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Everything Else / Re: Movies that make you grin, smile or laugh out loud...

« Last post by Winterwulf on February 08, 2026, 08:31:30 PM »

Thinking about cult comedy films with great soundtracks, there's one comes to mind - "Restless Natives".  Great Scottish film from the mid-1980s, quite a few well--known actors with cameos in it (Billy Connoly, Mel Smith, and Bernard Hill)  with a wonderful soundtrack from Big Country, but thanks to legal squabbles over the rights it was all but impossible to find for years. I think it has finally had a DVD release though!!

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New Model Army / Re: Eggheads, 16/11

« Last post by MickC on February 08, 2026, 07:31:24 PM »

On this subject can anyone confirm that the right wing gobshite UK shock jock Nick Ferrari was at a New Model Army gig in London a few years ago. My sister heard him talking about being in the mosh pit. I try to avoid listening to pricks like him and he seems such an unlikely NMA fan.

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New Model Army / Re: The Love of Hopeless Causes 30th

« Last post by MickC on February 08, 2026, 06:40:33 PM »

Thanks for all of your replies. I’ve heard most of the songs from B-sides and abandoned tracks but I somehow thought there were other songs unheard. Knife is the one song I’m not acquainted with so I’ll look for that one.

 I’m glad I’ve given you lot something to chat about. Please keep the NMA family informed.

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Everything Else / Re: Sami National Day 6th Feb

« Last post by cthulhu on February 08, 2026, 04:38:13 PM »

I also got a little european tribal background, i would say. My parents are "Siebenbürger Sachsen", located in Transsylvania Rumania and they fled the communist regime at that time. They speak a dialect and romanian and i can understand that dialect but not talk it. Of course they can also talk hochdeutsch=german. We had some struggles in the past because of my rebellion, my youthful rebellion, against the "system"  and i have not a big knowledge about Siebenbürgen. But i can feel the difference and this theme interested me more and more with age.

Here's a foto of some traditional clothing:


Well, let me say i wouldn't really now want to dress like that, but it has a meaning and roots and i also really don't like/hate to wear a suit and tie, which was required for me in this society from time to time...

I think the future lies in reconnecting with these tribal structures of society, having a knowledge and traditions that are grounded and passed on from generation to generation through hundreds and also thousands of years. Adapting yes, but not at the cost of loosing identity.

Want to post a picture here to illustrate some thoughts behind my thoughts;-)




Ok, picture is not sharp but it says:

Ancestors in 300 years and 11 Generations
The powerful force of your ancestors

For you being there it needs:
    2 Parents
    4 Grandparents
    8 Great-Grandgrandparents
   16 Great-Great-Grandparents
   32 Great-Great-Great-Grandparents
   64 Hexa-Grandparents
 128 Penta-Grandparents
 256 Hexa-Grandparents
 512 Octa-Grandparents
1024 Enea-Grandparents
2048 Deca-Grandparents 

The sum of the last 11 Generations makes 4094 Ancestors and all that in about 300 years.

Wow, think about this tremendous force and become aware of your own potential, which stands behind you, strenghtens your back and is available to you.
Source: Stefanie Schlitt

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New Model Army / Re: The Love of Hopeless Causes 30th

« Last post by cthulhu on February 08, 2026, 03:50:03 PM »

Ah, ok..so you compared the waveforms or did you listen to it concurrently? Anyways..the question remains: what are the original lyrics?.....

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

« Last post by cthulhu on February 08, 2026, 03:41:06 PM »

Now, that's cool! Like our collector minds got the same wished for item simultaniously....and now i hope you don't also suffer a little nervous breakdown, because of this subtitle situation thing.  Please tell me how you deal with it or what is going on with that edition. I find it really disturbing to have to watch a movie with subtitles i don't want to and even more, if i cannot read and understand them. I wish you a great experience with that movie...

Frankenheimer movies i already have are: Grand Prix, The Holcroft Covenant, The Train, Seven Days in May, The Fourth War, Ronin and i found them all to be brilliant!...and on my wishlist are 52 Pick-Up, Seconds, French Connection II, and i want to see Prophecy from 1979! though it seems to be a bad one..and now i'll have to add Year of the Gun and Gypsy Moths..

..and btw..i just had a call with my friend and we have a date with the Tangerine Dream guy...next weekend..

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

« Last post by Guillaume on February 07, 2026, 09:09:14 PM »

cthulhu:

WOW!!! Great minds think alike! I bought the french Blu-ray you just posted the cover of, yesterday at the Cultura store in my small town! I have fond memories of BLACK SUNDAY, but I saw it on VHS 15 or 20 years ago, so I bought this beautiful Blu-ray edition yesterday. I remember it as a tense film, and I can't wait to rediscover it in a better copy than my old awful looking Pan & Scan VHS! There are quite a few John Frankenheimer films that I really like:

"Year of the Gun," "Gypsy Moths," "French Connection II," "52 Pick-Up," "Grand Prix," "The Fourth War," "Ronin"... he was a great director, gifted in action films but also in more intimate works. Only his last theatrical film, "Reindeer Games," really disappointed me at the time.

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New Model Army / Re: The Love of Hopeless Causes 30th

« Last post by Gaijin on February 07, 2026, 01:39:39 PM »

Wow, thanks a lot, very good sources of information. And i checked out the link with the resales, but i won't go for it. I was more curious about the release but the site you linked seems like a very good organized place, if you search for something. Never been to Discogs before. Very cool feature, that you can choose the country of an offer. For Germany there is one CD available, abou 12€ including shipping, but for GB there are even more cheaper ones available, for a shipping to germany you must include VAT.

I put the Tales of the Road and the Ocean Rising live recordings of Drummy B into a DAW side-by-side for comparison.

What is a DAW?

DAW = Digital Audio Workstation

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Everything Else / Re: Sami National Day 6th Feb

« Last post by Rusco on February 07, 2026, 09:20:35 AM »

I'm don't belong to Sami, I am from Savonian descent. But my ex girlfriend studied a lot of folklore of other Fenno-Ugrian cultures. And my mom was working in Finnish Literature Society so there's been a bit of influence I admit.

In the history Finns were hunter gatherers and there was a divide of people into tribes depending on where they lived. which were notably Tavastians, Karelian, Savonian, Ostrobothnian, Lapp, Sami, and the west coasters. There are still some difference between them and traditions, art and handcrafts are still present somehow to this day. Thousands of years ago the Sami were said to inhabit also southern parts of Finland and due to some sources they were assumed to mix also with Karelians in the east that may have been the origins of Savonian tribe at first. Then the Sami have moved to north.

Apart Sami, of course nowadays people don't talk about tribes anymore and the system is loosely tied with ways of living. But many people still excercise hunting and gathering, do handcrafts and some start up firms selling goods etc.

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

« Last post by cthulhu on February 07, 2026, 08:54:32 AM »

I saw another great old political thriller:

Black Sunday - by John Frankenheimer, 1977

First i have to rant a little, this also would fit in the what pisses me off section...
This one has been a long time on my wanted list, but the prices were really high for me, ranging from 40€-60€ for the bluray, but i really wanted to see this one, because all the Frankenheimer movies i saw were fantastic. So i finally decided to go for a seemingly great French edition of that movie, considering that it contains one bluray and two dvds with some interesting extras and a really wonderful 52page booklet i decided to go for it for about 33€.
It arrived yesterday and i was totally looking forward to it, the booklet is great, but of course in french, that sucks a little, knowing there must be some interesting background information in there but can't read it.

So i started the movie, you could choose between original and the french version, original also having a 5.1 mix besides the stereo, but....you cannot choose to watch it without subtitles! And the subtitles are french or breton. I almost flipped out. You have to choose which version you want to see in the main menue and cannot change the language while watching. You have to go back to the main menue and choose the other version. So i did that many times, changing the sound, language and couln't believe that you cannot choose not to have subtitles. I tried the dvd version, but here the same. I did some encoding of dvds and made some menues and i know that you can turn those things on and off and sometimes it's just a lazy layout, no ways implemented to change the language, disabling the skip button for advertisments before the movie, etc..
So i don't know what the heck has ridden these people putting out such a great edition of that great movie, but disabling to see it in the orignal version. There maybe can be some licence trouble behind that, but then just leave it..or it's a french thing, watching englisch movies with subtiles and also leaving out englisch subtitles..i don't get it and i'm not amused.
I will have to rip that movie and get rid of the subtitles, they just suck your concentration for the movie and distract your view.

Now about the movie: it's great!
Almost 2,5hours but not a second boring. Great story development, great characters and acting and a fantastic direction of Frankenheimer again, having sometimes the feeling of a documentary.

Here the french edition: