Spinal Tap recording new material

[Wyvern]

From the BBC.com:

Spinal Tap are recording their first new material in nearly twenty years.

The spoof English heavy metal band is the brainchild of American actors Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Christopher Guest.
They first featured in the classic 1984 "mockumentary" This Is Spinal Tap and went on to record two albums.
Shearer, who these days voices several Simpsons characters, told BBC 5 Live: "It'll be for download as well as on conventional media later this year."
Spinal Tap recorded their last album, Break Like The Wind, in 1992.
The band briefly reformed two years ago for the Live Earth gig at Wembley Stadium in London.
Shearer, who portrays Tap's bass player Derek Smalls said: "We've never recorded the song we did at Live Earth, Warmer Than Hell, and I think they (Spinal Tap) are trying to revisit their old success.
"Not that they were ever popular, maybe in their own universe. "We'll do a song called Gimme Some More Money, probably with some dubious results."

 

[poundingmetal74]

I hear the other day they were driving down Route 401....

 

[wdiv]

How about another Spinal Tap movie?

 

[sixxswine]

I might be the only person on the planet that didn't care for the movie and thought the music was horrific. I doubt that I'm the only one because frankly I'm not that unique....

 

[Whiplash402]

really sixx?
i thought the movie and songs were hilarious. One of my favorites

 

[delize]

I might be the only person on the planet that didn't care for the movie and thought the music was horrific. I doubt that I'm the only one because frankly I'm not that unique....

I'm with you. I did have have the movie, but I think I threw it away. Payed 2 bucks for it at a Big Lots a few years ago.

 

[sixxswine]

really sixx?
i thought the movie and songs were hilarious. One of my favorites

I kid you not. I last tried getting through it when it aired on VH-1 Classic last fall... I got about 1/4 of the way through and got bored. I don't know what to tell you.

 

[poundingmetal74]

I might be the only person on the planet that didn't care for the movie and thought the music was horrific. I doubt that I'm the only one because frankly I'm not that unique....

I thought the music was pretty lame (Big Bottom was decent and Christmas with the Devil is an absolute gem) but the rest of the album was mediocre at it's best.

The movie has it's boring parts but I love it. Once you've been in a band you deal with all the stuff Tap goes through.

Not to mention a lot of the humor is my type of humor (subtle python-esque).

 

[wdiv]

The movie is one of my top 5 favorites of all time.

 

[TalesOfTerror]

A really dead joke.

 

[Wyvern]

I think the movie is overrated, but some of the other mockumentaries made by McKean, Shearer and Guest (who also directed those) are very good. TIST was directed by Rob Reiner and again is not his finest movie.

As for the music I never cared

 

[Esoteric Death]

I might be the only person on the planet that didn't care for the movie and thought the music was horrific. I doubt that I'm the only one because frankly I'm not that unique....

I agree not a big fan either it was a funny at moments but for me the movie dragged on to long.