VECNA: Heh. With twenty-six minutes, you could saunter up that hill!
July 27, 2022 6:32 AM Subscribe
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Look, I cut them some slack when Gabriel left, but now that Hackett’s gone and they’re down to a trio, it’s like they’ve completely abandoned their prog-rock roots. If I wanted cute pop music I’d put on some Bangles.
someday someone (it may even be me) will finally write this novel. Because there is a Steve Hackett shaped hole in the history of what has come to be known as Prog Rock.
posted by philip-random at 7:09 AM on July 27, 2022 [2 favorites]
Look, I cut them some slack when Gabriel left, but now that Hackett’s gone and they’re down to a trio, it’s like they’ve completely abandoned their prog-rock roots. If I wanted cute pop music I’d put on some Bangles.
someday someone (it may even be me) will finally write this novel. Because there is a Steve Hackett shaped hole in the history of what has come to be known as Prog Rock.
posted by philip-random at 7:09 AM on July 27, 2022 [2 favorites]
Is this where I admit that back in 1986, "Turn It On Again" would have been my get-out-of-Vecna ticket?
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:17 AM on July 27, 2022 [7 favorites]
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:17 AM on July 27, 2022 [7 favorites]
VECNA: would you like to join them max?
*the Overture to 2112 by Rush starts playing*
VECNA: oh god jesus christ it's not the whole A side is it. tell me it's not the whole side
*2112 Overture intensifies*
VECNA: for fucks sake this song is 20 goddamn minutes what is your deal
posted by cubeb at 7:22 AM on July 27, 2022 [27 favorites]
*the Overture to 2112 by Rush starts playing*
VECNA: oh god jesus christ it's not the whole A side is it. tell me it's not the whole side
*2112 Overture intensifies*
VECNA: for fucks sake this song is 20 goddamn minutes what is your deal
posted by cubeb at 7:22 AM on July 27, 2022 [27 favorites]
*the Overture to 2112 by Rush starts playing*
I first read "the 1812 Overture starts playing" and the cannons could be easily synched with the dropping stones. Pretty epic, but not quite 80's nostalgia.
posted by mmkhd at 7:35 AM on July 27, 2022 [7 favorites]
I first read "the 1812 Overture starts playing" and the cannons could be easily synched with the dropping stones. Pretty epic, but not quite 80's nostalgia.
posted by mmkhd at 7:35 AM on July 27, 2022 [7 favorites]
God this fucking show. We're screaming at it constantly about how bad the pacing is, how inane the dialogue is, how much absolute garbage filler is in there. I'd like to watch Stranger Things 4 if the Duffers Weren't Paid by the Minute or whatever the excuse is for the lumbering, bloated self-devouring corpse this series has become.
posted by seanmpuckett at 7:38 AM on July 27, 2022 [8 favorites]
posted by seanmpuckett at 7:38 AM on July 27, 2022 [8 favorites]
The Bangle's first album is great.
“Turn It On Again” is at best Genesis' fifth-best single.
posted by kirkaracha at 8:16 AM on July 27, 2022
“Turn It On Again” is at best Genesis' fifth-best single.
posted by kirkaracha at 8:16 AM on July 27, 2022
The magic audio that saves DOT's life:
It's 1:20 on a Friday afternoon here at Wrigley Field and I'm Pat Hughes, here with Ron Coomer, and this is CUBS BASEBALL!
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:18 AM on July 27, 2022 [5 favorites]
It's 1:20 on a Friday afternoon here at Wrigley Field and I'm Pat Hughes, here with Ron Coomer, and this is CUBS BASEBALL!
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:18 AM on July 27, 2022 [5 favorites]
VECNA: would you like to join them max?
*We Built this City by Starship starts playing*
VECNA: Sweet Jesus, just go!
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 8:23 AM on July 27, 2022 [15 favorites]
*We Built this City by Starship starts playing*
VECNA: Sweet Jesus, just go!
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 8:23 AM on July 27, 2022 [15 favorites]
The use of "Running Up That Hill" in the show really illustrates how forward-looking and timeless this song, and Kate Bush's music in general, is. She's a lady who took control of her career early in life, built her own recording studio, and used a cutting-edge Fairlight synth (a $40K keyboard back then!) to create instruments no one had ever heard before. Look at the other songs from that time: Say You, Say Me; We Built This City; The Power of Love; Can't Fight This Feeling; Careless Whisper. All competent songs, and all songs that I can't turn the radio off fast enough when they come on. I bought the pink-marbled vinyl release of the Hounds of Love album from the local head shop as soon as it was released, so I'm quite biased, but I feel like everyone else catching up to me over thirty years later is some vindication!
how bad the pacing is, how inane the dialogue is, how much absolute garbage filler is in there
I wasn't bothered by the pacing. They used to say tv episodes were like short stories and movies were like novels, but I think the current 10-episode tv seasons, which are really mini-series, are more like novels. So I don't mind lots of side-exploration. The formula for writing teaser+four acts+epilogue type scripts could be stifling and overwhelm the story, so I'm glad to see that go bye.
posted by jabah at 8:28 AM on July 27, 2022 [10 favorites]
how bad the pacing is, how inane the dialogue is, how much absolute garbage filler is in there
I wasn't bothered by the pacing. They used to say tv episodes were like short stories and movies were like novels, but I think the current 10-episode tv seasons, which are really mini-series, are more like novels. So I don't mind lots of side-exploration. The formula for writing teaser+four acts+epilogue type scripts could be stifling and overwhelm the story, so I'm glad to see that go bye.
posted by jabah at 8:28 AM on July 27, 2022 [10 favorites]
We're screaming at it constantly about how bad the pacing is, how inane the dialogue is, how much absolute garbage filler is in there.
Running time, Stranger Things episodes 8 & 9, season 4: 335 minutes.
Running time, The Godfather, Part II: 322 minutes.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:33 AM on July 27, 2022 [4 favorites]
Running time, Stranger Things episodes 8 & 9, season 4: 335 minutes.
Running time, The Godfather, Part II: 322 minutes.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:33 AM on July 27, 2022 [4 favorites]
ST-related: my kiddo is asking for this shirt.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:37 AM on July 27, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:37 AM on July 27, 2022 [3 favorites]
1986 is sadly a year too early for the Ducktales Theme.
posted by RonButNotStupid at 8:44 AM on July 27, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by RonButNotStupid at 8:44 AM on July 27, 2022 [3 favorites]
Running time, Stranger Things episodes 8 & 9, season 4: 335 minutes.
Running time, The Godfather, Part II: 322 minutes.
Comparing the two on any level is an offer I can refuse. I am not making this deal. Bring on the horse heads.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 8:55 AM on July 27, 2022 [2 favorites]
Running time, The Godfather, Part II: 322 minutes.
Comparing the two on any level is an offer I can refuse. I am not making this deal. Bring on the horse heads.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 8:55 AM on July 27, 2022 [2 favorites]
My Vecna protection song would have totally been this one.
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 9:08 AM on July 27, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 9:08 AM on July 27, 2022 [2 favorites]
lumbering, bloated self-devouring corpse
Totally. Every time they dragged ass back to Russia for interminable dumbass man-in-a-hole timewasting I just left it playing and went and folded socks or something.
posted by Don Pepino at 9:20 AM on July 27, 2022 [2 favorites]
Totally. Every time they dragged ass back to Russia for interminable dumbass man-in-a-hole timewasting I just left it playing and went and folded socks or something.
posted by Don Pepino at 9:20 AM on July 27, 2022 [2 favorites]
VECNA: would you like to join them, Max?
*[UNEXPECTED SONG] starts playing*
VECNA: [HUMOROUS REACTION]
Is this already a meme? It has the feel of something I'm learning about after it's already played out and everyone's moved on.
posted by gurple at 9:33 AM on July 27, 2022
*[UNEXPECTED SONG] starts playing*
VECNA: [HUMOROUS REACTION]
Is this already a meme? It has the feel of something I'm learning about after it's already played out and everyone's moved on.
posted by gurple at 9:33 AM on July 27, 2022
The last episode of The Bear we watched (not the last one, but last one for us) had "In Too Deep" (Genesis).
posted by stevil at 9:35 AM on July 27, 2022
posted by stevil at 9:35 AM on July 27, 2022
Is this already a meme? It has the feel of something I'm learning about after it's already played out and everyone's moved on.
It took 36 years 310 days for this meme to get played out.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:52 AM on July 27, 2022 [1 favorite]
It took 36 years 310 days for this meme to get played out.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:52 AM on July 27, 2022 [1 favorite]
*2112 Overture intensifies*
VECNA: for fucks sake this song is 20 goddamn minutes what is your deal
Ha, that song would have been ten years old already by the time Max needed it, and she would've been made fun of by any other Rush fans for not getting with their current releases.
On the other hand, she could have had "Mystic Rhythms" as a cassette single, or if the episode had been set one year later "Time Stand Still" would also have been appropriate.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 9:58 AM on July 27, 2022
VECNA: for fucks sake this song is 20 goddamn minutes what is your deal
Ha, that song would have been ten years old already by the time Max needed it, and she would've been made fun of by any other Rush fans for not getting with their current releases.
On the other hand, she could have had "Mystic Rhythms" as a cassette single, or if the episode had been set one year later "Time Stand Still" would also have been appropriate.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 9:58 AM on July 27, 2022
Bring on the horse heads.
Shouldn't that be "Bring on the Dancing Horse Heads"?
posted by kirkaracha at 10:28 AM on July 27, 2022 [5 favorites]
Shouldn't that be "Bring on the Dancing Horse Heads"?
posted by kirkaracha at 10:28 AM on July 27, 2022 [5 favorites]
When Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Spellbound" played over the closing credits of the finale, I wondered if maybe they had acquired the rights with the intention of having that be Max's favorite song—the lyrics seem much more connected to what Vecna is doing ("a beckoning voice", "laughter cracking through the walls", "a rag doll dance")—but then decided to go a different way.
I do think it was a misstep to have Max fleeing from Vecna through a storm of falling boulders on flat ground when she could have been...running up a hill? That's money left on the table.
posted by The Tensor at 10:46 AM on July 27, 2022 [6 favorites]
I do think it was a misstep to have Max fleeing from Vecna through a storm of falling boulders on flat ground when she could have been...running up a hill? That's money left on the table.
posted by The Tensor at 10:46 AM on July 27, 2022 [6 favorites]
For me, it would have to be "These Dreams" by Heart since that song is irrevocably tied to LotRs in my mind since I was reading it through for the first time while that song was ubiquitous.
posted by drewbage1847 at 12:03 PM on July 27, 2022
posted by drewbage1847 at 12:03 PM on July 27, 2022
Is this already a meme? It has the feel of something I'm learning about after it's already played out and everyone's moved on.
I reckon I'd try either Metal Machine Music or 4'33" would be the way to go.
(Note that the linked performance of that latter Cage piece takes a languid six and a half minutes; if you are not a purist and are pressed for time and just want the crowd-pleasing high points that everyone knows, here it is at a condensed three minutes and change.)
posted by ricochet biscuit at 12:32 PM on July 27, 2022
I reckon I'd try either Metal Machine Music or 4'33" would be the way to go.
(Note that the linked performance of that latter Cage piece takes a languid six and a half minutes; if you are not a purist and are pressed for time and just want the crowd-pleasing high points that everyone knows, here it is at a condensed three minutes and change.)
posted by ricochet biscuit at 12:32 PM on July 27, 2022
Was curious about the Vecna meme question and found this on /r/StrangerThings instead:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StrangerThings/comments/v5o6ok/join_me/
[Minor spoiler alert.]
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 3:09 PM on July 27, 2022 [1 favorite]
https://www.reddit.com/r/StrangerThings/comments/v5o6ok/join_me/
[Minor spoiler alert.]
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 3:09 PM on July 27, 2022 [1 favorite]
Post needs a Genesis tag.
posted by Quasirandom at 4:07 PM on July 27, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Quasirandom at 4:07 PM on July 27, 2022 [1 favorite]
During the latter half of Season 4 I was almost hoping Argyle would end up in Vecna's sights simply because I would have very much enjoyed seeing him flee through the mindscape to an echoey, ethereal rendition of "Pass the Dutchie".
posted by subocoyne at 4:56 PM on July 27, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by subocoyne at 4:56 PM on July 27, 2022 [3 favorites]
Post needs a Genesis tag.
All it needs is a TV show. That, and a radio.
posted by kirkaracha at 10:01 PM on July 27, 2022 [4 favorites]
All it needs is a TV show. That, and a radio.
posted by kirkaracha at 10:01 PM on July 27, 2022 [4 favorites]
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