Disco Stu

Well, 76.92% of you were correct! John Williams' score for The Fabelmans has been nominated for the Best Original Score Oscar. Will it win? Lock in your vote now, the betting poll closes on Feb. 3rd!

Oh shit, I just completely missed this going through my 1978 playlist, of course Hemispheres is on my list! Incredible album. Added it in at #9

For 1978, just listen to Spacelab on a loop. A Spaceloop, if you will

I loved the Finding Neverland score when I was in high school but I don't think I've listened to it since! Sorry to read how much he's struggling

I guess it's just what I needed

I get where you're coming from! 1978 The Cars - self-titled Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town Van Halen - self-titled Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid AC/DC - Powerage Rush - Hemispheres The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope The Doobie Brothers - Minute by Minute The Rolling Stones - Some Girls Ramones - Road to Ruin Dave Edmunds - Tracks on Wax 4 Michael Rother - Sterntaler Bob Seger - Stranger in Town Billy Joel - 52nd Street Wire - Chairs Missing Boston - Don't Look Back La Dusseldorf - Viva Nick Lowe - Pure Pop for Now People Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! Elvis Costello - This Year's Model X-ray Spex - Germ free Adolescents The Jam - All Mod Cons

i've listened to hours and hours of Jeff Davis on the Harmontown podcast, and yet I've never seen a single episode of him on Whose Line that I can remember. By the time he started appearing in the show a few seasons in, I'd gotten to high school and was spending weeknights chatting on AIM instead of watching TV

You just want to watch the world burn!

Isn't what I said the opposite of pretentious? I'm saying I don't like to speak for any POV but my own experience. Pretentious means that you're claiming some expertise you don't have. I'm saying I'm too stupid to know how judge in that way! Anyway, now I'm afraid it looks like I was trying to insult or take issue with Richard, which is the farthest thing from my intention.

I don't think I'd ever make such a distinction. Personally, I see no utility in judging any piece of art from some hypothetical aesthetic viewpoint. That seems to me the domain of philosophers/academics and doesn't have much relevance to just a person seeking some enjoyment and meaning from a creative work. In my experience, most people (speaking generally, not about you) that claim such an objective viewpoint are just post-hoc justifying their personal emotional response.

I miss when the sound of the laser swords was emphasized in that really physical, guttural way. It was such a key part of why they (the swords themselves) captured the imagination.

Heh, I didn't notice how old the video was. It showed up in my recs and I was overtaken by the age-old instinct, "Ugh, this smells awful.... here, smell this" Sorry!

I also think that looks like it could be surprisingly good. Remember that D&D movie from the 2000s? Awful!

I guess they wanted it to be more like what lightsaber fights evolved into decades later, and to incorporate later canon. I'm gonna be honest, I hate everything about it

Ultimately I voted yes because right now I think Avatar 2 will end around 740ish, but it would only require a fairly small shift in Avatar 2's weekend percentage drops for Top Gun to win out. It comes down to how much more can it rack up in the next 4 weeks before Ant-Man 3 comes out? I set the poll to close on Feb. 1, so I may sneaky change my answer depending on what this coming weekend's numbers look like

I've already changed mine lol. Moved Heroes up to 3. Also for comparison, back in 2018 I posted my top 10 Bowie list that I made in 2015 (before Blackstar came out) Where's Hunky Dory? Two days ago you said it was his best record!

I can’t decide quite what I think will happen. Just as an interesting narrative I prefer the improbability of Tom Cruise having the biggest hit of his career at 60 to “sequel to most successful film ever is very successful.” But I want to approach the question somewhat empirically or whatever. I feel no shame in my enjoyment of following Hollywood the business like its sports. It’s art and commerce in both concert and conflict, and I think it’s fun and fascinating.

And presumably Outside

I think it’s gonna be close! Will be very interesting to see when Disney decides to put it on D+.

In its initial release https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Top-Gun-Maverick-(2020) https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Avatar-The-Way-of-Water-(2022)

Good thing too, that ending set up a new paradigm for the character, we have to get new stories

Happy Valley has returned at last for its 3rd and final season, 7 years after the 2nd. Love these characters, love the setting, love how Sally Wainwright writes working class characters.

I love listening to Queen songs, but for most of their albums that aren't A Night at the Opera, I find I have trouble sitting through their full albums. I don't have any "they're bad, actually" hot takes, far from it, they're incredible, I've just never connected to the deeper catalog like so many do.

Even the greatest stars, find their face in the looking glass