I'm a little surprised at how many people don't like the VERTIGO music. I think it worked exceptionally well, and on two levels: it fit the scene perfectly and, in a film filled with homages to all cinema, and not just the silent film, I found it wonderfully appropriate. At the moment, most people s...

I'd never heard of the film before, but the title Leningrad Cowboys Go America was too hard to resist. I can't remember the last time I had more fun watching a movie. Throughout the entire film there are smiles, chuckles and full-out belly laughs. I really hate to give anything away, but if you thin...

I actually love Miss O'Dell and Deep Blue. I think it's fun when artists put something more unusual as a flip side. Used to be, when I didn't know much about a band, I'd buy the single and if I liked the b-side, I'd try the album. Actually was a pretty good system. Remember that the Beatles never wa...

Mr. Arkadin wrote:my favorite part of If I Fell is when Paul's voice cracks in the second chorus.

The band I was in in High School tried to play it. One time through was more than enough.

I've got all the Beatles U.S. 45s up to the Movie Medley release in 1982 (Free as a Bird and Real Love, too), and many of the British EPs as well as all of the solo singles. I mean who could live without Miss O'Dell, the flip side to Harrison's Give Me Love?

While some think that Best was the better drummer, Ringo was an essential member of the Fabs. Not only is his playing interesting while being unobtrusive, but he was also the glue that kept the other three together. His quitting in the middle of recording the White Album (which is one of the reasons...

the inclusion of the VERTIGO theme did underscore the darker scenes at the end well, but still seemed odd for me to hear it. It looks as though Kim Novak is none too happy with the use of Hermann's score in The Artist. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16482624 Personally, while I instan...

Our Arts Museum, the IMA, is doing a Winter Nights Film Series dedicated to Technicolor. Every week through February, they will be offering a film or two showing off the wonders of Technicolor. Last night was the first and featured a gorgeous restoration of Doug Fairbanks' 2-strip Technicolor featur...

In nearly every concert, Robyn Hitchcock performs a Beatle or solo Beatle track, and occasionally plays an entire Beatle album. (I've read that when he did the White Album, Revolution #9 was an audience participation number.) From the performance of Revolver , celebrating its 45th birthday: [youtube...

It is hard to think that "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" and "Strawberry Fields" are two years apart. I'm with you there. It's even harder to believe that it was only eight years spanning Love Me Do to Get Back I have "Beatles VI" on LP with that awful lime green l...

Out of morbid curiosity: How does Sgt Pepper's.... hold up for folks, especially for those of you who bought it in 1967? Ten years later for my discovery of the album, but I think Pepper is probably the most dated of The Beatles' albums, with the exception of Please Please Me (or, in the U.S. The E...

Finally got to see THE ARTIST. There aren't words...

(RE the Red and Blue albums) The Red and Blue collections were put together to counter an unauthorized 4-album set called The Beatles: Alpha Omega , which I remembered being advertised on TV in the summer of '72. Beatles' manager Allen Klein saw the sales potential and wanted to quickly counter with...

(Rather than having two threads talking about the Fabs', I'll continue this conversation in the Beatles thread.)

John's infamous quote: "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ord...