@TheKrynoidMan

Wow. That Alice Cooper James Bond track was really bad! Let’s face it, Conchita Wurst’s “Rise like a Penis” (that was the title wasn’t it?) would make a really good James Bond theme.

(Sorry, on an iPad, otherwise I would provide a link.)

Surely someone could provide a link…

@arbutus – yeah, I’d agree that the ending was out of keeping with the tone of the story. I think RTD was trying to equate Elton with the Doctor’s arc in Series 1 and 2. So he had him start with a tragedy, and end with one. But it didn’t fit with the comic tone of the rest of the piece.

@TheKrynoidMan – that poster you quote has an interesting…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan  I thought that the poster you quoted had an interesting concept and one that was very consistent with what we saw. I will admit that I hadn’t considered that aspect of the storytelling. However, for me in the end, the concept isn’t enough to save the episode.

I actually liked the plot idea, but felt it failed in the execution. I…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan   That fan video is amazing, impossible to watch without wearing a big grin. The song is great all on its own, but that video! (And seeing all those clips lined up brings home for one thing, how much goofiness went on in that show, and for another, how much time Captain JT Kirk spent wearing a look of completely bemusement.

Oh, @pur…[Read more]

What who!?

@purofilion – respects for your student for attempting that Sparks track – I can’t comprehend the control necessary to pull that off.

@arbutus – My favourite quote on Bach was by all-round-genius Carl Sagan. When preparing to etch a disk for the “Sounds of Earth” on one of the exporer probes, one of the Scientists asked Mr. Sagen, …[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan @Fatmaninabox

Thanks – I had a feeling I’d missed something, probably because RTD wrote more episodes in Series 1, and I suddenly thought “we’re leapfrogging to the end of the series?! That can’t be right!”

I have to say, again that my own personal favourites for series 2 do tend towards Girl in the Fireplace, School Reunion, and…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan   I’m really enjoying your inspired, wildly varying selections. Kiki Dee takes me right back to the time when I was just being exposed to contemporary pop music, there was some great stuff on the radio back then. Also, Gene Wilder, wow. Such a talented, funny man, and in my view, hugely underrated.

I really enjoyed watching this one, after New Earth left me a bit bemused.

The titles from Tennyson – “Nature red, in tooth and claw”, and there are a fair few other literary references dotted here and there. It’s a nice “Base under siege” story with some marvellous performances in the guest cast. I particularly love Pauline as Queen Victoria. Y…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan @FatManinabox

Done and done. All other nominations gratefully received.

I think I made an error in my last post, because I think I should have put @bluesqueakpip as a tentative for Day of the Daleks. I don’t think the choice was that clear in the posts, so I’ll leave it until I receive instructions.

Inferno
@TheKrynoidMan

The…[Read more]

@Whisht @Purofilion

Glad you enjoyed “Burn Up” even though you were burning up with illness Purofilion. Whisht – Peepshow, the album with Peek-a-boo and Burn up is well worth investigating. I think it sees them at their most dramatic, adventurous and experimental. It ends with Rhapsody, which is about the Soviet suppression of the Polish and Eas…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan – ooh that is a bit eerie. Hope you enjoyed it.

I love The Long Good Friday.
Its one of the great gangster films (was gonna say “British gangster film” but that’s too limiting).

My hunch is most other actors would just have played the hard man, ratcheting up the terror, but somehow its Shand’s (Hoskin’s) loss of control and lack…[Read more]

that’s interesting @blenkinsopthebrave – I can’t see Krynoid Man’s ACDC song.

But then again, I live in Hell.

[btw tip o’ the hat to @theKrynoidMan ‘s avatar – nice touch]

@TheKrynoidMan

I love that song from South Park! And you have provided a meta-dimension to the humour, because when I click on the link, it tells me that the video is not available in my country. And my country is…Canada!

@TheKrynoidMan   Bedazzled, that video is hilarious,  “You fill me with inertia!”  And @blenksinsopthebrave, Oh, yes, Bananarama. How fun is that? Funny video, is it really from the nineties? I would have put it earlier.

I think I’m caught up now? Except I will have to go and listen to the Sparks some more later on. Should probably consid…[Read more]

@ScaryB @TheKrynoidMan   My son went through a Kinks phase about a year ago, and we listened to a lot of them while I shared trivia. When I told him the stories about the coke reference (and the Apeman thing, which I still think is just bizarre, because I certainly never heard anything wrong with that line!) what caught his attention and puzzled…[Read more]

@Whisht  Can Halleluwah, way to subvert the topic!  🙂

@wolfweed   I howled at the angsty Arthur Darvill tune. (Fortunately no tea in hand or mouth at the time!)

I think @TheKrynoidMan has to win the Monty Python award (and now for something completely different) for his moving personal tale about teen challenges, followed by “Anyway here’…[Read more]

Inspired by @TheKrynoidMan and @FatManinaBox above, the brilliant Spark’s song that I’d not heard before (“No 1 Song in Heaven”) with its Moroder-esque synths, made me think of this.

Here’s something for all you lovers out there.

ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah.

[well that seemed to embed… speaking…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan
(and apologies for mis-tagging you in my last post).

Re BBC censorship – haha, yes I know, but I just like the idea that “coca cola” is the most offensive thing in the lyrics to BBC ears!

ah @TheKrynoidMan – love bit of Can (reckon there’ll be a quite a few here).

Was gonna post this for one of the Hallelujah covers for a bit of fun!

Bugger – missed about two weeks of the most active thread on here at the moment.

Lots of good music posted, and thanks for the recommendations. I have a lot of listening to do.

@fatmaninabox

I think my own disinclination towards other versions of Hallelujah is precisely because of Cale, so thanks for mentioning his version. For me, no other…[Read more]