I voted for Big Bottom...on a Monday cos it's my lucky bunday
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Thursday, 18 May 2017 06:40 (six years ago) link
Went with Big Bottom also but Tonight I'm Gonna Rock It is legitimately better than anything AC/DC ever did.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, 18 May 2017 06:45 (six years ago) link
you know where you stand in a hellhole
this line still makes me laugh after 30-odd years
― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 18 May 2017 07:48 (six years ago) link
Voted 'Sex Farm', the perfect representation of wheel spinning deep cut bullshit Side B filler
― Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Thursday, 18 May 2017 07:59 (six years ago) link
it also sets up a hilarious Harry Shearer line at the end
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 May 2017 11:08 (six years ago) link
Bass riff on big bottom is all time
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:22 (six years ago) link
that big bottom bass solo is one of the best sly jokes in the film
― Drive Your Lover Wild In Bed By Cosplaying As Jeff Lynne (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:31 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 19 May 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
well it is a velvetly cheek day
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 May 2017 00:06 (six years ago) link
Heartbreak Hotel (a cappella) 0
fuckin' casuals mannnnnn
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 19 May 2017 00:33 (six years ago) link
bloody raggah
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 May 2017 04:59 (six years ago) link
The outtakes from this are really a treat
― Οὖτις, Friday, 19 May 2017 05:29 (six years ago) link
Shit sandwich
― calstars, Friday, 19 May 2017 07:11 (six years ago) link
they cahn't print that!
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 May 2017 12:16 (six years ago) link
So many hidden gems in their discography:
http://www.steveworek.com/tap/
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 19 May 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
lol that is great
"Children of the Sun" is performed as an acoustic demo by David, and was later given away to Folktown Records artists, the Folksmen.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 19 May 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
I love how more modern heavy-blooz the soundcheck "Gimme Some Money" is
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 May 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
http://www.gq.com/story/spinal-tap-vs-hollywood
The guys are all believers now, which is why they've filed a $400 million lawsuit against the French conglomerate Vivendi and its film subsidiary Studiocanal, which owns the rights to Spinal Tap. Among the suit's charges: fraud, breach of contract, and abuse of power “as part of an intentional scheme” to deprive the creators of what is legitimately theirs. (Vivendi's lawyers deny any wrongdoing, calling the $400 million figure “fanciful” at best.)Central to the band's case is the claim that Vivendi has been hiding millions of dollars in profits from Spinal Tap by packaging the movie with flops, an accounting trick known as cross-collateralizing. The film, the company insists, is barely breaking even. “Do they believe their own financial statements?” Shearer asks. “Because if they're believing what they send to us, I think they need medical attention.”
Central to the band's case is the claim that Vivendi has been hiding millions of dollars in profits from Spinal Tap by packaging the movie with flops, an accounting trick known as cross-collateralizing. The film, the company insists, is barely breaking even. “Do they believe their own financial statements?” Shearer asks. “Because if they're believing what they send to us, I think they need medical attention.”
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Thursday, 1 June 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
I wonder what Harry Shearer does w all his money
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
Partly answered in the piece:
Shearer's home in New Orleans, a four-story converted macaroni factory, provides evidence of where his combative approach has gotten him. There are gold-paneled walls, impossibly high ceilings, parquet floors, a marble ballroom (complete with baby-grand piano), and the gaudiest collection of Mardi Gras tiaras and crowns ever assembled in one place. Shearer himself is bedecked in a riot of color—a navy-gold-and-red striped dress shirt over a purple T-shirt, maroon jeans, and a rainbow-striped pair of Y3 Yohji Yamamoto high-tops. The Simpsons, it's clear, has been very good to Shearer, which is why he can afford to go after the “larcenous executives” who he says are doing him and countless others wrong.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
would be cool if that was their main defense in court. "But your honor, he owns $400 shoes!"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
I mean, considering they have to ask permission and PAY to appear as characters they created, I don't think the money is the biggest point of contention.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
btw I didn't at all mean to imply here that I think Harry is in the wrong here (or w his Simpsons negotiation tactics), if someone's going to make a million dollars off of work he created it should be him and not some corporate assholes.
I was just genuinely curious about what someone who is ludicrously rich and also left-wing, with a clear distaste for corporate elites etc. would do with the bajillions that he's made over the years. Evidently he's indulged his more ridiculous whims cuz why not, I would hope he's been somewhat philanthropic too at least but whatever
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S08E12/680162.jpg?b64lines=WUVTLCBCVVQgSSdEIFRSQURFIElUCiBBTEwgRk9SIEEgTElUVExFIE1PUkUu
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
I do kinda love that lives in a fucking macaroni factory
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
haha i chuckled at that
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
No one knows who they were or what they were doing
― badg, Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
reading their song titles just makes me giggle
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
WHERE THE DEWDROPS CRY... and the CATS MEOW!
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 5 June 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link