I wonder if my video place has it?
Unfortunately, the whole movie isn't that great. But I do love that opening. Space Disco! More movies should have them!
It might've been MST3Ked.
Simon: I swear when it's appropriate. Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate.
'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.
DavidS - Oct 21, 2005 10:33:18 am PDT #898 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sheryl - Oct 21, 2005 10:42:45 am PDT #899 of 10003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
It might've been MST3Ked
It was, back in the KTMA days.(Trying to remember if it's the elusive ep nobody has on tape, or if that's a different one)
erinaceous - Oct 21, 2005 11:22:39 am PDT #900 of 10003
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
Ha! I didn't think to look at LITG, I figured they're talked about so much here, how could they be LOST?
Thanks so much, off to happily spend my 40 eMusic downloads ...
As for mp3 blogs, 3Hive (3hive.com) is a blog that only links to "official" mp3s, but I really like it. I also like Stereogum (stereogum.com) (big ups Chicago!) and Teaching the Indie Kids to Dance Again (www.indiekids.org). And don't forget Copy, Right? (copycommaright.blogspot.com)
dw - Oct 21, 2005 11:28:16 am PDT #901 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
Hayden - Oct 21, 2005 11:37:53 am PDT #902 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I approve all of the above Mekons recommendations. Did 1/4stick re-release the mid-80s stuff? If you can only download music from after 1992 ('cause I thought Quarterstick only started releasing Mekons music with the execrable Retreat From Memphis), avoid everything through Journey To The End Of The Night. Journey is a quieter than usual affair, but has some lovely folky tunes (my faves are "Last Weeks of the War," "Cast No Shadows," "Powers & Horror," and "Neglect"). OOOH! has some real gems - "The Olde Trip To Jerusalem" is one of the best songs they've ever done, plus there's "Take His Name In Vain," "Winter," and "Bob Hope And Charity." Punk Rock is a re-recording of some of their early songs, and your best bet there is "32 Weeks," "Never Been In A Riot," and, above all, "Dan Dare." If the two Hen's Teeth collections are on there, get "I Have Been To Heaven And Back," which is an alternate version of the track from Mekons Rock & Roll, and DEFINITELY "Orpheus," the best song they've ever made, hands down. Be sure to get the version from Hen's Teeth, though, because the Mekons United version is awful. Oh, and Misha and I disagree on I (Heart) Mekons, which, now that I think about it, is another Quarterstick release. I say yes to "I (Heart) Apple" and "Millionaire" and a resounding NO to the rest of the album. Misha thinks otherwise, though.
DavidS - Oct 21, 2005 11:38:20 am PDT #903 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I figured they're talked about so much here, how could they be LOST?
In the crazy bizzaroland of Buffista Music The Mekons are as big as The Rolling Stones. In the rest of the world, they sell in the high dozens.
Hayden - Oct 21, 2005 11:42:23 am PDT #904 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Few people appreciate a band that, for instance, will record a retelling of Jude the Obscure crossed with the Beatles' "Hey Jude" ("Hey! Susan"), write a song about the story-within-a-story from Red Harvest ("Flitcraft") or work telling details from an obscure overtly Marxist historian's best work - The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson - into a fun song about the oldest pub in London ("The Olde Trip To Jerusalem"). I don't know why.
IAmNotReallyASpring - Oct 21, 2005 12:13:20 pm PDT #905 of 10003
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Back on the rap covers by non-rappers, I think I have a new champion. Jonathan Coulton covers "Baby Got Back."
Weird. I'm, this very moment, listening to a tongue-in-cheek power pop song of his.
Michele T. - Oct 21, 2005 12:19:58 pm PDT #906 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
In the rest of the world, they sell in the high dozens.
In the words of one of their contemporaries' recent album titles, fifty thousand Mekons fans can't be wrong!
Corwood, you are so wrong about [Heart], we will just have to pass over it in silence. And "Orpheus" is not their best song - "Sympathy for the Mekons," "Memphis, Egypt," "Fletcher Christian" and possibly "Take His Name In Vain" are at least as good.
Hayden - Oct 21, 2005 1:09:39 pm PDT #907 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Corwood, you are so wrong about [Heart], we will just have to pass over it in silence.
Hey, I know it's controversial, but (Heart) nearly put me off the Meeks for good. I appreciate the album more with time, but, well, this is the point where silence and peace are the best options.
And "Orpheus" is not their best song - "Sympathy for the Mekons," "Memphis, Egypt," "Fletcher Christian" and possibly "Take His Name In Vain" are at least as good.
Those are all wonderful, brilliant, stunning, perfect songs, as are a few dozen other Mekons songs. "Orpheus," to my mind, is so great that even the guy who came over after my band played "Memphis, Egypt" a few years back to ask if we knew a second chord, even that philistine of a jackass would have to scrape his jaw off the floor afterwards.