Questions about anything

[Sgt Floyd]

Speaking of The Offspring, was there any reason why they changed their musical style? Starting with Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace, they transitioned from punk-rock to a more pop-punk style (listen to "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" ). Their newest album Days Go By seems to be the same too.

For one thing, they got a new producer. But I think it mainly has to do with age. These guys have been around since the 80s. Dex kinda screams everything when he sings, and that's gotta be taxing if you're in your 40s or 50s (I have no idea how old he really is). A mellower sound is a lot easier to handle. Although I happen to think Rise and Fall is a great album. If anything, I'd say Smash is my least favorite. Not to say its bad or anything, I just don't like the style they were going for. Although my favorite album is Ixnay. Days Go By has its good songs, but overall nothing all that new or interesting. Even Dirty Magic sounds kinda...meh. Turning Into You is probably my favorite song from it. Days Go By is also the one Offspring album I don't own yet.

Beheaded is still like one of my all time favorite songs by them though mehe XP

But you know, even Americana was straying into pop-punk territory.

 

[AquaGGR]

For one thing, they got a new producer. But I think it mainly has to do with age. These guys have been around since the 80s. Dex kinda screams everything when he sings, and that's gotta be taxing if you're in your 40s or 50s (I have no idea how old he really is). A mellower sound is a lot easier to handle. Although I happen to think Rise and Fall is a great album. If anything, I'd say Smash is my least favorite. Not to say its bad or anything, I just don't like the style they were going for. Although my favorite album is Ixnay. Days Go By has its good songs, but overall nothing all that new or interesting. Even Dirty Magic sounds kinda...meh. Turning Into You is probably my favorite song from it. Days Go By is also the one Offspring album I don't own yet.

Beheaded is still like one of my all time favorite songs by them though mehe XP

But you know, even Americana was straying into pop-punk territory.

Dex is almost fifty, so yeah, that's probably why he stopped yelling the vocals.
Personally, Smash was my favorite album. But the most "epic" album was Ixnay to me (sometimes with bands I have a "favorite" album and a "most epic" album). The only song I've heard from Days Go By is the title track, which seems okay. Actually, I was introduced The Offspring through Rise and Fall, so I have absolutely no problem with their newer work.

 

[D'Snowth]

At the store the other day, I saw boxes of Scooby Doo cereal with "NEW!" plastered on the front of the boxes, which begs the question, why exactly do they need "NEW!' on the boxes? Scooby Doo's had his own cereal before, nothing new about that.

And THAT also begs the question, just how many cereals has Scooby Doo had over the years?

 

[AquaGGR]

Did the SpongeBob episode "Sailor Mouths" get in trouble with Moral Guardians for SpongeBob and Patrick's constant (albeit bleeped) swearing?

 

[MuppetSpot]

Nope It stills air on Nick

 

[minor muppetz]

Anybody know what the first Disney movie was to have the classic "castle logo" sequence? And has it been added to rereleases? Last night I was watching 101 Dalmatians and saw it there, and thought the animation looked like it came later than the 1960s.

 

[Muppet fan 123]

Well, you asked the right person.

Disney didn't start using that castle logo until sometime between 85 and 1990. Since then, there's been three different variations. The simple lines that are shaped to look like the Sleeping Beauty Castle, (which is also seen with MTI and MCC), the CGI version, where it will pan out through the archway, until about 2007, where they introduced the current logo, which is modeled after Cinderella Castle.

The copy you have is most probably a re-release. Disney went without an official logo for over sixty years.

 

[D'Snowth]

the CGI version, where it will pan out through the archway, until about 2007

Wasn't that one used only for Pixar movies though?

 

[minor muppetz]

The copy you have is most probably a re-release. Disney went without an official logo for over sixty years.

Yeah it's from the original VHS release, after it had been rereleased in theaters.

Why did a lot of older movies only have opening credits? It seems that until the late-1960s the only end credits were a listing of who played who, though Disney's animated movies didn't do that (Old Yeller didn't, either). And even with a lot of live-action movies only having cast credits at the end, there would still be movies with no end credits at all (just "The End"). In fact It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is one movie that doesn't have any ending credits, and only lists the cast without saying who played who. Back then I'm sure most people knew who was who, but I wish it listed who played who because I don't know who half the comedians are.

Anyway, why did Disney continue to not put ending credits in it's animated films long after movies started having longer ending credits? The Fox and the Hound from the early 1980s was the last Disney movie to lack ending credits at all.

In fact, I think the first few Disney movies didn't list voice actors at all, and then they listed voice actors without saying who voiced who, and then they started having the credits list who did what voice. What was the first Disney movie to have voice actors, and what was the first one to list who did what voice?

 

[Muppet fan 123]

Wasn't that one used only for Pixar movies though?

I think you're right about that one. The only films I remember it on was Toy Story and Monsters Inc.