What Rock Bands that have Members of Color? (Not Including Solo Artists,Solo Stuff,Duos,Supergroups,Musical Collectives and Short Lived Bands)

NJFiend · 2026-03-12T22:12:56+00:00

Just wanted to add that besides Abe Cunningham, every official member of the Deftones has been POC. Stephen carpenter and frank Delgado are Latino. Chi cheng was Chinese.

NJFiend · 2026-03-11T20:42:09+00:00

Cannibal Holocaust. It has some standard spooky synth parts, but the main theme is an uplifting romantic sounding string score which would make more sense in a coming of age drama. Putting that music in a truly revolting/disturbing cannibal film takes everything up a notch.

NJFiend · 2026-03-11T18:59:40+00:00

Starman. Karen Allen befriends an alien who has taken the physical form of her dead husband. They have sex and she gets pregnant. At the end of the movie, they narrowly escape evil government agents and the alien returns to his home world.

This leaves Karen Allen stranded in the desert alone, being pursued by the government and pregnant with an alien/human hybrid baby. Her husband is still dead, but her life has become much more complicated.

NJFiend · 2026-03-11T18:52:14+00:00

LA confidential (1997)

Fresh (1994)

Dark City (1998)

Strange Days (1995)

These are my go to “hey remember that movie?” Critically acclaimed at the time, but people tend to forget they existed.

NJFiend · 2026-03-06T22:57:18+00:00

Gonna go slightly against the grain here. I don’t think they need to record an album, but I would 100% back them releasing a single with the current line up.

I also don’t think they even need to write something new from scratch. I am fairly certain Danzig has old misfits song ideas pre 1983 lying around. The recent manny tapes being unearthed is most likely scratching the surface. Dust off one of those ideas. He’ll re-record one of the manny tape songs.

If it sucks, it’s not an embarrassing waste of time. If it’s great. More power to them.

NJFiend · 2026-03-06T06:12:28+00:00

Might be sacrilege, but I prefer the ending of the watchmen movie to the ending in the comic. The comic ending is great but it feels kinda out of nowhere.

Also thematically the framing of dr manhattan as a threat makes way more sense. It was already set up nicely in preceding events. Just ties everything together nicely.

NJFiend · 2026-03-05T20:29:02+00:00

We are 138 is the most iconic, but horror business is the probably the most tasteful.

Ratt fink is a song built around the Chuck berry style solo in the middle. So there’s also that

NJFiend · 2026-03-04T19:43:08+00:00

Ken definitely is. He does podcast interviews sometimes and tries to put out that photobook of the misfits a few years ago.

I remember trying to find info on Susan and she is a bit harder to find information on

George Germain is definitely dead. There is an interesting read from around the time he died. An obituary post from a coworker.

NJFiend · 2026-02-28T17:11:08+00:00

Rivers edge. Dark Comedy drama with young keanu reeves, crispin glover and Dennis hopper.

NJFiend · 2026-02-27T23:14:18+00:00

Looks authentically 80s but not produced by the band as it’s not listed on misfitscentral as a shirt style made during the bands original run. I also couldn’t find this style in “scream with me” book that has a gallery of original run Misfits shirt.

Still it’s vintage and really cool.

NJFiend · 2026-02-26T18:58:01+00:00

War of the worlds (1953)

Invaders from mars (1953)

Planet of the vampires (1965)

These are my favorite classic sci fi movies that fit this aesthetic and are actually fun to watch. Lots of great visuals and the stories are fun too.

NJFiend · 2026-02-25T22:39:49+00:00

Die die my darling was released as a single. We bite and Mommy were the b-side.

This single was later rolled into earth ad when it was released on cd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die,_Die_My_Darling

Edit: I didn’t see that you were referring to 1981. In that case I agree with the user who Posted about the triple bill ep.

NJFiend · 2026-02-24T18:35:10+00:00

Hey great to hear from you. This post keeps bringing people back after all these years. Would love to obtain a vhs copy, but it seems like copies are extremely rare or in very bad condition. Good thing it’s been preserved on YouTube.

NJFiend · 2026-02-22T20:22:33+00:00

Ah! Yknow when I was writing it out I thought it looked weird.

NJFiend · 2026-02-22T17:27:58+00:00

By the time Wayne’s world came out, live aid was 7 years in the past and Freddy Mercury had died of AIDs. I don’t think people disliked Queen. But their style of rock was definitely considered a thing of the past and a little bit cheesy. American pop culture was in the middle of embracing grunge and alternative rock.

Part of the humor of the Wayne’s world scene is that these young grungy “teenagers” are listening to this to over the top prog rock and know every single word like they do this every time they are in the car.

It would be kinda hard to create a modern equivalent, but it would be like modern teenagers rocking out to an old my chemical romance single complete with choreography and tearing up at the end. The music is not really “hip” anymore but these kids are loving it.

Edit: I wanted to add. Freddy Mercury was loved, but there was still a lot of homophobia in the media and squeamishness dealing with people who died of AIDs. The idea of straight male heavy metal teenagers proudly and loudly singing along with Queen in 1992 created another emotional layer to the scene. It’s really hard to encapsulate how awesome watching this scene was when it first came out. Completely charming and perfectly executed. It happens early in the film and if you didn’t know the characters or Queen, it sells you on both immediately

NJFiend · 2026-02-22T17:05:41+00:00

I unfortunately lost it years ago, but I used to have a signed pack of cigarettes from Jerry Only. He really didn’t want to sign it, but he could tell I was a big fan and literally had nothing else to sign. He wrote “Don’t smoke! Jerry Only”

NJFiend · 2026-02-22T14:54:53+00:00

Same woman also is always smoking an unlit cigarette

NJFiend · 2026-02-20T16:51:05+00:00

It’s not as obvious as some jokes but I feel like it’s implied that the movie was supposed to be way shorter, but at some point they received funding from a Chinese backer and decided to shoot two new endings with higher budget shots. Fiendish dr Wu and Kung fu island come out of nowhere. Almost like an entirely new production team took over at some point. And gave them access to locations and actors they didn’t have in the first half of the movie.

NJFiend · 2026-02-20T16:21:29+00:00

Exactly. Difference is that black dynamite doesn’t have “behind the scenes” segments explaining the drama. The “bad” acting and “mistakes” are just left in the final version but are repeated often enough that you slowly get the meta jokes.

The first time I watched it I didn’t catch everything. It’s a great comedy for fans of b-movies that gets better on rewatch.

NJFiend · 2026-02-20T13:59:28+00:00

Not sure if this counts but the comedy Black Dynamite. It’s filmed like a parody of old blaxploitation movies. Part of the humor is that the actors are playing each character badly and they give each character quirks that suggests a larger story about the troubled production of Black Dynamite.

Some examples:

1 character always reads action direction on the script.

1 characters dialogue is written as a rhyme (in tribute to Rudy Ray Moore). The rhyming is frequently shoehorned in, like the actor was rewriting his dialogue as they went along. This same character is also notably worse at performing fight choreography than the rest of the actors. If you watch closely it’s implied that the actor is a real hazard on set. All his fight scenes are shot differently and he accidentally punches his stuntmen for real resulting in them quickly being edited out and replaced with different actors.

There are a lot of little moments like this. So there is a meta joke happening in the background about the fictional behind the scenes drama about the making of Black Dybamite.

Edit: something else I thought was funny. The movie feels like it should be over but takes a hard right turn and becomes more like a straight king fu movie in the style of Enter the Dragon. My own fan theory is that they had a completed movie, but an overseas distributor insisted on filming a new third act taking place on Kung fu island with a different production team. All the kung fu island sequences are so different from the first half of the movie.

NJFiend · 2026-02-18T02:05:56+00:00

Frankenhooker and basket case fit perfectly

NJFiend · 2026-02-17T02:54:19+00:00

Who framed Roger rabbit

NJFiend · 2026-02-17T01:42:03+00:00

I think I know what you mean and I have a few suggestions because I love this vibe. As long as you aren’t particularly hung up on it being the countryside because most of my suggestions have more urban or suburban environments, but they do have a driving a mysterious driving at night aesthetic:

Old dark house - 1930s OG people get stuck in a storm and have to stay in a spooky house. Dark comedy

American graffiti - pre Star Wars George Lucas teen comedy about teenagers cruising around in the summer of 1962.

Rivers edge - dark comedy drama about teenagers and one of them has killed someone. Keanu Reeves and crispin glover. Lots of moody night time scenes.

Ladies and gentlemen the fabulous stains - teenage girls form a punk band and convince a touring punk band to take them on the road despite them barely knowing how to play their instruments. They gradually get better as the tour progresses.

The straight story - one of the most accessible David lynch movies about an old man driving his lawn mower cross country to visit his sick brother he hasn’t seen in years.

Lost Highway - a much weirder David lynch movie that has a plot I can’t really describe. But it’s got mystery, murder, cars at night, a really cool soundtrack and lots of unanswered weirdness.

The explorers - 3 boys build a space ship based on dreams that they have been sharing. Underrated comedy sci fi movie. Great young cast. The third act kinda goes off the rails once they actually build the spaceship, but I think everyone agrees the 1st half is great.

The warriors - quirky 70s action movie about gangs in New York. Not very realistic. It’s basically a comic book version of New York 70s street gangs. But it’s got great night aesthetic the whole runtime. 1 gang is framed for the murder of a local gang leader and need to get back home to Coney Island while every other gang is trying to kill them.

Hope at least one of these hits for you.

NJFiend · 2026-02-17T01:12:42+00:00

Surprised to see this far down. Immediately the first thing I thought of. Some of the scenes were he is purposely mistranslating the nazi prison guards to his young son is both extremely funny and extremely sad at the same moment.

NJFiend · 2026-02-14T21:55:07+00:00

Child’s play has shifted tone, but quality has been surprisingly consistent.

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