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Everything Else / Re: Dario Argento and others thrillers/horror movies directors

« Last post by cthulhu on December 04, 2025, 08:32:53 AM »

I had a wonderful cineastic experience two months ago, for the first time i saw They Live! on the big screen. Wow! I have seen this movie many times, i wouldn't say it's the best John Carpenter movie, because almost all of his films i find very good, but They Live! is a very special movie on its own. Like carpenter said, it was intended as a documentary and commentary on the reagan area and his approach was very documentary stile. They used real locations, real people in the streets while the actors moved around them and there is so much creativity in it and its filmed beautifully..raw and gripping. To see this on the big screen was very special.

Also i saw the original Robocop, like two years ago for the first time in a cinema and it was also a new experience while having seen this one many, many times before.

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Everything Else / Re: Your dream NMA setlist...

« Last post by cthulhu on December 04, 2025, 08:19:20 AM »

My last shows i went to were in berlin, the wonderful, wonderful, tears raising emotionaly musicaly show with the Sinfonia Leipzig after the period of lockdowns and then the sweaty, wild dancing and celebrating one in the small club SO36...
Haven't been following live sets after that, i don't know and don't want to expect a special setlist for my next one in amsterdam, but here we go

Roumor & Rapture
Eyes Get Used To The Darkness
Guessing
Winter
Seven Times
Orange Tree Roads
Wipeout
Poison Street
No Rest
Language
First Summer After
Never Arriving
Setting Sun
Where I Am
Born Feral

Ocean Rising
Lights Go Out
Ballad

Ballad of Bodmin Pill
Purity
Whirlwind

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Everything Else / Re: Michael Mann

« Last post by cthulhu on December 04, 2025, 07:57:41 AM »

I finally watched The Keep recently and it was fantastic! Been searching for a bluray version since you mentioned it here and i found a spanish edition. Fun fact: a friend of mine is a friend of the manager of Tangerine Dream. I read that Michael Mann is not satisfied with the version due to financial shortcuts and his vision was a much longer version of the film and that much material he shot has not made it to the final cut/theatrical version.

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New Model Army / Re: Is anyone else surprised that this Forum is still going?

« Last post by cthulhu on December 04, 2025, 07:25:24 AM »

Old and weathered these mountains
Worn and rounded their shoulders
Smooth under our soles
Become hard like the stone

I watch you steeling yourself against the fear
For there’s always been something else that really drives you
We have energy left to burn, we still have it all to come
There’s a long list of things for us in the glowing morning
....
The best things are good to touch but never take hold of
If we can forgive ourselves then we must forgive the others
The seasons will always return when they’re ready
Like people will always come round when they’re ready....

...don't ask me where i've been...i couldn't tell you without risking to be prosecuted here in germany...
found a tribe found a family of individuals...we tried to build our own community, tried to be self-sufficient...
but the system doesn't like this attitude and will furiously act with full force upon those who dare not to obey...
that i had to learn again the hard way

And everything laid before us now, nothing to conceal
I’m going back to the Nature Gods, the only thing that’s real
And yes I heard the voices raised, I heard all the words you were saying
It sounds just like everything sounds, the sound of something praying...

And yes...let's keep this forum going...

anyone want to meet up in amsterdam?

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New Model Army / Re: Is anyone else surprised that this Forum is still going?

« Last post by Winterwulf on December 02, 2025, 08:34:35 PM »

On the official NMA forum, you can find old threads, update them, and search for information—it's very convenient. While there aren't many of us on the forum, anyone interested in the band can always visit and find interesting things to read about NMA by browsing the topics. It's almost like having a book about the band, with all this information available here.

Definitely, and as an antisocial media refusenik, online forums are my location of choice. Keep this place going, even if it isn't busy

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New Model Army / Re: Is anyone else surprised that this Forum is still going?

« Last post by Guillaume on December 02, 2025, 04:00:31 PM »

And many other bands scrapped their official Forums years ago, just directing the fans to the usual social media sites

I check The Stranglers official forum from time to time, and it seems to be relatively active; there are even some nice things written about NMA on that forum:

https://www.themeninblack.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20547&hilit=new+model+army

https://www.themeninblack.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=24660&hilit=new+model+army

https://www.themeninblack.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23263&hilit=new+model+army


Thought the NMA drummer is the best I’ve ever seen/heard.
An absolute power house.

Yes, I too was at the Ritz last night. Yes, Micheal Dean is an absolute powerhouse. Mind you Rob Heaton was brilliant when I saw them in the 80s. Another great live drummer is Big Paul Ferguson from Killing Joke.

Wasn't Justin great last night? 69 years old and never faltered. He look tired but gave it his all as usual. The only remaining original of NMA, but as far as I am convinced they are still NMA.


( It makes me think I should check out the official forums of U2 and The Clash , as NMA was compared to these two bands in its early days (at least by the french critics), so there must be some topics about NMA on those forums! 

A quiet forum is not a dead forum, I'll take it.

I agree. And the band will almost certainly record a new album next year, their 16th, so that will make for some cool new topics on this forum to read in 2026, like "What are your three favorite songs from the 16th album?"   

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New Model Army / Re: Is anyone else surprised that this Forum is still going?

« Last post by fiddlesticks on December 02, 2025, 02:47:38 PM »

It's not very mobile - friendly, which probably doesn't help these days.

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New Model Army / Re: Is anyone else surprised that this Forum is still going?

« Last post by Gaijin on December 01, 2025, 09:37:46 PM »

The band are not Duran Duran. They may not get the press we feel they deserve but they do release quality music more often.

A quiet forum is not a dead forum, I'll take it.

In fact, I can remember a time when there was no forum. I'd rather not go backwards.







 

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New Model Army / Re: Is anyone else surprised that this Forum is still going?

« Last post by Master Ray on December 01, 2025, 08:31:03 PM »

Ahh close it down; it's a dead stick, obsolete, a thing of the past. I remember checking it every couple of hours 13 years ago; now you could check it every couple of months and have less to look through. Things change; people move on, die, do other things. Such is life.

Gotta agree.

There a rock pub / club in my old hometown, a two level venue where you could just go for a drink or see a band and it was the finest place I ever went to to drink, dance, laugh and everything else you could expect from a place like that.  Built in a lovely old chapel and it became so popular that the BBC did a documentary about it.  Countless great memories, heck, I practically lived in it for a few years!  It closed in 2010, it was supposed to be turned into flats but the planning permission was denied and now it's a rotting old structure that could fall down at any minute.

That's how I feel about this place nowadays, sad though it is to say it.  Someone posted something shortly after Covid asking where the old crowd were and it got some responses from those folks.  But those same folks didn't bother much after that.  I've tried to pump some life back into it (as have you, Shush) but it's a bit of a slog...

I'll be here as long as the rest of you are.  But, as Shush said, it's a thing of the past nowadays.   

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Everything Else / Re: what songs are you listening to RIGHT NOW

« Last post by Master Ray on December 01, 2025, 08:13:10 PM »

Having a YouTube David Bowie night. In terms of mass-market music, is there anyone better than Bowie? If you like disco, pop, rock, or alternative, then you like a bit of Bowie. For me personally, there are only two artists that I like as much now as I did when I first discovered music as a young lad, buying discounted singles in the cheap bin in Woolworths, and Bowie was one of um. Just gone through a few faves – Little Wonder, Loving the Aliens, and Jump, to name but a few. You can't go wrong!!!

Bowie has too many great songs to mention and he made some damn fine videos as well. 

Some under-rated songs with videos... Time Will Crawl, I'm Afraid Of Americans, Strangers When We Meet, Thursdays Child  and one I'm going to post the video for (because it's brilliant and Gary Oldman is in it) The Next Day...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wL9NUZRZ4I