The Mighty Musical Observations Thread

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Wolter wrote:
16 May 2020, 6:21pm
I find it absolutely baffling that T&J would be considered anything more than workmanlike.
It definitely falters by not having snappy dialogue, but it’s so gloriously violent that it’s hard to look away. I mean Itchy and Scratchy is only slightly more edgy overall.
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Wolter wrote:
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I find it absolutely baffling that T&J would be considered anything more than workmanlike.
I find it baffling that you find it baffling. The first result after a quick search for "best cartoons ever" turned up a poll on Ranker with Tom and Jerry at the top. I know popular opinion isn't always correct but I doubt something workmanlike would be so beloved by millions. I think it just depends on what you were exposed to as a child, I would find it baffling that anyone would vote for SpongeBob Square Pants.
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Heston wrote:
17 May 2020, 12:09am
Wolter wrote:
16 May 2020, 6:21pm
I find it absolutely baffling that T&J would be considered anything more than workmanlike.
I find it baffling that you find it baffling. The first result after a quick search for "best cartoons ever" turned up a poll on Ranker with Tom and Jerry at the top. I know popular opinion isn't always correct but I doubt something workmanlike would be so beloved by millions. I think it just depends on what you were exposed to as a child, I would find it baffling that anyone would vote for SpongeBob Square Pants.
I grew up obsessed with cartoons from the 40s and 50s, and these cartoons just didn’t do it for me. Perfectly fine, but they used to win Oscar after Oscar for best animated short and...I never saw it.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
16 May 2020, 6:29pm
Marky Dread wrote:
16 May 2020, 6:22pm
But I love the Hanna & Barbera stuff way more. Such brilliant characters.
I've noticed that in the last couple months, I've found justification (well, opportunity) to quote Flintstones dialogue (The Boss was baffled when I started saying, "Walking. Waving. Walking. Waving." So I had to find the clip.). Growing up, my parents house was two blocks away from my school, so I always went home at lunchtime, and the CTV channel usually ran the Flintstones at noon, which I'd watch while eating a sandwich or a bowl of soup. That was such a constant of my childhood.
Before my father sadly died in 1970 he had painted Yogi Bear, Boo Boo & Huckleberry Hound on my bedroom wall. We had a cine projector with a Yogi (Huckleberry Hound Show) cartoon reel that we warched over and over. I loved it.

My step-father papered over it later when it was decided my bedroom needed a make over. I was gutted it felt like the last part of my dad going.

I still use the Snaggletooth "Heavens to Murgatroyd" and "It's a funky phantom, even!" phrases today amongst certain friends.
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Marky Dread wrote:
17 May 2020, 5:05am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
16 May 2020, 6:29pm
Marky Dread wrote:
16 May 2020, 6:22pm
But I love the Hanna & Barbera stuff way more. Such brilliant characters.
I've noticed that in the last couple months, I've found justification (well, opportunity) to quote Flintstones dialogue (The Boss was baffled when I started saying, "Walking. Waving. Walking. Waving." So I had to find the clip.). Growing up, my parents house was two blocks away from my school, so I always went home at lunchtime, and the CTV channel usually ran the Flintstones at noon, which I'd watch while eating a sandwich or a bowl of soup. That was such a constant of my childhood.
Before my father sadly died in 1970 he had painted Yogi Bear, Boo Boo & Huckleberry Hound on my bedroom wall. We had a cine projector with a Yogi (Huckleberry Hound Show) cartoon reel that we warched over and over. I loved it.

My step-father papered over it later when it was decided my bedroom needed a make over. I was gutted it felt like the last part of my dad going.

I still use the Snaggletooth "Heavens to Murgatroyd" and "It's a funky phantom, even!" phrases today amongst certain friends.
What a wonderful memory of childhood. There's something simple but intensely personal and relational to it all. As awful as it was to be wallpapered over, I wonder, in retrospect, if that act has preserved the memory as more dear some five decades later, rather than if the wall slowly lost its lustre as you got older and developed other interests.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
17 May 2020, 6:22am
Marky Dread wrote:
17 May 2020, 5:05am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
16 May 2020, 6:29pm
Marky Dread wrote:
16 May 2020, 6:22pm
But I love the Hanna & Barbera stuff way more. Such brilliant characters.
I've noticed that in the last couple months, I've found justification (well, opportunity) to quote Flintstones dialogue (The Boss was baffled when I started saying, "Walking. Waving. Walking. Waving." So I had to find the clip.). Growing up, my parents house was two blocks away from my school, so I always went home at lunchtime, and the CTV channel usually ran the Flintstones at noon, which I'd watch while eating a sandwich or a bowl of soup. That was such a constant of my childhood.
Before my father sadly died in 1970 he had painted Yogi Bear, Boo Boo & Huckleberry Hound on my bedroom wall. We had a cine projector with a Yogi (Huckleberry Hound Show) cartoon reel that we warched over and over. I loved it.

My step-father papered over it later when it was decided my bedroom needed a make over. I was gutted it felt like the last part of my dad going.

I still use the Snaggletooth "Heavens to Murgatroyd" and "It's a funky phantom, even!" phrases today amongst certain friends.
What a wonderful memory of childhood. There's something simple but intensely personal and relational to it all. As awful as it was to be wallpapered over, I wonder, in retrospect, if that act has preserved the memory as more dear some five decades later, rather than if the wall slowly lost its lustre as you got older and developed other interests.
Yeah you are probably correct. But through my child's eyes it felt like a betrayal and caused resentment. But the bedroom needed decorating. The good part was when it was in need of re-doing I would scrape that section of wall to see it was still there.
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Marky Dread wrote:
17 May 2020, 12:21pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
17 May 2020, 6:22am
Marky Dread wrote:
17 May 2020, 5:05am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
16 May 2020, 6:29pm
Marky Dread wrote:
16 May 2020, 6:22pm
But I love the Hanna & Barbera stuff way more. Such brilliant characters.
I've noticed that in the last couple months, I've found justification (well, opportunity) to quote Flintstones dialogue (The Boss was baffled when I started saying, "Walking. Waving. Walking. Waving." So I had to find the clip.). Growing up, my parents house was two blocks away from my school, so I always went home at lunchtime, and the CTV channel usually ran the Flintstones at noon, which I'd watch while eating a sandwich or a bowl of soup. That was such a constant of my childhood.
Before my father sadly died in 1970 he had painted Yogi Bear, Boo Boo & Huckleberry Hound on my bedroom wall. We had a cine projector with a Yogi (Huckleberry Hound Show) cartoon reel that we warched over and over. I loved it.

My step-father papered over it later when it was decided my bedroom needed a make over. I was gutted it felt like the last part of my dad going.

I still use the Snaggletooth "Heavens to Murgatroyd" and "It's a funky phantom, even!" phrases today amongst certain friends.
What a wonderful memory of childhood. There's something simple but intensely personal and relational to it all. As awful as it was to be wallpapered over, I wonder, in retrospect, if that act has preserved the memory as more dear some five decades later, rather than if the wall slowly lost its lustre as you got older and developed other interests.
Yeah you are probably correct. But through my child's eyes it felt like a betrayal and caused resentment. But the bedroom needed decorating. The good part was when it was in need of re-doing I would scrape that section of wall to see it was still there.
Oh god, yes, at the time I would have been beyond distraught. There's something cinematic and touching about the idea of you removing parts of the wallpaper to see that it was still there, like a metaphor that your dad was still with you. That kind of scene would put a lump in my throat.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
17 May 2020, 12:57pm
Marky Dread wrote:
17 May 2020, 12:21pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
17 May 2020, 6:22am
Marky Dread wrote:
17 May 2020, 5:05am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
16 May 2020, 6:29pm


I've noticed that in the last couple months, I've found justification (well, opportunity) to quote Flintstones dialogue (The Boss was baffled when I started saying, "Walking. Waving. Walking. Waving." So I had to find the clip.). Growing up, my parents house was two blocks away from my school, so I always went home at lunchtime, and the CTV channel usually ran the Flintstones at noon, which I'd watch while eating a sandwich or a bowl of soup. That was such a constant of my childhood.
Before my father sadly died in 1970 he had painted Yogi Bear, Boo Boo & Huckleberry Hound on my bedroom wall. We had a cine projector with a Yogi (Huckleberry Hound Show) cartoon reel that we warched over and over. I loved it.

My step-father papered over it later when it was decided my bedroom needed a make over. I was gutted it felt like the last part of my dad going.

I still use the Snaggletooth "Heavens to Murgatroyd" and "It's a funky phantom, even!" phrases today amongst certain friends.
What a wonderful memory of childhood. There's something simple but intensely personal and relational to it all. As awful as it was to be wallpapered over, I wonder, in retrospect, if that act has preserved the memory as more dear some five decades later, rather than if the wall slowly lost its lustre as you got older and developed other interests.
Yeah you are probably correct. But through my child's eyes it felt like a betrayal and caused resentment. But the bedroom needed decorating. The good part was when it was in need of re-doing I would scrape that section of wall to see it was still there.
Oh god, yes, at the time I would have been beyond distraught. There's something cinematic and touching about the idea of you removing parts of the wallpaper to see that it was still there, like a metaphor that your dad was still with you. That kind of scene would put a lump in my throat.
If I wasn't the hard mother fucker I am I would have been crying at Marky's initial post. Jesus Im glad you were able to not hate the guy.

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Not to swerve to music, but how did I miss this? https://www.hollywood.com/general/the-d ... -60733108/
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Forty years ago today, Ian Curtis made his choice. Peter Hook is streaming the concert from five years ago where he and his band played every JD song. The album is fantastic.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/peter-ho ... nt-2668540
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Wolter wrote:
17 May 2020, 4:23pm
Not to swerve to music, but how did I miss this? https://www.hollywood.com/general/the-d ... -60733108/
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Those local newspapers...

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Every other god damn photo of the Big Bopper he's on a stupid telephone. I get it, "hellooooo baby", but it makes for a lot of dumb photos relative to his other dead plane riders.
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Every other god damn photo of the Big Bopper he's on a stupid telephone. I get it, "hellooooo baby", but it makes for a lot of dumb photos relative to his other dead plane riders.
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matedog wrote:
21 May 2020, 9:55am
Every other god damn photo of the Big Bopper he's on a stupid telephone. I get it, "hellooooo baby", but it makes for a lot of dumb photos relative to his other dead plane riders.
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