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Just got the DVD.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII want choo aro-ound!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 October 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

your "IIIII..." looks frighteningly and appropriately like a ladder, which perhaps we could use to climb up the sky and say hi to joey, dee dee and (on another cloud, far far away) johnny.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 18 October 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't "I Want You Around" the best? I also love the performance of "I Just Want to Have Something to Do."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 18 October 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The scenes with the Ramones in'em are great (notably Dee Dee playing bass in P.J. Soles' shower), but the rest of the film is pretty damn dire (although I love it when they turn Vince Lombardi's picture around, and on the other side is a picture of the back of Vince Lombardi's head).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the entire movie except for PJ Soles. I was surprised the first time I saw it by how good and genuinely funny it is. The principal making the mouse explode with loud music, and then the giant mouse showing up at the Ramones concert with big headphones...awesome. Paul Bartel and his wife who played the principal and whose name I can never remember are both great. I LOVE IT. I just have it on VHS. Any good extras on the DVD?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Mary Waranov.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my favourite Spector anecdotes (there are lots) came out of a Ramones interview for a South Bank Show, or some such programme, about Spector. They were saying that Spector had a really clear idea of how the first chord should sound on Rock and Roll High School, and they couldn't get it right. Eventually he locked them in the studio, and wouldn't let them out until they got it right. "He kept us in there for eleven hours. I mean, it's a good chord, but man, eleven hours..."

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

it is a good chord!

i love 'i wancha aroun' especially dee dee in the shower and marky playing drums in the back yard...

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

it'z my favorite 'mones tune anyhow

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"You Ramones are the Beethovens of our time"

"That was a good one Mr. Mcgree"

Cracks me up everytime

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 18 October 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Two main characters from Eating Raoul are in it, so I must say I approve.

― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 18 October 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"Things sure have changed since we got kicked outta high school."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Anybody seen that MONSTER BEACH PARTY or whatever it's called, with I think Joey and Debbie Harry as a couple, and lots of other musicians in the cast?

― don, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Anyup, I thought "Alice might like this" so I put it on, Monday. At first she moaned as Tweenies was on TV. Anyhow, the film ended and she wanted it on again... (She's 4 btw).

Yesterday, for the third time... Now she's decided she has the same hair as Joey, and telling Amber she should see it. (She did, and was impressed also).

One film where kids dance around to the wonderful rock and roll music, and it doesn't looke fake or wrong)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 4 November 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, the DVD has

1) Directors comm, quite funny/entertaining
2) Audio of Ramones gig (16 mins )
3) Radio ads (2 of 30 secs)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 4 November 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

If you watch closely, you'll see Richard Meltzer and Billy Altman goofing off while waiting in line for Ramones tickets. (If you care.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 4 November 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Seems to have had the same effect on Alice as it did on C*; although C* is slightly older.

Well, 37 years older.

And her hair's more like Dee Dee's than Joey's.

She did dance 'round the room singing "Rock rock rock rock rock 'n' roll Highschool" 'though.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 4 November 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't work on C² 'though.

She's 18, so obviously far too mature, unlike me and her mum.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 4 November 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

OH MAN, I SURE HOPE THAT I KEPT THIS IN THE DIVORCE!!!

ARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!

Must go and check. I know that the ex kept Dumbo, but if he tried to keep Rock'N'Roll High School, I am going round his apartment with a crowbar.

Best film ever, of course. I watched this waaaaay too many times when I was about 15.

― Two-Headed Zombie With No Face (kate), Friday, 5 November 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I got into my first car accident after a midnight screening of this when I was 16. Wasn't even my fault!

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 6 November 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you blaming the Ramones?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 6 November 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

No.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 7 November 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, it's in Fopp for a fiver. The DVD! Really!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 November 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Hey you Baskingstokeites (and anywhere else that qualifies)

There's a cheap "everything's a pound, well most things, some are two pounds but hey whatever" that has this DVD in. "Tempo" I think it's called.

It's got swedish packaging, but the films they do are all english.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

my dad dated dey young for a while when i was growing up.

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

I love Clint Howard.

― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

xpost she the one who is "Angel Dust"?

the commentary track mentions her, apparently she became a solicitor or something..

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

no, she's "Kate Rambeau".

a solicitor = a prostitute?

― team jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, the audio track mentions the girl who played "Angel Dust" (who I had a 'is that Calista Flockheart' moment) became a non prossie actual law type solicitor. But I forget her name, obv.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

during the concert scene look up front for a shot of darby crash boppin around

― pyjamagrama (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

a solicitor = a prostitute?

A lawyer!

And I love looking for Darby.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

I heard "Pet Cemetary" by the Ramones on the radio late last saturday night.

I love that song.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Apparently, there's a "Deluxe" edition on the way, with all the music from the soundtrack.

More Ramones, obv, but a Paul McCartney track that remains unissued even now (however did they get this in the first place?)

― Mark G, Friday, 20 September 2013 06:51 (twelve years ago)

ten years pass...

extremely weird thread but

i liked this movie

― budo jeru, Thursday, 23 November 2023 15:52 (two years ago)

Due to the cruelties of American cable television I have watched Rock’n’Roll High School Forever many more times than I have watched Rock’n’Roll High School.

― bbq, Thursday, 23 November 2023 18:25 (two years ago)

That’s funny because I’m nearly certain I first heard The Ramones and punk rock in general when pay cable TV showed R&RHS circa 1980.

― Josefa, Thursday, 23 November 2023 21:15 (two years ago)

Had this taped off of UHF when I was a kid. At the time, I was happy to see the Ramones, but thought the movie was too cheesy. Recently rewatched it (on Freevee, I think?), and yeah, it was still very cheesy, but I appreciate the campiness now and liked it a lot more. I'd also seen Arkush's Get Crazy in the not-too-distant past, and there are a lot of similarities. Loved the chase scene that ends when the pursuee trips over a coke-head snorting drugs off the floor.

― peace, man, Friday, 24 November 2023 14:35 (two years ago)

Scott Woods and I did a Zoomcast on Rock 'n' Roll High School a couple of weeks ago, along with two other related films:

Rock 'n' Roll High School: youtube.com/watch?v=UKVtb_BkQk4
Over the Edge: youtube.com/watch?v=OGt2Pm7hHBA&t
Quadrophenia: youtube.com/watch?v=I_mdgn45DJc

All three were released within months of each other.

― clemenza, Friday, 24 November 2023 17:02 (two years ago)

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