Just watched that again recently for the first time in about a decade and found it to be pretty all right. I mean, in a good way.

There's a snippet of Chrissie Hynde singing it on an early(ish) episode of Friends that sounds really sweet. (Sweet as in really good, not as in awwwww).

Nice ones. And NWA's next album also kicks off with two pretty stellar, in-your-face tracks as well (although the rest of the album doesn't always live up to that beginning).

Um . . . yes way!

Came looking for Zeppelin 4, a helleva kick-off.

I watched it for the first time in a while this Christmas, and I found it striking that a lot of the film is actually better than the film as a whole. With slightly different production (and editing) and a mostly different soundtrack, it could have been a much deeper, darker, but maybe more satisfying film.

I saw The Troggs in concert sometime back in the early '90s. After every third song or so, they'd break into the first few bars of "Wild Thing," and then not play it. They'd smiley coyly, and then more exaggeratedly as the show went on, until they finally played it near the end of the show. They were pretty great,…

Hey man, thanks,
but I was under the impression that it was non-linear because it's non-destructive and because the editor can view multiple pieces of film (well, film transferred to video) at the same time, so is not confined to the linearity of earlier methods of cutting. (Just to be clear, the films in question were…

Fun little post-production fact. A couple years before this film came out, Hal Ashby had directed and edited a Rolling Stones concert film (Let's Spend the Night Together - definitely NOT one of the best concert films of all time, but interesting in its way). Ashby shot the film with a ton of cameras and in order to…

I started with a double disc of Apostrophe and Overnight Sensation that used to be commonly sold. It's a great place to start (or either, individually) because it features great catchy songs, a bunch of weirdness (mainly lyrically), ferocious guitar playing, and a great band. Then you can sort of decide if you want to…

@avclub-5d213468da8857324393c707fb3f6f67:disqus, if you've never seen the PBS documentary "Riding the Rails," you really ought to check it out. It's about teenagers forced to leave their homes during the Great Depression, several of them for basically the same reason as your grandfather was. It's pretty fascinating…

@avclub-5dedb42b34e50082065a783265ce28a8:disqus , ah yes, you're right . . . Docks was one of von Sternberg's last silents, right?

Don't forget Mamoulian's Applause (1929) or von Sternberg's The Docks of New York (1928).

As others have pointed out, both sound-on-film and sound-on-disc came out around the same time (Sunrise, famously, had a full-length sound-on-film soundtrack and was released a few months before The Jazz Singer). They were competing technologies (sort of like Beta and VHS), with sound-on-disc having been much older…

The film was as important (or more) to Warner Bros. for what it did to their bank account as it was simply for its not-quite-true legacy as the "first talkie." WB immediately shot into the upper echelon of studios like Paramount and Fox based almost solely on the profits from this film - even though they would soon…

Also, Anya's performance in "Selfless" . . .

@avclub-5c7646b1d39fc0715f330479e4e5f254:disqus, Fresh Prince seems generally to have been huge all around Europe - I know when I lived in Hungary in the early '00s it was still regularly on TV, daily. And I've met plenty of French, Spanish, German, etc. who all know far more about that show than anything I was…

I love when, in the teeth-whitening episode, Phoebe walks into his apartment, sees his teeth, and immediately shrieks, "DEMON!"

Old School:
Singin' in the Rain - "Moses Supposes" (simplicity) or "Gotta Dance" (yowza!)
     (runner-up might be "Do Re Mi" from Sound of Music")

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