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Post by brewmaster on Oct 11, 2016 16:39:59 GMT
That certainly brought back memories of many happy hours in the cinema. One of the best drama series is "The Americans" a really hard-hitting tale of deep-cover Soviet spies during the Cold War. In the pilot episode this track was used, which fitted both the time period, and the onscreen action, which was a foot chase.
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Post by brewmaster on Oct 12, 2016 9:31:15 GMT
Just remembered that at the time Gareth Hunt was in a coffee advert on TV. As he went past, at the function, one of our guys asked him to get us a coffee, and he wasn't happy.
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Post by brewmaster on Oct 13, 2016 9:16:12 GMT
Again Fleetwood Mac used in "The Americans"
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Post by brewmaster on Oct 14, 2016 9:19:53 GMT
I'm currently enjoying watching the first series of "Lucifer". Here star Tom Ellis does a very creditable cover of the old Nina Simone song....
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Post by Glass Onion on Oct 15, 2016 12:19:37 GMT
The atmosphere Ry Cooder creates here with his slide guitar, is awesome.
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Post by Glass Onion on Oct 15, 2016 12:49:03 GMT
One of my favourite all time great guitar solos, by Larry Carlton from the raunchiest bit of 'Against All Odds' it really sets the scene. I think for copyright reasons the video is not on youtube.
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Post by ROCKY on Oct 15, 2016 13:02:03 GMT
How about movie songs that were BIG, but you hated! lol This one came out in 1957 and I remember radio stations would play it too death! And I still hate it today!! lol
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Post by Mr Kite on Oct 15, 2016 21:06:10 GMT
Once again I love the film and love the theme As this one . Hands up if you can name a film with a King Crimson track ? And a Yes track ? Warning this video clip is a over 18
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Post by brewmaster on Oct 16, 2016 11:14:49 GMT
Good idea, Rocky. The first one that comes to mind was when I was a kid, and my Mum took me to the cinema to see this film:
I was suspicious of the title, as I only liked Westerns, but my Mum assured [conned] me that the title referred to an Apache arrow "deep in the heart" of a cowboy. Shortly after the film began I said to her "It's not cowboys, it's all kissing" I detested the musical numbers whenever I heard them after that.
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Post by brewmaster on Oct 17, 2016 17:18:11 GMT
Bowie had a very active movie career, both as a musician and an actor. Here is a terrific song, from an awful film:
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Post by pothos on Oct 17, 2016 21:39:35 GMT
I bought that track at the time.
I love this Bowie project.
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Post by brewmaster on Oct 18, 2016 9:28:48 GMT
The Shdows performed this in the Cliff movie "The Young Ones"
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Post by dennis1960 on Oct 18, 2016 17:46:21 GMT
Speaking of "The Young Ones", I'm referring to the 80's highly obnoxious TV Britcom about 4 college student roommates and their surreal and often absolutely disgusting adventures. Every show they had a musical guest that did a song in either the guys livingroom or outside in the street. My fave performances as shown below are: 1) 9 Below Zero : 11 + 11 2) Madness : Our House 3) Motorhead : Ace of Spades 4) The Damned : Nasty. Finding a Beatles link in the Young One's guest bands is easy! Lemmy from Motorhead was a huge Beatle fan and says he saw them perform at the Cavern Club in the early 60's then learned how to play along with the Please Please Me album. Here's a fantastic quote I found from Lemmy's 2003 autobiography "White Line Fever": “...the Beatles were hard men too. Brian Epstein cleaned them up for mass consumption, but they were anything but sissies. They were from Liverpool, which is like Hamburg or Norfolk, Virginia--a hard, sea-farin' town, all these dockers and sailors around all the time who would beat the piss out of you if you so much as winked at them. Ringo's from the Dingle, which is like the f***ing Bronx. The Rolling Stones were the mummy's boys--they were all college students from the outskirts of London. They went to starve in London, but it was by choice, to give themselves some sort of aura of disrespectability. I did like the Stones, but they were never anywhere near the Beatles--not for humour, not for originality, not for songs, not for presentation. All they had was Mick Jagger dancing about. Fair enough, the Stones made great records, but they were always s**t on stage, whereas the Beatles were the gear.” Anyway, here's the vids and if you want to check out some totally crazy Britcom action...there's tons of Young Ones episodes up on youtube
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Post by brewmaster on Oct 18, 2016 21:18:26 GMT
Brilliant. Although I never watched the "Young Ones" series that choice of a Madness number is great.
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Post by pothos on Oct 18, 2016 22:21:54 GMT
The episode Bambi was essential viewing Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Ben Elton are all in this episode. I genuinely believe I laughed at the Young Ones more than any other sitcom. Neil the hippy, GBH the hamster and RIP Rick Mayal staggeringly funny and weird.
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Post by pothos on Oct 18, 2016 22:30:26 GMT
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Post by brewmaster on Oct 19, 2016 8:59:05 GMT
"Performance" was one of my favourite Sixties films. Actually, it's two films, the first being a great, gritty, London gangster story. The second comes when Chas [played by James Fox] is on the run and ends up in a hippy commune presided over by Mick Jagger playing, well, Mick Jagger. Chas has his drink spiked and is soon off his head on LSD, and lets his guard slip, allowing the gang to find him.
James Fox, who was actually a very upper class actor, portrayed the East End "frightener" perfectly. The always reliable Anthony Valentine was excellent, and newcomer Johnny Shannon was perfect as a genial psychopath gang boss Harry Flowers. James Fox actually went through a similar process to his character Chas. The directors and Jaggers' entourage indulged in so much drug taking that Fox left the movie business, and became a born-again preacher for about ten years, before returning to movies. A pity because he was really at the top of the profession at the time. The movie had a great sountrack, including some very atmospheric work by Ry Cooder. This song by Jagger kind of sums up the film:
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Post by dennis1960 on Oct 19, 2016 15:51:18 GMT
Well played. That University Challenge scene is my all time fave Young Ones bit...shoot, that whole episode with Motorhead, Rick trying to kill himself with laxative pills, the trip to the laundrette, and Viv losing his head on British Rail is completely brilliant! "Vegetable Rights and Peace"
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Post by brewmaster on Oct 20, 2016 7:28:49 GMT
Another Stones number in a film:
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Post by dennis1960 on Oct 20, 2016 17:44:36 GMT
There's also the Guns n Roses cover of Sympathy for the Devil that ends the '94 "Interview with the Vampire" film. I really wish they had used the original Stones version which I think is much more menacing than anything GnR could have come up with, but oh well...guess they were trying to be contemporary which I think was a mistake. This vid shows the beginning of the song film clip and some other bits from the film and GnR stuff if you're into them.
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