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And You say Muse, SOAD, Red Hot CP Suck? :blink: Muse are a bit above-average at best, they take a simple sound and make it sound more complicated than it needs to. The only good thing about them is Matt Bellamy, and he's not quite good enough to carry the fact that they're just not that good. SOAD are good, they're not my cup of tea, but they're doing something original and doing it well. Red Hot Chili Peppers are an alright band, but "By The Way" was an incredibly weak album, not helped by how ridiculously overplayed it was everywhere. Conversely, The Mescaleros' were one of the most original and inventive bands out there during their relatively short career, and Streetcore was the epitome of that, bringing in influences from punk, funk, country, blues and world music, and creating an excellent new sound out of it. Evan Dando isn't overly original, he's just a damn good singer-songwriter, with an incredible voice and wonderful lyrics. Modest Mouse are an inventive indie band, like PRP said, they're nothing amazing, just good at what they do. Belle & Sebastian are Gods of cheery Summery indie, make no mistake about it. Some of the best lyrics ever. The Mars Volta are, as PRP said, the current Kings Of Prog, and they're just generally incredible. The Bad Plus are a fairly jazz-ish band that admittedly aren't everyone's cup of tea, but more than worth a mention. Jesse Malin's a singer-songwriter, in the vein of Ryan Adams, formerly of DGeneration. Again, nothing overly inventive or special, but well worth a mention. Just because you've never heard a band before doesn't mean they suck.

L. Brent Bozell III is one of my least favourite excuses for humanity on the face of the Earth. He sums up everything wrong with American Conservative Christianity. If the PTC had their way, everything on television would be "clean" and "family friendly", fair enough, they're desirable values. But it's difficult to be challenging and to be creative in that kind of a restricting environment, it would kill careers. Furthermore, it wouldn't stop violence or bad behaviour or whatever the PTC think they're going to achieve, it would just make people blind to it, so if something terrible does happen in real life, it becomes that bit more terrible. Is that a good thing? I guess it could be, the idea of desensitisation comes into play, but in most cases, it won't be. If Little Billy has never seen violence on TV, never heard anything about violence, Little Billy's going to get quite a shock when he wanders into the wrong neighbourhood and finds a knife to his throat, isn't he? And just to further my bitter ranting, who actually listens to this cunt? Surely anyone with the same ideologies that the PTC are fighting for don't need the PTC to tell them that this show is violent and profane? Surely they're intelligent enough to work that out for themselves? And of the people who aren't offended by it already, how many are going to turn away because the PTC don't like it? I wouldn't. I don't think many people would at all. And since when did a late-night program, marketed as a thoroughly disturbing black comedy, become the business of the Parent's Television Council? Surely by definition they should be, if they're monitoring anything, be monitoring things that their children are watching? If their children are watching Nip/Tuck, then I don't think that's the program-maker's fault, it's the parents' fault, surely? I wouldn't let my kids watch it, and if their kids are watching it, maybe they ought to step back and take a look at their parenting skills. Rant ceased.

Yeah, although not quite on the level of Yellowcard, figos' list is still a fountain of suck. Here's my list: Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - the entire "Streetcore" album Damien Rice - Cannonball Evan Dando - All My Life Beck - Lost Cause Modest Mouse - Float On The Strokes - Last Nite Rufus Wainwright - I Don't Know What It Is Kings Of Leon - Molly's Chambers Belle & Sebastian - I'm A Cuckoo The Libertines - What A Waster The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night The Mars Volta - Inertiatic ESP The Bad Plus - Smells Like Teen Spirit Jesse Malin - Almost Grown And I'm sure I'm forgetting something, too...

There was a rumour floating around, not long after Titanic was released, that they actually filmed a more open-ended end scene, which didn't actually show the boat sinking, because they didn't think American audiences would want to watch a mainstream film that killed off the majority of the cast. I don't know how much weight that holds, and I've always assumed it was bullshit, but you never know. I don't know anyone who's bought the new DVD to see the alternate ending, or intends to, so I can't prove or disprove.

Just to be pedantic, this should be "Best Score", not "Best Soundtrack" I definitely agree with all the love for John Williams, especially the main theme from Jurassic Park, but my favourite movie score probably has to be Danny Elfman's work on Edward Scissorhands. Elfman and Burton are pretty much inseperable these days, which is no bad thing, but I think that movie showcased the absolute best possible combination of Burton's imagery with Elfman's music.

Haha, I used to work for BlahDVD, they're useless. They're based in Jersey, so chances are the shipments haven't even made it here yet.

Multiplayer depends on the nature of the game. If I was playing a linear story-based game, such as Final Fantasy or whatever, which I have little time for any more, I'd much rather be doing it alone, so I can progress through the game at my own pace, enjoying it at my own pace, without someone else wanting to go off and do their own thing. However, the most fun I've had on a game in years was playing Super Smash Bros Melee not too long ago. I enjoyed it to the extent of wanting to buy a Gamecube just so I could play it some more. And, to me, that's what gaming should be about. Just something you can plug in and play for an hour or so with your mates. Although, a truly online RPG, to the extent of what Fable was supposed to be, essentially just playing D&D but on a much wider scale, could also be a fantastic multiplayer experience.

I think the words HOLY and FUCK come to mind.

Probably not what you're after, but Dresden Dolls, The Tiger Lillies and Antony & The Jonsons are probably the best piano-based bands out there at the moment that I can think of. I'm sure I'm forgetting someone really obviosu that's nearer to Death Cab, so I may have to return to this thread later...

Buckethead featuring Saul Williams? Fuck, I need to get this. I fell in love with Buckethead when I heard "Ballad Of Buckethead" a while back, I've been meaning to up my collection.

Anal Cunt. Yeah, the joke's dead.

I am incredibly jealous. I read up on the reformed Stuck Mojo after you mentioned Bonz at the Fozzy gig, and was unsure, as I wasn't too keen on The Duke or the last Fozzy album, and considering there were a couple of new members, I wasn't sure how good the "new" Stuck Mojo would be. Jealous.

Damn. Colour me jealous.

Doherty's not working class, but he was a rentboy, so that makes up for it. That said, the "working class" barely exist in the traditional sense any more. And what does it matter? Most music fans would, I feel, consider Joe Strummer to be a "working class hero", and he's no less middle-class than Doherty.

I'm guessing it would encompass Finntroll and Mortis...Finntroll are excellent, but not that Halloween. Thriller is a must. Who gives a fuck about a singer's personal life? If the song's good, the song's good, regardless. Thriller didn't suddenly become a bad song when people started accusing Jackson of child abuse. If you're having the Monster Mash, get "Ballroom Blitz" by Sweet and a few tracks from the Rocky Horror soundtrack. Also, try "Bloodletting" by Concrete Blonde, "I'm A Vampire" by Future Bible Heroes and "Lesbian Vampires From Outer Space" by The Scary Bitches.

I can't really imagine the first three working that well, but how the FUCK did I forget Voltaire?! The Vampire Club, Goth Queen, Almost Human, Brains!, Dead Girls, Feathery Wings, Graveyard Picnic, When You're Evil...the list goes on. You need some Voltaire.

Calabrese. They're a slightly less well known horror-rock band, but pretty much the best of the bunch. Also, some psychobilly wouldn't go amiss, especially not The Nekromantix or Zombina & The Skeletones.

I'd much prefer for the next single to be "Fake Tales Of San Francisco", but "Scummy" is so much better than the current tune anyway, so I'm not too fussed.

I also know this film backwards and forwards, you're no more right or wrong than I am. I'm not saying it's not possible for a black man to be intelligent in 1968, I'm saying that casting a black man as an intelligent lead character was something of a risk, due to the racist zeitgeist. And his calmness is a reflection of how much more intelligent he is than the other characters, surely? You're not seeing the movie "as it's meant to be seen", you're seeing as it is, without reading in to it in the slighest. Directors very rarely make films for the sake of making films, they're either to make money, or to send a message. Due to it's low-budget "B-Movie" nature, I doubt the intention of Night Of The Living Dead was to make money, it was to send a message. I believe that message was an indictment of racism. As I said earlier, the entire "Of The Dead" series is used to deliver social messages. Dawn Of The Dead's mall scene is a satire of consumer culture, Day Of The Dead is of the military, amongst other things, and Land Of The Dead is a metaphor for political uprising, so it's not too far-fetched to think that he'd making a similar point in Night Of The Living Dead.

It's an established theory, and if you're going to discredit by just saying "you're an idiot", then you haven't read in to the film at all. Intentional or not, casting a black actor in the lead role of this film in 1968 was a massive deal, and especially when he's the most intelligent character in the film, and not above slapping the (white) female lead. And then he gets killed in a scene eerily reminiscent of a Southern race hate crime, and you deny all significance? Intentional or not, it's there. EDIT: And, in addition, each of the following "Of The Dead" films deals with a social issue in some form or another, so it's not too far-fetched to think that Night Of The Living Dead deals with racism, is it?

I don't think he was mistaken for a zombie. Perhaps I should have myself more clear about which version of Night of the Living Dead I was talking about. The 1968 version... the true version of NOTLD had Ben get shot between the eyes as he apprehensively approaches a window when he hears voices outside. As he peaks out the window, a hunter nails him square between the eyes mistakenly thinking he is a zombie. I've seen this movie too many times to count, so I know the ending. You might have seen it, but you've misinterpreted it. He's not shot because they think he's a zombie, he's shot because he's black. Romero denies that's the reason, but I think it was always intentional.

OHHHHH MY.

There were only about 80 games incompatible and they were mostly insignificant bar the original Worms. True, but who's to say that it won't be much the same with PS3?

PS2 wasn't 100% backwards compatible either, was it? Hardly dented sales, though.

To be honest, I think Doherty's got in to the "no one cares he's a smackhead any more" phase, and the amount of people who'll view him in a Cobainified fashion is getting slimmer by the day. He's not the saviour of rock any more, he's that cunt in a trillby that's always on page 6 of The Sun.