Going Up (The Very Best Of The 13th Floor Elevators) [Digipak] - 13th Floor Elevators (The)

A Major Evolutionary Step For Man

Advantages: Sheer Unbridled Geneus
Disadvantages: Don't Know HWere Teh Money Goes

Few psychedelic bands are able to hold a sugar cube to the 13th Floor Elevators. Formed by Austin University undergraduate Tommy Hall who despite not being a musician had a clear vision of the route the band should. Tommy took an already successful local Texan band The Lingsmen and recruited Rocky Ericsson from the spades onto vocals to form the 13th Floor Elevators. The band were serious about psychedelic mind expansion, and Rocky eventually paid a fairly high price for this, spending years in a Texan asylum for the criminally insane, after pleading guilty to Marijuana possession. Anyway onto the music Tommy Hall took on the role as lyricist and band guru, he also played the Electric Jug which created a sort of bubbling sound in the background of the music. This album has its feet fairly squarely in the garage rock of the time ...

Champ666 12.05.2005 · Read full review
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The 13th Warrier - One too many?

Advantages: Easy plot to follow, interesting in parts, good atmosphere captured
Disadvantages: Main character does quite fit the part

The 13th Warrior begins with an introduction to our hero, Ahmed (played by Antonio Banderas)an ambassador that's been exiled from his homeland. Together with his entourage he comes across a band of Vikings (referred to as North men) and they join them in their camp. It's not too long before after a lot of what appears to be hocus-pocus, that a young Viking enters the camp and tells them of this Viking kingdom that is being attacked by a ferocious beast they call the Grendel. An army of men needs to be chosen to return north and rid the kingdom of the threat, and to chose who is to go, they consult a soothsayer -an old bone-throwing woman who appears to be completely mad. She picks twelve Viking men whilst Ahmed looks on and then says that there has to be a 13th who is non-Viking for them to be successful. This turns out to be Ahmed ...

derek-j-a 18.06.2005 (19.06.2005) · Read full review
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Friday the 13th

Advantages: Retro horror fun
Disadvantages: Predictable

When I was growing up, all my school friends were talking about this new horror movie. Friday the 13th. I was a wimp when it came to horror films I must admit - I just couldn`t watch them, so I missed out on all the playground chat. When I grew up, I just suddenly got an urge to watch a few horror flicks and grew into a a bit of an addict. I suppose I was making up for my former wimpiness! Anyway, the reason I am telling you this is because the first proper horror movie I watched was friday the 13th. And I wasn`t disappointed. It`s a standard horror movie plot - some teens go out to camp crystal lake and are being picked off one by one by a maniacal murderer. All the way through you are hoping to catch a glimpse of the killer, but you never do and wonder who it could be. In your mind you are picturing an axe-weilding madman ...

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