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(born Emanuel Swedberg; January 29, 1688 – March 29, 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic and theologian. Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. In 1741 at the age of fifty-three he entered into a spiritual phase [http://www.swedenborg.com/page.asp?page_name=aboutswedenborgexpanded] in which he eventually began to experience dreams and visions beginning on Easter weekend April 6, 1744. This culminated in a spiritual awakening, where he claimed he was appointed by the Lord to write a heavenly doctrine to reform Christianity. He claimed that the Lord had opened his eyes, so that from then on he could freely visit heaven and hell, and talk with angels, demons and other spirits. For the remaining 28 years of his life, he wrote and published 18 theological works, of which the best known was Heaven and Hell (1758), and several unpublished theological works.
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John Anthony Ciardi (CHAR-dee) (June 24, 1916 - March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. While primarily known as a poet, he also translated Dante's Divine Comedy, wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, and directed the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont. In 1959, Ciardi published a book on how to read, write, and teach poetry, How Does a Poem Mean?, which has proven to be among the most-used books of its kind. At the peak of his popularity in the early 1960s, Ciardi also had a network television program on CBS, Accent. Ciardi's impact on poetry is perhaps best measured through the younger poets whom he influenced as a teacher and as editor of The Saturday Review.
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I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009)
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- Attak
- Pharoahe Monch
- Doubledrive
- Squirrel Nut Zippers
- Foo Fighters
- Bloodshed
- Disturbed
- Elton John
- Canibus
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- ApologetiX
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karaoke
You lock me up, put me in a cell
Make my life some kind of hell
You beat me up nearly every time
You shout hey boy keep in line
You boys in blue you make me sick
You knock me down with your riot stick
You pick me up, take me away
Follow for now, for no formidable fights
I've been formed to forget
For Pharaoh fucks familiar foes first
Befo' fondlin' female MC's fiercely
Focus upon the facts
That facts can be fabricated to form lies
My phonetics alone forces feeble
MC's into defense on the fly
Feel me, for real-a
Let's get the skrilla's out the hands of these gorillas
Make the whole world feel us
From the crack to the cap peelers
To the niggaz in the back
Shootin' craps with the Axe-wheelers
Relax till it's, time for the immaculate miraculous
Thirteen, oow, the illest!
To all my niggaz who been shitted on, let's get it on
Think I'm gonna let it hang, and sit it on
The desk of any redneck record exec
I strike 'em wit' the right hand, send 'em a step
And this is
(Hell!)
This is
(Hell!)
This is
(Hell!)
This is
(Hell!)
This is
(Hell!)
This is
(Hell!)
This is
(Hell!)
This is
(Hell!)
This is
(Hell!)
This is Hell, incest kids under pressure
In the corner clutchin' they genitals by the dresser
A hundred CC's of the uncut cleanest
In the vein, twenty-four hours of intravenous
To the left, we have right wing extremists
On a screen a man exposes his breasts with no penis
Martinez, probably
Just as raw as Lady Saw Esocidae
This is
(Hell!)
This is
(Hell!)
This is
(Hell!)
This is
(Hell!)
This is
(Hell!)
This is
(Hell!)
This is
(Hell!)
This is
(Hell!)
This is
(Hell!)
This is, this is, this is, this is
This is, this is, this is, this is
Yo, yo, I feel like I'm one of the livest
One of hip hop's finest, elite rhymers and I plan to graduate wit honors
But one day we'll all be a bunch of old-timers wit Alzheimer's
Lookin' at our label's roster wonderin' how the fuck they forgot us
After we done recorded dozens of albums
And made 'em hundreds of thousands of dollars, they still dropped us
We givin' niggaz what the fuck they want
A holocaust, stompin' niggaz with a thousand man march
I ain't livin' in hell, hell's livin' in me
That's why, I'm always screamin' on you fuckin' MC's
The shit that I quote, float wit the buoyancy of a boat
With the potency of a scorpion sting to the throat
Overdose that's extremely fatal
Doctors in white lab coats scramble for an antidote to save you
You can't breathe, your chest feels painful
Your skin color's goin' from dark brown to beige-blue
Your whole room's full of angels
All in your ear tryin' to tell you which God you should pray to
You pray to Jesus, but He don't wanna save you
'Cuz you unfaithful, so He gives you to Azazel
You're paralyzed on the operatin' table
Prayin' for Cannibals to slice you from head to navel
You banned from TV, banned from CD's
Tis the coming of the calm before the storm
Is it in the nick of time are we already out of line
I think its time we got ready€.
And did you crucify yourself show resistance or beg for some more I wanna
wish you well
I don€™t think it went so well
I wanna wish you well
A line is on your mind and your eyes aren€™t gonna close
That€™s why your hair stays so heavy
A blurry blissful swift decent
And now you wonder where you went
And did you qualify yourself crucify yourself
Lose your direction
Or go for the gold
I wanna wish you well
I didn€™t think youd come in
Thank you for coming here
Get me out as fast as you can
This aint my hell I wanted
Whos gonna want hell if ya want it ( 2 X€™s)
Would you like to gain your perspective
I couldn€™t get it anymore
I wanna wish you well
I don€™t think it went to well
I wanna wish you well
Well I didn€™t think youd come here for me
Thank you for coming here
Get me out as fast as you can
This aint my hell I wanted
Whos gonna want hell if ya want it ( 2 X€™s)
In the afterlife
You'll be headed for the serious strife
Now you make a scene all day
But tomorrow there'll be hell to pay
People listen attentively
I mean about future calamity
I used to think the idea was obsolete
Until I heard the old man stamping his feet
This is a place where eternally
Fire is applied to the body
Teeth are extruded and bones born aground
And made into cakes which are passed around
Beauty, Talent, Fame, Money, Refinement
Top skill and braaaain
But all the things you try to hide
Will be revealed on the other side
Now the D and the A and the M and the N
And the A and the T and the ION
Lose your face
Lose your name
Then get fitted for a suit of flaaame
D and the A and the M and the N
And the A and the T and the ION
Lose your face
Lose your name
This state I'm in
A place I've never been
I'm dyin' to meet you here
Come break this skin
I'll let you sink right in
And show you everythin'
See you in hell
We'll gather around the fire
And I will lead the choir
Sing farewell
See you in hell
Don't break my spell
We'll drown the wishin' well
We'll find some time to kill
I'll be right there
The buzz inside your head
The horrible electric chair
See you in hell
We'll gather around the fire
And I will lead the choir
Sing farewell
Hell!!!
The hell is a dark place
The home of the lost souls
I warn the human race
Devil chose the earth to take away
Hell,
The devil's lair
Hell,
Burn your brain
Hell,
Is where you suffer
Hell,
Well of pain!!!
Lucifer wants you
Wanna take you to that place
Fuck you, your piece of shit
I will spit in your face
Hell
The Devil's lair
Hell,
Burn your brain
Hell,
Is where you suffer
Hell,
Well of pain
The dark empire's in the surface
Save your soul, save your butt
And all that I have to say
The hell is on the earth
Hell,
The devil's lair
Hell,
Burn your brain
Hell,
Is where you suffer
Hell,
Rrwoooaaaw!
Ahh, Ahhh
Burning now I bring you Hell!
Ahh, Ahhh
Oh, burning now I bring you Hell!
Read me tonight, when the warnings said leave a shudder upon you
Running from all that you feared in your life
Soul of the night, when the sun mislead paint a horror upon you
Marking the moment, displaying in my ghost of a life!
And I can't get round the way you left me out in the open
To leave me to die!
So how can I, forget the way you lead me through the path into Heaven
To leave me behind!
Now I can't stay behind
Save me, from wreaking my vengeance
Upon you, to killing more than I can tell
Burning now I bring you Hell!
Free me tonight, as the animal kings breathe their terror upon you
Caught in the moment, engaging in my
Bloodlust tonight, now I can't control my venom's flow
Get back from me demon, or be exorcised!
All my emotion and all my integrity
All that you've taken from me
All my emotion and all my integrity
All that you've taken from me
Now I can't stay behind
Save me, from wreaking my vengeance
Upon you, to killing more than I can tell
Soul of the night, I know
Now I can't stay behind
Save me, from wreaking my vengeance
Upon you, to killing more than I can tell
Take a look around, there ain't no angels here
Just a big red moon all bloody and dirty
Coughing like a factory in the atmosphere
Take a happy face, stick it on the Middle East
There's a light switch broken
And a million fingers pointing at each other
For a minute's peace
Sweet talking baby Jane
She's a little golden ___
Looks like Cleopatra, acts like Joan Crawford
Rolling on a carpet with an ice pick in her heart
And it's all or nothing
Feel like jumping
Wear my wings, wash my emtpy hands
And I don't know all that is
Like the place where angels live
All I know is Hell is not below
See Joe Public hanging from a red-tipped noose
Trapped in a bottle, drowning with a genie
Waist deep in wishes you can never use
At the last resort the geishas spread like flies
It's the moody black cloud all bitchy and muddy
Sticking to the ceiling like Gods on the night
Rotting in a (place) since she was only five years old
Only took a second as the windows shatter
F-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-follow for now
For no formidable fights I've been formed to forget
For pharoahe fucks familiar foes first
Befo' fondlin female mc's fiercely
Focus upon the facts that facts can be fabricated to form lies
My phonetics alone forces feeble mc's into defense on the fly
Feel me, for real-a
Let's get the skrilla's out the hands of these gorillas
Make the whole world feel us
From the crack to the cap peelers
To the niggaz in the back shootin craps wit the axe-wheelers
Relax till it's, time for the immaculate miraculous
Thirteen, ooowww, the illest!!
To all my niggaz who been shitted on, let's get it on
Think I'm gonna let it hang, and sit it on
The desk of any redneck record exec
I strike em wit the right hand send em a step
And this is (hell!) this is (hell!)
This is (hell!)9x
This is hell, incest kids under pressure
In the corner clutchin they genitals by the dresser
A hundred cc's of the uncut cleanest
In the vein, twenty-four hours of intravenous
To the left, we have right wing extremists
On a screen a man exposes his breasts wit no penis
Martinez, probably
Just as raw as lady saw esocidae this is (hell!)
This is (hell!)8x
This is, this is, this is, this is
This is, this is, this is, this is
[canibus]
Yo yo I feel like I'm one of the livest
One of hip hop's finest, elite rhymers
And I plan to graduate wit honors
But one day we'll all be a bunch of old-timers wit alzheimer's
Lookin at our label's roster wonderin how the fuck they forgot us
After we done recorded dozens of albums
And made em hundreds of thousands of dollars, they still dropped us
We givin niggaz what the fuck they want
A holocaust, stompin niggaz wit a thousand man march
I ain't livin in hell, hell's livin in me
That's why I'm always screamin on you fuckin mc's
The shit that I quote, float wit the buoyancy of a boat
Wit the potency of a scorpion sting to the throat
Overdose that's extremely fatal
Doctors in white labcoats scramble for an antidote to save you
You can't breathe, your chest feels painful
Your skin color's goin from dark brown to beige-blue
Your whole room's full of angels
All in your ear tryin to tell you which God you should pray to
You pray to je-sus, but he don't wanna save you
'cause you unfaithful, so he gives you to azazel
You're paralyzed on the operatin table
Prayin for canibus to slice you from head to navel
You banned from tv, banned from cd's
Banned from dvd's and downloadable mp3s!
I have no fingertips
They were burned away from too many stove trips
Can't find no fingernails
I ate them off cause I was hungry as hell
Can't read, can't clear my mind
So here I go I've got to get into this lifetime
I think I'm gonna build a fence
To keep inside what little sense
The sense of taste
The sense of smell
The sense to sit here and feel like hell
To feel like hell
The sun, the moon, the stars
Is that what you're thinking that you are
As I'll disintegrate over time
If I expect my Body to try and keep up with my mind
Today everything's mine
Today everything's mine
Hell! I read about it
Hell! Lots of people doubt it
Hell! They'd better read some more
Hell!
When I was younger so much dumber than today
I never even read the Bible - Hell seemed far away
But I found the way to God and it's got a narrow door
But many find the way that's wide
And drop right through the floor
Hell is in the Bible many times
And I do not think it's just a state of mind
Hell will catch most people by surprise
Don't you see? Hell's real!
And now my life has changed and only by His grace
My sin dependence would have banished me to Hades
But every fire and brimstone preacher you ignore
Is only tryin' to save your life
From everlasting scorn
Tell me if you can why Jesus died
If it's true that we're all basically all right
Tell me why you feel that guilt inside
Don't you see? Hell's real!
When I was younger so much dumber than today
I didn't need no busybodies tellin' me I needed saved
But I found my way was wrong now I'm knockin' on your door
So while there's time you'll change your mind
And call upon the Lord
Hell is in the Bible many times
It's Luke 16 and Matthew 25
John verse 3:19 will tell you why
Don't you see? Hell's real!
Hell's real, Hell's real!
Matthew 25:41
Oh, I have seen the light
And all I wanted was to put it out
And I heard about peace, love and good
I felt like destroying it all, as soon as I understood.
So when offered the sacred blood of Jesus Christ
For once I spat in the cup
And for each time you prayed save him
I threw you spells, saying piss in the eye of the lamb
Holy father, I turned from you
Threw the cross into the fire
Your name I deny
May the kingdom, the power and glory be taken from thee
I close my eyes, now I dream of Hell
I've been walking for long
Through the valley of the shadow of death
Lucifer's light guiding me
On my path made of remains from people like you
I'd rather spend my eternity in a lake of fire
Than together with you
Praying sheep, stinking church rats, your empty smiles
Make me nauseous and eager to kill
Still no conscience, still no regrets after all that
I've done
'Cause I've never felt anything but contempt and scorn
For this world and mankind
A human life is worth nothing to me
I've dreamt of sulphur spheres
Where black's the lightest nuance
And I've seen you suffer there
In anguish. In tormenting void
And each night, in the rivers of all-consuming fire
And that fire remains within me wherever I walk
All my hate is but love for the Lord
My tongue's cloven like the snakes, sharp as the sword
With which the lambs shall be slaughtered
To water the soil with holy blood
Walk into me, wander beyond the grace of god
Into starless nights
Soon to enter, the kingdom of shadows in abyssal grave
In the afterlife
You could be headed for the serious strife
Now you make the scene all day
But tomorrow there'll be Hell to pay
People listen attentively
I mean about future calamity
I used to think the idea was obsolete
Until I heard the old man stamping his feet
This is a place where eternally
Fire is applied to the body
Teeth are extruded and bones are ground
And baked into cakes which are passed around
In the afterlife
You could be headed for the serious strife
Now you make the scene all day
But tomorrow there'll be Hell to pay
Beauty, talent, fame, money, refinement, job skill and brain
And all the things you try to hide
Will be revealed on the other side.
In the afterlife
You could be headed for the serious strife
Now you make the scene all day
But tomorrow there'll be Hell to pay
Now the D and A and the M and the N and the A
And the T and the I-O-N
Lose your face
Lose your name
And get fitted for a suit of flames.
Now the D and A and the M and the N and the A
And the T and the I-O-N
Lose your face
Lose your name
I look up to the sky
I look down to the city lights
I wish there´ll be
A major thunderstorm
To cause a blackout
Of all electric light
I need a real dark night
I don´t see the stars
Where are you?
Don´t leave me here!
Where ten thousand hell winds blow
What do I see?
I see birds fly
I see airplanes fly
I see couples fly inside an alien philosophy
They have no awareness
No awareness of each other
A fear of being alone
Is all that keeps them together
Where are you?
Don´t leave me here!
Where ten thousand hell winds blow
Hell is my witness
I won´t have peace of mind
´Till I find a greater Love
´Till I find you
Days of fury! Days of lonely hopes!
A haunted castle is my heart
My hopes bring out skeletons in motion
Only to bite my devotion to love
Where are you?
Don´t leave me here!
Where ten thousand hell winds blow
I walk over a drawbridge
I´m spending so much time
Looking for a glowing sky
I don´t see the drawbridge
Strong under my feet
It worries me to give up
Searching for you one day
It worries me to give up
Where are you?
There´s a love gene in my blood
Makes me pursue an image of you
This gene is Hallucinogenic
help me
eternity
wandering about
endless
where is the light
soulcage
no way out
this is hell
rotating infinity
eternal alteration
I didn't want to be here
I'm still alive, alive
get your bands of my possession
[Sample: Tyler]
What the hell?
[Verse 1:]
I ain't been home in a week
Barely been to Pasadena since them San Fran streets
I stayed at night at the studio, I get no sleep
My passion for this music yo, it's far too deep
I rest for 3 hours a day, 4 and an half if I'm lucky
4: 45 in the mornin and I'm the only one up see
I'm all about the hustle, Hodgy 'bout his grind
And y'all no longer struggle once you make up your mind
I had up my mind and now I'm takin my time
Steady niggas takin from mine, I recordin out in space
Spendin time, lendin rhymes
Out and hand mixtapes to a fan giving and gettin grams
Odd Future shinin S.P.F. sunscreen
Needs to be applied to burn from sunbeams
Teach a lesson if haven't learned from one's schemes
Mankind wouldn't be realistic if no one dreamed, yeah
[Hook: Frank Ocean]
I got, I got (Anime on the screen)
I got, I got (Pen in hand, scripting dreams)
I got, I got (Rich man said to me
Just remember one thing
You'll never have time [x4])
[Verse 2:]
I knew it, mama I knew it
One wish every birthday candle before I blew it
Son carved the path out but I drew it, sicker than the flu
I'm on my stew shit, just let it simmer and brew
With no remembering you
We fall out in the winter
September, October, Novembering you
No contendor with you, I'm like tendering food
Zip-Lock marinated, cook it if you care to take it
There's time now to bake it, mama show me how you make it
Bring me to life with those icing covered knives
Single handedly raised us, sacrifice and had to fight for
Pages to raised us, lovers is what made us
Today trust we always got steel
I'll protect if I'm goin shot kill, I'm the star, twinkle twinkle
Thanks for every birthday you lit candels for cake sprinkles, uh
[Hook: Frank Ocean]
I got, I got (Anime on the screen)
I got, I got (Pen in hand, scripting dreams)
I got, I got (Rich man said to me
Just remember one thing
You'll never have time [x4])
Yo, yo what the fuck is an interlude anyway
What the fuck is an interlude for man what the hell
Do you need a fuckin interlude for man
Hell
(Lyrics/Music-James Miller)
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You stole my love
You stole my heart
You stole my girl
You stole my car
You stole my home
I'll see you in Hell!
You might get there first, I'll never tell
I'll see you in Hell!
I'll never tell
I'll see you in Hell!
Copyright © 2010 James Miller Band (ASCAP)
International Copyright Secured
Melting into the crowd, the basaclica
The bells of rome proclaming
In the mid-day heat
"Hosanna! Holy Father! Benedictus!"
The face of a man who never considered an angel...
Sint mihi dei acherontis propitii, valeat
Numen triplex jehovae
May the gods of acheron look with favour upon me
Away with the spirit of the three fold Jehovah
A sleep like the ages
A sleep like death
Like gog and magog
Blood flowing like dreams
Black stole and black chasuble. black cope
Angelic perfection
Perfect pope murder
Pre-sanctification
Hell. God. Devil. Amen. Hey.
A sleep like the ages
A sleep like death
Like gog and magog
Blood flowing like dreams
Pre-sanctification
Hell. God. Devil. Amen. Hey.
Hereupon, I defy God and his Christ
The angels of heaven
Rejecting all that lives in gods name
Death is meaningless, pain is endless
Satanic succubus
Profane, deranged
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Ohm Sweet Ohm
- Dreiklangsdimensionen
- Kalte Sterne
- Am Fenster
- Ich brauch' Tapetenwechsel
- Der Räuber und der Prinz
- Cold Song
- Der Strom der Zeit
- Tausend Tränen Tief (Loverboy mix)
- Paul Ist Tot
- Zurück in die Atmosphäre
- Why Don't You Answer
- Berlin
- Berlin
- Mamy Blue
- Gute Nacht Freunde
- Der Strom der Zeit (DJ Hell edit)
- Allerseelen (DJ Hell edit)
- Deathsquad (1983 single B side)
- On Earth as It Is in Hell (1985 Square Dance Studio demo)
- Plague and Fyre (1986 8-track MEK Studio demo)
- The Oppressors (1982 4-track rehearsal room demo)
- Blasphemy and the Master (1982 4-track rehearsal room demo)
- Let Battle Commence (1982 4-track rehearsal room demo)
- The Devil's Deadly Weapon (1985 Square Dance Studio demo)
- The Quest (1983 live rehearsal)
- Macbeth (1982 4-track rehearsal room demo)
- Save Us From Those Who Would Save Us (1983 single A side)
- No Martyr's Cage (1983 live rehearsal)
- Sueno Latino (DJ Hell - All U Need Is Love remix)
- Dead Eye
- Nairobi (Carl Craig remix)
- Contemplation (King Britt Funke remix)
- Where Is It? (feat. Ursula Rucker) (Re-Loved dub)
- Face in the Crowd (Intellidread mix)
- Monotone Fantastique
- The Robots
- Forbidden Colours
- Esque
- Empire (Original vs. Dixon edit)
- It's Me
- Take the Weight (Peter Kruder vocal mix)
- Silently (feat. Mimu) (Kirk Degiorgio remix)
- The Incident (Wet Dream mix)
- Are You Ready?
- Loot (original version)
- I Love You
- Warped
- A Fifth of Beethoven
- Stardancer
- Germania
- This Is Not America
- Livin Up
- Spacer Woman
- I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley remix)
- Glowing in the Dark
- Don't Stop
- Mister Game (instrumental)
- Dirty Talk (USA Connection instrumental)
- Take a Chance
- Chase
- Problemes D'Amour (Ah Ou Ah version)
- Supernature
- Dance Forever
- Control
- Remember
- Magnifique, Part 1
- Trans Europe Express
- Pulstar
- Hypnotic Tango (instrumental)
- Rydeen
- Z-Boson
- Transit
- Machine 1
- Falling Up (Carl Craig remix)
- August (Appetizer version)
- Airbone (Carl Craig remix)
- Point of No Return
- 37°
- A Relic
- Rhythm
- Machine Ate My Homework
- The Alchemist
- Rej (original Beatless version)
- Then and Before
- Phuture Bound (Âme mix)
- Bubbles
- Blackout Phase 3
- Definition of House (vocal version)
- Eat More House Baby
- Take a Shot
- Suicide Commando
- This Is for You
- Keep on Waiting
- Like This (2005)
- Diese Momente werden nicht verloren sein wie Tränen im Regen
- Allerseelen (edit)
- My Life Is Hell (edit)
- Tragic Picture Show (alternative version)
- Listen to the Hiss
- Je Regrette Everything
- Keep on Waiting (feat. Erlend Øye)
- Listen to the Hiss (feat. Alan Vega)
- Tragic Picture Show
- Follow You
- Let No Man Jack
- Limbische System
- Black Panther Party
- Je Regrette Everything (feat. Billie Ray Martin)
- Control
- Meet the Heat (feat. Alan Vega)
- Wired
- [Phone Call]
- Inspiration
- Miura
- Warriors (Jam)
- You Can't Have It Both Ways
- Working Night
- Behind the Wheel (DJ Kicks Electrocla$h radio mix)
- 2 After 909
- Where U At (mix originale)
- For Disco Play Only
- Elastobabe (Soul Capsule's Cosmic Warrior mix)
- Expressions (feat. Massive Sounds)
- Ain't Changin' (feat. Justin Chapman)
- Dump Days
- The Motorcade
- You Know How We Do
- They Keep Dancing (feat. Mark Irwin) (Nuvo mix)
- Oscillations
- Now Is the Time (vocal mix)
- This Is for You
- For Your Love
- Berimbau
- Copa
- Dominatrix
- Suicide Commando
- Jack the House
- Passion
- Bass Mechnic
- Warm Leatherette
- My Definitiom of House Music
- Totmacher
- Suicide Commando (Translation mix)
- On Your Way
- Stomping Grounds
- Smooth Groove
- Atol
- Can You Feel the Bass
- B1
- New Dimension
- Lets Work That Motherf.....
- Pump the Move
- The Afterlife
- All for Lee-Sah
- Station to Station
- Hysteria
- Think About It
- Can You Feel It
- Erotic Illusions
- Let There Be House
- My Definition of House
- Herz
- Herz
- My Life Is Hell
- I Feel Love
- Allerseelen
- Hot on the Heels of Love
- Definition of House (Northstar remix)
- Im Mutterleib
- U Can Dance (feat. Bryan Ferry)
- Electronic Germany
- The DJ (feat. P Diddy)
- The Disaster
- Bodyfarm 2
- Hellracer
- Wonderland
- Friday. Saturday Sunday
- U Can Dance (feat. Bryan Ferry) (instrumental mix)
- The DJ (feat. P Diddy) (instrumental mix)
- Germania
- The Angst... The Angst, Part 2
- Carte Blanche
- Nightclubbing
- I Prefer Women to Men Anyway
- Action (interlude)
- Hell S Kitchen
- Silver Machine (feat. Marsmobil)
- Silver Machine (feat. Marsmobil) (instrumental mix)
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Avril Lavigne - What The Hell
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:46
- Published: 21 Jan 2011
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Music video by Avril Lavigne performing What The Hell. (C) 2010 RCA Records, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment #VEVOCertified on January 25, 2012. www.vevo.com www.youtube.com
http://wn.com/Avril_Lavigne_What_The_Hell
Avril Lavigne - What The Hell Lyrics on Screen HD
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:39
- Published: 01 Jan 2011
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Avril Lavigne - What The Hell Lyrics on Screen HD
http://wn.com/Avril_Lavigne_What_The_Hell_Lyrics_on_Screen_HD
HELL - On Earth As It Is In Hell
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- Duration: 5:18
- Published: 11 Mar 2011
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
The brand new video for UKs NWOBHM legends HELLs upcoming debut "Human Remains" Out now via Nuclear Blast Records. Also watch live videos of the Rock Hard Festival 2012: On Earth As It Is In Hell: www.youtube.com Blasphemy And The Master: www.youtube.com Become a fan on Facebook: www.facebook.com Nuclear Blast USA bit.ly Nuclear Blast EUROPE bit.ly iTunes bit.ly Amazon amzn.to
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Hell
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- Duration: 89:15
- Published: 26 Jun 2012
- Updated: 29 Aug 2012
It was once the source of life, light, and warmth. But now the sun has turned the entire world into baked and barren wasteland. Forests are scorched. Animal carcasses line the roads. Even the nights are dazzling bright. Marie, her little sister Leonie and Phillip are heading for the mountains in a car with covered windows. Rumor has it there is still water there. Along the way they run into Tom, a first-rate mechanic who becomes indispensible. But can they trust him? Tension grows in the small group. As if things weren't bad enough, they are lured into an ambush. Their real battle for survival begins ... - 2011 Caligari Film- Und Fernsehproduktions Gmbh / Vega Film Ag. All Rights Reserved 2011 Caligari Film- Und Fernsehproduktions Gmbh / Vega Film Ag. All Rights Reserved
http://wn.com/Hell
Johnny Depp - From Hell trailer
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- Duration: 2:23
- Published: 11 Sep 2006
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
theatrical trailer from Johnny Depp movie From Hell
http://wn.com/Johnny_Depp_From_Hell_trailer
Hell | Trailer D (2011)
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- Duration: 1:45
- Published: 01 Aug 2011
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
german trailer / deutscher Trailer Genre: action / sci-fi Regie / directed by: Tim Fehlbaum Darsteller / cast: Stipe Erceg , Hannah Herzsprung , Lars Eidinger Executive Producer: Roland Emmerich Kinostart Deutschland: 22. September 2011 Kinostart USA: TBA offizielle Filmsite: Verwendung mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Paramount Pictures used with authorization
http://wn.com/Hell_|_Trailer_D_2011
Disturbed: Hell
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:16
- Published: 28 Sep 2011
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
From the new B-sides collection "The Lost Children" - out now. Get it today at wbr.fm
http://wn.com/Disturbed_Hell
Tegan And Sara - Hell (Video)
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- Duration: 3:25
- Published: 10 Feb 2010
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
© 2009 WMG Hell (Video) Directed by Jamie Travis
http://wn.com/Tegan_And_Sara_Hell_Video
ACDC Highway to Hell with lyrics
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- Duration: 3:29
- Published: 07 Oct 2009
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Highway to hell.
http://wn.com/ACDC_Highway_to_Hell_with_lyrics
Network - Mad as Hell Scene
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:13
- Published: 25 Feb 2008
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
From the motion picture Network (1976)
http://wn.com/Network_Mad_as_Hell_Scene
Gives You Hell (Full Narrative Version)
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- Duration: 3:38
- Published: 08 Oct 2009
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Music video by The All-American Rejects performing Gives You Hell. (C) 2008 DGC/Interscope Records
http://wn.com/Gives_You_Hell_Full_Narrative_Version
Tom Waits - "Hell Broke Luce"
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- Duration: 4:07
- Published: 06 Aug 2012
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
Directed By Matt Mahurin "Hell Broke Luce" from the album Bad As Me, Anti Records 2011 www.tomwaits.com Visit Us!
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Where the Hell is Matt? 2012
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- Duration: 4:53
- Published: 20 Jun 2012
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Wanna dance with me when I'm in in your town? Like this page for updates: tinyurl.com Put # and then your city and country at the end of your comment so I know where you're from. #Seattle, Washington "Trip the Light" on iTunes: tinyurl.com Download the video to your device, buy the shirt and stuff like that: store.wherethehellismatt.com Vocals by Alicia Lemke: www.alicialemke.com Lyrics www.wherethehellismatt.com The dancers in Syria are blurred for their safety. I got into North Korea with Koryo Tours. It's not difficult or dangerous. This video was made without a sponsor. You don't have to buy anything. Just remember we need to take care of each other.
http://wn.com/Where_the_Hell_is_Matt?_2012
The Simpsons - Donut Hell
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:34
- Published: 08 Jul 2008
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Homer sells his soul to the devil for a donut and is sent to the ironic punishment lab to suffer. S5 E5.
http://wn.com/The_Simpsons_Donut_Hell
Tegan And Sara - Hell (Official Music Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:27
- Published: 23 Feb 2010
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
© 2010 WMG The music video for Tegan and Sara's first single off their album Sainthood. Directed by Jamie Travis.
http://wn.com/Tegan_And_Sara_Hell_Official_Music_Video
Kiss - Hell Or Hallelujah (Lyric Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:07
- Published: 03 Jul 2012
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Buy on iTunes bit.ly Amazon: amzn.to Google Play: bit.ly Go to kissonline.com for more on the new album & tour!
http://wn.com/Kiss_Hell_Or_Hallelujah_Lyric_Video
This Is Hell - Bloodlines (video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:51
- Published: 13 Oct 2010
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
itunes.apple.com www.facebook.com i need some time to clear my head a moment of clarity the last things that anybody needs is for me to blow off some steam clear some room so i can breathe the pressure is draining me i can't deal with this fucking condition carrying a load that weighs a ton no hesitation comes from my eyes replaced my fear with battle cries i'll be explosive like dynamite replaced my tears with battle cries i've tried so hard to change my luck but i feel stuck with no answers to any questions so i resort to confrontation i'm trying to change my ways and forget those days on the path to nowhere i grab a shovel diggin six feet deep not going down i'm swinging recklessly you drew first blood now here's your receipt a fucking promise i swear i'll keep cross my heart that i'll never die i'm everlasting, i'll survive living proof, no one can deny it's instilled in my bloodline it's instilled in my bloodline
http://wn.com/This_Is_Hell_Bloodlines_video
Disturbed-Hell
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:15
- Published: 24 Aug 2006
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
rare song i thought id post it =] Hey for all you people out there this is off the Ten Thousand Fists album (Special Edition) thanks.
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This Is Hell "The Polygraph Cheaters"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:29
- Published: 21 Nov 2006
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
For More Info Visit - www.Trustkill.com - www.MySpace.com/Trustkill This Is Hell "The Polygraph Cheaters" Video From The Album "Sundowning" Directed by Doug Spangenberg Produced by HighRoller Studios
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Pistol Annies - Hell On Heels
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 25 Jul 2011
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Music video by Pistol Annies performing Hell On Heels. (C) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
http://wn.com/Pistol_Annies_Hell_On_Heels
Rev Theory - Hell Yeah
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:17
- Published: 23 Nov 2009
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Music video by Rev Theory performing Hell Yeah. (C) 2008 Interscope Records
http://wn.com/Rev_Theory_Hell_Yeah
Sum 41 - The Hell Song
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:26
- Published: 16 Jun 2009
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Music video by Sum 41 performing The Hell Song. (C) 2002 The Island Def Jam Music Group
http://wn.com/Sum_41_The_Hell_Song
Interactive zombie movie adventure - DELIVER ME TO HELL - REAL ZOMBIES ATTACK
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:59
- Published: 29 Jul 2010
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
*** Make sure annotations are turned on *** Does NOT work on iPad, iPod or iPhone sorry. COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED! (you can stil enjoy the adventure :) Your mission starts here! OBJECTIVE: Help Steve get across the city to deliver his pizza without being KILLED by the zombies. Starring DJ IWIKAU, BEN EDWARDS & EMILY TRENBERTH Producer KATIE O'BRIEN Writer, Director & Editor LOGAN McMILLAN www.youtube.com Art Direction BRYCE HOLTHOUSEN Production Manager FLIP GRATER Camera Op DAN WATSON Grip / B Camera ANDREW DEAN VFX DAN WATSON Practical Effects CHESTER DEXTAR Data Wrangler SIMON RYAN Makeup LUCY HARVEY SFX Makeup BRAE TOIA Makeup Assistant JULIE CLARK Pyrotechnics FIREWORKS PROFESSIONALS Audio Post THE SITTING ROOM a LITTLESISTERFILMS production www.littlesisterfilms.co.nz
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This article is about the theological or philosophical afterlife. For other uses, see Hell (disambiguation).
In many religious traditions, hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as endless. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations. Typically these traditions locate hell under the Earth's external surface and often include entrances to Hell from the land of the living. Other afterlife destinations include Heaven, Purgatory, Paradise, and Limbo.
Other traditions, which do not conceive of the afterlife as a place of punishment or reward, merely describe hell as an abode of the dead, a neutral place located under the surface of Earth (for example, see sheol and Hades). Modern understandings of hells often depict them abstractly, as a state of loss rather than as fiery torture literally underground, but this view of the concept of a hell can, in fact, be traced back into the ancient and medieval periods as well.[citation needed] Hell is sometimes portrayed as populated with demons who torment those dwelling there. Many are ruled by a death god such as Nergal, Hades, Enma or the Christian and Islamic Devil (Satan or Lucifer). In Islam, the Devil does not actually reside in Hell.
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Etymology and Germanic mythology[link]
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The modern English word Hell is derived from Old English hel, helle (about 725 AD to refer to a nether world of the dead) reaching into the Anglo-Saxon pagan period, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *halja, meaning "one who covers up or hides something".[1] The word has cognates in related Germanic languages such as Old Frisian helle, hille, Old Saxon hellja, Middle Dutch helle (modern Dutch hel), Old High German helle (Modern German Hölle), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish "helvede"/helvete (hel + Old Norse vitti, "punishment" whence the Icelandic víti "hell"), and Gothic halja.[1] Subsequently, the word was used to transfer a pagan concept to Christian theology and its vocabulary[1] (however, for the Judeo-Christian origin of the concept see Gehenna).
The English word hell has been theorized as being derived from Old Norse hel[1] but the cognate does appear in all the other languages and has a Proto-Germanic origin.[2] Among other sources, the Poetic Edda, compiled from earlier traditional sources in the 13th century, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, provide information regarding the beliefs of the Norse pagans, including a being named Hel, who is described as ruling over an underworld location of the same name. This is envisioned as a "misty" place (rather than the fire envisioned by Christianity and Islam) where go all women and in addition, some men. Punishment for wrong deeds is not mentioned.
Religion, mythology, and folklore[link]
Hell appears in several mythologies and religions. It is commonly inhabited by demons and the souls of dead people. A fable about hell which recurs in folklore across several cultures is the allegory of the long spoons. Hell is often depicted in art and literature, perhaps most famously in Dante's Divine Comedy.
Punishments[link]
Punishment in Hell typically corresponds to sins committed during life. Sometimes these distinctions are specific, with damned souls suffering for each sin committed (see for example Plato's myth of Er or Dante's The Divine Comedy), but sometimes they are general, with condemned sinners relegated to one or more chamber of Hell or to a level of suffering.
In many religious cultures, including Christianity and Islam, Hell is traditionally depicted as fiery and painful, inflicting guilt and suffering.[3][specify] Despite these common depictions of Hell as a place of fire, some other traditions portray Hell as cold. Buddhist - and particularly Tibetan Buddhist - descriptions of hell feature an equal number of hot and cold hells. Among Christian descriptions Dante's Inferno portrays the innermost (9th) circle of Hell as a frozen lake of blood and guilt.[4] But cold also played a part in earlier Christian depictions of hell, beginning with the Apocalypse of Paul, originally from the early third century;[5] the "Vision of Dryhthelm" by the Venerable Bede from the seventh century;[6] "St Patrick's Purgatory", "The Vision of Tundale" or "Visio Tnugdali", and the "Vision of the Monk of Enysham", all from the twelfth century;[7] and the "Vision of Thurkill" from the early thirteenth century.[8]
Polytheism[link]
Ancient Egypt[link]
With the rise of the cult of Osiris during the Middle Kingdom the “democratization of religion” offered to even his humblest followers the prospect of eternal life, with moral fitness becoming the dominant factor in determining a person's suitability. At death a person faced judgment by a tribunal of forty-two divine judges. If they led a life in conformance with the precepts of the Goddess Maat, who represented truth and right living, the person was welcomed into the Two Fields. If found guilty the person was thrown to a “devourer” and didn't share in eternal life.[9] The person who is taken by the devourer is subject first to terrifying punishment and then annihilated. These depictions of punishment may have influenced medieval perceptions of the inferno in hell via early Christian and Coptic texts.[10] Purification for those who are considered justified may be found in the descriptions of “Flame Island”, where they experience the triumph over evil and rebirth. For the dammed complete destruction into a state of non being awaits but there is no suggestion of eternal torture; the weighing of the heart in Egyptian Mythology can lead to annihilation.[11][12] Divine pardon at judgement was always a central concern for the Ancient Egyptians.[13]
Modern undertsanding of Egyptian notions of hell is based on six ancient texts: The Book of Two Ways (Book of the Ways of Rosetau), The Book of Amduat (Book of the Hidden Room, Book of That Which Is in the Underworld), The Book of Gates, The Book of the Dead (Book of Going Forth by Day), The Book of the Earth and The Book of Caverns.[14]
Ancient Near East[link]
The cultures of Mesopotamia (including Sumeria, the Akkadian Empire, Babylonia and Assyria), the Hittites and the Canaanites/Ugarits reveal some of the earliest evidence for the notion of a Netherworld or Underworld. From among the few texts that survive from these civilizations, this evidence appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the “Descent of Inanna to the Netherworld,” “Baal and the Underworld,” the “Descent of Ishtar” and the “Vision of Kummâ.”[15]
Greek[link]
Main article: Tartarus
In classic Greek mythology, below Heaven, Earth, and Pontus is Tartarus, or Tartaros (Greek Τάρταρος, deep place). It is either a deep, gloomy place, a pit or abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides within Hades (the entire underworld) with Tartarus being the hellish component. In the Gorgias, Plato (c. 400 BC) wrote that souls were judged after death and those who received punishment were sent to Tartarus. As a place of punishment, it can be considered a hell. The classic Hades, on the other hand, is more similar to Old Testament Sheol.
Europe[link]
The hells of Europe include Breton Mythology's "Anaon", Celtic Mythology's "Uffern", Slavic mythology's "Peklo", the hell of Sami mythology and Finnish "tuonela" ("manala").
Asia[link]
The hells of Asia include Bagobo Mythology's “Gimokodan” and Ancient Indian mythology's “Kalichi".
Africa[link]
African hells include Haida Mythology's “Hetgwauge” and the hell of Swahili Mythology (kuzimu). Serer religion rejects the general notion of heaven and hell.[16] In Serer religion, acceptance by the ancestors who have long departed is as close to heaven. Rejection and becoming a wandering soul is as close to hell after one passes over. The souls of the dead must make their way to Jaaniw (the sacred dwelling place of the soul). Only those who have lived their lives on earth in accordance with Serer doctrines will be able to make this necessary journey and thus accepted by the ancestors. Those who can't make the journey become lost and wandering souls, but they do not burn in "hell fire".[16][17]
Oceania[link]
The Oceanic hells include Samoan Mythology's “O le nu'u-o-nonoa” and the hells of Bangka Mythology and Caroline Islands Mythology.
Native American[link]
The hells of the Americas include Aztec Mythology's “Mictlan”, Inuit mythology's “Adlivun” and Yanomamo Mythology's “Shobari Waka”. In Maya mythology, Xibalbá is the dangerous underworld of nine levels ruled by the demons Vucub Caquix and Hun Came. The road into and out of it is said to be steep, thorny and very forbidding. Metnal is the lowest and most horrible of the nine Hells of the underworld, ruled by Ah Puch. Ritual healers would intone healing prayers banishing diseases to Metnal. Much of the Popol Vuh describes the adventures of the Maya Hero Twins in their cunning struggle with the evil lords of Xibalbá.
The Aztecs believed that the dead traveled to Mictlan, a neutral place found far to the north. There was also a legend of a place of white flowers, which was always dark, and was home to the gods of death, particularly Mictlantecutli and his spouse Mictlantecihuatl, which means literally "lords of Mictlan". The journey to Mictlan took four years, and the travelers had to overcome difficult tests, such as passing a mountain range where the mountains crashed into each other, a field where the wind carried flesh-scraping knives, and a river of blood with fearsome jaguars.
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Judaism[link]
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Early Judaism had no concept of Hell, though the concept of an afterlife was introduced during the Hellenic period, apparently from neighboring Hellenistic religions. It occurs for example in Book of Daniel. Daniel 12:2 proclaims "And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt." Judaism does not have a specific doctrine about the afterlife, but it does have a mystical/Orthodox tradition of describing Gehenna. Gehenna is not Hell, but originally a grave and in later times a sort of Purgatory where one is judged based on one's life's deeds, or rather, where one becomes fully aware of one's own shortcomings and negative actions during one's life. The Kabbalah explains it as a "waiting room" (commonly translated as an "entry way") for all souls (not just the wicked). The overwhelming majority of rabbinic thought maintains that people are not in Gehenna forever; the longest that one can be there is said to be 12 months, however there has been the occasional noted exception. Some consider it a spiritual forge where the soul is purified for its eventual ascent to Olam Habah (heb. עולם הבא; lit. "The world to come", often viewed as analogous to Heaven). This is also mentioned in the Kabbalah, where the soul is described as breaking, like the flame of a candle lighting another: the part of the soul that ascends being pure and the "unfinished" piece being reborn.
According to Jewish teachings, hell is not entirely physical; rather, it can be compared to a very intense feeling of shame. People are ashamed of their misdeeds and this constitutes suffering which makes up for the bad deeds. When one has so deviated from the will of God, one is said to be in gehinom. This is not meant to refer to some point in the future, but to the very present moment. The gates of teshuva (return) are said to be always open, and so one can align his will with that of God at any moment. Being out of alignment with God's will is itself a punishment according to the Torah.
Christianity[link]
Main article: Hell in Christian beliefs
The Christian doctrine of hell derives from the teaching of the New Testament, where hell is typically described using the Greek words Tartarus or Hades or the Arabic word Gehenna.
| Hebrew OT | Septuagint | Greek NT | times in NT | Vulgate | KJV | NIV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheol[18] | Hades | Hades[19] | x10 | infernus[20] | Hell | Hades |
| Ge Hinom[21] | Ennom[22] | Gehenna[23] | x11 | infernus | Hell | Hell |
| tartaro[24] | x1 | infernus | Hell | Hell |
These three terms have different meanings and must be recognized.
- Hades has similarities to the Old Testament term, Sheol as "the place of the dead". Thus, it is used in reference to both the righteous and the wicked, since both wind up there eventually.[25]
- Gehenna refers to the "Valley of Hinnon", which was a garbage dump outside of Jerusalem. It was a place where people burned their garbage and thus there was always a fire burning there. Bodies of those deemed to have died in sin without hope of salvation (such as people who committed suicide) were thrown there to be destroyed.[26] Gehenna is used in the New Testament as a metaphor for the final place of punishment for the wicked after the resurrection.[27]
- Tartaro (the verb "throw to Tartarus") occurs only once in the New Testament in II Peter 2:4, where it is parallel to the use of the noun form in 1 Enoch as the place of incarceration of 200 fallen angels. It mentions nothing about human souls being sent there in the afterlife.
In many Christian churches, such as the Catholic Church, most Protestant churches (such as the Baptists, Episcopalians, etc.), and some Greek Orthodox churches,[28] Hell is taught as the final destiny of those who have not been found worthy after they have passed through the great white throne of judgment,[29][30] where they will be punished for sin and permanently separated from God after the general resurrection and last judgment. The nature of this judgment is inconsistent with many Protestant churches teaching the saving comes from accepting Jesus Christ as their savior, while the Greek Orthodox and Catholic Churches teach that the judgment hinges on both faith and works. However, many Liberal Christians throughout Liberal Protestant, Anglican and some Orthodox churches believe in Universal Reconciliation (see below) even though it might contradict more evangelical views in their denomination.[31]
Some modern Christian theologians subscribe to the doctrines of Conditional Immortality. Conditional Immortality is the belief that the soul dies with the body and does not live again until the resurrection. This is the view held by a few Christian sects such as the Living Church of God, The Church of God International, and Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Annihilationism is the belief that the soul is mortal unless granted eternal life, making it possible to be destroyed in Hell.
Jehovah's Witnesses hold that the soul ceases to exist when the person dies[32] and therefore that Hell (Sheol or Hades) is a state of non-existence.[32] In their theology, Gehenna differs from Sheol or Hades in that it holds no hope of a resurrection.[32] Tatarus is held to be the metaphorical state of debasement of the fallen angels between the time of their moral fall (Genesis chapter 6) until their post-millennial destruction along with Satan (Revelation chapter 20).[33]
Universal Reconciliation is the belief that all human souls (and even Demons) will be eventually reconciled with God and admitted to Heaven. This view is held by some Unitarian-Universalists.[34][35][36]
According to Emanuel Swedenborg’s Second Coming Christian revelation, hell exists because evil people want it.[37] They, not God, introduced evil to the human race.[38]
Islam[link]
Main article: Jahannam
Muslims believe in jahannam (in Arabic: جهنم) (which is related to the Hebrew word gehinnom and resembles the versions of Hell in Christianity). In the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, there are literal descriptions of the condemned in a fiery Hell, as contrasted to the garden-like Paradise (jannah) enjoyed by righteous believers.
In addition, Heaven and Hell are split into many different levels depending on the actions perpetrated in life, where punishment is given depending on the level of evil done in life, and good is separated into other levels depending on how well one followed God while alive. The gate of Hell is guarded by Maalik who is the leader of the angels assigned as the guards of hell also known as Zabaaniyah.
Although generally Hell is often portrayed as a hot steaming and tormenting place for sinners, there is one Hell pit which is characterized differently from the other Hell in Islamic tradition. Zamhareer is the Hell of extreme coldness, of unbearable blizzards, ice, and snow.
The lowest pit of Hell is Hawiyah, meant for those hypocrites who claimed aloud to believe in Allah and His messenger but denounced both in their hearts. Hypocrisy is considered to be one of the most dangerous sins, along with shirk.[citation needed]
Bahá'í Faith[link]
In the Bahá'í Faith, the conventional descriptions of Hell and Heaven are considered to be symbolic representations of spiritual conditions. The Bahá'í writings describe closeness to God to be heaven, and conversely, remoteness from God as hell.[39]
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Buddhism[link]
Main article: Naraka (Buddhism)
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In "Devaduta Sutta", the 130th discourse of the Majjhima Nikaya, Buddha teaches about the hell in vivid detail. Buddhism teaches that there are five (sometimes six) realms of rebirth, which can then be further subdivided into degrees of agony or pleasure. Of these realms, the hell realms, or Naraka, is the lowest realm of rebirth. Of the hell realms, the worst is Avīci or "endless suffering". The Buddha's disciple, Devadatta, who tried to kill the Buddha on three occasions, as well as create a schism in the monastic order, is said to have been reborn in the Avici Hell.
However, like all realms of rebirth, rebirth in the Hell realms is not permanent, though suffering can persist for eons before being reborn again. In the Lotus Sutra, the Buddha teaches that eventually even Devadatta will become a Pratyekabuddha himself, emphasizing the temporary nature of the Hell realms. Thus, Buddhism teaches to escape the endless migration of rebirths (both positive and negative) through the attainment of Nirvana.
The Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha, according to the Ksitigarbha Sutra, made a great vow as a young girl to not reach Enlightenment until all beings were liberated from the Hell Realms or other unwholesome rebirths. In popular literature, Ksitigarbha travels to the Hell realms to teach and relieve beings of their suffering.
Hinduism[link]
Main article: Naraka
17th century Painting from Government Museum, Chennai.
Early Vedic religion doesn't have a concept of Hell. Ṛg-veda mentions three realms, bhūr (the earth), svar (the sky) and bhuvas or antarikṣa (the middle area, i.e. air or atmosphere)). In later Hindu literature, especially the law books and Puranas, more realms are mentioned, including a realm similar to Hell, called naraka (in Devanāgarī: नरक). Yama as first born human (together with his twin sister Yamī) in virtue of precedence becomes ruler of men and a judge on their departure. Originally he resides in Heaven, but later, especially medieval traditions, mention his court in naraka.
In the law-books (smṛtis and dharma-sūtras, like the Manu-smṛti) naraka is a place of punishment for sins. It is a lower spiritual plane (called naraka-loka) where the spirit is judged, or partial fruits of karma affected in a next life. In Mahabharata there is a mention of the Pandavas and the Kauravas both going to Heaven.At first Yudhisthir goes to heaven where he sees Duryodhana enjoying in heaven,Indra tells him Duryodhana is in heaven as he did his Kshatriya duties,then he shows Yudhisthir hell where it appears his brothers are but later its revealed it was a test for Yudhisthir and his brothers and Kauravas both are in heaven and both live happily in divine abode of gods.Hells are also described in various Puranas and other scriptures. Garuda Purana gives a detailed account of Hell, its features and enlists amount of punishment for most of the crimes like a modern day penal code.
It is believed that people who commit sins go to Hell and have to go through punishments in accordance with the sins they committed. The god Yamarāja, who is also the god of death, presides over Hell. Detailed accounts of all the sins committed by an individual are kept by Chitragupta, who is the record keeper in Yama's court. Chitragupta reads out the sins committed and Yama orders appropriate punishments to be given to individuals. These punishments include dipping in boiling oil, burning in fire, torture using various weapons, etc. in various Hells. Individuals who finish their quota of the punishments are reborn in accordance with their balance of karma. All created beings are imperfect and thus have at least one sin to their record; but if one has generally led a pious life, one ascends to svarga, a temporary realm of enjoinment similar to Paradise, after a brief period of expiation in Hell and before the next reincarnation according to the law of karma.
Jainism[link]
Main article: Naraka (Jainism)
In Jain cosmology, Naraka (translated as hell) is the name given to realm of existence having great suffering. However, a Naraka differs from the hells of Abrahamic religions as souls are not sent to Naraka as the result of a divine judgment and punishment. Furthermore, length of a being's stay in a Naraka is not eternal, though it is usually very long—measured in billions of years. A soul is born into a Naraka as a direct result of his or her previous karma (actions of body, speech and mind), and resides there for a finite length of time until his karma has achieved its full result. After his karma is used up, he may be reborn in one of the higher worlds as the result of an earlier karma that had not yet ripened.
The hells are situated in the seven grounds at the lower part of the universe. The seven grounds are:
- Ratna prabha
- Sharkara prabha.
- Valuka prabha.
- Panka prabha.
- Dhuma prabha.
- Tamaha prabha.
- Mahatamaha prabha.
The hellish beings are a type of souls which are residing in these various hells. They are born in hells by sudden manifestation.[40] The hellish beings possess vaikriya body (protean body which can transform itself and take various forms). They have a fixed life span (ranging from ten thousand to billions of years) in the respective hells where they reside. According to Jain scripture, Tattvarthasutra, following are the causes for birth in hell:[41]
- Killing or causing pain with intense passion.
- Excessive attachment to things and worldly pleasure with constantly indulging in cruel and violent acts.
- Vowless and unrestrained life.[42]
Taoism[link]
Ancient Taoism had no concept of Hell, as morality was seen to be a man-made distinction and there was no concept of an immaterial soul. In its home country China, where Taoism adopted tenets of other religions, popular belief endows Taoist Hell with many deities and spirits who punish sin in a variety of horrible ways. This is also considered Karma for Taoism.
Chinese folk beliefs[link]
Main article: Diyu
Diyu (simplified Chinese: 地狱; traditional Chinese: 地獄; pinyin: Dìyù; Wade–Giles: Ti-yü; Japanese: 地獄, jigoku; literally "earth prison") is the realm of the dead in Chinese mythology. It is very loosely based upon the Buddhist concept of Naraka combined with traditional Chinese afterlife beliefs and a variety of popular expansions and re-interpretations of these two traditions. Ruled by Yanluo Wang, the King of Hell, Diyu is a maze of underground levels and chambers where souls are taken to atone for their earthly sins.
Incorporating ideas from Taoism and Buddhism as well as traditional Chinese folk religion, Diyu is a kind of purgatory place which serves not only to punish but also to renew spirits ready for their next incarnation. There are many deities associated with the place, whose names and purposes are the subject of much conflicting information.
The exact number of levels in Chinese Hell - and their associated deities - differs according to the Buddhist or Taoist perception. Some speak of three to four 'Courts', other as many as ten. The ten judges are also known as the 10 Kings of Yama. Each Court deals with a different aspect of atonement. For example, murder is punished in one Court, adultery in another. According to some Chinese legends, there are eighteen levels in Hell. Punishment also varies according to belief, but most legends speak of highly imaginative chambers where wrong-doers are sawn in half, beheaded, thrown into pits of filth or forced to climb trees adorned with sharp blades.
However, most legends agree that once a soul (usually referred to as a 'ghost') has atoned for their deeds and repented, he or she is given the Drink of Forgetfulness by Meng Po and sent back into the world to be reborn, possibly as an animal or a poor or sick person, for further punishment.
Zoroastrianism[link]
Main article: Zoroastrian eschatology
Zoroastrianism has historically suggested several possible fates for the wicked, including annihilation, purgation in molten metal, and eternal punishment, all of which have standing in Zoroaster's writings. Zoroastrian eschatology includes the belief that wicked souls will remain in hell until, following the arrival of three saviors at thousand-year intervals, Ahura Mazda reconciles the world, destroying evil and resurrecting tormented souls to perfection.[43]
The sacred Gathas mention a “House of the Lie″ for those “that are of an evil dominion, of evil deeds, evil words, evil Self, and evil thought, Liars.”[44] However, the best-known Zoroastrian text to describe hell in detail is the Book of Arda Viraf.[45] It depicts particular punishments for particular sins—for instance, being trampled by cattle as punishment for neglecting the needs of work animals.[46] Other descriptions can be found in the Book of Scriptures (Hadhokht Nask), Religious Judgments (Dadestan-i Denig) and the Book of the Judgments of the Spirit of Wisdom (Mainyo-I-Khard).[47]
Literature[link]
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In his Divina commedia ("Divine comedy"; set in the year 1300), Dante Alighieri employed the concept of taking Virgil as his guide through Inferno (and then, in the second canticle, up the mountain of Purgatorio). Virgil himself is not condemned to Hell in Dante's poem but is rather, as a virtuous pagan, confined to Limbo just at the edge of Hell. The geography of Hell is very elaborately laid out in this work, with nine concentric rings leading deeper into the Earth and deeper into the various punishments of Hell, until, at the center of the world, Dante finds Satan himself trapped in the frozen lake of Cocytus. A small tunnel leads past Satan and out to the other side of the world, at the base of the Mount of Purgatory.
John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) opens with the fallen angels, including their leader Satan, waking up in Hell after having been defeated in the war in heaven and the action returns there at several points throughout the poem. Milton portrays Hell as the abode of the demons, and the passive prison from which they plot their revenge upon Heaven through the corruption of the human race. 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud alluded to the concept as well in the title and themes of one of his major works, A Season In Hell. Rimbaud's poetry portrays his own suffering in a poetic form as well as other themes.
Many of the great epics of European literature include episodes that occur in Hell. In the Roman poet Virgil's Latin epic, the Aeneid, Aeneas descends into Dis (the underworld) to visit his father's spirit. The underworld is only vaguely described, with one unexplored path leading to the punishments of Tartarus, while the other leads through Erebus and the Elysian Fields.
The idea of Hell was highly influential to writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre who authored the 1944 play "No Exit" about the idea that "Hell is other people". Although not a religious man, Sartre was fascinated by his interpretation of a Hellish state of suffering. C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce (1945) borrows its title from William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793) and its inspiration from the Divine Comedy as the narrator is likewise guided through Hell and Heaven. Hell is portrayed here as an endless, desolate twilight city upon which night is imperceptibly sinking. The night is actually the Apocalypse, and it heralds the arrival of the demons after their judgment. Before the night comes, anyone can escape Hell if they leave behind their former selves and accept Heaven's offer, and a journey to Heaven reveals that Hell is infinitely small; it is nothing more or less than what happens to a soul that turns away from God and into itself.
Piers Anthony in his series Incarnations of Immortality portrays examples of Heaven and Hell via Death, Fate, Nature, War, Time, Good-God, and Evil-Devil. Robert A. Heinlein offers a yin-yang version of Hell where there is still some good within; most evident in his book Job: A Comedy of Justice. Lois McMaster Bujold uses her five Gods 'Father, Mother, Son, Daughter and Bastard' in The Curse of Chalion with an example of Hell as formless chaos. Michael Moorcock is one of many who offer Chaos-Evil-(Hell) and Uniformity-Good-(Heaven) as equally unacceptable extremes which must be held in balance; in particular in the Elric and Eternal Champion series. Fredric Brown wrote a number of fantasy short stories about Satan’s activities in Hell. Cartoonist Jimmy Hatlo created a series of cartoons about life in Hell called The Hatlo Inferno, which ran from 1953 to 1958.[48]
Biblical words translated as "Hell"[link]
- Gehenna
- In the New Testament, both early (i.e. the KJV) and modern translations often translate Gehenna as "Hell."[50] Young's Literal Translation is one notable exception, simply using "Gehenna", which was in fact a geographic location just outside Jerusalem (the Valley of Hinnom).
- Hades
- Hades is the Greek word traditionally used for the Hebrew word Sheol in such works as the Septuagint, the Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible. Like other first-century Jews literate in Greek, Christian writers of the New Testament followed this use. While earlier translations most often translated Hades as "hell", as does the King James Version, modern translations use the transliteration "Hades",[51] or render the word as allusions "to the grave",[52] "among the dead",[53] "place of the dead"[54] and many other like statements in other verses. In Latin, Hades could be translated as Purgatorium (Purgatory in English use) after about 1200 A.D.,[55] but no modern English translations Hades to Purgatory. See Intermediate state.
- Infernus
- The Latin word infernus means "being underneath" and is often translated as "Hell".
- Sheol
- In the King James Bible, the Old Testament term Sheol is translated as "Hell" 31 times.[56] However, Sheol was translated as "the grave" 31 other times.[57] Sheol is also translated as "the pit" three times.[58]
- Modern translations, however, do not translate Sheol as "Hell" at all, instead rendering it "the grave," "the pit," or "death." See Intermediate state.
- Tartarus
- Appearing only in II Peter 2:4 in the New Testament, both early and modern translations often translate Tartarus as "Hell." Again, Young's Literal Translation is an exception, using "Tartarus".
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ a b c d Barnhart, Robert K. (1995) The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology, page 348. Harper Collins ISBN 0-06-270084-7
- ^ Etymonline.com
- ^ Numerous verses in the Qu'ran and New Testament.
- ^ Alighieri, Dante (June 2001 (orig. trans. 1977)) [c. 1315]. "Cantos XXXI-XXXIV". Inferno. trans. John Ciardi (2 ed.). New York: Penguin.
- ^ Eileen Gardiner, Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante (New York, Italica Press, 1989), p. 43.
- ^ Gardiner, Visions, pp. 58 and 61.
- ^ Gardiner, Visions, pp. 141, 160 and 174, and 206–7.
- ^ Gardiner, Visions, pp. 222 and 232.
- ^ Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt”, Rosalie David, p158-159, Penguin, 2002, ISBN 01402622520
- ^ ”The Essential Guide to Egyptian Mythology: The Oxford Guide”, “Hell”, p161-162, Jacobus Van Dijk, Berkley Reference, 2003, ISBN 0-425-19096-X
- ^ ”The Divine Verdict”, John Gwyn Griffiths, p233, BRILL, 1991, ISBN 90-04-09231-5
- ^ see also letter by Prof. Griffith to “The Independent”, 32 December 1993 [1]
- ^ "Egyptian Religion", Jan Assman, The Encyclopedia of Christianity, p77, vol2, Wm. B Eerdmans Publishing, 1999, ISBN 90-04-11695-8
- ^ Hell-on-line.org
- ^ Hell-on-line.org
- ^ a b (French) Thiaw, Issa Laye, "La religiosité des Seereer, avant et pendant leur islamisation", [in] Éthiopiques, no. 54, volume 7, 2e semestre 1991
- ^ (French) Gravrand, Henry, "La civilisation sereer, vol. II : Pangool, Nouvelles éditions africaines, Dakar, 1990, pp 91-128, ISBN 2-7236-1055-1 (Jaaniw, variation : "Jaaniiw")
- ^ Sheol: 1Mos 37:35, 42:38, 44:29, 44:31,
- ^ Hades: Mat.11:23 16:18 Luk.10:15. Ap.2:27,31. 1Kor 15:55.Upp.1:18 6:8 20:13,14
- ^ Lewis & Short Inferus
- ^ גֵיא בֶן־הִנֹּם Hinnom: Jer.19:6
- ^ LXX πολυάνδριον υἱοῦ Εννομ
- ^ Gehenna: Mat.5:22,29,30, 10:28, 18:09, 23:15,33. Mar. 9:43,45,47, Luk.12:05, Jak.3:6.
- ^ tartaro - verb: throw down to Tartarus, used of the fall of the Titans
- ^ Unger, Merrill F. (1981). Unger's Bible Dictionary. Chicago: Moody Bible Institute, The. pp. 467.
- ^ The New Schaf-Herzog Encyclopedia of religious Knowledge pg. 415
- ^ The New Schaf-Herzog Encyclopedia of religious Knowledge pgs. 414-415
- ^ See Kallistos Ware, “Dare we hope for the salvation of all?" in The Inner Kingdom: Volume 1 of the Collected Works
- ^ Revelation 20:11
- ^ Romans 6:23
- ^ Gooden, Joe (2000-04-04). "Hell - it's about to get hotter". BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/699929.stm. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ a b c "What Does the Bible Really Teach?", 2005, Published by Jehovah's Witnesses
- ^ "Insight on the scriptures, Volume 2", 1988, Published by Jehovah's Witnesses.
- ^ New Bible Dictionary, "Hell", InterVarsity Press, 1996.
- ^ New Dictionary of Biblical Theology, "Hell", InterVarsity Press, 2000.
- ^ Evangelical Alliance Commission on Truth and Unity Among Evangelicals, The Nature of Hell, Paternoster, 2000.
- ^ Swedenborg, E. Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen(Swedenborg Foundation, 1946 #545ff.)
- ^ Swedenborg, E. The True Christian Religion Containing the Universal Theology of The New Church Foretold by the Lord in Daniel 7; 13, 14; and in Revelation 21; 1, 2 (Swedenborg Foundation, 1946, #489ff.).
- ^ Masumian, Farnaz (1995). Life After Death: A study of the afterlife in world religions. Oxford: Oneworld Publications. ISBN 1-85168-074-8.
- ^ Sanghvi, Sukhlal (1974) (in English trans. by K. K. Dixit). Commentary on Tattvārthasūtra of Vācaka Umāsvāti. Ahmedabad: L. D. Institute of Indology. pp. 107
- ^ Sanghvi, Sukhlal (1974) pp.250-52
- ^ refer Mahavrata for the vows and restraints in Jainism
- ^ Meredith Sprunger. "An Introduction to Zoroastrianism". http://www.ubfellowship.org/archive/readers/601_zoroastrianism.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
- ^ Yasna 49:11, "Avesta: Yasna". http://www.avesta.org/yasna/y47to50b.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
- ^ Eileen Gardiner (2006-02-10). "About Zoroastrian Hell". http://www.hell-on-line.org/AboutZOR.html#The%20Fate%20of%20the%20Soul. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
- ^ Chapter 75, "The Book of Arda Viraf". http://www.avesta.org/pahlavi/viraf.html. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
- ^ Eileen Gardiner (2009-01-18). "Zoroastrian Hell Texts". http://www.hell-on-line.org/TextsZOR.html#The%20Fate%20of%20the%20Soul. Retrieved 2010-08-24.
- ^ Sample Hatlo Inferno comic:
- ^ Roget's Thesaurus, VI.V.2, "Hell"
- ^ Mat. 5:29, Mat. 5:30, Matt. 10:28, Matt. 23:15, Matt. 23:33, Mark 9:43, Mark 9:45, Mark 9:47, Luke 12:5, Matt. 5:22, Matt. 18:9, Jas. 3:6
- ^ Acts 2:27, New American Standard Bible
- ^ Acts 2:27, New International Version
- ^ Acts 2:27, New Living Translation
- ^ Luke 16:23, New Living Translation
- ^ Catholic for a Reason, edited by Scott Hahn & Leon Suprenant, copyright 1998 by Emmaus Road Publishing, Inc., chapter by Curtis Martin, pg 294-295
- ^ Deut. 32:22, Deut. 32:36a & 39, II Sam. 22:6, Job 11:8, Job 26:6, Psalm 9:17, Psalm 16:10, Psalm 18:5, Psalm 55:15, Psalm 86:13, Ps. 116:3, Psalm 139:8, Prov. 5:5, Prov. 7:27, Prov. 9:18, Prov. 15:11, Prov. 15:24, Prov. 23:14, Prov. 27:20, Isa. 5:14, Isa. 14:9, Isa. 14:15, Isa. 28:15, Isa. 28:18, Isa. 57:9, Ezek. 31:16, Ezek. 31:17, Ezek. 32:21, Ezk. 32:27, Amos 9:2, Jonah 2:2, Hab. 2:5
- ^ Gen. 37:35, Gen. 42:38, Gen. 44:29, Gen. 44:31, I Sam. 2:6, I Kings 2:6, I Kings 2:9, Job 7:9, Job 14:13, Job 17:13, Job 21:13, Job 24:19, Psalm 6:5, Psalm 30:3, Psalm 31:17, Psalm 49:14, Psalm 49:14, Psalm 49:15, Psalm 88:3, Psalm 89:48, Prov. 1:12, Prov. 30:16, Ecc. 9:10, Song 8:6, Isa. 14:11, Isa. 38:10, Isa. 38:18, Ezek. 31:15, Hosea 13:14, Hosea 13:14, Psalm 141:7
- ^ Num. 16:30, Num. 16:33, Job 17:16
Further reading[link]
- Boston, Thomas. Hell. Diggory Press, ISBN 978-1-84685-748-5
- Bunyan, John. A Few Sighs from Hell (Or The Groans of the Damned Soul). Diggory Press, ISBN 978-1-84685-727-0
- Edwards, Jonathan. The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners. Diggory Press, ISBN 978-1-84685-672-3
- Gardiner, Eileen. Visions of Heaven and Hell before Dante. New York: Italica Press, 1989. ISBN 0-934977-14-3
- Chapter " Hell? No! " p387 in " Why I became an atheist " by John W. Loftus, ( Amherst, NY Prometheus Books 2008, ISBN 1-59102-592-4 )
- Metzger, Bruce M. (ed); , Michael D. Coogan (ed) (1993). The Oxford Companion to the Bible. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504645-5.
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- The Jehovah's Witnesses perspective
- Dying, Yamaraja and Yamadutas + terminal restlessness
- example Buddhist Hells
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| Johnny Depp | |
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 Depp in October 2011 |
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| Born | John Christopher Depp II (1963-06-09) June 9, 1963 (age 49) Owensboro, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, screenwriter, director, producer, musician |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Spouse | Lori Anne Allison (1983–1985) |
| Partner | Sherilyn Fenn (1985–1988) Winona Ryder (1989–1993) Kate Moss (1994–1998) Vanessa Paradis (1998–present) |
| Children | 2[1] |
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, producer and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor. Depp rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol. Dissatisfied with that status, Depp turned to film for more challenging roles; he played the title character of Edward Scissorhands (1990) and later found box office success in films such as Sleepy Hollow (1999), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Rango (2011) and the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2003–present). He has collaborated with director and friend Tim Burton in eight films, most recently with Dark Shadows (2012).
Depp has gained acclaim for his portrayals of people such as Ed Wood, in Ed Wood, Joseph D. Pistone in Donnie Brasco, Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, George Jung in Blow, and the bank robber John Dillinger in Michael Mann's Public Enemies. Films featuring Depp have grossed over $3.1 billion at the United States box office and over $7.6 billion worldwide.[2] He has been nominated for top awards many times, winning the Best Actor Awards from the Golden Globes for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and from the Screen Actors Guild for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He also has garnered a sex symbol status in American cinema, being twice named as the "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine[3] in 2003 and 2009. He has been listed in the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records as the highest paid actor, with $75 million.[4]
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Early life[link]
1960s–1970s[link]
Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, the son of John Christopher Depp, Sr., a civil engineer, and his wife, the former Betty Sue Wells, a waitress.[5] He has one brother and two sisters. His brother Daniel is a novelist and his sister Christie works as his manager. Depp is descended from a French Huguenot immigrant, Pierre Deppe or Dieppe, who settled in Virginia around 1700,[6] part of a refugee colony situated above the falls on the James River. Depp has surmised that he is part Native American, saying in 2011, "I guess I have some Native American [in me] somewhere down the line. My great-grandmother was quite a bit of Native American, she grew up Cherokee or maybe Creek Indian. Makes sense in terms of coming from Kentucky, which is rife with Cherokee and Creek."[7][8]
The family moved frequently during Depp's childhood, and he and his siblings lived in more than 20 different locations, settling in Miramar,[9] Florida, in 1970. In 1978, Depp's parents divorced.[9] His mother married, as her second husband, Robert Palmer (died 2000), whom Depp called "an inspiration to me".[10] Depp engaged in self-harm when he was young, due to the stress of dealing with family problems, which resulted in several self-inflicted scars. In a 1993 interview, he reflected on his self-injury by saying "My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist".[11]
1980s[link]
With the gift of a guitar from his mother when he was twelve, Depp began playing in various garage bands.[9] A year after his parents' divorce, Depp dropped out of high school to become a rock musician.[9] He attempted to go back to school two weeks later, but the principal told him to follow his dream of being a musician.[9] He played with The Kids, a band that enjoyed modest local success. The Kids set out together for Los Angeles in pursuit of a record deal, changing their name to Six Gun Method, but the group split up before signing a record deal. Depp subsequently collaborated with the band Rock City Angels[12] and co-wrote their song "Mary", which appeared on Rock City Angels' debut for Geffen Records titled Young Man's Blues.
On December 24, 1983, Depp married Lori Anne Allison, the sister of his band's bass player and singer. During Depp's marriage, his wife worked as a makeup artist, while he worked a variety of odd jobs, including a telemarketer for pens. His wife introduced him to actor Nicolas Cage, who advised Depp to pursue an acting career.[9] Depp and his wife divorced in 1985. Depp later dated and was engaged to actress Sherilyn Fenn (whom he met on the set of the 1985 short film Dummies). Both Fenn and Depp auditioned for the 1986 film Thrashin' and they were both cast, with Depp being chosen by the film's director to star as the lead, which would have been Depp's second major role. Depp was later turned down by the film's producer, who rejected the director's decision.[13][14]
Acting career[link]
Television[link]
Depp starred in a lead role on the Fox television series, 21 Jump Street, which premiered in 1987.[9] Depp accepted this role to work with actor Frederic Forrest, who inspired him. Depp's long time friend Sal Jenco joined the cast as a semi-co-star as the janitor named Blowfish. The series' success turned Depp into a popular teen idol during the late 1980s.[9] Despite this success, Depp felt "forced into the role of product."[15] Depp subsequently decided to appear only in films that he felt were right for him.[15] Depp and his co-stars, Peter DeLuise and Holly Robinson, briefly reprised their roles in cameo appearances in the series' 2012 feature film adaptation, which featured a much more comedic tone than the series.
Film roles[link]
Depp's first major role was in the 1984 classic horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street, playing the boyfriend of the heroine, Nancy Thompson (played by Heather Langenkamp) and one of Freddy Krueger's victims.[9] Depp was the first choice and was cast to star in the 1986 American skater drama film Thrashin', chosen and cast by the director but ultimately rejected by the film's producer.[13][14] In 1986, he appeared in a secondary role as a Vietnamese-speaking private in Oliver Stone's Platoon. In 1990, he undertook the quirky title role of the Tim Burton film, Edward Scissorhands. The film's success began his long association with Burton.[9]
Depp, a fan and long-time friend of writer Hunter S. Thompson, played a version of Thompson (named Raoul Duke) in 1998's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, based on the writer's pseudobiographical novel of the same name. Depp accompanied Thompson as his road manager on one of the author's last book tours.[16] In 2006, Depp contributed a foreword to Gonzo: Photographs by Hunter S. Thompson, a posthumous biography published by ammobooks.com. In 2008, he narrated the documentary film Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Depp paid for most of Thompson's memorial event, complete with fireworks and the shooting of Thompson's ashes by a cannon, in Aspen, Colorado, where Thompson lived.[17] He returned to Thompson's work with a film adaptation of the novel The Rum Diary, released in 2011.
Critics have described Depp's roles as characters who are "iconic loners."[18] Depp has noted this period of his career was full of "studio defined failures" and films that were "box office poison,"[19] but he thought the studios never understood the films and did not do a good job of marketing.[18] Depp has chosen roles which he found interesting, rather than those he thought would succeed at the box office.[18]
The 2003 Walt Disney Pictures film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was a major success,[18] in which Depp's performance as the suave but shambling pirate Captain Jack Sparrow was highly praised. Studio bosses were more ambivalent at first,[20] but the character became popular with the movie-going public.[18] According to a survey taken by Fandango, Depp was a major draw for audiences.[21] The film's director, Gore Verbinski, has said that Depp's character closely resembles the actor's personality, but Depp said he modeled the character after The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards.[22] Depp was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for the role.
In 2004, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, for playing Scottish author J. M. Barrie in the film Finding Neverland. Depp next starred as Willy Wonka in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a major success at the box office and earning him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy.[22][23]
Depp returned to the role of Jack Sparrow for the sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which opened on July 7, 2006 and grossed $135.5 million in the first three days of its U.S. release, breaking a box office record of the highest weekend tally.[24] The next sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean, At World's End, was released May 24, 2007. Depp has said that Sparrow is "definitely a big part of me", and he wants to play the role in further sequels.[25] Depp voiced Sparrow in the video game, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow.[26] Johnny Depp's swashbuckling sword talents as developed for the character of Jack Sparrow, were highlighted in the documentary film Reclaiming the Blade. Within the film, Swordmaster Bob Anderson shared his experiences working with Depp on the choreography for The Curse of the Black Pearl. Anderson described in the film Depp's ability as an actor to pick up the sword to be "about as good as you can get."[27]
Depp and Gore Verbinski were executive producers of the album Rogues Gallery, Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys. Depp played the title role of Sweeney Todd in Tim Burton's film adaptation of the musical, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Depp thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and praised Tim Burton for his "unwavering trust and support."[28]
Depp played the former Heath Ledger character in the 2009 film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus along with Jude Law and Colin Farrell. All three actors gave their salaries from the film to Ledger's daughter, Matilda.[29] He portrayed the Mad Hatter in Burton's Alice in Wonderland, and the titular character in Rango.
In 2007, Depp accepted Warner Bros.' proposal to make a film of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, a series that aired on ABC from 1966 to 1971. He had been a fan as a child. Depp and Graham King produced the movie with David Kennedy, who ran Dan Curtis Productions inc. until Curtis died in 2006.[30]
Future roles[link]
Depp will film a documentary about Keith Richards. Depp will star in and produce an adaptation of the comic book Rex Mundi.[31][32] Depp will collaborate with Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides director Rob Marshall again to create a remake of The Thin Man.[33] Depp also showed interest in starring in the next Sin City films, with Robert Rodriguez wanting him to star as Wallace.[34] Depp was going to star as Tonto in an upcoming Lone Ranger film, but the project had been shelved due to budgetary concerns as well as a lacklustre response to a recently-released Western-genre film (Cowboys & Aliens).[35] The project was revived and the film will be released on May 31, 2013.[36] Depp plans to star as Carl Kolchak in the project Night Stalker,[37] and has bought rights to the comic book The Vault[disambiguation needed 
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Collaborations with Tim Burton[link]
Depp has collaborated with director and close friend Tim Burton in eight films, beginning with Edward Scissorhands (1990), opposite Winona Ryder and Vincent Price. His next role with Burton was in the 1994 film, Ed Wood.[9] Depp later said that "within 10 minutes of hearing about the project, I was committed."[39] At the time, the actor was depressed about films and filmmaking. This part gave him a "chance to stretch out and have some fun"; he said working with Landau "rejuvenated my love for acting".[39]
Producer Scott Rudin once said, "Basically Johnny Depp is playing Tim Burton in all his movies,"[40] although Burton personally disapproved of the comment. Depp, however agrees with Rudin's statement. According to Depp, Edward Scissorhands represented Burton's inability to communicate as a teenager. Ed Wood reflected Burton's relationship with Vincent Price (very similar with Edward D. Wood, Jr. and Béla Lugosi).
Depp's next venture with Burton was the role of Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow (1999), opposite Christina Ricci. Sleepy Hollow reflected Burton's battle with the Hollywood studio system.[41] For his performance, Depp took inspiration from Angela Lansbury, Roddy McDowall and Basil Rathbone.[40] Depp stated, "I always thought of Ichabod as a very delicate, fragile person who was maybe a little too in touch with his feminine side, like a frightened little girl."[42]
Depp did not work with Burton again until 2005 in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, in which he played Willy Wonka. Depp modeled the character's hair on Anna Wintour.[43] The film was a box office success and received positive critical reception.[44][45] Gene Wilder, who played Willy Wonka in the 1971 film, initially criticized this version.[46] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was released in July, followed by Corpse Bride, for which Depp voiced the character Victor Van Dort, in September.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) followed, bringing Depp his second major award win, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy as well as his third nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Burton first gave him an original cast recording of the 1979 stage musical in 2000. Although not a fan of the musical genre, Depp grew to like the tale's treatment. He cited Peter Lorre in Mad Love (1935) as his main influence for the role, and practiced the songs his character would perform while filming Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.[47] Although he had performed in musical groups, Depp was initially unsure that he would be able to sustain Stephen Sondheim's lyrics. Depp recorded demos and worked with Bruce Witkin to shape his vocals without a qualified voice coach. In the DVD Reviews section, Entertainment Weekly's Chris Nashawaty gave the film an A minus, stating, "Depp's soaring voice makes you wonder what other tricks he's been hiding... Watching Depp's barber wield his razors... it's hard not to be reminded of Edward Scissorhands frantically shaping hedges into animal topiaries 18 years ago... and all of the twisted beauty we would've missed out on had [Burton and Depp] never met."[48] In his introduction to Burton on Burton, a book of interviews with the director, Depp called Burton "...a brother, a friend,...and [a] brave soul".[49] The next Depp-Burton collaboration was Alice in Wonderland (2010). Depp played the Mad Hatter alongside Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway and Alan Rickman. In 2012, he starred in the Burton-directed Dark Shadows, a film based on the 1966-1971 gothic soap opera of the same name, alongside fellow Tim Burton regular Helena Bonham Carter, as well as Michelle Pfeiffer and Eva Green.
Production company[link]
In 2004, Depp formed his production company Infinitum Nihil to develop projects where he will serve as actor and/or producer. Depp is the founder and CEO, while his sister, Christi Dembrowski, serves as president.[50] The company's first production came in 2011 with The Rum Diary, adapted from the novel of the same name by Hunter S. Thompson. The film is written and directed by Bruce Robinson. Also in 2011, Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese, was released. Dark Shadows, directed by Tim Burton, was released in 2012.
Other interests[link]
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Music[link]
As a guitar player, Depp has played slide guitar on the Oasis song "Fade In-Out" (from Be Here Now, 1997), as well as on "Fade Away (Warchild Version)" (b-side of the "Don't Go Away" single). He also played acoustic guitar in the movie Chocolat and on the soundtrack to Once Upon a Time in Mexico. He is a friend of The Pogues' Shane MacGowan, and performed on MacGowan's first solo album. He was also a member of P, a group featuring Butthole Surfers singer Gibby Haynes, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. He has appeared in Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' music video "Into the Great Wide Open" and The Lemonheads "It's a Shame About Ray" music video. He made a cameo as the Mad Hatter in the music video for Avril Lavigne's "Alice" in 2010. He performed lead guitar and drums for a cover of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain", which appeared as a bonus track on some editions of Marilyn Manson's 2012 album Born Villain.[51][52], also performing live with Marilyn Manson in the Revolver Golden Gods Awards 2012, performing various songs of Marilyn Manson.[53] He also appeared in the music video of "My Valentine" from the album Kisses on the Bottom by Paul McCartney released in February 2012, along with Natalie Portman.[54]
Winemaker and restaurateur[link]
Depp and Paradis grow grapes and have wine making facilities in their vineyard in Plan-de-la-Tour north of Saint-Tropez.[55][56][57] He is known for a fondness of French wines: among Depp's favorites are the Bordeaux wines Château Calon-Ségur, Château Cheval Blanc and Château Pétrus, and the Burgundy wine Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. Interviewed in Madame Figaro, he stated, "With those wines, you reach nirvana".[58] Along with Sean Penn, John Malkovich and Mick Hucknall, Depp co-owned the French restaurant-bar Man Ray, located near the Champs-Élysées.[59]
Personal life[link]
Family and relationships[link]
Depp was married to Lori Anne Allison from 1983 to 1985. He became involved with Sherilyn Fenn in 1985; this relationship also lasted 3 years. Depp met Winona Ryder at the Great Balls of Fire! premier in July 1989, and became engaged to her for three years beginning in July 1990.[60] The relationship was highly publicized and received much scrutiny by the media and tabloid press.
Since 1998, following a four year relationship with British supermodel Kate Moss, Depp has been in a relationship with Vanessa Paradis, a French actress and singer whom he met while filming The Ninth Gate.[61]
The couple have two children. Daughter Lily-Rose Melody Depp was born May 27, 1999, and son John "Jack" Christopher Depp III was born April 9, 2002.[1] In 2007, his daughter recovered from a serious illness, an E. coli infection that began to cause her kidneys to shut down and resulted in an extended hospital stay.[62] To thank Great Ormond Street Hospital, Depp visited the hospital in November 2007 dressed in his Captain Jack Sparrow outfit and spent 4 hours reading stories to the children. In 2008 he donated £1 million (about $2 million) to the hospital.[63]
Although Depp has not remarried, he has stated that having children has given him "real foundation, a real strong place to stand in life, in work, in everything."[25] "You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of the wonderful ride I was on. It was destiny; kismet. All the math finally worked." The family divides its time between their home in Meudon, located in the suburbs of Paris, 2 homes in Los Angeles[64], an island he bought in The Bahamas, and their villa in Le Plan-de-la-Tour, a small town 20 km from Saint-Tropez, in the south of France.[65][66] Depp also acquired a vineyard estate in the Plan-de-la-Tour area in 2007.[55] Several reports indicated Depp bought Burnham Westgate Hall in Norfolk, England, a 13-bedroom Georgian country house, in June 2011.[67][68][69]
Legal issues[link]
In 1994, Depp was arrested and questioned by police for allegedly causing serious damage to a New York City hotel suite.[70]
He was arrested again in 1999 for brawling with paparazzi outside a restaurant while dining in London with Paradis.[71]
Tattoos[link]
Depp has around 13 tattoos, many of them signifying important persons or events in his life. They include a Native American in profile and a ribbon reading "Wino Forever" (originally "Winona Forever", altered after his breakup with Winona Ryder) on his right biceps, "Lily-Rose" (his daughter's name) over his heart, "Betty Sue" (his mother's name) on his left biceps, and a sparrow flying over water with the word "Jack" (his son's name; the sparrow is flying towards him rather than away from him as it is in Pirates of the Caribbean) on his right forearm.
Controversy[link]
Comments on U.S.[link]
In 2003, Depp's comments about the United States appeared in Germany's Stern magazine: "America is dumb, is something like a dumb puppy that has big teeth — that can bite and hurt you, aggressive."[72] Although he later asserted that the magazine misquoted him and the quotation was taken out of context, Stern stood by its story, as did CNN.com in its coverage of the interview. CNN added his remark that he would like his children "to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out."[73] The July 17, 2006 edition of Newsweek reprinted the "dumb puppy" quotation, verbatim, in the context of a Letter to the Magazine. Depp has also disagreed with subsequent media reports that perceived him as a "European wannabe", saying that he likes the anonymity of living in France and his simpler life there.[72]
In 2011, Depp became a U.S. resident again, because France wanted him to become a permanent resident, which he said would require him to pay income tax in both countries.[74]
Comanche Adoption[link]
Depp was adopted as an honorary son by LaDonna Harris, a member of the Comanche Nation, on May 22, 2012; this makes him an honorary member of Harris's family, but not an enrolled member of the Nation.[75] Harris, president of Americans for Indian Opportunity, invited him to join her family after hearing he would be reprising the role of Tonto as a Comanche in the movie version of The Lone Ranger. The ceremony took place at Harris’s home; Comanche Nation Tribal Administrator Johnny Wauqua was in attendance. Depp was presented with gifts by the family, which he then presented to the attendees, as per tradition.[75] This adoption, and Depp's portrayal of a Native American character, has not been without controversy.[75] Depp was not raised in any Native American community, nor has any ancestry from these communities been confirmed, but has said he "guesses" he may have some distant Cherokee or Creek ancestry.[7] In the original Radio Broadcast, Tonto was identified as being from the Potawatomi Tribe.
Awards and nominations[link]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Johnny Depp
Some of the awards that Depp has won include honors from the London Film Critics Circle (1996), Russian Guild of Film Critics (1998), Screen Actors Guild Awards (2004) and a Golden Globe for Best Actor. At the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, he won the award for "Best Villain" for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd and "Best Comedic Performance" for Jack Sparrow. Depp has been nominated for three Academy Awards, in 2004 for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, in 2005 for Finding Neverland, and in 2008 for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Depp won his first Golden Globe for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in 2008.
Filmography[link]
Main article: Johnny Depp filmography
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Bibliography[link]
- Burton, Tim; Salisbury, Mark (2006). Burton on Burton (Second Revised ed.). Faber. ISBN 0571229263. http://books.google.com/?id=-GY9R1c_kKgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage. Retrieved July 27, 2010.
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 Tegan and Sara performing at the 2010 Polaris Music Prize Ceremony |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Genres | Indie rock, new wave[1], indie pop, indie folk |
| Years active | 1995 (1995)–present |
| Labels | Vapor, Sanctuary, Sire |
| Website | teganandsara.com |
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Tegan and Sara are a Canadian indie band[1] formed in 1995[2][3] in Calgary. Composed of identical twin sisters Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Keirsten Quin[4] (born September 19, 1980). Both Tegan and Sara play guitar and keyboard and write their songs.[5]
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History[link]
Tegan and Sara Quin were born September 19, 1980 in Calgary, Alberta. They began playing guitar and writing songs at age 15.[3] They initially played as Plunk without a drummer or bass player. In 1997, they used their school’s recording studio to record two demo albums: Who's in Your Band? and Play Day. In 1998, they won Calgary's Garage Warz competition, using the studio time they won to record their first professional demo, Yellow tape, which was followed by Orange tape and Red tape.
Two songs from Red tape appeared on their first album, Under Feet Like Ours, which they released independently in 1999 under the name "Sara and Tegan". They later changed their name to "Tegan and Sara" because it was easier to pronounce[6] and reprinted the album using that name. They also wanted their name to stand out amongst the other 'Sara' musicians at the time such as Sarah McLachlan and Sarah Slean. Tegan was easier to remember.[citation needed] Neil Young's manager signed them to Young's Vapor Records label, and they released This Business of Art through Vapor in 2000. They have toured extensively since then.
In 2002, the band released their third album If It Was You. Their fourth album, So Jealous, was released in 2004 and led to wider success. This album was released through both Vapor and Sanctuary. One track on the album, "Walking with a Ghost", was covered by The White Stripes, who released it on their Walking with a Ghost EP.[7]
Their 2007 album, The Con, was released by Vapor and Sire because Sanctuary chose to no longer release new music in the United States. The album was co-produced by Chris Walla. Jason McGerr of Death Cab for Cutie, Matt Sharp of The Rentals and previously Weezer, Hunter Burgan of AFI, and Kaki King all appear on the album.[8]
On October 27, 2009, Tegan and Sara released their sixth album Sainthood, produced by Chris Walla and Howard Redekopp, as well as a three-volume book set titled ON, IN, AT, which is a collection of stories, essays, journals, and photos of the band on tour in America in the fall of 2008, writing together in New Orleans, and touring Australia. The photographs in the book are by Lindsey Byrnes and Ryan Russell.[9] While recording Sainthood, Tegan and Sara spent a week writing songs together in New Orleans. The song "Paperback Head" appeared on the album, making it the first song on any Tegan and Sara album that they wrote together.[10] Spin magazine gave Sainthood four out of five stars and wrote, "Tegan and Sara's music may no longer be the stuff of teens, but its strength remains in how much it feels like two people talking."[11]
In 2011, they launched 2011: A Merch Odyssey, which sees the launch of at least one new item in the official online stores every month, all year long. A live CD/DVD combination package titled Get Along was released on November 15 and contains three films titled 'States', 'India' and 'For The Most Part'.
Tegan and Sara stated on their website that they would start recording their seventh studio album on February 20, 2012.
Tegan and Sara's seventh record is being produced by three different producers. So far the band has announced via twitter and their weekly youtube show that they have been recording six songs with Producer Greg Kurstin, Joey Waronker has contributed drums to these six songs and Sia stopped by the studio to contribute vocals to a song. Four more songs are being produced by Mike Elizondo, with Victor Indrizzo contributing drums, Josh Lopez contributing guitar and Dave Palmer contributing piano/keyboards.
Personal lives[link]
Both twins are openly gay.[12] Tegan lives in Vancouver, BC and Los Angeles, CA. Sara lives in Montreal, QC and New York, NY.[5]
Touring[link]
Tegan and Sara began touring after graduating from high school in 1998, traveling by car or Greyhound bus.[13] In 2000, they toured with Neil Young and The Pretenders. Other notable touring mates include Ryan Adams, Ben Folds, Gogol Bordello, Cake, City and Colour, Communiqué, Death Cab for Cutie, Hot Hot Heat, Kadawatha, The Killers, New Found Glory, Paramore, Rufus Wainwright, and Weezer.
Their onstage banter, including stories and commentary about their childhood, politics, and life on the road, has become an indispensable part of their live shows.
They have performed at festivals including Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair 1999, Coachella, Lollapalooza, SXSW 2005, Austin City Limits, Bonnaroo, Falls Festival, Sasquatch!, Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Tour 2008; Southbound 2009, Glastonbury, Lilith Fair, Sasquatch! 2010,Winnipeg Folk Festival 2011,[14] Newport Folk Festival 2011,Sasktel Saskatchewan Jazz Fest 2011, and Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest 2011.
In December 2010, Tegan and Sara supported Jack Johnson in New Zealand and Australia.
Other work[link]
In 2009, both Tegan and Sara worked as producers for the first time. Tegan worked with char2d2 on the 2009 Small Vampires EP, while Sara worked on 2010 debut albums for Fences and Hesta Prynn.[15]
Collaborations[link]
Tegan sang backing vocals on Rachael Cantu's "Saturday" from her Run All Night album, and in 2007 sang in Against Me!'s song "Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart." Sara sang in The Reason's song "We're So Beyond This", as well as appearing in the music video.
In April 2008, Tegan wrote and recorded a song titled "His Love" at the request of Augusten Burroughs as a contribution to the audio version of his book A Wolf at the Table. The two headlined Spin's September 2008 Liner Notes benefit for Housing Works, a New York non-profit.[16]
In addition to their own set, Tegan and Sara performed with DJ Tiësto during the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 13, 2008. Tegan and Sara appeared as guests, providing live vocals for Tiësto's remix of "Back in Your Head".[17] Tegan and Sara also collaborated with Tiësto on the song "Feel It in My Bones" from his 2009 album Kaleidoscope and appeared in the music video for this song.
Tegan and Sara are featured on Margaret Cho's 2009 album Cho Dependent on the track "Intervention". They are also featured in Margaret's video for the song.
Tegan and Sara released an "Alligator" remix album on iTunes in 2010. Contributors included Doveman, Four Tet, Passion Pit, Ra Ra Riot, and VHS or Beta.
Sara is featured on rapper/songwriter/producer Theophilus London's track "Why Even Try" from his 2011 Lover's Holiday EP.
Both Tegan and Sara appear in Sara Bareilles' star-studded music video for her song "Uncharted". The video premiered in March 2011 and also features, amongst others, Josh Groban, Laura Jansen, Ingrid Michaelson, Pharell Williams, Adam Levine, Ben Folds, Keenan Cahill, Jennifer Nettles, and Vanessa Carlton.
Tegan sings with Jim Ward on his "Broken Songs."
Sara appeared on Jonathan Coulton's 2011 album Artificial Heart, providing vocals for the album's remake of the song Coulton wrote for Valve's game Portal, "Still Alive".
NOFX's song "Creeping Out Sara" is about the two sisters. During a live Q&A when asked what they thought of the song Sara answered, 'The song is called "Creeping Out Sara"; I am Sara, and I was creeped out.'
Sara appears in Kaki King's music video for "Pull Me out Alive."
Tegan sang on "Contrails" by rapper Astronautalis on his 2011 album This Is Our Science. She also appears in the music video.
Both Tegan and Sara perform in "Body Work" and "Video" on Morgan Page's 2012 album In the Air. They also appear in the music video for "Body Work".
| List of joint and solo collaborations | ||||
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| Member(s) | Year | Collaborator(s) | Song | Album |
| Tegan & Sara | 2009 | Tiësto | "Feel It in My Bones"[18] | Kaleidoscope |
| Fucked Up | "Do They Know It's Christmas?"[19] | |||
| Margaret Cho | "Intervention" | Cho Dependent | ||
| 2012 | Morgan Page | "Body Work" | In the Air | |
| "Video" | ||||
| Tegan | 2005 | Vivek Shraya | "The Alphabet" | A Composite of Straight Lines |
| David Usher | "Hey Kids" | If God Had Curves | ||
| 2006 | Melissa Ferrick | "Never Give Up" | In the Eyes of Strangers | |
| Kinnie Starr | "La Le La La" | In the Eyes of Strangers | ||
| Rachael Cantu | "Saturday" | Run All Night | ||
| 2007 | Against Me! | "Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart" | New Wave | |
| 2008 | Alkaline Trio | "Wake Up Exhausted" | Agony & Irony | |
| 2009 | Jim Ward | "Broken Songs" | In The Valley, On The Shores EP | |
| Rachael Cantu | "Saturday" | Far And Wide | ||
| "Thieves and Their Hands" | ||||
| "Blue House Baby" | ||||
| 2011 | Astronautalis | "Contrails" | This Is Our Science | |
| Sara | 2007 | The Reason | "We're So Beyond This" | Things Couldn't Be Better |
| Ted Gowans and Kaki King | "Sweetness Follows" (R.E.M. cover) | Drive XV: A Tribute to Automatic for the People | ||
| Vivek Shraya | "Your Name" | If We're Not Talking | ||
| 2009 | Dragonette | "Okay Dolore" | Fixin to Thrill | |
| 2010 | Emm Gryner | "Top Speed" | Gem and I | |
| 2011 | Theophilus London | "Why Even Try" | Lovers Holiday | |
| Jonathan Coulton | "Still Alive" | Artificial Heart | ||
Television and film[link]
Tegan and Sara have appeared on American, Canadian, and European television shows, including Jimmy Kimmel Live (2005), Jonovision, The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (2004), Late Night with Conan O'Brien (2005, 2007, 2009), The Late Show with David Letterman (2000, 2008), The NewMusic, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2008), and ZeD.[14]
Tegan and Sara songs have been featured in the films Monster-in-Law, Sweet November, and These Girls, and in the television shows 90210, Being Erica, Ghost Whisperer, Grey's Anatomy, The Hills, Hollyoaks, jPod, The L Word, Life Unexpected, Melrose Place (2009 series), One Tree Hill, Parenthood, Rookie Blue, Vampire Diaries, Veronica Mars, Waterloo Road (2011) and What's New, Scooby-Doo?.
In 2006, Tegan and Sara performed in The L Word episode "Last Dance" (season 3, episode 11). In 2008, they appeared on the kids music television show Pancake Mountain where they acted in a skit and performed their songs "Back in Your Head", "Hop a Plane", and an acoustic version of "Walking with a Ghost".[20] In 2010, they appeared on CBC's Mamma Yamma, revising their single "Alligator" into a children's song.
In 2011, Sara Quin was a panelist on Canada Reads defending Jeff Lemire's graphic novel Essex County. The book, the first graphic novel to be featured as part of Canada Reads, was voted off after the first round.
Band members[link]
- Tegan Quin – vocals, guitar, keyboards
- Sara Quin – vocals, guitar, keyboards
- Backing musicians
- Ted Gowans – guitar, keyboards
- Former backing musicians
- Johnny "Five" Andrews – drums
- Shaun Huberts – bass guitar
- Dan Kelly – bass guitar
- Chris Carlson – bass guitar
- Rob Chursinoff – drums
Discography[link]
Main article: Tegan and Sara discography
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- Under Feet Like Ours (1999)
- This Business of Art (2000)
- If It Was You (2002)
- So Jealous (2004)
- The Con (2007)
- Sainthood (2009)
- Get Along - (Live Album/DVD) (2011)
Awards and nominations[link]
| Year | Nominated work | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | — | YTV Band/Musical Group Achievement Award | Won |
| 2003 | If It Was You | Western Canadian Music Awards, Outstanding Pop Recording | Won |
| 2006 | So Jealous | Juno Awards Alternative Album of the Year | Nominated |
| 2007 | It's Not Fun Don't Do It | Juno Awards Music DVD of the Year | Nominated |
| 2008 | The Con | Juno Awards Alternative Album of the Year | Nominated |
| 2009 | "The Con" | Studio8 Song of August 2009 | Won |
| 2010 | Sainthood | Juno Awards Alternative Album of the Year | Nominated |
| 2010 | Sainthood | Polaris Music Prize | Nominated |
| 2010 | — | Western Canadian Music Awards, International Achievement Award | Won |
| 2011 | — | Indie Awards, Group or Duo of the Year | Nominated |
| 2012 | Get Along | Juno Awards Music DVD of the Year | Nominated |
References[link]
- Citations
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- ^ "Columbus Arts Briefs". The Lantern (Ohio State University). November 16, 2007. http://media.www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2007/11/16/Arts/Columbus.Arts.Briefs-3107593.shtml. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ a b Gdula, Steve (November 21, 2000), "Double the power", The Advocate, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=62MEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA80, retrieved March 13, 2010
- ^ Quin, Tegan; Quin, Sara (2009). AT. ON, IN, AT. p. 7.
- ^ a b Miller, Winter (May 4, 2008). "Songwriting Sisters and the Universe of What They Like". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/arts/music/04play.html?_r=1. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
- ^ Wagner, Vit (August 24, 2000). "Tegan and Sara are not 'entertainers': Unlike their popstar counterparts, the Calgarian twins write their own songs". Toronto Star: pp. WO.03. "And when we called ourselves Sara and Tegan, it didn't work because of they [sic?] way our names blended together. 'Sarandtegan.' So we switched to Tegan and Sara. [...] It was just easier to pronounce that way."
- ^ "Tegan & Sara Biography". AskMen.com. http://uk.askmen.com/women/singer_300/388c_tegan_and_sara.html. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ Foucart, Jon (February 22, 2007). "Tegan & Sara Update". AbsolutePunk. http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=215184. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ Quin, Tegan (September 11, 2009). "ON, IN, AT". Tegan and Sara. http://teganandsara.com/news/on-in-at-the-tegan-and-sara-books/. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ Eells, Josh (November 11, 2009). "Tegan and Sara: Across a Crowded Womb". Spin. http://www.spin.com/articles/tegan-and-sara-across-crowded-womb. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ Wood, Mikael. "Tegan and Sara, 'Sainthood' (Vapor/Sire)". Spin. http://www.spin.com/reviews/tegan-and-sara-sainthood-vaporsire. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ "Tegan and Sara on ABC news". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXMoInh7-Kc. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
- ^ Quin, Tegan (2010-01-28). "thoughts on home". Tegan and Sara. http://teganandsara.com/uncategorized/thoughts-on-home/. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ a b "Press Kit — Biography" (PDF). Tegan and Sara. http://teganandsara.com/presskit/TS_Biography_2009.pdf. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
- ^ Floyd, Mikela (January 11, 2010). "Northern State’s Hesta Prynn to Release Solo Material". Filter. http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/northern_states_hesta_prynn_to_release_solo_material/. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ "Tegan Quin, Augusten Burroughs Co-Headline SPIN's 'Liner Notes' Event". Spin. July 21, 2008. http://www.spin.com/articles/tegan-quin-augusten-burroughs-co-headline-spins-liner-notes-event. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ Maddux, Rachel (June 15, 2008). "Bonnaroo 2008: Day 3". Paste. http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/festivus/2008/06/bonnaroo-2008-day-3.html. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ Dombal, Ryan (August 4, 2009). "Sigur Rós's Jónsi, Bloc Party's Kele Okereke on New Tiësto Album". Pitchfork Media. http://pitchfork.com/news/36120-sigur-ross-jonsi-bloc-partys-kele-okereke-on-new-tiesto-album/. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ Colly, Joe (December 11, 2009). "Fucked Up: 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'". Pitchfork Media. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11683-do-they-know-its-christmas-ft-andrew-wk-ezra-koenig-david-cross-et-al/. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- ^ Stuckey, Scott (December 6, 2007). "Pancake Mountain News Archives - 2007". Pancake Mountain. http://www.pancakemountain.com/news_2007.htm. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
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| Tom Waits | |
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 Waits during an interview in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 2007 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Thomas Alan Waits |
| Born | (1949-12-07) December 7, 1949 (age 62) Pomona, California, United States |
| Genres | Rock, experimental |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, musician, actor, composer |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano, guitar |
| Years active | 1972–present |
| Labels | Asylum Records, Island Records, ANTI- |
| Website | Official website |
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."[1] With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music,[2] Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula; he also starred in the 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.
Lyrically, Waits' songs frequently present atmospheric portrayals of grotesque, often seedy characters and places—although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known through cover versions by more commercial artists: "Jersey Girl", performed by Bruce Springsteen, "Ol' '55", performed by the Eagles, and "Downtown Train", performed by Rod Stewart. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. In 2011, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[3][4]
Waits lives in Sonoma County, California with his wife, Kathleen Brennan, and three children.
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Origins and musical beginnings[link]
Waits was born at Park Avenue Hospital in Pomona, California to Jesse Frank Waits and Alma Johnson McMurray, both schoolteachers.[5][6] His father was of Scots-Irish descent and his mother was a Norwegian American. After Waits' parents divorced in 1960, he lived with his mother in Whittier, and then moved to National City, in San Diego County, near the Mexico–United States border.[6] Waits, who taught himself how to play the piano on a neighbor's instrument, often took trips to Mexico with his father, who taught Spanish; he would later say that he found his love of music during these trips through a Mexican ballad that was "probably a Ranchera, you know, on the car radio with my dad."[7]
By 1965, while attending Hilltop High School within the Sweetwater Union High School District, Chula Vista,[6] Waits was playing in an R&B/soul band called The Systems and had begun his first job at Napoleone Pizza House in National City (about which he would later sing on "I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)" from Small Change and "The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House)" on The Heart of Saturday Night).[5] He later admitted that he was not a fan of the 1960s music scene, stating, "I wasn't thrilled by Blue Cheer, so I found an alternative, even if it was Bing Crosby."[8] Five years later, he was working as a doorman at the Heritage nightclub in San Diego—where artists of every genre performed—when he did his first paid gig for $6.[5] A fan of Bob Dylan, Lord Buckley, Jack Kerouac, Louis Armstrong, Howlin' Wolf, and Charles Bukowski, Waits began developing his own idiosyncratic musical style.
After serving with the United States Coast Guard,[9] he took his newly formed act to Monday nights at The Troubadour in Los Angeles, where musicians would line up all day for the opportunity to perform on stage that night. In 1971, Waits moved to the Echo Park neighborhood of L.A. (at the time, also home to musicians Glenn Frey of the Eagles, J. D. Souther, Jackson Browne, and Frank Zappa) and signed with Herb Cohen at the age of 21. From August to December 1971, Waits made a series of demo recordings for Cohen's Bizarre/Straight label, including many songs for which he would later become known. These early tracks were released twenty years later on The Early Years, Volume One and Volume Two.
1970s[link]
Waits signed to Asylum Records in 1972,[10] and after numerous abortive recording sessions, his first record—the jazzy, folk-tinged Closing Time—was released in 1973. The album, which was produced and arranged by former Lovin' Spoonful member Jerry Yester, received positive reviews, but Waits did not gain widespread attention until a number of the album's tracks were covered by more prominent artists. Later in 1973, Tim Buckley released the album Sefronia, which contained a cover version of Waits' song "Martha" from Closing Time, the first-ever cover of a Tom Waits song by a known artist.[11] This cover later appeared in the 1995 compilation Step Right Up: The Songs of Tom Waits. The album's opening track, "Ol' '55", was recorded by the Eagles in 1974 for their On the Border album.[11]
He began touring and opening for such artists as Charlie Rich, Martha and the Vandellas, and Frank Zappa. Waits received increasing critical acclaim and gathered a loyal cult following with his subsequent albums. The Heart of Saturday Night (1974), featuring the song "(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night", revealed Waits's roots as a nightclub performer, with half-spoken and half-crooned ballads often accompanied by a jazz backup band.[12] Waits described the album as:
...a comprehensive study of a number of aspects of this search for the center of Saturday night, which Jack Kerouac relentlessly chased from one end of this country to the other, and I've attempted to scoop up a few diamonds of this magic that I see.[13]
In 1975, Waits moved to the Tropicana Motel on Santa Monica Boulevard[14] and released the double album Nighthawks at the Diner, recorded in a studio with a small audience in order to capture the ambience of a live show. The record exemplifies this phase of his career, including the lengthy spoken interludes between songs that punctuated his live act. That year, he also contributed backing vocals to Bonnie Raitt's "Your Sweet and Shiny Eyes", from her album Home Plate.
By this time, Waits was drinking heavily, and life on the road was starting to take its toll. Waits, looking back at the period, has said,
I was sick through that whole period [...] It was starting to wear on me, all the touring. I'd been traveling quite a bit, living in hotels, eating bad food, drinking a lot — too much. There's a lifestyle that's there before you arrive and you're introduced to it. It's unavoidable.[15]
In reaction to these hardships, Waits recorded Small Change (1976), which finds him in a much more cynical and pessimistic mood, lyrically, with many songs such as "The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening with Pete King)" and "Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (In Lowell)". With the album, Waits asserted that he "tried to resolve a few things as far as this cocktail lounge, maudlin, crying-in-your-beer image that I have. There ain't nothin' funny about a drunk [...] I was really starting to believe that there was something amusing and wonderfully American about being a drunk. I ended up telling myself to cut that shit out."[16] The album, which also included long-time fan favorite "Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)", featured famed drummer Shelly Manne and was, like his previous albums, heavily influenced by jazz.
Small Change, which was accompanied by the double A-side single "Step Right Up"/"The Piano Has Been Drinking", was a critical and commercial success and far outsold any of Waits's previous albums. With it, Waits broke onto Billboard's Top 100 Albums chart for the first time in his career (a feat Waits would not repeat until 1999 with the release of Mule Variations).[17] This resulted in a much higher public profile, which brought with it interviews and articles in Time, Newsweek, and Vogue. Waits put together a regular touring band, The Nocturnal Emissions, which featured Frank Vicari on tenor saxophone, Fitzgerald Jenkins on bass guitar, and Chip White on drums and vibraphone. Tom Waits and the Nocturnal Emissions toured the United States and Europe extensively from October 1976 until May 1977,[17] including a performance of "The Piano Has Been Drinking" on cult BBC2 television music show the Old Grey Whistle Test in May 1976.[18]
Foreign Affairs (1977) was musically in a similar vein to Small Change, but showed further artistic refinement and exploration into jazz and blues styles. Particularly noteworthy is the long cinematic spoken-word piece, "Potter's Field", set to an orchestral score. The album also features Bette Midler singing a duet with Waits on "I Never Talk to Strangers." The album Blue Valentine (1978) displayed Waits's biggest musical departure to date, with much more focus on electric guitar and keyboards than on previous albums and hardly any strings (with the exception of album-opener "Somewhere" — a cover of Leonard Bernstein's song from West Side Story — and "Kentucky Avenue") for a darker, more blues-oriented sound. The song "Blue Valentines" was also unique for Waits in that it featured a desolate arrangement of solo electric guitar played by Ray Crawford, accompanied by Waits' vocal. Around this time, Waits had a relationship with Rickie Lee Jones[citation needed] (who appears on the sleeve art of the Blue Valentine album). In 1978, Waits also appeared in his first film role, in Paradise Alley as Mumbles the pianist, and contributed the original compositions "(Meet Me in) Paradise Alley" and "Annie's Back in Town" to the film's soundtrack.[19]
Heartattack and Vine, Waits's last studio album for Asylum, was released in 1980, featuring a developing sound that included both ballads ("Jersey Girl") and rougher-edged rhythm and blues. The same year, he began a long working relationship with Francis Ford Coppola, who asked Waits to provide music for his film One from the Heart. For Coppola's film, Waits originally wanted to work with Bette Midler; she was unavailable due to prior engagements, however. Waits ended up working with singer/songwriter Crystal Gayle as his vocal foil for the album.
1980s[link]
In August 1980, Waits married Kathleen Brennan, a screenwriter, whom he had met while working on the set of the Francis Ford Coppola movie One from the Heart. Brennan is regularly credited as co-author of many songs in his later albums, and Waits often cites her as a major influence on his work. She introduced him to the music of Captain Beefheart. Despite having shared a manager with Beefheart in the 1970s, Waits says, "I became more acquainted with him when I got married."[20] Waits would later describe his relationship with Brennan as a paradigm shift in his musical development. After leaving Asylum, the label released the first Tom Waits "Best of" album in 1981, a collection called Bounced Checks, notable for including an alternate, stripped down version of "Jersey Girl" and the otherwise unreleased "Mr. Henry", as well as an alternate master of "Whistlin' Past the Graveyard" and a live performance of "The Piano Has Been Drinking". During this period, Waits appeared in a series of minor movie roles, including a cameo role in Wolfen (1981) as an inebriated piano player, and his song "Jitterbug Boy" also appeared on the movie's soundtrack. One from the Heart received its official theatrical release in 1982, with Waits appearing in a cameo as a trumpet player as well as receiving an Oscar nomination for Original Song Score (eventually losing out to Victor Victoria, by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse). This marked the first in a series of collaborations between Waits and Coppola, with Waits appearing in cameos in Coppola's movies The Outsiders (1983), Rumble Fish (1983), and The Cotton Club (1984), and a major role in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Waits also contributed two songs to the documentary Streetwise (1984), "Rat's Theme" and "Take Care of All My Children".
After leaving Asylum for Island Records, Waits released Swordfishtrombones in 1983, a record that marked a sharp turn in his musical direction. While Waits had before played either piano or guitar, he now gravitated towards less common instruments, saying, "Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don't explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing. I'm learning to break those habits by playing instruments I know absolutely nothing about, like a bassoon or a waterphone."[21] Swordfishtrombones also introduced instruments such as bagpipes ("Town with No Cheer") and marimba ("Shore Leave") to Waits' repertoire, as well as pump organs, percussion (sometimes reminiscent of the music of Harry Partch), horn sections (often featuring Ralph Carney playing in the style of brass bands or soul music), experimental guitar, and obsolete instruments (many of Waits' albums have featured a damaged, unpredictable Chamberlin, and more recent albums have included the little-used Stroh violin).
His songwriting shifted as well, moving away from the traditional piano-and-strings ballad sound of his 1970s output towards a number of styles largely ignored in pop music, including primal blues, cabaret stylings, rumbas, theatrical approaches in the style of Kurt Weill, tango music, early country music and European folk music as well as the Tin Pan Alley-era songs that influenced his early output. He also recorded a spoken word piece, "Frank's Wild Years", influenced by Ken Nordine's "word jazz" records of the 1950s. Apart from Captain Beefheart and some of Dr. John's early output, there was little precedent in popular music.
Waits's new emphasis on experimenting with various styles and instrumentation continued on 1985's Rain Dogs, a sprawling, 19-song collection which received glowing reviews (the album was ranked #21 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. In 2003, the album was ranked number 397 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.) Contributions from guitarists Marc Ribot, Robert Quine, and Keith Richards accompanied Waits' move away from piano-based songs, in juxtaposition with an increased emphasis on instruments such as marimba, accordion, double bass, trombone, and banjo. The album also spawned the 12" single "Downtown Train/Tango Till They're Sore/Jockey Full of Bourbon", with Jean Baptiste Mondino filming a promotional music video for "Downtown Train" (which would later become a hit for Rod Stewart), featuring a cameo from boxing legend Jake LaMotta. The album peaked at #188 on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart; however, its reputation has come to far outshine low initial sales.
Franks Wild Years, a musical play by Waits and Brennan, was staged as an Off-Broadway musical in 1986, directed by Gary Sinise,[22] in a successful run at Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theater. Waits himself played the lead role. Waits developed his acting career with several supporting roles and a lead role in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law in 1986, which also featured two of Waits's songs from Rain Dogs in the soundtrack. In the same year, Waits also contributed vocals to the song "Harlem Shuffle" on The Rolling Stones' album Dirty Work.[23]
In 1987, he released Franks Wild Years (subtitled "Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts"), which included studio versions from Waits' play of the same name. Rolling Stone summed up the album's myriad styles this way: "Everything from sleazy strip-show blues to cheesy waltzes to supercilious lounge lizardry is given spare, jarring arrangements using various combinations of squawking horns, bashed drums, plucked banjo, snaky double bass, carnival organ and jaunty accordion."[24] Waits also continued to further his acting career with a supporting role as Rudy the Kraut in Ironweed (an adaptation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel) alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, in which Waits performed the song "Big Rock Candy Mountain", as well as a part in Robert Frank's Candy Mountain, in which Waits also performed "Once More Before I Go." In 1988, Waits performed in Big Time, a surreal concert movie and soundtrack which he cowrote with his wife.
In 1989, Waits appeared in his final theatrical stage role to date, appearing as Curly in Thomas Babe's Demon Wine, alongside Bill Pullman, Philip Baker Hall, Carol Kane, and Bud Cort. The play opened at the Los Angeles Theater Center in February 1989 to mixed reviews, although Waits' performance was singled out by a number of critics, including John C. Mahoney, who described it as "mesmerizing."[25] Waits finished the decade with appearances in three movies: as the voice of a radio DJ in Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train; as Kenny the Hitman in Robert Dornhelm's Cold Feet; and the lead role of Punch & Judy man Silva in Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale. His only musical output of the year consisted of contributing his cover of Phil Phillips' "Sea of Love" to the soundtrack of the Al Pacino movie of the same name[26] and contributing vocals to The Replacements song "Date to Church", which appeared as a B-side to their single "I'll Be You".
1990s[link]
The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets—a theatrical collaboration of Waits, director Robert Wilson, and writer William S. Burroughs—premiered at Hamburg's Thalia Theatre on March 31, 1990. The project was based on a German folktale called Der Freischütz, with Wilson responsible for the design and direction, Burroughs for writing the book, and Waits for music and lyrics, which were heavily influenced by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.[27] In the same year, Waits contributed a cover of Cole Porter's "It's All Right with Me" to Red Hot + Blue, the first in the series of compilation albums from the Red Hot Organization — one of the first major AIDS benefits in the music business—which sold over a million copies worldwide. Jim Jarmusch directed a promotional music video for the song.[28] Waits also collaborated with photographer Sylvia Plachy in the same year; her book Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour includes a short Waits record to accompany the photographs and text.
The following year, Waits was extremely busy working on movie soundtracks, acting, and contributing to a number of music projects by other artists. First, Waits appeared on the Primus album Sailing the Seas of Cheese as the voice of "Tommy the Cat", which exposed him to a new audience in alternative rock. This was the first of several collaborations between Waits and the group; Frontman Les Claypool would appear on several subsequent Waits releases. The same year saw Waits provide spoken word contributions to Devout Catalyst, an album by one of Waits' greatest influences, Ken Nordine, on the songs "A Thousand Bing Bangs" and "The Movie." Waits also contributed vocals to a duet with singer Bob Forrest on the song "Adios Lounge" on the Thelonious Monster album Beautiful Mess. He also contributed vocals to two songs ("Little Man" and "I'm Not Your Fool Anymore") on jazz tenor saxophonist Teddy Edwards' album Mississippi Lad. Edwards was extremely complimentary of Waits' contributions, saying:
Tom Waits is the one who got me my contract [sic] with PolyGram. He's wonderful, he's America's best lyricist since Johnny Mercer. He came down to the studio on the Mississippi Lad album, that's the first one I did for PolyGram, and he sang two of my songs, wouldn't accept any money, just trying to give me the best boost that he could.[29]
The only collection of exclusively Waits-performed material of 1991 appeared when Waits composed and conducted the almost exclusively instrumental music for Jim Jarmusch's 1991 film Night on Earth, which was released as an album the following year. In July 1991, Screamin' Jay Hawkins released the album Black Music for White People, which features covers of two Waits compositions: "Heartattack & Vine" (which later that year was used in a European Levi's advertisement without Waits' permission, resulting in a lawsuit) and "Ice Cream Man". Waits continued to appear in movie acting roles, the most significant of which was his uncredited cameo as a disabled veteran in Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King. He also appeared alongside Kevin Bacon, John Malkovich, and Jamie Lee Curtis in Steve Rash's Queens Logic, and opposite Tom Berenger and Kathy Bates in Hector Babenco's film At Play in the Fields of the Lord, adapted from Peter Matthiessen's 1965 novel.
Bone Machine, Waits's first studio album in five years, was released in 1992. The stark record featured a great deal of percussion and guitar (with little piano or sax), marking another change in Waits' sound. Critic Steve Huey calls it "perhaps Tom Waits's most cohesive album... a morbid, sinister nightmare, one that applied the quirks of his experimental '80s classics to stunningly evocative—and often harrowing—effect... Waits' most affecting and powerful recording, even if it isn't his most accessible."[30] Bone Machine was awarded a Grammy in the Best Alternative Album category. On December 19, 1992 Alice, Waits's second theatrical project with Robert Wilson, premiered at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg. Paul Schmidt adapted the text from the works of Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, in particular), with songs by Waits and Kathleen Brennan presented as intersections with the text rather than as expansions of the story, as would be the case in conventional musical theater. These songs would be recorded by Waits as a studio album 10 years later on Alice.[31] 1992 also saw Waits featuring in Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula, as the possessed lunatic Renfield.
In 1993, he released The Black Rider, which contained studio versions of the songs that Waits had written for the musical of the same name three years previously, with the exceptions of "Chase the Clouds Away" and "In the Morning", which appeared in the theatrical production but not on the studio album. William S. Burroughs also guests on vocals on "'Tain't No Sin". In the same year, Waits lent his vocals to Gavin Bryars' 75-minute reworking of his 1971 classical music piece Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet; appeared in Robert Altman's film version of Raymond Carver's stories Short Cuts and Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California, a short black-and-white movie with Iggy Pop; and his third child, Sullivan, was born. In 1997, Waits and Brennan wrote and performed the music for Bunny the animated short film by 20th Century Fox's Blue Sky Studios, which was awarded Best Animated Short Film by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 1995, Holly Cole released Temptation, a tribute album consisting entirely of Waits covers.
Another Waits cover was released in 1996, as Meat Loaf covered Martha for his concept album Welcome to the Neighborhood.
In 1998, after Island Records released the compilation Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years, Waits left the label for Epitaph, whose president, Andy Kaulkin, said the label was "...blown away that Tom would even consider us. We are huge fans."[32] Waits himself was full of praise for the label, saying "Epitaph is rare for being owned and operated by musicians. They have good taste and a load of enthusiasm, plus they're nice people. And they gave me a brand-new Cadillac, of course."[32]
Waits's first album on his new label, Mule Variations, was issued in 1999. Billboard described the album as musically melding "backwoods blues, skewed gospel, and unruly art stomp into a sublime piece of junkyard sound sculpture."[33] The album was Waits' first release to feature a turntablist. The album won a Grammy in 2000; as an indicator of how difficult it is to classify Waits's music, he was nominated simultaneously for Best Contemporary Folk Album (which he won) and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance (for the song "Hold On"), both different from the genre for which he won his previous Grammy. The album was also his highest-charting album in the U.S. to date, reaching #30.
The same year, Waits made a foray into producing music for other artists, teaming up with his old friend Chuck E. Weiss to coproduce (with his wife, Kathleen Brennan) Extremely Cool, as well as appearing on the record as a guest vocalist and guitarist. He also contributed a cover of Skip Spence's "Books of Moses" to More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album, a collection of covers of the singer's songs on Birdman Records.[26] The same year, Waits appeared in the comedy Mystery Men.
2000s[link]
John Hammond's Wicked Grin, a collection of Waits cover songs, was released in 2001. Waits appears on most songs, playing guitar, piano, and/or offering backing vocals. The album also includes the traditional hymn "I Know I've Been Changed", performed as a duet by Hammond and Waits.
Tori Amos included a cover of the song "Time", from Rain Dogs on her 2001 album Strange Little Girls.
In 2002, Waits simultaneously released two albums, Alice and Blood Money. Both collections had been written almost 10 years previously and were based on theatrical collaborations with Robert Wilson; the former a musical play about Lewis Carroll, and the latter an interpretation of Georg Büchner's play fragment Woyzeck. Both albums revisit the tango, Tin Pan Alley, and spoken-word influences of Swordfishtrombones, while the lyrics are both profoundly cynical and melancholic, exemplified by "Misery is the River of the World" and "Everything Goes to Hell." "Diamond in Your Mind", which Waits wrote for Wilson's Woyzeck, did not appear on Blood Money; however, it did emerge on Solomon Burke's album Don't Give Up on Me of the same year. While Waits has played the song live a number of times,[34][35] an official version would not be released until 2007. The same year, Waits contributed a version of "The Return of Jackie and Judy"[26] by The Ramones to the compilation album We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones, which was released in 2003 on Columbia Records. That same year, Waits was also a judge for the 2nd annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.[36] Waits was also a judge for the 10th annual Independent Music Awards.[36]
Waits released Real Gone, his first nontheatrical studio album since Mule Variations, in 2004. It is Waits's only album to date to feature absolutely no piano on any of its tracks. Waits beatboxes on the opening track, "Top of the Hill", and most of the album's songs begin with Waits's "vocal percussion" improvisations. It is also more rock-oriented, with less blues influence than he has previously demonstrated. The same year, Waits contributed backing vocals to the track "Go Tell It on the Mountain" on the Grammy Award (Best Traditional Gospel Album)-winning album of the same name by The Blind Boys of Alabama. He also contributed a version of Daniel Johnston's "King Kong"[26] to the tribute album The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered, released on Gammon Records.
At this time, Waits made a return to acting after a five-year break, marked at first by the re-release of his 1993 Jim Jarmusch-directed short Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California, costarring Iggy Pop, compiled in Coffee and Cigarettes. In 2005, Waits appeared in the Tony Scott film Domino as a soothsayer. In the same year, Waits appeared as himself in Roberto Benigni's romantic comedy La Tigre e la Neve, set in occupied Baghdad during the Iraq War. In the movie, Waits appears in a dream scene as himself, singing the ballad "You Can Never Hold Back Spring"[26] and accompanying himself at the piano.
A 54-song three-disc box set of rarities, unreleased tracks, and brand-new compositions called Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards was released in November 2006. The three discs are subdivided relating to their content: "Brawlers" features Waits's more upbeat rock and blues songs; "Bawlers", his ballads and love songs; and "Bastards", songs that fit in neither category, including a number of spoken-word tracks. A video for the song "Lie to Me" was produced as a promotion for the collection. Orphans also continues Waits's newfound interest in politics with "Road to Peace", a song about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The album is also notable for containing a number of covers of songs by other artists, including The Ramones ("The Return of Jackie and Judy" and "Danny Says"), Daniel Johnston ("King Kong"), Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht ("What Keeps Mankind Alive"), and Leadbelly ("Ain't Goin' Down to the Well" and "Goodnight Irene"), as well as renditions of works by poets and authors admired by Waits, such as Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac and a previously released duet with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse entitled "Dog Door". Waits' albums Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards and Alice are both included in metacritic.com's list of the "Top 200: Best-Reviewed Albums"[37] since 2000 at #10 and #20, respectively (as of November 2009). The same years, Waits appeared on Sparklehorse's album Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain, playing piano on the track "Morning Hollow."
Five different versions of Waits's song "Way Down in the Hole" have been used as the opening theme songs for the HBO television show The Wire. Waits's own version, from Frank's Wild Years, was used for season two. The other versions used for the series were performed by, in season order, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Neville Brothers, "DoMaJe" and Steve Earle.
Waits made a number of high-profile television and concert appearances between 2006 and 2010. In November 2006, Waits appeared on The Daily Show and performed "The Day After Tomorrow." This was significant for his having been only the third performing guest on the show, the first being Tenacious D and the second The White Stripes. On May 4, 2007, Waits performed "Lucinda" and "Ain't Goin' Down to the Well" from Orphans on the last show of a week Late Night with Conan O'Brien spent in San Francisco. There was a short interview after the last performance. Waits also played in the Bridge School Benefit on October 27–28, 2007 with Kronos Quartet.
On July 10, 2007, Waits released the download-only digital single "Diamond In Your Mind". The version of the song was recorded with Kronos Quartet, with Greg Cohen, Philip Glass, and The Dalai Lama at the benefit concert "Healing The Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation" at Avery Fisher Hall, recorded on September 21, 2003.
Waits's song "Trampled Rose" (from Real Gone) appeared on the critically acclaimed album Raising Sand, a collaboration between Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Waits also provided guest vocals on the song "Pray" by fellow ANTI- artists The Book of Knots on their album Traineater.[38]
He played the role of Kneller in the film Wristcutters: A Love Story, which opened in November 2007.
On January 22, 2008, Waits made a rare live appearance in Los Angeles, performing at a benefit for Bet Tzedek Legal Services—The House of Justice, a nonprofit poverty law center.[39]
On May 7, 2008, Waits announced the Glitter and Doom Tour starting in June 2008, touring cities in the southern United States and subsequently announced a series of dates in the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe.[40] Waits was awarded the key to the city of El Paso, Texas during a concert on June 20, 2008.[41] In his generally positive review of the opening show of the tour, The Wall Street Journal critic Jim Fusilli described Waits' music thus:
The 58-year-old Mr. Waits ... has composed a body of work that's at least comparable to any songwriter's in pop today. A keen, sensitive and sympathetic chronicler of the adrift and downtrodden, Mr. Waits creates three-dimensional characters who, even in their confusion and despair, are capable of insight and startling points of view. Their stories are accompanied by music that's unlike any other in pop history.[42]
On May 20, 2008 Scarlett Johansson's debut album, entitled Anywhere I Lay My Head, featured covers of ten Tom Waits songs. Waits made an appearance on the album The Spirit of Apollo by alternative hip hop project N.A.S.A., on the track "Spacious Thoughts."
Waits wrote the following introduction for the Tompkins Square compilation People Take Warning – Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913–1938:
In the late 1920's and early 1930's, the Depression gripped the Nation. It was a time when songs were tools for living. A whole community would turn out to mourn the loss of a member and to sow their songs like seeds. This collection is a wild garden grown from those seeds.
In late 2009, Terry Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was released, with Waits in the role of Mr. Nick.[43][44] Production began in December 2007 in London.[45] Star Heath Ledger's death in January 2008 cast doubt on the film's future, but the production was salvaged with the addition of new actors playing his character in scenes he did not complete.[46]
2010s[link]
Waits played the role of "The Engineer" in the film The Book of Eli, opposite Denzel Washington, which opened in January 2010.
He is working on a new stage musical with director and long-time collaborator Robert Wilson and playwright Martin McDonagh.[47]
In early 2011, Tom Waits completed a set of 23 poems entitled Seeds on Hard Ground, which were inspired by Michael O'Brien's portraits of the homeless in his upcoming book, Hard Ground, which will include the poems alongside the portraits. In anticipation of the book release, Waits and Anti- printed limited edition chapbooks of the poems to raise money for Redwood Empire Food Bank, a homeless referral and family support service in Sonoma County, California. As of January 26, 2011, four editions, each limited to a thousand copies costing $24.99US each, sold out, raising $90,000 for the food bank.[48]
It was announced on February 9, 2011, that Waits was to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Neil Young. The ceremony was held at the Waldorf-Astoria on Monday, March 14, 2011, at 8:30pm EST.[49] Waits accepted the award with his customary humor, stating, "They say I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with... like it's a bad thing."[50]
On February 24, 2011, it was announced via Waits' official website that he has begun work on his next studio album.[51]
Waits said through his website that on August 23 he would "set the record straight" in regards to rumors of a new release.[52] On August 23, the title of the new album was revealed to be Bad as Me,[53] and a new single, also titled "Bad as Me," started being offered via Amazon.com and other sites.[54] The album was released on October 24.
Waits appears on the songs "Fadin' Moon" and "Ghost to a Ghost" on Hank Williams III's 2011 album Ghost to a Ghost/Gutter Town.
Lawsuits[link]
Waits has steadfastly refused to allow the use of his songs in commercials and has joked about other artists who do (commenting "If Michael Jackson wants to work for Pepsi, why doesn't he just get himself a suit and an office in their headquarters and be done with it?"). He has filed several lawsuits against advertisers who used his material without permission. He has been quoted as saying, "Apparently, the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad — ideally, naked and purring on the hood of a new car", he said in a statement, referring to the Mercury Cougar. "I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor."
Waits filed his first lawsuit in 1988 against Frito-Lay. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an award of $2.375 million in his favor (Waits v. Frito-Lay, 978 F. 2d 1093 (9th Cir. 1992)).[55] Frito-Lay had approached Waits to use one of his songs in an advertisement. Waits declined the offer, and Frito-Lay hired a Waits soundalike to sing a jingle similar to Small Change's "Step Right Up", which is, ironically, a song Waits has called "an indictment of advertising". Waits won the lawsuit, becoming one of the first artists to successfully sue a company for using an impersonator without permission.
In 1993, Levi's used Screamin' Jay Hawkins' version of Waits' "Heartattack and Vine" in a commercial. Waits sued, and Levi's agreed to cease all use of the song and offered a full page apology in Billboard.[56] Waits found himself in a situation similar to his earlier one with Frito Lay in 2000 when Audi approached him, asking to use "Innocent When You Dream" (from Franks Wild Years) for a commercial broadcast in Spain. Waits declined, but the commercial ultimately featured music very similar to that song. Waits undertook legal action, and a Spanish court recognized that there had been a violation of Waits's moral rights in addition to the infringement of copyright. The production company, Tandem Campany Guasch, was ordered to pay compensation to Waits through his Spanish publisher. Waits was later quoted as jokingly saying the company got the name of the song wrong, thinking it was called "Innocent When You Scheme".[57]
In 2005, Waits sued Adam Opel AG, claiming that, after having failed to sign him to sing in their Scandinavian commercials, they had hired a sound-alike singer. In 2007, the suit was settled, and Waits gave the sum to charity.[58]
Waits has also filed a lawsuit unrelated to his music. He was arrested in 1977 outside Duke's Tropicana Coffee Shop in Los Angeles. Waits and a friend were trying to stop some men from bullying other patrons. The men were plainclothes police, and Waits and his friend were taken into custody and charged with disturbing the peace. The jury found Waits not guilty; he took the police department to court and was awarded $7,500 compensation.[59]
Discography and filmography[link]
Main article: Tom Waits discography
Tours[link]
- 1973: Closing Time touring
- 1974–1975: The Heart of Saturday Night touring
- 1975–1976: Small Change touring
- 1977: Foreign Affairs touring
- 1978–1979: Blue Valentine touring
- 1980–1982: Heartattack and Vine touring
- 1985: Rain Dogs touring
- 1987: Big Time touring
- 1999: Get Behind the Mule Tour
- 2004: Real Gone Tour
- 2006: The Orphans Tour
- 2008: Glitter and Doom Tour[60]
Further reading[link]
- Humphries, Patrick (2007). The Many Lives of Tom Waits. Omnibus. ISBN 1-84449-585-X.
- Jacobs, Jay S. (2006). Wild Years The Music and Myth of Tom Waits. ECW Press. ISBN 1-55022-716-5.
- Montandon, Mac (ed.) (2006). Innocent When You Dream: Tom Waits – The Collected Interviews. Orion. ISBN 0-7528-7394-6.
- Hoskyns, Barney (2009). Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits. Faber and Faber.
- Smay, David (2007). Swordfishtrombones. Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-2782-0.
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- Interview with Amanda Petrusich, Pitchfork Media, November 27, 2006
- Interview with Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, November 28, 2006
- Tom Waits at NPR Music, contains interviews
- Tom Waits on Twitter
- Interview with Tim Adams, The Guardian, October 23, 2011
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 Matt Harding in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Japan on January 27, 2007. |
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| Born | Matthew Harding (1976-09-27) September 27, 1976 (age 35) |
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| Web alias(es) | Matt |
| Web hosting service(s) | YouTube |
| Meme | Where the Hell is Matt? |
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| http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/ | |
Matthew "Matt" Harding (born September 27, 1976), is an American traveler, video game designer, and Internet celebrity known as Dancing Matt for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of landmarks and street scenes in various international locations. Harding has since received widespread coverage of his travel exploits in major print and broadcast media outlets,[1][2][3][4][5] and was hired by Visa to star in their Travel Happy campaign.[6]
He is originally from Westport, Connecticut.[7] He began his game industry career working for a video game specialty store called Cutting Edge Entertainment. Harding later worked as an editor for GameWeek Magazine in Wilton, Connecticut, and then as a software developer for Activision in Santa Monica, California and then Brisbane, Australia.
Harding claims that a sarcastic joke about the popularity of shoot 'em up games led Pandemic Studios to develop the game Destroy All Humans!, on which he received a conceptual credit. Saying he "didn't want to spend two years of my life writing a game about killing everyone", he quit his job and began traveling, leading to the production of his first video.[8]
On 11 December 2008, Matt Harding sarcastically revealed at the Entertainment Gathering that the videos were a hoax and that he is an actor, not a game designer, and the videos were made using animatronic puppets and extensive video editing.[9] A month later, during the MacWorld convention, Matt revealed the "hoax about the hoax" and joked about the fact many people took it seriously and the outrage it caused. He also made it very clear that the videos he made were indeed 100% real.[10]
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Where the Hell is Matt?[link]
Harding was known by his friends for a particular dance, and while video recording each other in Vietnam, his travel companion suggested he add the dance. The videos were uploaded to his website for friends and family to enjoy. Later, Harding edited together 15 dance scenes, all with him center frame, with the background music "Sweet Lullaby" by "Deep Forest". The original Song uses samples from a dying Solomon Islands language which was recorded in 1971 by a French ethnomusicologist at the Solomon Islands near Papua New Guinea. The song, "Rorogwela" was sung by a young woman named Afunakwa. According to the video "Where the Hell is Afunakwa" by Matt Harding, Afunakwa died in 1998.
The video was passed around by e-mail and eventually became viral, with his server getting 20,000 or more hits a day as it was discovered, generally country by country due to language barriers, before the launch of major video upload sites.
Harding created a second version of the video in 2006, with additional dancing scenes from subsequent travels, called "Dancing 2006". At the request of Stride, a gum brand, he accepted sponsorship[11] of this video, since he usually travels on a limited budget.
Harding released his third dancing video on June 20, 2008. The video is the product of 14 months of traveling in 42 countries. The background music/song of this video is known as "Praan" composed by Garry Schyman and sung by Palbasha Siddique, with lyrics adapted from the poem "Stream of Life," a part of the Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore.[12]
As of August 2008, Harding is represented by Creative Artists Agency.[13] His videos are viewable on YouTube, Google Video, Vimeo and his own site wherethehellismatt.com. His "Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)" video has been watched over 40,900,000 times on YouTube since 2011 and Harding's YouTube channel is ranked "#83 - Most Subscribed (All Time) - Directors" as of December 22, 2010.[14][15]
Major media coverage[link]
Harding's video clips have appeared on television shows including:
- The Screen Savers (March 17, 2005)
- MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann (August 18, 2005)
- Inside Edition (August 19, 2005)
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show (October 10, 2005)
- Rude Tube (February 15, 2008)
- 40 Greatest Internet Celebrities on VH1
- Jimmy Kimmel Live (August 6, 2008)
- Enough Rope (August 18, 2008)
- The Daily Show (November 6, 2008)
- Good Morning America (May 31, 2006)
In 2007, Jawed Karim, one of the founders of YouTube, stated that Harding's video is his favorite video posted to YouTube.[16]
On July 22, 2008 and again on July 25, 2010, NASA featured Harding's third video on their APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) website, titled "Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth", making claim of humans worldwide sharing a common love of dance. The website states that "few people are able to watch the above video without smiling".[17] Harding himself has joked that he is impressed with this, especially since the video has nothing to do with astronomy, nor is a picture.
Videos[link]
First video[link]
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Second video[link]
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Third video[link]
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Fourth Video - South Africa[link]In preparation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Matt Harding created a special video to celebrate the occasion in which he performed the Diski Dance in locations across South Africa. He uploaded the video to YouTube on March 5, 2010. The following locations were shown in the video in the order listed. Some locations were visited several times.[18]
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Videogame development credits[link]
Harding's development credits include:[21]
- Destroy All Humans!
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Army Men RTS
- Dark Reign 2
- Battlezone II: Combat Commander
- Battlezone
- Zork: Grand Inquisitor
References[link]
- ^ Benji Lanyado (December 23, 2006). "Dance, dance, wherever you may be". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. http://www.webcitation.org/5ZDNiue2N. Retrieved 2006-12-28. "In the year we became obsessed with YouTube and MySpace, perhaps it's no surprise that a blog of a bloke doing a silly dance around the world got five million hits [...] Tis the season to give out awards. So, here's another one. My award for Alternative Travel Hero for 2006 goes to (cue drum roll, split screen of smiling nominees) ... Matt Harding."
- ^ Andrea Sachs (October 22, 2006). "The Guy Who Danced Around the Globe". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. http://www.webcitation.org/5ZDM15iMn. Retrieved 2006-12-28. "So, where the hell is Matt? We found him in Seattle, but before that, Matt Harding, 30, was everywhere. In 2003, the video-game maker performed a silly free-form dance in more than a dozen countries, which he filmed and then posted on his Web site at http://www.wherethehellismatt.com."
- ^ James Gilden (September 3, 2006). "Amateurs' talent: Giving us a local perspective on the world". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-internet3sep03,1,6277665.column?coll=la-travel-headlines. Retrieved 2006-12-28. "THE man in the video is doing some sort of quirky dance in a foreign land, arms flailing and flopping, feet moving as if walking over hot coals. There is nothing graceful or beautiful about the dance. Nonetheless it communicates an infectious joy that defies easy characterization. In short, it is fun to watch. [...] "It's just something I've always done," said Matt Harding, who created and stars in the video. "It's that dance that kids do when they're 2 or 3 years old." [dead link]
- ^ Kristin Jackson (October 5, 2006). "Dancing around the world (and Web)". Seattle Times. Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. http://www.webcitation.org/5ZDNzonS2. Retrieved 2006-12-28. "It's a 20-something's fantasy: Travel around the world, dance a lot and get paid to do it. [...] Matt Harding of Seattle made that dream come true. And he's turning into an Internet star, thanks to a short video he made of his recent trip that's become wildly popular on the Web."
- ^ Mike Musgrove (July 13, 2008). "Product Placement Creeps Into Amateurs' YouTube Offerings". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/12/AR2008071200141.html. Retrieved 2008-07-14. "Matt Harding has this silly dance he does, this running-in-place thing where he waves his arms around spastically. If it had a name, you might call it the Excited Toddler."
- ^ Travel the world with the currency of the world, 20 November 2008. Press release by Visa. "Visa's new travel-focused commercial recreates the dance made famous by internet celebrity Matt Harding in his self-made quirky video travel diaries."
- ^ McGrath, Charles (2008-07-08). "A Private Dance? Four Million Web Fans Say No". New York Times. Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. http://www.webcitation.org/5ZDP8FJWx. Retrieved 2008-07-08. "Mr. Harding, who grew up in Westport, Conn., skipped college at the suggestion of his father,"
- ^ Jordan Smith (August 26, 2005). "Dancing Matt coming to town". Austin Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. http://www.webcitation.org/5ZDPxw6P5. Retrieved 2006-12-16. "Harding didn't. "I … didn't want to spend two years of my life writing a game about killing everyone," he said"
- ^ "Matt Harding: Where the Hell is Matt? a Hoax". FORA.tv. December 11, 2008. http://fora.tv/2008/12/11/Matt_Harding_Where_The_Hell_Is_Matt_an_Elaborate_Hoax.
- ^ "Not to dwell but...". January 09, 2009. http://wherethehellismatt.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/seattle-washington-not-to-dwell-but.html.
- ^ "Meet Matt". Stride gum. Archived from the original on 2007-03-20. http://web.archive.org/web/20070320072824/http://www.stridegum.com/whereismatt.asp. Retrieved 2006-12-16. "We really liked the idea of a ridiculously long dance round the world. So we supported him on his second tour."
- ^ "Where the Hell is Matt (2008)". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&fmt=22. Retrieved 2009-02-07.
- ^ "It Was a Musical Thing and You Were Supposed to Dance". http://wherethehellismatt.typepad.com/blog/2008/08/traverse-city-m.html.
- ^ "mattharding2718 Channel". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. http://www.webcitation.org/5ZDQqM8Ds. Retrieved 2007-03-15. "#100 - Most Subscribed (All Time) - Directors #12 - Most Viewed (This Month) #7 - Most Viewed (This Month) - Directors"
- ^ "Directors - Most Subscribed (All Time)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. http://www.webcitation.org/5ZDR6GJyJ. Retrieved 2008-07-10. "#99"
- ^ "YouTube co-founder tells grads to be persistent, take risks". http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles.php?id=2007May15-266. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
- ^ "Astronomy Picture of the Day". ASD at NASA. 2008-07-22. Archived from the original on 2008-08-29. http://www.webcitation.org/5aRaALDTS. Retrieved 2008-08-29.
- ^ "Where the Hell is Matt in South Africa?" on YouTube
- ^ - Camp Jabulani Official Website
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- ^ "Matthew Harding". MobyGames. Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. http://www.webcitation.org/5ZDVnibB0. Retrieved 2008-07-10. "Games Credited Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow (2006), Bethesda Softworks LLC [...] Destroy All Humans! (2005), THQ Inc. [...] Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), Activision Publishing, Inc. [...] Army Men RTS (2002), 3DO Company, The [...] Dark Reign 2 (2000), Activision Publishing, Inc. [...] Battlezone II: Combat Commander (1999), Activision Publishing, Inc. [...] Battlezone (1998), Activision, Inc. [...] Zork: Grand Inquisitor (1997), Activision, Inc."
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