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Post by Aunt Alison on Sept 5, 2022 16:58:41 GMT
The Abyss is a great film
Where's anephric buggered off to? I miss his juice
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Sept 5, 2022 17:18:52 GMT
The first hours or so of the Director's Cut is basically just really atmospheric underwater antics. The rest of it is ok I guess.
Aliens gets a bit silly in the second half. I mean the Aliens are pretty dumb in it and Ripley running around shooting them by the dozen is even worse than the section with the automatic turrets.
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Post by Sarfrin on Sept 5, 2022 18:38:55 GMT
I like The Titanic and don't understand the hate it gets. It's pretty epic. And Leonardo di Crapio dies at the end. |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Sept 5, 2022 20:01:58 GMT
Aliens gets a bit silly in the second half. I mean the Aliens are pretty dumb in it and Ripley running around shooting them by the dozen is even worse than the section with the automatic turrets.
I enjoyed the parody of that in Archer 1999 where the ship got boarded by pirates and the turrets were facing the wrong direction, but couldn't stop firing until the ammunition was completely depleted anyway:
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Sept 6, 2022 6:11:24 GMT
Now I'm wondering which version I actually watched (?) ... Ah, I see, at least the automated sentries were apparently not in the theatrical version.
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 29, 2022 21:02:40 GMT
Music Has the Right to Children is the worst Boards of Canada album.
In addition, it's massively overrated in general.
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Post by Danno on Sept 29, 2022 21:43:03 GMT
Music Has the Right to Children is the worst Boards of Canada album. In addition, it's massively overrated in general. It's better than 90% of that ourvre. And Telephasic Workshop is great so shut up. |
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 29, 2022 21:51:02 GMT
It's better than 90% of that ourvre. And Telephasic Workshop is great so shut up.
I actually agree with you there, but being better than 90% of that particular oeuvre ≠ classic album status! (Pitchfork just included it on their latest 'Top Albums of the 1990s' list at number 26 out of 150, for fuck's sake.)
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Post by Danno on Sept 29, 2022 21:55:30 GMT
I like it. And Pitchfork are almost worse than the NME these days. Twoism is better but hell, if BoC are still being discussed at all I'm ok with it, old fart that I am.
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 29, 2022 22:04:44 GMT
Geogaddi > Campfire Headphase > Tomorrow's Harvest > Music Has the Right.
Agreed re Boards still being discussed despite their sporadic output and refusal to play live - I just wish it was for one of their albums I like, is all!
Also agreed re Pitchfork/NME, both of which have gone down the Smash Hits route in recent times. (I miss Melody Maker.)
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Post by Lizard on Sept 29, 2022 23:34:40 GMT
Pitchfork has always been shit. My fave BoC is Trans Canada Highway, probably because it's the first I heard and a like the cover.
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Post by rawshark on Sept 30, 2022 0:30:04 GMT
I asked my nephew about all this and he said “MAMA SEAT”.
So there.
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 30, 2022 8:46:04 GMT
Mama Seat was their debut EP. It's okay - nothing special, but still infinitely superior to Music Has the Right.
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Post by dfunked on Sept 30, 2022 8:51:10 GMT
For some reason I never really listened to them properly back in the day, despite having all of their albums in my collection.
Starting off with Twoism now and quite like it.
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 30, 2022 9:18:43 GMT
"Quite like it" is how I feel about most of their output, to be honest - it's pleasant enough, and I can always pop it on in the background when I'm working, but there's a fuckton of other instrumental/ambient music to which I'd rather listen.
In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country is my favourite BoC release by quite some distance.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 30, 2022 9:20:18 GMT
My unpopular music opinion, although not as much now as it was back in the stoneage, is that Stone Temple Pilots 'Core' is one of the most underrated albums of all time and 'Purple' is one of the best albums of the 90s.
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Post by Saul1138 on Sept 30, 2022 9:38:20 GMT
I kind of agree with you there. STP, and a lot of other American indie music got lumped in with Grunge as it emerged, despite none of the bands claiming to be part of a scene, that musically was quite diverse. I see STP more like Husker Du than Alice, Mudhoney or Nirvana.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2022 11:26:20 GMT
I asked my nephew about all this and he said “MAMA SEAT”. So there. Until Uly responded, I thought your nephew was a toddler and you sat in your sister's chair. |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Sept 30, 2022 11:51:13 GMT
"Quite like it" is how I feel about most of their output, to be honest - it's pleasant enough, and I can always pop it on in the background when I'm working, but there's a fuckton of other instrumental/ambient music to which I'd rather listen. This sums it up. They're perfectly pleasant but I find I usually listen to them when I don't want to be distracted, when I just want some background music. But I think Geogaddi is there best. But it's much of a muchness |
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Post by cubby on Sept 30, 2022 12:28:48 GMT
It's better than 90% of that ourvre. And Telephasic Workshop is great so shut up.
I actually agree with you there, but being better than 90% of that particular oeuvre ≠ classic album status! (Pitchfork just included it on their latest 'Top Albums of the 1990s' list at number 26 out of 150, for fuck's sake.)
But Music Has A Right To Children is their only 90s album? And it invented a whole genre by itself. |
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 30, 2022 12:34:41 GMT
Until Uly responded, I thought your nephew was a toddler and you sat in your sister's chair.
I'm 90% sure that's how it went down, as I was just twatting about  |
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Post by rhaegyr on Sept 30, 2022 12:41:19 GMT
That list from Pitchfork baffles me.
Destiny's Child's second album better than Slanted and Enchanted, Entroducing, ATliens, Liquid Swords, Blue Lines and Reasonable Doubt?
Hole's "Live Through This" above Nevermind, The Low End Theory, Dummy, Homework and Illmatic?
I feel old and out of touch.
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 30, 2022 12:41:39 GMT
But Music Has A Right To Children is their only 90s album?
Yes - I was questioning its presence on said list, not the fact that they chose it over other Boards albums.
It was definitely influential, but I don't think that automatically makes it a great album in its own right (see also: Black Sabbath's debut).
I'm also not a fan of Four Tet, Tim Hecker, Tycho, and the other artists who followed in its wake, although that's a whole other unpopular opinion  |
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 30, 2022 12:42:41 GMT
That list from Pitchfork baffles me. Destiny's Child's second album better than Slanted and Enchanted, Entroducing, ATliens, Liquid Swords, Blue Lines and Reasonable Doubt? Hole's "Live Through This" above Nevermind, The Low End Theory, Dummy, Homework and Illmatic? I feel old and out of touch.
I'd find it very hard to choose between those two, in all honesty.
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Post by Danno on Sept 30, 2022 12:44:24 GMT
Sounds like utter clickbait
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Post by Blue_Mike on Oct 11, 2022 21:56:40 GMT
Caddyshack is not a good film.
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Post by retro74 on Oct 11, 2022 21:58:23 GMT
Caddyshack is a good film
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Post by Vortex on Oct 12, 2022 8:52:01 GMT
Let's split the difference- it's a film.
Disclaimer: It's been so long since I've seen it, I can't remember if it's good or not. I seem to recall some bits being really funny, others leaving me cold.
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Post by Lizard on Oct 12, 2022 9:02:11 GMT
It's completely mental. Supposedly Chase, Murray and Dangerfield were meant to be bit parts, but they were so funny they featured more of them at the expense of the plot.
Shanananana, vavavavava...
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Post by rawshark on Oct 12, 2022 14:09:06 GMT
I remember vividly seeing Caddyshack for the first time. I must have been about five. I found the gopher bits hilarious obviously but went "Urrrrrgh" at the topless pool bits - at which point my Dad said "shut up son! Those are nice!"
Little insight into my childhood there.
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