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Suburban Noize Records have been around since the mid-90s, catering to a very certain market of young hip hop, herb culture, and punk fans. We have a few items from them for review.
For starter, SubNoize Souljaz (myspace) is like the all-star supergroup, consisting of 15 or so Suburban Noize artists, including members of Kottonmouth King, Big B, and Jared Gomes (singer of Hed PE).
Their third album, Blast From The Past, just dropped late last August. While I am unfamiliar with some of these titles, I almost knew all the cover songs from hearing them on the radio. Except this album are all done in the style of that only Subnoize can deliver. With the variety of rappers and lead singers - the music is somewhat uneven, but at least the vocals stands out from each other. Particularly, I was impressed with Judge D's cover of LL's "Mama Said Knock You Out" and a funky The Dirtball's cover of RATM's "Microphone Fiend" (the bass is really good on this song) and Slick Rick's "Children's Story" by Daddy X.
It's evident that these guys owe a lot to influential bands that came before them (NWA, 2Pac, Snoop, Dre), so this album is a tribute to them. If you like old-school rap, particularly Death Row Records, as much as anyone that grew up in the 90s, you will definitely do yourself a favor and check out Blast From The Past.
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Anyway, Brokencyde is a "crunk"-core band (apparently this genre is a fusion of hip hop and electro, and possibly other genres like punk and rock). The band embrace the brand, and even have a song called "Get Crunk!".
The album actually did chart on the Billboard 200 at #86, which kind of impressed me, considering that many of the artists I hear about, they never chart. I think the high debut might possibly be due to their presence on this year's US Warped Tour. However, despite the success, the album was critically condemned. My favorite is (name redacted) review from NME: "even if I caught Prince Harry and Gary Glitter adorned in Nazi regalia defecating through my grandmother’s letterbox I would still consider making them listen to this album too severe a punishment." Critics who hates them, I don't think they understand that the album was meant for them... certainly the album is not meant for me. I am curious what the band will sound like when they've matured a bit. Although, I will have to confess that I did smile a bit when I heard "pee pee" sung on "Sex Toys" and "let's get retarded" on "Rockstar".
They look and sound very young (hey, FYI, their singer is called Se7en), which makes their debut album I'm Not a Fan... But the Kids Like It even more-so ironic. I did feel that despite their youngness, that
Stronger songs on the album are: "Freaxxx" (with the catchy "let's get freaky" lyrics), and "Yellow Bus" (boasting about sex with groupies like Miley Cyrus??? WTF!).
If you don't mind the naughty messages, some autotune, some screamo, some electronica, check out I'm Not a Fan... But the Kids Like It at amazon.
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11/13/09 Budweiser Event Center* CO
11/14/09 Mid America Center*, IA 11/15/09 Uptown Theater* Kansas City, MO 11/17/09 Val Air Ballroom Des Moines, IA 11/18/09 Aragon Ballroom* Chicago, IL 11/19/09 The Fillmore* Detroit, MI 11/26/09 Grove of Anaheim, CA * with 311 |
Their latest release is Hidden Stash 420, an epic 2-disc album. This is basically a collection of unreleased tracks, b-sides, remixes, demos. The packaging is also nice, it's a fold-out digipak. Hardcore fans will want to purchase the album directly from Subnoize Store or Best Buy stores, as that comes with a bonus DVD called The Lost Adventures of the Kottonmouth Kings.
While it's easy to just dismiss the band as pot smokers, that all their songs about weed, and although it's true, I believe they also deceptively paint a vivid picture of what their lifestyle is like. Check out tracks like "Take a Ride", as it describes California and family, all under a catchy chorus of "west coast is the place for me, never know what you'll see". But it's not all serious, there's a goofy song called "Late Night Call" with cultural reference of "me so horny", "facebook" and "myspace".
The collection is mostly older songs, and it's interesting to see some of their experiments. One song, "Tangerine Sky", seems like it's paying tribute to the Beatles LSD song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". "Tangerine Sky" comes off as being more melodic and slower than most of their songs. The other non-conventional KMK is a poppy song "Let the Music Play". I wish I knew the story behind this song, but what I can tell you that it sounds very happy and 60s love. Perhaps Jackson Five?
Anyway, my favorites are usually the faster-constantly rapping songs with a loopy DJ backback, like "Evolution" and "Got It Get It". The later is a new Kingspade (a division of Kottonmouth King's rap duo, Johnny Richter and D-Loc) venture, which may be important for fans, as they haven't released anything under Kingspade in the last two years.
Hidden Stash 420 is out now. A perfect Christmas gift for any stoner in your family.
11/10/2009 18:05:38 ♥ vu (
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The latest DVD we received is a horror movie called Gothkill. This is a straight-to-DVD low budgeted movie, starting America's Got Talent's Flambeaux (as Nicholas Dread), musician Eve Blackwater (as Kate) and Mistress Juliya (as Demonatrix, aka the Devil Girl).
Mistress Juliya's name should come as no surprise to fans of heavy metal, she did, after all hosted Much Music USA's Uranium, then onto its spin-off show, Metal Asylum. Her obvious sex appeal solidified her as a fan favorite, she now appears regularly on No. 1 Countdown Rock show on the MMUSA-turned-Fused TV.
Eve Blackwater's other job seems to be as a fire-eating musician. Her myspace hilariously discourages creeps: "STOP TRYING TO GET IN MY PANTS!!! IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN!!!! sorry to disappoint you."
The story of Gothkill is quite simple, Nicholas Dread, a Catholic Priest tries and save innocent women from accusations of witchcraft. His efforts lead the church to believe he's in league with the devil and sentenced him to be burn with the women he "confessed". This lead to Dread's disenchantment with his religion and made a pact with Satan.
100 years (?) later, in modern-day New York, Dread comes back to finish his deal with the devil. His revenge is unleashed on a stripper/goth club and basically it ends in fire and hell.
The DVD cover artwork by world-famous death metal artist Mike Hrubovcak promises us: B-Movie (check), T&A (check and check), metal (check), bloody gore (check), hell (check), goths (check), and deaths (check). While I did not enjoy very short movie, I would recommend it if you are looking for a midnight gory b-movie with a heavy goth/metal theme (with all the checks above), this will fulfill what you're looking for.
Also, it's not quite as comedic or as cheesy as some of the reviewers made it out to be, sure there are some unintentional bad acting, but that's to be expected with these type of film. I thought the
Gothkill was released May 12th, you can netflix this (it's available, I just checked). If you insist on buying a copy for your Mistress Juliya collection or for the extras (including audio/video commentary by director JJ Connelly, Flambeaux, and Blackwater), you can head over to Gothkill Store. Watch the trailer at Wild Eye Releasing.
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The application is really designed for DJs for determining beats per minute (BPM), for, what I'm assuming so they can match music to that thumping-thumping noise. The application was created and developed by Epic Tilt, who is the company-for-hire when big companies need to cross promote their product (such as that Be Like Lady Gaga application). It's actually a smart way to promote, I'm just wondering why companies don't concentrate their efforts on applications.
I did download and tested out the BPM application and discovered that this application was not meant for me. This is really for DJs, as I have previously mentioned. After testing four songs, the number given back to me ranges from 100-200 BPM and that's pretty much it. You can then save the information on a playlist or assign notes to it or share them with your DJ friends.... but I found that since I did not understand the use of the BPM, it quickly became a useless application for me.
However, if you're a DJ, or interested in DJ work, I think this application is valuable to you. Plus the price is just right: FREE.
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would seem like most current/modern bands all have Twitter accounts
now. If not setup by the band themselves, it's set up by their record
label. Pretty soon, all musicians will have a Twitter account, like
they do with their Myspace.
W♥M Twitter experienced a huge spike with all the bands migrating to the service - we had +63 adds since last night, mostly by bands. It's not John Mayers numbers, but it's big for us.
And I have said it before: I don't get what all the fuss is about with Twitter. Why is the country in love with it? The limitation of 140 characters kills me.... plus people use it as a popularity contest. Also, once you add more than 50 people to follow, it becomes absolutely useless. I know hardcore Twitter users basically use 3rd party applications to keep them organize (since Twitter doesn't offer such functionality).
The microblogging service hit mainstream media earlier this year with Ashton vs CNN and Oprah endorsing it. Recently, I was at a grocery store when I saw The Times with twitter for their front page story.
If you're new to Twitter, or interested in being more productive on Twitter, here are some services that I use and endorse:
- Tweet Later: Automatically follow people that follows you - and the best part, it also drops people that unfollow you.
- Twitterfeed: Automatically post feeds (RSS).
- We Follow: A directory of twitterers, ranked by popularity.
06/14/2009 20:42:34 ♥ vu ()
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Although the music festival only lasted three days, you can tell that director, Michael Wadleigh, started his work weeks before that August 15th date. The daunting task of editing all the footage ended up on Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker's laps (who was nominated for Academy Award for Film Editing, but lost to Hugh S. Fowler for his work on "Patton").
The documentary opens up with an old gentlemen, who talked frankly about how in all his life, he's never seen anything quite like it. For a show that was only meant to house 50,000 people in a field at best, about a million people showed up. It slowly cut in "the kids" showing up days early in anticipation for the show, as they're still building the center stage. The music they used in the background was mostly Crosby, Stills & Nash ("Wooden Ships", "Long Time Gone") - who would later appear to end the first part of the documentary.
Incidentally, the band later had a major hit a Joni Mitchell-written song called "Woodstock", inspired by her then-boyfriend Graham Nash and seeing Woodstock on television. Mitchell never went to Woodstock, herself, she had a conflict on those dates by appearing live on The Dick Cavett Show for ABC television (you can actually see her appearance on the The Dick Cavett Show - Rock Icons (3 DVD Set)).
Back to Woodstock, the live performance are up close and personal, you can see every sweat & tear from the performers. Unfortunately, due to the limitation of technology, some of the filming looks soft and not as crisp as modern recording devices. You see a lot of film grains, and on occasion, spots and cuts. Colors are not as vibrant, but overall, most people are not going to notice these imperfections. Audio-wise, I had no problems with the audio.
Some key moments in the documentary you should look out for: Joe Cocker's version of The Beatles' "With a Little Help From My Friends", Sha Na Na's version of Danny & the Juniors' "At the Hop", Janis Joplin's "Work Me Lord" and Jimi Hendrix's unforgettable "Purple Haze".
Like many of you, this release of Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music is the only means of giving us a glimpse an era gone by. Unfortunately, the only drawback is the pricing of this product retails for $49.95, which is a bit of a luxury for most people. You can probably netflix this, but the way it's packaged (with all the goodies), it is marketed to be owned by consumers.
06/09/2009 21:45:40 ♥ vu ()
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The entire one hour show, includes a "pretend encore" encore (The Zero 7 song, "Distractions"), was shot at the Hiro Ballroom in NYC on September 12th, 2007. I think they were just finishing up Some People Have Real Problems around this time, so you do hear some of her new songs on this DVD release ("Academia", "Day Too Soon", and "You Have Been Loved" to name a few).
The DVD opens up with the hidden-track from Problems called "Buttons". Combining "crude" child-like drawings with neon fluorescent colors (an wonderfully catchy song to boot) it was really hard to top that. Although I will confess that "The Girls You Lost To Cocaine" came very close.
The best part of the show was when Sia pulled a tooth out of her bra shortly before "Breathe Me". The tooth was from her guitarist, who had the tooth taken out the previous night. What I took out of this is what a strange creature Sia is. She's like this child, keeping a tooth close to her chest the whole time!
Sia and company seems at ease on stage, not at all nervous. They knew the show was being filmed, but you get the impression that Sia welcomes this. The video editing by director Nic Wrathall and 5.1 surround sound are excellent. I'm just surprise it took them this long to get the whole thing together as a DVD release. I don't think there is a bluray version, but seeing as it was shot in high-definition, I wouldn't be surprise if they decide to release a bluray version later on.
The special features includes four official music videos, including the wonderful "Soon We'll Be Found" video. The rest of the features is Sia and friends recording random "Behind the Scenes" snippets. These bits aren't very long, but it gives you a glimpse to the band and what they're like on tour. It's really meant for hardcore fans as it will just seem boring to casual fans... But if you do decide hunt for the eastereggs, try and find "pushups for shots" videos. I love hearing "Too easy, mate! Too easy!", followed by Sia's pushups.
For those wondering, the complete song listing is here:
- SETLIST
- Buttons
- Little Black Sandals
- Lentil
- Day Too Soon
- Sunday
- Destiny
- Breathe Me
- Electric Bird
- You Have Been Loved
- Academia
- The Girls You Lost To Cocaine
- Distractions
Can't get enough of Sia? She recently released an exclusive iTunes live EP called Sydney. It's seven tracks from her in-store performance at the Apple Store in Sydney, Australia, and it's available now for $7.
05/15/2009 00:56:42 ♥ vu ()
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The colors are vivid and the audio is clear in 5.1 Surround sound, it's only really a shame that it's not in bluray. Between the quick MTV-style cuts of at least seven different camera angles, the show is never that boring - although looking at some of the audience members, they seem underwhelmed. It's clearly a sit-down venue and everybody is standing in a row.
The majority of the setlist is taken from Welcome Interstate Managers, so you get to see songs interpreted live. Most of the songs are pretty similar to their studio counterparts (such as the wonderful "Mexican Wine"), however songs like "Hackensack" lacked that intimacy and smirk of hearing "talking" rhyming with Christopher Walken.
If you love Welcome Interstate Managers, then No Better Place: Live in Chicago will be a good companion. Hardcore fans will want to pick this up for the new acoustic songs, but I suspect most of you will probably already have a bootleg of it or something.
Fountains of Wayne's No Better Place: Live in Chicago can be bought at most music store, but of course you can buy it direct ($16.98 + S&H).
Trivia: Dar Williams recently covered FoW's song "Troubled Times" on last year's Promised Land.
02/25/2009 21:41:54 ♥ vu ()
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When I saw that Mamma Mia! The Movie opened earlier this year, I was hesitant to see it because I didn't think the original ABBA members was involved in the movie (although I think Björn Ulvaeus shows up in a cameo playing piano in one of the scene). When I saw the DVD for sale last Tuesday, I decided to take a chance on it. There was a few deciding factors involved, pricing and for a limited time at Target, it comes with the movie soundtrack. It also comes with a digital version of the movie for your computer and/or iPod, which tipped the scale for me.
After viewing the "2008 Golden Globe-nominated film", I can see why it would work for the stage... but not in motion picture format. There just seem to be something lacking for me. Mostly because I didn't really like literal translation of the songs, especially when I have my own interpretation of the original ABBA songs. And, really, do I need to see Dominic Cooper holding a cigar when he sings, "you used to say that smoking was my only vice" on "Lay All Your Love On Me"? Really? Really?!!?
Songs like "Does Your Mother Know?" is re-interpreted as an older lady and a younger boy, going as far as changing the lyrics to fit the scenario. Maybe the film works as a family film (although there are some pretty saucy/suggestive scenes...) or a good-old fashion musical.
So, I suppose I really liked some of the songs, but not all, but overall didn't like the "feel-good" movie. I'll tell you what though, I don't really like comedy or family-type films, so don't read too much in my criticism. The type of movie I do enjoy is, recently, Wanted, starring Angelina Jolie.
Incidentally, ABBA's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" popped up recently in a mashup that Jaklumen previously mentioned.
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What you'll find on the DVD is that it really captures the energy and showmanship of this band. Apparently, they played to a very packed Key Club in Hollywood, I would even guess it was a sold-out show.
They play everything fast (even on the 'slow' songs) and their fans seems to know all the lyrics (and would sing along).
The other thing I noticed is that they really comfortable being on stage, in front of thousands of fans. They must've constantly been on tour last year, and being involved in the Warped Tour, probably didn't hurt either.
I counted about four or five cameras (the worst camera is the stationary eagle view, which looks really blurry - but I suppose it's also filming from a good distance), capturing the band from various angles.
To me, releasing it as a DVD-only live album would've been just fine, but I'm glad that the producer decided to throw in the audio soundtrack to the DVD - you know if you're driving or something or don't feel like experiencing the show on TV speakers Unfortunately, due to the limitation of the CD, only 80 minutes of the show could fit in.... but the audio tracks are taken from soundboard, so it sounds fantastic. I guess, if anything, the bonus is the audio CD, the main feature is the video.
Things to take note about this show: the new drummer, Dylan Howard, who displace Wade Youman (who often took credit for starting Unwritten Law).
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Words for the Dying DVD (09/30/08) >>>
We don't normally get 'screener' DVD copies for review (I think the last one I got was for Negativland's DVD), so I was pretty excited to get Words for the Dying DVD.
Being an early adopter of the DVD format (I own over 2,000 DVDs), I do appreciate the higher visual and audio quality that DVD had over VHS. I am starting to get into Bluray (I also have a handful of HD-DVDs), so as far as movie snobbery goes, I'm up there. Keep this in mind when I talk about the poor visual and audio later.
First of all, for introductory purposes, both John Cale and Brian Eno are very accomplished musicians. Cale's history with the Velvet Underground, Eno is regarded by many as the "father of ambient music" and his work with Roxy Music. This DVD release, it seems to me, was for fans' services/demands. Documentary fans might also want to check this out but, to be honest, if you don't like music documentary, you should skip this one.
This documentary, by director Rob Nilsson, is about the recording of John Cale's album, also of the same name. Although the cover art clearly depicts and credits Brian Eno, it would seem whenever he's conscious of the camera's presence, he's either covering his face and/or giving the viewer the finger. He makes it known that he did not want to be part of the documentary (although he does appear with a formal interview at the very end of the album talking about the mix).
According to the DVD box, there are four parts to this documentary, revolving around four Dylan Thomas poems. However, watching it, it felt to me that there were only three parts (Cale in Moscow, in London, and Wales). Moscow and Wales are shot in black and white, which leads me to believe that either it's done for artistic reasons and/or the footage they had (with poor lighting) was unuseable in color. Sometimes the poor audio and visual made it hard for me to watch on my high definition television. Maybe I'm just spoiled but, speaking for myself, I like seeing movies in color.
At the beginning of the documentary I had trouble understanding what was going on. Why were they going to see these various Moscow bands? I eventually concluded that they were talent, but there are random things like playing racquetball that I felt didn't belong in a music-making documentary. Overall, it felt like the journey of recording the album was really epic and squeezing all of that in an hour and a half documentary is quite an achievement.
For their defense, they did have 1987 film equipment (probably VHS recorders) and considering that the original 1990 is long out of print, having it re-released on quality DVD by Provocateur DVD is well worth your time if you are a fan of John Cale or Brian Eno. The DVD price listing is $24.95 but obviously you can find it at a cheaper online price. As a long-time DVD buyer, I can tell you that usually Deep Discount DVDs usually has the best prices ($16.47 includes free shipping).
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Breaking news: I just got this press release for Morrissey's Live at the Hollywood Bowl DVD for release in the UK on October 6th.
Read an excerpt:
Warner Music Entertainment is pleased to announce the UK release of Morrissey ‘Live At The Hollywood Bowl’ on Monday October 6th.
This forthcoming DVD captures Morrissey ‘Live at the Hollywood Bowl’ 15 years after his last gig at the legendary venue. A 17,000 plus audience is captivated with a career defining performance that includes The Smiths’ classic tracks ‘The Queen Is Dead’, ‘The Boy With The Thorn In His Side’, ‘Girlfriend In A Coma’, ‘How Soon Is Now?’, Please, Please, Please Let me Get What I Want’ and ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’.
Morrissey’s darkly raw and witty lyrics are teamed with a flamboyant stage persona as we see at least 2 shirt strips and a constant flow of impassioned stage invaders. He delivers an unforgettable set spanning three decades of new and classic material on a night where his voice and performance is at it it’s very peak.
Morrissey collectors would've already own the bonus audio CD on the limited version of Morrissey's Greatest Hits which features only a portion of this show.... now you can get the entire performance (including encores) on the new DVD out in the UK only.
As of this writing, I'm not aware that this DVD will be released in the US, our last major DVD release for Morrissey was Who Put the M in Manchester in 2005.
You Brits are so lucky.
UPDATE: Of course this is typically Morrissey. Given the opportunity, he denounces everything from Babylon Books to Johnny "rodent" Rogan. What he doesn't say that he actually does get music publishing royalties, granted it may not be a lot of money derived from the DVD sales... Anyway, you gotta love the guy.
Message from Morrissey
14 August 2008MESSAGE FROM MORRISSEY.
The slapdash release of Morrissey live at the Hollywood Bowl is done by Warner without any consultation to me whatsoever, and is in breach of their terms as laid out by themselves in an agreement made for the film between Warner and my ex-manager. Being Warner, predictably the sleeve art is appalling. It is the work of cash-hounds, and I urge people NOT to buy it. I am not signed to Warner, and no royalties from this dvd will come to me. Please spend your money elsewhere.
thank you, MORRISSEY.
UPDATE 8/27: This doesn't surprise me, given Morrissey's dispute in the matter, that I have been told "The Morrissey 'Live At The Hollywood Bowl' DVD has been postponed pending a new release date."
Talking to people, I get the impression that no one is really all that excited about the new X-Files movie that was just released on Friday. Admittedly, since I'm an old-school X-Philer, I own every X-Files season on DVD (defnitely not looking to re-buy it on bluray).
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I am going to see the movie today (Sunday) - in the meantime, enjoy this little tribute article to The X-Files music.
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Obviously, with the success of the television show, an album "inspired by the X-Files" called Songs in the Key of X was released in early 1996. The compilation sold very well, partly due to the popularity of the show and its respectable artists on the credits, such as Nick Cave, Soul Coughing, and Danzig.
There's even a PM Dawn remix of the X-Files theme that sounds a Spaghetti Western dance mix. A very interesting mix, but I did prefer the original songs. Soul Coughing did a great job on their song "Unmarked Helicopters", about men in black.
It wasn't long before Mark Snow's original soundtrack for the television show was released, called The Truth and the Light: Music from The X-Files. The music are taken from the first three seasons (1993-1995) - including that familar X-Files Theme song. Some of the songs are nice and relaxing, but as they were designed to be background music, nothing really stood out for me. There is an occassional dialogue excerpt from the show mixed into some of the songs, but outside of that this album is meant only for hardcore X-File fans.
When the first movie, Fight the Future, hit the theaters, back in '98, the soundtrack was also released. I picked this up through our friends the BMG. The track listing seems to compile the typical artists of that time period (notably Ween, The Cure, & Better Than Ezra).
I believe all the songs were written especially for the movie, and the ones I used to listen to a lot was The Dust Brothers's version of "The X-Files Theme", Noel Gallagher (Oasis)'s "Teotihuacan", and The Cardigans' "Deuce". The last song seems more like a love song, I'm not sure where it actually appeared in Fight the Future, but it's been years since I saw that movie. It's actually one of the few X-Files DVD that I'm missing because when I bought it originally (via the internet), that company went bankrupted and never shipped my DVD.
This finally brings us to the new soundtrack, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, which was released a few days ago, July 22nd. I have only picked it up hours today, so I haven't really listened to it. Mark Snow does most of the instrumental stuff, but there are two songs of note on here: "Broken" by Unkle and what sounds like a rap song called "Dying 2 Live" by Xzibit.
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In the bonus segment of this article, here are songs that were inspired by the television show. From Britpop, comes Catatonia with their song, "Mulder and Scully". I used to really love this song, but it sort of wore thin when I realized that there were only a handful of great songs from their 1998 International Velvet. Although this won't be an in-depth article on Catatonia, I do have a most of their releases that I want to talk about (particularly Cerys Matthews' solo material). |
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As far as I know, "Extremis" was the only song that's ever released by Gillian Anderson. With an mixer outfit called HAL (a nod to 2001: A Space Odyssey?). With the techo beats and Anderson's deep, sexy voice (with loads of heavy breathing), it comes off (haha) like a porno song. I actually don't know much about HAL, or where Anderson's music career is right now, but what I do know is that back in 1997, "Extremis" ruled the various trance/ambient compilation CDs. I remember all the entertainment television show was talking about Gillian Anderson's venture in music. Too bad nothing ever came of it, because, "Extremis" is a pretty good song. |
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Bree Sharp's "David Duchovny" was a big hit for her, possibly a
one-hit wonder if you ask me. She's released one additional album since
her 1999 debut, A Cheap and Evil Girl. Looking over at her myspace, there seems to be an indication of a brand new 2008 album called Robots in Love. Anyway, this stalker song is really about the actor that plays Agent Fox Mulder, it's quite funny - especially at the end when she says "I'm gonna kill Scully." |
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Not to be outdone is Yellow Sloth Chicken Broth's lustful song about Gillian Anderson, the actress that plays Agent Dana Scully. The punk song complains how she never shows off her cleavage (except on the internet), and it's pretty forgettable. It's safe to say that he wants to be with her in a three way or something? You can find this song on their Party Of Four (1998) album. |
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I'm choosing my words carefully, as to not give you any spoilers.
First of all, you do not need to know any X-Files before venturing to see this movie, it does hold up to a stand-alone film... but it does help to have known the show as there are winks that only loyal fans would understand.
I did enjoy the film overall, but I believe if you don't care about the X-Files, this would come off as a pretty standard crime/police movie with a little bit of the unknown/supernatural.
I've seen a LOT of movies, and what works here is the "real life" coppers and evildoers. I like it when the movie is grounded in reality - and it plays off like "Silence of the Lambs", where you're given bits of clues and you sort of "piece together" the story as it unfolds.
Where the movie fail is the incredibly, unbelievable, even ridiculous premise. You will know what I'm talking about once you've seen the film.
Other failure: relationships of Fox and Dana. Who is asking for this??? Not me. The movie would've worked if we never know (it would've been better if you didn't know). The unveiling of the answer hit you like a brick in the face, WTF.
If you like crime drama/thriller, this might be a movie for you - if you've never cared for the X-Files or thrillers, skip this movie. For X-Files fan, you must see this movie. It feels good to see it on the big screen, and I'll pick up the bluray of this when it's released.
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Explore friends, family, friends & family, or entire neighborhood.
