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What Lisa Watched Last Night: Terra Nova Episode 1.1 —“Genesis”
Last night, I actually put off watching Dancing With The Kinda Stars so that I could catch the first episode of Fox’s much-hyped sci-fi series, Terra Nova. This show was produced by Mr. Mainstream...
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VGM Entry 28: Altered Beast
VGM Entry 28: Altered Beast (Thanks to Tish at FFShrine for the banner) The Sega Genesis/Mega Drive was launched in Japan on October 29th, 1988. By the end of the year, only four titles had been...
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VGM Entry 35: Forgotten Worlds
VGM Entry 35: Forgotten Worlds (Thanks to Tish at FFShrine for the banner) I mentioned that musicians had yet to properly exploit the capabilities of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive in 1989. There were...
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VGM Entry 40: End of the NES era (part 2)
VGM Entry 40: End of the NES era (part 2) (Thanks to Tish at FFShrine for the banner) Once again, by 1990 the Nintendo had fallen way behind the times. The Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, the Commodore Amiga...
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VGM Entry 48: Streets of Golden Hedgehogs
VGM Entry 48: Streets of Golden Hedgehogs (Thanks to Tish at FFShrine for the banner) With the new higher standards brought on by the Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive composers would have to...
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VGM Entry 55: Honorable mentions of ’92
VGM Entry 55: Honorable mentions of ’92 (Thanks to Tish at FFShrine for the banner) No ‘best of’ compilation can ever satisfy everybody, and the difficulty of coming to agreement increases with the...
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VGM Entry 56: Snatcher (part 1)
VGM Entry 56: Snatcher (part 1) (Thanks to Tish at FFShrine for the banner) At this point I think it’s safe to talk about Snatcher. Snatcher has quite a long history. Konami first released it on the...
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VGM Entry 57: Snatcher (part 2)
VGM Entry 57: Snatcher (part 2) (Thanks to Tish at FFShrine for the banner) Needless to say, when a game is released in six formats over a span of eight years the list of credits gets pretty wild. If...
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VGM Entry 59: Street Fighter II and SNES domination
VGM Entry 59: Street Fighter II and SNES domination (Thanks to Tish at FFShrine for the banner) An enormous disparity had emerged between the Super Nintendo and competing platforms by the early to...
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VGM Entry 65: Follin in the 90s
VGM Entry 65: Follin on the SNES (Thanks to Tish at FFShrine for the banner) The average quality of Tim Follin’s compositions seemed to progressively decline with every new improvement to technology. A...
View ArticleMusic Video Of The Day: I Can’t Dance by Genesis (1992, directed by Jim Yukich)
“It’s not about being unable to dance. It’s about guys that look good but can’t string a sentence together. Each verse is a piss-take at the scenario of a jeans commercial. It was good fun, but the...
View ArticleMusic Video of the Day: Turn It On Again by Genesis (1980, directed by ????)
On August 1st, 1981, MTV premiered. Over the course of 24 hours, 116 unique music videos were played on MTV. Yes, there was a time when the M actually did stand for music. The 95th video to premiere...
View ArticleMusic Video of the Day: Misunderstanding by Genesis (1980, directed by Stuart...
In today’s music video of the day, Genesis takes ua on a tour of Los Angeles in 1980. Technically, the video is actually about Phil Collins driving around the city and searching for his girlfriend but...
View ArticleMusic Video of the Day: Many Too Many by Genesis (1978, directed by Ken O’Neill)
The video for this Tony Banks-penned song was shot during a soundcheck at the Knebworth Festival on June 24th, 1978. The audio was a replay of the studio version of the song, with the band miming the...
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