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The Fab Four?

The Fantastic Four?

The Four Aces?

The Four Horsemen?

The Who?

The Newsboys?

The Evolution? *

The Monkees?

Fourtune?!?

ABBA?

Their clones...

And whoever these 4 other impostors are?

KISS?

Van Halen?!?

The Crickets?  **

The Christian Coalition?

Glass Tiger?

The Bangles?

L7...?!? 

(seen here with L... Joan Jett...)

The Bee Gees aka 
the Brothers GIBB...?

Metric?

No Doubt...?!? ***

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young?

Hall, Nash, Waltman & Young?

The Ex-Boogeymen?
(Photo courtesy of the band’s Facebook page)

The Ones To Blame?
(Photo courtesy of the band’s Facebook page)

Nanerpus?
(Photo courtesy of the band’s Reverbnation page)

The Extreme Horsemen?

Mary's Blood?

Zelktage?

Metallica?

GENESIS?!? ****

LED ZEP?

HEART 
(by association/homage to Led Zep!) 

DEF LEP? 
(okay; not truly a foursome...)

BLUR?

HOLE?

The Newfangled Four?

Son By Four?

Feist, Elmo... and two others?

Four Tet?

...?

The Four Seasons?

... er, these Four Seasons?

THE GANG OF FOUR?

UHF -
do Lindo Portugal!

(sim, mesmo!)

Les Quatre Mousquetaires!

Les Charlots?

Les Cyniques?

RBO?!?

er... these guys?!?

...????

Chiliwack?

----------- ANYBODY ELSE...?!? ---------

(Write-in picks accepted -
you just gotta, y'know...
WRITE THEM IN!!! 

And plead their case, too! 

 *LOL*)

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* = I could have said "the what" 
right after the Who,
in derision of "Evolution" 
(both the theory as the group it inspired...) 
which was merely a bad name
quickly thought up just to 
avoid using "the 4 Horsemen" again!
But I didn't want to break momentum there...!
Oh - and although it was mostly a trio 

for the better remainder of its existence 

(and the one reunion they staged) 

"Evolution" used to be a foursome, yes... 
It was conceptualized as one, 
one that mimicked another 
which had itself been based upon 
the original Biblical one...! 
''Evolution'' then inspired 
(or competed with, really) 
those ''X-Treme Horsemen'' 
down south... 
And that awful Shield also...! 
And, then, it ran its course...
The fourth guy was just too randy 

for his own good,
that's all! ;)

Besides, all this gives us a chance 
to add on another rock band 
we could have included: 
Motorhead

** = now the Crickets are another story! 

These ''chirping Crickets'' 
rose to fame 

mostly when 3 of them 
hung out with Buddy Holly...

They evolved or de-evolved, too...

Not to be confused with 

the ''Bulgarian Beatles'' -

the other famous Crickets 
aka Shturtzite.

*** = now, ''No Doubt'' de-evolved 

and disintegrated into nothingness; 

leaving only Gwen Stefani 

and her pregnancies on tabloids...

Hardly the makings of 

an ''awesome foursome'' there!

We merely added them 

due to their uncanny similarities 

with Emily Haines' METRIC...! 

**** = during this ''legendary'' band's 

long and tumultuous lifespan, 

there was this brief moment in time 

(after Gabriel left - and before Hackett did!) 

...in which it really was a foursome! 

One could say that it died as one, too, 

as its own de-evolution saw it dwindle 

down to two founding members 

plus a new lead singer 

and a studio drummer of legend,

circa 1997...

The Bee Gees, 
finally,
are here because 
even though they were 3 
(and, earlier, 5...!) 

they were really four:
4 Brothers Gibb! 
(By the same token, 
we should have included 
the three musketeers then...! 
Oh well...
WE DID!)

well... we tried! 

Raquel and Faye are not 2 of the 4, though... 

Frank and Oliver round up that quatuor! 

IN FRENCH! 

AS IT SHOULD BE!

but not only:

And then there was 
the band from Portugal 
that sings about a town in 
Bosnia-Herzegovina... 

Hey - 
*a gente de Portugal* 
can and will always be 
*people of the world* 
- sorry if you cannot! 

Most importantly though,
let me mention here and now
(in the light of all that "evolu-talk")
that I am a creationist
created in the Image of God - yeah! 
I'll take evolution, sure:
but in the light of it 
being part of a Plan 
and all part of Creation! 
 ;)

May it influence your vote now! 

 *LOL*

Foursomes In Film - 4 x 4

BROKEN WINDOWS

Aye - ''broken windows'' are a recurring theme in cinema!

This film is the anti-SITC indeed - as it is totally at the opposite spectrum of all that smut which is so well represented by Sex In The City on the small and no-longer-silver screens... Four women, four torments, four paths are presented, each trying to cope with the turmoil that everyday life has brought their way; each doing so in their own personal way. Truly interesting and with considerably more substance than the SITC fluff, evidently. This is far more worthy of your time - it goes without further noting (but we'll notify you anyway!)



NOUS IRONS TOUS AU PARADIS (1977)

A sequel to the previous year's sleeper hit Un Éléphant Ça Trompe Énormément (1976) about four friends and their respective family troubles... A classic - or two, rather. And you know that it is true when you see American remakes failing to recapture that same je ne sais quoi that only director Yves Robert and his unique cast could create, somehow... (The only blurring fact is that Robert participated in the remake process with American funny guy Gene Wilder - so there was no explanation other than "certain cultural traits do not translate well" to explain the failure of the remake. But that is another story, I guess... Speaking of digressions: watch for the final minute on the above clip from the 1977 sequel; it features the debut of French comedienne of certain renown Josiane Balasko.)



FOUR LIONS (2010)


An original and daring way to broach the subject of terrorism: with comedy. Indeed, this has been rightly hailed as a comic tour de force as it deals with fanaticism in such a way that even the masters (Monty Python, Rowan Atkinson, Chaplin) have not dared - and the end result is brilliant. Infinitely better than The Losers for instance, which was released in the same year and featured as many explosions - if not more. (The Losers' problem was that it was a DC derivative: like Jonah Hex and V For Vendetta, it waited way too long for the *comic-book to movie* adaptive process to take place. When that finally occurred, any semblance of novelty was utterly gone, since a ton of innovative indie films had already seized their opportunity beforehand, perhaps inspired by the sequential art fare, ironically enough! The Losers was hailed as a cross between similar fare such as The A-Team and The Expendables; at worst it was dubbed as *The B-Team*... Four Lions, in comparison, drew nothing but rave reviews for everything it attempted - except the ending. Evidence that no one can be perfect; especially not those who think that they are... But that is another story, too!)




THE FOUR MUSKETEERS (1974)


Instead of detestable versions of this classic adventure tale, the Richard Lester-directed film (or films, rather - for again, in the 70s, there were two!) imposes itself for so many obvious reasons; plus it reinforces the truth of the matter that was denied for too long, in that the musketeers were not three but four! Alexandre Dumas could count: let us not deny that! Another of the many reasons to like this version is the cast: Oliver Reed was the finest Athos ever, I've said it many times before and I'll continue saying it! Michael York, Richard Chamberlain and most of all Frank Finlay were the most suitable companions to that Athos. And then you had Charlton Heston himself as the Cardinal de Richelieu - what a casting coup! Faye Dunaway had the role of her career as Milady de Winter (what, you thought it was Laura Mars?) and even Raquel Welch, in a very farcical way, was terrific as fair, sweet Constance. Geraldine Chaplin (the man's daughter) along with Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simon Ward, Roy Kinnear, Christopher Lee, Philippe Noiret and many more rounded up the all-star cast for the two movies in the seventies - and a sequel made in the mid-80s, fifteen (not twenty) years later...! This is the best adaptation of that classic (series of) novel(s) - bar none! (And it is the version that is the object of a remake these days, as well - with that insufferable Orlando Bloom, among others, but let us not ruin our good memories here...)

Honorable mentions (out of sheer nostalgia, really) go to the Fantastic Four, war movie The Four Horsemen of the Apocaypse, The Four Feathers, Four Christmases, The Four Seasons, Four Weddings And A Funeral, Four Rooms, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (there were, essentially, only four good opponents for Freddy in it - if even that, but I say yes; there were 4...) as well as The A-Team itself (well, perhaps) Four Flies On Grey Velvet (if a Freddy flick can be included, so can a Dario Argento waste of celluloid) The Seniors and, mostly, Breaking Away and Judgment Night - but, clearly, you see that we selected here the best quatuor of films there could be to choose from! And now it is up to you to choose which one is the best Quatre-Quarts... Quattro Filmo... Foursome Film... четворка филм!

Well then... 

I've made my choice -

what is yours?

;-)

Some music, as a reward...

APHRODITE'S CHILD - THE FOUR HORSEMEN

well... so much for that! 

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