Week One: The 3 EPs by The Beta Band
Picked by: Madtown
Discussion starts: Wednesday, June 13th
Band description: The Beta Band were a Scottish musical group who received much critical acclaim and have achieved cult status amongst avid followers of the underground and experimental music scene. Their style was described as being folk hop, a blend of folk, rock, trip hop, and experimental jamming.
Album description:
The Three EPs is a compilation of The Beta Band's first three releases, consisting of the EPs
Champion Versions,
The Patty Patty Sound and
Los Amigos del Beta Bandidos. Leadoff track "Dry the Rain" featured prominently in a scene in the film High Fidelity (based on the Nick Hornby novel of the same name), released in late March 2000. In the film, a record store owner played by John Cusack mentions the band by name ("I will now sell five copies of The Three EPs by The Beta Band") and plays a minute or so of the song.
Week Two: Time Bandits
Picked by: chuckleslovakian
Discussion starts: Wednesday, June 20th
Short description:
Time Bandits is a fantasy film, produced and directed by Terry Gilliam (who created animations for Monty Python's Flying Circus). Gilliam wrote the screenplay with fellow Python alumnus Michael Palin, who appears with Shelley Duvall in the small, recurring roles of Vincent and Pansy.
Synopsis: Kevin, an imaginative child, goes on a time-travelling adventure with a bunch of treasure-hunting dwarves, who have "borrowed" a map to the Universe's time holes from The Supreme Being.