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Pink Floyd songs to check out - Shine On You Crazy Diamond See Emily Play Astronomy Domine Love You Wish You Were Here Comfortably Numb Corporal Clegg Careful With That Axe, Eugene

That I can remember... The Seven Leaf Clover episode of Futurama, as has been said earlier. The last episode of Brookside. True story.

The "Roddy Piper Film" in question is They Live.

The obvious choice for The Mars Volta/At The Drive-In would be Sparta, the forgotten band in that trilogy. As for Jeff Buckley, I recommend Tim Buckley, Nick Drake and Rufus Wainwright, who's pretty much his modern-day equivalent. And as for something different, Carnival In Coal. They're pretty darn different. You need to get hold of a couple of songs to hear the full effect, but I recommend "Right Click...Save As", "Got Raped", "Yes We Have No Bananas" and "Fucking Hostile".

Get yourself "Smile" by Brian Wilson, anything by the Mamas & The Papas and the new Magic Numbers album, that'll do ya.

The only films I saw with multiple quotes were the likes of Casablanca, Sunset BLVD and Gone With The Wind, absolute classics, and each one of those quotes has become integrated into popular culture, and you're complaining that something from Meet The Parents, a juvenile comedy that's had no bearing on culture whatsoever, didn't get any quotes up there, and that none of them had swearing in them? And if you don't get understand why "Frankly my dear..." was at number one, especially when it's FAR better than any of the quotes you suggested, in which the only moderately important one is "Yippy-ky-ay Mother Fucker!", then I suggest you...er...watch more films, I guess.

Talking Heads: Burning Down The House, Drugs, Once In A Lifetime, Take Me To The River The Cult: Bad Fun, Sweet Salvation Edie (Ciao, Baby) Painted On My Heart Lil' Devil Wild Flower Depeche Mode covers: Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus The Cure - World In My Eyes The Cramps - Route 66 The Cure covers: Oleander - Boys Don't Cry Leatherstrip - Lullaby Page & Plant - Lullaby The Get Up Kids - Close To Me Tori Amos - Lovesong AFI - Just Like Heaven Razorlight - Boys Don't Cry Dismemberment Plan - Close To Me Jack Off Jill - Lovesong Deftones - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep Ben Folds Five - In Between Days Smiths covers: The Divine Comedy - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out Jeff Buckley - I Know It's Over Therapy? - Vicar In A Tutu Supergrass - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others Everything But The Girl - Back To The Old House Death Cab For Cutie - This Charming Man Braid - This Charming Man Dinosaur Jr. - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side Muse - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want Pete Yorn - Panic Placebo - Bigmouth Strikes Again Lovesmiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out Now, can anyone recommend some Primus, Carnival In Coal, Carcass or anything similar?

Which X-Men are you talking about? there are about 1000 X-Men titles around right now ← Fuck knows, it's the only one I can get over here. It's about a group of young mutants rebelling against Professor Xavier and causing a riot in the Mansion, it's fairly interesting.

The latest issue of X-Men's fucking superb: "So what, are you in some kind of sissy emo band or something?" Bwahahaha

I imagine you would, but they're something of an acquired taste, I don't know anyone who liked them instantly, as Johnny Marr's guitar style, Morrissey's vocals and a lot of the lyrics can sound a bit odd to a first-time listener and seem to turn a lot of people off. A good few songs to start with would be "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out", "I Know It's Over", "The Queen Is Dead", "How Soon Is Now?" and "What Difference Does It Make?" to get the main feeling for the Smiths sound, then move on to "Meat Is Murder", "Suffer Little Children" and "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me", and perhaps onto the more light-hearted stuff like "Vicar In A Tutu" or "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others". Alternatively, get hold of a few tracks off the "How Soon Is Now?" tribute album, which is basically made up of emo bands covering Smiths song, so if you're into that kind of thing could be a better way to ease yourself into the band's style.

Just to clarify, I'm not claiming that The Smiths are emo, but I believe that they're very much the basis of the attitude shared by many of today's emo bands, the only difference being that Morrissey did it with wit and irony, which many don't seem to have picked up on.

Not at all true, really. Minor Threat started Straight-Edge with their song of the same name, but in no way started the emo movement. If anything, I'd trace emo back to The Smiths, as they were the first mainstream band to really show that kind of "I hate myself, I can't get a girlfriend" kind of emotion that is prevalent in emo and it's multitude of sub-genres today.

And I'll still hate it then. I hate it when white people my age do it, hell I hate it when black people my age do it. It's a mangled form of English that absolutely sickens me, and there's no need for it. These people didn't grow up in a ghetto in Harlem or whatever, they grew up in council estates in fucking Essex or whatever, and it's just ridiculous to hear them talking like that. I don't care if you're influenced by hip hop culture, I don't care what you're influenced by. I'm influenced by American music, I'm influenced by American films, American literature, American television, do I speak with an American accent? Do I fuck. I've listened to The Ramones my whole life, do I speak like Joey Ramone? No. And I'd probably kick anyone who does in the face. Slightly back on topic, Tim Westwood is a cunt, fact. If you want any further proof, feel free to direct your queries in the direction of Skumfrog, I'm in an argumentative mood. ← Well then that's not hypocritical. If you don't like anyone talking in hip-hop slang, that's fine. Complaining about someone talking in hip-hop slang purely because their white is not. ← For the most part, I don't like anyone talking in hip-hop slang, for reasons I've outlined earlier. But Westwood's the worst, because there is no way he can legitimately talk like that, he's so obviously putting it on that it's just pathetic.

Just to name a few of my favourite movies off the top of my head: Edward Scissorhands Lost In Translation A Life Less Ordinary Jacob's Ladder American Beauty Dogma Donnie Darko

You really need to watch more zombie movies.

Richard Blackwood, ← Or as I like to call him, Won't Smith. ← Hahahaha, *steals* As for fineintent, yeah, to be honest, I don't really have much more of an argument, I just wanted to call Westwood a cunt again. I do think that there are many more people in the UK who speak as if they were American, and it irritates me, but that's not overly relevant. I don't know, maybe it just irritates me because I'm not a part of the culture and therefore rarely exposed to it, and it just grates on me.

Woah, I had no idea Jerry Cantrell was in Cardboard Vampyres. I saw them referenced on a Cult forum as a Billy Duffy side-project, tried half-heartedly to track down some material and then gave up, I would have tried a lot harder if I knew Cantrell was involved. *tries harder*

Find me a British middle-aged white male who genuinely speaks like that and I'll find you something equally rare. He's acting out a stereotype of a culture he isn't even part of, and it just makes him look thoroughly pathetic. ← That's because there aren't many middle aged men who were influenced by hip-hop culture. Give it 20 years, and a shitload of middle aged men will speak like that as our generation ages. ← And I'll still hate it then. I hate it when white people my age do it, hell I hate it when black people my age do it. It's a mangled form of English that absolutely sickens me, and there's no need for it. These people didn't grow up in a ghetto in Harlem or whatever, they grew up in council estates in fucking Essex or whatever, and it's just ridiculous to hear them talking like that. I don't care if you're influenced by hip hop culture, I don't care what you're influenced by. I'm influenced by American music, I'm influenced by American films, American literature, American television, do I speak with an American accent? Do I fuck. I've listened to The Ramones my whole life, do I speak like Joey Ramone? No. And I'd probably kick anyone who does in the face. Slightly back on topic, Tim Westwood is a cunt, fact. If you want any further proof, feel free to direct your queries in the direction of Skumfrog, I'm in an argumentative mood.

I love the guy but, seriously, I wouldn't wish GG Allin on anyone. The guy's only had a handful of half-decent songs, and they won't appeal here anyway.

Following on my Master System/Mega Drive love, I'd love to see decent remakes of Altered Beast and Alien Storm, and a continuation of Streets Of Rage. Okay, so there actually is a new Altered Beast game in development (or was?), but apparently they've changed the story to government experimentation! Damn it, I want a game about floating heads and oiled up men in Ancient Greece turning into dragons! And I'm aware of Beats Of Rage, before anyone links me...

Hahahahaha no. You like Alice In Chains, so check out Layne and Jerry's respective side-projects, specifically Jerry Cantrell's "Degradation Trip Vol. 1 & 2" double-album and Mad Season, Layne's other band.

Find me a British middle-aged white male who genuinely speaks like that and I'll find you something equally rare. He's acting out a stereotype of a culture he isn't even part of, and it just makes him look thoroughly pathetic. That, and he's a cunt.

Fucking excellent. I was about to post in here saying "Best. Band Name. Ever.", but I love me some Anal Cunt, so I'm definitely going to have track down some of this. Thanks Tristy!

*Indicates sig* New Alex Kidd, be it 2D or 3D, would rock my world. It would have to be Miracle World-style, though, none of the others could cut it.

I don't think Brian Wilson looked bored, to quote my friend, he looked "like your uncle doing karaoke". EDIT: Matzat, I'd say the White Stripes are definitely more goth. If you listen to the De Stijl and Sympathy For The Record Industry, even all the way up to White Blood Cells, and even most of Elephant, they're fairly clean and innocent, it wasn't until touring Elephant that they started upping the goth imagery, and changing the red and white colours (symbolising innocence) to red and black, and Jack growing his hair out. The video for Jolene, even though it's just a live recording, is one of the most sublimely gothic videos I've seen in years.