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    So What Are You Listening To?

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    18 hours ago, BlueSkies said:

    Maybe some day I'll do a deep @Rushmoras like dive into this groups albums.

     

    They seemed kind of too intense/hard core for me as a teenager.  But maybe I've grown into a taste for them.  This song was pretty good

     

     

    Too bad that Spotify (on Internet) for me shows greyed out all popular rap artists for some reason (as if lost licenses), I may be inclined to listen to some of the artists I know in passing (though, on app, they are all accessible, but I'm using the app for local artists discog [yah, I'm strange that way]).

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    So What Are You Listening To?

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    Final Roxette studio album "Good Karma" (2016).

    As always, subjective assessments of each album:

    1. Pearls of Passion (Extended Version) (1986) - 8/10. Best songs: Surrender; Never ending love; From one heart to another; So far away; It must have been love (Christmas for the broken hearted)

    2. Look Sharp! (Extended Version) (1988) - 7.5/10. Best songs: Dressed for success; Paint; Dangerous; Half a woman, half a shadow; Shadow of a doubt; Listen to your heart; One is such a lonely number (demo); Don’t believe in accidents (demo)

    3. Joyride (Extended Version) (1991) - 7.8/10. Best songs: Joyride; Fading like a flower (every time you leave); Spending my time; The big l.; (Do you) get excited?; Physical fascination; Things will never be the same; The sweet hello, the sad goodbye; Love spins (demo); Seduce me (demo)

    4. Tourism (Extended Version) (1992) - 6.3/10. Best songs: How do you do; The rain; Keep me waiting; Come back (before you leave); Queen of rain; Fingertips ’93; 2, Cinnamon street

    5. Crash! Boom! Bang! (Extended Version) (1994) - 7.8/10. Best songs: Harleys & Indians (riders in the sky); Crash, Boom, Bang!; Fireworks; Sleeping in my car; Place your love; What’s she like?; Lies; I’m sorry; Almost unreal; Crazy about you

    6. Have a Nice Day (Extended Version) (1999) - 8.2/10. Best songs: Crush on you; Wish I could fly; Anyone; 7twenty7; Stars; Salvation; Cooper; Making love to you

    7. Room Service (Extended Version) (2001) - 7.9/10. Best songs: Milk toast and honey; Fool; My world, my love, my life; Entering your heart; Bla, bla, bla (you broke my heart); Every day; Stupid

    8. Charm School (Extended Version) (2011) - 7.5/10. Best songs: Way out; She’s got nothing on (but the radio); Speak to me; I’m glad you called; Only when I dream; Dream on

    9. Travelling (2012) - 7.3/10. Best songs: Lover, lover, lover; Touched by the hand of god; Perfect excuse; Excuse me sir, do you want me to check on your wife?; Angel passing; The weight of the world – vocal mix up; See me – new version

    10. Good Karma (2016) - 7.3/10. Best songs: This one; From a distance; Why don't you bring me flowers?; April clouds

    Average album score: 7.6/10.

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    What Are We Currently Reading?

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    I know that some months ago I wrote here that I will not be reading any more Lev Tolstoj War and Peace, but decided to upen-up Volume 2, and, I don't know, either because I found James Clavell's Tai-Pan to be not what I hoped it to be or maybe because so far Volume 2 is superior to Volume 1, but I like it. So, I read so far only 43 pages (or 6 chapters of the first parter of Volume 2): the Battle of Austerlitz is over, and the Russian nobles come back to Moscow.

    Spoiler

    One of those nobles are Nikolaj Rostov, and his family is happy to see him; they later-on throw a small shindig at an English Club, wherein they discuss why Russia lost the battle. And, during that small party, Pjer, who has been unhappily married to some Dutchess (IMO, he's gay the way he's being portrayed) decides to challenge to a duel a renowned duelist named Dolochov, whom he suspects of having an affair with his wife. Everyone is like: "What is he, an idiot?", but they go along with it thinking that when the day of the duel comes, Pjer will simply apologize for his outburst, but that does not happen. So, Pjer, I assume, has a death-wish, but as luck would have it, actually suceeds in wounding Dolochov. And everyone is like: "Woah, what the fuck". So, in the end of the chapter, Pjer's wife starts to fuck with his mind and annoy him to a point that Pjer looses his temper, shouts at her and forces her out of their home, and in the end they divorce, and Pjer goes back to Saint Petersburg...

    That's what happened in the first 6 chapters lol.

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    So What Are You Listening To?

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    · Edited by Rushmoras

    Seventh Roxette album "Room Service" (2001). Enjoyment wise, does not hold a candle to their previous albums. Still, judging from the number of liked songs it gonna be at least a seven...

    Second CD of the album is good, though.

     

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    What Are We Currently Reading?

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    So, completed today James Clavell's Tai-Pan: Book One. It ended on a weird BDSM-esque-domestic-violence-esque note, which, yeah...

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    So, Dirk Struan's concubine Mei-Mei wanted to surprise him with, um, some European fashion for the beauty pageant. But, when Dirk saw her wearing European clothes, he was shocked, because he did not think that they suit her at all. So, Mei-Mei became hysterical, thinking that she lost "face", and, uh, wanted to kill herself. Dirk, kinda talked her out of it, and left the servants to take care of her. So, in the morning, he comes back to her, and Mei-Mei is begging Dirk to sell her, because she lost "face" and "shamed" him, and again is becoming hysterical.

    So, Dirk, from being afraid that she might again try hurting herself, decides to act "Chinese", and, uh, administers some corporal punishment on her buttocks in order for her to gain "face" again...

    Yeah... I mean, it is one way to end your first volume...

    So What Are You Listening To?

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    · Edited by Rushmoras

    Just listened to the newest Taylor Swift album that dropped (decided to go with the simple, not extended/deluxe version on Spotify).  The songs that stood out the most in her album for me was Fortnight, Florida, Guilty as Sin, Whose Afraid of Little Old Me? & Cara Bow.

    However, most of the album sounds exactly the same. I guess, she has been consistent with this ever since her third album, I guess?

    Overall, from first listening I'd rate it 6.9 out of 10. So, actually on par with her best albums for me (1989 (Deluxe Edition) [6.9 out of 10 as well for me] & Folklore (Deluxe Version) [7.1 out of 10 this one].

    What Are We Currently Reading?

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    3 minutes ago, blackwing said:

    I've long wanted to read James Clavell.  As a kid I always looked at my dad's copy of Shogun and thought that one day I would read it.  Still have yet to do so, I'm probably turned off by the extreme length.  Too much to read, too little time!

    Oh, yes, his books are very lengthy. I'd say it takes me up to a month to finish one ~500 pages book for me these days (if there are no interruptions; but since generally there are [interruptions] - it takes even longer. I think I began to read it in January, and now it's almost middle of April lol).

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    What Are We Currently Reading?

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    I have been reading James Clavell's Tai-Pan: Book One (1999). It is set somewhere around the period, where the English began their Opium Wars with China, and follows the adventures of Dirk Struan - a smuggler-slash pirate-slash merchant wanting to be on top of everybody else, but running in to some financial trouble, and is forced to seek aid from local pirate and slum lords for funding...

    Spoiler

    The part where I stopped today was about people getting ready for the big beauty pageant organized by Dirk to celebrate the founding of Honkong...

    That's the general premise of it. Forty or so pages left until the end. I don't know, as I'd rate his previous book "Shogun" an 8 or 9 out of 10, this one I'd rate a 6 or 7 out of 10. More or less the same as "Shogun", but is very drama centred; almost no action whatsoever.

    P.S. I also have been reading some older DC (1987-2008 currently) and Marvel (1962-1966 currently) comics, but I doubt that this is a place to post my impressions on them :D

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    So What Are You Listening To?

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    · Edited by Rushmoras

    And with Alchemy Project (2022), which was basically collabs with other bands, completed Epica discography. Best songs in the album:

    As always, subjective assessments:

    1. The Phantom Agony (Expanded Edition) (2003) - 6.8/10 [Best songs: Cry for the Moon, Run for a Fall & Triumph of Defeat]

    2. Consign to Oblivion (Expanded Edition) (2005) - 7.8/10 [Best songs: Force of the Shore, Mother of Light - A New Age Dawns 2 & Trois Vierges]

    3. The Divine Conspiracy (2007) - 8.5/10 [Best songs: Chasing the Dragon, Never Enough, Safeguard to Paradise & Sancta Terra]

    4. Design Your Universe (Gold - Deluxe Edition) (2009) - 6.8/10 [Best songs: Martyr of the Free Word, Burn to Cinder & White Waters]

    5. Requiem for the Indifferent (2012) - 8/10 [Best songs: Storm the Sorrow, Guilty Demeanour, Deter the Tyrant, Serenade of Self-Destruction & Nostalgia]

    6. The Quantum Enigma (2014) - 6.4/10 [Best songs: Chemical Insomnia, Reverence - Living in the Heart, Canvas of Life, Natural Corruption & The Quantum Enigma - Kingdom of Heaven, Part II]

    6.1. The Quantum Enigma - B Sides (2014) - 6.7/10 [Best new song: Dreamscape]

    7. The Holographic Principle (2016) - 7.6/10 [Best songs: Beyond the Matrix, Tear Down Your Walls & Dancing in the Gypsy Camp]

    8. The Score 2.0 - An Epic Journey (2017) - 6/10 [Best songs: Under the Aegis, Angel of Death & Quietus - Score 2.0 Version]

    9. Epica VS Attack on Titans Songs (2018) - 7.5/10 [Best songs: If Inside these Walls was a House & Dedicate Your Heart!]

    10. Omega (2021) - 7.5/10 [Best songs: Gaia, Kingdom of Heaven Part 3 - The Antediluvian Universe, Synergize - Manic Manifest - & Twilight Reverie - The Hypnagogic State]

    11. The Alchemy Project (2022) - 5.7/10 [Best song: The Miner]

    Average Score: 7.1/10

    So What Are You Listening To?

    in Music

    9th Epica Album "The Score 2.0 - An Epic Journey" (2017), which is, as I understood it, an instrumental soundtrack for a movie probably. The album technically consists of 40 songs, but from 21st track it just remastered versions of previous songs in the album.

     

    FilmNight: Movies you watched recently

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    Akira Kurosawa Drunken Angel (1948). A movie about a small town's doctor trying to help out a member of the yakuza, who has tuberculosis, but is reluctant to take treatment, because healthy life-style gonna crash with his hedonism... I'm not gonna lie, out of all Kurosawa's movies that I've seen since 1943 and up to 1948, this one had the most quality and was the most interesting so far. I even would say that disregarding the action scenes in the end, it holds up even by today's standards. And, what surprised me, is that this movie does not re-use the same actors from previous of his movies; well, I'm lying, I think the actor who played the father in the No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) is playing the small town's doctor, but, mainly, that's it.

    So What Are You Listening To?

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    · Edited by Rushmoras

    Sixth Epica album "The Quantum Enigma" (2014).IMO, it's their best album in terms of production, sound and lyrics so far. Best songs:

     

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