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Blood for PC had some awesome cheat codes that'll I remember for the rest of my life: For God mode it was either "I Wanna Be Like Kevin", "mpkfa" or "cap in my ass". For Temporary God mode it was "Voorhees" To turn God mode off it was "no cap in my ass" All Weapons was "Lara Croft" Level Skip was "Calgon", "Mario" or "Luigi" 200% health was "Spork" 200% health with diving suit was "Cousteau" 200% health and on fire was "Krueger" Rise Of The Triad was awesome, because instead of just making you invincible, God mode allowed you to throw lightning bolts, and because there was also a "Dog" mode for some reason. The best cheats ever, though, which I can't believe no one's mentioned yet were on Age Of Empires. I learned to touch-type by typing "Pepperoni Pizza" on that game, and some of the cheat units were the best thing in any game ever. PHOTON MAN~!

Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond Hands down winner.

Syd Barrett - Effervescing Elephant (1:53) Syd Barrett - Baby Lemonade (2:34) Syd Barrett - Love You (2:05) Adam Green - I Wanna Die (1:49) There's plenty more, but they're the best off the top of my head. Plenty of Misfits and Buzzcocks songs could fit easily on that list too.

*dies* Syd Barrett is a God among men, and I want his babies. Barrett is one of the best album's I've ever heard. Much love for "Smile" too!

4 Non Blondes - "Bigger, Better, Faster, More!" for 50p Nouvelle Vague - "Nouvelle Vague" for £1 Both excellent.

Syd Barrett - Barrett Tyrannosaurus Rex - From The Lion & The Unicorn In The Oak Forests Of Faun The Macc Ladds - Best Of

Depp is probably my favourite actor, and Edward Scissorhands is my favourite movie, so I'll probably have to say that. POTC is probably his best performance, though. His part in Chocolat is also fantastic, which hasn't been mentioned yet.

I've heard the song "Real Men", which I think is superb, but I only know about that through Pansy Division and Tori Amos' covers of it...beyond that, I don't know much about him.

Blatant steal from the Stray Cats. Slim Jim Phantom was the drummer in the Stray Cats And that reminds me, Dead Men Walking Live In Leeds is another fantastic live album. Mike Peters of The Alarm, Billy Duffy of The Cult, Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols, Slim Jim Phantom and Kirk Brandon of Spear Of Destiny, all in one band performing acoustic stadium rock versions of their greatest hits, and a couple of originals. Utterly amazing.

That's irrelevant, though. The definition of an "Icon" in Media terms is something or someone instantly recognisable in context. Elvis is instantly recognisable to almost everyone. The hairstyle, the sequinned jumpsuit, the swivelling hips...all instantly recognisable imagery, that ANYONE will immediately associate with Elvis Presley. Whether you like him or not is inconsequential, Elvis is an icon.

Elvis wasn't an Icon, he was white. If it wasn't for that no one would know who he is. ← Fair enough, Elvis got famous for being a white boy singing black music, but even so, you can't deny that he did change the face of music because of that. You, and I, might not agree with how and why he got as huge as he was, but you can't change that, and you can't deny that he's an icon. He changed the face of music, and the world, and is an instantly recognisable social image. THAT is an Icon.

Jeff Buckley - Live At Sin-é (Legacy Edition) I adore this album. It's even better than his other live albums, and it's just a complete gig, with great covers, work-in-progress versions of songs that would later make their way on to "Grace" and some great between-song monologues and banter. And the environment of the Sin-é coffee shop (not the ersatz Sin-é venue that's operating in New York now) is so intimate and amazing, it's incredible. And the accompanying DVD footage, although raw and minimal, just adds to the feeling of freshness and just pure unadulterated talent.

Dylan may not be as important socially or in the Media as he once was, but he's still releasing consistently brilliant material and will hopefully go on doing so for a long time. Personally, I'm more interested in what Dylan's doing now than in his "prime", much like I was more interested in Johnny Cash's later recordings...I guess I find it interesting to see what musicians record in their "twilight years", as almost anyone can write interesting songs when they're young and on top of the world, but when you've reached your peak of fame and fallen from it, and you're playing to a select few fans, that's when the real test is.

They're an amazing band, an ex-girlfriend of mine was/is obsessed with them and has tons of merchandise (skateboards, plectrums, etc.), and she played me a live DVD of their's, which was fucking awesome. The recording quality is terrible, but the music more than makes up for it. "Life" is, in my opinion, their best song, and one of the best old-school rock/metal tracks to be released in a long time.

Look at Pulp Fiction, though. Prior to that, could anyone have pictured John Travolta in such a serious role? It's almost a Tarantino trademark to use juxtaposition when casting recognisable actors, by putting them in roles that we wouldn't generally associate with them. And God knows Sandler needs to get out of his pigeon-hole.

I have seen the film, and OVERALL it casts the band in a positive light. It shows them negatively at the beginning, but overcoming their difficulties by the end, because that's what the average man in the street WANTS TO SEE. People overcoming adversity. The fact is, it was released by the band, and they're not going to release something that makes them look like they're just in it for the money. It's basic marketing, you set up a public face, tell the world that's who you are for long enough and they begin to believe it.

I find this logic a little hard to follow....technically the name "Guns & Roses" refers to Tracii Gunns & Axl Rose, not the band that recorded Appetite For Destruction. Also, Use Your Illusion had a different line-up to the one that recorded AFD...does that mean they shouldn't have recorded the album under the "Guns & Roses" name? Lemmy is the only remaining member of the original line-up of Motörhead...should he stop using the name Motörhead? At what point do a band stop being "themselves"? If a band splits up and one member goes off and records an album under the old band's name, then fair enough, be angry at them for using it. But in cases like Motörhead and, as far as I recall, Guns 'n' Roses, it was a gradual line-up change, not everyone leaving at once, so should there be a line drawn in the sand, so that when Axl reaches that point he should stop and think "We're not GNR any more"?

Personally, I don't think we'll see Chinese Democracy in Axl's lifetime. I can only imagine it seeing the light of day as a posthumous release, Axl's too obsessed with it being perfect to even release it. Regardless of what happens, when it comes out, we'll be disappointed. Nothing can possibly live up to the hype. Hell, we'll probably have Chinese democracy before Chinese Democracy >_>

That's your opinion. Personally, I believe that you can go into the street and grab any random person and just as many, if not more, will have heard of Metallica than Kenny G. Regardless of the outcome, though, that's irrelevant. Don't shoot the messenger, kid, if you'd actually bothered to read my post, you'd have seen that I was quoting Kirk Hammett. Or maybe it's the fact that Some Kind Of Monster is an official Metallica release and therefore they aren't exactly going to slag themselves off and cast themselves in a negative light? It's hardly a non-biased source. It takes marginal marketing knowledge or, heck, even common sense to work that one out.

Metallica don't play commerical music? Then why does every big music shop I go in to sell Metallica CDs, Metallica T-shirts, Metallica hoodies, Metallica dog-tags, Metallica posters, hell, even Metallica action figures? That sounds like commercialism to me. You can argue all you want that Metallica are "alternative" or whatever, but the fact of the matter is that they're just as, probably more, commercial than Kenny G. "Taking breaks" is one thing, releasing bad albums is quite another. If you're going to take a break, you take a holiday and spend some time on the beach or at home with the kids or whatever. Recording a sub-standard album for your fans to lap up, knowing that you've, as Kirk Hammet once so eloquently put it, "Lost your balls", is near on exploitation. Whether or not metal bands tour as much as blues or jazz bands or whatever is inconsequential. Oh sorry, I didn't realise you could read Lars Ulrich's mind. How do you know why they did what they did on St. Anger? I'd argue that G'n'R are legends, and I'd probably say that Metallica are too, it just depends how far you can stretch your definition of the word.

Has anyone ever had a music discussion without someone mentioning Nirvana? Almost certainly. >_> Somewhere approaching on topic, Limp Bizkit are only slightly less "mainstream" than Jessica and Ashlee Simpson, and haven't had an Adam Green song written about them and so aren't as cool.

I want to say 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts, but they're shit.

Bloc Party and The Bravery should be huge, but I'm also going to throw in Velofax. They're a band from Jersey, but they're getting huge amounts of exposure despite that, and despite only having been together since May. They've toured as Beck's backing band, and this Summer they'll be part of a big charity gig for Asia Relief with Ozzy Osbourne, McFly, Joss Stone, Ronan Keating and assorted others, and they have a UK tour coming up. They're nothing like any other band I've ever heard, think a cross between Prince and Beck, with hip hop and techno influences, and one of the most charismatic frontmen around, with a fantastic vocal range. If they're not signed by the end of the year, it'll be a travesty.

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Sorry, but I'm guessing by "weird" you mean "wide and varied", and compared to some of the other replies in this thread, I'd dispute that claim.