Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if you look at it right
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Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if you look at it right
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First US molten salt reactor in over 50 years to be built (www.businessinsider.com)
One study suggested that the reactors could produce more nuclear waste than current systems and that they “will use highly corrosive and pyrophoric fuels and coolants that, following irradiation, will become highly radioactive.”
What is your best story when you were in a foreign country? (kbin.social)
It can be anything: Scary, funny, confusing or embarrassing. What happened that stands out most in your mind?
Quebec Premier François Legault defends decision to subsidize NHL pre-season games (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
Americans of Lemmy, what is your approach to next year's election?
2020 was… truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn’t get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision...
The Eagles - Take It Easy (1972) (m.youtube.com)
Steely Dan - Do It Again (1972) (m.youtube.com)
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee (1996) (youtu.be)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 11/08/1986 (youtu.be)
After “More Than A Feeling” reached number five (1976) and “Don’t Look Back” made it to number four (1978), Boston finally scored their first and only number one single with “Amanda”.
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (1969) (m.youtube.com)
Bob Dylan - Hurricane (1976) (youtu.be)
18+ Hawkwind - Silver machine (1972) (www.youtube.com)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 11/07/1988 (youtu.be)
After using his guitar in court to show a jury how several hit songs have contained the same short series of notes, John Fogerty was found not guilty of plagiarizing his own record, “Run Through the Jungle” when he wrote “The Old Man Down The Road”. His former record label, Fantasy Records, had brought about the suit...
The Kinks - Father Christmas (1977) (youtu.be)
UB40 - The Way You Do the Things You Do (1989) (m.youtube.com)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 11/06/1965 (youtu.be)
After the success of “Satisfaction”, The Rolling Stones top the Billboard Hot 100 for the second time with “Get Off of My Cloud”. Keith Richards would later say, “I never dug it as a record. The chorus was a nice idea, but we rushed it as the follow-up.”
Drunk Grizzlies Keep Getting Hit By Trains In Montana (cowboystatedaily.com)
Mountain - Don’t Look Around (1971) (youtu.be)
Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven (1989) (m.youtube.com)
Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun (1983) (m.youtube.com)
18+ The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (1979) (www.youtube.com)
I know purists will hate this, but much as I love Marvin Gaye, I think this is a great cover version. My GF says I’m a savage. She’s probably right....
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 11/05/1970 (youtu.be)
Atlantic Records releases Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song”. It would rise to #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and be ranked at #18 on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time” list in March, 2023. Although it made the Top Ten in eight other countries, the song did not chart in the UK.
David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (youtu.be)
James Gang - Ashes the Rain and I (1970) (youtu.be)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 11/04/1989
Elton John became only the third artist in history to put 50 hit records on the UK charts. His first was “Your Song” in 1971 and the fiftieth was “Sacrifice”. The first two artists with 50 hits were Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard.
Steely Dan - Dirty Work (1972) (m.youtube.com)
The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream (1967) (youtu.be)
Nancy Wilson demonstrates the intro to Crazy on You (youtu.be)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 11/03/1967 (youtu.be)
Pink Floyd make their US debut at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The tour will come to an early end when Syd Barrett displays increasingly strange behavior, refusing to lip sync to “Arnold Layne” on American Bandstand and refusing to answer questions on The Pat Boone Show.
Taj Mahal - Leaving Trunk (1967) (m.youtube.com)
Buffalo Springfield - Mr. Soul (1967) (m.youtube.com)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 11/02/1973 (youtube.com)
Apple Records releases Ringo Starr’s third album, “Ringo”. Featuring the singles, “Photograph”, (US #1, UK #8), “You’re Sixteen” (US #1, UK #4), “Oh My My” (US #5) and “It Don’t Come Easy” (US #4, UK #4), the LP would reach #1 in Canada, #7 in the UK, and #2 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Judge indicates she may delay Trump trial on charges he hid classified documents at Mar-a-Lago (apnews.com)
A federal judge in Florida indicated Wednesday that she may delay the start of the classified documents trial of Donald Trump, pointing to the other criminal cases the former president is facing as well as the mounds of evidence his attorneys need to review....
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 11/01/1894
WE’RE GOING WAAAAAAY BACK TODAY:...
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London (1978) (m.youtube.com)
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon (1983) (m.youtube.com)
Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare (1975) (youtu.be)
Desmond Dekker and The Aces - "Israelites" (1968) (www.youtube.com)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 10/31/1975 (youtu.be)
Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was released as a single. It would stay on the chart for seventeen weeks, nine of them at number one and would eventually go Platinum. The song would be re-released in December, 1991 after being featured in the movie Wayne’s World and became a hit all over again.
Donovan - Season Of The Witch (1966) (m.youtube.com)
Ramones - Pet Sematary (1986) (m.youtube.com)
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980) (m.youtube.com)
Harry Belafonte - Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) (1956) (m.youtube.com)
Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers - Monster Mash (1962) (m.youtube.com)
Idiocracy is a lame movie and not as deep as redditors and lemmites makes it out to be. (lemmy.world)
It’s basically a comedy with the subtlety of a guy repeatedly screaming “I am beating you with a sledgehammer” as he hits you with a sledgehammer....