Only glaring omission here is the "Fingertips" suite from Apollo 13. Hell, you could have just added 4 or 5 of them to smooth out those remaining 28 seconds!
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I meant the Godfather of Intergalactic Funk, though after Googling the other guy and seeing he composed the music for Mortal Kombat, I had a vague recollection of seeing his name on the soundtrack and thinking it was P*Funk George Clinton at the time.
George Clinton and former US president Bill Clinton
Just watched that video for the first time in almost twenty years; I'd forgotten how good it is. And even though it didn't make much of an impression on me at the time, I have to admit now that "Everlong" is pretty much a perfect pop song.
I was a huge Nirvana fan and quite excited about Dave Grohl's new band. When I found out they were going to be on Letterman I set the timer on the VCR and the performance (the one embedded in this very article) did not disappoint. However, the subsequent singles ("I'll Stick Around", "Big Me") were just too…
The version that was popular in Canada (and the one that MuchMusic played all the time) is the Los Del Mar cover, which was indeed being played at many a high school dance in late 1995. The version that became popular in the States in 1996 is by Los Del Rio, whose original 1993 recording was remixed with added English…
Better Call Saul exceeded all my expectations and this comment perfectly describes why. I can only add that for me, Mike and the pimento cheese sandwich scene was the "This is not meth" moment of the first season.
It Follows indeed. In the wrong hands it could have turned out so badly, but the resulting film is one of the most genuinely terrifying I've seen in ages.
Top 3 x 2 (mid-to-late-nineties, east coast edition):
Mine is for "Bastards of Young" by The Replacements.
The X-Files episode where a relatively large number of babies are being born with tails, but EDIT: drinkingclub beat me to it, d'oh! Stupid smartphone!
Don't cha mean Van Hagar?
No Ventures or Wu-Tang on there, but Duane Eddy and Dr. Dre are not completely dissimilar and I agree that it really is a great soundtrack so I guess I'll upvote you anyway. The way Reznor chose dialogue from the movie and integrated it into the songs, I think the soundtrack does a better job telling the story of…
Yeah, A&W restaurants in Japan are strictly an Okinawa thing, although I see A&W root beer (and cream soda) at the import stores in our area from time to time, so clearly not everyone hates it (though it might be expats doing most of the buying). Our local import store usually has Dr. Pepper, and I think 7-11 even…
It's true. A lot of Japanese gargle every day, and there's a brown liquid called "isojin" (an isodine-based mouthwash) that's popular to supposedly help better rid the mouth of germs. The first time I tried it I was instantly reminded of root beer; however, it's not particularly sweet and does have a somewhat…
Whenever I see obvious product placement in movies and TV shows, I think of this:
Well, I don't know about American hip-hop, but make no mistake: “West End Girls” was Neil Tennant’s attempt to rock the mic, and even if he rarely gets props as a pioneering MC, Pet Shop Boys set a standard for U.K. hip-hop that none of their countrymen have really surpassed.
Too many "Taz" tattoos to count, Che. And a good friend of mine still has a Marvin the Martian on his shoulder from that time.
Whether they're easy to see or not, by the time I was 18 I no longer liked either artist enough to have permanent reminders of them etched on my body. No regrets.