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TenderLovingKiller® said:
That Diane Warren penned Aerosmith track is good-bad though it’s enjoyably camp. Like Jim Stynam written Meatloaf and Celine Dion songs. They are soo bad they come back around to being good again…right?!??
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Jim Steinman wrote some amazing, over-the-top, cheese songs that are just so fantastic though! Essentially he wrote songs from a theater background. NPR had a nice spot on his music and legacy when he passed. He wrote or produced Meat Loaf’s Bat out of Hell album and I Would Do… of course, but also Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart, Celene Dion’s It’s All Coming Back to Me Now, Sister of Mercy’s This Corrosion. Those songs are all so singular.
 
mitchwagz said:
Jim Steinman wrote some amazing, over-the-top, cheese songs that are just so fantastic though! Essentially he wrote songs from a theater background. NPR had a nice spot on his music and legacy when he passed. He wrote or produced Meat Loaf’s Bat out of Hell album and I Would Do… of course, but also Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart, Celene Dion’s It’s All Coming Back to Me Now, Sister of Mercy’s This Corrosion. Those songs are all so singular.
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They all sound like Jim Steinman songs too. Like you knew they were Steinman compositions regardless who was singing.
 
jamieanderson1968 said:
Please tell me you wore a Hyper Generra tshirt to the show/date?
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I did not, 17 year old Mather was a lot of things, most of them stupid, but one thing he never understood was the need to wear a t shirt that would change color when warm and in doing so give you multicolored pit stains when you weren't actually sweating.
MikeH said:
Sounds like the NightMather origin story to me.
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Joe Mac said:
Did NightMather begin to emerge shortly afterwards?
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The girl was gorgeous, I got absolutely no where, a NIGHTMather appearance would have been highly appreciated by 17 year old Mather and his complete lack of game.
 
MikeH said:
i'd have to go back and check on charges from AS but I don't know that they charged me shipping for every separate item in a backordered group. i could have just missed it though...
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I'd like to think that if multiple backordered items came back in stock around the same time, they'd ship them together and if their cost surpassed the $49 threshold, shipping would be free. But since backordered items don't count towards the free-shipping threshold at the time those orders are placed, it makes sense that AS has no intention of eating the shipping costs for every backordered item they eventually ship. The only recent example I have to draw from is the UHQR Kind of Blue, which was backordered when I ordered it. I figure that if it were in stock, the $100 price tag would meet the free-shipping standard, but I was charged $13.50 for shipping when it eventually shipped. (Now that I think about that, I don't understand why shipping wouldn't have been free given the cost of the item.)

EDIT: Just read AS's free shipping policy, which states that the offer does not apply to pre/back-ordered items.

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Joe Mac said:
Even NightMather would object to that on the grounds of good taste…

BTW one of my favourite film critics is not a Michael Bay fan, to put it lightly, and this rant about Pain and Gain cracks me up every time!

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haha i didn't hate Pain and Gain as much as he did...but I'm with him on most of what he's talking about.

Until he says that Crash is pretty much a perfect movie...oof.

Also, Bay has made almost entirely bad movies. But Bad Boys and The Rock are both real fun so I'll always have a soft spot for those.
 
MikeH said:
haha i didn't hate Pain and Gain as much as he did...but I'm with him on most of what he's talking about.

Until he says that Crash is pretty much a perfect movie...oof.

Also, Bay has made almost entirely bad movies. But Bad Boys and The Rock are both real fun so I'll always have a soft spot for those.
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He’s big into horror. I read JG Ballard’s book and thought it was a masterpiece but I’ve never quite been able to bring myself to watch the Cronenberg film, Cronenberg is uncomfortable to watch at the best of times and that book was a bloody difficult enough read as it was, I don’t need to see the fetishisation of car crashes on screen!
 
Joe Mac said:
He’s big into horror. I read JG Ballard’s book and thought it was a masterpiece but I’ve never quite been able to bring myself to watch the Cronenberg film, Cronenberg is uncomfortable to watch at the best of times and that book was a bloody difficult enough read as it was, I don’t need to see the fetishisation of car crashes on screen!
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I read Crash for the first time last year after acquiring a handful of Ballard books and it was definitely an interesting read haha! I’ve never brought myself to watch the film though, and not sure I really want to see it. If I remember correctly, Ballard really liked the adaption right?
 
mitchwagz said:
I read Crash for the first time last year after acquiring a handful of Ballard books and it was definitely an interesting read haha! I’ve never brought myself to watch the film though, and not sure I really want to see it. If I remember correctly, Ballard really liked the adaption right?
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Yes he praised it for taking his narrative and pushing the themes further and harder and he felt it made for a more convincing whole!
 
I still can’t believe we compared the Counting Crows to Train in here.

The best thing Train ever gave us was this American Idol cheese where Ace Young tried to show off his permanent scar on the lyric



Nothing the Crows did, even that Big Yellow Taxi cover, is anywhere near the atrocity that is Hey, Soul Sister or most of their output after that.
 
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