EricMontreal22

I've taken a couple months break from PP but I think it's time for me to start up with it again. BTW in the past month a number of full episodes, from different eras, have been put on youtube. I didn't even know Gena Rowlands, who i love, was on it--what season? I suppose I still have at least several discs to go...

Season 2 is where it really picks up steam, Selby joined the cast, etc, and it became a full on campy soap. So apparently this release is only a MOD release--made on demand (and hence will be burned DVDs, not pressed?) I'd prefer pressed but seriously, MOD releases probably make the most sense with these long running soaps--the first seasons will always sell much better than later ones. If there are no plans, as I hope there are, to release more Knots after Dallas is done, maybe they could take up the MOD format. (I wish though they'd do MOD with Amazon as some others have just as that would be easier for me to deal with--well and I have a lot of Amazon gift cards and none for Warner Bros )

This pretty much defines you as either a fan of Xenomania's copy/pasted way of writing/producing music or not. I think it's the last great thing Brian Higgins produced (and an example of Miranda Cooper's borderline brilliant/inane lyrics).

A ballet dancer's--Mapplethorpe classic For some reason this song always makes me tear at the end--gorgeous Price production (and when did Charlize become such a Godess??)

This is my fave track at the moment on the current Scissor Sisters CD, Night Work, produced by Stuart Price (he's been busy between this, Kylie and Brandon Flowers' solo disc). The CD itself is a happy surprise--no fake Elton John ballads or honky tonk joke songs like on their crap last album, just full on electro 80s and disco stuff with an often dirty sound and lyric, like their original club hits and demos. No big shock to anyone who knows my music tastes, they did this track as a hommage to Moroder's 1979-1981 style, even including that kinda creepy synth line. Fabulous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIZGMWyCMDM

Wilder was kinda a one hit wonder, but he did later on, I believe write or co-write the songs for Mulan, among other things. I knew the song first from this cheezy dance cover which was MASSIVE when I was a teenager here in Canada. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6j659PwANA

Lost in Music is my fave from their two Chic produced/written abums though You Fooled Around (which doesn't seem to be on youtube) from the followup is kinda sublime...

If I Can't Have You is my fave BeeGees penned song (I like a lot of their stuff but have a hard time with the falsetto, so prefer it when they write for others...). I just wish it were longer (there's a 12" mix but it's just looped, nothing new). Love Dionne though Heartbreaker is prob the last thing of hers I like--I love all of her 60s Bacharach produced stuff and most of her 70s, but lose interest by much of the 80s.

Two of my fave Midney classics (again my only concern is some of the vocals--but I can get past that with the swirling melodies and production): And from 1979 (wish this had better sound--I have all his albums remastered on CD.)

That whole Festival Evita album is a masterpiece--I have a book on disco music, mainly obscure stuff, and theypicked it as their fave Eurodisco album. It was done by Russian/American (though classified as Eurodisco) maestro Bob Midney, who many think was thebest of the best. He was commisioned to do the Evita adaptation by Stigwood, Evita's producer, and it was released 6 months before the premier. Festival was his made up name for the band for that album--he used a bunch of names (Caress, Beautiful Bend, Masquerade, USA/European Connection). That actually might be his most mainstream work, but his other stuff was often, by disco standards, very avant garde full of discordant patches, melodies that came out of nowhere, random vocals, sudden jabbing strings. He was the first to use a 48 part studio recording technique too. (I actually think his one weakness was the vocalists he used). It's the kinda stuff thehardcore disco DJs would play but you'd never hear at a mainstream disco like 54 The bside medley: And

Yeah I found the vinyl single randomly at a thrift shop as a teen--like it a lot too. I only knew him from American Werewolf.

It was a theme song for a sitcom he briefly did, wasn't it?

Quentin. Selby was dreamy *sigh*

Wow. I have no words, though I think some others on here do share my tastes (at least when it comes to Kylie and True Blood). I just had no idea it interested you so much. I also don't think (or at lesat I try not to, I'm sure I've had, ahem, slips) that I dimiss things I don't like out of hand--I understand that people have vastly different tastes and just because I don't like something doesn't mean it must have zero worth. Well Kate Ryan aside (but I was kinda joking...). Thanks for explaining things so clearly Sylph!

I have been clear in every single comment I've given La Minogue ( ) that I find her music cheezy, gay, *fun*, and for what it is rather brilliant. But you read into my comments that I think it's the second coming--it's like how I love True Blood but admit it's the pulpiest of pulp--and yet you read into my comments like I think it's Shakespeare. Too funny. But I find Kate Ryan pretty atrocious--it's stuff you could do on a Casio keyboard.

It's funny, I'd never heard the original. One of Madonna's major writing partners of the 80s, Stephen Bray wrote it for her, but she passed on it, and I guess Regina (who?) had a minor hit with it. 8 or so years later, Dannii Minogue had a big Aussie hit with it (though I think it's pretty awful) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5PxPsgQjQc

Oh nononono, you mock my music, and actually enjoy this Eurotrash cover of a French classic?? Next you'll be telling me you enjoy Kate Ryan's butchery of Mylene Farmer classics like Libertine and Desenchantee.

I like it, though I have to admit it kinda feels like a Speechless retread to me...

I dunno. I think she just thinks the imagery's cool looking. LOL

Great thread. And wasn't she cast as Paige, and played her a few months, on OLTL?

Well they haven't filmed anything yet have they? \

Oh Stock/Aitken.

I really don't think Idol/XFactor, etc has ever produced someone as all around talented a popstar as Alexandra Burke. I think she'll be massive in the US by next year.

LOL hey I gave you a paragraph above! (Yes, I owe you a number of replies )

I don't care if she can talk intelligently on various topics. But she did OK on the Larry King interview--more than I'd expect of Perry (who said that her song You're So Gay--which suggests, as a joke of course, that the person in the song hang himself with his H&M cscarf--was a homage to her gay fans). Is she a fraud? Depends what you expect of her I suppose? I don't think she's any more a fraud than anyone else--she's managed to present herself in a way that, it's true, lotsa people seem t think she's the second coming--that's rather brilliant. I don't for a second think she believes in her hype. Maybe that's cynical, but far less than I've heard from Perry. Yes she used to do more singer/songwriting material before she got big--but she knows her dance music background and obviously did grow up with it on some level. And yes she's horrifically overated. But you don't read the London Times calling someone "Beyonce" in a headline and get what you would when they've used Gaga. (Yeah I'm more replying to Katy's problems with her than what you say--but you didn't give me much to reply to ).