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Book Review: Birds of Thailand
AC / DC - If You Want Blood You’ve Got It by Mott the Dog 5 Star Rating - ***** The ultimate live ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ album - bar none, no arguments. This album is like a big, everlasting bone that should be gnawed at in a frenzy, then buried and dug up every time there’s a party or the pack are going out. This is heavy rock as it’s supposed to sound, loud, dangerous, tongue in cheek, and right in your face. The opening guitar damage of “Riff Raff” comes straight out your speakers, dragging you round the walls like a sledgehammer with claws. “If you want blood” captures AC / DC in their rebellious prime. Angus Young rushing round the stage like an electrocuted school kid with it all to prove. The school boy image sometimes hides the fact that Angus is one of the finest Rock ‘n’ Roll guitarists to hit the boards, you can almost hear him moon the audience in “Bad Boy Boogie”. The late, great Bon Scott tells stories as only he could, leaving nothing to the imagination, even in the song titles. Try “The Jack” or “Whole Lotta Rosie”. The rhythm section of Angus’s elder brother, “Malcolm”, the absurdly hard rockin “Cliff Williams” & old Thundersticks himself, “Phil Rudd” don’t let up for a second and you don’t want them too either. What makes this mongrel’s hair stand on end is halfway through “Problem Child”, Angus turns it up to eleven and sends the crowd onto another plain of ecstasy. By the final conclusion of “The Rocker”, you look round and your air guitar is in pieces and so are you.
Track Listing 1. Riff Raff
By Poppy This is a ‘Shirley Valentine’ for you ladies out there that remember that far back and although it has subtitles it’s a very good movie. Rosalba (Licia Maglietta), an accident-prone housewife in her 40s, takes a sudden opportunity for freedom when she is accidentally left behind at a service station while on a coach holiday with her family. Virtually penniless, she finds a place to stay in a cheap, run-down hotel and makes friends with a waiter (Bruno Ganz) who serves her cold food in a restaurant. Upon seeing an advertisement for employment in a flower shop, she immediately applies for the job and when she gets it she sets about starting a new life for herself. Deciding to stay, Rosalba moves in with her new friend, the waiter. The beauty of Venice, together with her new-found freedom lead her to romance and self-discovery, while her husband hires an amateur detective to track her down. However, her idyllic existence in Venice lasts only a short time before she is drawn back to her family loyalties. Already a great hit in its native Italy, “Bread and Tulips” is a charming film and set in a beautiful Venetian setting. The film was a resounding success at this year’s Regus London Film Festival, where it played to packed audiences. Definitely a “chick flick.” Directed by Silvio Soldini Cast: Licia Maglietta as Rosalba Barletta
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is a hardcover book, as befits a reference volume, and whilst it mentions
that there are over 900 species of birds in Thailand, the book covers 123
in detail. The book begins, however, with an introduction to Thailand and
its various geographical regions, called “zoogeographical” regions
which encompass different habitats for the avian societies.
Mott’s CD review:
This album was recorded in 1978. A year later Bon Scott
left us and AC / DC were never the same. Good yes, this good never. If you
haven’t got an AC / DC album, get this, forget the rest.
