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Blow Out Film · 1980s

Blow Out is a 1981 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma. It stars John Travolta as a sound technician from Philadelphia who, while recording sounds for a low-budget slasher film, unintentionally captures audio evidence of an assassination. Nancy Allen stars as Sally Bedina,...

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Music Has the Right to Children Music · 1990s

Nostalgic electronic music that sounds like half-remembered childhood. Hauntology as genre.

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Pet Sounds Music · 1960s

Brian Wilson's teenage symphony to God. Wouldn't It Be Nice and the invention of art-pop.

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Pet Sounds Television

episode of Littlest Pet Shop (S3 E19)

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Sounds Around You (Altered State & Kleysky remix) Music · 2020s

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