@Whisht    I wasn’t familiar with Mornington Crescent, but it was pretty funny nonetheless! I loved the ridiculous remarks made in the eerily-accurate tones of the sat-nav system. I then looked up the background of the game and it all made sense (sort of).

@FaeGrl, did you do that? It’s really good! I love montages when they are well assembled, and they aren’t always. I also enjoy the art of matching video clips to music. It can be okay, or it can be really wonderful. I love that song (I hadn’t heard it either) and agree with @Whisht that it absolutely nails the Tenth Doctor: the gradual move from…[Read more]

@Whisht – I agree with you. I was also a child of the Fourth, so the cheesier and childish a Doctor is the more I like him. HOWEVER, I didn’t quite like the Eleventh because he was too much over-the-top cheesy. He was just one step away from being “Patch Adams”, which would have been OK in some adventures but in angry situations I had a hard time…[Read more]

Bravo, @purofilion, I knew you could do it! There will be no stopping you now!  🙂  And I’m pretty sure that no DW link is too tenuous too prevent a good tune being posted here. Like @Whisht, I find the precision of these lovely women performing Metallica and Radiohead and so on, just fabulous.

@whisht – Thanks! And yes, I’m catching on that this site is beyond polite and I love it! 😀

Ah… I don’t like Coldplay, but only because they made the statement that they were better than Bono… U2 is my number one band, so I didn’t even bother to listen to any of Coldplay’s songs. However… they cant be all that bad if David Tennant is a…[Read more]

@Whisht

I agree – strangest looking pentacle I’ve ever seen! Would never pass muster in a Denis Wheatley book/film 😉

And yes, you’re right, it does look more Gallifreyan than anything.  With that, and the dual timestream hint of the Hobs v Hobbs Lane, I think you could be on to something!

@Thujone Welcome. I agree with you re Andre Morell -…[Read more]

@Whisht

maybe we should flame people.

Only if you pop a kettle on top of the flame and offer them a cup of tea afterwards. 🙂

Tom Baker a ham, indeed. Tom Baker was no ham. Tom Baker was an entire delicatessen. 😈

@monochromedimension (nice new avatar btw)

I agree with @Whisht @FatManInABox – given what you’ve said about liking the early Dr Who stories, you should give Quatermass a shot. There have been lots of different versions, most them fairly average as I remember. But this is the series that earned it its formidable reputation. Andre Morrell who…[Read more]

@Whisht – You are correct, I’m obsessed with the black and white 60s serials of Doctor Who. I do tend to like older movies/series, so I’m guessing I will probably like this Quatermass. I’ll have to find out what movie it was I watched, I thought it was very well done when watching it. You’ve now quite interested me in watching these episodes…[Read more]

Social commentary aspects – I’m not really picking up @JimtheFish‘s “condescension” towards the working class characters.  The Chilcots are portrayed as quite rounded, and contrasted nicely with the closed minds of the military brass typified by Breen.  I liked Mrs C’s lines about “Got my picture in all the papers – but they didn’t believe us, n…[Read more]

@Whisht

Was it in one seamless transition from the outside shot

No. It was actually a very clever (for the day) intercut between the pre-filmed shot of Quatermass walking into the house from the outside and then the ‘live’ shot-from-the-inside entrance into the house itself.

I’m watching on the DVD version, which has been cleaned up and…[Read more]

Thanks everyone for all the background info – fascinating, especially @Bluesqueakpip‘s post on how they actually filmed.  Must have made use of background music tricky, as it would presumably have to be sound-balanced live.  It’s also worth remembering that TV back then was still a very new medium.  Much of the time they must have been ex…[Read more]

@Whisht.  Ha. Yes, perhaps more appropriate bed time music. (Gentle music, as my son still calls it when I ask him to put on something more appropriate to the hour as he is trying to fall asleep to Top 40.)

I somehow missed listening to all those Little Richard links, but I went back and played them all and had a great time. I love that kind of…[Read more]

@purofilion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLckHHc25ww

Puro, you need to try linking a video, it’s really easy. Just find the one you want, and copy the URL from the top of the browser and paste it into your post. It only needs to be contained in its own paragraph, and it should work. Anyway, I have posted it for you, and now @Whisht and I can…[Read more]

@Whisht      My naive take on Reich and Glass was that Glass did the ’emotional’ stuff (with certain tricks to tug at the heart) and Reich the more ‘rigorous intellectual’ stuff, exploring rhythms and patterns.

I think that’s a pretty commonly-held view. I actually prefer Reich to Glass myself, I find his music engages me more. But I don’t real…[Read more]

@Wolfweed @Whisht @FatManInABox

Meeping Angels

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Oh my sides

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@Marionziemke       Yes indeed, Metric. I like the full band version as well, but the acoustic take has a reflective feel to it, and allows you to focus on the melody and the singer’s voice, both of which I think are quite lovely.

@Whisht    They’re a Canadian band, once again introduced to me by my pop-music-loving teenager. When he plays “d…[Read more]

Also seconding @purofilion, this thread is loads of fun. Well done suggesting it, @Whisht! I’m hearing so much great music: current pop and rock (not my strength), and also lots of great British stuff that I missed out on in the past. Do keep it coming, everyone.  🙂

@Whisht    No, no, the thread is alive!!!!  I meant to post on here last night, but the comments in my “recent activity” sidebar moved out of sight and I forgot. (That happens to me all the time with my email inbox as well.) I played the Eno yesterday afternoon as indicated and it provided a nice eery background to my activities.

Re: Big New Pri…[Read more]

@schultze101  @Whisht

Indeed, a wonderfully articulate post. “My Doctor” is definitely Four, and he was my first doctor, so the “post regeneration” theory doesn’t apply in my case. I didn’t have him long the first time round, but later rebroadcasts of the series from the start only cemented my feelings for Tom Baker’s wonderfully giddy, dark,…[Read more]