GASP! Bite your tongue!

I cannot fathom any movie being better than the Princess Bride, which is my all time favorite movie…well…maybe after “The Big Sleep” (Bogie and Bacall…rowr!).

“I’m not left-handed!”

Anyway, Real Genius was an awesome movie! Probably my favorite Val Kilmer movie.

The first two or three albums, their BBC Sessions (Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones) and their 1992 record My Mind’s Eye are the most heavily revered. Their debut, Waiting for a Miracle, features really nervy, tense, slightly hesitant post-punk pop. Sleep No More follows it up with something darker and more compelling that might take the average listener a bit more to sink into. The production’s astounding — and almost every review of this record will note that the drums were recorded on an elevator landing with microphones placed at different points along the elevator — and it’s aged really well. On Fiction, they lighten up a bit and get a bit sentimental and maudlin at certain points (the lovely “After the Rain” and “Pictures”, the mediocre “Birdman”) and parts of it hint at the synth-pop direction they veered toward on Land and 7-Day Weekend (where “I’m Falling” is culled from). The band ended up dismissing those two records and regarded their next one, Chasing Shadows, as the fourth album that they should’ve made. They changed their name to Dream Command for a brief period of time because of legal annoyances in America from a company firmly entrenched in the military-industrial complex and made another record that was pretty reviled. They returned a bit to their roots with My Mind’s Eye, which sounded a bit like what should’ve been the follow-up to Sleep No More and probably could be played side by side with Catherine Wheel’s Ferment (although it’s not quite as shoegazy and there’s more poppier moments) and continued in a similar direction on their final album, The Glamour.

My favorite 80′s movie. Better even than the Cusack trilogy and the Princess Bride.