Best Albums Ever: Bob Dylan - "Blood On The Tracks" - blues, blues-rock, folksrock, gospel, country, traditional, pop, vocal, jazz

Bob Dylan - "Blood On The Tracks"

Blood on the Tracks is the fifteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on January 20, 1975 by Columbia Records. The album marked Dylan's return to Columbia Records after a two-album stint with Asylum Records. Dylan began recording the album in New York City in September 1974. In December, shortly before Columbia was due to release the album, Dylan abruptly re-recorded much of the material in a studio in Minneapolis. The final album contains five tracks recorded in New York and five from Minneapolis.

Blood on the Tracks initially received mixed reviews, but has subsequently been acclaimed as one of Dylan's greatest albums by both critics and fans. The songs have been linked to tensions in Dylan's personal life, including his estrangement from his then-wife Sara. One of their children, Jakob Dylan, has described the songs as "my parents talking". The album is considered an outstanding example of the confessional singer-songwriter's craft, having been called "the truest, most honest account of a love affair from tip to stern ever put down on magnetic tape". In interviews, Dylan has denied that the songs on the album are autobiographical.

Robert Dylan[ (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning nearly 60 years. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" (1963) and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and anti-war movements. His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture.

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Blood on the Tracks is a seminal breakup album, poetic carnival ride, and staggeringly beautiful collection of songs. This is one of those albums that warrants ...

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BELA MAČKA: "Pogledaj Me" 09 / Zbirka Poezije | poezija | poetry | poésie

 

Pogledaj Me

Očaj zlokobni um ti pomračio i praznina alava zube ti rasipa,

Crv maligni se u tebi nastanio,

Mraz u srcu odavno ti oči zapaljene zatvara,

Gmizavac je postala tvoja duša,

Škorpija nema otrova kojim bi tvoj otrovni jezik nadjačala,

Nosiš strah u sebi pakleni, zarazu vekovima dojenu,

Ljudski si otpad i ljudske krvi žedan.

 

Majka te je nežno podizala, ti se kao zver uspravi.

* 

Strašna će biti noć tvog pada,

Neljudski će biti slušati urlik tvog bola,

Okove i tamnicu priprema ti tvoja sorta,

Pacov zarazan biće ti najbolji prijatelj,

Sve dok se njegovim mesom ne budeš počastio.

 

Pogledaj me,

Neka se od tvog pogleda ako želiš na meni rane vrele otvore,

Pogledaj me,

Možda će mi se od tuge grudi pocepati,

Pogledaj me,

Zauvek ćeš time sebe promeniti.

Sebastian Sava Gor

Best Albums Ever: Neil Young - Harvest 1972 (Remastered Version) rock folk-rock country-rock experimental-rock hard-rock

 Neil Young - Harvest

Harvest is the fourth studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released in February 1972 on Reprise Records, catalogue number MS 2032. It featured the London Symphony Orchestra on two tracks and vocals by noted guests David Crosby, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Stephen Stills, and James Taylor. It topped the Billboard 200 album chart for two weeks, and spawned two hit singles, "Old Man", which peaked at No. 31 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Heart of Gold", which reached No. 1. It was the best-selling album of 1972 in the United States.

Neil Percival Young OC OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, and activist. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and others. Since the beginning of his solo career with his backing band Crazy Horse, Young has released many critically acclaimed and important albums, such as After the Gold Rush, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, and Harvest.

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The Movie, Lesson About Life - 38 Andrei Tarkovsky: Solaris drama - sc-fi

Solaris

Solaris (Russian: Солярис, tr. Solyaris) is a 1972 Soviet science fiction art film based on Stanisław Lem's 1961 novel of the same name. The film was co-written and directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, and stars Donatas Banionis and Natalya Bondarchuk. The electronic music score was performed by Eduard Artemyev; a composition by J.S. Bach is also employed.

The plot centers on a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris, where a scientific mission has stalled because the skeleton crew of three scientists have fallen into emotional crises. Psychologist Kris Kelvin (Banionis) travels to the station in order to evaluate the situation, only to encounter the same mysterious phenomena as the others. The film was Tarkovsky's attempt to bring a new emotional depth to science fiction films; he viewed most western works in the genre as shallow due to their focus on technological invention.

Solaris won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. It received generally positive reviews from critics. It is often cited as one of the greatest science fiction films in the history of cinema.[7][8] Some of the ideas Tarkovsky expresses in this film are further developed in his film Stalker (1979).

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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Written by Fridrikh Gorenshtein, Andrei Tarkovsky

Based on Solaris by Stanisław Lem

Produced by Vyacheslav Tarasov

Starring:

Donatas Banionis

Natalya Bondarchuk

Jüri Järvet

Vladislav Dvorzhetsky

Nikolai Grinko

Anatoly Solonitsyn

Cinematography: Vadim Yusov

Edited by Lyudmila Feiginova

Music by Eduard Artemyev

Production company Mosfilm

Release date

February 5, 1972 (Moscow)

May 13, 1972 (Cannes)

Running time 166 minutes

Country: EX Soviet Union

Languages: Russian, German

Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to investigate, he experiences the same strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness. With Solaris, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky created a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself.

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Psychologist Kris Kelvin is being sent on an interstellar journey to evaluate whether a decades-old space station, positioned over the oceanic planet Solaris, should continue to study it. He spends his last day on Earth with his elderly father and retired pilot Burton. Years earlier Burton had been part of an exploratory team at Solaris but was recalled when he described strange happenings, including seeing a four-meter-tall child on the surface of the water on the planet. These were dismissed as hallucinations by a panel of scientists and military, but now that the remaining crew members are making similarly strange reports, Kris's skills are needed.

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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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