Magnet

A magnet (from Greek μαγνήτις λίθος magnḗtis líthos, "Magnesian stone") is a material or object that produces a magnetic field. This magnetic field is invisible but is responsible for the most notable property of a magnet: a force that pulls on other ferromagnetic materials, such as iron, and attracts or repels other magnets.

A permanent magnet is an object made from a material that is magnetized and creates its own persistent magnetic field. An everyday example is a refrigerator magnet used to hold notes on a refrigerator door. Materials that can be magnetized, which are also the ones that are strongly attracted to a magnet, are called ferromagnetic (or ferrimagnetic). These include iron, nickel, cobalt, some alloys of rare earth metals, and some naturally occurring minerals such as lodestone. Although ferromagnetic (and ferrimagnetic) materials are the only ones attracted to a magnet strongly enough to be commonly considered magnetic, all other substances respond weakly to a magnetic field, by one of several other types of magnetism.

Magnets (album)

Magnets was The Vapors' second album, released in 1981.

Description

The album continued The Vapors' dark themes, taking them to a slightly darker level, with "Jimmie Jones" being about Jim Jones, "Isolated Case" about state oppression and disillusionment with politics, "Civic Hall" about the assault Dave suffered at the hands of overzealous Metropolitan Policemen, "Spiders" and "Can't Talk Anymore" about mental illness, and the title track being about the assassinations of John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. Even those songs about relations - "Daylight Titans", "Johnny's In Love (Again)" and "Lenina" are tinged with an edge of being in a suffocating society and a malevolent state apparatus.

The cover was designed by Martin Handford, later famous for his Where's Wally? books, depicting an assassination scene close up, but from a distance, looks like a man's eye. If you look on the roof at the top right of the album cover, the assassin can be seen putting away his sniper rifle.

Despite positive reviews (particularly for the second single "Jimmie Jones" and the epic final track "Magnets"), the album spent far fewer weeks in the UK chart than the previous New Clear Days, possibly as a result of the lack of promotion on the part of their record label. The United Artists record company had been bought out by EMI in 1980 and later renamed Liberty; many of the bands who came across as part of the deal complained of poor treatment by their disinterested new owner.

Magnets (song)

"Magnets" is a song by British electronic duo Disclosure featuring vocals from New Zealand singer Lorde. The single was released on 23 September 2015, under PMR Records and Island Records, as the third promotional single from their studio album Caracal. The track became Disclosure most successful hit in Australia and New Zealand, peaking at No. 14 and No. 2 respectively becoming their highest charting single on both countries. In the US, "Magnets" became their first single to impact alternative radio and adult alternative radio, placing at #21 on the Rock Airplay chart and #17 on the Alternative Songs chart, with the single being officially released to alternative radio on 10 November 2015.

Disclosure and Lorde performed the song on Saturday Night Live on 14 November 2015.

Magnets was voted in at number 10 in Australian alternative youth radio station Triple J's Hottest 100 countdown of 2015's most popular songs, announced on 26 January 2016.

Critical reception

'Magnets' garnered very positive reviews from critics. Rolling Stone ranked "Magnets" at number 32 on its year-end list to find the 50 best songs of 2015, calling it "the year's most understated dance-world magic". Conversely, Michaelangelo Matos of Billboard called the tune "mildly memorable".

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Magnets

by: Ryan Taylor Bliss

You've been working hard to build a wall;
Constructing borders to stop us all.
And if they keep me out, I'll say goodbye;
It would kill me, but for you I'd try.
No matter how I try to, I found I can't forget you.
It's seven thirty I don't wanna go home;
Cause I'll just end up staying up by the phone. And every time I turn around, I still see you dear I see you here.
And all my friends are saying Ryan what's wrong;
It's seven thirty guys I wanna go home.
Cause everytime I turn around I still see your face;
And I don't want it to go away.
I go all the way to the coast;
If I knew you'd be there, I'd just go.
And every word we'd say, would fight the tide;
Damn the water for trying to rise (push us aside)
On the beach holding your hand;
I'd write our names in the sand.
It's seven thirty I don't wanna go home;
Cause I'll just end up staying up by the phone. And every time I turn around, I still see you dear I see you here.
And all my friends are saying Ryan what's wrong;
It's seven thirty guys I wanna go home.
Cause everytime I turn around I still see your face;
And I don't want it to go away.
(Long vocalization)
Well lately I've been waiting around for anything to change;
Cause it's hard to feel so close to you, but yet so far away.
So far away.




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