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Old 08-07-2010, 01:17 AM   #46 (permalink)
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OK Harmony - view it as your challenge for the month!
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Old 08-07-2010, 01:19 AM   #47 (permalink)
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I shouldn't really be posting in this thread because I'd only give negative comments which is totally useless
your alright Sunny, lol

maybe your hoping something will excite you ?

or you just want explain why you don't like them. Plenty of styles of music I don't get ...
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Old 08-07-2010, 01:23 AM   #48 (permalink)
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OK Harmony - view it as your challenge for the month!
I may just do that. I'm going to have to probe the musical section of my mind and see if I can find something that you might like. I've already got a few in mind.
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Old 08-07-2010, 01:31 AM   #49 (permalink)
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Astrid right from an early age musicals have done nothing for me. That includes good old Mary Poppins, The Sound Of Music and Grease. I watch the movies with great interest then as soon as they burst into song I switch off

I will make an exeption for Fred and Ginger musicals. I really enjoy them for some unknown reason

Looking forward to seeing what you've got in mind Harmony!!
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I've been getting into Avenue Q recently
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Velvet Goldmine is another good modern Musical

loosely based on Bowie, Bolan and Iggy Pop of the Glitter/Glam era

great music and covers of songs /and original

omg three HOTTIES TOO

Jonathan Rys Meyers
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I've been getting into Avenue Q recently
Avenue Q is one of my favorite musicals. I saw it live a couple years ago and I must say that I thought it was better than the Godfather of musicals as we know them "The Phantom of the Opera".
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I am going to see Jersey Boys when it's in Sydney (life of Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons. I have a feeling I will enjoy it.

Start the vid below at 2.40 as there is a dickhead yapping away and doesn't know when to shut up!

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I am going to see Jersey Boys when it's in Sydney (life of Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons. I have a feeling I will enjoy it.

Start the vid below at 2.40 as there is a dickhead yapping away and doesn't know when to shut up!

lol Sunny your funny

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The British TV comedy 'Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps' did a musical edition which is more of a parody really. It's really stupid and crass, but that's why I like it However, despite this, it has a rather sad back story, about a girl who leaves her boyfriend and is thinking back to the night they met...





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Jesus Christ Superstar - My mom use to play it alot when i was a kid in the 70's, in college during the 80's a group of buddies (myself included) use to... let's just say... go crazy when any track was played at parties and on a (second) date in the 90's, I took who could have been the future Mrs. Terra out to dinner and then to see a stage performance of JCS with Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Dennis De Young as Pontius Pilate and Irene Cara as Mary Magdalene... In hind-sight I guess singing along with the show might not have been a good idea

A friend turned me on to Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera (film). You will see Gerard Butler in a whole new light... We saw it in Vegas at The Venetian and I highly recommend seeing it if you're there... the chandelier swoops down over head and everything... very cool!

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It's a low budget 45 minute show, released exclusively on the internet during the writers strike last year.

It's about an aspiring villian who is desperately trying to get into the Evil League of Evil, whilst building the confidence to ask out the girl he goes to the laundromat to see. It's got plenty of laughs, a surprisingly good plot and story, and great music too.

Here's the trailer:

And the website:

Dr. Horrible
I've watched "Dr. Horrible..." since you posted this, Sal, and I think it was amazing. Neil Patrick Harris was absolutely fantastic and it made me laugh tons before that tragic ending that totally blindsided me.



And how about a musical that hasn't gotten mentioned yet (which is a crying shame)...



On a forum that loves the Beatles so much you would have thought that Across the Universe would have been one of the first to be brought up in this thread. Admittedly, I like some of the songs from this film more than the originals.

Come Together (feat. Joe Cocker)


Helter Skelter

(incidentally these two are my favorite versions of these songs period.)

Oh! Darling


Happiness Is A Warm Gun

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^I agree with you Cosmic, there are some songs in that movie that were a bit or much better than the originals. Specifically Hey Jude



Don't get me wrong, I love the original, The Beatles did a fantastic job, but idk, I just like this version a lot more.
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Their cover of "Hey Jude" makes excellent use of that borderline a cappela intro that several of the songs in the movie have ("Girl", "All You Need Is Love", "Let It Be", etc). It's not one of the songs that I like more than the original but I like it do love it still, probably mainly because the guy that plays Max is my favorite singer/character in the movie.

One thing about "Hey Jude" though is that 3 and a half minutes of Nahs in the original is something I always teeter back and forth on. On one hand it's like the sounds of a celebration and is such a simple anthem that anyone can chime in with but on the otherhand to have half of a seven minute song be made up entirely of Nahs seem very pompous to me....So for the Across the Universe cover I like that they trim the fat (for lack of a more appropriate term coming to mind at the moment) but I can't honestly say I prefer it to the original.
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^That's one thing I tend to go back and forth on as well. I like the "nahs" in the original version, but it was refreshing to hear the song with that cut down a bit. That's probably what made me like it a bit more. I've listened to the Beatles version all the way through, with all the "nahs" and everything like...5 times I think. But i've listened to it a lot more than that but just skipped to the next song when it got to that part.
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