Never forget the brave 97 Liverpool supporters, who went to watch their favourite team play 35 years ago today & never made it home due to a lack of security & poor human error. We'll never forget you.
YNWA ❤️🕊❤️🕊❤️🕊❤️
My thoughts and prayers as always, go out to the victims, the families and friends.
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Since 1988, World AIDS Day (1 December) has provided a platform to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS, and to honor the lives affected by the epidemic. Take time to remember, reflect, and renew today--and everyday.
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REHAB DOLL TURNS 35!
The story of Seattle’s rise to global rock supremacy in the late ’80s and early ’90s begins with Green River. Made up of Jeff Ament (bass), Mark Arm (guitar/vocals), Bruce Fairweather (guitar), Stone Gossard (guitar), and Alex Shumway (drums), the quintet put out three 12”s and a 7” single during its brief existence. Green River’s influence on Seattle’s music scene spread far and wide thanks to the members’ dispersion into bands including Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, and Love Battery, as well as the punk-glam-sludge-rock songs they left behind.
“By ‘83, ‘84, there was definitely a movement that was happening within hardcore, like Black Flag slowing down for My War,” says Arm. “The Replacements and Butthole Surfers were rearing their heads, and they’re very different bands, but they’re not hardcore—the Replacements are pretty much straight-up rock, and Butthole Surfers were God knows what. Sonic Youth’s Bad Moon Rising was around, and a lot of really interesting post-hardcore things were happening.”
Green River, which formed in 1984, was part of that evolution, with a sound that straddled a lot of different genres—blues, punk, bloozy straight-ahead rock. The mini-LP Dry As A Bone, which came out in 1987, and the band’s lone full-length Rehab Doll, which came out in 1988, were released as a single CD with a few bonus cuts, including their sneering cover of David Bowie’s “Queen Bitch” and their marauding version of Dead Boys’ “Ain’t Nothin’ to Do,” in 1990—but they’ve been unavailable on vinyl for years. Now, these slices of Seattle music history are not only back in print, they’re accompanied by items from the vaults that had been forgotten about for decades.
Dry As A Bone was recorded at Jack Endino’s Reciprocal Recording in 1986, and it shows the band in furious form, with Arm’s yowl battling Fairweather and Gossard’s ferocious guitar playing on “This Town” and “Unwind” opening as a slow bluesy grind then jump-starting itself into a hyperactive chase. The deluxe edition includes Green River’s cuts from the crucial Seattle-scene compilation Deep Six, as well as long-lost songs that were recorded to the now-archaic format Betamax.
Rehab Doll, recorded largely at Seattle’s Steve Lawson Studios., bridges the gap between the taut, punky energy of Dry As a Bone and the bigger drums and thicker riffs that were coming to dominate rock in the late ’80s. This new edition of Rehab Doll includes a version of “Swallow My Pride” recorded to 8-track at Endino’s Reciprocal Recording, which features a more accurate depiction of how the band sounded when they played live. “When I listen to these mixes, I think, ‘This is how we actually sounded—this is the kind of energy we had,’” says Shumway.
Green River’s place in American music history is without question, but these recordings paint a more complete picture of the band—and of rock in the mid- to late-’80s, when punk’s faster-and-louder ideals had begun shape-shifting into other ideas.
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Phantasy Star fans are in for a treat next month as a special 35th Anniversary event will kick off on PSO2 New Genesis with a rock remix by Jun Senoue! #SonicTeamIP #SEGANews
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A tale of three Sams. Sam on the left is vintage mid 80’s PC, middle Sam is BeForever and Sam on the right is 35th anniversary.
PC Sam is my lazy eye girl. I bought her via OfferUp on the cheap and was so smitten I couldn’t let her go. I often have this experience so, yeah.
BeForever Sam here is such a cutie. Also an OfferUp find. Got her and what I think was her Costco set for $50. I swear she always has bed head no matter what I do. She’s very Samantha.
This is my oldest daughter’s 35th Anniversary Sam. She was the last doll my daughter got at the LA store before it closed. We played hooky from school with some friends and drove up just for the release. Such an amazing day. This Sam makes my heart sing with memories.
When Sams share Sam secrets over lemonade and ice cream.
Just added the lighting to the doll closet/house. It’s cool white but photographs quite crisp. I think the girls are pretty happy with it.
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On August 19th, Jonathan Demme’s absolutely sublime 1988 comedy Married to the Mob celebrated its 35th anniversary. The film tells the story of a former bridge-and-tunnel mob wife (Michelle Pfeiffer), who seemingly never felt comfortable in such a role, trying to find herself with a fresh start in the Big City. Married to the Mob features an all-star supporting cast—Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin, Oliver Platt, Nancy Travis, Joan Cusack, Chris Isaak and more!—all of whom seem to be having a blast. Read the full article over at the Wordpress site!
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