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The UK Singles Chart used to mean something. Now, not so much. But before the age of streaming, a number one single was an achievement to be proud of. Especially when the artist wasn't your stereotypical pop act. Many influential acts never even touched the chart's apex, not even close. But yet Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" The Clash, "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" by Arctic Monkeys and "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" by Manic Street Preachers have taken the top spot, and as rock's opposition to the status quo there's a sense of accomplishment in the face of impossible odds. But rarely if ever has a number one single captured a moment in history as concisely as The Specials did in 1981. While tracks like "One Step Beyond" by Madness, "On My Radio" by The Selecter and even "Gangsters" or "Too Much Too Young" existed within the two tone genre, "Ghost Town" remains the most important. The band's legacy is audible in artists as diverse as Massive Attack, The Streets, Operation Ivy and Lily Allen, but with their second number one single the Specials managed to capture the malaise of the British public, the strain of unemployment and the tensions of cultural unrest. This is New British Canon and this is the Story of “Ghost Town”.
#TheSpecials #Ska #Documentary
Soundtrack:
Luar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
sleepy fish - Through Walls (chillhop.bandcamp.com/album/my-room-becomes-the-sea)
Bellhop - Patricia Taxxon (patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/)
Funeral - Patricia Taxxon (patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/)
sleepy fish - Procrastinating (chillhop.bandcamp.com/album/my-room-becomes-the-sea)
B-Side - Pen Anubis (soundcloud.com/b-side-production)
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The UK Singles Chart used to mean something. Now, not so much. But before the age of streaming, a number one single was an achievement to be proud of. Especially when the artist wasn't your stereotypical pop act. Many influential acts never even touched the chart's apex, not even close. But yet Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" The Clash, "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" by Arctic Monkeys and "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" by Manic Street Preachers have taken the top spot, and as rock's opposition to the status quo there's a sense of accomplishment in the face of impossible odds. But rarely if ever has a number one single captured a moment in history as concisely as The Specials did in 1981. While tracks like "One Step Beyond" by Madness, "On My Radio" by The Selecter and even "Gangsters" or "Too Much Too Young" existed within the two tone genre, "Ghost Town" remains the most important. The band's legacy is audible in artists as diverse as Massive Attack, The Streets, Operation Ivy and Lily Allen, but with their second number one single the Specials managed to capture the malaise of the British public, the strain of unemployment and the tensions of cultural unrest. This is New British Canon and this is the Story of “Ghost Town”.
#TheSpecials #Ska #Documentary
Soundtrack:
Luar - Anchor (soundcloud.com/luarbeats)
sleepy fish - Through Walls (chillhop.bandcamp.com/album/my-room-becomes-the-sea)
Bellhop - Patricia Taxxon (patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/)
Funeral - Patricia Taxxon (patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/)
sleepy fish - Procrastinating (chillhop.bandcamp.com/album/my-room-becomes-the-sea)
B-Side - Pen Anubis (soundcloud.com/b-side-production)
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![Beauty and The Beast - Dealing with Adolescence 101 [Lessons Animation Taught Us]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r-8a7CuUORs/mqdefault.jpg "Beauty and The Beast - Dealing with Adolescence 101 [Lessons Animation Taught Us]
This video will be a slightly different format than usual. Blame Movies with Mikey and his Lessons Animation Taught Us series for that.
Animation teaches a lot. For many animation is a childs first introduction to cinema and teaches them key concepts that they will encounter throughout life. You learn a lot from the media you consume as a small child, and whether your lessons are beneficial or ruinous is based on what you are watching and what you can take from them. As such today, I will be talking about Beauty and the Beast and what my tiny self took from this film.
A lot of pre-Beast Disney perpetuates this idea that for every girl, one day their prince will come to save them. Whether they are Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or The Little Mermaid, theres very little in the way of agency from the protagonists point of view. Beauty and the Beast flips this idea, so that Belle is saving the Beast. “Shes the one to break the spell”. But heres the thing, I was about five when I first watched this. I didnt get the fairytale script flipping because I had no previous frame of reference, I just absorbed the “love will triumph over all” concept and kept that as a standard to live by for way too long.
Soundtrack:
The Prologue Piano Instrumental Cover - Jason Frisk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4NgiSCu7XY
Beauty and the Beast Piano Instrumental Cover - Jason Frisk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTHqbP4F3jA
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