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December 21

Human Behavior

Question deleted. Calls for psychological advice, is off-topic for the Entertainment desk, and may be trolling. --Anon, 18:55 UTC, December 21, 2007.

Obscure (horror) movie?

Greetings, Refdeskers! I rarely visit the entertainment desk, but I have a question that somebody maybe might be able to answer. When I was a kid (probably elevenish or something) I saw what I could now classify as a horror movie. It was about some obscure town, with two young adults (strange use of the phrase here) exploring it. I remember a scene where they were pulling a cable from a wall from underneath the plasterwork discovering a kind of temple (chanting people) inside. There definitely was shooting and something I could call a zombie-cowboy with glowing eyes. Most of the movie plays out in darkness, as you can probably tell. I am almost sure that I saw it on a German-language tv channel and that it probably was dubbed from English. So, now comes the question: What could be the title? This isn't necessary to save anyone's life, so if you don't have a clue just forget it, but it would be fun knowing what movie it was. This could have happened in the first half of the nineties. Oh, and I saw the movie probably in the afternoon-to-evening time slot. So Cheers and Merry Christmas! --Ouro (blah blah) 07:52, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Sounds like Anatomy Beekone (talk) 14:44, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

This was released much too late. Had I seen it past 2000 I'd have definitely remembered the name. --Ouro (blah blah) 18:13, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, when were you elevenish? —Tamfang (talk) 22:47, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Music genres

Could you explain the most notable/important music genres to someone who knows very little about music? A description may be like "soft, slow and melancholic". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.189.61.152 (talk) 10:07, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Do you mean like describe the difference between Rock, Jazz, Easy Listening, Classical, Pop, Alternative, Folk that sort of thing? If so the genres seem to be mostly aligned to instrument groups/ways those instruments are used. Rock often uses electronic-guitars and drums, Jazz is often associated with saxophones and pianos, classical with orchestras, violins and pianos, Pop is a useless term as it seems to only mean that it is 'popular', alternative is just as bad as it seems to mean different to what is popular and Folk, well folk is probably routed in history but it seems (from iTunes Music store listening) to be acoustic guitar plus singer/non-electronic instruments in general. I guess each of the articles will hold a definition. I know i'd struggle to say much more than the above without resorting to humming some tunes form each genre! ny156uk (talk) 11:25, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't get much softer and slower than ambient music! Recury (talk) 15:46, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Metal is hard, loud, fast, and angry music, all other generes are meaningless once one has listen to true Death Metal like Entombed,Obituary or Canibal corpse —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.191.136.3 (talk) 16:14, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

• Ahhhh Metal never in fashion but never out of it. I conclude that therefore Metal is the most important genre becuase it will never die. Oh and Iron Maiden is like way better then cannible corpse. BonesBrigade 05:22, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

this may be so but entombed are the heaviest band. not to mention, ultra femamin vocals from an old man is just embarresment. Iron maiden missrepresent everything I hold dear to my heart, like lamb of god and children of bodom —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.3.151.98 (talk) 13:08, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

• Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Mettalica, [Led zepplin]] and Alice cooper are wayyyyyy bettter then those guys BonesBrigade 03:50, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Listening to Björk right now, might as well suggest her. --Ouro (blah blah) 11:20, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

• As one the resident Classical spokespersons around here, I'd have to say that Classical has become considered a "genre" only to distinguish it from non-Classical music. Internally, it has as many different genres as you can imagine, and then some. Opera, lieder, oratorio, choral music, the symphony, the concerto, chamber music (which contains a huge number of sub-genres), solo keyboard music (ditto), symphonic poems/suites, and on and on. To the non-Classicist these are all lumped into one bag, "Classical", but to the Classicist they are all completely different. -- JackofOz (talk) 23:26, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

1920's jazz

Hiya, I am trying to find the chord to Thats you baby by Annette Hanshaw, for guitar. I would also be interested in any of her other songs. Aswell as chords to any Ruth Etting music. I have searched the web reletalessly and would be eternally greatful if some one could tell me where to find guitar chords to any music by eith of these women thanks people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.191.136.2 (talk) 15:20, 21 December 2007 (UTC)