Them were one of the very best R&B acts to come out of the U.K. during the British Invasion era, who were just as good, and sometimes better than their contemporaries the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the Pretty Things.
This three-disc anthology, 'The Complete Them 1964-67', billed as the most thorough collection of Van Morrison’s early studio and live performances ever assembled. The set consists of all the tracks recorded for 'The Angry Young Them' (1965) and 'Them Again' (1966) albums, plus singles, demos, live sessions, rarities and alternate takes from the period 1964-1967, many of which are previously unreleased. As you would expect, all 56 tracks across the three CDs have been remastered and the discs come with a 16-page booklet (which, I've, included) featuring new commentary on Them by Van Morrison.
Morrison - lead vocals, saxophone and harmonica
Alan
Henderson - bass
Ronnie Millings - drums
Billy Harrison - guitar and vocals)
Eric Wrixon - keyboards
Fun Fact: Them took their name from the 1954 science-fiction horror film of the same name.
To get this freeload in glorious 24bit, 96khz hi-res (trust me, you've never heard them sound so good), tell us what your favorite science-fiction horror film is.
Most of my life my favorite was "Them" followed closely by "Invaders From Mars", the original 1953 version. Nowadays my favorite is probably the 1982 version of "The Thing" with Kurt Russell. Lately I've been watching all things Bruce Campbell. Evil Dead/Army of Darkness, Brisco County Jr, etc.
ReplyDeleteOnce, with the help of the local library, I got 3 versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The first 2 were good. The 3rd, the most recent, actually had a happy ending.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't for me but my kids hid under the seat when we took them to movies to see ET! Loved Them from very first time I heard them on radio.Back then they were number one for me.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite Them song: Mystic Eyes
DeleteFor pure campiness, Plan 9 from Outer Space.
ReplyDeleteAlien. I hear the argument for Aliens, but for sheer original shock value it has to be the first, with its unforgettable nightmare design by H.R. "Pufnstuf" Giger, the official portrait artist of the Swiss subconscious.
ReplyDeleteThey really are different genres. Both are excellent representatives of theirs. Alien for horror, Aliens for action.
DeleteQuatermass and The Pit
ReplyDeleteThe Thing and Alien, that last one really showed me what spaceships should look like and it's monster was HR Giger at his best, it scared the Hell out of me at the time.
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When I was around 10 or 11, my older brother took me to see The Fly at a Saturday matinee in downtown Brooklyn. The "Help me! Help me!” scene freaked me out.
ReplyDelete‘Alien’ is my favorite.
Has anyone seen ‘Shin Godzilla’? It’s more than worth watching.
Waiting for the latest Godzilla, Year Zero or whatever it's called. That's had good reviews.
DeleteInvaders From Mars (1953) is the childhood favorite, Alien the modern choice and the scene Babs mentions from The Fly remains one of the most disturbing scenes in cinema.
ReplyDeleteThe Day The Earth Stood Still (1954 version--not the remake from a few years back)
ReplyDeleteInstead of naming one of the usual suspects, I'll choose "Lifeforce" (1985), Tobe Hooper's delirious over-the-top London-set space vampire epic. It flopped hard at the box office, but remains a not-at-all-guilty pleasure.
ReplyDeleteI saw that! I don't remember it well but I remember that it was pretty cool.
DeleteIt also has copious full-body nudity from Mathilda May, a not inconsiderate part of its cult status.
DeleteSpace vampires in London? Sounds fab - thanks, Corky!
DeleteI vote with notBob for "The Day The Earth Stood Still," original version. Yes, there's dust on the bottle, but the liquor was clean.
ReplyDeleteThe Tingler - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8OrRxyWHco
ReplyDeleteObviously John Carpenter's The Thing.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing quite like it.
There's no Thing quite like it!
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Thanks for this ,Van before he lost the plot
ReplyDeleteEnjoy, exile 62!
DeleteOh and huge fan of The Fly and a shoutout for Killer Clowns from Outer Space
ReplyDeleteInvasion of the Body Snatchers both 1956 & 1978 were good. The version from 2007, not good.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot the one from 1993, Abel Ferrara trying big studio work. That one is also pretty good. The only real stinker was indeed the 2007 one (which, heresy!, got rid of "of the Bodysnatchers" to be balndly called "Invasion").
DeleteMy boss played the character Andy in that movie. He's still a character, albeit not Andy.
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Vincent Price was in both The Tingler and The Fly. He was like the king of late night TV. He was not in Killer Clowns From Outer Space.
ReplyDeleteVincent was one of a kind.
DeleteRichard Matheson wrote I Am Legend which has been made into a movie 3 times. Last Man on Earth, (With Vincent Price) , The Omega Man and I Am Legend. All three were good as was the book.
ReplyDeleteAnd a shoutout for Phantasm and all the sequels. No Vincent Price here either, but in the first film they were wearing bell bottoms.
Phans unite!
DeleteI love Phantasm! Got to see John Carpenter's The Thing on the big screen last month, just as gloriously gory and batshit crazy as ever.
DeleteI recently saw 'The Omega Man' on television as part of a Chuck Heston double feature with 'Soylent Green', both hold up really well.
DeleteSoylent Green, I used to quote from that one. Another from that time was Silent Running.
DeleteIt's fair to point out that all movies miss the point of the book (that the only human survivor, the "legend" of the title, is the real monster, as the only 'other' in a world of vampires/mutants/monsters). I loved The Omega Man when I was a kid. I Am Legend (the Will Smith one) is better than its reputation, especially the director's cut.
DeleteGood point OBG. I'd never turned it around that way. But it makes since now that it's said.
DeleteDepending on how horrible one thinks such a future might be, Terminator 2 and The Matrix are two of mine, along with the not-futuristic Don't Look Now, but if it's strictly talking monster movies, Alien gets the nod.
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Alien, no doubt about it!
ReplyDeleteThe Thing (1982), Quatermass and the Pit, and 'Alien' - taken together with the titles, sound-design, the futuristic drudgery and the Godforsaken planetoid with the alien wreck cuckoo-like, its interior akin to some unknowable civilisation's idea of a black cathedral perched on an infinite abyss, the appalling sense of remoteness, of tiny 'expendable' human lives stranded unimaginably far from home, gets my obsessive vote.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if it's Horror per se but I'll vote for the 1982 Ozsploitation dystopian thriller "Escape 2000" aka "Turkey Shoot." Freedom is obedience, obedience is work, work is life.
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