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#461 Re: The Sunset Strip » Favorite TV Theme Songs » 142 weeks ago
If it's one show I can imagine was thought up on an acid trip it is "Alf". Had a lot of fun watching it when I was a kid.
I can't really think of any good theme songs. It's like none of them are made to be anything other than a memorable hook. Something like the Wire is not bad but it doesn't stand out either.
These are probably the best for me:
#462 Re: The Sunset Strip » What Are You Listening To? » 142 weeks ago
Coolest Christmas song I ever heard. Brilliant.
#463 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash Says Guns N’ Roses Have a ‘Couple of Epic’ Songs to Release » 144 weeks ago
I realised it when I went to the show the other night and causals near me were giving each other high fives when the hits came on.
Like songs they're basically guaranteed to play like nighttrain and SCOM and PC....but they're like "oh yeah, they played my song" and losing their shit like they just won powerball or bingo or something.
Like for every me that would get excited for twat or locomotive there's 1000 dudes in the audience who thank their lucky stars if they play November Rain.
I wonder how many concert goers are there for anything BUT the music. When they hit a city near me last year, I noticed a lot of people I knew were going to the show, and I would say nobody was really a fan of the band. Maybe they like a few songs, but most popular bands can say that. I think they went just so they could be part of "the event".
I wouldn't even go to a Fleetwood Mac show, and I kinda like them quite a lot. They're just not on that level where I want to spend money on tickets and traveling costs. But I guess most people don't think like that.
#464 Re: Guns N' Roses » UYI Box tracklist unveiled? » 145 weeks ago
I don't consider Live Era a proper live album. It's more of a studio thing meant to sound live. I think it was the right decision, it sounds good. A few of the tracks are my favorites over the original versions.
With these shows coming out now we're getting the best of both worlds.
#465 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 146 weeks ago
Sharon Stone as Ginger in Casino might be the best female performance of all time. She will always be one of my favorites for that role
Definitely her best role...and I appreciate it even more now than I did back then...but best of all time?
That's a bold statement.
It is. I'm picky about such things. I want the role to be demanding, but I also have to love the character to start talking about greatest ever. Maybe not fair but that's how I see it. Foster, Streep I never saw what is so impressive. Good, very good, sometimes great but neither of those would make a top ten list with me. There are a lot of good actors in Hollywood.
A role like Ginger is so hard to do without overacting. A lot of girls have done similar roles and very few are memorable. Somebody like Amy Adams can never own a scene like Sharon Stone does in that movie. It's like one of those very good MLB batters, yeah but they ain't Babe Ruth. I'll take somebody like Julia Roberts over Meryl Streep. What movie did she ever do that was so great?
#466 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 146 weeks ago
Sharon Stone as Ginger in Casino might be the best female performance of all time. She will always be one of my favorites for that role.
I'm rewatching the HBO series Six Feet Under for the first time in 15 years. I was debating with myself whether or not the show merited the 30 or so days of my life I would spend watching 60 episodes. I bought it way back when these type of shows were new. I liked it, but obviously not enough to rewatch it in 15 years. This is also a very liberal show, something I've grown less tolerant of in the decade and a half that has passed.
I figured if I live another 40 years, an optimistic estimate, this will amount to at least 0,3% of my total viewing time I have left before I die. 1/300. Or maybe that's 1/100.
Anyways I'm watching it and my assumptions were correct. I like it but I don't love it. I'm also the type of guy who has to see something through, so I'm stuck watching only this for at least 4 more weeks.
#467 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N’ Roses 2022 Australia & New Zealand Tour » 146 weeks ago
Yes they should. No reason to stray from perfection.
The best solo Buckethead ever did was Madagascar in Rio. The only time he played that solo. I think that is such a waste.
#468 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N’ Roses 2022 Australia & New Zealand Tour » 146 weeks ago
Maybe this applies.
In the propaganda department in WW2 it was considered very important that the people making the propaganda would not be too intelligent. Because they would get bored and want to change up the approach.
Buckethead never plays the same solo twice for this reason I think. It's boring to him. Probably the same goes for Slash. They want to do something different, and despite being great, that usually turns out worse. You can't "change up" perfection.
AC/DC on the other hand gets the importance of keeping everything the same.
#469 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N’ Roses 2022 Australia & New Zealand Tour » 146 weeks ago
Slash hasn't played a good Nightrain solo since 1993. Is he bored or does he think this is better?
#470 Re: Guns N' Roses » UYI Box tracklist unveiled? » 147 weeks ago
I think the Greatest Hits remaster was more noticeable than this. Here I really can't hear much of a difference.
