Ombre Vivante

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzpBFWmIYv4

Some favourites: - Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva (in regards to bootlegged tapes of Opera music) - Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky (New Wave music) - Lloyd Kaufmann's Rock 'N Roll High School (musical with The Ramones at the centre) - Brian DePalma's Phantom Of The Paradise (a revamped take on Leroux's Phantom Of The Opera)

Disco never died. Jean-Marc Cerrone made a 30-year career out of it

zOMG! Trans-X! TEH KEYTAR GODS! http://vales.homeip.net/myblog/wp-pics/transxphoto.jpg

I stopped reading at "bowl" Yes, please.

I'm ashamed to say I think I have one or two songs by them because they are included in New Wave compilations, but I don't own any of their albums, nor could I recognise any of their songs.

Don't play that song!

That sad thing is that any show formatted like John Stewart from any other country would never translate as well here in the US since we're ignorant of other nations' politics. All that political humour would go above us.

Some Frank Sinatra would've been alright, too.

You'll miss out on some great Shakespearean tragedies, esp. The Tragedy Of Macbeth and The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar. At the same time, I can see how something such as The Passion Of The Christ has no redeeming value since the whole movie boiled down to a 2-hour lynching. I'd rather watch The Last Temptation...

No Beethoven "Moonlight Sonata"? Such an obvious choice too...

- "Harley David" by The Bollock Brothers - "Love In C Minor" by Cerrone - "Hungry Like The Wolf" by Duran Duran - "Coitus Interruptus" by Fad Gadget - "#1 Crush" by Garbage - "She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper - "Boom Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room)" by Paul Lekakis - "Dirty Little Secrets" by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - "The Perfect Kiss" (live and extended versions) and "Kiss Of Death" by NewOrder - "Sex Dwarf" by Soft Cell - "Ich Will Dich" by Wumpscut

I have to keep checking on amg to see if I'm talking about early 2000s or late 90s. I mostly go by albums not single songs. - Virgin Suicides, 10,000Hz Legend, and Talkie Walkie by Air - Discovery, Alive 1997, and Human After All by Daft Punk - "Pop Trash Movie," "Somebody Else Not Me," and the album Astronaut by Duran Duran - Frantic by Bryan Ferry - Always Got Tonight, Best Of Chris Isaak, and Chris Isaak Christmas by Chris Isaak - B-Sidor, Hagnesta Hill (English and Swedish), and Vapen Och Ammunition by Kent - Black Market Music and Sleeping With Ghosts by Placebo - Night On Earth by Rialto - Concerto and Live by Roxy Music - Two Against Nature and Everything Must Go by Steely Dan - "Obsessions" by Suede

"O Superman (For Massenet)" by Laurie Anderson

Chris Isaak and Silvertone were pretty much a bar band with a coupla albums under their belt. David Lynch made sure to include a bit of a song or two in the song collection for Blue Velvet, but it wasn't until the inclusion of "Wicked Game" in the film Wild At Heart that he became a household name.

I've added bands I already knew about, but through those bands I sometimes get a friend request from a band who also shares that same account friend. I blocked band invites, so the ones I add usually message me. Since they actually went through the trouble of reading a bit here and there of my profile, I go ahead and add them. These are mainly upstarts; truly indie in every sense of the word - from the production and distribution of their music. A couple worth mentioning are Droom (sort of a SynthPop outfit from Canada), Snowwhite (Martial music from the UK), and Pre-Depression Records (whom, I think, are a Stateside Industrial band). Decent stuff.

I've been wracking my fingers keying in "Sex Pistols" at allmusic, Amazon, and wikipedia (thank bog for the powers the Internets gives!!). Around the time of Bollocks there were other - better - albums out there in the genre. Even bands that one would refer to as "Post Punk" were cutting a record or a single that same fateful year of 1977. I remember hearing and reading so much praise from music fanatics and musicians alike as to the impact Bollocks had on them to the point that this album became mythical before I had given it a chance to give it a spin. By the time I got around to it, it was anti-climactic; all I had heard up to that point were the two singles: "Anarchy In The UK" (actually saw the music video on MTV) and "God Save The Queen" (back when LA's KROQ played a variety of music). When I listened to the full-length album, I was left in want of this perpetual high their fans seem to be on when they reference this work. The only other song I liked was "E.M.I." and that was marginal. Everything else sounded like filler material. Up to that point, that was my full-exposure to the beginnings of Punk Rock. Nevermind that there existed other bands out there who were doing similar things before them, or the bands who were around the same time as Bollocks. As I was sayin' of 1977, that year Ultravox! and The Stranglers were also going full-force... and after listening to those albums I came to realise, "What's all the fuzz about Bollocks? These guys are evidently better." I'm looking at the track listing of Ha! Ha! Ha! as I type this and at least half the album is sonically rich with enough skill and raw energy to be thought of as a solid album. We could go track-by-track comparing 8 songs from one album to 8 songs from the other, and I cannot hear what makes the one of lesser-quality better.

Because it's still partly about the mockery known as "the sex pistols." lol @ that. You have... in this thread That they sound horrible is a fact. That they are managed by a clothes-shop owner/fashion-designer is a fact. That they can barely play an instrument - and sometimes not at all - is a fact. That there's only one album to speak of is a fact. That Punk music existed before their single crappy album is a fact. That making a band of untalented kids into a Pop culture phenomena is equivalent to previous and latter undertakings is evident. I know how to spell the name just like I know how to capitalise proper nouns. Congratulations on pointing out the obvious. Did I say before they made bad music? If you read back, I said at least those other Pop bands made decent tunes. ... and were much better at it than the pistols, as I've been saying all along. Yet, by merely getting there first they exclude the pistols as bringing forth anything refreshing and worth mentioning to the scene. lol... and...? Moz was the club prez of The New York Dolls club. He also attributes 60s bands as his major influence. sex pistols probably land somewhere near the bottom. Perhaps my ear is untrained, but I don't hear any bit of "sex pistols" in music by The Smiths. Same goes for ABC. One would probably hear more Disco in their debut album ("Poison Arrow") than Punk to begin with. Vocals are very in tune with the likes of "Blue-Eyed Soul." There is nothing in their catalogue that would even hint at sex pistols. The Clash. They were better at it and they were contemporaries with the pistols. Their sound is better, despite naming them as their primary influence. The same could be said of Joy Division and NewOrder (esp. NewOrder). I mean, Jesus H., man. NewOrder's a band that has been in the music scene some 25+ years. You can pretty much pick any album from Movement to Technique and it can easily dwarf anything that inspired it. Sure, as contemporaries, or subsequent bands, they're gonna know about them, but they fall in a long list of other influences. You really think sex pistols would be above Bowie, Roxy Music, and Velvet Underground when it comes to Post Punk/New Wave influences? Come on...

Maybe it was just me, but I thought I saw someone lip-synching on their mockumentary years ago. That is what I'm referring to. I just don't hear anything evolve in their one album, either within the group or Rock in general - just a group of guys who suck. Everything you've outlined about the band can be attributed to someone else who came before them, or were their contemporaries. There's no magic bullet to their approach. Perhaps iff I hadn't finally gotten around to hearing and seeing old recordings of The Stooges, The Velvet Underground, Suicide, The New York Dolls, and The Ramones I'd still consider the sex pistols' debut something of a quintessential quality, even if I dislike every aspect of the band. It just doesn't work now that I've heard and seen better. To me, that's what they look and sound like: A warped version of The Monkees.

You are just as welcome to your opinion, but McLaren was/is a fashion designer and clothing-store owner. This sounds more like the people behind Internet Pop crap such as tila tequila. Furthermore, singer doesn't know how to sing and how they accepted vicious, who couldn't play worth a crap, is mind-boggling... this power music combo of fashion design and untalented performers sound about as "Punk" as the combined talents of ashlee simpson and avril lasagne. The funny coincidence is that, even if McLaren takes all the credit from them, the band's just as terrible lip-synching their own songs!

- Afrika Bambaataa - Erik B. And Rakim - Digital Underground - Mellow Man Ace's debut - A couple of songs by The Stereo MCs - A couple of songs by Salt 'N Peppa - A Tribe Called Quest - Early LL Cool J - Kid 'N Play's debut album - N.W.A.'s debut album

It's too bad about the current events. In times such as these, I prefer to listen to very dissonant musak, but there are some which keep a semblance of tonal unity. I think these are fairly popular to be found using your run-o'-the-mill p2p proggy. "Animal" by Front 242 "Dark Entries" by Bauhaus "A Day" by Clan Of Xymox "Nag, Nag, Nag" by Cabaret Voltaire "Tenderness Is A Weakness" by Marc Almond "Zentrifuge" (live) by Einsturzende Neubauten

How are Madonna and Cybill Shepherd not conventionally attractive? One posed nude and was featured in Playboy, and the other is a world-famous actress who got her start as a beauty-pageant winner.

the sex pistols were just one band in a long line of prefabricated, cookie-cutter bands made by corporate bigwigs. In this instance, that corp bigwig would be Malcolm McLaren. sex pistols are no better than The Monkeys or NKOTB or Menudo, except for the fact those three bands at least had one or two songs which were not so bad - for prefab band songs. In short, they added nothing significant to the genre that other bands had not done better... and tastier.

Could be something as simple as a problem with the occasional power surge, or something.