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This Is Not America ist ein Lied des englischen Sängers David Bowie und der US-amerikanischen Jazz-Fusion-Band Pat Metheny Group, das aus dem Soundtrack des Films The Falcon and the Snowman (deutsch: Der Falke und der Schneemann) von 1985 stammt. Die Single erschien im Januar 1985. Sie erreichte Platz 14 im Vereinigten Königreich und Platz 32 in den Vereinigten Staaten. In Europa war der Song noch erfolgreicher und konnte in einigen Ländern Top-Ten-Positionen erreichen.

Entstehung
Der Instrumentaltitel, auf dem This Is Not America basiert, wurde von Pat Metheny und Lyle Mays geschrieben. In seiner ursprünglichen Version hieß der Song Chris; dieser Titel ist auch auf dem Soundtrack des Films enthalten. Es wurden allerdings mittels eines Linn-Drumcomputers eine Schlagzeugspur hinzugefügt und David Bowies Gesang ergänzt. Die Aufnahmen fanden im Mai 1984 statt. Bowie und Metheny waren die Produzenten.

Obwohl Metheny 1986 sagte, dass er die Arbeit an Filmsoundtracks rückblickend als "zeitaufwendig und letztlich unbefriedigend" ansah, bot es ihm die Möglichkeit, mit David Bowie zu arbeiten. "Es war das erste Mal, dass sich die Gruppe wirklich dazu verpflichtet hat, eine echte Pop-Platte zu machen, anstatt nur auf Pop-Elemente hinzuweisen", sagte Metheny. Es habe sich herausgestellt, dass seine Band eine "heiße kleine Popgruppe" sei; er könne sich vorstellen, irgendwann eine weniger improvisatorische, eindeutige Pop-Platte zu machen.

Veröffentlichung und Rezeption
Die Single wurde am 28. Januar 1985 bei EMI America veröffentlicht, passend zum Filmstart am 25. Januar des Jahres. Die B-Seite enthält eine Instrumentalversion. Die 12″-Maxi erschien am 1. Februar 1985. Der Song erschien seit 1985 auf zahlreichen Kompilationen, später unter anderem auch auf Bowies Best-of-Album von 2002, Best of Bowie, auf allen außer den australischen und japanischen Pressungen dieses Albums.

Die Single erreichte Platz fünf in Deutschland und Österreich sowie Platz sechs in der Schweiz. In den Niederlanden, Belgien und Schweden schaffte es der Song auf Platz zwei, in Norwegen auf Platz drei.

Metheny nannte später Bowies Text "tiefgründig und bedeutungsvoll – und absolut perfekt für den Film."

Coverversionen
Coverversionen existieren unter anderem von:
 Xavier Naidoo
 Silje Nergaard
 Claudia Brücken & Paul Rutherford
 Juliette Lewis
 Laith Al-Deen
 Sophia Anne Caruso and Original New York Cast of Lazarus
 Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra
 Guano Apes
 Miriam Aïda
 Ellen Andrea Wang (Closeness)

Einzelnachweise

Lied 1985
Popsong
Rocksong
Filmsong
David-Bowie-Lied
Lied von David Bowie


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Q: How to find site base URL in my javascripts? What is the best practice to provide Javascripts with URL's for things such as Ajax calls?
My javascripts live in the public folder website/js/ and need to get the website/ part so that I can structure the URL for my Ajax calls from there.
Is there any best methods for doing this? I was thinking of having something in the html such as:

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Are there better methods?

A: Just use window.location.origin
If you need the slash "/" at the end:
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var relative_path = '/js/some_js_file.js';

These are equivalent if you're viewing a page at www.google.com

A: Just use the below code
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Alice Cooper discusses his new 'Paranormal' LP, his personal experiences with Chuck Berry and Caitlyn Jenner, and recording with Larry Mullen Jr.
The LP itself is relatively straightforward, though, at least by Cooper's unapologetically maximalist standards. It contains 10 new songs, which play out like macabre vignettes about people suffering different degrees of mental illness – the paranoid, someone obsessed with rats, a witness to the apocalypse – all set to catchy melodies that run from hard rocking to the macabre and eerie. Additionally, it contains two new songs by the surviving members of the original Alice Cooper group and a clutch of classics recorded live with his current band. And since he's an overachiever, Cooper has also enlisted producer Bob Ezrin – best known for the original Cooper LPs, Kiss' Destroyer and Pink Floyd's The Wall, among others – to helm the project, which features U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. playing on most songs and appearances by ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover.
Cooper will be touring the U.S. later this summer with Deep Purple, but when he caught up with Rolling Stone a few weeks before Paranormal's release, he was already used to battling the heat onstage. "Tomorrow night, we have an outdoor show in Tucson where it's gonna be 95," he says. "So that should be fun. When you add the lights to the stage and the pyro and everything, it goes up to about 120 onstage. I'm thinking I have to rethink all the leather I wear." He laughs.
He says it's this indefatigable determination that fuels his music.
Why did you decide not to do a concept album this time?
I just didn't feel like it. I just said, "Let's do something that's different." Actually, for us not to do a storyline was paranormal [laughs]. It was odd that we didn't do a storyline. That's just the way it worked out. I learned how to write a three-minute song and tell a story by listening to Chuck Berry. And at the end, what you thought was gonna happen doesn't happen.
Did you ever meet Chuck?
Oh, yeah. He was so funny because he actually knew that he influenced all of us. He kind of acted like that, which was kind of cool – a little arrogant but fun.
Have you ever had an experience with the paranormal in the traditional sense of the word?
That night at dinner, there's a basement right under us and it sounds like somebody's moving furniture down there. It's not just a bump or a little thing: It sounds like 20 people are moving furniture. And it's not like the movies where you go, "Let's go see what that is." It was more like, "Do you know where the car keys are?" We got out of there that night.
Then I asked my manager, Shep [Gordon], "What is it with your house up in Copake?" And he said, "Oh, the guy wrote Amityville Horror there." He said, "My mom had a dinner party there one night where the dining table moved a foot to the left with everybody sitting there." I went, "And you were gonna tell me this when?" So yeah, that was paranormal. I can't explain any of that.
Paranormal is your 27th album. Do you ever question the need to make more music?
There's no such thing as not making an album or not writing songs. You always think the next album is gonna be your best album. If that's not your attitude, why do it? I'm sure Paul McCartney's still thinking he hasn't written his best songs yet. So you just keep making albums. Then, sometimes, you click into something that's really good.
One of the songs on the album, "Fireball," tells the story of a man who dreams about the end of the world and wakes up to see it's really happening. How do you think the world will end?
I'm more of a glass-half-full guy. I'm the eternal optimist. I don't really think it's going to end in a Third or Fourth World War. I think in the end, the good guys will win. Spiritually, I think it's one of those things where we've gotta come to a head at some point. I think there needs to be a moral core somewhere. I think in the end, our moral core will save us. All you ever hear about is five or six guys doing really horrible things, with millions of other people doing really good things.
It's easier to write something negative than positive.
I was a journalism major, so I get it. I always told everybody that I didn't want to be The New York Times; I wanted to be the Enquirer [laughs]. "Boy Born With Dog's Head," that's me.
You had U2's Larry Mullen Jr. guest on most of the album. How was it working with him?
You also got the surviving member of the original Alice Cooper band together again for some of the songs on the album. How was it working with them?
We never broke up with any bad blood. There were no lawsuits. Nobody was angry with anybody. Everybody just went their own ways for a while. We stayed in touch. I kept going. I was driven to keep doing what I did, but we stayed friends.
Anytime there was a possibility of them coming up onstage and playing, I would ask them to. So when I called them before this album, Neal [Smith, drums] says, "I've got a couple songs." Mike [Bruce, guitar] says, "I've got two or three." Dennis [Dunaway, bass] says, "I've always got songs." I told them that that means they have to play on it. So it's a nice touch.
I've always heard that you had a business agreement where when you went solo they got some of the royalties because it was the band name. Is that the case?
Oh, yeah. Absolutely. When we broke up, I said to our manager, "Shep, figure this out so everybody's happy." I was at a point where I was still ready to go on. I probably should have taken a break, but we went right into Welcome to My Nightmare, which ended up being a two-year tour without a break. It almost killed me. But what happens is when you get a successful album and a successful tour, that means you have to work. I wasn't expecting it to be as big as it was. So at the end of that tour, I was fairly wiped out.
Then you did another album the next year and another album the year after that and so on.
I know. It's something about being addicted to rock & roll, I guess.
You wrote one of the songs you did with the original lineup, "Genuine American Girl," from a transgender point of view. Whey did you want to do that?
That song is a definite satire, with what's going on now. I used to play golf with Bruce Jenner. I'm trying to figure out in my mind the weirdest story of the last year. Was it Bruce Jenner becoming a woman, Bill Cosby becoming what he became, or the Cubs winning the World Series? All three of those should never have happened.
Have you talked to Caitlyn since she's transitioned?
No. I really haven't. It would be interesting. First I would say, "Are you hitting from the ladies' tees now?" Because he could really hit the ball really well.
I think it's cool that Caitlyn is living her life the way she wants.
It's really interesting that it's the world's greatest male athlete – Bruce Jenner, the decathlon champion, that everyman in America that everyone looked up to on the Wheaties box. If somebody would have told you when he won the decathlon, "Oh, yeah, in 20 to 30 years, he's gonna be a woman," you would have gone, "What planet are you from?" I'm just talking about the series of events, not the morality of it. It's just the strangest thing. It's something out of a Kurt Vonnegut book. And the same thing with President Trump. If somebody would have told you 30 years ago that Trump was gonna be president, you'd go, "Oh, come on." It's a very strange, paranormal world we're living in.
People pegged the original Alice Cooper group as cross-dressers in the late Sixties. What was going on then for you all?


Edward & Bella in the বই are আরো of a/an?
What is Film Bella's WORST trait অথবা quality, Bedward Fans?
Whats your পছন্দ Bella & Edward in Breaking Dawn part 2?
What are your পছন্দ Bella & Edward Moments in breaking dawn part 1?
what are your Bella & Edward পছন্দ moments in Eclipse?
Ok so I have been লেখা this since Bellward's anniversary but i couldn't think of anything for the last line so i would like to say a big massive shout out and thank আপনি to my sister Cheri for the help of the last line.
Edward drove me প্রথমপাতা from his house after a nice afternoon at the meadow and at his home.
"Hey Dad where are আপনি going at this hour?" I asked as I ran up to him.
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I cursed under my breath as I stormed my way to the Volvo where my family was waiting for me. I had never had a worse দিন at school and it didn't look like it was going to get any better.
What colour is Bella's শার্ট in this picture?


I have a 1997 Damon Intruder with a 275 Cat and allison trans. The trans has a fluid leak on the driver side when parked. It looses about a quart a year. Is this smothing to worry about?
You can get under it or have someone else with a light and a mirror see if it is a cracked line leaking or a loose fitting. Either way it can get worse and possibly all of a sudden. It doesn't hurt to check it.


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