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Wide Open (Jason Aldean Album)
Wide Open may refer to: Places * The great wide open, any rural area with long vistas and low population * Wideopen or Wide Open, a village in North Tyneside, Tyne & Wear * Wideopen Islands, a group of islands off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula * East Wideopen and West Wideopen, islands of the inner Farne Islands Music Albums * ''Wide Open'' (Jason Aldean album) or the title song, 2009 * ''Wide Open'' (Michael McDonald album), 2017 * ''Wide Open'' (Sawyer Brown album) or the title song, 1988 * ''Wide Open'' (Weaves album) or the title song, 2017 * ''Wide Open'', by Austin French, 2018 * ''Wide Open'', by Kahvas Jute, 1971 * ''Wide Open'', by Latch Key Kid, 2010 * ''Wide Open'', an EP by Skids, 1978 Songs * "Wide Open", by Brick, 1981 * "Wide Open", by the Chemical Brothers from ''Born in the Echoes'', 2015 * "Wide Open", by Mike Posner from '' A Real Good Kid'', 2019 * "Wide Open", by Wafia, Ta-ku, and Masego, 2021 * "Wide Open", by Westlife from ''Greatest Hits' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rural Area
In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry typically are described as rural. Different countries have varying definitions of ''rural'' for statistical and administrative purposes. In rural areas, because of their unique economic and social dynamics, and relationship to land-based industry such as agriculture, forestry and resource extraction, the economics are very different from cities and can be subject to boom and bust cycles and vulnerability to extreme weather or natural disasters, such as droughts. These dynamics alongside larger economic forces encouraging to urbanization have led to significant demographic declines, called rural flight, where economic incentives encourage younger populations to go to cities for education and access to jobs, leaving older, less educated and less wealthy popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brick (band)
Brick is an American band that created a successful merger of funk and jazz in the 1970s. Their most popular single was "Dazz", (#3 U.S. Pop, #1 U.S. R&B, #36 UK Singles Chart) which was released in 1976. History Brick was formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1972 from members of two bands - one disco and the other jazz. They coined their own term for disco-jazz, "dazz". They released their first single "Music Matic" on Main Street Records in 1976, before signing to the independently distributed Bang Records. Their next single, "Dazz", (#3 Pop, #1 R&B) was released in 1976. The band continued to record for Bang records until 1982. Other hits followed: "That's What It's All About" (R&B #48) and "Dusic" (#18 Pop, #2 R&B) in 1977, and "Ain't Gonna Hurt Nobody" (#92 Pop, #7 R&B) in 1978. Their last Top Ten R&B hit was "Sweat (Til You Get Wet)" in 1981. Donald Nevins died on August 7, 2011, at the age of 62. Co-founder and guitarist Regi Hargis died on October 15, 2021, at the age of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Into The Great Wide Open
''Into the Great Wide Open'' is the eighth studio album by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in July 1991. The album was the band's last with MCA Records. The album was the second Petty produced with Jeff Lynne after the success of ''Full Moon Fever''. The first single, " Learning to Fly", became the band's joint longest-running No. 1 single (along with " The Waiting" from 1981's ''Hard Promises'') on '' Billboard''s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, spending six weeks at the top spot. The second single, "Out in the Cold", also made No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock chart, albeit for two weeks. The music video for the title song stars Johnny Depp as "Eddie", who moves to Los Angeles as a teenager to seek rock stardom, along with Gabrielle Anwar, Faye Dunaway, Matt LeBlanc, Terence Trent D'Arby, and Chynna Phillips. Critical reception ''Into the Great Wide Open'' was warmly received by critics. Dave DiMartino, reviewing the album for ''Entertainment Weekly' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Wide Open
Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent People * List of people known as "the Great" *Artel Great (born 1981), American actor Other uses * ''Great'' (1975 film), a British animated short about Isambard Kingdom Brunel * ''Great'' (2013 film), a German short film * Great (supermarket), a supermarket in Hong Kong * GReAT, Graph Rewriting and Transformation, a Model Transformation Language * Gang Resistance Education and Training Gang Resistance Education And Training, abbreviated G.R.E.A.T., provides a school-based, police officer instructed program that includes classroom instruction and various learning activities. Their intention is to teach the students to avoid gang ..., or GREAT, a school-based and police officer-instructed program * Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT), a cybersecurity team at Kaspersky Lab *'' Great!'', a 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wide Open (novel)
''Wide Open'' is the third novel by English author Nicola Barker published in 1998 by Faber and Faber. In 2000 it won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Plot Set mostly on the Isle of Sheppey on the north coast of Kent on the Thames Estuary. Two men, both called Ronny (one is then renamed to Jim), strike up a strange friendship. Jim invites Ronny to live at his prefab near the beach on the island. They meet an oddball cast of neighbours, including Sara who breeds wild boars and her daughter Lily, Luke a pornographer and part-time nudist, Carrie an optician who is related to Sara who is investigating an inheritance from her father to Ronny. Then Ronny's brother Nathan arrives as their childhood brings bad memories... Reception *The IMPAC prize panel praised the novel: '‘Wide Open is word perfect, witty and ironic...The author's focus on marginal lives and on the importance of the dispossessed and the apparently mad persuade us finally that Wide Open possesses a manic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wide Open (Millennium)
"Wide Open" is the ninth episode of the first season of the American crime- thriller television series ''Millennium''. It premiered on Fox on January 3, 1997. The episode was written by Charles D. Holland and directed by Jim Charleston. "Wide Open" featured guest appearances by Glynn Turman and Roger Cross. Forensic profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, tracks a serial killer who hides in his victims' homes and preys on those who feel most safe. "Wide Open" was Charleston's second, and Holland's only, contribution to the series. The episode opens with a quote from the biblical Book of Job, and makes reference to author Patricia Highsmith. It received mixed reviews from critics. Plot A man, Cutter (Pablo Coffey), visits an open house viewing, where he is given a tour by the estate agent, and seems to take an interest in the bedroom of a young girl. That night, the owners have returned home, and are settling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wide Open (film)
''Wide Open'' is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Archie Mayo, starring Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller, and featuring Louise Fazenda, T. Roy Barnes and Edna Murphy. Released by Warner Bros., it is based on the 1924 novel ''The Narrow Street'' by Edward Bateman Morris. Warner Bros. had previously released a silent adaptation of Morris's novel in 1924 under the title ''The Narrow Street''. Plot Unassertive bookkeeper Simon Haldane (Horton) is the butt of everyone's jokes at work. Co-worker Agatha (Louise Fazenda) is desperately in love with him. One rainy night, Agatha's mother, with Agatha in tow, visits him at home to insist that he marry her. Outside, two detectives chase a mysterious young woman (Miller), who eludes them by slipping unnoticed into Simon's house and hiding in a closet. When the detectives enter the premises, Simon manages to get rid of them and Agatha and her mother. Simon discovers the intruder, who calls herself Doris, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greatest Hits (Westlife Album)
''Greatest Hits'' is the twelfth major album release by Irish boy band Westlife. It was released on 18 November 2011 by RCA Records and Sony Music. ''Greatest Hits'' is the group's second greatest hits album following '' Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits Volume 1'' (2002) and their last before their split months later and reformation six years later. The album is the group's first album not under Syco Music and not under the tutelage of Simon Cowell, having left Syco and Cowell in March 2011. It was also the band's seventh album released as a four-piece. The greatest hits album contains numerous singles that span throughout the band's career, as well as six live tracks, two from BBC Proms in the Park and four from Live at O2 Arena. Another four new songs produced by John Shanks, which includes the lead single "Lighthouse", which was released on 14 November 2011. The compilation was released in two different formats, a standard edition containing the album's eighteen tracks, and a del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wafia
Wafia Al-Rikabi (born 4 August 1993), known professionally as Wafia, is an Australian singer-songwriter of Iraqi-Syrian origin. Originally studying biomedicine at university, she began to write songs to escape its monotony. Her breakthrough hit was a cover of Mario's " Let Me Love You", which garnered almost 5 million plays on SoundCloud. Career Al-Rikabi has since signed to indie record label Future Classic, releasing her debut EP ''XXIX'' in November 2015. The EP's lead single "Heartburn", produced by Ta-ku, received praise from producer Pharrell Williams being played during his Beats 1 radio show. In March 2016, she released the single "Window Seat" in collaboration with the New Zealand artist Thomston. Later in August 2016, she collaborated again with the Australian producer Ta-ku, releasing the EP '. The EP features a story about compromise in relationships, which both Wafia and Ta-ku experienced independently in of each other in their lives. Wafia released a new single, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Real Good Kid
''A Real Good Kid'' is the third studio album by American singer Mike Posner, released on January 18, 2019, through Universal Island. It was announced by Posner on social media on November 21, 2018. It was recorded by Posner over a two-year period. It was supported by the singles "Song About You", "Stuck in the Middle" and "Move On". To "celebrate" the release of the album, Posner will walk across the United States from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean from March 2019. Background In the two-year period that the album was recorded, Posner was dealing with the end of a relationship, then moved back to Detroit to care for his terminally ill father, who later died of brain cancer, and his friend Avicii Tim Bergling (; 8 September 1989 – 20 April 2018), known professionally as Avicii (, ), was a Swedish DJ, remixer and music producer. At the age of 16, Bergling began posting his remixes on electronic music forums, which led to his first rec ... committed suicide. Posner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Born In The Echoes
''Born in the Echoes'' is the eighth studio album by English electronic music duo The Chemical Brothers, released on 17 July 2015 by Virgin EMI Records in the United Kingdom and Astralwerks in the United States. It was their first studio album since 2010's ''Further''. The album debuted at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart, marking the duo's sixth chart topper and making them the dance act with the most number-one albums ever in the UK. The fourth track on the album, "EML Ritual" featured on the O2 "Priority Tickets – Follow the Rabbit" television commercial released in February 2018. Promotion and release The album's first single, "Sometimes I Feel So Deserted" with vocals by Daniel Pearce, was released on 21 April 2015. The second single, " Go", was released on 5 May. " Under Neon Lights" was released as the third single on 23 June 2015, and features St. Vincent, credited by her real name (Annie Clark) on vocals. The album was released on 17 July 2015. Critical reception ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skids (band)
Skids are a Scottish punk rock and new wave band, formed in Dunfermline in 1977 by Stuart Adamson (guitar, keyboards, percussion and backing vocals), William Simpson (bass guitar and backing vocals), Thomas Kellichan (drums) and Richard Jobson (vocals, guitar and keyboards). Their biggest successes were the 1979 single "Into the Valley" and the 1980 album '' The Absolute Game.'' In 2016, the band announced a 40th-anniversary tour of the UK with their original singer Richard Jobson. History Early years (1977–1979) Skids played their first gig on 19 August 1977 at the Bellville Hotel in Pilmuir Street, Dunfermline, Scotland. Within six months they had released the '' Charles'' EP on the No Bad record label, created by Sandy Muir, a Dunfermline music-shop-owner-turned-manager. The record brought them to the attention of national BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel. This led to a local gig supporting The Clash. Virgin Records then signed up Skids in April 1978. The singles "Sweet Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
