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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2016 at 20:17

Again, not especially unexpected, but worth reporting on:


Yesterday’s All Things Considered on NPR ran a feature on Carla Bley’s latest project:


http://www.npr.org/2016/05/19/478692554/at-80-carla-bley-keeps-looking-towards-the-next-composition



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2016 at 20:59
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

I presume people have spotted Quicksilver's T-Shirt in the Sky Fibre advert but couldn't be bothered to mention it:

The guy must be a prog fan. In Days of Future Past he's wearing a Floyd shirt, in Apocalypse he has the "Animals" album cover in his room and now this. 
I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 26 2016 at 22:16
Tonight I was watching an episode of the Syfy channel's series "12 Monkeys" (season 2, episode 5). The character Jennifer Gaines is mentally unstable. She blurts out "Me, I'm a lawnmower. You can tell me by the way I walk."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2016 at 21:15
Just saw X-men: Apocalypse, and Quicksilver still has the Animals poster in his room, as well as a Signals tour poster for Rush.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2016 at 21:58
The thing about this Quicksilver is that he has all the prog/classic rock references... but when his slow motion scenes come in, they use some rather poppy music from the time instead (though they actually work very nice with the scenes).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2016 at 22:01
Isn't he usually wearing a Floyd shirt in those movies?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2016 at 02:14
I just finished watching "Stranger Things" on Netflix. In episode six, I recognized "Exit" by Tangerine Dream. There may have been TD tracks in other episodes as well. Even the original music composed for the series feels like stuff that could have been on TD albums in the early 80s (which is when the show is set).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2017 at 20:41

Tonight’s episode of “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” featured the Moody Blues’ Have You Heard in the opening scene, and again towards the end.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 07 2017 at 21:46

On tonight’s episode of “The Last Man on Earth”:

 

Tandy (Will Forte) tries to cheer up Erica, in the midst of a difficult labor, by coming to her wearing a mask of Phil, the late father of Erica’s child, and talking like Phil (badly), telling her: “Things couldn’t be better up here in heaven.  I took up the guitar and starting jamming with Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon, and Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, and Tony Levin, a wonderful session bassist who’s worked with everyone from King Crimson to Mister Sledgehammer himself, Pete Gabriel.”

 

Unexpected but inaccurate, of course.  Which of their writers thought Tony Levin was dead?  He confused him with Chris Squire, maybe?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 08 2017 at 02:49
^ It's accurate, almost everyone is dead on the show Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 08 2017 at 19:55

^ OK, I get it.  My point is I would have expected them to pick someone who’s dead for real.  For the purpose of this show, they could have picked virtually anybody, so why Levin?  Obviously one of their writers is a fan.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 08 2017 at 22:13
Rush seems to be the most popular reference in media. Trailer Park Boys has a few episodes where bubbles fanboys out for Rush

Here's a clip of Alex Lifeson and Bubbles playing Closer to the Heart together


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 08 2017 at 22:23
Originally posted by AreYouHuman AreYouHuman wrote:

^ OK, I get it.  My point is I would have expected them to pick someone who’s dead for real.  For the purpose of this show, they could have picked virtually anybody, so why Levin?  Obviously one of their writers is a fan.

They very often in the show refer to people as dead who are not yet dead in our time.
Cool ref, anyway.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2017 at 10:40
I just heard a brief snippet of "Firth of fifth"(the guitar part in the middle)as part of a musical interlude on NPR. How cool is that? It was very brief and in the background but people like us can detect things like that a mile away. Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2017 at 17:48
Slightly off topic but the other day I heard a live version of Roundabout by Yes at the grocery store. This version featured Benoit David singing.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 27 2017 at 20:36
This is the sort of thing that's always gratifying to see:

http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2017/06/25
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