Hey, readers!
We’re upstate at Kate Pierson’s Lazy Meadow Motel (and trailer park), so we didn’t get to post about yesterday’s episode. Here’s a quick list of what you’ll find over there.
Inspired by a recent Rock Band 2 party (and our recent re-watching of Star Trek: DS9), we proudly present our favorite rock-adjacent cameos in sci fi, horror and fantasy.
As always, pick your top three, and if you think we overlooked someone, let us know in the comments. (Oh, and lest you think we forgot, honorable mention goes out to Marilyn Manson for appearing as a porn star in Lost Highway.)
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We just got our review copy of Rock Band 2, complete with wireless drum kit and guitar, or as I like to call them, Kodos-proof drum kit and guitar. It came a little late for episode 35, so watch for our review next week, and you might even recognize one or two AfterElton vloggers among our test subjects.
There happened to be a few music/gaming items in my RSS reader these past few days, so in what appears to now be a quasi-weekly thing, I offer you another Friday link dump.
If you’re not into the devil’s music that is Rock Band, Guitar Praise Solid Rock also just came out. Unfortunately, there aren’t any Faith + 1 tracks, but unlike Rock Band, you’ll never inexplicably have to play Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive” three times in a row. Really.
There are thousands of variations on Portal’s ending theme “Still Alive”, including the insomnia-induced mandolin version I was tinkering with last week. But here’s something a little different. Instead of re-interpreting the music, Vimeo user Trickster gave us some amazing typographical visuals to accompany the original version. [redacted 2008.09.23: The original video is no longer available. YouTube version substituted.]
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In this witchy edition of Angry Puppy:
- Doctor Who: “The Stolen Earth” and “Journey’s End”
- Stuff We Watch: Primeval, Spaced, Birds of Prey, Eureka
- Stuff We Play: System of a Down on Rock Band
- Reviews: Shutter, High Tension
- Stuff We Read: Reignbow and Dee-va, Pride High, Hunters of Dune
- Plus: Our 15 Favorite Witches (look for the full list tomorrow)
They’ve been promising full album downloads for Rock Band for a while now.
Well, it was worth the wait. The first album available will be Judas Priest’s Screaming for Vengeance from 1982. What’s that got to do with us, you say?
Personally, I found all heavy metal pretty gay. The hair, the makeup, the clothes, the overt sexuality on a stage surrounded (in most cases) by only men. The whole genre was one big drag show for people who wouldn’t otherwise do drag.
However, Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford “shocked” the world in 1998 when he came out as a bona fide gay. (His band members already knew.) All I remember about it is that my then boyfriend, a huge Judas Priest fan, wouldn’t stop talking about it.
Bonus gay-metal-gaming news: Halford will voice General Lionwhyte, a character with such luscious hair that he can use it to fly, in the upcoming game Brütal Legend.
For you youngsters, here’s the biggest US hit from Screaming for Vengeance, “You Got Another Thing Comin’”:
That guitar solo looks like it’ll be fun. I’m just now starting to play on Hard. Anyone up to Expert?
Look for it on the Xbox Live Marketplace on Tuesday and in the Playstation store on Thursday next week. Each track will be available for $1.99 (160 MS Points on the Xbox) or $14.99 (1200 MS Points) for the whole album
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
- “The Hellion”
- “Electric Eye”
- “Riding on the Wind”
- “Bloodstone”
- “(Take These) Chains”
- “Pain and Pleasure”
- “Screaming for Vengeance”
- “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’”
- “Fever”
- “Devil’s Child”
