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Rutlefan

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  1. I love Shake it Up. You don't even like the title track and I'm Not the One? I just went through a Cars binge. Another band that really didn't release any complete stinkers IMO. I'll revisit it. I had high expectations at the time, hoping it would be a return to form after the disappointing (to me, at the time) Panorama, which I've since come to appreciate much more. Maybe I'll find Shake It Up is better with age also. p.s. already found a track I love that I'd completely forgotten, Think It Over. Like This Could Be Love also; another B. Orr song. So I'm glad take back that what I wrote about Shake It Up.
  2. There's a lot of mostly obscure LPs that managed to squeeze out a good track or two but from big acts that should have done better these are the first three that come to mind: Since You're Gone -- Shake it Up (maybe the album is better than I remember but I just remember being really disappointed apart from Since You're Gone, which I love) Already been said but Under Pressure -- Hot Space (again, haven't listened in a long time but from what I remember it was awful apart from Under Pressure and the R. Taylor track Calling All Girls, which is not great but I liked it) Are You Experienced? -- Shout (I loved and still love Devo's Hendrix cover though I found the rest of the album totally forgettable, despite liking Devo)
  3. I went with Blazing Saddles but Young Frankenstein is easily my favorite (Blazing Saddles being a perfectly respectable second). Young Frankenstein is probably my favorite comedy ever, along with Raising Arizona (add Alien and you've got my top three films).
  4. And Francis Ford Coppola weighs in... “I don’t know that anyone gets anything out of seeing the same movie over and over again,” continued Coppola. “Martin was kind when he said it’s ‘not cinema.’ He didn’t say it’s despicable, which I just say it is.”
  5. Because John Lennon is dead and Susanna Hoffs is married (as am I)... Wire's Colin Newman XTC's Andy Partridge (teaming with Robyn Hitchcock of late)
  6. Vocals -- Roger Taylor Lead -- Alex Rhythm -- David Gilmour (he and Alex can alternate lead/rhythm) Bass -- Geddy Drums -- John Bonham (Stewart Copeland if only counting those still among us)
  7. We can do that in this thread. Anything pertaining to the Show is just fine! If I had to pick a favorite episode, it would have to be Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up? My brain is trying to tell me that actor with his back to us might be DeForest Kelly... I watched all Twilight Zone episodes when I had my Program to watch almost all the channels you could...can't remember the name... Funny thing, speaking of DeForest Kelley, is that the guy at the bar with the three arms (John Hoyt) played the ship's doctor in the first Star Trek pilot, The Cage. He was good.
  8. There should be a thread for "Favorite Twilight Zone Episode." Mine is the season 4 episode "On Thursday We Leave for Home" (my favorite Twilight Zones seem to always involve alien planets or space travel/travelers). Wanted to watch it on Netflix but for some reason NF carried all seasons BUT 4. But I've found that CBS All Access has the episode; I'll have to watch that this weekend.
  9. Remembered Swell Maps of Epic Soundtracks and Nicki Sudden! Two amazing LPs and assorted singles. Out goes early Stones. The Beatles Wire Rush Led Zeppelin Radiohead Swell Maps Pink Floyd The Kinks The Gun Club The Smiths Pixies The Wedding Present Teenage Fanclub XTC The Church My Bloody Valentine Queen (early) Aerosmith (early) New Order (early) The Cure (early)
  10. I went obvious for four: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rush. Less obvious for the fifth with Radiohead (a latter day fusion of Beatles and Pink Floyd). Wanted to do Wire -- the "Godfathers of Post Punk" -- as the dark horse write-in but I know I'd be throwing my vote away, like voting for a third party candidate. Maybe I should have done it as a statement but it would be a wasted statement that no one cares about, like voting for a third party candidate.
  11. In no particular order, after the first two: The Beatles Wire Rush Led Zeppelin Radiohead Pink Floyd The Kinks The Gun Club The Smiths Pixies The Wedding Present Teenage Fanclub XTC The Church My Bloody Valentine The Rollings Stones (early) Queen (early) Aerosmith (early) New Order (early) The Cure (early)
  12. Rush -- Hemispheres The Beatles -- Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album Wire -- 154, Change Becomes Us Pink Floyd -- Wish You Were Here Radiohead -- OK Computer Led Zeppelin -- IV, Physical Graffiti The Kinks -- The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society Rod Stewart -- Every Picture Tells a Story Queen -- A Night at the Opera The Church -- Further Deeper The Gun Club -- Mother Juno The Wedding Present -- Take Fountain Nirvana -- Nevermind My Bloody Valentine -- Loveless Pixies -- Trompe Le Monde Teenage Fanclub -- Songs from Northern Europe Remembered A Night at the Opera. REM's Automatic... slips to 11.
  13. Rush -- Hemispheres The Beatles -- Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album Wire -- 154, Change Becomes Us Pink Floyd -- Wish You Were Here Radiohead -- OK Computer Led Zeppelin -- IV, Physical Graffiti The Kinks -- The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society Rod Stewart -- Every Picture Tells a Story The Church -- Further Deeper The Gun Club -- Mother Juno The Wedding Present -- Take Fountain Nirvana -- Nevermind My Bloody Valentine -- Loveless Pixies -- Trompe Le Monde REM -- Automatic for the People Teenage Fanclub -- Songs from Northern Europe
  14. ^^ He looks great now, thankfully. There was a time a few years ago where he was looking like the crazy cat lady of rock; he made Keith Richards look like a poster boy for antioxidant vitamins.
  15. Dirty Movies Hear About it Later Everybody Wants Some (edged One Foot Out the Door; tomorrow it might reverse)
  16. So I spoke with the guitar-playing audiophile music-freak down the hall from me and asked him. After the usual protests about the question being too broad, he said that if forced to name one person he'd say Jeff Beck. So along with my guitarist brother, Jeff Beck has (at least) two votes to my and the other EVH votes. My Mount Rushmore: David Gilmour Alex Lifeson Johnny Marr Jonny Greenwood Jonny can kind of seem like just a cog in the well-oiled Radiohead machine, but at he got a good plug from Alex at least: "I've admired him for a long time. The way he weaves his parts through the melody of a song is really exceptional – just amazing."
  17. You sound as knowledgeable about these things as me, if you don't mind me saying. ;) When it comes to guitar, I'm like the non-expert wine drinker; I like what I like :). And what I like best is David Gilmour, our Alex, and Johnny Marr. So I guess I enjoy good phrasing over blazing technical ability.
  18. "Why does he think Jeff Beck is better? Jeff Beck must be ancient by now. I was buying his albums through the Columbia Record Club when I was 14!! :codger:" Last we talked about that he was waxing eloquently on sublime technique and feel and... so on and so on. I can't follow after a point.
  19. As non-guitarist, EVH, because he was the archetype for the modern larger-than-life rock guitarist (as opposed to those along the lines of Jimmy Page, where it seems you didn't even have to play that well at times, you were still a guitar god). There's always going to be arguments for great technical guitarists, Al Di Meola, Steve Morse, Steve Vai, etc etc, and I have no idea where and how Eddie would fit among those, but from a layman's perspective, he was a never-before-seen combination of showmanship, technical ability, and style. Not the first to combine these but he did it in a way that has made him the standard. It's similar to the argument about who is the best NFL running back ever. SI put it best; all the arguments for someone other than Jim Brown come down to how someone-not-Jim-Brown was better than Jim Brown. Same for this question; if not EVH, how was the someone-not-EVH better than EVH? Maybe there's a good answer but it's a question that has to be answered, it seems to me. I'll now give back the floor to people who know something about guitar-playing (on that note, my older brother is a life-long player, and EVH has always been his favorite until the last few years; now it's Jeff Beck).
  20. Goose: "99% approval from joe public and this is the RT lead in... Critics Consensus Edgy, but empty, Sticks and Stones won't break any bones, but it won't elicit many laughs, either dis.con.nect" "Edgy, but empty, Sticks and Stones won't break any bones, but it won't elicit many laughs, either"... I don't get Netflix anymore so haven't seen the special but I read the transcript and had tears in my eyes through most of it I was laughing so hard. "Won't elicit many laughs, either." Whatever you say, Critics Consensus. The socially-conscious virtue-signalling eggheads vs normal folk divide has never been greater.
  21. Riiiiight. And only music critics can indoctrinate young minds in leftist thought. If the album isn't in some way for the oppressed and against the oppressors that album ain't shit, right Mr. Music Critic? God I get fukking sick of people like you inventing a liberal conspiracy for every fukking thing in life. Tell me this genius, if music critics "indoctrinate young minds in leftist thought" why the fukk did they all hate Black Sabbath with songs lime War Pigs, Sweet Leaf, etc.? Easy partner. You're already triggered. Argue my points and leave the ad hominem attacks out of it. I didn't say anything about a conspiracy. But a pattern of indoctrination emerges because there's a predominant leftist political disposition that exists in all arts criticism. In the main, music critics are on the left and save their highest praise for bands that fit their worldview and their disdain for bands that don't...especially if the work in question takes any kind of political stance. You haven't noticed this? Pretty plain to see if one bothers to look. I'll stay out of this minefield except to lob this grenade. I don't always see things as Joe (Rogan) sees them but I do here no doubt. "Chappelle's new special 0% on RT" (at the time, compared to 99% approval from the public). Sums things up very nicely at 1:50.
  22. Here's one that most people here probably aren't familiar with. The writer Dave Gedge usually writes kind of acerbic takes on relationships but in this one he writes adoringly of someone. Great music and lyrics both. http://youtu.be/dyqdBTW0av0 When you push your hair away and stare at me with sleepy eyes I get a feeling here, a feeling I don't recognize I wanna give you everything I've been in love but this is worse I want to cling to you and save you from the universe Cos I have fallen in a way I've never done before You're all I need today, I want you and nothing more As unlikely as it seems, it's as if you've just appeared out of one of my dreams - I don't care if that sounds weird Cos you're beautiful, and yet completely unaware Oh sure I miss my home but I'd live with you anywhere Cos I have fallen in a way I've never done before You're all I need today, I want you and nothing more As unlikely as it seems, it's as if you've just appeared out of one of my dreams - I don't care if that sounds weird
  23. I also really loved "Lady" by the Little River Band. I couldn't name another LRB song though ;) . In honor of Ric Ocasek and his band, I'll add that Candy-O's "Since I Held You" has always been a favorite and was my go-to song when I was going through a breakup with a serious girlfriend (the love of my Jr. High life ).
  24. He was one of the good ones. Classy guy. RIP
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