"It's likely that had Moore and Virgin known how successful the subsequent shift into the field of blues would prove, this album, After the War, would never have surfaced."
Life is full of mystery. How did the Universe form, and what was there before the Universe?… Is there intelligent life out on some distant planet?… Why did heavy metal's life not expire on the day This is Spinal Tap was released?
By the standards of all reason and logic, the hapless spoof metal band Spinal Tap, and their pant-wettingly hilarious mockery of the genre, should have consigned '80s metal to history's great waste basket in early 1984. I mean, how much more embarrassing could one movie be for a genre of music?… And the answer is: none. None more embarrassing. If that reference doesn't make any sense to you, by the way, you need to watch the movie.