trapped in the closet, or wardrobe, or whatever

[davemerrill]

Mister Kitty comes back with a couple of tracks that are going to whisk you away to a fairyland teeming with magical creatures and promises of mystical fulfillment; that is to say, the world of Christian contemporary music circa 1978. This concept album based on "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is by an act called The 2nd Chapter of Acts and is pretty 70s.

I've actually had this LP for a while and had been waiting for them to release the latest Narnia movie so I could post tracks from it, and they took so long getting around to this new Narnia picture that by the time it actually got released I'd forgotten all about the record. Haven't seen the movie yet, either; might be waiting for a rental on that one.

Comments

[frustratedpilot]

An animated TV movie version of The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe had been made at about that time (and it incorporated some footage of Once Upon A Time I later found out). Was this album in fact that movie's soundtrack?

My family was Episcopalian back then and a big thing was that the TV movie was funded in part by the Episcopalian Church.

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

I don't think this album has anything to do with the animated film. Certainly there's no indication on the jacket, the sleeve art is unrelated, etc.

If you want to see an animated film that doesn't hold up well 30 years later, that movie is it. It's pretty dire.

[frustratedpilot]

Name me something that was made back then that DOES hold up well. *shrug*

[ferricide.livejournal.com]

name a piece of media from the 70s that holds up today? nope, nothin'. you're right. O_o

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

Name me something that was made back then that DOES hold up well. *shrug*

I can name hundreds of films, books, record albums, comics, TV shows, etc. from the 1970s that hold up very well today. The animated "Lion, Witch & Wardrobe" is, however, not among them.

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

And of course the basic problem of what is meant by 'hold up well', right?

I mean, both Gatchaman and Mazinger Z hold up well in terms of storytelling, concept and so on, but if one gets their panties in a bunch over 'old' looking animation then they're abject trainwrecks of mass failure.

Meanwhile modern stuff in many cases seems to suffer the opposite- cutting edge animation yet completely lacking in story, concept, imagination...

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's a whoosh, I dunno. There are so many great things that came out of the 70s that still have tremendous effect on popular culture. Star Wars, anybody?

[sobieniak.livejournal.com]

I would say something about that, but choose to be silent, it speaks for itself.

[sobieniak.livejournal.com]

That's what I've been noticing myself.