The song used for the dance in From Dusk til Dawn.  Audio only since I want to keep this thread (mostly) PG.   

 

And now for something completely different (in honor of Halloween): 

 

Band: Focus (Netherlands 1970s)

Song: Hocus Pocus

25 minutes ago, exracer327 said:

And now for something completely different (in honor of Halloween): 

 

Band: Focus (Netherlands 1970s)

Song: Hocus Pocus

 

Look at him now almost 50 years later and still at it. 
 

 

 

 

 

Theme song for "True Blood"

 

On 10/31/2021 at 7:38 PM, Darth_Raichu said:

Theme song for "True Blood"

 

It is weird how the tune was released some years before the series yet I only came about knowing it and therefore associating it through True Blood. Good track but boy howdy was the television series not (on its on or compared to the books it was supposed to be based off that also went awry in their own way).

No wonder Laurell K. Hamilton has said no to any offer to make a series on her vampire hunter Anita Blake character. At least the Marvel comics turned out great.... then Disney came in and shut that collaboration down.

12 hours ago, TheOrcKing said:

It is weird how the tune was released some years before the series yet I only came about knowing it and therefore associating it through True Blood. Good track but boy howdy was the television series not (on its on or compared to the books it was supposed to be based off that also went awry in their own way).

No wonder Laurell K. Hamilton has said no to any offer to make a series on her vampire hunter Anita Blake character. At least the Marvel comics turned out great.... then Disney came in and shut that collaboration down.

True Blood was like MCU in a way.  It had many interesting ideas in the beginning but the execution was poor and mostly the endings were trash.  Also they had a hard time maintaining continuity from seasons to seasons because they mostly ignored whatever (interesting) rules they setup in the previous seasons.  The writers put themselves in impossible corners because the vampires were too strong compared to other supernatural beings.

Honestly, the show would have been better if it was just about a small town human sheriff and his human deputies trying to deal with supernatural events.  That was the underlying storyline for Sookie's brother and I partly watched just for those parts

15 hours ago, Darth_Raichu said:

Honestly, the show would have been better if it was just about a small town human sheriff and his human deputies trying to deal with supernatural events.  That was the underlying storyline for Sookie's brother and I partly watched just for those parts

That could have been a more consistent premise than what we ended up with.

First season in they already went offtrack stretching out the maenad that attacked Sookie poisoning her turning a one page seemingly pointless reference into "the big baddie" complete with end level boss music. To be fair at least they went somewhere with the idea compared to the original texts. Sookie gets poisoned, Doctor Ludwig heals her, and that was the end of the maenad. It never returned. Charlaine Harris introduced a threat into her story for no reason. Also I have no idea in what tale a female follower of Dionysus (maenad) becomes a frantic beast of toxin. (I love my stories on various mythos so yeah I'm gonna take offence to that.)

Second (and maybe third) season started somewhat strong then pattered out. Fourth season ....well it had witches. Fifth season onward, I am lost and the road map reads "you're boned".

The original novels were fine in spite of their own problems and inconsistencies. The same could be said about the loosely based television series with the bonus of it all being more convoluted. I suppose had they followed the books closer, I could have forgiven the series' shortcomings over accuracy to the source material. At least then the points where the series was rough would have been because so were the books. (Make no mistake, the books are not amazing by any stretch. No offence intended.)

As you summed up.

15 hours ago, Darth_Raichu said:

It had many interesting ideas in the beginning but the execution was poor and mostly the endings were trash.

 

Additionally, they never brought out the best character from the books. "Bubba". Haha.

Moving right along.

 

 

Long buildup (2 minutes) but with a powerful payoff. Excalibur, I call on your power!

 

A beautiful cover in my opinion.

 

For whatever reason I never watched the music vid until recently even though I am quite fond of the song.  

 

Enjoy some funky late 90's synth from a full motion video point-&-click adventure title about time paradoxes and.... stuff. I am curious if anyone actually remembers this computer game. I barely did.

 

 

I was feeling a little Highlander-ish tonight.   Didn't know Freddy Mercury passed 30 years ago last week.  Things you learned from Youtube comments section

 

 

 

LA WOMAN 50th Anniversary 

 

4 hours ago, Pseudoty said:

LA WOMAN 50th Anniversary 

 

Fresh out of college???

10 hours ago, ravenb99 said:

Fresh out of college???

High School 

19 hours ago, Pseudoty said:

LA WOMAN 50th Anniversary

The Doors is one of the greatest bands that ever was in my opinion. I cannot think of any one tune of theirs I disliked played at any time of the day regardless of my mood. I listened to them growing up and well past that into adulthood. Not many bands I can really say something like that about. I mean, I have heard plenty music from various artists all across the board but the selections are somewhat choosy with the picks. The Doors on the other hand, everything just feels right. And L.A. Woman is a good album.

 

 

 

Edited December 5, 20214 yr by Pseudoty

 

The Phantom of the Opera in 20 minutes