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Rat Race (1980 Film)
A rat race is an endless, self-defeating pursuit. Rat race may also refer to: Film * ''The Rat Race'', a 1960 film directed by Robert Mulligan starring Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds * ''Rat Race'' (film), a 2001 comedy film directed by Jerry Zucker Music * ''Rat Race'' (Child's Play album), 1990 ** "Rat Race" (Child's Play song), a single from the album * "Rat Race", a song by Bob Marley & The Wailers from ''Rastaman Vibration'' * "Rat Race" (song), by the UK Subs, contained in their 1980 album ''Brand New Age'' * "Rat Race", a song by The Drifters * "Rat Race" (The Specials song), a 1980 single included on the 1980 album ''More Specials'' * "Rat Race" (Enter Shikari song) * "Ratrace" (Skindred song) * '' The Rat Race Blues'' a 1960 jazz album by Gigi Gryce Other uses * ''Rat Race'' (video game), a cancelled Sony game * Rat Race (''The Price Is Right''), a pricing game on the TV show ''The Price Is Right'' * ''The Rat Race'' (novel), a 1950 science fiction novel by Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rat Race
A rat race is an endless, self-defeating, or pointless pursuit. The phrase equates humans to rats attempting to earn a reward such as cheese, in vain. It may also refer to a competitive struggle to get ahead financially or routinely. The term is commonly associated with an exhausting, repetitive lifestyle that leaves no time for relaxation or enjoyment. Etymology The earliest known occurrence is 1934. In reference to aviation training a rat race was originally a "follow-the-leader" game in which a trainee fighter pilot had to copy all the actions (loops, rolls, spins, Immelmann turns etc.) performed by an experienced pilot. From 1945, the phrase took on the meaning of "competitive struggle." Historical usage *''The Rat Race'' was used as a title for a novel written by Jay Franklin in 1947 for Colliers Magazine and first published in book form in 1950. It is dedicated ''To those few rats in Washington who do not carry brief-cases.'' *The term "rat race" was used in an article ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rat Race
''The Rat Race'' is a 1960 American drama film adapted from the play of the same name by Garson Kanin. Directed by Robert Mulligan, it stars Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds as struggling young entertainment professionals in New York City. Filming took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Sam Butera and Gerry Mulligan have minor roles as saxophonists. Plot Wishing to pursue a career as a jazz saxophonist, Pete Hammond Jr. takes a bus from his home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to New York City and optimistically begins looking for work. However, jobs are extremely hard to find. He crosses paths with Peggy Brown, a model and taxi dancer who has become jaded and cynical after years of struggling to survive in the city. She has just been evicted from an apartment rented to Pete, and because she is penniless and has no home to return to, he offers to let her stay with him. She is forced to rely on his generosity, and as the two of them work at various low-paying jobs, they stay together ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rat Race (film)
''Rat Race'' is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Jerry Zucker. Inspired by Stanley Kramer's 1963 film ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'', the film features an ensemble cast consisting of Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding Jr., Wayne Knight, Jon Lovitz, Kathy Najimy, Lanei Chapman, Breckin Meyer, Amy Smart, Seth Green, Vince Vieluf, John Cleese and Dave Thomas. The film centers on six teams of people who are given the task of racing from a Las Vegas casino to a Silver City, New Mexico train station where a storage locker contains a duffel bag filled with $2 million. Each team is given a key to the locker and the first person to reach the locker gets the money. Produced by Fireworks Pictures, Alphaville Films and Zucker's Zucker Productions, the film was released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on August 17, 2001, in the United States and Canada. Despite receiving mixed to negative reviews from critics, the film was a box office success, having grossed $8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rat Race (Child's Play Album)
''Rat Race'' is the debut studio album by hard rock/ heavy metal band Child'ƨ Play, released on June 26, 1990, through Chrysalis Records. It was produced by Howard Benson, who would later go on to produce for Motörhead, Sepultura, and Seether. It is the first album to feature new bassist Marion Idzi, going by the mononym Idzi. It is also the first album to feature Brian Jack on lead vocals, as previous vocalist Lawrence Hinshaw left the band in 1988, who only appeared on the band's 1986 EP, Ruff House. The band released three singles from the album, the title track which was the only song to have an MTV music video, at "Day After Night", and "Wind". Critical r ...
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Rat Race (Child's Play Song)
"Rat Race" is a song written by Child'ƨ Play members Nicky Kay and John Allen for their debut EP Ruff House and eventually re-recorded with some added songwriting from bassist Marion Idzi for their debut studio album of the same name. Ruff House version The song originally appeared on the band's EP Ruff House and was slightly different from the version that would appear on their debut studio album, with the biggest notable change being a spoken word passage between a boy's father walking in his room, telling him to get a job, cut his hair, and get his girlfriend out of the house. Music video The music video featured the band playing the song on an empty stage. Brian Jack and John Allen sing their respective lines of the song while Nicky Kay and Idzi play their guitars while spinning their hair and headbanging. When it comes time for the second guitar solo, a guitar is thrown to Jack from off screen and he plays the solo. The video features film reel graphics and rats runni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rastaman Vibration
''Rastaman Vibration'' is the eighth studio album by the reggae band Bob Marley and the Wailers, released in April 1976. Critical reception Reviewing for ''Rolling Stone'' in 1976, Robert Palmer said that on the album Marley consummately performs "a dual role as spokesman for the Third World's disadvantaged and avatar of a highly commercial brand of popular music". While lacking the forceful, intricate quality of the Wailers' past line-up, "the sensitive, careful listener will learn from ''Rastaman Vibration'' something of the pain, rage and determination of Shantytown, Jamaica, and perhaps something of the community's political and cultural fragmentation as well", Palmer concluded. ''Village Voice'' critic Robert Christgau said if the record's first side "makes it seem that reggae has turned into the rasta word for boogie—even to a Trenchtown tragedy recited with all the toughness of an imprecation against litter—the unimpassioned sweetness of most of side two sounds like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brand New Age
''Brand New Age'' is the second studio album released by English punk band the U.K. Subs. It was released in 1980 on RCA/GEM Records. It is the U.K. Subs' most successful studio recording, reaching number 18 in the UK album charts and staying in the chart for nine weeks. The album saw the band expand both musically and lyrically, taking on subjects such as government intrusion, violence and religious fundamentalism, terrorism, as well as established Subs themes of alcohol, drugs, motorbikes, girls and youth subcultures. Brand New Age included two hit singles; "Warhead", warning of the danger of the Cold War and the growing threat of Islamic Jihadism in Afghanistan, and which reached number 30 in the UK singles charts in March 1980; and "Teenage", which reached 32 in the UK charts in May 1980. Critical reception The album was awarded five stars by ''Sounds'' magazine writer Garry Bushell, and four stars in ''Record Mirror'', though as Alex Ogg wrote later, "the band might as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Drifters
The Drifters are several American doo-wop and R&B/Soul music, soul vocal groups. They were originally formed as a backing group for Clyde McPhatter, formerly the lead tenor of Billy Ward and his Dominoes in 1953. The second group of Drifters, formed in 1959 and led by Ben E. King, were originally an up-and-coming group named The Five Crowns. After 1965 members drifted in and out of both groups and many of these formed other groups of Drifters as well. Several groups of Drifters can trace roots back to these original groups, but contain few if any original members. According to ''Rolling Stone'', the Drifters were the least stable of the great vocal groups, as they were low-paid musicians hired by George Treadwell, who owned the Drifters' name from 1955, after McPhatter left. The Treadwell Drifters line has had 60 musicians, including several splinter groups by former Drifters members (not under Treadwell's management). These groups are usually identified with a possessive credit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rat Race (The Specials Song)
"Rat Race" is a song by ska/ 2-Tone band The Specials, released on 16 May 1980 by 2 Tone Records as a double A-side single with "Rude Buoys Outa Jail". The single wasn't included on the UK release of the ''More Specials'' album, but was included on the US version, released by Chrysalis Records. The song peaked at no. 5 on the UK Singles Chart and also charted on the US Dance Chart. Meaning and composition "Rat Race" is a critique on how privileged students "would spend three years pissing it up in college, knowing full well that Daddy would get them a good job when they left no matter what", "while ordinary kids have nothing to look forward to". Linton Kwesi Johnson's "Me Wan' Fi Go Rave" was taken as a musical starting point and keyboardist Jerry Dammers added a plucked piano intro inspired by John Barry (possibly from "A Man Alone" from the soundtrack to the film The Ipcress File). Reception Reviewing the song for ''Record Mirror'', Daniela Soave wrote "The group with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rat Race (Enter Shikari Song)
"Rat Race" is a single by British rock band Enter Shikari. The song was first played on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio One show on the evening of 31 October 2013. The single was released with a remix of the song Radiate by Enter Shikari's alter ego Shikari Sound System. The band also released an EP, which compiled the two previous singles " The Paddington Frisk" and " Radiate". The "Rat Race" single peaked at #77 on the UK Singles Chart on 16 November 2013. Music video The music video was released on the band's official YouTube page on 31 October. Track listings ;Digital download # "Rat Race" – 3:17 # " Radiate" (Shikari Sound System Remix) – 3:49 ;CD # "Rat Race" – 3:17 # "Rat Race" (Radio Edit) – 3:00 # " Radiate" (Shikari Sound System Remix) – 3:49 ;EP # " The Paddington Frisk" - 1:16 # "Radiate" – 4:32 # "Rat Race" – 3:17 # "Radiate" (Shikari Sound System Remix) – 3:49 Personnel ;Enter Shikari *Roughton "Rou" Reynolds – lead vocals, synthesizer, keyboards, pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ratrace (Skindred Song)
A rat race is an endless, self-defeating, or pointless pursuit. The phrase equates humans to rats attempting to earn a reward such as cheese, in vain. It may also refer to a competitive struggle to get ahead financially or routinely. The term is commonly associated with an exhausting, repetitive lifestyle that leaves no time for relaxation or enjoyment. Etymology The earliest known occurrence is 1934. In reference to aviation training a rat race was originally a "follow-the-leader" game in which a trainee fighter pilot had to copy all the actions (loops, rolls, spins, Immelmann turns etc.) performed by an experienced pilot. From 1945, the phrase took on the meaning of "competitive struggle." Historical usage *''The Rat Race'' was used as a title for a novel written by Jay Franklin in 1947 for Colliers Magazine and first published in book form in 1950. It is dedicated ''To those few rats in Washington who do not carry brief-cases.'' *The term "rat race" was used in an article ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rat Race Blues
''The Rat Race Blues'' is an album by American saxophonist Gigi Gryce recorded in 1960 for the New Jazz label. accessed May 31, 2013 Reception Harvey Pekar, writing in his four star review in the August 10, 1962 issue of '''' stated: "Gryce's major contributions to jazz have been made as an outstanding composer-arranger. But his writing ability notwithstanding... this is primarily a blowing session.": August 16, 1962 vol. 29, no. 22 |
