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analogskullerosis · 2 years

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32) Favorite song from the 1960’s

33) Favorite song from the 1970’s

34) Favorite song from the 1980’s

"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears For Fears. I've heard it a million times and I will hear it a million more before I get sick of it.

The runner-up is "Take Me Home" by Phil Collins

35) Favorite song from the 1990’s

"Star Sign" by Teenage Fanclub

36) Favorite song from the 2000’s

"Stay Together For the Kids" by blink-182

This is one of their best songs. I think this was the point where they fully matured as songwriters. The switch from Mark Hoppus' calmly delivered yet depressed vocals in the verses to Tom's anger in the chorus is just incredible.

37) Favorite song from the 2010’s

"I Feel It Coming" by The Weeknd

The last thing Daft Punk was a part of before their retirement. This rules. I've loved this (and "Starboy") since it's release.

The runner-up is "Moving to Mars" by Coldplay. I enjoy songs about space.

49) Favorite album from the 1960’s

The Beatles (White Album) by The Beatles

I've been listening to this since I was a kid and I've always been mesmerized by how this album is both cohesive and a complete mess at the same time. Fleetwood Mac's Tusk is the only album I can think of that ever recreated the feel of this whole album.

Favorite tracks: "Back in the U.S.S.R", "Dear Prudence", "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da", "Happiness is a Warm Gun", "Rocky Raccoon", "Helter Skelter", "Honey Pie", "Good Night".

50) Favorite album from the 1970’s

Out of the Blue by Electric Light Orchestra

I adore this album cover so much. And I think Jeff Lynne is a musical genius who really captured what made pop music fantastic during the second half of the seventies.

Favorite tracks: "Turn to Stone", "Sweet Talkin' Woman", "Starlight", "Steppin' Out", "Summer and Lightning", "Sweet Is the Night", "The Whale"

51) Favorite album from the 1980’s

Rio by Duran Duran

Happy 40th to the album that kickstarted the 80's everybody loves (and overromanticizes)

This and Thriller are the two albums that are responsible for the 80s. 1980 and '81 are this weird time period where there's a lot of odd stuff being big. "Babe" by Styx, "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" by Pink Floyd, "Call Me" by Blondie, and "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc. were all hits in the same year. MTV hits the airwaves on August 1st, 1981, but it takes time for it to become the media powerhouse it becomes for the rest of the decade. You see a lot of classic rock bands like the Rolling Stones, Journey, Foreigner, and REO Speedwagon kind of understand how music video works, but not really. I don't think it's until Duran Duran makes this album and it's subsequent music videos for its singles that the 80s as we now know it really starts. Everybody looks to Thriller as the album and video that changed everything, and it did, but I also think this played a big part in it.

The video for "Hungry Like the Wolf" was cinematic in a way that nothing else was at the time. This was made like a short film while most videos of the era were just mimed performances on a stage set to a song.

In short, the entire Rio album fucks really hard and I'll never stop praising it. 40 years later this shit still rules.

Favorite tracks: "Rio", "Lonely In Your Nightmare", "Hungry Like the Wolf", "Hold Back the Rain", "Last Chance on the Stairway", "The Chauffeur"

52) Favorite album from the 1990’s

The Division Bell by Pink Floyd

I've always really loved the album's main concept of communication. I like the way its explored and I think if you want to experience the best of the David GIlmour-led Floyd years, this is the best.

Favorite tracks: "What Do You Want From Me", "Poles Apart", "Marooned", "Coming Back to Life", "Keep Talking", "Lost For Words", "High Hopes"

53) Favorite album from the 2000’s

I don't have one. :\ I don't really listen to a lot of 2000s music so I don't really have an answer for you for this one...

54) Favorite album from the 2010’s

The Desaturating Seven by Primus

Primus made the greatest prog rock album about an Italian fairy tale for children. That is all. Super worth your time if you're into things that sound like Rush, King Crimson, or Pink Floyd.

Sorry for the delay! Hope I gave some good answers! Thanks for submitting! :)

From this post. Feel free to submit a number if you'd like. :)

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sylviatoyindustries · 5 years

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LA MIA VITA? LIKE A FILM! from Marco Coraggio on Vimeo.

LA MIA VITA? LIKE A FILM! / my life? come un film!

REGIA DI / directed by MARCO CORAGGIO

SINOSSI: SONO PASSATI CIRCA 60 ANNI DA QUANDO, PER LA PRIMA VOLTA, UNA CELLULA DEL MIO ORGANISMO HA FATTO CAPOLINO METTENDO PIEDE SU QUESTO PIANETA. DA QUEL MOMENTO SONO SUCCESSE MOLTE COSE CHE HO VISSUTO COME IN UN SINGOLO LUNGOMETRAGGIO. IL GRANDE FILM DELLA MIA VITA, CHE ANCORA OGGI CONTINUA, CHISSÀ PER QUANTO ANCORA... / synopsis: about 60 years have passed since, for the first time, a cell of my organism popped up and set foot on this planet. from that moment many things happened that i experienced as in a single feature film. the great film of my life, which still continues today, who knows for how long...

"A MIO PADRE E MIA MADRE A CUI, RISPETTIVAMENTE, SONO DEDICATI GLI INTERI ANNI 1985 E 2010" / to my father and my mother to whom, respectively, the entire years 1985 and 2010 are dedicated"

CONCEPT & MONTAGGIO AUDIO-VIDEO DI / concept & audio-video editing by MARCO CORAGGIO

COLONNA SONORA ANNO PER ANNO, REALIZZATA CON POCHI SECONDI INIZIALI DI OGNI SEGUENTE BRANO: / soundtrack year by year, created with a few initial seconds of each following piece:

© 1959 Fred Buscaglione _ Che Notte © 1960 Etta James _ I Just Want To Make Love To You © 1961 Ray Charles _ Hit The Road Jack © 1962 Ben E King _ Stand By Me © 1963 Mina _ Città vuota © 1964 The Beatles _ Twist and Shout © 1965 The Rolling Stones _ Satisfaction © 1966 James Brown _ Papa's Got A Brand New Bag © 1967 Aretha Franklin _ Respect © 1968 Jimi Hendrix _ All Along The Watchtower © 1969 Renn Woods _ Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In (Hair version) © 1970 Lou Reed _ Sweet Jane © 1971 The Doors _ Riders On The Storm © 1972 Deep Purple _ Smoke on the water © 1973 Carl Anderson _ Heaven on their Minds (Jesus Christ Superstar) © 1974 David Bowie _ Rebel Rebel © 1975 Aerosmith _ Walk this Way © 1976 Bob Dylan _ Hurricane © 1977 Ian Dury _ Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll © 1978 Bob Marley _ Jammin © 1979 Pink Floyd _ Another Brick in the wall © 1980 The Blues Brothers _ Everybody Needs Somebody to Love © 1981 Pino Daniele _ Yes I Know My Way © 1982 Michael Jackson _ Billie Jean © 1983 The Police _ Every Breath You Take © 1984 Bruce Springsteen _ Born in the USA © 1985 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart _ Messa da Requiem in Re minore K 626 © 1986 Peter Gabriel _ Sledgehammer © 1987 U2 _ With Or Without You © 1988 Bobby McFerrin _ Don't Worry Be Happy © 1989 Snap _ The Power © 1990 Prince _ Kiss © 1991 Nirvana _ Smells Like teen spirit © 1992 Miles Davis _ High Speed Chase © 1993 Guru _ Transit Ride © 1994 Björk _ Big time sensuality © 1995 Oasis _ Wonderwall © 1996 Eric Clapton _ Change The World © 1997 The Verve _ Bitter Sweet Symphony © 1998 Lenny Kravitz _ Fly Away © 1999 Moby _ Porcelain © 2000 Beyonce ft. JAY Z _ Crazy In Love © 2001 Manu Chao _ Me Gustas Tu © 2002 The Roots _ The Seed (2.0) © 2003 Jet _ Are You Gonna Be My Girl © 2004 Talking Heads _ Life During Wartime © 2005 Jason Mraz _ I'm Yours © 2006 Red Hot Chili Peppers _ Dani California © 2007 Roy Pace _ Toda Joia Toda Beleza © 2008 Coldplay _ Viva la Vida © 2009 The Black Eyed Peas _ I Gotta Feeling © 2010 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart _ Messa da Requiem in Re minore K 626 © 2011 Bruno Mars _ The Lazy Song © 2012 The Lumineers _ Ho Hey © 2013 Pharrell Williams _ Happy © 2014 Leonard Cohen _ Nevermind © 2015 Rihanna, Kanye West, Paul McCartney _ FourFiveSeconds © 2016 Kungs vs Cookin' On 3 Burners _ This Girl © 2017 Ed Sheeran _ Shape of You © 2018 Empress Of _ When I'm With Him © 2019 Billie Eilish _ Bad Guy

PRODOTTO A / Produced in SALERNO, ITALIA

CREATO NON A SCOPO DI LUCRO CON MATERIALI TROVATI DI PUBBLICO DOMINIO O RILASCIATI SOTTO LICENZA CC0 / Created NOT FOR PROFIT purposes with materials found in the public domain or released under CC0

TUTTI I DIRITTI, OGNUNO PER IL RISPETTIVO AUTORE, SONO RISERVATI / All rights, each one for the respective author, are reserved

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currinsaviation · 4 years

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A History Of America’s Failed Airlines

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When people think of American’s failed airlines, they tend to focus on the big names – TWA, Pan Am, Eastern, and Continental. But there are hundreds of American airlines out there that have failed. We can’t cover them all, but in this article, we look at five American airlines and why they failed. Some you would have heard of, others, maybe not.

America has a long history of failed airlines. Photo: Aero Icarus via Flickr

Bricks in the mail and $60 tickets

One of the pioneers of commercial aviation in America was Florida Airways. It buzzed around the southeast of the United States in the 1920s. Its first paying passenger service was in 1926 when Florida Airways flew from Tampa to Jacksonville via Miami. A ticket on that flight cost $60. Nearly one hundred years later, you can probably find a Frontier flight for less.

Of course, $60 was an enormous amount of money in 1926. Florida Airways flew just 939 passengers in its first year of flights, using two Stout 2-ATs. The airline tried to underwrite its operations flying freight and mail. They picked up an airmail contract from the US Government, flying mail between Miami and Atlanta.

A Stout 2-AT, the type used by Florida Airways. Photo: National Photo Company Collection via Wikimedia Commons

The story goes that Florida Airways beefed-up its government payments by parceling up bricks and mailing them back and forth. But even those dodgy dealings weren’t enough to save Florida Airways. By 1927, the airline was insolvent. The two aircraft were sold to a company called Stout Air Services, which eventually became United Airlines.

The ill-fated CIA owned and operated airline

One well known and well-named failed airline was Air America. It was a passenger and cargo airline owned and operated by the CIA. The airline ran between 1946 and 1976 with the slogan “Anything, Anywhere, Anytime, Professionally.” Although the airline purportedly operated as a passenger airline, its core business was running freight, personnel, and interference to countries the CIA had interests in.

That meant Air America’s very mixed fleet of mostly turboprop aircraft spent a lot of time in southeast and north Asia. Air America’s planes loitered around Vietnam, Laos, China, Cambodia, Taiwan, Burma, and Japan. It was Air America’s involvement in the disastrous Vietnam War and rumored involvement in drug running into Laos that was its undoing.

An Air America C-46 evacuating people from Da Nang. Photo: Manhhai via Flickr

The Civil Aviation Board canceled the airline’s operating license in 1974, and the business ceased two years later. Most of Air America’s assets went to Evergreen International Airlines.

Ten years later, Total Air bought the Air America name and launched Lockheed L-1011 Tristar flights between Baltimore, Detroit, London, Los Angeles, and Honolulu. These services were relatively shortlived, and the airline name hasn’t been used since.

New Iberia’s Gulf Air Transport

Readers with long memories may recall Gulf Air Transport. It was a charter airline that operated from 1979 to 1990 out of New Iberia, Louisiana. Ultimately, the airline went bankrupt, but in those eleven years, Gulf Air accumulated a mixed fleet of 20 plus aircraft, including a dozen Boeing 727s.

Gulf Air Transport got its start in 1979 by buying Music City’s FAA operating certificate and their sole aircraft, a Convair 340. The fledgling airline initially focused on supporting the gas and oil industry. Eventually, as the airline added aircraft and operations expanded, Gulf Air started flying resource and gambling charters out to California.

A Gulf Air Transport DC 8-63 operating as TransOcean Airways in 1988. Photo: Pedro Aragao via Wikimedia Commons

In 1984, Gulf Air picked up its first jet from Pan Am. That allowed the airline to upscale its ambitions significantly. It began flying college and sports charters and developed a handy niche operating gambling junkets.

By the mid-1980s, Gulf Air Transport was flying internationally, including to Europe. It changed its name to TransOcean Airways to avoid confusion with Bahrain’s Gulf Air. But this expansion, along with problematic new DC-8 jetliners and a general economic downturn in the mid-1980s saw the airline hit financial turbulence.

Gulf Air Transport / TransOcean Airways entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1989 and ceased operations the following year.

This airline was a building block of the modern Delta Air Lines

Another airline that had a good run was Northeast Airlines. The Boston based airline flew between 1931 and 1972. Northeast began as a contract carrier for Pan Am, flying between Boston and Bangor via Portland. Initially, the small airline was called Boston Maine Airways. But it changed its name to Northeast Airlines in 1940 when WWII increased its financial fortunes, and the airline worked flying troops across the Atlantic for the US Army.

After the war, Northeast steadily moved into passenger operations and was an early mover into jet aircraft, flying a Boeing 707-331 between New York and Miami in 1959. In 1962, Howard Hughes got control of the airline, albeit only temporarily. Throughout the 1960s, Northeast aggressively expanded both its fleet and its destinations, flying as far afield as Canada, Bermuda, the Bahamas, and the US West Coast.

Northeast Airlines. Photo: Ken Fielding via Wikimedia Commons

But these weren’t prosperous times for Northeast Airlines. By the 1970s, the airline was in play and became entangled in the grand American cycle of airline mergers, takeovers, and consolidations. Northwest Airlines initially courted the airline but terminated its negotiations in 1971. A year later, Delta Air Lines came calling. In August 1972, Northeast Airlines was merged with Delta. It spelled the end of the Northeast Airlines brand.

The colossus of the skies that went broke

While this article has deliberately looked at some of the lesser-known airlines, it would be remiss not to include some of the big names in American flying. There were few bigger than Pan American World Airways, also known as Pan Am.

Pan Am flew between 1927 and 1991 and was one of the world’s great airlines. In the same way that BA represents Britain and Lufthansa symbolizes Germany, Pan Am took America to the world and brought the world to America.

Like Florida Airways, Pan Am started flying mail and passengers around Florida. Unlike Florida Airways, Pan Am thrived. By WWII, Pan Am was operating Sikorsky S-38 flying boats, better known as the Clippers. These planes crossed both the Atlantic and the Pacific.

Pan American World Airways Boeing 314 Yankee Clipper, circa 1939. Photo: Harris & Ewing via Wikimedia Commons

Pan Am had many firsts. The airline was the first to operate regular flights across the Atlantic, the first to run around the world flights, and was the launch customer for both the Boeing 707 and 747.

The airline took about 40 years to peak and around 20 years to decline. The 1973 oil crisis hit Pan Am hard, and a variety of ill-fated strategic decisions and competitive pressures saw the once-mighty airline begin to struggle.

In 1991, Pan Am went bankrupt, and a colossus of aviation flew its last flight from Barbados to Miami on December 4, 1991.

America was a nursery for commercial aviation. With experimentation comes failure. While few countries have as many failed airlines as America, few countries have contributed so much to aviation and had such success. Contemporary carriers like United and Delta are built on the back of many of these failed airlines. That’s something to keep in mind next time you fly.

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