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By: Shawno

Shawno — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:27:13 +0000

Thanks for the clarification, Drew. What threw me about “WKRP” and film/video is the fact that we’re watching it via hulu on a TV set. hulu’s digitization makes everything look a little different from the source. So, the older shows that were shot on tape look more like film. At least, they do to me. Of course, I don’t see so well to begin with. Still, I should’ve known that, especially considering the time period when the show was made.

By: Uncle Drew

Uncle Drew — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:29:05 +0000

Hey, kids. I hadn’t thought of WKRP in a while, but, Shawno, I think you may have video and film mixed up, because that show was videotaped, as were shows like All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Good Times, etc. These shows have that flat, videotaped look to them, whereas shows like Charlie’s Angels, Mary Tyler Moore and Eight is Enough were shot on film. The look is richer, there’s more depth of field to the shots.

Maybe you’re a bit younger than me, but the Norman Leer sitcoms were the groundbreakers in terms of dealing with social issues, especially if you think of Archie Bunker’s bigotry, his daughter raising a child as a single mother, etc. That, of course, does not mean that WKRP wasn’t a good show.

By: Nathan Lott

Nathan Lott — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:49:43 +0000

Thinking while listening to that list that the only record on it that I have is Car Wheels on a Gravel Road and maybe some singles from Purple Rain, Madonna, and Graceland. I’m about the same age as Shawno and when I was in middle school I also remember the hoopla about Guns and Roses, but I just got into jazz music like Manhattan Transfer, Ella Fitzgerald and dixieland jazz of Pete Fountain. I was a band nerd, I guess. Also listening to Top Gun soundtrack and Ghostbusters soundtrack.

By: Erk @ the Erk Pod

Erk @ the Erk Pod — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:09:55 +0000

I used to work at KFC and I know that I never had time to f**k around like that guy was doing in the BK video.

By: Dave Calderbank

Dave Calderbank — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:12:23 +0000

The distances were part of the joke. 23,693.2 kilometres (14,722.3 mi) west of San Luis Obispo would’ve worked too, although it would be real easy to trace that back to Shawno

By: Orange Tim

Orange Tim — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:29:00 +0000

Erkster,

None of the distances quoted are even remotely correct. All part of the joke, I’m sure. Seriously, over 1 million kilometres from Sydney to the UK???? I mean the Moon, on average, is 382,500km (237,674mi) away from Earth.

Anyway, by air it is 21,689km (13,477 miles) between Sydney and London.

By: Erk @ the Erk Pod

Erk @ the Erk Pod — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:56:14 +0000

“Stonehenge is a prehistoric sandstone rock circle located in the English county of London, about 23,693.2 kilometres (14,722.3 mi) west of Adelaide and 1,333,345 kilometres (828,502 mi) north of Sydney.”

There is NO way that Sydney and Adelaide is 1 309 652 km apart! The distance between the two places is more like 1500km.

By: Colin G

Colin G — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:18:09 +0000

PS Dave & Erk are absolutely right about ‘Nevermind’

By: Colin G

Colin G — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:14:10 +0000

(My anti-spam word is ‘Chillaxin’. You’ve broken the internets…)

Dylan ‘Black Books’ Moran is indeed a stand-up. He’s won the Perrier Award, which is the biggest accolade for British-based comedians. Bill ‘The One With The Beard’ Bailey is a much bigger star here though. He’s one of the team captains on a very funny music panel show called Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

Lauryn Hill was in The Fugees not Wu-Tang Clan. Not that anyone here cares… (#2 WTF?????????????????????)

‘American Idiot’ is a very important album in a social context, but I think there’s little debate that the more influential album of Green Day’s on the music industry at large was ‘Dookie’. Before ‘Dookie’ Punk was a dead musical style with no-one paying attention to it, after ‘Dookie’ Punk was the most popular genre in the post grunge era. Without ‘Dookie’ we would not be talking about Green Day and we wouldn’t have bands like Blink 182, Offspring and even Good Charlotte.

Mark Ronson actually produced the majority of ‘Back To Black’ by Amy Winehouse so she was basically repaying the favour with ‘Valerie’. His cover version of ‘Just’ by Radiohead is absolutely brilliant.

My personal choice of REM album would be ‘Automatic For The People’, but as far as influence goes ‘Document’ would be the choice.

I LOVED The Sugarcubes. One of my clearest memories of watching Top Of The Pops back in the day was seeing The Sugarcubes performing ‘Hit’. This was in an era when acts like Rick Astley were all you saw on TV, so seeing The Sugarcubes was not simply a breathe of fresh air, it was a hurricane. (For you American peeps TOTP was a weekly chart show that ran here in the UK from 1964-2006. The internet came along and everyone stopped watching it so a British institution was taken off the air.)

If that was a British list of albums ‘The Stone Roses’ would have been #1. The Stone Roses released their debut self titled album in 1989 and kick-started the brit-pop generation. SOOOOOOOOOOO many bands followed them that it is not an exaggeration to say that the British music industry would have been seriously damaged by ‘The Stone Roses’ not coming out. On any British list of ‘Best Albums Ever’ the three records that are always #1 are ‘The Stone Roses’, ‘Revolver’ or ‘Sgt. Pepper’.

Hope that’s enough music geekery for you…

By: DianaCecelia

DianaCecelia — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:28:12 +0000

Haven’t listen to the show yet but I’m watching There Will Be Blood right now! Coincidence? I think not.