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Tapping Your Opinions for Fictional Desert Island Mix Tape

Which crap is your favorite Tap?

"Big Bottom"	1 votes
"Hell Hole"	0 votes
"(Listen to the) Flower People"	0 votes
"Rock 'n' Roll Creation"	0 votes
"Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You"	2 votes
"Sex Farm"	1 votes
"Stonehenge"	3 votes
Other (Please Specify)	0 votes

Edgy DC Jul 06 2007 01:40 PM

You're a ficitonal character on a fictional desert island. All you have to keep you company is a mix tape full of a single song each from your favorite fictional bands. Which is your Spinal Tap selection? "Big Bottom" "The looser the waisteband, the deeper the quicksand, or so I have read." "Hell Hole" ("Nigel Tufnel on lead vocals, ladies and gentlemen! Nigel Tufnel!") "This ain't no place to be a man." "(Listen to the) Flower People" "Don't You Cry, It's Not to Late" "Rock 'n' Roll Creation" "Yin was searching for... his Yang." "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You" "You're too young, and I'm too well-hung." "Sex Farm" "Bothering your livestock; they know what I need." "Stonehenge" "Tis a magic place, where the moon doth rise With a dragon's face"

Batty31 Jul 06 2007 07:11 PM

OH MY! Can't I just choose them all??????????????????????????? I might have to think about this for awhile. I'm so torn. I might also go with the write in vote of "Christmas with the Devil".

Johnny Dickshot Jul 06 2007 07:16 PM

Went with "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You (Tonite)" <--proper spelling of the title. Great thing about Tap -- really, the key to the whole thing succeeding like it did -- was their parodies being every bit as good as the real thing.

metirish Jul 06 2007 11:02 PM

Great stuff,went with stonehenge......you know for years ,like 12 to 14 I didn't know Tap were a piss take.....cos in the Metal rags I was reading they would treat Tap like they were the real deal rock Gods...

Edgy DC Jul 07 2007 07:36 AM

We used to feel sorry for folks like you. It's sometimes easy for me to place the exact source of each song --- "Hell Hole" is clearly Bon Scott-era AC/DC, while "Give Me Money" is the young Stones --- but I can't put my finger on them all because I was too young and it's hard for me to distinguish one big dumb seventies dry-ice rocker from another. Clearly one of those songs is Deep Purple. One ("Stonehenge"?) is probably Sabbath, one is Molly Hatchet, etc.

seawolf17 Jul 09 2007 08:12 AM

I'm with JD... "Tonight" is the winner, but you can't go wrong with any of these (except maybe for "Flower People").

Edgy DC Jul 09 2007 09:10 AM

"Flower People" is wonderful. The earnestness in Michael McKeon's delivery will get you every time. It's the hottest sound across the Atlantic since Mrs. Murphy's chowder. Other classics not included because of the lack of online video: "America" "Cups and Cakes" "Heavy Duty"

Johnny Dickshot Jul 09 2007 09:54 AM

One of my favorite scenes in that movie is when Reiner reads their reviews aloud. It clues you into the genuius of their having recreated these songs so faithfully, understanding full well what complete crap it was. It's like "Guffman" where the actors all played bad actors. It takes complete precision. ]This collection of religious rock songs prompts us to ask the question, on what day did God create Spinal Tap, and couldnt he have rested on that day also?

Edgy DC Jul 09 2007 10:07 AM

And "Gimme Some Money" is also excluded from the poll, and the soundtrack album! Ed Begley on drums, yo.

metirish Jul 09 2007 02:03 PM

From the Independent....reviewing Live Earth ] As evening drew on it was time to rock with a majestic Metallica, followed by Spinal Tap who, with an admirable sense of occasion, brought on "every bassist in the known universe" for "Big Bottom"

Batty31 Jul 09 2007 03:54 PM

Edgy DC wrote: "Flower People" is wonderful. The earnestness in Michael McKeon's delivery will get you every time. It's the hottest sound across the Atlantic since Mrs. Murphy's chowder. Other classics not included because of the lack of online video: "America" "Cups and Cakes" "Heavy Duty" What about "Christmas with the Devil", my write-in vote? :(

Edgy DC Jul 09 2007 05:41 PM

Hey, sure, it's logged. I'm just pointing out movie songs absent from the soundtrack album.

Batty31 Jul 09 2007 07:50 PM

Thank you! I loved it! BTW, it should come as no surprise that I own this cd...