AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Post bands, songs, comics, websites, shows, toys, etc. that you feel need to be more popular.
I think The Spinto Band needs more love. They have an awesome indie sound and it's hard to get their songs out of your head. Here's my personal favorite song, Summer Grof, accompanied with an amusing video of the band getting hit in the face with various objects.

Led Zeppelin doesn't get enough love.

Zeppelin is p obscure man

Have you ever heard of The Beatles?

they're those austrian cunts right

arent the beatles like beathoven's grandkids or something

You guys ever heard of Fetus Eater? Its an obscure punk band that existed for a week in 1978, I love the one and a half song they made.

Metropolis is one of my favorite movies but it's pretty rare for me to find someone who knows of it.

The super restored version is up on netflix and it looks like the whole film is up on youtube though I have no idea about the quality.

I've also been meaning to see Hausu for a while

It's been described to me as weird japanese Jaws.

Who doesnt atleast know of Metropolis? Its one of the most influential works of western cinema

I always feel like a hipster when I talk to people...cause most of the games I play are from Japan and people I always seem to be near are lame. So I'm always saying "Oh, but you probably haven't heard of it..." I'm not even trying to be like a hipster! -pout-

Anyway, there's this old-ish (is 2001 old?) RPG for the PS2 that I really like that no one else has ever played (or at least I never hear people talking about it). It's called "Okage: Shadow King." Wikipedia page

Sound track sample:

Maybe it's still huge in europe or something but I rarely find people who know of it in canada.

I like this game alot in fact.
This is and Orphen game for PS2 were some of the first titles my dad bought for me before I started buying my own games.

The freshly restored version (with the rediscovered material from Argentina and the glorious, highly complex score by Gottfried Huppertz) was actually shown in countless non-specialist cinemas here (Germany and Austria) when it was released. Metropolis is certainly one of the less neglected masterpieces of the Weimar republic cinema - quite possibly the best-known alongside Murnau's "Nosferatu" and Wiene's "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari".

There's and other Fritz Lang movie which I feel needs more love: "Die Nibelungen" was recently restored and re-released, including a modern recording of the lushly post-Wagnerian soundtrack by the aforementioned Gottfried Huppertz (who worked as closely with Lang here as he did in Metropolis, the countless cue marks of his scores have proven an invaluable tool in restoring the original cuts of those movies): It'd be worth seeing for the score alone - if it wasn't one of the most influential and ridiculously expensive movies ever shot, a progenitor of modern fantasy movies. It's an exceptionally painterly movie that counterpoints vast, organic sets (like Etzel's hall, burned for real for the second movie's finale) with playfully ornamented Art Deco costumes. It also has the most adorably klutzy dragon in all cinema:



Sergei Eisenstein's also considered soundtracks essential to the dramaturgy of his movies and worked closely with musicians, the famous and familiar "Battleship Potemkin" loses much of its cataclysmic effect without the bleakly motoric, unabashedly modernist score of Eduard Meisel- who's shamefully underrated and under-known, I highly recommend watching "Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Großstadt" (Symphony of a Metropolis) for his brilliant score: Think of it as a 20s Koyaanisqatsi with good music and a more optimistic attitude towards civilization. Sadly there's no samples of it on youtube.

I don't deem Nosferatu a masterpiece when it systematically ripped off Dracula. It's like tracing over a work of art; yeah it might be a real good trace but it's still just copying what already exists.

Sure - and the Isenheim altar is no masterpiece because it systematically ripped off the bible. （ ¬‿¬）

And Dracula? Rips off folktales left and right, and I believe it is not above influence from contemporary horror literature either. Human culture is so played out and translating a book into a visual medium requires no creative effort whatsoever. （ ¬‿¬） （ ¬‿¬） （ ¬‿¬）