Pop Culture Roundup: Nope, MOTU, Battle of the Planets and more!
ITEM! Follow up from our report yesterday: Mos Def will mos def not be playing Thelonious Monk, after all.
ITEM! The third-best lead guitarist in the Yardbirds is cranky about COVID restrictions. Let's not get him started on immigration.
ITEM! Sarah Michelle Gellar, who is voicing Teela in the new Masters of the Universe series, didn't like the original show.
ITEM! A "Battle of the Planets" film is in the works.
ITEM! Jordan Peele is reuniting with Daniel Kaluuya for a new horror flick titled "Nope."
ITEM! Lollapalooza 2021 will be livestreamed on Hulu.
Pop Culture Roundup: Gaiman's "Anansi Boys" coming to TV; Mos Def is Thelonious; Leslie Grace is Batgirl, more!
ITEM! Mos Def will star in a biopic about legendary jazz pianist/composer Thelonious Monk.
ITEM! Neil Giamin's book "Anansi Boys" will be adapted as a TV series by Amazon.
ITEM! Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler, Berry Gordy and Lorne Michaels are among those to be honored by the Kennedy Center this year.
ITEM! Marvel is setting up a mini-studio to work on animated projects.
ITEM! "In the Heights" actress Leslie Grace will play Barbara Gordon in a new "Batgirl film."
Pop Culture Roundup: Old Batman comic predicted our horrible present reality; what's left of the Faces reunite; Mary Tyler Moore doc planned, more!
ITEM! The planned Bat-Girl film is auditioning for its star.
ITEM! Surviving members Rod Stewart, Ron Wood and Kenney Jones have reunited for a Faces album.
ITEM! A Mary Tyler Moore documentary is in the works.
Next installment of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series to cover 1980-85 - teaser video
Bob Dylan has posted a teaser video for "The Bootleg Series Vol. 16," out Sept. 17. The release will be out in 2-CD and 2-LP editions, plus an extensive 5-CD set. The collection will include unreleased tracks, outtakes, rehearsals, live recordings and more from 1980 to 1985.
We'll post more details as they arrive!
New on video this week: Flight To Mars (1951) Special Edition Blu-ray
Order now from Amazon.
Details:
From legendary producer Walter Mirisch comes Flight to Mars, a stirring adventure from the dawn of the 1950s science fiction boom. Starring Marguerite Chapman and Cameron Mitchell, filmed in gorgeous Cinecolor with costumes that are out of this world, Flight to Mars emerged from tiny Monogram Pictures like a rocket. Despite coming from one of Hollywood's smallest Poverty Row studios, it was praised in its time as ''convincingly told and absorbing.''; (The Los Angeles Times)
Five Earthlings land on Mars and are greeted by a team of friendly inhabitants. In time, the Earthlings learn that the genial welcoming party secretly covets their ship. Fearing they have depleted the key mineral used to power their life-support systems, the Martians are determined to get off their dying planet by any means necessary. Not only do the Martians intend to leave the stranded crew behind to die, but they also plan to invade and conquer Earth. The discovery of this sinister alien agenda kicks off a long round of deception and suspense. Can the space travelers outsmart these diabolical Martians? All seems lost until a female Martian scientist offers to help. Suddenly the group from Earth has a fighting chance!
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Audio Commentary by author/film historian Justin Humphreys
- Walter Mirisch: From Bomba to Body Snatchers - A new documentary short from Ballyhoo Motion Pictures
- Interstellar Travelogues: Cinema's First Space Race - A new documentary short with celebrated science fiction artist/historian Vincent Di Fate from Ballyhoo Motion Pictures
- Full color insert booklet with an essay by Don Stradley
Coming up: The Beau Brummels: Turn Around – The Complete Recordings 1964-1970
Out Oct. 29. Order now from Amazon.
Details:
With their brilliant synthesis of folk and country, baroque and roll, San Francisco’s Beau Brummels made a major and lasting contribution to the lexicon of American popular music in the mid-1960s. ‘Turn Around: The Complete Recordings 1964-1970’ is the exhaustive overview of their legacy has so long deserved; presenting the band’s classic Autumn and Warner Brothers recordings in definitive fashion.
Boasting the stellar songcraft of Ron Elliott and the unique voice of Sal Valentino, the Brummels were amongst the first American units to respond to the British Invasion with innovation rather than imitation. The group remained popular and influential in the US long after their 1965 chart successes with ‘Laugh, Laugh’ and ‘Just A Little’, and once the act had devolved to the duo of Valentino and Elliott in 1967, the Beau Brummels moved to the forefront of Warner Brothers’ late 1960s pop renaissance with the albums ‘Triangle’ and ‘Bradley’s Barn’, the latter a visionary country-rock masterpiece.
Assembled, annotated and mastered by longtime Brummels’ aficionado Alec Palao, this major refurbishment of The Beau Brummels’ catalogue leaves no stone unturned. The original stereo album masters are accompanied by a comprehensive assortment of out- takes, alternate mixes and 45 RPM versions, and are further enhanced by rarities and unreleased demos drawn from the band’s own archives.
All the members of the Brummels also contribute to the instructive and heavily- illustrated history of the recordings, housed in a deluxe, handsomely appointed booklet.
Track Listing:
DISC ONE:
INTRODUCING THE BEAU BRUMMELS
1 LAUGH, LAUGH
2 STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU BABY
3 JUST A LITTLE
4 JUST WAIT AND SEE
5 OH, LONESOME ME
6 AIN’T THAT LOVING YOU BABY
7 STICK LIKE GLUE
8 THEY’LL MAKE YOU CRY
9 THAT’S IF YOU WANT ME TO
10 I WANT MORE LOVING
11 I WOULD BE HAPPY
12 NOT TOO LONG AGO
13 JUST A LITTLE (demo)
14 LAUGH, LAUGH (demo)
15 STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU BABY (demo)
16 LOUIE LOUIE (version 1)
17 THAT’S ALL THAT MATTERS
18 WOMAN
19 AIN’T THAT LOVING YOU BABY (alternate vers.)
20 I WANT MORE LOVING (alternate mix)
21 JUST WAIT AND SEE (alternate version)
22 JUST A LITTLE (alternate version)
23 WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR LOVE (instrumental)
24 HERE I AM IN LOVE AGAIN (backing track)
25 SHE LOVES ME (backing track)
26 JUST A LITTLE (alternate backing track)
DISC TWO:
YOU TELL ME WHY/DON’T TALK TO STRANGERS: VOLUME 2
1 YOU TELL ME WHY
2 I WANT YOU
3 DOESN’T MATTER
4 THAT’S ALRIGHT
5 SOMETIME AT NIGHT
6 CAN IT BE
7 SAD LITTLE GIRL
8 WOMAN (instrumental)
9 DON’T TALK TO STRANGERS
10 I’VE NEVER KNOWN
11 WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR LOVE
12 IN GOOD TIME
13 GENTLE WAND’RIN WAYS
14 FINE WITH ME (version 1)
15 DREAM ON
16 I GROW OLD
17 I’LL TELL YOU
18 SHE SENDS ME
19 DOWN ON ME
20 THIS IS LOVE
21 CRY SOME
22 LET ME IN (version 1)
23 HEY LOVE
24 GO AWAY
25 UNDERDOG
26 ARE YOU SURE
27 SOMETIME AT NIGHT (Sal’s vocal version)
28 I GROW OLD (alternate vocal)
29 I WILL GO (backing track version 1)
30 I WILL GO (backing track version 2)
DISC THREE:
BEAU BRUMMELS ‘66
1 YOU’VE GOT TO HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY
2 MR. TAMBOURINE MAN
3 LOUIE, LOUIE (version 2)
4 HOMEWARD BOUND
5 THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING
6 YESTERDAY
7 BANG BANG (MY BABY SHOT ME DOWN)
8 HANG ON SLOOPY
9 PLAY WITH FIRE
10 WOMAN
11 MRS BROWN YOU’VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER
12 MONDAY, MONDAY
13 STAND UP
14 ONE TOO MANY MORNINGS
15 SHE REIGNS**
16 ON THE ROAD AGAIN**
17 OUT OF CONTROL**
18 GOD HELP THE TEENAGERS TONIGHT**
19 DELILAH**
20 HERE WE ARE AGAIN**
21 FINE WITH ME (version 2)**
22 LET ME IN (version 2)**
23 RON ELLIOTT – CANDLESTICKMAKER
24 RON ELLIOTT – GUITAR TALK TO ME*
25 IT AIN’T NO USE
26 SHE’S COMING (demo)
27 DON’T MAKE PROMISES
*previously unissued
** previously unissued stereo mix
DISC FOUR:
TRIANGLE
1 ARE YOU HAPPY?
2 ONLY DREAMING NOW
3 PAINTER OF WOMEN
4 THE KEEPER OF TIME
5 IT WON’T GET BETTER
6 NINE POUND HAMMER
7 MAGIC HOLLOW
8 AND I’VE SEEN HER
9 TRIANGLE
10 THE WOLF OF VELVET FORTUNE
11 OLD KENTUCKY HOME
12 GALADRIEL
13 YOU AND I
14 TWO DAYS ‘TIL TOMORROW
15 LIFT ME**
16 ELEVATORS aka LOWER LEVEL (alternate version)* 17 ANOTHER (demo)
18 I LOVE YOU MAMA (demo)
19 HAPPINESS IS FUNNY aka BITTERSWEET (version 1)*
20 GALADRIEL (demo)
21 LIFT ME (alternate take) 22 ANOTHER (alternate demo)
23 I LOVE YOU MAMA (version 1 – master) 24 BITTERSWEET
25 LIONEL REEVES & STELLA PARKER – 42ND STREET
26 TRIANGLE (alternate vocal)* 27 GLASS (backing track)
*previously unissued
** previously unissued stereo mix
DISC FIVE:
BRADLEY’S BARN
1 TURN AROUND
2 AN ADDED ATTRACTION (COME AND SEE ME)
3 DEEP WATER
4 LONG WALKING DOWN TO MISERY
5 LITTLE BIRD
6 CHEROKEE GIRL
7 I’M A SLEEPER
8 THE LONELIEST MAN IN TOWN
9 LOVE CAN FALL A LONG WAY DOWN
10 JESSICA
11 BLESS YOU CALIFORNIA
12 TAN OAK TREE
13 ANOTHER
14 JUST A LITTLE BIT OF LOVIN’
15 I’LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT
16 BLACK CROW
17 HIGH THERE
18 I LOVE YOU MAMA (version 2)
19 DEEP WATER (alternate version)
20 JESSICA (alternate version)
21 LONG BLACK VEIL
22 JUST A LITTLE BIT OF LOVIN’ (demo)
23 I’LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT (alternate take)
24 LOVE CAN FALL A LONG WAY DOWN (alternate mix)
25 A LITTLE AT A TIME – Sal Valentino
26 HOME OF THE BLUES – Sal Valentino
DISC SIX:
THE AUTUMN DEMO SESSION
1 I WILL GO
2 THAT’S ALRIGHT (demo version)
3 LONELY MAN aka NO LONELIER MAN
4 SHE’S MY GIRL
5 IT’S SO NICE
6 YOU DON’T WANT MY LOVE*
7 NEWS
8 CAN IT BE (demo)
9 PITY THE FOOL
10 LOVE IS JUST A GAME
11 WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR LOVE (demo version 1)*
12 TALK TO ME
13 IT SOUNDS LIKE RAIN*
14 LOWDOWN*
15 HOW MANY TIMES
16 SHE LOVES ME
17 BROWN EYES*
18 SAD LITTLE GIRL (demo version)
19 CAN’T BE SO
20 DREAM ON (demo version)
21 DON’T DO THIS TO ME*
22 I’M ALONE AGAIN
23 SOMEDAY*
24 I WILL LOVE YOU STILL
25 HEY LOVE (demo version)
26 TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY
27 WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR LOVE (demo version 2)
28 WOMAN (demo version)
29 PEOPLE ARE CRUEL (Gold Star demo)
30 STICK LIKE GLUE (Gold Star demo)
31 STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU BABY (Gold Star demo)
32 BELIEVE ME I CAN TELL (rehearsal)*
* previously unissued
DISC SEVEN:
SAL & RON
1 THE DREAMER (home demo)
2 DON’T TALK TO STRANGERS (home demo)*
3 ONLY DREAMING NOW (demo)
4 I CANNOT HIDE
5 ON THE ROAD AGAIN (demo)
6 TILL THE DAY
7 FIND A PLACE
8 WHAT DO YOU WANT
9 SUNNY DAY RAIN*
10 LITTLE GIRL aka TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY*
11 WHERE ARE YOU
12 HAPPINESS IS FUNNY (home demo)*
13 WALKING IN THE PARK
14 IT’S GOTTA BE (home demo)*
15 FORGET IT BABE
16 THIS IS LOVE (demo)
17 NO LONELIER MAN (demo)
18 MAGIC HOLLOW (demo)
19 KILL
20 I’LL GO NOW
21 COMING HOME aka GOING HOME
22 JESSICA (home demo)
23 DARKNESS
24 CONFESSIONS
25 STAY WITH ME AWHILE
26 FINE WITH ME (home demo)*
27 I’M LEAVING YOU*
28 FRIEND OF MINE
29 WHY*
30 BEFORE DARKNESS ENDS
31 I’VE NEVER KNOWN (home demo)*
32 LOVE ME QUICK*
DISC EIGHT:
SINGLES As & Bs
1 LAUGH, LAUGH (mono promo single version)
2 STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU BABY (mono single mix)
3 JUST A LITTLE (mono single mix)
4 THEY’LL MAKE YOU CRY (mono single mix)
5 YOU TELL ME WHY (mono single mix)
6 I WANT YOU (mono single mix)
7 GENTLE WAND’RIN’ WAYS (mono single mix)
8 FINE WITH ME (version 1) (mono single mix)
9 DON’T TALK TO STRANGERS (mono single mix)
10 IN GOOD TIME (mono single mix)
11 GOOD TIME MUSIC
12 SAD LITTLE GIRL (mono single mix)
13 ONE TOO MANY MORNINGS (mono single mix)
14 SHE REIGNS (mono single mix)
15 HERE WE ARE AGAIN (mono single mix)
16 FINE WITH ME (version 2) (mono single mix)
17 TWO DAYS TIL TOMORROW (mono single edit)
18 DON’T MAKE PROMISES (mono single mix)
19 LOWER LEVEL (mono single mix)
20 MAGIC HOLLOW (mono single mix)
21 LIFT ME (mono single mix)
22 ARE YOU HAPPY? (mono single mix)
23 LONG WALKING DOWN TO MISERY (mono single mix)
24 CHEROKEE GIRL (mono single mix)
25 ALLIGATOR MAN – Sal Valentino
26 FRIENDS AND LOVERS – Sal Valentino
27 SILKIE – Sal Valentino
28 A SONG FOR ROCHELLE – Sal Valentino
Brian Wilson updates website, posts a whole mess of demos
You need to hunt a bit, but if you visit the "timeline" section of Brian's newly updated website and click on the different decades, you'll find your way to a number of previously unreleased tracks, including this one from 1995:
Watch: Trailer for Taika Waititi's "Reservation Dogs," coming to Hulu
I will watch anything this guy does...
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