Index > 2 books, 3 movies, 10 albums
Posted by Joe (@joe) on Feb. 23, 2025, 8:28 p.m.
My library doesn’t have it, and I’m trying to read at least a couple more books I own before buying it, but when I do I’ll rewatch Stalker, so don’t forget the movie before that. I definitely liked it (and Mirror, but I liked Stalker more) but I remember it like a dream. Glad you liked it, I was afraid you wouldn’t after your response to Solaris. I guess it’s a cool movie to like now, Rolling Stone called it the #2 sci-fi movie of all time, although this list has some weird rankings in it.
Easiest to read here:
https://letterboxd.com/mitchell/list/rolling-stones-150-greatest-science-fiction/detail/
you can find the original blurbs here
my attempts to listen to solo Roger Waters have not been enjoyable, that’s all I remember.
This is the third album of original Aerosmith material in a row that you like more than me, after I liked all the previous ones more than you. It’s not awful, but it just made me kind of shrug. There is some gross modern stuff in the production for an album that the tried to get back to the good ole’ days with.
I don’t remember most of the songs, but the Get A Grip era demo of Legendary Child is better than the version on the album
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re: “That being said, let’s hope it really is the end of Aerosmith”
They appear to be done for real. They attempted a farewell tour and Tyler blew out his voice. After multiple postponements they cancelled it and said that he couldn’t perform anymore. Before that Tom Hamilton, who handled the band’s online publicity stuff since the internet made that a thing, said that the album showed that there was no commercial motive for them to make new music anymore, and on the outside chance they did anything else it would just be for fun. There were reportedly some shakeups with the record company that resulted in it getting zero publicity, which made the band mad. Joe Perry said that he was happy they made the album and thought there was good stuff on it (and also complained about the record company screwing up publicity) but admitted that they kind of blew it by trying to use all the available material instead of working harder on a smaller number of songs.
At least they soudned like a band, and not Tyler and a bunch of session men, like on Just Push Play.
Do you think that the totality of Rainbow even feels like a real band? It kinda just seems like Ritchie Blackmore’s solo career. I mean, yes the Dio albums are Dio as much as they are Blackmore, but does that even feel like the band that made those later albums?