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  1. IanRG

    What are you doing for the 7th Anniversary?

    I am listening to Musicology and a playlist of the best boots
  2. IanRG

    What would you like to see as the next Super Deluxe Set?

    Once you get the big ones out, systematic release by album or year
  3. IanRG

    Grammys: Lizzo pays tribute to Prince

    Lizzo received the Record of the Year award for her music track "About Damn Time" at Grammy Awards 2023. The singer dedicated her win to the late singer Prince, who died in April 2016 due to an accidental drug overdose. "When we lost Prince I decided to dedicate my life to making positive...
  4. IanRG

    It's A New Year and a New Movie/Show/Series/Whatever You Watched Rating Thread! Let the exclamation points abound!!!

    Stephen King hated the movie version of "The Shining" as it missed the key theme of the book - Alcoholism and domestic violence. It also made some significant changes to the book. I re-read "The Shining", then read the book "Doctor Sleep" and watched the two movies back-to-back. The changes in...
  5. IanRG

    Celebration 2023 (and new song???)

    Hopefully something new and not just a few seconds for the prome - even if it is a jam
  6. IanRG

    It's A New Year and a New Movie/Show/Series/Whatever You Watched Rating Thread! Let the exclamation points abound!!!

    I think you are being too harsh - The storyline in the first 30 minutes is an accurate depiction of the game it is based on. A key point in the father's character is the death of his daughter in the game. I think the show handled this well by making her the focus of the show right up to her...
  7. IanRG

    Biden & classified documents

    The cartoon says it all (almost). No other president or former president regardless of party would ever try to do a mar-a-lago. They would all just get on with correcting the immediate problem (ie returning them) and the procedural breakdown (ie seeking to prevent it from happening again). The...
  8. IanRG

    It's the 2022 Rate Or Review Any Movie You Watched Thread!

    La cena perfetta (The Perfect Dinner) An Italian film about a person working for a Napoli mafioso family that is too nice. He is sent to Roma to run a restaurant to launder money but he uses some of the money to help the former owner (the love interest, an Argentine woman) develop the restaurant...
  9. IanRG

    New book - Prince: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track

    The book is fine - nothing special but it is comprehensive and reasonably well-researched and edited.
  10. IanRG

    Popular Artists appeal who you never got?

    Crossovers are always a high risk for musicians
  11. IanRG

    Guilty secret artists and musicians you like or previously liked.

    Limited talent / Poor performance skills - This is my point: You can like a simple song and dislike a highly technically praised song. However, an example for me was Sonia Dada - I like their first single when it came out and went to see them. They were so bad - I bought the support act's album...
  12. IanRG

    Guilty secret artists and musicians you like or previously liked.

    I agree with all these points as a reason to move on from an artist/song but not to be embarrassed for liking them when a person did. Trends, showing promise and some songs come and go. Some outlast their trend, most don't. No need for embarrassment. When an artist goes wrong (or is...
  13. IanRG

    Guilty secret artists and musicians you like or previously liked.

    Why ever be embarrassed because you liked a song or artist? There is no good or bad music or cool music and uncool music, just music you like at the time and music you don't like at the time.
  14. IanRG

    Popular Artists appeal who you never got?

    It goes with the album names, one was thrilling, the other just bad.
  15. IanRG

    Popular Artists appeal who you never got?

    IMHO they got that mostly right SOTT is the only one better than Joshua Tree here
  16. IanRG

    Popular Artists appeal who you never got?

    George Michael had 5 US number one singles (3 as Wham!, 2 as GM being Careless Whisper and the duet with Aretha "I Knew You Were Waiting" on her album) and a US number one album (as Wham!) before Faith. What some thought reflects more on them. Perhaps it is more the fault of the AMA and akin to...
  17. IanRG

    Popular Artists appeal who you never got?

    There is no logic to anyone's taste - It is all person and based on experiences unique to each person
  18. IanRG

    Faux News Pays up...

    Absolutely deplorable - to knowingly use a fake photo in news and potentially even having had it faked or know who did fake this and seek to present yourself as a journalist is why fox's propaganda is so dangerous.
  19. IanRG

    Popular Artists appeal who you never got?

    it is not about upgrades or downgrades, it is only ever about the two ultimate genres - Music you like and Music you don't like. As an Australian of my age, my experience of Elvis started with those horrible schmaltzy songs from his movie era. Elvis was overrated whereas George Michael was less...
  20. IanRG

    Guess who's SECOND of three trials starts today?

    The phone stuff up by Alex's lawyers could have greater importance - It is being reported that Jan 6 committee is going to subpoena it following so many of the failed coup leaders' staff deleting messages on their phone from that day.

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