Crank up the volume up to 11!
Now that was a funny movie. Spinal Tap, the father of all rock mokumentary, a kick in the face of all good manners and taste, a smelly outrageous bang in the pompous world of hard rock and its metal hairy dudes with tight shiny pants.
It’s loud, it’s ridiculous, it’s funny as hell and it was my movie of choice yesterday night.
It tells the story of a fake British band, called Spinal Tap, in the form of a documentary that recounts their US tour as they’re facing a decrease of popularity among their fan base. Of course, everything goes wrong, from cancelled shows to ridiculously bad designed stage accessories and from tension among the band members to lack of support from their record company.
It has been on my watch list for ages but for inexplicable reasons there were always other movies that where coming out of priority before this one.
Anyway, I finally watched it and I had the best laugh in a long time.
Damn, that was funny!
I mean, I’m a huge music lover (ok, probably not a heavy metal music lover…) and I just love to see musicians talk about their songs, their instruments or the cover art for their next album. But I must admit that sometimes, it could become a bit silly and disconnected from the reality.
What Spinal Tap does perfectly, is to take those silly moments and build up the all career of the band on those moments. And it just works wonderfully. Of course, they look stupid and all, but at the same time they might as well be a real band as far as I know because all the surrounding (concert, instrument, producer, fans…) makes it look pretty real.
And the songs (all written for the film) rock pretty well. As for the lyrics…well, here’s a piece of their beautiful and tasty songwriting. It’s called…hum…”Big Bottom”
The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'
That's what I said
The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand
Or so I have read
My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
I'd like to sink her with my pink torpedo
Big bottom, big bottom
Talk about bum cakes, my girl's got 'em
Big bottom drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this behind?
So now you want to watch this, right?
The movie was directed by Rob Reiner who later became famous for directing “When Harry met Sally” or “Misery” among other things.
And that was his first feature film…not a bad thing to start with.
So pick up the DVD or Blu Ray, crank up the volume up to 11 and enjoy the show!
