i had the soundtrack album to this - i think i was 5 or 6 when it came out. now i kinda want to listen to it again, but it might be at my parents house, in which case i should remember to bring it back w/me on Thursday.
sunny's story is indeed awesome.
― sarahel, Monday, 23 November 2009 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Every time a Xanadu-thread rises to the top of New Answers, it makes me smile.
(And a little sad, I guess, for lost youth. I said it before, but Olivia Newton John was lovely.)
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 23 November 2009 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
The soundtrack is so, so good.
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Monday, 23 November 2009 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Most of it is ELO, right?
― sarahel, Monday, 23 November 2009 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Half-ELO, half-ONJ.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 23 November 2009 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
ELONJ
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 November 2009 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 23 November 2009 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
With appearances by the Tubes and...
...and:
Cliff Richard! :O
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Monday, 23 November 2009 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm Alive was my jam when I was 6 years old.
― sarahel, Monday, 23 November 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
the guy who directed this much later directed all those lefty documentaries like "outfoxed". weird.
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Monday, 23 November 2009 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Cliff Richard and ONJ did this big, syrup-y ballad on the disc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcUVa2CWDnk
Makes me happy and sad at the same time.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 23 November 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I was surprised by all those songs in the super-long montage at the end that ONJ sings that didn't end up on the soundtrack, esp. the one where all the muses are in tiger-stripe pantsuits & there are a great many close-ups of wiggling Olivia Newton Buns.
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Monday, 23 November 2009 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
The title track is a geeky miracle imo.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 23 November 2009 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
sdtrk>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>movie
― the butt is like a wailin' guitar solo (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 November 2009 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, yeah. Reasonable minds can disagree and all, but I can't imagine anyone prefers the movie.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 23 November 2009 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Ned, as a fan of the movie, I don't recommend the musical. At all. They took everything that's charming and kitschy about the movie and ruined it with lowest-common-denominator attempts at humor. Ex: The muses act as a Greek chorus, spouting such hilarious lines as "Oh no she di'nt!"
― lindseykai, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh no they di'nt!
― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Eric, if you come to NY this year I will try to use my B'way connex to get us tix to Cheyenne Jackson in Finian's Rainbow.
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
hi dere
― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
This thread seems to foreshadow the legendary FT April Fool's lawsuit without actually mentioning it.
― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, now that I know who's who I have to say sorry, dudes, but I won't be joining you but instead will be going across town to see whatever Kerry Butler is in.
― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh wait, that suit was a month BEFORE April Fool's. Freaky Trigger served with cease and desist order
― tipsi power (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link
That order.
― tipsi power (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:50 (fourteen years ago) link
In the end, it was Xanadu! that killed ILX.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.vintagesnowdomes.com/themes/layout-1-both/images/kaneSnowGlobe.jpg
― tipsi power (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 03:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Can you use your connections to get me backstage?
― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 04:00 (fourteen years ago) link
You two better watch it, you're turning into the Sunshine Boys In The Band.
― tipsi power (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 04:20 (fourteen years ago) link
God. Dammit.
― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry.
― tipsi power (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think you appreciate the depths of my hatred toward that movie.
― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:18 (fourteen years ago) link
No, I don't. I've never even seen it. All I remember is the following bit of business from The Odd Couple. Felix is trying to teach Oscar some kind of Eastern European line-dancing steps, holds up his fingers, snaps them, moves his foot and says:
Felix: I saw it in Zorba The Greek.Oscar: And I saw it in The Boys In The Band!
― tipsi power (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, I meant The Sunshine Boys.
― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.aintitcool.com/images2008/Sunshine2.jpg
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 08:41 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZEs1po--gk
so foxy around 0:20
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I am listening to the Broadway Cast Recording of this and this 'Cheyenne Jackson' is no ONJ.</3
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Also defs did not need an "aren't we hilarious???" version of "Evil Woman," but I got one anyway.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
the broadway musical is fun, in a 'this is an easy target we're slaughtering but still enjoy the ride' kinda way.
― yelawolfenstein (San Te), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link
also Kerry Butler would be the ONJ emulator :).
haha OK it doesn't say on the CD herethe whole thing sounds like it was recorded by some glue-sniffing Muppets that dropped out of jr. high.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
this 'Cheyenne Jackson' is no ONJ
in fairness, no-one is.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 29 December 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw a clip on of this on Youtube once and they whole time they were being so winky about "can you beliEVE we are doing XANADU??"– just disgusting. OTOH I like Xanadu for what it is, esp. the soundtrack! SO far this thing is making me, I would say, rationally angry.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Ok I know no one can be ONJ but this guy isn't even coming close to being Cliff Richard. I would think that's acheivable.
is cliff richard the andy gibb look-a-like from the movie?
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 29 December 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc he's not in the movie but he does the vocals on "Suddenly" which plays when they're rollerskating around in the studio.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 30 December 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
oh yeah!
love that song. something so charming and innocent about late 70s pop (in retrospect).
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 30 December 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw the cast do Xanadu at last years Macy's Thanksgiving Parade and I was so mad at their winkyness and they just ruined it. I can't imagine how infuriating the cd must be if that's how they played out the whole show
'Suddenly' is the bomb
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 30 December 2010 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I bet the Broadway Xanadu was about the worst thing ever, Cheyenne Jackson's legs aside. (Admittedly, probably the sole reason 80 percent of the audience was coming.)
― benanas foster (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 December 2010 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Just downloaded Xanadu, going to watch for the 1st time in many years, i hope i don't regret it because of this thread.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 30 December 2010 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
You will not regret it.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 December 2010 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I think my dog died the same day as I watched it and I still don't regret it.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 30 December 2010 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link