Happy Hump Day Survey!

Tank!

Firework (but only this version)

Fineshrine

And finally, a bit of satire from the 80's: Airhead

Dr_Awkward wrote:

Prisencolinensinainciusol

This. Is. AWESOME.

garion333 wrote:

Punch Brothers doing the Strokes. Better than the original!!

All credit to garion for this one. Holy crap, what a good version.

DiscoDriveby wrote:

Great, now the only song I can think of is

Great, now I have to install Saints Row the Third for the 3rd time.

Anything from Kenichiro Fukui's Einhänder soundtrack (they're almost all one word titles, and almost all fantastic); some of my favorites include:
- Chase
- Badlands
- Madness
- Impatience (while not one of the absolute best tracks on the album, I've always thoroughly enjoyed it; it's played during the only timed portion of the game, and has a nice urgent feel to it)
- Shudder

There're also a few tracks with single world titles from Spencer Nilsen's great Ecco: Songs of Time soundtrack:
- Abyss
- Botswana

Another of my favorite soundtracks that also happens to have several single word title tracks: Hitoshi Sakimoto's Radiant Silvergun:
- Return

And although there was never an official soundtrack released for it (to my knowledge, at least), there are some fantastic tracks from Hiroshi Iuchi's Ikaruga soundtrack:
- Ideal
- Butsutekkai

Man, back when I hosted my game music radio show, I probably could have named a few dozen excellent game music tracks with single word titles... but that was years ago, and I sadly can't call them to mind like I used to .

How did it take so long to get to this:

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Radiohead: Myxomatosis

Meaningless

sr_malo wrote:
tboon wrote:

60s and 70s represent!
Sheep - Floyd

What about 'Pigs' and 'Dogs'?

Animals is brilliant. Just saying. ;)

Eh, I was just doing that list stream of conscious. But yes, Animals is brilliant.

A few things from my list to listen to:
Godzilla - BÖC

Surrender - Cheap Trick

Bluebird - Buffalo Springfield

Ohio - CSN & sometimes Y

Indiscipline - King Crimson

Couple of kickass songs from a unique industrial rock/metal band called Russian Circles:

Plenty more one-word titles, but these three are some of my favorites.

Grenn wrote:

(Pearl Jam - Black)

(Pearl Jam - Jeremy)

You forgot one.

Great song, great video, great band.

Ah, that album was the sound of my junior year of HS

oilypenguin wrote:
garion333 wrote:

Punch Brothers doing the Strokes. Better than the original!!

All credit to garion for this one. Holy crap, what a good version.

Oh, man. Didn't even think to post that here!

Happy hump day!!! Courtesy of tuffalobuffalo, what is the all-time best movie stunt?

The metronome war boys in Mad Max: Fury Road.

Alien Love Gardener wrote:

The metronome war boys in Mad Max: Fury Road.

Heh, I was gonna say the tanker crash scene at the end of Road Warrior. It's not 100% confirmed that it was manned, but most likely it was given the precision of the crash itself. The stunt driver basically had to smash head-on into another vehicle, then roll the semi on it' side until it ground to a halt.

In a world of CGI explosions so big that my brain can't even process, reading how that stunt was done is still my favorite moments.

My first thought is always Ben-Hur's chariot race because no one would do that now, but then I recall this:

Yeah, that definitely wouldn't happen nowadays.

Jackie Chan's entire career.

Wembley wrote:

Jackie Chan's entire career.

Along the same vein (Tony Jaa):

Wembley wrote:

Jackie Chan's entire career.

I think this covers all of my first thoughts...

Not one specific stunt, but the car chase from French Connection is pretty wild, especially considering they didn't have permits and all of the depicted people and cars have no idea they are in a film scene.

Any stunt that uses the Wilhelm Scream.

Wembley wrote:

Jackie Chan's entire career.

+1

This may be stretching the definition of "stunt", but I also thought of the massive car chase/pile-up from The Blues Brothers.

From the Wikipedia page: "For the large car chases, filmmakers purchased 60 police cars at $400 each, and most were destroyed at the completion of the filming. More than 40 stunt drivers were hired, and the crew kept a 24-hour body shop to repair cars."

oilypenguin wrote:

Any stunt that uses the Wilhelm Scream.

Heh.

That said, I'm all for Buster Keaton:

I'm always partial to the chase scenes in Ronin, where the director's instructions were "I don't want to see your brake lights. Ever."

And we can't forget the one-take fight scene from S1E2 of Netflix's Daredevil.

Tanglebones wrote:

That said, I'm all for Buster Keaton:

Man, how did that guy not die?!?