Disco Stu

No need to add it, it's already #4 on my list! One of the greatest albums of all time! Yes, in that it's the actual "new" album, but I do love vol. 2 as well for what it is, so I chose to leave it ambiguous and just say "Works"

I'd consider watching the series if it was shorter (or, you know, a movie). Nearly 10 hours of National Treasure, especially without Cage, is many more hours of National Treasure than I could ever possibly desire.

I maintain that a lot of his work was just not as good as it could have been, whether that's his fault, or Spielberg's, or whoever's. That said, I hope to be proven very wrong with this Williams project.

I understand the impulse to not want to seem like an entitled whiny fanboy, but you have to understand the context. In the DVD boom of the 2000s, the gold standard was the amazing LOTR extended edition sets, and it was always a source of frustration for me (and clearly, many others) that the Spielberg DVDs felt like barebones cheapies in comparison. For understandable reasons, it became the feeling amongst fans that LOTR got Michael Pellerin and Spielberg got... Bouzereau, so his name became like a symbol for shallow DVD releases. Yes, you can make the point that this wasn't necessarily rational, but I think it is understandable. The Spielberg DVDs look like full meals of extras in comparison to what gets put out nowadays of course. We just didn't know how good we had it, or how brief the era of studios showering cash on DVD releases would be.

1977 Steely Dan - Aja David Bowie - Heroes / Low Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express Fleetwood Mac - Rumors Randy Newman - Little Criminals Rush - A Farewell to Kings Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell The Doobie Brothers - Livin' on the Fault Line AC/DC - Let There Be Rock Talking Heads - '77 Pink Floyd - Animals Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments... Cheap Trick - self-titled Michael Rother - Flammende Herzen Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Works Billy Joel - The Stranger Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors Brian Eno - Before and After Science The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot Ramones - Leave Home / Rocket to Russia Television - Marquee Moon Iggy Pop - The Idiot / Lust for Life Wire - Pink Flag Yes - Going for the One

I put 5 albums as better than Ziggy. Young Americans would probably be 12th or 13th. I love the album, but as a whole, it's not at the level of his most brilliant work. There's a only a small handful of Bowie records I straight up dislike, and a few more I'm kind of indifferent to. But on the whole I like or love it all. Lodger is the most underrated, it's a fucking masterpiece. 1. Hunky Dory 2. Lodger 3. Heroes 4. Aladdin Sane 5. Station to Station 6. Ziggy 7. Blackstar 8. Diamond Dogs 9. Low 10. Scary Monsters

Jim Morrison is repulsive, his lyrics are stupid, and Manzarek’s little organ ditties are dull.

1975 1. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti 2. Steely Dan - Katy Lied 3. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 4. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run 5. Electric Light Orchestra - Face the Music 6. The Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack 7. Neu! - Neu! '75 8. Brian Eno - Another Green World 9. Queen - A Night at the Opera 10. Neil Young - Zuma / Tonight's the Night 11. David Bowie - Young Americans 12. The Doobie Brothers - Stampede 13. Roxy Music - Siren 14. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks 15. Rick Wakeman - The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 16. Rush - Fly By Night 17. Grateful Dead - Blues for Allah 18. Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner 19. Fleetwood Mac - self-titled 20. Foghat - Fool for the City 21. Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity 22. Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years 23. Tangerine Dream - Rubycon 24. The Band - Northern Lights, Southern Cross 25. Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic 1976 1. Steely Dan - The Royal Scam 2. David Bowie - Station to Station 3. Boston - self-titled 4. Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record 5. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap / High Voltage (US) 6. Rush - 2112 7. Ramones - self-titled 8. Bob Dylan - Desire 9. ZZ Top - Tejas 10. The Doobie Brothers - Takin' It to the Streets 11. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - self-titled 12. Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle 13. The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination 14. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak 15. Queen - A Day at the Races 16. Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees 17. Led Zeppelin - Presence 18. Aerosmith - Rocks 19. Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune 20. La Düsseldorf - self-titled 21. Tom Waits - Small Change 22. Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear 23. Can - Flow Motion 24. Bob Seger - Night Moves 25. The Modern Lovers - self-titled

Your lists contain 100% more Genesis and Foreigner than mine 1974 1. Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic 2. Randy Newman - Good Old Boys 3. David Bowie - Diamond Dogs 4. Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado 5. Roxy Music - Country Life 6. Neil Young - On the Beach 7. Kraftwerk - Autobahn 8. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping 9. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile 10. Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties 11. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra 12. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy 13. King Crimson - Red 14. Supertramp - Crime of the Century 15. Sparks - Kimono My House 16. Can - Soon Over Babaluma 17. Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple 18. Aerosmith - Get Your Wings 19. The Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'n Roll 20. The Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits 21. Grateful Dead - From the Mars Hotel 22. Billy Joel - Streetlife Serenade 23. Big Star - Radio City 24. Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night 25. Todd Rundgren - Todd

Edited in a couple of corrections for my lists, because I'm doing them too fast I guess and I'm leaving out some all-time favorite records. Added Neil Young's After the Goldrush at #3 for 1970, Yes' Close to the Edge at #10 for 1972

I'm sorry, their music just doesn't light my fire

Molina remains my favorite baddie in a superhero film.

I sure hope it is!

Jim Morrison's big innovation was to ask the question, "what if rock music.... but crap?"

For context, here's the article Bespin is referencing, by John Mauceri. This is pretty much all material covered in Mauceri's 2022 book The War on Music, which I read and enjoyed last Summer. https://airmail.news/issues/2023-1-21/the-view-from-here

1973 1. David Bowie - Aladdin Sane 2. Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle 3. Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star 4. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon 5. Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy 6. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd 7. The Stooges - Raw Power 8. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy 9. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure 10. The Allman Brothers Band - Brothers and Sisters 11. Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation 12. Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon 13. Neil Young - Time Fades Away 14. The Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me 15. Electric Light Orchestra - On the Third Day 16. ZZ Top - Tres Hombres 17. The Beach Boys - Holland 18. Can - Future Days 19. Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band 20. Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives of Henry VIII 21. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - I / II 22. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery 23. The Who - Quadrophenia 24. Faces - Ooh La La 25. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath For anyone who could possibly care about my classic rock taste (nobody), these 70s lists are actually full of spicy takes Brain Salad Surgery is way overrated (maybe ELP's 5th best album), Quadrophenia is just ok, Wild/Innocent/E Street Shuffle is actually Springsteen's single best album, Aladdin Sane is better than Ziggy, etc.

I’m not a big fan of the Doors but for some reason Morrison Hotel I’ve always enjoyed.

Caught the last 20 minutes of Unexpected Journey on TV. Even worse than I remembered. Maybe it’s for the best if PJ stays retired from feature films.

And it’s a good theme! But obviously for a JW doc they’ll use JW music

1972 1. Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything? 2. The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach 3. Randy Newman - Sail Away 4. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars 5. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. 6. Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill 7. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Trilogy 8. Rod Stewart - Never a Dull Moment 9. Neil Young - Harvest 10. Yes - Close to the Edge 11. Can - Ege Bamyasi 12. Paul Simon - self-titled 13. Nick Drake - Pink Moon 14. ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud 15. Lou Reed - Transformer 16. Alice Cooper - School's Out 17. Neu! - self-titled 18. T. Rex - The Slider 19. Dr. John - Dr. John's Gumbo 20. The Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street 21. Roxy Music - self-titled 22. Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 23. Elton John - Honky Château 24. The Edgar Winter Group - They Only Come Out at Night 25. Big Star - #1 Record

If this is best silver lining you can find..... well it's something I guess.

So it will be probably be bland and shallow. C'est la vie. *deep, resigned sigh*

Oh no....

I had somehow completely missed that the Outsiders got a UHD disc release in 2021. The key feature here being that little box on the cover "Also includes the theatrical version." The "complete novel" extended cut is completely offensive in its removal of Carmine Coppola's classic score and replacing it with a shitty generic rock score that sounds like library music (plus the added scenes do not make a better movie). So glad to finally get an official theatrical edition in HD (it hadn't been released since DVD). Ordered it as soon as I learned of its existence

If it focuses on the Spielberg collab, I'm inevitably going to get annoyed when it either skips or barely mentions AI.