I'll agree that Roeg is important, but I tend to respect more than enjoy what I've seen of his work. I dug Don't Look Now and Performance, but Walkabout and The Man Who Fell to Earth left me cold. The last two may be because they strayed so far from their original text sources.

Vagina trees
Besides the delectable/pervy shots of naked Agutter, the thing I remember most from this flick is the repetitive shot of the vagina-like crux of the tree. We initially see it and it's, "Oooh, Freudian." Five or ten shots later, and, "Oh look, it's the vagina tree again."

A dark year for metal
Metal Haven closes
Peter Steele dies
Dio dies

Lord of the Hillbillies brings up a huge problem with Coil (and a lot of other post-industrial/neofolk acts): releases tend to be expensive LEs or OOP.

You're right, Futurechimp, the Coil back catalogue is available through the band's website, but the early work is only available as digital downloads. I want to actually own this music on plastic discs, complete with booklets I don't print out myself from PDF files. I know, in the words of BEP/Fergie, I'm so 2000…

Speaking of Coil
How's about re-releasing all the great early Coil albums, like "How to Destroy Angels"? And does anyone know if the "Love's Secret Domain" video shown at Brainwaves Festival is every going to be released?

Wouldn't that be a better title for the Lil' Wayne rock disc?

There's the Black Shabbis album:

Let's not forget, she was a Bad Seed
While we commemorate Kate McGarrigle's greatness, let's not forget she and her sister were full-fledged Bad Seeds on Nick Cave's "No More Shall We Part" album.

"…and this is what the devil does."

Berlin Alexanderplatz
Don't know if this counts (since it was made for German TV), but Fassbinder's narration for Berlin Alexanderplatz is essential for conveying the stream of consciousness blur of information found in the source novel.

The artwork on this mother is awesome…
…and it's on Gorgon Video! Just like "Faces of Death"!

It does sound awesome, but it's a truly awful film based on an amazing (and amazingly bleak) novel.

Singe ich ein Lied fur dich…
Not to be a grammar Nazi, but Luftballon is a noun and Germans capitalize all nouns.

Great list, but…
Pretty solid list. Glad to see Dopethrone get some respect.

Anti-suicide, borderline Metal
How about Alice Cooper's "Hey Stoopid"? Bonus points for the Ozzy vocal cameo.

Could be. I've always read intent in the lyrics, i.e. the purpose of the speaker's jump is death. But all great art is open to interpretation….

Speaking of Megadeth…
Why not "High Speed Dirt"?