Hec! You have to whitefont spoilers like that!
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Spidra Webster - May 03, 2006 7:38:30 am PDT #3166 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
DavidS - May 03, 2006 7:48:19 am PDT #3167 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hec! You have to whitefont spoilers like that!
Heh. It's revealed in the opening scene. I have an abiding interest in British Invasion music movies, and some of them are superfab. After the two Beatles movies (and actually, I'd place it before Help!), the Dave Clark Five movie, Having A Wild Weekend is probably the best. It's John Boorman's first movie and has great music and some fantastic set pieces and it's surprisingly downbeat at times. But Cliff Richards and the Shadows and Herman's Hermits both made multiple movies. There's an excellent mod film, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush that I managed to dig up in gray market DVD.
Also, I'm fascinated by Japanese Group Sound movies from the mid to late sixties. They're all basically like Monkees episodes, but mod and Japanese. I own one, Go Forward, starring The Spiders. They were the most popular GS band and did three movies. I think they had a TV show like The Monkees too. The Tigers also did at least one movie.
These are also available on the gray market.
Fred Pete - May 03, 2006 7:49:17 am PDT #3168 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
No, Hec. Just heard it on the radio this morning. Though I do have a Greatest Hits collection.
"My Sentimental Friend" is prime sap.
Spidra Webster - May 03, 2006 7:50:42 am PDT #3169 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
DVD night at Chez ZMayhem sounds very good.
Hayden - May 03, 2006 7:52:27 am PDT #3170 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Many thanks to Tina and Flea for clarifying my head up.
It's John Boorman's first movie
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DavidS - May 03, 2006 7:59:04 am PDT #3171 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DVD night at Chez ZMayhem sounds very good.
Dude! I can never get anybody to hang out and watch my music visuals stuffish. And I've got Serge Gainsbourg's entire video album for Melodie Nelson and rare glam videos and MTV's The Cutting Edge (great show: X, Husker Du, Tom Waits, Jonathan Richman, Hoodoo Gurus...) and Townes Van Zandt in Heartworn Highway and clips from The Old Grey Whistle Test and Memphis rock and roll and power pop clips from Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Raspberries, Dwight Twilley, 20/20), and X's Unheard Music and jazz soundies with Duke Ellington and Lucky Millander and Pop Gear (goofy yet entertaining Brit pop '64 collection of bands like The Honeycombs) and Gorillaz animation and Tim Buckley on The Monkees and a Velvet Underground documentary and rare Tropicalia clips (Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso).
DavidS - May 03, 2006 7:59:39 am PDT #3172 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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Yep. And Pauline Kael loved it too.
Spidra Webster - May 03, 2006 8:02:07 am PDT #3173 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Well, I'd be all over it. I can host you here or parachute over to the secret Castle ZMayhem.
Frankenbuddha - May 03, 2006 8:12:17 am PDT #3174 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
After the two Beatles movies (and actually, I'd place it before Help!), the Dave Clark Five movie, Having A Wild Weekend is probably the best. It's John Boorman's first movie
Also known as CATCH US IF YOU CAN. Wonder why they changed the name in the US?
DavidS - May 03, 2006 8:32:12 am PDT #3175 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wonder why they changed the name in the US?
Probably because that song was a hit in the US at the time. It's my favorite DC5 song too. Great melody and drive.
Incidentally, I've been meaning to point out to joe and other Beatles fans that a recent NPR podcast for All Songs Considered (4/13?) was about the recent re-release of the American editions of certain Beatles albums with a lot of discussion and comparison between the US v. UK editions. Lots of interesting insight into how the markets worked and were different back then. (Little details about how royalties were paid out in each country - by song in US, by record in UK - affected how many songs would be on each album.)
I'm not an audiophile, but it was fascinating to hear the stereo version of "Twist and Shout" again with the extreme stereo separation (vocals in one ear, instruments in the other) and really focus on how fucking hard John is singing on that song. The expert they were interviewing said that John was coming off a cold and his voice was already raw, and he was gargling with milk (which I don't think would be the preferred gargle, but that's what he did) and there was blood in the milk after he spit it out. He's really ripping his vocal chords on that track.