Disco Stu

I must admit I began finding the poll threads tiresome weeks ago. However, they are easy to ignore. I'll not deny others their fun.

This tweet is the only official information:

'Twin Peaks’ Premiere Delivers Only Half a Million Viewers

No Aviator, no deal. This is also when I sadly discover that the Nobody's Fool OST is not available on Spotify. One of my favorite Shore scores.

The person who tweeted at Johnson clearly has not a single clue how film music works. Reminds me of the Star Wars podcast I recently heard Doug Adams guest on. The interviewer had no idea that film composers write music to accompany specific parts of the film. He thought they just recorded a bunch of music and then the editors decide where it goes, like it was a pop song or something. I run into this all the time as a programmer who interacts some with end users of the software I work on: that it's easy to forget how ignorant people can be of subjects you are deeply immersed in. I'm not saying these people are dumb, just that it's easy to forget that most people do not know or think about how films are put together.

It wasn't the pacemaker, it was Beauty revived the Beast

[insert sound of Sideshow Bob stepping on a rake]

I somehow only just realized that he's the first Bond to pass away (unless you count David Niven, in which case you're an irritating pedant).

Oh I agree, I was speaking only of the initial wave of synth pop. I consider from 1984 onward the "maturation" of the subgenre, when they moved beyond just imitating Kraftwerk.

Heh, the Special Editions came out when I was 9 and I have no love for them!

Unrelated, but recently I thought about how funny it is that next year there's going to be a film about millennial-types playing a VR MMORPG directed by a septuagenarian, scored by an octogenarian.

You just try that in my bayou, boy!

It's true. In 20 years, people who were obsessed with Marvel movies when they 10 will be calling the next generation idiots for liking whatever the popcorn entertainment du jour is.

I think he's developed his own voice, and yes it lacks complexity compared to your Goldsmiths, Williamses, Horners, etc., but it is very much his voice, whether you like it or not.

That.... could've used less Middle-Earth.

I like Sheriff JW Pepper. AND I'M PROUD OF IT!

All great music! Although, my favorite single song of that 1979-1983 era is probably Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough."

Moore got some of my favorite over-the-top Bond baddies and lead henchmen. Scaramanga & Nick Nack, Kananga & Baron Samedi, Stromberg & Jaws, Hugo Drax &... Jaws again! All so ridiculous and fun. Anyway, he's still my favorite Bond to this day! A golden era of silly action comedies.

Getting older is weird. I'm in a community band with amateur musicians ranging from 10 to 85, and I made a "more cowbell" reference at a rehearsal recently and every teenager in the band just gave me a blank look. I thought more cowbell was universal!!!

It's my personal favorite of his Bonds. Although I love all of them, stupid and daft as they got.

Domhnall Gleeson is going to age into such a great British character actor (just like his father). Just that classic look about him. (this was reacting to one of the Vanity Fair covers)

Heh, every song you mentioned is on the American self-titled debut except the last one.

Really I love all of that initial phase of OMD pretty equally. And when I say "first three" albums I really mean "first four" but I actually prefer the American debut for them which combined their first two British albums.

Is that Porkins in the background?