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Wheat Loaf posted:I think it's been slowly percolating since 2000 or so. It probably started with The Sopranos (and possibly The West Wing, to a lesser extent). I'm not saying it just started now, I know the rise of HBO original shows are where I place the start of the TV evolution to what it is now. The Soproanos was definitely a big part of that. You are right, In 2000, Breaking Bad would have been an HBO show, but it would never have been on basic cable. Basic cable needed HBO originals to be hits so the cable channels could try to emulate them.
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Celery Face posted:They were only a hit in Canada so it's obviously not going to happen but I'm pretty curious as to how an episode about B-4-4 would go down. (I wonder if there were any Australian bands this insane) I would *love* an episode on that song! Ever since I saw the video several years ago, its weird badness has stuck in my mind. As for unusual Australian one hit wonders, the best I can think of off the top of my head is Man Overboard by Do Re Mi, which is like a feminist manifesto recited over music. According a commentator on TV during one of those history of Australian popular music shows, people would hear the song and go "Wait a minute? What was that about the penis envy and the pubic hairs?" and then they wouldn't be able to forget it. Other than that, another great one is Horror Movie by Skyhooks. However, I don't listen to pop radio much so I'm not sure if I'm forgetting about some really odd Australian one hit wonders. Oh wait, how could I forget about Pauline Pantsdown? She was a parody of this ridiculous politician we've got here called Pauline Hanson - just imagine Sarah Palin basically - and a drag queen made a couple of songs by chopping up bits of her speeches. Infamous Sphere fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Apr 15, 2015 |
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PassTheRemote posted:I'm not saying it just started now, I know the rise of HBO original shows are where I place the start of the TV evolution to what it is now. The Soproanos was definitely a big part of that. You are right, In 2000, Breaking Bad would have been an HBO show, but it would never have been on basic cable. Basic cable needed HBO originals to be hits so the cable channels could try to emulate them. Ah, fair enough. I guess I just don't know enough about American telly, to be quite honest! Nonetheless, it's something that interests me. It's curious that "prestige drama" used to mean stuff like Hill Street Blues and LA Law. Indeed, it's interesting to look at the series that were winning or being repeatedly nominated for the "Outstanding Drama Series" or "Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series" Emmy Awards 20-25 years ago; all stuff like Picket Fences and thirtysomething that just don't seem to have had a great shelf life. I wouldn't be surprised if Dennis Franz has as many awards for playing Andy Sipowicz as Bryan Cranston has for Walter White.
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If I could pick a One Hit Wonder subject, I'd want Todd to do Harvey Danger. Is anything other than "Flagpole Sitta" worth listening to? Do they even exist outside of this song? I mean, of course the answer to that is yes, but they are definitely up there in terms of how huge a gap there is between their most popular song and whatever is #2 for them.
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Miss Wallace posted:EDIT: Yes to Rusted Root. Send me on my way... It's not "Semi and the whale" ?
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Infamous Sphere posted:I would *love* an episode on that song! Ever since I saw the video several years ago, its weird badness has stuck in my mind. As for unusual Australian one hit wonders, the best I can think of off the top of my head is Man Overboard by Do Re Mi, which is like a feminist manifesto recited over music. Another weird thing about B-4-4 is that the twins from it are now in a Christian opera group called RyanDan (heh heh) and perform regularly alongside Shania Twain in Vegas.
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Celery Face posted:I love the dumbfounded look on the host's faces at the end. The bassline is great though. I don't know who was doing the little host segment, because Countdown would have bands randomly take turns hosting - but the main host was Molly Meldrum and he always looked bumbling/like he was probably drunk and had no idea what the hell he was doing. That was part of his appeal. (This is only secondhand information as I wasn't alive when Countdown was on.)
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Jay O posted:Puh-reach. Saw a facebook friend's early review from an Age of Ultron screening, and he said it was super-duper lorey and overcomplicated and bloated, with that specific homogeneous Marvelverse tone as homogeneous as it's ever been. This is a guy who's really into the Marvel-movieverse for that reason, so it was a kinda-positive review, just cautioning others. But his take was "Guardians of the Galaxy times 20, in both the good and bad ways." Uggggggggh. Not my bag. Will be so glad when the superhero movie bubble pops and we maybe get some kind of trend that's not so much the exact same bowl o' cereal in every film. I know it's all product, but give me a different flavor every now and then for chrissake. Got some bad news for you about hollywood, bud.
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Cubey posted:Well he had 4 Patreon supporters request songs, maybe that's one of the three left. If the inclusion of Blue (Da Ba Dee) is any indication, the other three are probably going to be Macarena, What's Up and I'm Too Sexy.
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Infamous Sphere posted:Other than that, another great one is Horror Movie by Skyhooks. However, I don't listen to pop radio much so I'm not sure if I'm forgetting about some really odd Australian one hit wonders. Skyhooks had like five top ten hits in a row so they're certainly not OHWs. The Divinyls would probably count since the only had the one massive hit in I Touch Myself while Boys in Town was only a hit in Australia and Pleasure & Pain was only a moderate hit outside of Australia. Alternatively you could consider the Angels because they had an iconic rock track in "Am I ever gonna see your face again" but nobody really remembers their songs that were much more succesful on the charts.
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Guys holy poo poo Todd unmasks in his new Netflix series. Not sure why it's about beating up criminals instead of reviewing pop music but it is p fuckin sick.
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poparena posted:I'm Too Sexy. He talks about this one in his Sexy and I know it review. Infamous Sphere posted:I don't know who was doing the little host segment, because Countdown would have bands randomly take turns hosting - but the main host was Molly Meldrum and he always looked bumbling/like he was probably drunk and had no idea what the hell he was doing. That was part of his appeal. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's music programming (on TV, and on Radio) has been consistently interesting (and often great) for decades. Gripe all you want about Triple J (and there are valid reasons to) but the station does do a commendable job at supporting local artists. Rage is... Rage. It's format may be simplistic to the point of lazy (though it is kind of great that it hasn't changed since the show's inception), but the early, early morning playlists are usually really good (or at least they are whenever I'm up that late and turn the TV on for background noise). Australian commercial music programming is awful. We hired Redfoo to judge our version of the X-factor (making a lovely show even shittier). Our top 40 stations played this song on high rotation. High Warlord Zog fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Apr 16, 2015 |
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DStecks posted:Guys holy poo poo Todd unmasks in his new Netflix series. Not sure why it's about beating up criminals instead of reviewing pop music but it is p fuckin sick. he got mad on twitter about this 
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DoctorWhat posted:he got mad on twitter about this Yeah I'll fully cop to stealing that joke. It's, well, I can't say ruining it for me, because Daredevil is the poo poo, but I can't unsee it being Todd in the Shadows Against Crime. And if Todd looks like Charlie Cox under the mask... 
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I can take pride in having come to that realization independently!
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DStecks posted:Yeah I'll fully cop to stealing that joke. It's, well, I can't say ruining it for me, because Daredevil is the poo poo, but I can't unsee it being Todd in the Shadows Against Crime. *looks up Charlie Cox* Oh, Daredevil is Thomas' old dickhead boyfriend from Downton Abbey. Heyo!
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poparena posted:If the inclusion of Blue (Da Ba Dee) is any indication, the other three are probably going to be Macarena, What's Up and I'm Too Sexy. Steal My Sunshine is another distinct possibility.
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Infamous Sphere posted:I don't know who was doing the little host segment, because Countdown would have bands randomly take turns hosting - but the main host was Molly Meldrum and he always looked bumbling/like he was probably drunk and had no idea what the hell he was doing. That was part of his appeal. The one on the right looks like Dave Faulkner of the Hoodoo Gurus, so I'm guessing they were hosting/performing that night.
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Miss Wallace posted:One ep I skimmed a bit on youtube featured them showing a 12-year-old's corpse. While not particularly graphic, it looks like it has about the same tonal whiplash as Tequila and Bonetti. Also I recall a "Co-workers fakes rape" plot on one of the episodes as well. The episode that involved the prison on Inspector Max for some reason had a picture that came on a news report on the same tv station as evidence of child pornography according to some Interpol agent's laptop, and it was blown into poster size on the daughter's room. From watching the scene, you could see the actor playing the grandpa rushingly putting himself in front of it and talking to the daughter across the room because he just noticed the hosed up set dressing. They cut the scene afterwards on the youtube version, along with the struggle that decided to have making GBS threads on mouth porn as background. To this day I don't know why they did that. (The original thing, not the removal part of course) Kunster fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Apr 16, 2015 |
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MUD2MMO: The Mepps Incident Wow, what an rear end in a top hat.
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I know this could change in an instant, but is Blip making GBS threads the bed for anyone else? I've had loading issues with both Rap Critic and Todd. If I have adblock disabled, the ads never load. If it's on, the little spinning loading circle gets stuck and I can't hit HD or use volume controls or full screen (but the video still plays).
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Well this is awful . I think i dig it . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTidn2dBYbY
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One thing I kind of respect Hasselhoff for is that he definitely stopped taking himself too seriously. He obviously started his music "career" just for fun.
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PassTheRemote posted:I don't know what I just saw, but it was gloriously 80's. It might have been the most '80s thing ever. Except they had to use the Powerglove. That's '90s as gently caress, bro.
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Gyges posted:It might have been the most '80s thing ever. Except they had to use the Powerglove. That's '90s as gently caress, bro. Power glove was 1988, though. Wizard was '89.
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PassTheRemote posted:I don't know what I just saw, but it was gloriously 80's. A year or so ago this popped on kickstarter and got pretty much funded overnight.
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There's trying too hard, and then there's trying so loving hard you burst a vein. And that's not even getting into how Nazisploitation (and exploitation in general) was stone-dead by the 1980's.
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Farewell, FamiKamen Rider is here. Considering all the limitations the team was working with (first-time writers/directors, miniscule budget, limited footage of JewWario), it’s all right. I’ve seen worse amateur films, and it’s definitely got heart. I’d be touched if my friends put so much time and effort into remembering me.
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Got a question for JO if she's reading the thread: Have you ever done a video talking about Anime sound design? Stuff like the use of sound effects to indicate dramatic changes, or how most shows from the 80s-90s seemed to have raided Hanna Barbera's stock sound effects locker? If not, is there anyone you know who has? If there's one way I can identify anime, if not by visual style, it's by sound design.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Got a question for JO if she's reading the thread: Have you ever done a video talking about Anime sound design? Stuff like the use of sound effects to indicate dramatic changes, or how most shows from the 80s-90s seemed to have raided Hanna Barbera's stock sound effects locker? If not, is there anyone you know who has? If there's one way I can identify anime, if not by visual style, it's by sound design. I haven't, but that would be a fascinating video for probably like eight people, you and me included. You're right in that older anime tended to use a stock library of sound effects that has a VERY DISTINCTIVE series of patterns, much like Hanna-Barbera cartoons. (Although they weren't the same libraries specifically. Sailor Moon/DBZ SFX =/= HB SFX.) That stuff is fun, but I never ended up making a video on it, and unless I end up making one for ANN, I probably won't. There are lots of anime with really interesting/fascinating sound work though, and it is a specific fascination of mine, so it's a cool idea.
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I remember in the Escaflowne DVD extra, they mentionned how they had tocreate all new sound effects because they couldn't just reuse the ones they normally used for their other mecha animes.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I remember in the Escaflowne DVD extra, they mentionned how they had tocreate all new sound effects because they couldn't just reuse the ones they normally used for their other mecha animes. Escaflowne was a very special show for its time. Coincidentally, I just did a big podcast about it for ANN, as part of our "one ANNCast a month discussing a show in-depth" thing we're doin now, so if you want to learn more bits and bobs about Escaflowne or hear it discussed in detail, there you go! Past in-depth on individual anime ANNCasts were Steins;Gate, Haibane Renmei, Earth Maiden Arjuna, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, CLANNAD, and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, if you want to check out any of those. It's always me, Zac Bertschy, and one special guest, different each time. Jay O fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Apr 17, 2015 |
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I watched and enjoyed Escaflowne when it was on Fox Kids in the UK. Clearly aiming to capitalise on the success of DBZ on Cartoon Network, along with CardCaptor Sakura on Nickelodeon and Sailor Moon and Shinzo (both of which were also on Fox Kids), but an unusual series by comparison to those; not quite shonen, not quite shojo, but somewhere in between. Looking at it in retrospect, it nearly seems a tiny bit like a CLAMP series if the characters didn't look like noodles with heads.
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My favourite memory of Escalown is that the German dub saw fit to replace the intro with French synth music. The song is actualyl pretyt awesome and it works surprisingly well, but it is still a very odd choice.
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Is there a worse dub/hack job than Escaflowne? That'd be an interesting video to look into, the only one I can really think of is the 4Kids One Piece with that awful rear end Pirate Rap and the weird changes that made guns into insane hammer contraptions.
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Seems like as good a time as any to post that Spring Anime Season post I said I was gonna make! So, I've said time and time again that this is actually a really great time to be into anime, not only because everything is legal streaming, but because for the past couple years, it seemed like each new season was packed with so many germs o' quality for such a wide variance of audiences. There's a great wealth of new lovely things for all sorts every three months. For the first time in a long time, this season was kind of a stinker. There was a lot of sucky poo poo this time around and fewer nuggets. Normally, I'd give you a top five, but I can't in good conscience even give you a top five this time, only a top four quality things I would recommend, and maybe some honorable mentions with caveats below those. I stand behind the top four, though! Just used to a lot more selection, especially in Spring. Used to be that Spring and Fall were the plum seasons compared to Winter and Summer, but that has really changed now to where this Winter was almost overstuffed with quality and this Spring erm...tumbleweeds. Regardless! The links in this top four go to my reviews/writeups for the show, but all these shows are legally available streaming from either Funimation or Crunchyroll. I'll be reviewing the #1 entry all season long for daily streaming, so that link just goes to my review, but the others link to the multiple-reviewer pages for preview guide, so the one I wrote on any given page is marked "Hope Chapman." You can read everyone's impressions of All The Spring Things here, though! Lots of folks with lots of different reactions and takes.  1. Blood Blockade Battlefront (action/sci fi dramedy from the creator of Trigun, superbly well-directed and researched, lovable cast, just look at this loving credit song, <3) 2. MY love STORY!! (romantic comedy, great heartwarming premise, extremely lovable characters, based on an award-winning manga) 3. Plastic Memories (sci fi melodrama, from the writer of Steins;Gate, terrific animation and color palette, promising if mushy premise) 4. The Heroic Legend of Arslan (re-adaptation of the HOOGE HIT fantasy novels by the Legend of the Galactic Heroes guy, but re-imagined with character designs by Hiromu Arakawa, the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist, good fix for your SRS BZNS low fantasy needs) Quality sequels to good things that may interest you if you dun saw the first thing: Fate/stay Night Unlimited Blade Works is back for its second half, My Teenage Romcom SNAFU is not my bag personally but its fans swear by it and it got a much higher-budget second season, Uta no Prince-sama has a new lower-budget season by contrast if you like shameless beefcake parades, and The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan is a cute romcom-y Haruhi Suzumiya spinoff that I honestly kinda enjoyed provided you're down with "sweeter and kinder TMOHS universe." So there you go! It's not a good season overall so you could very well check out something from the now wrapped-up Winter, or stuff from 2014 or 2013 etc. that's lyin' around on Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu, etc., but I'll stand by those top four at least! OldTennisCourt posted:Is there a worse dub/hack job than Escaflowne? That'd be an interesting video to look into, the only one I can really think of is the 4Kids One Piece with that awful rear end Pirate Rap and the weird changes that made guns into insane hammer contraptions. Oh, absolutely. Even if you're explicitly talking about the Fox Kids version (Escaflowne was released uncut on home video and most people are familiar with that version because the Fox cut flopped,) it's not nearly as bad as what they did to One Piece, Tokyo Mew Mew, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors or several other forgotten kids' properties. Escaflowne got off relatively easy. I think One Piece is the worst, though. Jay O fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Apr 17, 2015 |
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