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Pink Floyd – PULSE concert

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Pendant cette période de confinement, Pink Floyd offre gratuitement des concerts complets pour les fans. pendant le confinement.

Jusqu’à récemment, le groupe diffusait des extraits de chansons individuelles sur YouTube, mais avec le Royaume-Uni confronté à trois semaines supplémentaires de confinement pendant la pandémie de Covid-19, et la plupart des autres pays du monde connaissant des restrictions à des degrés divers, le groupe a décidé de passer à des concerts complets.

Voici la version restaurée et rééditée des masters originaux en 2019 de Pulse, filmé live le 20 Octobre 1994 à l’Earls Court de Londres:

L’édition de Pulse d’hier soir est tirée du coffret Later Years, qui est sorti l’année dernière et qui a été réédité.

Enjoy!

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Family in Death of a Salesman: Love, Conflict and Inheritance

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  1. Death of a Salesman: Introduction, Context, Plot and Themes
  2. Death of a Salesman: Structure, Memory and Time
  3. Is Death of a Salesman a Tragedy or a Social Drama?
  4. Family in Death of a Salesman: Love, Conflict and Inheritance

In Death of a Salesman, the family is both a refuge and a source of destruction. Arthur Miller shows how love, ambition, guilt and self-deception pass from one generation to the next. The tragedy of the Lomans begins when family affection becomes inseparable from professional success.

Why is family central to Death of a Salesman?

Arthur Miller places the Loman family at the centre of Death of a Salesman. However, the play is not simply a domestic drama about an unhappy father and his disappointed sons.

The family becomes a small-scale version of American society. Inside the Loman home, characters reproduce the same values that govern the business world: competition, popularity, financial success and fear of failure.

In his essay The Family in Modern Drama, Miller asks how a person may “make of the outside world a home”. The question defines Willy Loman’s deepest ambition.

Willy wants the impersonal world of commerce to behave like a loving family. He imagines that personal charm can transform customers into friends and employers into protective fathers.

At the same time, he brings commercial values into his own home. He evaluates Biff and Happy as if they were products whose value depended upon their marketability.

Consequently, the distinction between home and workplace collapses. Willy cannot create a home in the outside world because he has allowed the outside world to colonise his family.

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Eddy B and Tim Gunter – Underdog

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A young nigga with a dollar and a dream
And these Nikes on my feet, tryna stay up out the streets
So I’m rhyming pulling 187s all on these beats
Stead of on the concrete
Cemeting my future while they were focused on what they chief
But shit, I’m like a chief, head honcho
Tell me that it’s impossible I’ll get it to you pronto
Been workin’ all these late nights and these early mornings like Alonzo
So one day they’ll be callin’ me great, just call me Gonzo
But, I’m never actin’ nor is anybody pulling strings
Everything I have came from sacrificing everything
I traded workin’ 9 to 5 for the minimum
For workin non-stop so my life be like a cinema screen
But in the end I wouldn’t have it any other way
Got on my knees and for this rap to work is what I prayed
And now it’s happening, crunchin’ numbers like captain
A serial (cereal) killer compelling listeners with this passion for words
Never actin, my verbs were truly fashioned to serve
Not only masses but curbs, not just the hood, but the burbs
Know you hear it everytime I grace the mic, then I give it to God
Feeling blinded by the lights, and it’s on!

Hook:

Let me see you put ’em up
Reach the sky, touch the stars up above
Cause it’s, one time for the underdog
One time for the underdog

You got the world on your team
Even if that ain’t what it seems
It’s one time for the underdog
One time for the underdog

A 20 year old dreamin’ of whippin’ Monte Carlo’s
And gold jewlery lookin’ like I cam from El Dorado
Pick up the pen and pad, stead of spittin gin and vag
I’m paintin’ pictures with my words, just call me young picasso
These haters only gas me up and then I mash the throttle
Binge drinkers think its safe to say should drop the bottle
Cause what I’m spittin’ is proof, and truth is hard to swallow
When rappers losin’ they heads, that’s word to sleepy hollow
Nowadays they tryna flex, Johnny Bravo
And I’ll be Rocky in the second fight against Apollo
Underdog, but you see, I won the war
Askin me if I can spit is askin’ me to raise the bar
I been in this place before, matter fact most of my life
They told me I would fail, die before I prove ’em right
Pennin’ verses on my lunch bag, now I’m doin shows
Lady luck blew me a kiss, now I’m a prince, never a toad
Bet your bottom, I’m the greatest, that’s on everything I own
And though it isn’t much, I want the world like Al Capone
I’m coming for the glory, this a sermon to the masses
The kid you shitted on is telling you to wipe his ass

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