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The Dancing Couple

2021-05-01T22:49:11Z

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'''''The Dancing Couple''''' is a 1663 oil painting by [[Jan Steen]]. It depicts a boisterous party with a dancing couple in the center. The work is currently in the Widener Collection of the [[National Gallery of Art]] in [[Washington, D.C.]].<ref>[http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.1220.html The Dancing Couple], [[National Gallery of Art]]. Retrieved on 2 July 2015.</ref> In the painting Jan Steen creates a very festive environment. The setting of the painting is at a [[Kermesse (festival)|kermis]], which is a local village fair that holds many symbolic references in Dutch art and was very popular in the Bruegel tradition. The painting will soon be moved to another museum{{when}}.

== References ==
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The Dancing Couple

2021-05-01T22:48:21Z

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'''''The Dancing Couple''''' is a 1663 oil painting by [[Jan Steen]]. It depicts a boisterous party with a dancing couple in the center. The work is currently in the Widener Collection of the [[National Gallery of Art]] in [[Washington, D.C.]].<ref>[http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.1220.html The Dancing Couple], [[National Gallery of Art]]. Retrieved on 2 July 2015.</ref> In the painting Jan Steen creates a very festive environment. The setting of the painting is at a [[Kermesse (festival)|kermis]], which is a local village fair that holds many symbolic references in Dutch art and was very popular in the Bruegel tradition. The painting will soon be moved to another museum.

== References ==
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{{Jan Steen}}

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Pieter de Ring

2021-05-01T22:46:02Z

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{{Short description|Dutch Golden Age painter}}
[[File:Ring, Pieter de - Still Life with a Golden Goblet - c. 1650.JPG|thumb|300px|Still Life with a Golden Goblet - c. 1650.]]

[[File:Blaeu 1652 - Leiden.jpg|thumb|300px|Map of [[Leiden]] by [[Joan Blaeu|Blaeu]] in 1652]]

'''Pieter de Ring''', or '''Ryng''' (1615/1620 – 22 September 1660) was a [[Dutch Golden Age]] [[painter]], famous for his opulent, flashy [[still life]]s or [[banquet piece]]s with [[fruit]], a [[lobster]], a [[goblet]], [[shrimp]]s, [[oyster]]s, a [[Carpet|rug]] and [[Chinese porcelain]]. His signature is often a painted ring or with the Latinised form of his name, P.Ab.Annulo.

==Biography==
De Ring was born either in [[Leiden]], or in [[Ypres]] in [[Flanders]], but there is no trace of his birth in the Leiden archives, and the Ypres Archives were destroyed in August 1914. Pieter de Ring started as a mason and painted still lifes in the evening. When the hall was filled with paintings he became a pupil of [[Jan Davidsz. de Heem]],<ref>[[Ernst Wilhelm Moes|Moes, E.W.]] (1888) Pieter de Ring. In: [[Oud-Holland]] VI, p. 175-182.</ref> until 1635 living in Leiden. His father Daniel died in 1648; in 1657 his mother lived in Amsterdam. De Ring himself lived in a house at Hogewoerd.

There are no records in the Leiden Archive on his marriage or children. He appears not to have bought a house there nor wrote a will. What is known is that he became one of the founders a member and of the [[Guild of St. Luke]] in 1648,<ref>[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/67085 Pieter de Ring] in the [[RKD]]</ref> De Ring died in [[Leiden]] and was buried in the [[Pieterskerk, Leiden]] on 22 September 1660 and taken to church from a house in the Nonnensteeg. If he had his studio there he probably had a view on the Leiden Academy building. If he lived on the east side of the alley he had a beautiful view on the [[Hortus Botanicus Leiden|Hortus Botanicus]] of Leiden, the work of [[Carolus Clusius|Clusius]].

Pieter may have had a brother called Jan de Ringh, who became a citizen of Leiden in 1651. Jan originally came from Ypres, his profession was textile worker, just like his sons Daniel, Benjamin, and Pieter and many of the other Flemish immigrants in Leiden. The members of the Ringh family were specialized workers in [[serge (fabric)|serge]], [[camlet]] or [[cloth]].

The painting by Pieter de Ring in the Museum [[Geelvinck-Hinlopen Huis]] has a beautiful cloth on the table. He knew how to make it look real. De Ring's early work reveals the influence of [[Willem Claesz Heda]].

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==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.artnet.com/artists/pieter-de-ring/past-auction-results Pieter de Ring] on [[artnet]]
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110724162729/http://www.ovckunst.nl/html/ckv3_bv/opdrachten/teksten_burg/ring.htm
* http://www.fineoldmasters.com/stilllifepainting29.html
* http://www.greatbassviol.com/images/ring.jpg

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The Age of Adz

2021-04-30T15:50:19Z

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'''''The Age of Adz''''' (pronounced {{IPAc-en|ɒ|d|z}} {{respell|oddz}})<ref name=ak/> is the sixth studio album by American singer/songwriter [[Sufjan Stevens]], released on October 12, 2010 by [[Asthmatic Kitty]]. It was Stevens' first song-based full-length album in five years, since the release of ''[[Illinois (Sufjan Stevens album)|Illinois]]'' in 2005.

The album features heavy use of electronics augmented by orchestration and takes inspiration from the apocalyptic artwork of schizophrenic artist [[Royal Robertson]]. Stevens' use of electronics marked a radical departure from much of his previous work—most notably from ''[[Seven Swans]]'' and ''[[Michigan (album)|Michigan]]''. Unlike ''Illinois'', the lyrics do not explore events, characters or setting, but deal instead with themes and emotions on a personal level.

Critics praised the intimacy of the album, but many were divided over the change in style that Stevens had taken. Nonetheless, it appeared on several "best of 2010" lists—including those of ''[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'' and [[MTV]]. Commercially, the album gave Stevens his career's best first-week sales to date and was his highest-charting album to date, peaking at number seven on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]].

==Background and recording==
[[File:Sufjan Stevens, August 2011.jpg|left|alt=Stevens on-stage wearing a colorful suit and a string of lights while playing guitar and singing into a microphone|thumb|Stevens' musical interests have shifted dramatically—he is seen here in 2011 wearing a colorful light-up outfit that fits the obscure electronic themes of ''The Age of Adz'']]

In 2006, Sufjan Stevens released an album of extra material left over from ''Illinois'' (originally conceived as a double album), titled ''[[The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album|The Avalanche]]'',<ref name="ak2"/> as well as an album of [[Christmas music]] titled ''[[Songs for Christmas (Sufjan Stevens album)|Songs for Christmas]]'' (produced in parts between 2001 and 2006).<ref name="ak3"/> Following the release of ''The Avalanche'', Stevens expressed a dissatisfaction with his music, stating in an interview with ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' in 2006: "I'm getting tired of my voice. I'm getting tired of ... the banjo. I'm getting tired of ... the trumpet".<ref name= "sufinterview">{{cite news |last=Crock |first=Jason |url= https://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6335-sufjan-stevens/ |title=Sufjan Stevens |work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=May 15, 2006 |accessdate=June 2, 2011}}</ref> In 2009 Stevens admitted that his [[Sufjan Stevens#The Fifty States Project|Fifty States Project]]—an attempt to write an album for each of the 50 [[U.S. State]]s—had been a "promotional gimmick" and not something that he had seriously intended to complete.<ref name=guardian2009 /> In the same year he released ''[[The BQE (album)|The BQE]]'', an orchestral suite accompanying a home-made film dedicated to the [[Interstate 278|Brooklyn-Queens Expressway]].<ref name="ak4"/> In an interview with ''[[BeatRoute]]'' magazine in 2010, Stevens stated "[''The BQE''] kinda sabotaged the mechanical way of approaching my music, which was basically narrative long-form. It really opened things up for me. It also confused things as well. I don’t think I ever really fully recovered from that process".<ref name="beatroute"/> On August 20, 2010, without prior announcement, Stevens released the [[Extended play|EP]] ''[[All Delighted People]]'',<ref name="ak5"/> and less than one week later, announced ''The Age of Adz'' to be released on October 12.<ref name="ak"/><ref name="npr"/>

In interviews, Stevens stated that during 2009–2010 he suffered from a mysterious debilitating [[virus|viral infection]] that affected his [[nervous system]]. He experienced chronic pain, and was forced to stop working on music for several months.<ref name=stereogum/> He said: "''The Age of Adz'', is, in some ways, a result of that process of working through health issues and getting much more in touch with my physical self. That's why I think the record's really obsessed with sensation and has a hysterical [[melodrama]] to it."<ref name="exclaim"/>

[[My Brightest Diamond]] frontwoman [[Shara Nova]]—who previously collaborated with Stevens as a backing vocalist on the albums ''The Avalanche'' and ''Illinois''—has a solo performance on the track "Impossible Soul", and provides backing vocals throughout the album.<ref name=mbdcoll>{{cite web|title=Collaborations |url=http://www.mybrightestdiamond.com/collaborations/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003182531/http://www.mybrightestdiamond.com/collaborations/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 3, 2011 |publisher=[[My Brightest Diamond]] |accessdate=January 21, 2013 |quote=Sufjan Stevens: Age of Adz background vocals throughout album & solo on "Impossible Soul" }}</ref><ref name=newmusicbox>{{cite web|last=Kushner|first=Daniel J.|title=Shara Worden: Conspiring in Song|url=http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/shara-worden/|publisher=[[NewMusicBox]]|accessdate=January 21, 2013}}</ref>

===Artwork===
The artwork of [[Royal Robertson]], a self-proclaimed prophet from Louisiana,<ref name=akrmerch>{{cite web|title=Sufjan Stevens ''The Age of Adz''|url=http://asthmatickitty.com/merch/the-age-of-adz/|publisher=[[Asthmatic Kitty Records]]|accessdate=January 21, 2013}}</ref> was used for the album's cover and interior.<ref name=ak/> Will Hermes of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' said that Sufjan Stevens uses the artwork "as a springboard for music that evokes a visionary psyche."<ref name=rs/> Stevens became interested in the work of Robertson after recording music for a friend's documentary on the artist and said that "[the more I studied him and his work], the more I felt a weird affinity to this guy and the story of his life."<ref name="dissufjan" /> He began to transcribe some of the text that appears in Robertson's artwork, and says this process stayed with him a "long time" and "that some of it started to come up in the lyrics, in the songs I was writing.<ref name="dissufjan">{{cite web|last=Skinner|first=James|title="I feel much more optimistic right now." DiS meets Sufjan Stevens|url=http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4141197-%E2%80%9Ci-feel-much-more-optimistic-right-now-%E2%80%9D-dis-meets-sufjan-stevens|work=[[Drowned in Sound]]|accessdate=July 22, 2011}}</ref>

==Musical style and themes==

===Musical style===
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''The Age of Adz'' marked a radical departure in musical style from that of Stevens' previous album ''Illinois''. Robin Hilton summarised the changes as Stevens "[replacing] delicately plucked banjo lines, wispy vocals and sentimental melodies with glitchy soundscapes, [[Hip hop music|hip-hop]] beats and heavily filtered vocals."<ref name=firstlisten>{{cite web|last=Hilton|first=Robin|title=First Listen: Sufjan Stevens, 'The Age Of Adz'|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130049247|publisher=[[NPR Music]]|accessdate=January 21, 2013}}</ref> Amongst his other work, the 2001 [[Electronic music|electronic]] album ''[[Enjoy Your Rabbit]]'' was regarded as being the most close in style to this album.<ref name=akrmerch /> Nevertheless, critics highlighted the first track "[[Futile Devices]]" as being stylistically consistent with his earlier [[Acoustic music|acoustic]] work.<ref name=relevant>{{cite web|last=Taylor|first=John|title=Sufjan Stevens, The Age of Adz|url=http://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/music/reviews/23120-sufjan-stevens-the-age-of-adz|work=Relevant Magazine|accessdate=January 21, 2013|date=October 2010}}</ref>

Sufjan Stevens himself has said that the album's tracks "are [[Pop music|pop]] songs, but they’re based on sound experimentation and noise".<ref name=kushner2>{{cite web|last=Kushner|first=Daniel J.|title=Adz and Ends: An Interview with Sufjan Stevens (Part 2 of 3)|url=http://postpostrock.com/2011/07/22/music-for-the-5-an-interview-with-sufjan-stevens-part-2-of-3/|publisher=Post-Post-Rock|accessdate=January 21, 2013}}</ref> He contrasted the way in which the album was made for listeners who understood his interest in "electronic music and noise and in sound sculpting and [[Minimal music|minimalism]]", and with ''Illinois'' which he described as a "[[Popular music|populist]] record".<ref name=kushner2 />
Professional music critics dubbed the album [[experimental music|experimental]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/sufjan-stevens/16002 |title=Sufjan Stevens - 'Carrie & Lowell' |website=[[NME]] |accessdate=August 6, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spin.com/2015/04/sufjan-stevens-carrie-and-lowell-review/ |title=Review: Sufjan Stevens Sheds the Frills on the Deeply Personal ‘Carrie & Lowell’ |website=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |accessdate=August 6, 2016}}</ref> [[electronic pop]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sufjan-stevens-mn0000580300/biography |title=Sufjan Stevens Biography by Mario Mesquita Borges |website=[[Allmusic]] |accessdate=August 5, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.loudandquiet.com/2010/12/sufjan-stevens-the-age-of-adz/ |title=Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty) |website=[[Loud and Quiet]] |accessdate=August 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815202211/http://www.loudandquiet.com/2010/12/sufjan-stevens-the-age-of-adz/ |archive-date=August 15, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[electronica]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/sufjan-stevens-carrie-lowell |title=Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell |website=[[Slant Magazine]] |accessdate=August 6, 2016}}</ref> [[art rock]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://americansongwriter.com/2010/10/sufjan-stevens-the-age-of-adz/ |title=Sufjan Stevens: The Age of Adz |website=[[American Songwriter]] |accessdate=August 5, 2016}}</ref> [[electropop]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/03/album-review-sufjan-stevens-carrie-lowell/ |title=Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell |website=[[Consequence of Sound]] |accessdate=August 6, 2016}}</ref> [[futurepop]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/sufjan-stevens/13936 |title=Sufjan Stevens - 'Silver & Gold' |website=[[NME]] | accessdate=August 5, 2016}}</ref> [[electroacoustic music|electroacoustic]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20218-carrie-lowell/ |title=Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |accessdate=August 5, 2016}}</ref> [[glitch music|glitch]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/03/sufjan-stevens-carrie-lowell-review.html |title=Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell Review |website=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]] |accessdate=August 6, 2016}}</ref>
and [[synthpop]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/sufjan-stevens-carrie-lowell-20150331 |title=Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell |website=[[Rolling Stone]] |accessdate=August 6, 2016}}</ref>

===Themes===

''The Age of Adz'' departs from the geography-based concepts of Stevens' previous albums; until his announcement in 2009 that he had never seriously intended to complete the project, it had been expected that his next work might continue the [[Sufjan Stevens#The Fifty States Project|Fifty States Project]] that he had begun with ''Michigan'' and continued with ''Illinois''.<ref name="guardian2009">{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/oct/27/sufjan-stevens-the-bqe | title= Sufjan Stevens's symphony for New York |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=October 27, 2009 |accessdate=October 28, 2009 | location=London | first=Andrew | last=Purcell}}</ref> The album contains no "conceptual underpinnings",<ref name=akrmerch /> instead focusing on themes that are personal and intimate to Stevens himself;<ref name="allmusic" /> the label Asthmatic Kitty describes the themes as "personal and primal … love, sex, death, disease, illness, anxiety, and suicide".<ref name=akrmerch />

A recurrent focus of the album is love,<ref name="ind" /> a theme that sometimes overlaps with spirituality as Stevens seems to address both a lover and a divine power.<ref name="frontierpsych">{{cite web |url=http://frontpsych.com/2010/12/20/the-church-of-sufjan-stevens-the-age-of-adz/ |title=The Church of Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz |work=Frontier Psychiatrist |date=December 20, 2010 |accessdate=December 20, 2010}}</ref> Another important theme is that of mortality — the song "Now That I'm Older" has been noted as "repeatedly [acknowledging] mortality and the importance of making the most of life."<ref name="frontierpsych" /> Acknowledging the interplay of these two themes, the album has been described as having songs "in which love and death reign darkly over an imaginative landscape peopled with apparitions, ghosts, orators and space travellers".<ref name="ind" />

==Release and reception==
''The Age of Adz'' debuted at number seven on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]], with 36,000 copies sold, giving Stevens his career's best first week sales to date until ''[[Carrie & Lowell]]'' opened with 51,000 copies in 2015. It was his highest charting album to date, peaking in the top ten on the Billboard 200.<ref name="stereogum"/><ref name="billboard"/> It also placed number one on ''Billboard's'' "Rock Albums", "Independent Albums", "Alternative Albums" and "Folk Albums" lists, and placed number two on the "Digital Albums" and "Tastemaker Albums" lists.<ref name="billboard"/> The album also placed within the "Top 100 Albums" lists in several other countries.<ref name=acharts>{{cite web|title=Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz|url=http://acharts.us/album/57917|publisher=acharts.us|accessdate=October 3, 2012}}</ref>

===Critical reception===
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''The Age of Adz'' received positive reviews upon its release. At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80, based on 33 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref name="metacritic"/> Keith Meatto of the ''Frontier Psychiatrist'' described the album as "a musical masterpiece that blends analog and digital sounds as it reflects on love and loss, life and death, humanity and divinity".<ref name="frontierpsych" /> [[Entertainment.ie]]'s Jenny Mulligan described Stevens as "a strange one, that's for sure, but he may just be a genius".<ref name="entertainment.ie"/> ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' commented that the album provides plenty of evidence to argue that he is either "one of the most important songwriters of his generation" or "just an infuriating, neurotic show-off".<ref name="uncut"/> [[Alexis Petridis]] of ''The Guardian'' said that although the album "goes a bit barmy and over-the-top" there are some "incredible tune[s]" that are "not only genuinely remarkable, but genuinely enjoyable".<ref name="theguardian" /> Alex Denney of ''[[NME]]'' similarly commented that the album "conjures just enough moments of heart-stopping gorgeousness to foot the bill for its dizzying excesses".<ref name="nme" /> Sam Lewis of the [[BBC]] remarked on the same point: that the album is "suffused with individual moments of brilliance", but overall it is "let down by its self-conscious incoherence".<ref name="BBC" />

The most discussed track of the album among reviewers was "Impossible Soul", which at 25 minutes in length comprises a third of the overall album. ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''{{'}}s reviewer Ryan Dombal described the track as having "more engaging ideas than most artists could muster in a career",<ref name="pitchfork" /> although No Ripcord reviewer Alan Shulman criticized the middle sections as being an "epic train wreck", saying that the closing minutes come as "a breath of fresh air".<ref name="no ripcord">{{cite web |url=http://www.noripcord.com/reviews/music/sufjan-stevens/age-adz |title=The Age of Adz |work=No Ripcord |first=Alan |last=Shulman |date=October 12, 2010 |accessdate=October 22, 2010}}</ref> ''[[One Thirty BPM]]'' reviewer Rob Hakimian was mixed in his reception of the track, and commented that it would "make or break" the album for listeners, describing it as a successful "proclamation of love", but also "bloated" and "way over the top".<ref name="onethirtybpm" />

===Accolades===
Many reviewing sites included ''The Age of Adz'' in their best of 2010 lists.

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|-
| ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' || Top 10 Albums of 2010 || #6<ref name="Auto8C-1"/>
|-
| ''[[Exclaim!]]'' || Best Pop & Rock Album of 2010 || #8<ref name= Exclaim!>{{cite web|title=Pop & Rock Year in Review|work=[[Exclaim!]]|url=http://exclaim.ca/Features/YearInReview/pop_rock_year_in_review_2010/Page/8}}</ref>
|-
| [[Pitchfork (website)|''Pitchfork'']] || 50 top albums of 2010 || #25<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7893-the-top-50-albums-of-2010/3/ |title=The Top 50 Albums of 2010 |work=Pitchfork |date=December 16, 2010 |accessdate=December 18, 2010}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The New York Times]]'' || Top Pop 2010 Anthems || #5<ref name=NYTimes>{{cite news|last=Pareles|first=Jon|title=Top Pop 2010|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/arts/music/19pareles.html|work=The New York Times|accessdate=July 17, 2011|date=December 16, 2010}}</ref>
|-
| [[MTV]] || 20 Best Albums Of 2010 || #10<ref name=MTV>{{cite web|last=Montgomery|first=James|title=Kanye West, Robyn And More: 20 Best Albums Of 2010|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1654286/kanye-west-robyn-more-20-best-albums-2010.jhtml|publisher=MTV|accessdate=July 17, 2011}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]'' || The 50 Best Albums of 2010 || #9<ref name=Paste>{{cite web|last=Jackson|first=Josh|title=The 50 Best Albums of 2010|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2010/12/the-50-best-albums-of-2010.html?p=5|publisher=Paste|accessdate=July 17, 2011}}</ref>
|}

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| total_length = 74:49
| all_writing = Sufjan Stevens
| all_music = Sufjan Stevens
| title1 = [[Futile Devices]]
| length1 = 2:11
| title2 = Too Much
| length2 = 6:44
| title3 = Age of Adz
| length3 = 8:00
| title4 = I Walked
| length4 = 5:01
| title5 = Now That I'm Older
| length5 = 4:56
| title6 = Get Real Get Right
| length6 = 5:10
| title7 = Bad Communication
| length7 = 2:24
| title8 = Vesuvius
| length8 = 5:26
| title9 = All for Myself
| length9 = 2:55
| title10 = I Want to Be Well
| length10 = 6:27
| title11 = Impossible Soul
| length11 = 25:35
}}

*''Note: On the vinyl release of the album, the last movement (also titled "Pleasure Principle", it spans about the last three minutes of the track) of "Impossible Soul" is moved to the end of side C, just after "I Want to Be Well", for reasons of space and time restrictions.''

==Personnel==
The album's liner notes provides limited information regarding the personnel. [[Royal Robertson|Prophet Royal Robertson]] is credited with all artwork except the pieces "Bar-Koom!", "Katora", and "Space Autos" by Scott Ogden.<ref name=liner>''The Age of Adz'' (CD liner notes). [[Sufjan Stevens]]. [[Asthmatic Kitty]]. 2010. AKR077.</ref><ref name=allmusiccredits>{{cite web|title=The Age of Adz - Credits|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-age-of-adz-mw0002043119/credits|publisher=[[Allmusic]]|accessdate=February 9, 2013}}</ref> [[Shara Nova]] performs a solo on "Impossible Soul", and provides backing vocals throughout.<ref name=mbdcoll /> [[St. Vincent (musician)|St. Vincent]] sang backing vocals on "Now That I'm Older".<ref name=recordcheck>{{cite web|title=Record Check with St. Vincent|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfEvSu4ppKM|accessdate=January 26, 2015}}</ref>

==Remixes==
The song "Vesuvius" was sampled in "Fade Away" by [[Social Club (band)|Social Club]] and [[Khleo Thomas]], as well as in "Donald Trump" by [[Mac Miller]]. "All for Myself" was sampled in [[Asaiah Ziv]] and Kiya Lacey's "Babylon[ER]"{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} and [[Kendrick Lamar]]'s "[[Hood Politics (Kendrick Lamar song)|Hood Politics]]".<ref name="NME 2015">{{cite web|last1=Cooper|first1=Leonie|title=Kendrick Lamar samples Sufjan Stevens on 'To Pimp A Butterfly' track|url=https://www.nme.com/news/kendrick-lamar/83590|website=NME|accessdate=September 26, 2016}}</ref> The song "Futile Devices" was remixed by [[Doveman]] – who produced ''[[Carrie & Lowell]]'', Sufjan's seventh studio album – for the 2017 film ''[[Call Me by Your Name (film)|Call Me by Your Name]]''.

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable"
|+Weekly sales chart performance of ''The Age of Adz''
|-
! Region
! Sales charts (2010)
! Peak position
|-
|Australia
| [[ARIA Charts]]
|align="center"| 61<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/aria-albums-spirit-of-the-anzacs-in-no-1-20150411|title=ARIA Albums: Spirit Of The Anzacs Is No 1|publisher=Noise11|last=Ryan|first=Gavin|date=April 11, 2015|accessdate=April 11, 2015}}</ref>
|-
|Ireland
| [[Irish Albums Chart]]
|align="center"| 23<ref name=acharts />
|-
|Norway
| [[VG-lista]]
|align="center"| 19<ref name=acharts />
|-
|United Kingdom
| [[UK Albums Chart]]
|align="center"| 30<ref name=acharts />
|-
|rowspan="2"|United States
| [[Billboard 200|US ''Billboard'' 200]]
|align="center"| 7<ref name=allmusiccharts>{{cite web|title=The Age of Adz|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-age-of-adz-r2051179/charts-awards|publisher=allmusic|accessdate=July 24, 2011}}</ref>
|-
| [[Independent Albums]]
|align="center"| 1<ref name=allmusiccharts/>
|-
|}

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<ref name="exclaim">{{cite web |url=http://exclaim.ca/News/sufjan_stevens_discusses_his_serious_issues |title=Sufjan Stevens Discusses His "Mysterious and Debilitating" Health Issues |work=[[Exclaim!]] |date=October 22, 2010 |accessdate=October 27, 2010}}</ref>

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<ref name="metacritic">{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/the-age-of-adz/sufjan-stevens |title=Reviews for The Age of Adz by Sufjan Stevens |publisher=[[Metacritic]] |accessdate=October 19, 2010}}</ref>

<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-age-of-adz-mw0002043119 |title=The Age of Adz – Sufjan Stevens |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |last=Monger |first=James Christopher |accessdate=November 6, 2010}}</ref>

<ref name="avclub">{{cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/review/sufjan-stevens-ithe-age-of-adzi-46256 |title=Sufjan Stevens: The Age Of Adz |work=[[The A.V. Club]] |last=Murray |first=Noel |date=October 12, 2010 |accessdate=November 7, 2010}}</ref>

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<ref name="entertainment.ie">{{cite web |url=http://entertainment.ie/album-review/Sufjan-Stevens-The-Age-of-Adz/7279.htm |title=Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz |publisher=[[Entertainment.ie]] |last=Mulligan |first=Jenny |date=October 13, 2010 |accessdate=January 12, 2011}}</ref>

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<ref name="uncut">{{cite journal |title=Sufjan Stevens: The Age of Adz |work=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] |issue=162 |date=November 2010}}</ref>
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==External links==
*{{official}}
*''[http://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com/album/the-age-of-adz The Age of Adz]'' at [[Bandcamp]]
*''[http://www.discogs.com/master/281160 The Age of Adz]'' at [[Discogs]] (list of releases)
*''[https://www.metacritic.com/music/the-age-of-adz/sufjan-stevens The Age of Adz]'' at [[Metacritic]]
*''[https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/sufjan_stevens/the_age_of_adz/ The Age of Adz]'' at rateyourmusic.com

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{{Infobox person
| name = Adolphe Menjou
| image = Adolphe Menjou in A Star is Born.jpg
| caption = Menjou in ''[[A Star Is Born (1937 film)|A Star Is Born]]'' (1937)
| birth_name = Adolphe Jean Menjou
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1890|2|18}}
| birth_place = [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1963|10|29|1890|2|18}}
| death_place = [[Beverly Hills, California]], U.S.
| resting_place = [[Hollywood Forever Cemetery]]
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1914–1960
| spouse = {{marriage|Katherine Conn Tinsley |1920|1927|end=divorced}}<br />{{marriage|[[Kathryn Carver]] |1928|1934|end=divorced}}<br />[[Verree Teasdale]] ({{abbr|m.|married}} 1934; his death)
}}

'''Adolphe Jean Menjou''' (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor.<ref name="WVobit">Obituary ''[[Variety Obituaries|Variety]]'', October 30, 1963, page 71.</ref> His career spanned both [[silent films]] and [[talkies]]. He appeared in such films as [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s ''[[A Woman of Paris]]'', where he played the lead role; [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s ''[[Paths of Glory]]'' with [[Kirk Douglas]]; [[Ernst Lubitsch]]'s ''[[The Marriage Circle]]''; ''[[The Sheik (film)|The Sheik]]'' with [[Rudolph Valentino]]; ''[[Morocco (film)|Morocco]]'' with [[Marlene Dietrich]] and [[Gary Cooper]]; and ''[[A Star Is Born (1937 film)|A Star Is Born]]'' with [[Janet Gaynor]] and [[Fredric March]], and was nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for ''[[The Front Page (1931 film)|The Front Page]]'' in 1931.

==Early life==
Menjou was born on February 18, 1890, in [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]] to a French father, Albert Menjou (1858–1917), and an Irish mother from [[Galway]], Nora (''[[née]]'' Joyce, 1869–1953).<ref name="ref1">{{Cite news|author=Ed Sullivan|author-link=Ed Sullivan|title=Looking at Hollywood with Ed Sullivan|newspaper=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|date=February 11, 1940|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/494907982.html?dids=494907982:494907982&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Feb+11%2C+1940&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Looking+at+Hollywood+with+Ed+Sullivan&pqatl=google|access-date=September 2, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0HqhGvQF4CQC&pg=RA1-PA147|title=Pennsylvania Biographical Dictionary|first=Jan|last=Onofrio|date=January 1, 1999|publisher=Somerset Publishers, Inc.|isbn=9780403099504|access-date=December 30, 2017|via=Google Books}}</ref> His brother, Henry Arthur Menjou (1891–1956), was a year younger. He was raised Catholic, attended the [[Culver Military Academy]], and graduated from [[Cornell University]] with a degree in engineering. Attracted to the [[vaudeville]] stage, he made his movie debut in 1916 in ''[[The Blue Envelope Mystery]]''. During [[United States in World War I|World War I]], he served as a captain in the [[United States Army Ambulance Service]], for which he trained in Pennsylvania before going overseas.

==Career and stardom==
After returning from the war, Menjou gradually rose through the ranks with small but fruitful roles in films such as ''[[The Faith Healer]]'' (1921) alongside supporting roles in prominent films such as ''[[The Sheik (film)|The Sheik]]'' (1921) and ''[[The Three Musketeers (1921 movie)|The Three Musketeers]]'' (1921). By 1922, he was receiving top or near-top billing, with a selection of those films being with [[Famous Players-Lasky]] and [[Paramount Pictures]], starting with ''[[Pink Gods]]'' (1922), although he did films for various studios and directors. His supporting role in 1923's ''[[A Woman of Paris]]'' solidified the image of a well-dressed man-about-town, and he was voted Best Dressed Man in America nine times.<ref>{{Cite web
| last = Brumburgh
| first = Gary
| title = Adolphe Menjou
| work = FullMovieReview
| url = http://adolphe-menjou.fullmoviereview.com/
| access-date =April 10, 2011}}</ref> He was noted as an example of a suave type of actor, one who could play lover or villain.<ref>https://hollywoodforever.com/story/adolphe-menjou/</ref> In 1929, he attended the preview of [[Maurice Chevalier]]'s first Hollywood film ''[[Innocents of Paris]]'', and personally reassured Chevalier that he would enjoy a great future, despite the mediocre screenplay.<ref>''With Love, the Autobiography of Maurice Chevalier'' (Cassell, 1960), p. 191.</ref> He closed the end of the 1920s with star roles such as ''[[His Private Life (1928 film)|His Private Life]]'' (1928) and ''[[Fashions in Love]]'' (1929). The crash of the stock market in 1929 meant that his contract with Paramount was cancelled, but he went on to [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] (MGM) and continued on with films (now [[talkies]]) in a variety of ways, with his knowledge of French and Spanish helping at key times, although his starring roles declined by this point. In 1930, he starred in ''[[Morocco (1930 film)|Morocco]]'', with [[Marlene Dietrich]]. He was nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for ''[[The Front Page (1931 film)|The Front Page]]'' (1931), after having received the role upon the death of [[Louis Wolheim]] during rehearsals.<ref>https://archive.org/stream/silverscreen01unse#page/n419/mode/2up</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20140823151740/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/77200/Louis-Wolheim/biography</ref> A variety of supporting roles in this decade were films such as ''[[A Farewell to Arms (1932 film)|A Farewell to Arms]]'' (1932), ''[[Morning Glory (1933 film)|Morning Glory]]'' (1933), and ''[[A Star Is Born (1937 film)|A Star Is Born]]'' (1937).<ref>http://www.hollywoodsgoldenage.com/actors/adolphe-menjou.html</ref>

His roles decreased slightly in the 1940s, but he did overseas work for [[World War II]] alongside supporting roles in films like ''[[Roxie Hart (film)|Roxie Hart]]'' (1942) and ''[[State of the Union (film)|State of the Union]]'' (1948). Over the course of his career, he bridged the gap of working with several noted directors that ranged from [[Frank Borzage]] to [[Frank Capra]] to [[Stanley Kubrick]].

===Later years and death===
Menjou had just eleven roles in the 1950s, but he managed to snag one last leading role with the film noir ''[[The Sniper (1952 film)|The Sniper]]'' (1952). Incidentally, the director of that film was [[Edward Dmytryk]], who had been a member of the [[Hollywood Ten]], in which he was [[blacklist]]ed from the film industry for not testifying to the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] (HUAC) during the [[Second Red Scare|'Red scare']] before deciding to testify and name names as a brief member of the Communist Party.

In 1955, Menjou played Dr. Elliott Harcourt in "Barrier of Silence", episode 19 of the first season of the [[television]] series ''[[Science Fiction Theatre]]''. He guest-starred as Fitch, with [[Orson Bean]] and [[Sue Randall]] as John and Ellen Monroe, in a 1961 episode, "The Secret Life of James Thurber", based on the works of American humorist [[James Thurber]], in the [[Columbia Broadcasting System|CBS]] [[anthology series]] ''[[The DuPont Show with June Allyson]]''. He also appeared in the [[Thanksgiving]] episode of [[NBC]]'s ''[[The Ford Show|The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford]],'' which aired on November 22, 1956.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ernieford.com/TEFTVGuests.htm|title=The Ford Show Episode Guide|website=Ernieford.com|access-date=November 23, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128190749/http://ernieford.com/TEFTVGuests.htm|archive-date=November 28, 2010|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Menjou ended his film career with such roles as French General George Broulard in [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s film ''[[Paths of Glory]]'' (1957) and his final film role was that of the town curmudgeon in Disney's ''[[Pollyanna (1960 film)|Pollyanna]]'' (1960).

Menjou died on October 29, 1963 of [[hepatitis]] in [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]], California.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dapper Adolphe Menjou Dies After Long Illness |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=p0ghAAAAIBAJ&pg=5024,5127684 |quote=He had been suffering from jaundice for some time. Death came at his home in Beverly Hills. With him were his third wife, the former Veree Teasdale, ... |agency=Associated Press |date=October 29, 1963 |access-date=May 25, 2011 }}</ref> He is interred beside Verree at [[Hollywood Forever Cemetery]].<ref>[https://books.google.ca/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA737&dq=Verree+menjou+hollywood+forever&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj8ipfngszlAhVCmK0KHacOAuwQ6AEIMTAB#v=onepage&q=Verree%20menjou%20hollywood%20forever&f=false ''Resting Places'']</ref>

==Political beliefs==
Menjou was a staunch [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] who equated the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] with [[socialism in the United States|socialism]]. He supported the [[Presidency of Herbert Hoover|Hoover administration]]'s policies during the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]]. Menjou told a friend that he feared that if a Democrat won the White House, they "would raise taxes [and] destroy the value of the dollar," depriving Menjou of a good portion of his wealth. He took precautions against this threat: "I've got gold stashed in safety deposit boxes all over town... They'll never get an ounce from me."<ref>{{cite book|first=Victoria|last=Wilson|title=A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907–1940|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|location=New York City|date=2013|isbn=978-0684831688|page=266}}</ref> In the [[1944 United States presidential election|1944 presidential election]], he joined other celebrity Republicans at a rally in the [[Los Angeles Coliseum]], organized by studio executive [[David O. Selznick]], to support the [[Thomas E. Dewey|Dewey]]–[[John W. Bricker|Bricker]] ticket and [[governor of California|Governor]] [[Earl Warren]] of California, who would be Dewey's running mate in 1948. The gathering drew 93,000, with [[Cecil B. DeMille]] as the [[master of ceremonies]] and short speeches by [[Hedda Hopper]] and [[Walt Disney]]. Despite the rally's large turnout, most Hollywood celebrities who took public positions supported the [[Franklin Roosevelt|Roosevelt]]–[[Harry Truman|Truman]] ticket.<ref>{{cite book|first=David M.|last=Jordan|title=FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944|publisher=[[Indiana University Press]]|location=Bloomington, Indiana|date=2011|isbn=978-0253009708|pages=231–232}}</ref>

In 1947, Menjou cooperated with the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]] saying that [[Hollywood]] "is one of the main centers of Communist activity in America". He added: "it is the desire and wish of the masters of Moscow to use this medium for their purposes" which is "the overthrow of the American government".<ref>{{cite news|last=Hill|first=Gladwin |title=Hollywood Is a Main Red Center, Adolphe Menjou Tells House Body. Calls Hollywood A Center Of Reds|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0810FF355A1B7B93C4A8178ED85F438485F9|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 16, 1947 |access-date=November 17, 2018 }}</ref> Menjou was a leading member of the [[Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals]], a group formed to oppose [[communism in the United States|communist]] influence in Hollywood, whose other members included [[John Wayne]], [[Barbara Stanwyck]] (with whom Menjou costarred in ''[[Forbidden (1932 film)|Forbidden]]'' in 1932 and ''[[Golden Boy (play)|Golden Boy]]'' in 1939) and her husband, actor [[Robert Taylor (actor)|Robert Taylor]].

Because of his political leanings, Menjou came into conflict with actress [[Katharine Hepburn]], with whom he appeared in ''[[Morning Glory (1933 film)|Morning Glory]]'', ''[[Stage Door]]'', and ''[[State of the Union (film)|State of the Union]]'' (also starring [[Spencer Tracy]]). Hepburn was strongly opposed to the HUAC hearings, and their clashes were reportedly instant and mutually cutting. During a government deposition, Menjou said, "Scratch a do-gooder, like Hepburn, and they'll yell, 'Pravda'."<ref name="TCM">{{cite web |last=Maltin |first=Leonard |author-link=Leonard Maltin |title=State of the Union (1948) |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/91341/State-of-the-Union/articles.html |date=2010 |website=Turner Classic Movies |publisher=Leonard Maltin Classic Movie Guide |access-date=August 6, 2015}}</ref> To this, Hepburn called Menjou "wisecracking, witty—a flag-waving super-patriot who invested his American dollars in Canadian bonds and had a thing about Communists."<ref name="TCM" /> In his book ''Kate'', Hepburn biographer William Mann said that during the filming of ''[[State of the Union (film)|State of the Union]]'', she and Menjou spoke to each other only while acting.<ref name="TCM" /> {{Citation needed|date=December 2009}}

== Personal life ==
[[File:Adolphe Menjou, Kathryn Carver, 1928.jpg|thumb|Menjou with second wife, actress [[Kathryn Carver]], in 1928.]]
Menjou was married three times. His first marriage to Kathryn Conn Tinsley ended in divorce. He married [[Kathryn Carver]] in 1928; they divorced in 1934. His third and final marriage was to [[Verree Teasdale]] which lasted from 1934 until his death on October 29, 1963; they had one adopted son.

In 1948, Menjou published his autobiography, ''It Took Nine Tailors''.

==Legacy==

For his contributions to the motion picture industry, Menjou has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 6826 Hollywood Boulevard.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walkoffame.com/adolphe-menjou|title=Adolphe Menjou - Hollywood Walk of Fame|website=Walkoffame.com|access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref>

==Cultural references==
Because of Menjou's public support of [[HUAC]], the propaganda of the [[German Democratic Republic]] (GDR) often depicted their western opponents with Menjou-style [[moustache]]s, and it was considered a statement of political opposition to trim one's moustache that way. The style became a symbol for the resourceful criminal, and in Germany is still called [[:de::Menjou-Bärtchen|''Menjou-Bärtchen'']] (Menjou [[beardlet]]). In German film and theatre, dubious men, opportunists, corrupt politicians, fraudulent persuaders, marriage impostors and other "slick" criminals often wear ''Menjou-Bärtchen''. In real life, the style is often associated with [[opportunism]].

[[Salvador Dalí]] admired Adolphe Menjou.<ref name="WhiteBuscombe2003">{{cite book|author1=Rob White|author2=Edward Buscombe|title=British Film Institute Film Classics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V96tee1l2q8C&pg=PA120|year=2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-57958-328-6|pages=120}}</ref>
He declared "la moustache d'Adolphe Menjou est surréaliste"<ref name="Nuridsany2004">{{cite book|first=Michel|last=Nuridsany|title=Dalí|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qnFHAQAAIAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Flammarion|isbn=978-2-08-068222-2|pages=177}}</ref> and began offering fake mustaches from a silver cigarette case to other people with the words "Moustache? Moustache? Moustache?"<ref name="Descharnes1984">{{cite book|first=Robert|last=Descharnes|title=Salvador Dali: The Work, the Man|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4UAkAQAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=H.N. Abrams|isbn=978-0-8109-0825-3|pages=291}}</ref>

One of the most famous photographs by the avant-garde photographer [[Otto Umbehr|Umbo]] is titled "Menjou En Gros" ca. 1928.<ref>{{cite AV media |last=Umbo |title=Menjou en gros |url=http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/110182.html?mulR=808934302 |date=1980 |orig-year=1928 negative |type=Photograph |website=[[Philadelphia Museum of Art]] |access-date=August 6, 2015}}</ref>

In episode 5 of season 1 of the Andy Griffith show, Barney shows up dressed for a dance and Andy says with emphasis, “Ain’t you the Adolph Menjou of Mayberry, though?” It was a compliment in seeing how sharp Barney looked in a suit.

==Filmography==
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* ''The Acid Test'' (1914, Short) as Extra (uncredited)
* ''The Man Behind the Door'' (1914) as Ringmaster (uncredited)
* ''A Parisian Romance'' (1916) as Julianai
* ''[[Nearly a King]]'' (1916) as Baron
* ''[[The Price of Happiness]]'' (1916) as Howard Neal
* ''[[The Habit of Happiness]]'' (1916) as Society Man (uncredited)
* ''[[The Crucial Test]]'' (1916) as Count Nicolai
* ''[[The Devil at His Elbow]]'' (1916) as Wilfred Carleton
* ''[[The Reward of Patience]]'' (1916) as Paul Dunstan
* ''[[Manhattan Madness (1916 film)|Manhattan Madness]]'' (1916) as Minor Role (uncredited)
* ''[[The Scarlet Runner]]'' (1916) as Bit Part
* ''[[The Kiss (1916 film)|The Kiss]]'' (1916) as Pennington
* ''[[The Blue Envelope Mystery]]'' (1916) as Bit Part (uncredited)
* ''[[The Valentine Girl]]'' (1917) as Joe Winder
* ''[[Wild and Woolly]]'' (1917) (uncredited)
* ''[[The Amazons (1917 film)|The Amazons]]'' (1917) (uncredited)
* ''[[An Even Break]]'' (1917) as Bit Part (uncredited)
* ''[[The Moth (1917 film)|The Moth]]'' (1917) as Teddy Marbridge / The Husband
* ''[[What Happened to Rosa]]'' (1920) as Reporter Friend of Dr. Drew (uncredited)
* ''[[The Faith Healer]]'' (1921) as Dr. Littlefield
* ''Courage'' (1921) as Bruce Ferguson
* ''[[Through the Back Door]]'' (1921) as James Brewster
* ''[[The Three Musketeers (1921 movie)|The Three Musketeers]]'' (1921) as Louis XIII
* ''[[Queenie (film)|Queenie]]'' (1921) as Count Michael
* ''[[The Sheik (film)|The Sheik]]'' (1921) as Dr. Raoul de St. Hubert
* ''[[Head Over Heels (1922 film)|Head Over Heels]]'' (1922) as Sterling
* ''[[Arabian Love]]'' (1922) as Captain Fortine (uncredited)
* ''[[Is Matrimony a Failure?]]'' (1922) as Dudley King
* ''[[The Fast Mail]]'' (1922) as Cal Baldwin
* ''[[The Eternal Flame (film)|The Eternal Flame]]'' (1922) as Duc de Langeais
* ''[[Pink Gods]]'' (1922) as Louis Barney
* ''[[Clarence (1922 film)|Clarence]]'' (1922) as Hubert Stein
* ''[[Singed Wings]]'' (1922) as Bliss Gordon
* ''[[The World's Applause]]'' (1923) as Robert Townsend
* ''[[Bella Donna (1923 film)|Bella Donna]]'' (1923) as Mr. Chepstow
* ''[[Rupert of Hentzau (1923 film)|Rupert of Hentzau]]'' (1923) as Count Rischenheim
* ''[[A Woman of Paris]]'' (1923) as Pierre Revel
* ''[[The Spanish Dancer]]'' (1923) as Don Salluste
* ''[[The Marriage Circle]]'' (1924) as Prof. Josef Stock
* ''[[Shadows of Paris]]'' (1924) as Georges de Croy, His Secretary
* ''[[The Marriage Cheat]]'' (1924) as Bob Canfield
* ''[[Broadway After Dark]]'' (1924) as Ralph Norton
* ''[[For Sale (1924 film)|For Sale]]'' (1924) as Joseph Hudley
* ''[[Broken Barriers (1924 film)|Broken Barriers]]'' (1924) as Tommy Kemp
* ''[[Sinners in Silk]]'' (1924) as Arthur Merrill
* ''[[Open All Night (1924 film)|Open All Night]]'' (1924) as Edmund Durverne
* ''[[The Fast Set]]'' (1924) as Ernest Steel
* ''[[Forbidden Paradise]]'' (1924) as Chancellor
* ''[[A Kiss in the Dark (1925 film)|A Kiss in the Dark]]'' (1925) as Walter Grenham
* ''[[The Swan (1925 film)|The Swan]]'' (1925) as Albert von Kersten-Rodenfels
* ''[[Are Parents People?]]'' (1925) as Mr. Hazlitt
* ''[[Lost: A Wife]]'' (1925) as Tony Hamilton
* ''[[The King on Main Street (1925 film)|The King on Main Street]]'' (1925) as King Serge IV of Molvania
* ''[[The Grand Duchess and the Waiter]]'' (1926) as Albert Durant
* ''[[Fascinating Youth]]'' (1926) as Himself
* ''[[A Social Celebrity]]'' (1926) as Max Haber
* ''[[The Ace of Cads]]'' (1926) as Chappel Maturin
* ''[[The Sorrows of Satan (film)|The Sorrows of Satan]]'' (1926) as Prince Lucio de Rimanez
* ''[[Blonde or Brunette]]'' (1927) as Henri Martel
* ''[[Evening Clothes]]'' (1927) as Lucien d'Artois
* ''[[Service for Ladies (1927 film)|Service for Ladies]]'' (1927) as Albert Leroux
* ''[[A Gentleman of Paris (1927 film)|A Gentleman of Paris]]'' (1927) as Marquis de Marignan
* ''[[Serenade (1927 film)|Serenade]]'' (1927) as Franz Rossi
* ''[[A Night of Mystery]]'' (1928) as Captain Ferreol
* ''[[His Tiger Wife]]'' (1928) as Henri
* ''[[His Private Life (1928 film)|His Private Life]]'' (1928, with [[Kathryn Carver]]) as Georges St. Germain
* ''[[Marquis Preferred]]'' (1929) as Marquis d'Argenville
* ''[[Fashions in Love]]'' (1929) as Paul de Remy
* ''Soyons gais'' (1930) as Bob Brown
* ''Mon gosse de père'' (1930) as Jérome
* ''Amor audaz'' (1930) as Albert d'Arlons
* ''[[Mysterious Mr. Parkes]]'' (1930) as Courtenay Parkes
* ''[[Morocco (1930 film)|Morocco]]'' (1930) as Monsieur La Bessiere
* ''[[New Moon (1930 film)|New Moon]]'' (1930) as Governor Boris Brusiloff
* ''[[The Easiest Way]]'' (1931) as William Brockton
* ''[[Men Call It Love]]'' (1931) as Tony
* ''[[The Front Page (1931 film)|The Front Page]]'' (1931) as Walter Burns
* ''[[The Great Lover (1931 film)|The Great Lover]]'' (1931) as Jean Paurel
* ''The Parisian'' (1931) as Jérome Rocheville
* ''[[Friends and Lovers (1931 film)|Friends and Lovers]]'' (1931) as Captain Geoffrey Roberts
* ''[[Prestige (1932 film)|Prestige]]'' (1931) as Capt. Remy Bandoin
* ''Wir schalten um auf Hollywood'' (1931) as Himself
* ''[[Forbidden (1932 film)|Forbidden]]'' (1932) as Bob
* ''[[Two White Arms|Wives Beware]]'' (1932, first film ever shown at a [[Drive-in theater|drive-in]])<ref>Lewis, Mary Beth. "Ten Best First Facts", in ''Car and Driver'', 1/88, p.92.</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Connic |first=Jennifer |title=PHOTOS: Happy birthday, drive-in movies, a N.J. invention |url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/06/celebrating_the_first_drive-in_theater_a_nj_first.html |date=June 6, 2014 |website=[[NJ.com]] |publisher=New Jersey On-Line LLC |access-date=August 6, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=20030813&id=-nlTAAAAIBAJ&pg=5641,3424411|title=The Victoria Advocate - Google News Archive Search|website=News.google.com|access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref> as Maj. Carey Liston
* ''[[Bachelor's Affairs]]'' (1932) as Andrew Hoyt
* ''[[Diamond Cut Diamond (film)|Diamond Cut Diamond]]'' (1932) as Dan McQueen
* ''[[The Night Club Lady]]'' (1932) as Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt
* ''[[A Farewell to Arms (1932 film)|A Farewell to Arms]]'' (1932) as Rinaldi
* ''[[The Circus Queen Murder]]'' (1933) as Thatcher Colt
* ''[[Morning Glory (1933 film)|Morning Glory]]'' (1933) as Louis Easton
* ''[[The Worst Woman in Paris?]]'' (1933) as Adolphe Ballou
* ''[[Convention City]]'' (1933) as T.R. (Ted) Kent
* ''[[Easy to Love (1934 film)|Easy to Love]]'' (1934) as John
* ''[[Journal of a Crime]]'' (1934) as Paul Moliet
* ''[[The Trumpet Blows]]'' (1934) as Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez
* ''[[Little Miss Marker]]'' (1934) as Sorrowful Jones
* ''[[The Great Flirtation]]'' (1934) as Stephan Karpath
* ''[[The Human Side]]'' (1934) as Gregory Sheldon
* ''[[The Mighty Barnum]]'' (1934) as Bailey Walsh
* ''[[Gold Diggers of 1935]]'' (1935) as Nicolai Nicoleff
* ''[[Broadway Gondolier]]'' (1935) as Professor Eduardo de Vinci
* ''[[The Milky Way (1936 film)|The Milky Way]]'' (1936) as Gabby Sloan
* ''[[Sing, Baby, Sing]]'' (1936) as Bruce Farraday
* ''[[Wives Never Know]]'' (1936) as J. Hugh Ramsey
* ''[[One in a Million (1936 film)|One in a Million]]'' (1936) as Tad Spencer
* ''[[A Star Is Born (1937 film)|A Star Is Born]]'' (1937) as Oliver Niles
* ''[[Café Metropole]]'' (1937) as Monsieur Victor
* ''[[One Hundred Men and a Girl]]'' (1937) as John Cardwell
* ''[[Stage Door]]'' (1937) as Anthony Powell
* ''[[The Goldwyn Follies]]'' (1938) as Oliver Merlin
* ''[[Letter of Introduction (film)|Letter of Introduction]]'' (1938) as John Mannering
* ''[[Thanks for Everything (1938 film)|Thanks for Everything]]'' (1938) as J. B. Harcourt
* ''[[King of the Turf]]'' (1939) as Jim Mason
* ''[[Golden Boy (1939 film)|Golden Boy]]'' (1939) as Tom Moody
* ''[[The Housekeeper's Daughter]]'' (1939) as Deakon Maxwell
* ''[[That's Right—You're Wrong]]'' (1939) as Stacey Delmore
* ''[[Turnabout (film)|Turnabout]]'' (1940) as Phil Manning
* ''[[A Bill of Divorcement (1940 film)|A Bill of Divorcement]]'' (1940) as Hilary Fairfield
* ''[[Road Show (film)|Road Show]]'' (1941) as Colonel Carleton Carroway
* ''[[Father Takes a Wife]]'' (1941) as Senior
* ''[[Roxie Hart (film)|Roxie Hart]]'' (1942) as Billy Flynn
* ''[[Syncopation (1942 film)|Syncopation]]'' (1942) as George Latimer
* ''[[You Were Never Lovelier]]'' (1942) as Eduardo Acuña
* ''[[Hi Diddle Diddle]]'' (1943) as Col. Hector Phyffe
* ''[[Sweet Rosie O'Grady]]'' (1943) as Tom Moran
* ''[[Step Lively (1944 film)|Step Lively]]'' (1944) as Wagner
* ''[[Man Alive (1945 film)|Man Alive]]'' (1945) as Kismet
* ''[[Heartbeat (1946 film)|Heartbeat]]'' (1946) as Ambassador
* ''[[The Bachelor's Daughters]]'' (1946) as Alexander Moody
* ''[[I'll Be Yours]]'' (1947) as J. Conrad Nelson
* ''[[Mr. District Attorney (1947 film)|Mr. District Attorney]]'' (1947) as Craig Warren
* ''[[The Hucksters]]'' (1947) as Mr. Kimberly
* ''[[State of the Union (film)|State of the Union]]'' (1948) as Jim Conover
* ''[[My Dream Is Yours]]'' (1949) as Thomas Hutchins
* ''[[Dancing in the Dark (1949 film)|Dancing in the Dark]]'' (1949) as Melville Crossman
* ''[[To Please a Lady]]'' (1950) as Gregg
* ''[[The Tall Target]]'' (1951) as Colonel Caleb Jeffers
* ''[[Across the Wide Missouri (film)|Across the Wide Missouri]]'' (1951) as Pierre
* ''[[The Sniper (1952 film)|The Sniper]]'' (1952) as Police Lt. Frank Kafka
* ''[[Man on a Tightrope]]'' (1953) as Fesker
* ''[[Timberjack (film)|Timberjack]]'' (1955) as 'Sweetwater' Tilton
* ''[[The Ambassador's Daughter (1956 film)|The Ambassador's Daughter]]'' (1956) as Senator Jonathan Cartwright
* ''[[Bundle of Joy]]'' (1956) as J.B. Merlin
* ''[[The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown]]'' (1957) as Arthur Martin
* ''[[Paths of Glory]]'' (1957) as Major General Georges Broulard
* ''[[I Married a Woman]]'' (1958) as Frederick W. Sutton
* ''[[Pollyanna (1960 film)|Pollyanna]]'' (1960) as Mr. Pendergast
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==Radio appearances==
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| 1946|| ''[[The Screen Guild Theater|Screen Guild Players]]'' || ''[[Experiment Perilous]]''<ref>{{cite news|title=Bennett, Brent, Menjou Star on "Screen Guild"|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3334731/harrisburg_telegraph/|agency=Harrisburg Telegraph|date=October 12, 1946|page=17|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = October 1, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref>
|-
| 1946|| ''This Is Hollywood'' || ''[[The Bachelor's Daughters]]''<ref>{{cite news|title=New Star|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3225922/harrisburg_telegraph/|agency=Harrisburg Telegraph|date=November 16, 1946|page=17|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = September 14, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref>
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of actors with Academy Award nominations]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* {{IMDb name|0579663}}
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* [http://film.virtual-history.com/person.php?personid=696 Photographs of Adolphe Menjou]

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Kingdom Come (Sir Lord Baltimore album)

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{{Infobox album
| name = Kingdom Come
| type = studio
| artist = [[Sir Lord Baltimore]]
| cover = SLB kingdom come.jpg
| alt =
| released = December 1970
| recorded = Vantone Studios; [[Electric Lady Studios]]
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{hlist|[[Heavy metal music|Heavy metal]]|[[hard rock]]|[[stoner rock]]}}
| length = 38:00
| label = [[Mercury Records|Mercury]]
| producer = [[Mike Appel]], Jim Cretecos, [[Eddie Kramer]], Kim King
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = [[Sir Lord Baltimore (album)|Sir Lord Baltimore]]
| next_year = 1971
}}

'''''Kingdom Come''''' is the debut studio album by American [[rock music|rock]] band [[Sir Lord Baltimore]], released on [[Mercury Records]] in 1970.

== Writing and recording ==
All of the songs on ''Kingdom Come'' were co-written and arranged by [[Mike Appel]], who would later become [[Bruce Springsteen]]'s manager.<ref>Unterberger, Richie, [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/sir-lord-baltimore-p20555/biography Sir Lord Baltimore biography], ''[[AllMusic]]''. Retrieved on February 14, 2007.</ref> Co-produced by Appel and Jim Cretecos, the album was recorded at Vantone Studios in [[West Orange, New Jersey|West Orange]], [[New Jersey]], before being mixed by [[Eddie Kramer]] and Kim King at [[Electric Lady Studios]] in [[New York City|New York]], [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anthologyrecordings.com/release.asp?album=s5nghSgoYXM#bio|title=Sir Lord Baltimore biography|last=Rivadavia|first=Eduardo|website=[[Anthology Recordings]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209014350/http://www.anthologyrecordings.com/release.asp?album=s5nghSgoYXM#bio|archive-date=February 9, 2007|access-date=February 14, 2007}}</ref> Kramer is well known for his work with [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[the Beatles]], [[the Rolling Stones]], [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]], [[Led Zeppelin]], [[David Bowie]] and [[Curtis Mayfield]].

== Musical style ==
This album is notable for the fact that its 1971 review in ''[[Creem]]'' contains an early documented use of the term "heavy metal" to refer to a style of music.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.creemmagazine.com/_site/BeatGoesOn/SirLordBaltimore/KingdomCome001.html|title=Sir Lord Baltimore — Kingdom Come|last=Saunders|first=Mike|author-link=Mike Saunders|date=May 1971|website=[[Creem]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070308145737/http://www.creemmagazine.com/_site/BeatGoesOn/SirLordBaltimore/KingdomCome001.html|archive-date=March 8, 2007|access-date=February 14, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ag-T6ppMowC&pg=PA20|title=Heavy Metal: The Music And Its Culture|last=Weinstein|first=Deena|date=2009|publisher=Hachette Books|isbn=9780786751037|page=20}}</ref> It features distorted [[electric guitar|guitar]], enhanced by extensive use of multi-tracking, and has been compared to [[Deep Purple]], [[Blue Cheer]], [[Van Halen]], [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] and [[the Stooges]].<ref>Cope, Julian, [http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/albumofthemonth/591 ''Kingdom Come'' review], HeadHeritage.co.uk, August 2002. Retrieved on February 15, 2007.</ref>

''Kingdom Come'' is also considered to be a pioneer of [[stoner rock]].<ref>{{cite news |title=The Lost Pioneers of Heavy Metal |last=Sleazegrinder |magazine=Classic Rock |date=March 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/65zmpz/brooklyns-metal-roots-dust-sir-lord-baltimore |title=Revisiting Brooklyn's Heavy Metal Roots With Dust and Sir Lord Baltimore |last=McPadden |first=Mike |date=November 24, 2014 |website=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |access-date=May 19, 2019 |quote=The music of ... Sir Lord Baltimore is so fully realized and so instantly commanding that it’s mind-boggling to consider that it was made by high school kids. When you take a listen, there it is: doom metal/stoner rock, wholly and flawlessly formed by teenage longhairs, awash in the madness of Brooklyn circa 1970 A.D}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.citypaper.com/eat/weed/bcpnews-how-sir-lord-baltimore-invented-stoner-rock-because-it-didnt-know-no-better-20150414-story.html |title=How Sir Lord Baltimore invented stoner rock because it didn't know no better |last=Soderberg |first=Brandon |date=April 14, 2015 |website=[[Baltimore City Paper]] |access-date=May 19, 2019 |quote=This is stoner rock before stoner rock because, well, what else would you call it?}}</ref>

== Release ==

''Kingdom Come'' was released in December 1970.

It was reissued on [[PolyGram]] in 1994, on Red Fox in 2003, and on Anthology Recordings in 2007. The 1994 and 2003 re-releases also contained 1971's ''[[Sir Lord Baltimore (album)|Sir Lord Baltimore]]''. The re-release has a different track listing than the source material, transposing the original records' A- and B-sides. This compilation featured the same cover image used on Kingdom Come, only with that album's title removed.

== Reception ==
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| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/kingdom-come-mw0000860231 |title=Kingdom Come - Sir Lord Baltimore {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits |last=Rivadavia |first=Eduardo |website=[[AllMusic]] |accessdate=January 30, 2015}}</ref>
}}

''Kingdom Come'' has received acclaim from critics, and its influence on [[heavy metal music]] is well-noted.

In his retrospective review, Marcos Hassan of ''[[Tiny Mix Tapes]]'' called it "[one] of those great records where not a second is wasted".<ref name="Hassan">{{cite web |url=http://www.tinymixtapes.com/delorean/sir-lord-baltimore-sir-lord-baltimorekingdom-come |title=Sir Lord Baltimore – ''Sir Lord Baltimore''/''Kingdom Come'' <nowiki>| DeLorean |</nowiki> Tiny Mix Tapes |last=Hassan |first=Marcos |date=June 2, 2012 |website=[[Tiny Mix Tapes]] |accessdate=January 30, 2015}}</ref>

''[[Loudwire]]'' named it in #68 in their list "Top 70 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 1970s" and has called "one of the earliest true [[hard rock]] albums."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://loudwire.com/top-hard-rock-metal-albums-1970s/|title=Top 70 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 1970s|date=May 2, 2016|website=[[Loudwire]]|access-date=April 23, 2019}}</ref>

The album ranked on the list "10 Essential Proto-metal Albums", by ''[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/10-essential-proto-metal-albums|title=10 Essential Proto-metal Albums|last=Sleazegrinder|date=December 18, 2016|website=[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock Magazine]]|access-date=May 27, 2019}}</ref>

== Track listing ==

{{Tracklist
| headline = Side one
| title1 = Master Heartache
| length1 = 4:37
| title2 = Hard Rain Fallin'
| length2 = 2:56
| title3 = Lady of Fire
| length3 = 2:53
| title4 = Lake Isle of Innersfree
| length4 = 4:03
| title5 = Pumped Up
| length5 = 4:07
}}
{{Tracklist
| headline = Side two
| title6 = Kingdom Come
| length6 = 6:35
| title7 = I Got a Woman
| length7 = 3:03
| title8 = Hell Hound
| length8 = 3:20
| title9 = Helium Head (I Got a Love)
| length9 = 4:02
| title10 = Ain't Got Hung on You
| length10 = 2:24
| total_length = 38:00
}}

; 2007 reissue

Anthology Recordings' 2007 re-release contains an altered track listing, transposing sides A and B of the original record. ([[Polygram]] and Red Fox's reissues also used this track listing.)

{{track listing
| title1 = Kingdom Come
| length1 = 6:35
| title2 = I Got a Woman
| length2 = 3:03
| title3 = Hell Hound
| length3 = 3:20
| title4 = Helium Head (I Got a Love)
| length4 = 4:02
| title5 = Ain't Got Hung on You
| length5 = 2:24
| title6 = Master Heartache
| length6 = 4:37
| title7 = Hard Rain Fallin'
| length7 = 2:56
| title8 = Lady of Fire
| length8 = 2:53
| title9 = Lake Isle of Innersfree
| length9 = 4:03
| title10 = Pumped Up
| length10 = 4:07
}}

== Personnel ==

; Sir Lord Baltimore

* John Garner - [[lead vocals]], [[drum kit|drums]]
* Louis Dambra - [[electric guitar|guitar]]
* Gary Justin - [[bass guitar|bass]]

; Technical

* [[Mike Appel]] – [[record producer|production]]
* Jim Cretecos – production
* [[Eddie Kramer]] – [[audio engineering|engineering]]
* Kim King – engineering

== References ==

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== External links ==

* {{Discogs master|162532|Kingdom Come}}

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