“Music For Satanic Children” by Simon Stålenhag. And because it’s a wonderful soundtrack for his visual art, here’s a picture of that:
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Gentle Giant - Cogs In Cogs
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I saw them open for Black Sabbath in 1973. They almost got booed off stage.
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I discovered them too late but love their craftsmanship ;
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Steven Wilson has been remixing GG albums (along with all his other remixes of classic prog). The next one is Free Hand.
I’m still stuck on Octopus, not a wrong note on that one 
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This on repeat at the moment. One of those awesome songs that’s been waiting for me to find.
You might like this art as well: http://www.mathewborrett.com
That was my favourite bit from the short story. The movie didn’t disappoint in that scene! 
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I read somewhere, that the director Frank Darabont changed the ending of the movie to something else that was in the book and Stephen King was mad that HE did not think of that.
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Yes, the ending of the movie is better (though very upsetting) as the short story kind of just… ends. I always thought a good ending would be the car driving off, the camera pulls back and you see it drive off the edge of what is now a floating island, as the whole town got “transported” somewhere…
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I saw Nina perform at the Bayou in Georgetown back in the day. Definitely a highlight of my post-punk days.
This was after Nina in Exstacy, and she must have had recently had issues with her record label, because there were many expletive-filled rants about how we should not “buy my records. Record my shows!”
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And speaking of Nina, this one makes it on to my playlist pretty often, even after the years:
Funny, I personally like the first 2 albums because she is singing in her native language, and the band (Spliff) was just exceptionally good.both live and in the studio. Nina singing in English just does nothing to me. Although her vocal acrobatics were/are still astounding.
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I like her earlier stuff too, but being an English speaker (I studied German in college, but that was, er, a while ago), I appreciate her later stuff. Nunsexmonkrock is probably my favorite, but Nina in Exstacy will always hold a soft-spot in my heart, as it was the first of her albums released after I had become a fan.
I mean, if you need further proof that it’s a masterpiece… 
Fun trivia fact: Synthesizers on nunsexmonkrock were performed by Paul Shaffer, David Letterman’s nerdy band-leader side-kick.
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In similar vain, Kraftwerk in English doesn’t do it for me. Jacques Brell translated, interpreted, in English, nope. The other way around too. Things get lost.
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Two more examples of beautiful German songs :
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sure, but no exception for this???
