Good morning! And if youuuuu cannnn believe it, it’s 1980 here on the pod. We’ve got Victorian grit galore in David Lynch’s first mainstream feature, Mel Brooks-produced icon THE ELEPHANT MAN. For our album, we talk Talking Heads’  boundary-pushing masterpiece(?), REMAIN IN LIGHT.

*There will be plot spoilers for The Elephant Man, so be warned*

YEAR OF THE WEEK

1980

FILM OF THE WEEK

The Elephant Man - dir. David Lynch

Discussion starts 01:24

ALBUM OF THE WEEK

Remain In Light - by Talking Heads

Discussion starts 28:37

We pick next episode's Year of the Week at 45:17

ALSO MENTIONED

Films/TV:

• The Shining (1980) - dir. Stanley Kubrick
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - dir. Irvin Kershner
• Eraserhead (1977) - dir. David Lynch
• Return of the Jedi (1983) - dir. Richard Marquand
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) - dir. Shin’ya Tsukamoto
• The Straight Story (1999) - dir. David Lynch
• Dune (1984) - dir. David Lynch
• Spaceballs II (2027) - dir. Mel Brooks
• Cries & Whispers (1972) - dir. Ingmar Bergman
• Ran (1985) - dir. Akira Kurosawa
• Gone With The Wind (1939) - dir. Victor Fleming
• The Wizard of Oz (1939) - dir. Victor Fleming, George Cukor and Norman Taurog
• Ben-Hur (1959) - dir. William Wyler
• Young Frankenstein (1974) - dir. Mel Brooks
• Videodrome (1983) - dir. David Cronenberg
• Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2004) - dir. Quentin Tarantino
• Some Like It Hot (1959) - dir. Billy Wilder
• Withnail & I (1987) - dir. Bruce Robinson
• Mulholland Drive (2001) - dir. David Lynch
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - dir. Stanley Kubrick
• Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) - TV show
• Ben-Hur (2016) - dir. Timur Bekmambetov
• Kes (1969) - dir. Ken Loach

Music:

• Fear of Music - 1979 album by Talking Heads
• Speaking In Tongues - 1983 album by Talking Heads
• Joy Division - band
• Closer - 1980 album by Joy Division
• Here Come the Warm Jets - 1973 album by Brian Eno
• Roxy Music - UK rock band featuring Brian Eno
• Psycho Killer - 1977 song by Talking Heads
• Take Me To The River - 1977 song by Talking Heads
• Take Me To The River - 1974 song by Al Green
• The Ramones - US punk band
• “Heroes” - 1977 album by David Bowie
• The Velvet Underground - US punk band
• Graceland - 1985 album by Paul Simon
• Road To Nowhere - 1985 song by Talking Heads
• Ants From Up There - 2022 album by Black Country New Road
• Kind of Blue - 1959 album by Miles Davis
• Ain’t That Good News - 1964 album by Sam Cooke
• Huey Lewis & The News - US band

Other folks we mention:

• George Lucas - film director
• Stanley Kubrick - film director
• Ingmar Bergman - film director
• Alfred Hitchcock - film director
• Mark Rothko - painter
• Rick Baker - prosthetics/makeup FX artist
• Karl Pilkington - TV/radio personality

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