REM, Murmur and Carnival of Sorts, Live 1 983 (USA)
Absolument (le son du live 1 est moins bon que celui du 2).
Ca fait toujours bizarre de voir Stipe avec ses superbes cheveux...
Murmur est trĂšs particulier dans la discographie du groupe, production extrĂȘmement nette et sans fioritures, avec une basse qui sonne magnifiquement et est trĂšs audible, quasiment comme dans Violent Femmes.
Mike Mills est probablement un des meilleurs bassistes des 80's, sinon plus. Son jeu au médiator est ce qui donne ce son, en plus de la marque de sa basse.
Comme le dit ce remarquable texte anglais de Decade 7787, l'histoire de la production du disque est intéressante puisque le groupe a cessé la collaboration avec le 1er producteur, jugé trop perfectionniste.
Basile Pesso, 13 avril 2 024 avec le double live (Fb)
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"On this date in 1983, R.E.M. released their debut studio album MURMUR, (April 12, 1983).
NOTE: The video here features RADIO FREE EUROPE from MURMUR and CARNIVAL OF SORTS (the third song on the band's 1982 debut EP Chronic Town)
40 years after its original release, MURMUR is still fascinating in its eerie sense of musical space.
Back in 1983, REM were most often compared to the Byrds, and thanks to Peter Buck's ringing guitar on songs like âTalk About The Passionâ, âCatapultâ, or âSitting Stillâ, along with Michael Stipes' lead vocals over soaring harmonies, it was easy to see why.
But that was merely one influence, and a misleading one at that, because with no one source dominating, R.E.M. faintly recalled a host of mid-'60s L.A. bands from The Leaves to "undergroundâ faves like Kaleidoscope, David Lindley's first band. R.E.M. might have thoroughly transformed their influences but the result sounded both familiar and wholly original.
Murmur's oddness was affecting because it wove itself around structures and riffs that sounded familiar â a strange system hum, for instance, winds itself up into the catchiest opener, RADIO FREE EUROPE.
In these efforts, Buck's guitar solos were capable of breaking through the mix and soaring, and any band that could come up with melodies this rich knew a thing or two about pop music.
The lyrics, however, were a flight of ideas from the mind of a meditative 23-year-old. Trying to unravel them, it still feels as though you're divining the deepest of riddles for meaning.
âEarly sessions for the album with Stephen Hague, the synth-pop producer who later worked on New Order's True Faith, were quickly rejected, and American producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon were brought in instead,â wrote Jude Rogers for Word in 2009.
âThey seemed to understand that although REM had the rhythms of rock, the jangle of the Byrds and the raw grit of Gang Of Four in their belly, they also needed to create a sound-world of their own. Easter and Dixon brought in strange noises â bangs and bells â and recorded instruments at varying distances from the microphone, so you couldn't place where the ghostly figures were coming from.â
âAt the album's centre point, like a pearl in an oyster, is a song that tells us as much about REM today as the REM that existed a quarter of a century ago. This is 'Perfect Circle', a masterpiece of simple melody and melancholy, and one of the few REM songs to be attributed mainly to the band's former drummer, Bill Berry, who also wrote most of 'Everybody Hurts'.â
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HISTOIRE | Premiers journaux et premiĂšres grandes figures de la presse ✠http://bit.ly/Premiers-Journaux Il y a un siĂšcle, Jean Frollo, du « Petit Parisien », Ă©voquait les premiĂšres grandes figures dâune presse ayant su se rendre indispensable aux hommes en rĂ©pondant Ă leur curiositĂ© universelle, et gouvernant dĂ©sormais, selon lui, lâopinion
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Interdiction de visites pour une journaliste kurde emprisonnée à Ankara
Interdiction de visites pour une journaliste kurde emprisonnée à  Ankara
Ăznur DeÄer, correspondante de lâagence de presse fĂ©minine JinNews, dĂ©tenue Ă la prison pour femmes de Sincan, Ă Ankara, nâest pas autorisĂ©e Ă recevoir des visites. Lâadministration pĂ©nitentiaire invoque le caractĂšre « suspect » des demandes de visite.
InculpĂ©e pour « terrorisme », la journaliste kurde Ăznur DeÄer, correspondante de lâagence de presse fĂ©minine JinNews, est dĂ©tenue Ă la prison deâŠ
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Plaque en hommage à : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Type : Lieu de naissance
Adresse : 8 rue Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 69002 Lyon, France
Date de pose :
Texte : Ici est né Antoine de Saint-Exupéry le 29 juin 1900
Quelques prĂ©cisions : Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry (1900-1944) est un Ă©crivain, journaliste et aviateur français. Il est particuliĂšrement connu comme Ă©tant l'auteur du Petit Prince, un conte philosophique au retentissement planĂ©taire. Il conjugue sa formation de pilote avec son activitĂ© de journalisme, publiant de nombreux reportages qui inspirent ses oeuvres les plus cĂ©lĂšbres, dont Vol de nuit (publiĂ© en 1931) et Terre des hommes (paru en 1939, rĂ©compensĂ© du Grand prix du roman de l'AcadĂ©mie française). Il s'engage pour la France lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, s'exilant Ă New York aprĂšs l'armistice de juin 1940. Il participe Ă diverses missions de reconnaissance au service de la RĂ©sistance, et c'est durant l'une de ces missions, en juillet 1944, qu'il disparaĂźt. Bien que son avion ait Ă©tĂ© retrouvĂ©, son corps n'a jamais pu ĂȘtre identifiĂ© avec certitude. Son Ćuvre, son action et son sort lui valent de trĂšs nombreux hommages : une rue de Lyon, ainsi que l'aĂ©roport international de la ville, portent ainsi son nom.
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Australian Federal Election 2001: Pranksters follow around Prime Ministerial contender Kim Beazley in an attempt to sneak fake microphones into news footage
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Bisan's recent post. I think it's important for you to read it. Tonight 03.12.23, journalists in gaza share their last messages. There are no words to describe the horrors unfolding in gaza right now.
I no longer have any hope of survival like I had at the beginning of this genocide, and I am certain that I will die in the next few weeks or maybe days. I have been sick with severe viral infection for days and cannot move from the mattress!
I suffer from nightmares that are so closely resemble reality that I no longer differentiate between reality and dream.
I live in a world other than the one I claimed to be building! I am a community activist who lived on the fantasy that the world was free and just, and I sought to bring rights not only to my people, but to many men and women in third world countries!
I was shocked that I was not from the third world! Indeed, we are the most humane and moral! Yes, because the world approves, supports, and finances the genocide we are being subjected to, legislates it, and gives reasons for for 58 days! While we are a people who have been living on occupied land for 75 years and are still searching for our rights and communicating our voice to the world!
My message to the world: You are not innocent of what is happening to us, you as governments or peoples that support Israelâs annihilation of my people. We will not forgive you, we will not forgive you, humanity will not forgive you, we will not forget, even if we die, the history will never forget .
A Message to friends: Thank you and the supporters around the world. You have been compassionate and very strong. We ask you not to lose hope, even if the world seems completely unfair and your efforts have not yet resulted in a ceasefire.
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Echo and the Bunnymen, The Killing Moon, Live (no date)
Malgré le talent de Thom Yorke (le génie du groupe est pour moi Johnny Greenwood), il faut dire que Creep est pompé sur Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay d'Ottis Redding et Sea of Love de Phil Phillips, et que My Iron Lung est pompé sur The Killing Moon.
Cherchez les partitions et vous verrez...
Basile Pesso, 15 avril 2 024 (Fb avec le live)
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Ankara: La cour criminelle valide la mise en accusation de onze journalistes kurdes
En mai, sâouvrira Ă Ankara le procĂšs contre onze journalistes qui encourent jusquâĂ 15 ans de prison pour avoir travaillĂ© au sein de divers mĂ©dias kurdes. Un procĂšs qui figure lâĂ©tat de la libertĂ© de la presse en Turquie.
La Cour criminelle dâAnkara a jugĂ© recevable lâacte dâaccusation contre onze journalistes kurdes poursuivis en raison de leurs activitĂ©s au sein de diffĂ©rents organes deâŠ
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Les oubliés de la carte de presse
Photojournalistes et rĂ©alisateurs de documentaire font face Ă des difficultĂ©s dâaccĂšs Ă la carte de presse. Un phĂ©nomĂšne conjoncturel pour les premiers, structurel pour les seconds.
Rodolphe Peté, à gauche, et Kathleen Grosset, au pupitre, exposent les données relatives à la carte de presse. En 2023, 34 051 journalistes étaient titulaires du sésame. Photo Aurélian Marre
Symbole dâappartenance Ă âŠ
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