I've seen "Flesh for Frankentstein" in the theater twice in 3D, and the packed audience was in hysterics throughout. It is so perverse. "Blood for Dracula" has some good writing, but it's more like a talky chamber play. It doesn't have the same Grand Guignol hilarity. And if you're a female or gay: my wife doesn't…

I'd be on board for that, but can't find any info regarding a tour online, so I'm assuming it's a small show somewhere in Europe. And will it be 70's prog rock Goblin, or more like Simonetti backed up by 30-something metalheads?

"Creepers" should be avoided. Not that there's much chance of anyone seeing it these days, since it probably doesn't exist outside of the VHS format, but it's a severely truncated version of "Phenomena", and has some really bad dubbing.

Argento has called Phenomena his personal favorite of all his films. It's his last great movie. Opera and Trauma are good, but Phenomena is Phenomenal.

Hottest Scorpions:
5: Herman
4: Klaus
3: Matthias
2: Francis
2: Rudolf
1: Uli

Lee Ving was in a ton of movies and TV shows in the mid-80's. I think that's the connection.

Yeah, for about an hour.

Prince also banged a Bangle.

Go-Gos had a better first album, and are a better band overall. Some nice songwriting from the Bangles, but they were so conventional. Plus they did "Walk Like an Egyptian" and "Eternal Flame", two songs so bad, they go beyond the realms of bad and into the land of the irredeemably evil.

Interesting, I didn't know that Kirk officially got sole credit on any Cabaret Voltaire records, it was just something I suspected. And I don't blame you for not liking that era, because Kirk himself said that he composed and recorded that material very quickly (he had to, since he put out a million albums in about…

I'd be all over the comment section on that one. My interests are narrow but obsessive.

Definitely. "Unacceptable Face of freedom" is a very political and urgent record, and very Scottish. Lots of bagpipes.

I think Cabaret Voltaire's 90's albums are indistinguishable from Richard Kirk's 100 different pseudonyms he was operating under at the time, which makes me suspect that Kirk did them solo. You don't like Kirk's "Number of Magic"? Or the first "Sandoz" album?

NOT TRUE. Schneider was essential. Also, "Computer World", their best album, was co-written by Hutter and Karl Bartos.

That's one of my three least favorite CV albums, alongside "Code" and "Groovy Laid Back and Nasty". I like the extreme, aggressive experimentation they did in the earliest years, the  electro-funk they were doing in the early 80's, and the ambient blippy electronics they did for the Instinct label in the 90's, but not…

Throbbing Gristle: 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Coil: Horse Rotorvator
Cabaret Voltaire: The Living Legends
Einstürzende Neubauten: Strategies Against Architecture Volume 2
Clock DVA: Man-Amplified
Test Dept: The Unacceptable Face of Freedom

My first CD player was a Pioneer six-disc, but it was a removable magazine that had the discs stacked up on top of one another on flimsy, difficult-to-access hinged plastic trays. If you set it to "shuffle", you'd wait about 20 seconds between songs for the player to switch.

Starting around '83, the free TV guide booklet that came with the Sunday newspaper started listing the cable channels. All the movies for VHF, UHF and cable were consolidated in a glossary in the back.

Treasure of the Four Crowns was a moderate hit in the U.S., and the first 3D movie I saw in a theater. You can currently see it in anaglyphic 3D on youtube.

YES. I always confuse the two directors because I've hardly seen a film from either of them that was tolerable. I do like Rollin's "Grapes of Death", though. I love it, really, and don't understand why I haven't found another film of his that's half as good.