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

[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.