Vinyl

Oh, and why the hell not, here's that soundtrack I was talking about!





This was a VERY popular movie down here in Australia at the time...Apparently our country is full of idiots!

Meltdowner wrote: ^ WTF!?

Exactly.

We let that happen.



Actually, I really want to watch it again now! I have vague memories of my Dad taking my sister and I to see it, and him angrily walking out half-way through saying `This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen!'

I don't know, now looking at it I'm thinking "In 1905 he discovered realitivity, in 1906 he invented rock & roll" might just be the greatest movie tagline of all time!

For a time, that movie was just as associated with Australia overseas as Crocodile Dundee, would you have at least heard of that one, Sam?   

I nearly fell over in the Australian episode of the Simpsons where this appeared in a scene where it was being explained about Australia's brief raised profile around the world:



To which Lisa replies `I know those words, but that sentence doesn't make any sense..."!

I wonder whatever happened to that guy?!

I don't know, Tom, that might have been the ideal state to watch it, probably would have made all the sense in the world then! I don't remember it being any good, just that it was knd of silly and quirky and there'd never been anything like it. I seem to recall it was briefly popular for about a month!

Looks like you missed out on something special - "The movie portrayed Albert Einstein as a young farmer in Tasmania who derives the formula E=mc2 while trying to discover a means of creating beer bubbles, splitting the lager atom in the process. After leaving the apple isle for Sydney on the mainland to patent his discovery, he goes on to develop rock music and surfing, romances Marie Curie, and saves Paris from an atomic bomb"!   

Ha, according to wikipedia "In August 2000, Yahoo Serious tried to sue the search engine Yahoo! for trademark infringement. The case was thrown out because Serious could not prove that he sells products or services under the name "Yahoo" and therefore could not prove that he suffered harm or confusion due to the search engine."

Heh...he might just be the smartest man alive, a misunderstood genius!

Anyway, back to topic, how about those record things, eh?!

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: For a time, that movie was just as associated with Australia overseas as Crocodile Dundee, would you have at least heard of that one, Sam?

I saw one of these on TV once... that Simpsons episode too 

Meltdowner wrote: Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: For a time, that movie was just as associated with Australia overseas as Crocodile Dundee, would you have at least heard of that one, Sam?    I saw one of these on TV once... that Simpsons episode too

Do you know how many Aussies that episode outraged?! It's absurd, that episode was a cracker, so funny! Many people here found it hugely mocking, but seriously, pretty much EVERY EPISODE takes the piss out of the States! People needed to lighten up and realise the joke was that it was playing up all our stereotypes and the perception of Australia around the world....as all the epsidoes do when they visit a different country!

You should get that live DVD `Live at Sea' from Spock's, you get both Ted and Neal performing parts of the show, and the band is roaring on it.

I only picked up the `Flying Colours' one on the weekend, but it's proven to be very impressive. Proggier than the debut, but all the tracks are catchy and very melodic, and the playing is top-notch as well. Honestly, I think Morse sounds better on it than his last several releases, perhaps because he's not front and center so can take it easy in comparison. Good vocals too, and thankfully not as `ladykiller posturing' as I dreaded they would be!

Meltdowner wrote: I have that Flying Colours album on CD and it's really good

Yep, it was the only CD I picked up at that Fair, hence the reason I didn't post a picture on this thread!

Forgot to reply to you earlier, most of those other vinyl albums I posted pictures of I haven't listened to yet, but wil be doing so in the next day or two.

I think my local shop also has another Robert Schroeder LP I'm planning to go and snap up as well.

Are all the copies of the Renaissance album incorrectly made that way, Sam? For some reason I seem to think I have two copies of this on vinyl, not sure if either of them are US pressings, though.

Hmm, might give that Camel album a spin tonight. Never a favourite album of theirs for me, in fact I barely seem to ever make through the whole thing. I always thought that `Down on the Farm' (I think that's what it's called off the top of my head) sounded absurd on it! Absurd on a Camel album, but it would have been right at home on a Caravan album!