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Kate Bush’s The Dreaming and Yoko Ono’s Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band are two of the albums featured in our Records That Adjusted Our Lives series
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Kate Bush’s The Dreaming and Yoko Ono’s Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band are two of the albums showcased in our Data That Altered Our Life collection
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What history improved your existence? Past 12 months, NPR Songs questioned 12 writers to respond to that query as element of Turning the Tables. That is our extended-jogging job about musical greatness, exactly where we focus on artists, histories and lists of music and albums that make up the well-liked music canon and problem the typically sexist and exclusionary way that canon has been formed. Turning the Tables has published lists of the 150 Best Albums Built By Females, the 200 Greatest Music By 21st Century Females+ and extra. In past year’s sequence, we turned the lens on our very own lives by enlisting ladies and non-binary critics to every convey to us about a single life-changing history by a girl artist. This March, for Women’s Record Thirty day period, we’re getting above All Music Regarded as every single Wednesday to go deep with writers from the collection.
This 7 days, Ann Powers — NPR New music critic and correspondent, and co-founder of Turning the Tables — and Marissa Lorusso, who edited the Data That Transformed Our Life series, kick off the conversation by speaking about how one’s adore for a record can alter above the course of our life. For Marissa, Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band’s Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band was a possibility to reconsider what it implies come to feel authoritative about a piece of tunes. For Ann, hearing Kate Bush’s The Dreaming was a gateway into wild, unusual appears that she promptly related with — and whose that means for her has shifted over time.
You can hear to our comprehensive conversation at the audio url at the top of the site, and listen to songs we reviewed below.
Highlighted Tracks And Artists:
1. Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band: “Why” from Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band
2. Kate Bush: “Leave It Open up” from The Dreaming
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3. Kate Bush: “Pull Out The Pin” from The Dreaming
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