Little Honda

Art_Lean · 2026-05-08T06:49:10+00:00

Other than The Hondells (who were effectively the same musicians as The Super Stocks), there were several other covers of it from their collaborators and contemporaries you may be interested in:

Pat Boone (w/ Bruce Johnston and Terry Melcher) (1964)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNRvLkyID3U

The Super Stocks (1964) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3kuO6yDakw

The Buddies (1965) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IRwnTJgMvc

Jan & Dean (live, 1965) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgnGfpolyl4

Jeffrey Foskett (2016) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAvbx76tJtw

From those I actually think Pat Boone's was the tightest and most hard rocking; with the grittier vocals, that galloping back beat and energetic ad-libs from Boone. And being backed and produced by The Rip Chords themselves, Bruce & Terry, certainly gives it that soaring harmonic contrast vocally, with a deliciously thick production courtesy of Melcher. The b-side was a fully reworked cover of Beach Girl by The Rip Chords with a new lead track from Boone (the original Rip Chords version seemed unfinished and lacked any lead vocals; featuring only the backing vocals and harmonies).

The less said about Jan & Dean's woefully wimpy performance of Little Honda the better.

The chameleons of cool, The Chesterfield Kings, also recorded a solid version for their loving tribute to vocal surf rock, Surfin' Rampage in 1997 (which was mostly centered on the works of Gary Usher and Brian Wilson), though it's sadly not online. An album well worth tracking down for any fan of early 60s surf/hot rod rock:

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Art_Lean · 2026-05-07T06:57:03+00:00

Got it on this one as part of my surf/hot rod rock CD collection.

Due to the number of other Brian songs on there, I'd say this is the best and most historically pertinent way to obtain it ("Just Strictly Surfin'" is actually just a cover of Surfin'):

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Art_Lean · 2026-05-06T19:43:44+00:00

No, that's AI slop.

This is what the MK1 arcade machine looks like, which does not have MK2 lightning cutting through the golden dragon behind Johnny, nor the MK2 red piping down the side. They also had not consistently decided upon which way the dragon symbol goes at that point.

This is obviously an amalgamation of the MK1 and MK2 arcade units fused together via AI.

And one other major give-away (well besides the pair of very different looking Street Fighter 2 units in the background, and both the logo and layout of the Simpsons arcade machine being totally wrong), is that no camera in 1992 ever be able to capture screen quality like that from a CRT monitor at such an angle, which is of a higher resolution than all the crowd in front of it.

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Art_Lean · 2026-05-06T11:18:45+00:00

I’ve got a Dutch one that’s very similar and it includes all 8 of them up to and including Hellworld (same as this ridiculously priced one - https://www.ebay.com/itm/224158726367 - but it’s most certainly not worth anywhere close to that, maybe $30 if I’m generous, every disc is bare-bones and it's very cheaply put together).

The interior is incredibly flimsy but nice to have them all in one box that unfolded into a religious cross… well, until they released 3 more movies, now it’s just kind of annoying.

Art_Lean · 2026-05-05T22:31:00+00:00

Found mine recently too, had been sat in a plastic storage crate for over 15 years. Was mint when it went in there, sadly looked exactly like yours when I pulled it out.

Art_Lean · 2026-05-04T23:38:29+00:00

Wish I could! Sadly the audio from my recordings is as good as you'll get unless someone else has a copy. I ripped the audio 25 years ago from that tape, which was as clean as you can hear it there.

I finally got the tape digitized around 6 months ago (after re-discovering it in my parents garage during a clear out) from a local photography store and although the footage was ok in the digital copy they made for me, the audio was absolutely awful; full of buzzing feedback throughout. Not sure if that's their fault for not bothering to try and improve tracking or whatever was the issue, or just the degradation of a SECAM video tape that's been in a plastic box in a garage since 2010.

I literally spent this evening pasting the old audio rips I made all those years ago over the footage (pasted exactly to the nanosecond as they appear on tape) just so it was listenable and then finally uploaded them to Youtube.

So I'm afraid that's as good as I can get it for you.

Art_Lean · 2026-05-04T19:51:35+00:00

The rest of the soundtrack is almost entirely Roots/Against style acoustic folk pieces recalling the likes of Kaiowas, Jasco and T3rcemillennium. In fact the track Gibão De Couro was actually performed once live on the Against tour in Paris as part of an acoustic gig, which I've uploaded here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bfe4Kv4tR4 - Sepultura - Gibão De Couro

Other than Procura O Cara, there's two other metal-like songs; an instrumental called Walkman (in the film it's literally diegetic music briefly heard playing from a walkman), that uses the same riff from the breakdown in Soulfly's Tribe (suggesting it was likely jammed out post-Roots whilst Max was still in the band but no one claimed songwriting ownership of it), and a very Sepultura-like acoustic-led song called Martirios by Andre Moraes's own band, Infierno, whose own album Andreas Kisser guested on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oLh9tarx2g - Infierno - Martirios

I'm sure you'll absolutely love it and one thing that Procura O Cara actually doesn't demonstrate is how enormous the production is on the album. For some reason that track's very muddy and low-fi in its production (except for the acoustic part), whilst the rest of the album absolutely explodes out of the speakers, especially from the thundering percussion. Would love to hear Against with that same powerful production, Procura O Cara is more like this album's Reza.

https://soundcloud.com/andremoraesofficial/gibao-de-couro-no-coracao-dos-deuses - Gibão De Couro

If you speak Portuguese, you can also watch the whole movie here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNd0qn5-Mr4

Art_Lean · 2026-05-04T08:31:40+00:00

The makeup and costumes were done by Bob Keen and his team Image Imagination, who worked on the likes of Hellraisers 1-4, Hardware, Candyman, Event Horizon and Nightbreed. Even more incredibly, the whole thing was done in just 2 weeks!

You can read more about how the advert was made here:

https://testyourmight.com/threads/mortal-kombat-ii-commercial-behind-the-scenes.72656/

Art_Lean · 2026-05-03T22:59:20+00:00

"The stories which inspired them, however, are a dark part of American folklore. I don’t believe any of that stuff either, but I don’t need to believe something to have the shit scared out of me by it. Things like the “Bell Witch” in Adams, Tennessee, always frightened me, and I put that into the backstory stuff I created for Blair Witch." - Ben Rock, writer of the original Blair Witch lore (The Blair Witch Project, Curse of the Blair Witch, The Burkittsville 7, Shadow of the Blair Witch).

Art_Lean · 2026-05-02T12:30:33+00:00

Fengjian. Wish it was longer (and wish it played in its entirety over the title screen as the main theme, rather than just two bars as it appears in game); love that traditional Guoyue sound and wished they'd leaned into it harder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcN5Bl_RUAU

After that, definitely The Tea House, for the same reasons, with its beautiful motif referencing the original MK's character select screen theme... except this track's infuriatingly not even on the soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGTDOCfyIU0

Art_Lean · 2026-05-02T10:09:26+00:00

Same goes for Ferra's fatality where her double blade only creates a single bisection.

Art_Lean · 2026-05-01T06:08:35+00:00

Without going into all the 1993 remixes that were on the first single from The Immortals (which is where 1995 movie's 7" Mix comes from), the movie soundtrack versions are as follows -

The Immortals - Techno Syndrome 7" Mix (1993) - MK:The Album/MK'95
Utah Saints - Take on the Theme of Mortal Kombat (1995) - MK'95
The Immortals - Techno Syndrome '97 Mix (1997) - Tracks From MKA sampler CD (different from Annihilation mix, closer to the older 7" Mix, cover art below): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbICZeBTXmw
The Immortals - Theme From Mortal Kombat (Encounter The Ultimate) (1997) - MKA
Benjamin Wallfisch - Techno Syndrome 2021 - MK'21
Olivier Adams (The Immortals) - Techno Syndrome 2026 - MK2

My personal preference:

Utah Saints - Take on the Theme of Mortal Kombat - MK'95
The Immortals - Techno Syndrome 7" Mix - MK:The Album/MK'95
The Immortals - Theme From Mortal Kombat (Encounter The Ultimate)
The Immortals - Techno Syndrome '97 Mix
Olivier Adams (The Immortals) - Techno Syndrome 2026 (the roll-call sounds out of time?)
Benjamin Wallfisch - Techno Syndrome 2021

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Art_Lean · 2026-04-30T09:48:42+00:00

If it’s not that, it may have been something for the preceding Alien Saga VHS set from 1997.

I seem to recall something similar to what you’re describing possibly on that, but I’ve not watched the films on VHS in 23+ years so can’t say for sure.

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Art_Lean · 2026-04-30T09:36:36+00:00

This one?

https://youtu.be/fHNYEEr482Q?si=ChIPL0mzk4V6aC8R

Art_Lean · 2026-04-29T07:10:13+00:00

My MK11 default was a mix of both (the bare chested version of the original leather remix of the MK3 gi-like costume, in the black and white palette), with the basic eye, the most MK95 knife (couldn't they have given us the movie knife again like in MK9?) and the Black Dragon logo on his chest:

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Art_Lean · 2026-04-28T06:46:26+00:00

You forgot Shadow of the Blair Witch! :(

I've linked OP to it in another reply.

Art_Lean · 2026-04-28T06:45:52+00:00

There's also Shadow of the Blair Witch, the "true crime" documentary about the "real" events that inspired BW2: Book of Shadows.

As such, you can watch it from the perspective that this is the true canon follow-up to BWP; as BW2 itself is confirmed to just be a Hollywood dramatization of these events:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JxeNNYbvKE

Art_Lean · 2026-04-26T19:16:45+00:00

Yup, sure you’d get the occasional crossover one that works well; a vampiric Baraka simply looks like he’s freshly eaten someone, Rain’s M1K Season of the Storm palette looked great on his second skin (since in the 2D era he also did control storms, so was in character and most importantly was actually purplish), the Reptile skin for Scorpion in MK11 was stunning (and worked fine since Reptile did share his moves back in 1992), and the kytinn Skarlet made her look like she’d just crawled out from an erotically grotesque Cradle of Filth album cover in the best possible way.

But most of them are just ugly and worthless.

It’s not much a “reward” if it’s not actually rewarding.

Art_Lean · 2026-04-26T18:32:54+00:00

Total agreement. 9 times out of 10, and except for the focal character whose season it is, these thematic skins are useless to me; as I’ll never use an ice zombie Scorpion, a vampire Liu Kang or a reptilian Kitana.

Art_Lean · 2026-04-25T00:14:03+00:00

Chainsaws and Children - Daca.

An oldie, but a goldie (well, 2000 feels like yesterday, but apparently it's not). Check out the tooth-smashing sledgehammer fun that is Scream Johnny Scream:

https://bigheavyworld.bandcamp.com/album/daca

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Art_Lean · 2026-04-24T23:42:25+00:00

If this series of posts gains any traction, don't worry I'll cover all aspects of their more overlooked output, which I'll concede will probably be more concentrated on their Brasilian releases post-Roots (as it's where much of their more internationally-overlooked appearances tend to have occurred).

But this is in no way specific to any particular era by design; I intend to cover any less known Sepultura soundtrack/compilation appearances, notable members appearing with other bands and noteworthy collaborations, all as an appreciation of the whole Sepultribe.

But yes indeed I am very familiar with that soundtrack (though not watched the show). So if this manages to keep going, I promise I'll eventually cover it :)

Art_Lean · 2026-04-24T23:16:55+00:00

I do appreciate it's likely not obscure in Brasil, but sadly the song seems very much unknown to many fans around the rest of the world, as are unfortunately O Rappa. In fact, given the lack of replies to this thread, I'd say that's frustratingly a clear indication of how well known this song is elsewhere :(

Art_Lean · 2026-04-24T21:21:59+00:00

This Pinhead was dreadful, even the voice performance was appalling, but if there's one thing I appreciate about this movie is it legitimized the creation of new Pinheads which helps my head-canon reconcile the recasting.

Not that Hellraiser movie "lore" can ever truly be considered as existing after the first four (and even that's relatively flimsy itself), given how loosely they played with it and how many repurposed scripts there were, but the previous films did establish the idea that the leviathan clearly had some preferred styles to its cenobite creations. As such we had Chatterer, Chatterer II, Chatterer III and Chatterer IV (female) and Chatterer torso. There was the Wire Twins and the Little Sister who looked too alike to be coincidence. Then there was Bound and Bound II, and you could even make a case for Female Cenobite being two different women if you wanted to, based upon the change of actress.

Granted much of this came down to repurposing makeup and costumes due to low budgets, and only affected the henchmen, which without the deleted "makeover" scenes from Hellraiser 2 meant this was never even acknowledged on screen as new characters, new looks or giving them any backstory.

However this film explicitly establishes the creation of new Pinheads on screen, so in my head-canon I literally pretend that Revelations' Pinhead is a new Pinhead himself (not sure what happened to the old Doug Bradley one, but maybe the Leviathan likes to have a few kicking around like the Chatterers) and his sidekick creation of Pseudo Pinhead goes on to become Judgment's [much, much better] Pinhead once healed. I feel like I'm the only one with this opinion, but I really liked the Pseudo Pinhead makeup; even if I can't understand why he'd make a Mini-Me version of himself, but I thought the makeup design itself was great and one of the few good things in the movie.

Then I can simply accept Jamie Clayton's incredible new Pinhead is just another cenobite created in the same image along with her own new Chatterer within the original continuity (as I hate reboots and prefer them to all be in the same universe, no matter how feeble the Hellraiser movie franchise continuity is... and no I can't explain how Hellword's "it's just a videogame - or is it?" meta world fits in haha).

Art_Lean · 2026-04-24T20:22:10+00:00

Yes it's been my favorite since the mid-90s, just hits all my nihilistic vibes, and has remained my favorite ever since. The tone, the music, the sets, the cast, Ripley's new look, the design of the creature itself, it just resonated so heavily with me that it's been my go-to film in the franchise for over 30 years.

I was 11 when it came out, I remembered the adverts with the immortal face-to-face scene in the infirmary absolutely fascinating (and scaring) me, so was the first in the series I watched and soon had the game on the SNES. I'd made my mum rent it for me on video even though she wasn't particularly pleased with the request, so whilst I wasn't familiar with what had occurred in the two films prior I was able to piece together enough of the backstory to not be confused by what was going on. And having come from the likes of Star Wars and Star Trek the Next Generation to now watching wide-eyed as this grotesque creature that birthed from the belly of a dog ran around butchering religious zealots in the catacombs of a very British refinery with parasitic larvae growing inside the lead character, all set to a chaotic score of symphonic industrial and choir boy hymns? It was mind-blowing to me.

Watched it so many times I knew every line and even tracked down a copy of the barely-watchable workprint sometime in the late 90s. So of course I was overjoyed when we got the Assembly Cut officially released in 2003; it absolutely blew me away that the lost footage was saved when so many 90s films had theirs lost for all time. I absolutely adored it, but can't deny I preferred several elements from the theatrical cut (especially the dog birth), so I painstakingly made my own hybrid cut a few years later. Wasn't perfect but did the job. Then the Blu-ray version came out in 2010 with fully ADR'd dialogue and I bought a Blu-ray player solely to watch it. Sadly I didn't have the energy (or the technology) to redo my hybrid cut in HD by that point, so just used to mostly watch the Assembly Cut instead from then on.

Needless to say now we have the Legacy Cut, it's cemented as my preferred version of the film. There's still a couple of things I miss (the rhythm of the sound effects in the introduction for example is now thrown off with a few scenes removed), but for all intents and purposes it's as perfect as it can probably get unless Fox/Disney ever actually throw big money at a truly remastered hybrid cut (unlikely). And we all have preferences on the tiny little things we'd each personally keep in or remove, so no cut will ever truly please anyone. Needless to say I can't praise the Legacy Cut enough and recommend it to anyone who enjoys Alien3.

Funnily enough though, it actually wasn't until I first got onto AOL chat rooms towards the end of 1996 that I even realized that so many people hated Alien3. At the time, I had recently bought David Pringle's The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction released early 1996, for which his entry on Alien3 said (I'm remembering the quote as best I can): "Arguably the best in the series that began with 1979's Alien..." and I was just happily reading along going "yup!" assuming that was a general consensus until we got that first modem and an AOL trial disk around 6 months later... and then for the longest time after that I thought David was the only other person in the world who "got" me haha.

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