Live albums worth their salt
Lou Reed Live: Take No Prisoners
Siouxie and the Banshees: Nocturne
Viva! Roxy Music
I've kind of grown out of the first two, but that doesn't mean they're not still good documents.
As far as bootlegs go, I would have to nominate REM for overall worthiness, from the early, sloppy, covers-laden…

Oh shit!
Suicide! How could I forget about Suicide?!

He got religion. Really. Still put out records, but…you know.
I listened to "Kansas" a good bit—but not because I loved it. I was searching for the greatness I thought must be in there on the strength of
Toys." Finally I just packed it in. It's not like it's garbage, but it seriously lacks.

Does cardinal count?
New topic? Best-ever one-album band records?
Let the bidding begin at Cardinal.

I am going to guess you are…33 years old? How'd I do?

My vote
for biggest fall is Basehead—not only was "Play With Toys" critically creamed over (albeit largely forgotten today, but the critics remember, yeah, they remember), it still holds up beautifully today. and then that second record…whoah. missing every aspect of greatness from the first one. completely.

This movie is unique in that people, myself included, carefully weigh whether they will invest in repeated viewings. I have read that it starts to all make sense on the fifth or sixth viewing. Don't know if it's worth THAT much time, you know, but I'm tempted. I saw it in a theater back then, and I've been…

When Did
Nick Cave start looking like an Eightball character?

what's with that clip choice?
what about the part where he is high on crystal meth, dj'ing at his school, and monolguing about how all the molecules in his body are flying through space, or something like that? aw man, don't make me go hunting that shit down on youtube, now. look what you started. like i have nothing…

I understand what you guys are saying, although I don't find Jeunet any more Americanized (if he is at all) than Diva, which was as big a hit here in the US as Amelie and Delicatessen. I can, however, cede Besson and the general point, especially as I am less then familiar with mainstream French action movies.

la femme nikita?
Irma Vep may have something to say about Besson, et al, but the "cinema du look" began in the early 80s with Diva and Subway, not ten years later with Nikita (which Irma Vep then follows by 6 years). In fact, it is considered very 80s. The films that follow (Nikita and so forth) simply streamline what…

Noel—you are right about DQE in general. Most of their output is just sloppy fun that doesn't exactly need to be remembered…I should have realized/ been more clear about it: it's that one record—"But Me, I Fell Down" is a classic that never was. It's demented and psychotic in a real way, when it's not letting itself…

Favorite DQE song—"Shakey Sugar." It's one of the few songs I repeat in making mixtapes/ CDs. If you haven't heard the album "But Me I Fell Down," TRACK IT DOWN. Far and away the best I've heard from them, and close to a masterpiece period.

er, sosad, wasn't bringing attention to undervalued bands the whole point of this post? believe me, i've got carloads of crap i like that you've never heard of (i wasn't kidding about that, really), but these are bands that seem like they really should be better known. can you contribute, sosad? is it in you? it's an…

I should clarify…these aren't bands that are just obscure (of course I've got loads of those, bc I'm cooler than you), but bands I've always thought deserved far more attention…

Since no one else is getting this party started…
Cowboys International (stellar new wave)
DQE (nineties indie, unbridled brilliant fun)
Cass McCombs (current)
know there are more, but this is what springs to mind at the moment

Trailer
this sounded like it might be all right til i saw the trailer—oh my god i have never seen a trailer for a comedy that looked so bad. scott tobias—is the film as cheaply done (read: ugly) and mug-frenzied as the trailer makes it look? everything just looked so…wincingly obvious.

well, here it is:
http://imdb.com/title/tt007…
apparently it's a bit more "soft"-core than i remember, but i guess it was plenty of X for a ten year old…
this charmer is available on not one but two editions of dvd…knock yourselves out.

The first porn film I ever saw was one my friend's mom had rented that we found (yuck, but whatever, right?). It was called something like the SS Experiments, and I remember Jewish people being forced to have sex in large clear tanks of water while they are zapped with electrical current. Apart from that, I have…

yeah, didn't realize how long it was til i posted it. guess i wanted to give people an idea of why films they maybe hadn't heard of would be worth seeking out, but yeah, little too long.