I still find it fascinating that it doesn’t seem to be very much talked about that there’s practically a whole second movie in the deleted scenes on the DVD–there’s 70 minutes of deleted scenes!! A lot of them could have been put back into what was already a very short movie, 81 minutes. One review I read on Metacritic claimed that the deleted scenes are the second most famous thing about Spinal Tap after the original movie, since I guess that Break Like The Wind album they did was never very well liked (I can remember reading some terrible reviews.) I wanted to say their Simpsons appearance was second, but I guess it really ought to be the commentary track where the three actors comment in character as the Spinal Tap guys, which is the greatest DVD extra of all time and I seriously think it’s just as funny as the original movie. Since it was recorded decades later it served as proof to me that they were still capable of coming up with funny new Spinal Tap material.

You know what I was secretly hoping for? If you look up the video clip for “Heavy Metal Memories” it’s an old fashioned infomercial for Spinal Tap’s greatest hits and in there is a song called “The Incredible Flight Of Icarus P. Anybody.” I’m assuming that’s supposed to be a Pretty Things S. F. Sorrow reference? If only we actually got that song in the sequel! We didn’t, though. Given that we got “Listen To The Flower People” like twice, I don’t think I’m asking too much, but I guess few people would get the joke. Then again, it’s sort of a cute joke in and of itself that they’d still be playing their hippie flower power song from 1967 after they converted to heavy metal.

I noticed Lars Ulrich showed up. One of Tap’s funnier bits back in the day was footage of them going backstage at some awards show, I think, sometime around 1991 or so and harassing Black Album-era Metallica about making a “black album.”