The Normal
The Normal is the recording artist name used by English music producer Daniel Miller, a film editor at the time, who is best known as the founder of the record label Mute Records.
Background
In 1977, Miller had split up with his girlfriend. A friend suggested that he read a book he himself had just finished. The book was Crash (1973) by J.G. Ballard. He felt that Ballard's writing took him five minutes into the future; the novel was to be a major influence in the music he would produce as The Normal. Miller was disillusioned by the fact you needed to learn three chords to be in a punk band, so he decided to purchase a synthesiser. His thinking was that you only needed to learn to press one key on a synthesiser. After buying a Korg 700s synthesiser from Macari's music shop in London, Miller recorded and released a single under the name The Normal. This was "T.V.O.D."/"Warm Leatherette". Both tracks were minimalist electronic songs influenced by the Crash novel. He wanted the sound of the recordings to be visual, like driving along a highway between large buildings then going through a tunnel. The single was recorded in Daniel Miller's house using a TEAC four track tape recorder and the Korg mini700s synthesiser.
The Normal Heart
The Normal Heart is a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer.
It focuses on the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks, the gay founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Ned prefers loud public confrontations to the calmer, more private strategies favored by his associates, friends, and closeted lover Felix Turner. Their differences of opinion lead to frequent arguments that threaten to undermine their mutual goal.
After a successful 1985 Off-Broadway production at The Public Theater, the play was revived in Los Angeles and London and again Off-Broadway in 2004. A Broadway debut opened in April 2011.
Synopsis
During the early 1980s, Jewish-American writer and gay activist Ned Weeks struggles to pull together an organization focused on raising awareness about the fact that an unidentified disease is killing off an oddly specific group of people: gay men largely in New York City. Dr. Emma Brookner, a physician and survivor of polio, as a consequence of which she is using a wheelchair, is the most experienced with this strange new outbreak and bemoans the lack of medical knowledge on the illness, encouraging the abstinence of gay men for their own safety, since it is unknown yet even how the disease is spread. Ned, a patient and friend of Brookner, calls upon his lawyer brother, Ben, to help fund his crisis organization; however, Ben's attitude toward his brother is to give merely passive support, ultimately exposing his apparent homophobia. For the first time in his life, meanwhile, Ned falls in love, beginning a relationship with New York Times writer Felix Turner.
The Normal Heart (film)
The Normal Heart is a 2014 American drama television film directed by Ryan Murphy and written by Larry Kramer, based on his own 1985 play of same name. The film stars Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons, Alfred Molina, Joe Mantello, Jonathan Groff, and Julia Roberts.
It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 26, 2014.
The film depicts the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks (Ruffalo), the founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Weeks prefers public confrontations to the calmer, more private strategies favored by his associates, friends, and closeted lover Felix Turner (Bomer). Their differences of opinion lead to arguments that threaten to undermine their shared goals.
Plot
It is summer of 1981. Ned Weeks (Mark Ruffalo) is an openly gay writer from New York City who travels to Fire Island Pines on Long Island to celebrate the birthday of his friend Craig Donner (Jonathan Groff) at a house on the beach. Other friends in attendance include Mickey Marcus (Joe Mantello) and the charismatic Bruce Niles (Taylor Kitsch), who has recently begun dating Craig. Craig is young and appears to be in good health. While walking on the beach, however, Craig feels dizzy and collapses. Later, when blowing out the candles on his birthday cake, Craig begins to cough repeatedly.
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- Only After Dark: The Sound of the Rum Runner released: 2006
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- Nag Nag Nag released: 2004
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Electrospective: Electronic Music Since 1958
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- Planet Earth
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- Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)
- Around the World (radio edit)
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- Everything in Its Right Place
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- Dare
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- One (original mix)
The New Romantics
Released 2009- Fade to Grey
- Living on the Ceiling
- Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure on)
- Don't You Want Me
- Ashes to Ashes
- The Model
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- Don't Go
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- More Than This
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- Quiet Life
- Planet Earth
- Enola Gay
- I Ran
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- Vienna
New Wave: The Platinum Collection
Released 2008- Never Let Me Down Again
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- Underpass
- Situation
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- Bye Bye Till the Next Time
- Every Day Is Like Sunday
- Never Take Me Alive
- Gigantic
- Can't Get There From Here
- Life During Wartime (live)
- Pretty in Pink
- Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
- Hanging on the Telephone
- No More Heroes
- Rain
- (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
- Chercher Le Garçon
Essential New & Electro Wave
Released 2007- Peaches
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- 10:15 Saturday Night
- The Sound of the Crowd
- She's Lost Control
- Is Vic There?
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- Making Plans for Nigel
- Visions of China
- Turn to Red
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- The Cutter
- Someone Somewhere (In Summertime)
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- Our Darkness
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- What Difference Does It Make?
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- You, the Night & The Music
- L.A.
- Baby Turns Blue
- No Tears
- Dead Eyes Opened
- Death Disco
- Flying Turns
- Are Friends Electric?
- The Bus
- Paranoimia
- The Robots
- I Love You
- A.G.N.E.S.
- Let Your Body Learn
- My Spine (Is the Bass Line)
- Coitus Interruptus
- Warm Leatherette
- Eisbär
- Der Mussolini
- Nag Nag Nag
- Euroshima (Wardance)
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Mute Audio Documents 1
Released 2007- T.V.O.D.
- Warm Leatherette
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- Judy in Disguise
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- Handshake
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- Soundtrack 3 (Loop edit of 1" 30" at 33rpm)
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Only After Dark: Nick Rhodes & John Taylor Present...
Released 2006- Being Boiled (Fast version)
- Computer Game (Theme From the Invader) / Firecracker
- Always Crashing in the Same Car
- Sister Europe (album version)
- Changeling
- Only After Dark
- Underpass
- Warm Leatherette
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- The True Wheel
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- The Robots (single edit)
- I Feel Love
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- Shot by Both Sides
- Private Life
- The Passenger
- Slow Motion
Süddeutsche Zeitung | Diskothek: 1978: Ein Jahr und seine 20 Songs
Released 2005- Outdoor Miner
- I Want Your Love
- Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
- Denis
- This Love Affair
- Another Girl, Another Planet
- Warm Leatherette
- Elle et moi
- Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
- Sufôco
- Unbeschreiblich weiblich
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- Identity
- Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)
- Because the Night
- Accidentally Like a Martyr
- Everybody Needs Love
England's Dreaming: 25 Tracks Before, During & After Punk
Released 2004- Search and Destroy
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- Never Never
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- Mr. Suit
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- The Set Up
- I'm a Bug
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Death Disco: Songs From Under the Dance Floor 1978-1984
Released 2004- Death Disco
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- Why Can't I Touch It?
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- Hard Times
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Rough Trade Shops: Electronic 01
Released 2002- Just a Second (Starts Like That)
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- I Want More
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- Firspk
- Being Boiled
- Direct Drive (edit)
- Mean Old Devil
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- Turn On
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- Big Muff
- Senderwahl
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- At the Golden Circle, Stockholm, Volume 1, 1965
- Ended
Me Without You
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- Just Can't Get Enough
- Skin Deep
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- Cocaine in My Brain
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- I've Never Been to Me
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- Whole Wide World
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- Voulez-vous coucher avec moi
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- Desire (Tronic mix)
- In Ecstasy
- Lightning Man
- Sweet Torture (whip edit)
- Emotional
- Heart on the Line
- Je t'aime
- Take Control
- Hallucinations
The Indie Scene 78: The Story of British Independent Music
Released 1991- Teenage Kicks
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- Ain’t Got a Clue
- The Murder of Liddle Towers
- Where Were You
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- Part-Time Punks
- All I Want
- Eddie & Sheena
- Don’t Care
- Jilted John
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- Where’s Bill Grundy Now
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- All the Time in the World
- Desire Me
- Five Minutes
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Indie City 1
Released 1988- Tupelo
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- Smash It Up
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- Mindless Violence
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- The Official World Cup Theme
- Transmission
- The Spangle Maker
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Woon Y Tunes, Volume 2
- Rise or Fall
- Cracking Up
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- Pda
- C.S.S. Suxxx
- 2/4
- Warm Leatherette
- Nature of the Experiment
- My Son Spells Backwards
- What Would Morrissey Say?
- Kandy Pop
- Gay Bar (Electric Six Cover)
- Hot Topic
- Every Little Thing
- Friends of P.
- Little Girls
- Tidalwave
- This Is Our Emergency
- The Truth About Cats and Dogs (is That They Die)
The Heart
by: Jimmy GneccoWhere is your soul?
buried in all that was
calling your name
every end has a start
tearing as we fall apart
calling your name, calling your name
it's the light on the grave
the wind when you sway
said all you could but you won't make them change
care and you will live
share and you'll be comforted
with all you have to give
sparingly take
but love, love me with all your heart
and i will be brave, i will be brave
it's the light on the grave
the wind when you sway
said all you could but you won't make them stay
stay with me tonight
stay with me light
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