Rapture (Blondie song)
"Rapture" is a song by the American pop rock band Blondie from their fifth studio album, Autoamerican (1980).
In January 1981, "Rapture" was released as the second and final single from the album. The song reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it stayed for two weeks. It was the first No. 1 song in the U.S. to feature rap. The song peaked at No. 4 in Australia and No. 5 in the United Kingdom.
History
"Rapture" is a combination of disco, funk, and hip hop with the rap section forming an extended coda. The song title "Rapture" served to indicate this element. While it was not the first single featuring rapping to be commercially successful, it was the first to top the charts. Its lyrics were especially notable for namechecking hip-hop pioneers Fab Five Freddy and Grandmaster Flash.
Music video
The music video made its U.S. television debut on Solid Gold on January 31, 1981, and became the first rap video ever broadcast on MTV. Set in the East Village section of Manhattan, the "Man from Mars" or "voodoo god" (dancer William Barnes in the white suit and top hat) is the introductory and central figure. Barnes also choreographed the piece. The final shot is a one-take scene of Debbie Harry dancing along the street, passing by graffiti artists, Uncle Sam, a Native American and a goat. Fab Five Freddy and graffiti artists Lee Quinones and Jean-Michel Basquiat make cameo appearances. Basquiat was hired when Grandmaster Flash did not show for the filming. The UK 7" version of the song is used in the video.
Final Fantasy XIV
Final Fantasy XIV (ファイナルファンタジーXIV, Fainaru Fantajī Fōtīn), also known as Final Fantasy XIV Online, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for Microsoft Windows personal computers, developed and published by Square Enix in 2010. It is the fourteenth entry in the main Final Fantasy series and the second MMORPG in the series after Final Fantasy XI. Set in the fantasy realm of Eorzea, players take control of a customized avatar as they explore the land and are caught up in both an invasion by the hostile Garlean Empire and the threat of the Primals, the deities of the land's Beastmen tribes. Eventually, they are embroiled in a plot by a Garlean Legatus to destroy the Primals by bringing one of the planet's moons down on Eorzea.
The game had been in development since 2005 under the codename "Rapture", and was announced in 2009 for Windows and PlayStation 3 video game consoles. It ran on Square Enix's Crystal Tools middleware engine, which was adjusted to suit the game's specifications. During development, the team carried over multiple aesthetic elements from XI while creating something that stood on its own. Due to several factors, the development was beset by problems that would later have drastic effects on the game. Attempts to bring the game to Xbox 360 consoles fell through due to disagreements with Microsoft about the use of Xbox Live.
Rapture (composition)
Rapture is an orchestral composition in one movement by the American composer Christopher Rouse. The work was commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and was completed January 9, 2000. It is dedicated to then Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra music director Mariss Jansons and premiered in May 2000.
Composition
Rapture is markedly more tonal than Rouse's earlier compositions. In the program notes to the score, Rouse commented, "With the exception of my Christmas work, Karolju, this is the most unabashedly tonal music I have composed. I wished to depict a progression to an ever more blinding ecstasy, but the entire work inhabits a world devoid of darkness -- hence the almost complete lack of sustained dissonance." The piece is also built around "gradually increasing tempi" gains speed over the course of its roughly 11 minutes.
Despite the religious title of the work, Rouse did not intend Rapture to be sacred music. He further commented, "...the piece is not connected to any specific religious source. Rather, I used the word 'rapture' to convey a sense of spiritual bliss, religious or otherwise."
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ALBUMS
- Infernal Manifest released: 2010
- Sinister Creation released: 2008
- Living Inside of Death released: 2006
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- The Sound of Scenesat, Volume 3 released: 2014
- Hands On IV released: 2013
- Bitjam Episode #54: Doskpop released: 2009
The Sound of Scenesat, Volume 3
Released 2014- Staffroom
- La Nuit
- We Don't Like Bootleggers
- Moody Breeze (Peter W Summer Breeze remix)
- Analog Feel (Home Invasion edit)
- Open Dreams
- Red, Yellow and Blue
- More Cowbell
- Cauldron II (Subversive Elements & Tron - Le Citrouille SurL'Acide remix)
- God Damn Shit
- Version Three
- Cassiopeia
- Megavolt
- Living in a Dream
- Serenity
- Tingly Sensation
- B.F.O. Drift (Polka Dot mix)
- The Ocean
- Canniballad
- The Crystal Fragments
- The Sea
- Just Another Day
- Lost Colony (Byproduct Remix)
- Funky Augusto
- High Hopes
- Funkemistric
- Onward Ride (BeeZerk remix)
- Gem'x Round B (new arranged version)
- Elimination (2014 remake)
- Compilation III (Dr.Future remix)
- Pikaboo Lobotomy
- Street Wolf Rider
- My Childhood Was ElekTrick
- Solstråle
- Nails And Noodles
- Happen-O-Iowize (Mordi remix)
- Whiskey Drops
- Aye Aye Captain
- Let's Go
- Dance Un Funk
- Professional Tracker
- Snowflakes
- Organic Biochip
- The Sounds of Impossible Mission (The Glitch Experience)
- Marching Into Retrograde (album preview)
- Metal Machine (Saga Musix remix)
- Panic Room (T-101 Diesel remix)
- Divine Discreation (Revision edit)
- Borxx Redux
- Intro Fronty II
- Desolator (SIDized demo)
- Elysium
- Livin' Insanity (Teetow remix)
- Elekfunk (Teetow remix feat. Romeo Knight)
- Cannon Fodder (Amok Guns on the Beach remix)
- Fzzzt
- Containment Breach
- Critter Brunch (remastered)
- Grid Bug
- Law of Sines
- Cold Blur
- In Peace (feat. Snowflake)
- Future Sound of Rågsved
- Planck's Wife Swallows the Quantum Foam
- I Feel The Wind Beneath My Wings
- At Home (For T)
- But Look What I Can Do (Music for a Vampire OST, SceneSat edit)
- Father John Theme
- The Prophecy
- Miracle Mirage
- Intense
- The Conquest
- All That Time
- The Imaginary Megademo
- Spellbound (O2 Remix)
- Battle Ships (CZ-Tunes Title remix)
- Cream of the Earth (CoLD SToRAGE remix)
- Groovision
- Scion
- Druid II (Amok Druids Dance remix)
- Euro-Dance (Chronberg Recharged Nitro version)
- Her Plethora Scattered Around (Chasing the Mood edit)
- Blitzgewitter
- Scroller
- Urbanite (feat. Makke)
- Pollen
- Rift
- Sanity Lives
- Scarecrow
Hands On IV
Released 2013- Starter
- Dark Encounters
- Tides of Dosk
- Kototron
- Loom
- Mellow Morada
- Minoan War (GG mix) (original by Koto)
- Dienen Pappa 3 (Flux remix)
- April Snow (Club Le Brisc remix)
- Unknown Phuture
- Nosmo King
- Show Me the Universe (2013 re-edit)
- Wings of Death (Level 1)
- Lightspeed Travel
- Clover Leaf
- Klaymen's Theme (The Neverhood)
Rapture
ALBUMS
- Silent Stage released: 2005
- Songs for the Withering released: 2002
- Futile released: 1999
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Nameless
by: Rapturei'm sleeping with a knife again
i'm just a drawing on the wall
sooner or later everything falls apart
every day a punishment
I have tried so hard to do right
fought to heal every hurt
every turn I take
leads me back to where I started from
all my dreams
they die on me
and I don't think
there's ever healing it
the days grow long
filled with empty hours
when I wake up alone
with these shadows as my only company
splinters of glass at my feet
silence in her white dress
like dust on books no-one reads
and beds no-one sleeps in anymore
(speechless nameless sleepless alone)
"...the fog is rising"
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