1978 by CTI Records. Nina Simone was signed to CTI Records after the veteran jazz producer Creed Taylor saw her perform live in 1977 at Drury Lane, and together they would record "Baltimore," Simone's first album since 1974's It Is Finished.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), known professionally as Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.

The sixth of eight children born to a poor family in Tryon, North Carolina, Simone initially aspired to be a concert pianist.[1] With the help of a few supporters in her hometown, she enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York City.[2] She then applied for a scholarship to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she was denied admission despite a well-received audition, which she attributed to racism. In 2003, just days before her death, the Institute awarded her an honorary degree.

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Nina Simone

To make a living, Simone started playing piano at a nightclub in Atlantic City. She changed her name to "Nina Simone" to disguise herself from family members, having chosen to play "the devil's music" or so-called "cocktail piano". She was told in the nightclub that she would have to sing to her own accompaniment, which effectively launched her career as a jazz vocalist.  She went on to record more than 40 albums between 1958 and 1974, making her debut with Little Girl Blue. She had a hit single in the United States in 1958 with "I Loves You, Porgy". Her musical style fused gospel and pop with classical music, in particular Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied expressive, jazz-like singing in her contralto voice

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Colors as Icon: Theology - The New Serbian Icon Painting, Mijalko Djunisijević - icons, Icônes, иконки, εικονίδια, lambang, symbole, ikone

 

The New Serbian Icon Painting, 

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Art critique - offer of exhibition, with last work, icons, of my friend, modern Orthodox icon painter from Čačak and Belgrade, Serbia, Mijalko Djunisijevic, 45, who modernized icon, working very interesting with colors. We offer, this his exhibition now to different galleries in Belgrade and abroad / but only with little donation because we both can not make it alone/. Curator and organizer of exhibition is my design studio STUDIO JI, Belgrade.

Slikane ikone jajčanom temperom na drvenim pločama, izrada slavskih ikona, slikanje ikona na...

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Ekser

 

EKSER

T.P. je u potpunoj dokolici ušao u svoju ostavu. Dugo nije bio u tom delu svog stana, rešio je je da malo pospremi po kući. Pod sijalicom koja je treptala, videlo se dosta prašine i paučine. Razbacane alatke su pokrile pločice, čekić, klješta, stara šmirgla, kantica sa skorelom bojom i četkom u njoj, svašta... 

T. P. kao što je najednom dobio, tako najednom i izgubi volju da pospremi svoju ostavu. Taman da ugasi sijalicu koja mu je smetala i odavno bila za bacanje, on ugleda veliki ekser, jedan od onih za spoljnu građu i za beton.

T.P uze ekser, malo šmirgle , ugasi svetlo i zatvori vrata ostave.

Vrativši se u dnevnu sobu T.P. poče polako šmirgluckati ekser. Kada se ekser zasijao T.P. je izgledao veoma zadovoljno. Spustio je ekser na sto i rešio da legne malo ranije.

Ekser je ostavio kao ukras, na komodici, on je predstavljao "delo" dana. Bio je zadovoljan svojim učinkom.     

Legao je, ugasio je svetlo i u krevetu je zamišljao kako izgledaju dok vode seks, njegove omiljene glumice.

draw: Sebastian Sava Gor

Best Albums Ever: Pixies - Bossanova (1990) alternative rock, surf rock, space rock

Bossanova 

is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Pixies. It was released on August 13, 1990 by English independent record label 4AD in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States. Because of 4AD's independent status, major label Elektra handled distribution in the U.S.

Bossanova reached number 70 on the Billboard 200. The album peaked at number three in the UK Albums Chart. Two singles were released from Bossanova: "Velouria" and "Dig for Fire". Both charted on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in the U.S., at No. 4 and No. 11, respectively.

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Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts. Until 2013, the band comprised Black Francis (vocals, rhythm guitar, songwriter), Joey Santiago (lead guitar), Kim Deal (bass, backing vocals) and David Lovering (drums). The band disbanded acrimoniously in 1993, but reunited in 2004. After Deal left in 2013, Pixies hired Kim Shattuck as a touring bassist; she was replaced the same year by Paz Lenchantin, who became a permanent member in 2016.

Pixies are associated with the 1990s alternative rock boom, and draw on elements including punk rock and surf rock. Their music is known for its dynamic "loud-quiet-loud" shifts and song structures. Francis is Pixies' primary songwriter; his often surreal lyrics cover offbeat subjects such as extraterrestrials, incest, and biblical violence. They achieved modest popularity in the US, but were more successful in Europe. Their jarring pop sound influenced acts such as Nirvana, Radiohead, the Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer. Their popularity grew in the years after their break-up, leading to a 2004 reunion and sold-out world tours.

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The Movie, Lesson About Life - 37 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) war, black comedy

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 

Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Buck Turgidson, and President Merkin Muffley. Only Ripper knows the code to recall the B-52 bombers and he has shut down communication in and out of Burpelson as a measure to protect this attack. Ripper's executive officer, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (on exchange from Britain), who is being held at Burpelson by Ripper, believes he knows the recall codes if he can only get a message to the outside world. Meanwhile at the Pentagon War Room, key persons including Muffley, Turgidson and nuclear scientist and adviser, a former Nazi named Dr. Strangelove, are discussing measures to stop the attack or mitigate its blow-up into an all out nuclear war with the Soviets. Against Turgidson's wishes, Muffley brings Soviet Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky into the War Room, and get his boss, Soviet Premier Dimitri Kisov, on the hot line to inform him of what's going on. The Americans in the War Room are dismayed to learn that the Soviets have an as yet unannounced Doomsday Device to detonate if any of their key targets are hit. As Ripper, Mandrake and those in the War Room try and work the situation to their end goal, Major T.J. "King" Kong, one of the B-52 bomber pilots, is working on his own agenda of deploying his bomb where ever he can on enemy soil if he can't make it to his intended target.—Huggo...

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, more commonly known simply as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. The film was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick and stars Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, and Slim Pickens. The film was made in the United Kingdom. The film is loosely based on Peter George's thriller novel Red Alert (1958).

The story concerns an unhinged United States Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. It separately follows the President of the United States, his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Royal Air Force (RAF) exchange officer as they attempt to prevent the crew of a B-52 plane (who were following orders from the general) from bombing the Soviets and starting a nuclear war.

The film is often considered one of the best comedies ever made, as well as one of the greatest films of all time. In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked it twenty-sixth in its list of the best American movies (in the 2007 edition, the film ranked thirty-ninth), and in 2000, it was listed as number three on its list of the funniest American films. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress included Dr. Strangelove as one of the first twenty-five films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"

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Directed by:Stanley Kubrick

Screenplay by:Stanley Kubrick

Terry Southern

Peter George

Based on "Red Alert" by Peter George

Produced by Stanley Kubrick

Starring:

Peter Sellers

George C. Scott

Sterling Hayden

Keenan Wynn

Slim Pickens

Tracy Reed

Cinematography: Gilbert Taylor

Edited by Anthony Harvey

Music by Laurie Johnson

Production company: Hawk Films

Distributed by Columbia Pictures

Release date January 29, 1964

Running time 94 minutes

Countries : United Kingdom, United States

Stanley Kubrick (/ˈkuːbrɪk/; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer. He is frequently cited as one of the greatest filmmakers in cinematic history. His films, which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genres and are noted for their realism, dark humor, unique cinematography, extensive set designs, and evocative use of music.

Kubrick was raised in the Bronx, New York City, and attended William Howard Taft High School from 1941 to 1945. He received average grades, but displayed a keen interest in literature, photography, and film from a young age, and taught himself all aspects of film production and directing after graduating from high school. After working as a photographer for Look magazine in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he began making short films on a shoestring budget, and made his first major Hollywood film, The Killing, for United Artists in 1956. This was followed by two collaborations with Kirk Douglas: the war picture Paths of Glory (1957) and the historical epic Spartacus (1960).

Creative differences arising from his work with Douglas and the film studios, a dislike of the Hollywood industry, and a growing concern about crime in America prompted Kubrick to move to the United Kingdom in 1961, where he spent most of his remaining life and career. His home at Childwickbury Manor in Hertfordshire, which he shared with his wife Christiane, became his workplace, where he did his writing, research, editing, and management of production details. This allowed him to have almost complete artistic control over his films, but with the rare advantage of having financial support from major Hollywood studios. His first productions in Britain were two films with Peter Sellers, Lolita (1962) and Dr. Strangelove (1964)....

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Stanley Kubrick’s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers plays three wildly different roles: Royal Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake, timidly trying to stop a nuclear attack on the USSR ordered by an unbalanced general (Sterling Hayden); the ineffectual and perpetually dumbfounded U.S. President Merkin Muffley, who must deliver the very bad news to the Soviet premier; and the titular Strangelove himself, a wheelchair-bound presidential adviser with a Nazi past. Finding improbable hilarity in nearly every unimaginable scenario, Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a subversive masterpiece that officially announced Kubrick as an unparalleled stylist and pitch-black ironist.

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