OT -- Best 80s movie song
by Worf on Jun 21, 2010 3:37 PM CDT
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PrintI have had "Ready or Not" from the Zapped soundtrack in my head for the last two hours and I can't find it on You Tube. I found "Got to Believe in Magic," though. I'd forgotten how hot the brunette from Zapped was.
Then I thought about the great songs. I find "Win in the End" from Teen Wolf far superior to "You're the Best" from Karate Kid. I rewatched the fight montage from Karate Kid and you realize just how much they were protecting Ralph Macchio, who couldn't kick his way through rice paper. (Plus, by Karate Kid III, he was drawing Social Security and had the biggest ass this side of Jennifer Lopez)
Then I realized -- my fellow BCBers, on an off-day, might like to share my nostalgia and joy over 80s movie soundtracks. So, TO THE POLLS!
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saw that movie about a month ago....
hadn’t seen in it about a decade. good times :)
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by Madison Cub Fan on Jun 22, 2010 7:29 PM CDT up reply actions
It's patently unfair you don't allow us to pick multiple options, Worf.
Is that not possible with this blog for polls?
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 3:52 PM CDT reply actions
The underappreciated Back In Time
End theme to Back To the Future
by Shanghai Badger on Jun 21, 2010 3:56 PM CDT reply actions
Caddyshack
I’m all right, with the dancing gopher, at least one of the best of the 80s.
I don't think of Caddyshack as an 80s movie
Yes, it came out in 1981, but that is pure 70s.
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
How about
Weird Science then, it almost typifies the 80s electronic music scene.
Weird Science is a typical 80s movie
In the 80s, we had this idea that computers could do everything. Pity that they would mostly be used for stuff like this poll.
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LOL, so true
bu tat least I refrained from mentioning The Goonies, that might be another song to get stuck in your head for days.
Relevant...
In the 80s, we had this idea that computers could do everything.
I just watched Tron again over the weekend.
Don't forget about Robots
Short Circuit gave us Johnny 5, Fisher Stevens, and 3 more years of Steve Gutenberg.
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by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Jun 21, 2010 5:44 PM CDT up reply actions
Nice software, Steph a nee!
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 6:28 PM CDT up reply actions
But they can do everything. It's what's put in them is where it really matters
Really?! Oh, really!!
Just win the next game...!
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by Andiamo Cuccioli on Jun 21, 2010 4:54 PM CDT up reply actions
My parents' friend from college wrote Wierd Science.
Revenge of the Nerds and Whoopie Boys too. Master of the eithies I should say!
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by Kinky Reggae on Jun 24, 2010 10:02 AM CDT up reply actions
Someone other poster's mom used to date John Landis
We seem to have the eighties pretty well covered! And based upon the demographics and geography of this board, we have to have someone within 2 degrees of separation from Cusack, right?
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Don't know about Cusack, but I have a Kevin Bacon # of 2.
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John Cusack is a "Cub Fan"
what degree does that make us?
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by Kinky Reggae on Jun 25, 2010 11:45 AM CDT up reply actions
Perpetually disappointed.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 27, 2010 10:52 AM CDT up reply actions
Kenny Loggins owns the 80's
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by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Jun 21, 2010 5:09 PM CDT up reply actions
"Lunatic Fringe" -Vision Quest seems appropriate as a fan this season.
“Winning is Everything” -Youngblood
“Don’t You Forget About Me” – The Breakfast Club
And by the way, I like the 80’s and am a paste eater.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 3:59 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Good call on that one!
"The big possums walk late." - Harry Caray
That one gets my vote.
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“Don’t You Forget About Me’ not so much about “Come On Eileen” Dexy’s Midnight Runners
by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Jun 21, 2010 7:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Awww...but the second one was so perfect for puns with friends.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 7:29 PM CDT up reply actions
I've listened to Lunatic Fringe so many times
that I think it gets included in any of my auto playlists.
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by Craig in South Bend on Jun 22, 2010 12:30 PM CDT up reply actions
It is driving me CRAZY that I can't find Ready or Not online
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"Winner Takes it All" Over The Top
Should get it alone for idiots armwrestling screaming “over the top!” at everyone, turning their hats around after that movie came out.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 4:02 PM CDT reply actions
That was the movie where I called for the check
on Stallone movies.
Me and Sly had a great thing going, with Rocky III and IV and Rambo II and Cobra.
But after that snotty little brat screaming, “Over the Top, Dad!”
Yeah, I was out
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Rocky V must have horrified you then. I couldn't believe it was made...hope the paycheck was worth it.
Similar to Eddie Murphy doing a cameo in Best Defense. Cracked me up years later hearing Eddie saying…yeah hated the movie but the money was worth it.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 4:18 PM CDT up reply actions
I've actually never seen Rocky V all the way through
Don’t plan on changing that, either
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A truck driver must win an arm-wrestling competition to win his custody battle?
How can anything fail with that premise!?
Also, his son looks exactly like Demi Moore. And one guy drinks motor oil before a match — and rather than making him sick or killing him, it makes him STRONGER.
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I'm apalled
at the fact people are bad mouthing Over the Top. The real song in that flick is Meet Me Half Way by Kenny Loggins.
Any time you get a guy in stained jeans, long haulin’ Brut, a guy named Smasher, a fat man called Canadian Strong Man Carl Adams, Terry Funk, and a Father in Son doing exhausting workouts on the ram bar of a truck you have a winner.
Its funny, you spend most of your life gripping a baseball. And in the end, its almost always the other way around.
by TCobb1911 on Jun 21, 2010 6:39 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
"In Your Eyes"
from Say Anything. I’m really more of a rock guy, but that song, in that movie pretty much closed the door on the 80’s. There was no going back.
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by HoodooMan on Jun 21, 2010 4:08 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Always liked The Heat is On (Glenn Fry) from Beverly Hills Cop....
But the best was the aforementioned Don’t You Forget About Me" – The Breakfast Club.
Excellent choice
Neutron Dance by the Pointer SIsters also rocks
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
"Stir It Up" I like in there too. That was a great all around soundtrack.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 4:15 PM CDT up reply actions
Axel F (the instrumental theme song)
is now stuck in my head, where it will likely reside until 2016.
(Along with the line “we’re not gonna fall for the banana in the tailpipe.”)
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by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Jun 21, 2010 5:19 PM CDT up reply actions
Real Genius soundtrack- "You Took Advantage of Me" and of course, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
I thought originally seeing this post that it should apply to baseball and the Cubs…but rereading it I think you just were looking for great movie songs.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 4:11 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Yes
I was going to post this as well. I also enjoy the Bryan Adams track in that movie….One Night Love Affair!
That movie is pure excellence.
by niuhuskie224 on Jun 22, 2010 2:30 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes indeed.
Movies and especially comedies aren’t made with that type of innocent fun anymore. A shame. It’s all about going to the extreme and humiliating usually. It wasn’t Caddyshack or Bull Durham, but perfect for what it was…good natured fun.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 4:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Exactly... why no more music montages in which the protagonists fix up an old house?
They have to get the place ready for the big battle of the bands before old man Baxter Carruthers tears down the old neighborhood to build a luxury condo development! And his son is such a dick!
Also there’s a monkey who works at the bikini store.
I actually wrote a script treatment for a movie exactly like this when I was in lawschool. Then “Wet Hot American Summer” came out and kind of took the wind out of my sails.
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Sorry to hear about your script treatment.
Val Kilmer pulled that likeable guy sarcasm off pretty well. I doubt you could sell a movie with the current era now. Many fave scenes in it like nerds getting lucky (without the bullcrap of making speeches like Revenge of the Nerds)…love the underdog winning out. A laserbeam heating up popcorn to pour out of the house was inspired…with scenes of them tobagganing through the halls it was the perfect college / high school movie. You’d only get an American Pie inferior clone now…bad movie where the biggest upside is being unrated on DVD.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 23, 2010 9:45 AM CDT up reply actions
On the plus side, it was pretty horrible.
We mostly just spent our downtime (and as a 3rd year law student, there’s a lot of that) brainstorming 80’s movie cliches and trying to fit them into one big storyline.
Chimpanzee? Check.
A chimpanzee who works in a Bikini store? Check.
Two male protagonists, one of whom is the funny “ladies man” (think Andrew McCarthy), who finds his true love at the end (and she was there all along, but wearing glasses so you didn’t know she was hot!) — the other of whom is the “straightlaced man” (think John Cusack or Jon Silverman), devoted to his girlfriend, but they have lots of misunderstandings (this isn’t what it looks like!!) but they wind up together in the end? Check.
Run-down old house? Check.
Musical montage for fixing old house up? Check.
Someone gets paint spilled on them during that montage? Check.
The monkey pulls some kind of monkeyshines during the montage? Check.
Crooked developer who wants to buy the neighborhood and run all of the “townies” out for his expensive development? Check.
Spoiled son of crooked developer (wearing sweater tied around his neck) who makes a move on the aforementioned girlfriend in the aftermath of one of the aforementioned misunderstandings? Check.
Fancy dress party around the rich developer’s pool, where our protagonists somehow wind up working catering, and someone falls on a long table and a bunch of people get shoved into the pool and everything on the table shoots into the air and into the pool including the WHOLE GIANT CAKE? Check.
The chimpanzee somehow exposes the spoiled son’s plot and lets the girlfriend see that it WAS really a misunderstanding and it wasn’t “what it looked like” with her boyfriend and that blonde? Check.
Battle of the Bands fundraiser at the end, which the protagonists win after beating the developer’s son’s band? Check.
(During the Battle, the spoiled son’s flunkies pull the power out on our heroes, and they basically invent “MTV Unplugged” with an acoustic version of Motley Crue’s “Home Sweet Home” that expresses the “straightlaced guy”s feelings so well it wins the girlfriend back, and so moves the flunkies that they put the power back in, and our heroes proceed to blow the roof off the joint with pyrotechnics and a rocking Huey Lewis-style number.
Then, at the end after the good guys won the prize and saved the day, their wacky third friend who runs the bikini store pulls up in a classic car convertible with his chimpanzee, and the two protagonists and their girlfriends jump in, and they drive off into the sunset while Journey plays “Any Way You Want It” (or a similar song if that’s too expensive or derivative of Caddyshack)!
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I liked those things. Cliched but amusing in a light hearted manner.
At least they were not meant to perpetuate hateful kinds of jokes. Ski School made me laugh then, moronic cult movie with little talent or acting in it that just was being good at being stupid. I guess you covered it a little, but that movie sure had a common theme in movies…winning some idiot contest/sporting event to have your “gang” be accepted and/or bankrupt the mean owners and bullies. A lot of 80’s R rated movies were based on that.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 23, 2010 2:34 PM CDT up reply actions
And on a baseball note
Who can ever forget the 1984 season and WGN’s catch song for the Cubs,
Van Halen’s Jump.
Of course, this season could be wrapped up in “girl gone bad”, and “I’ll wait” for the fans.
Yeah. Great song for them, bittersweet to remember now.
Everytime I hear that song I think of Harry introducing the team to it, and just as much him introducing the team during the playoffs that year. Looked so promising for the first two games darn it.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 4:20 PM CDT up reply actions
I agree
and I still have the 84 cubs VHS tape showing how great of a season it was, and then, the ultimate choke. But also, to this day, I still can’t stand steve garvey (Yes, caps excluded to show disrespect)
Got that right.
My mom who was never a big baseball fan would stil sneer at any mention of his name…he was a decent player but definitely is a jerk to me always!
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 4:49 PM CDT up reply actions
Not really one song but
the music for Sixteen Candles was pretty close to perfect. “Turning Japanese”, “True”, “Young Americans” and who can forget “Kajagoogoo”?
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John Hughes
really had a knack (no pun intended) for that.
The song “Pretty in Pink” inspired the movie by the same name. Originally,the song was released in 1981 only to be re-released in 1986 for the movie. Hughes was, apparently, a huge Psych Furs fan.
by jerry morales rules on Jun 21, 2010 4:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Then why did they remix it
so it sounded like crap?
Loved the Furs back in ’81. But “Pretty in Pink” is my all-time most loathed movie. The horrible remix of the title song is just one reason that movie is so awful.
by Josh Timmers on Jun 21, 2010 6:07 PM CDT up reply actions
"Turning Japanese" is a funny song to me now...but only because I've heard now
the urban legends as to its meaning. Can’t post them on this blog, but check into it if you like that song…it may not be as innocent as you think.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 4:51 PM CDT up reply actions
I think you can type the "M" word
even Cubbie-Tim shouldn’t
“watch your language”you on that lol
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and make them do an impression of what it looks like…ah…that not REALLY Japanese….I see!
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 7:58 AM CDT up reply actions
Something else-
She Caught the Katy-The Blues Brothers
Dead Man’s Party-Oingo Boingo (Back to School)
Oh Yeah-Yello (from Ferris Bueller)
Big Bottom-This is Spinal Tap
"Fasten those seatbelts!"-Pat Hughes
Beverly Hills Cop Theme
is my favorite. Linky for ear candy.
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by Castro Por Presidente on Jun 21, 2010 4:26 PM CDT reply actions
TALKING HEADS!!!!!
I love these guys. Really, the band itself could’ve been an 80’s movie:
Oddball hero? Check. We’ve got David Byrne. I dare you to find an odder hero.
Distinctive fashion? We put David Byrne in a giant suit.
Focus on Technology? Yes! Have you heard all the synthesizers? Not to mention the subject matter of like half the lyrics.
Hey, they’ve even got that desperate attempt at a sequel! Remember “The Heads”? Same band minus one key band member!
When Talking Heads played on the jukebox at a bar a friend and I were in, my buddy stopped mid-sentence to observe, “this didn’t have to happen. What if David Byrne had been good at soccer or something? Thank God he wasn’t.”
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by jerry morales rules on Jun 21, 2010 4:31 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
How about the theme songs from...
Bloodsport – “Kumite”
The Last Dragon – “The Last Dragon”
And of course, all movie themes from the 80’s have to have a John Carpenter song.
“Big Trouble In Little China”
All lists must have a John Carpenter song.
by TheHawkRules on Jun 21, 2010 4:35 PM CDT up reply actions
That is excelent!
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by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Jun 21, 2010 5:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Bloodsport is awesome.
And it has Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds. Just awesome all around.
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…should start having KUMITE thumping through the locker room before games. Maybe they will get that killer instinct to win. They seem to be missing that.
I would love to see them
do a Haka. (Google it for those who don’t know, Rugby term)
That would be interesting to say the least. LOL
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by windycitywarrior on Jun 21, 2010 4:55 PM CDT reply actions
This is really easy:
“Don’t you forget about me” – Breakfast Club
Honorable mention to
“Weird Science” – Weird Science
“Electric Boogaloo” – Breakin 2 – Electric Boogaloo
“Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins
“The Goonies R Good Enough” – Goonies
“Everybody Wants to Rule the World”- Real Genius
“St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion)” – St. Elmo’s Fire
“Power of Love” – Back to the Future
“I’m Alright” – Caddyshack
Just missed this list because it came out in 1990:
“Blaze of Glory” – Young Guns II
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by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Jun 21, 2010 5:07 PM CDT reply actions
Man in Motion!!!!!
OK, that is one I missed.
And I’m adding Young Guns II to the 80s for the same reason I subtracted Caddyshack from the 80s. That may have come out in 1990, but that was an 80s flick.
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The love theme instrumental from that movie was pretty good too.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 7:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh Worf, Worf, Worf... how you disappoint me...
You were so close with Karate Kid but the answer you seek is in Karate Kid II.
Yes, I’m talking about Glory of Love. Go ahead – click on that link. I dare you. You know you want to…
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by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Jun 21, 2010 5:13 PM CDT up reply actions
It's no Karate Kid 3 but come on man
This was the most intense moment of the whole movie:
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by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Jun 21, 2010 5:18 PM CDT up reply actions
That was probably the "best" moment from that stinker.
I have not understood at all the appeal of the new Karate Kid movie…other than all the movies out now suck. Perhaps its because WILL SMITH’S son is in it…makes me shake my head. I mean, Police Academy was great…all 30 sequels sucked, so who would put out a very similar sequel now and get attendance?
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 6:36 PM CDT up reply actions
I watched that thing spin for 2 solid minutes
it is mesmerizing
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Could you round house kick someone in face after than?
If not, just watch longer.
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by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Jun 21, 2010 9:41 PM CDT up reply actions
LIVE OR DIE MAN!
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by Craig in South Bend on Jun 22, 2010 12:31 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm saddened at the lack of Huey Lewis and the News in this poll
Power of Love – Back to the Future.
one point twenty one gigawatts?!?
Lea Thompson second greatest movie.
This would be first:
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by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Jun 21, 2010 5:43 PM CDT up reply actions
I can't remember which was a bigger flop Howard the duck or
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by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Jun 21, 2010 5:57 PM CDT up reply actions
Man terrible movie but I drooled over every scene Lea was in ...Yowza!
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 6:38 PM CDT up reply actions
All irony and sarcasm aside:
“Let’s Go Crazy” by Prince and the Revolution. Hands down the most galvanizing opening number of any musical I can remember.
Honorable Mention to “The Bird” by The Time, from the same film.
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I'll have to vote for this one
“Let’s Go Crazy.”
I would say “Anything from Repo Man” but I don’t think anything from that was original to the movie.
I’m pleasantly surprised that no one has said “Eye of the Tiger.”
by Josh Timmers on Jun 21, 2010 6:14 PM CDT up reply actions
If I were to make my choice for "Song Most Full Of Cheese...And Win!"
it would probably have to be “I’m Free (Heaven Helps The Man)” by Kenny Loggins from “Footloose.”
Ren McCormack is a loner and a rebel who just doesn’t fit in, and he’s got some emotions to work out. Luckily, he has a professional dance double and a big helping of Loggins to help him. Completely laughable yet somehow engaging movie history ensues.
"One of the things I like about baseball is that between innings you can go to the restroom.'' ~Manny Acta.
Add to that "Let's hear for the boy"
With Kevin Bacon teaching his hick friend to dance with double headphones. looks awkward if you just flashback to that scene but works well when you watch the movie.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 7:25 PM CDT up reply actions
That was the strangest dancing.
They jumped around a lot. I remember that.
Footloose was a far superior soundtrack to Flashdance.
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Didn't like "What a Feeling" eh?
With Maniac in there I thought it wasn’t bad, if not as good as Flashdance as a soundtrack. All the girls wearing legwarmers out there will be disappointed. Sure was fun Watching Jennifer Beals move around to those songs. And her eating lobster alone telling off his ex…
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 7:59 PM CDT up reply actions
Movie-wise, Flashdance is superior
I wouldn’t touch that chick in Footloose with Carlos Zambrano’s dick
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Lori Singer's career lasted as long as a dollar bill does for Soriano.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 8:03 PM CDT up reply actions
That's because she had no ass, no boobs and her face looked like
Wile E Coyote after he runs into an anvil he set up for Road Runner.
She was easy. That was like her one virtue.
Jennifer Beals was SMOKIN’
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
Not just Smokin',
But anyone who can deliver that line with realness…“As a matter of fact, I f******d his brains out” to an ex looking like that…yeah, she’s always gonna give me a chubby.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 8:10 PM CDT up reply actions
She had a recurring role on "Lie to Me"
still got the game, she does
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Really? I have seen that show a few times...but only a few.
Seemed cool…and now I definitely will check it out.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 8:12 PM CDT up reply actions
I like this Beals more
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 8:58 PM CDT up reply actions
She isn't getting older, she's getting hotter.
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Wow...
like a fine wine
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by Craig in South Bend on Jun 22, 2010 6:54 PM CDT up reply actions
Good ones Goodie!
“Let’s Go Crazy” was great, and I am sure a lot of people like “Purple Rain” too…at least for awhile. The Time had it goin’ on for sure. And by the way Josh, Repo Man was fantastic and I’d think a lot of songs here aren’t original to the movie. Iggy Pop made a good song…Circle Jerks when the sh*t hits the fan…and who could forget Pablo Picasso was an a$$hole.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 6:44 PM CDT up reply actions
My only problem
is that while I liked the version of Pablo Picasso in Repo Man, the original Modern Lovers version is one of my favorite songs of all time. In fact, that whole album is probably my favorite album of all time.
“Roadrunner, roadrunner, going a thousand miles an hour. Gonna drive past the Stop-n-Shop. WITH THE RADIO ON!”
“That’s a Girl—friend. That’s a G-I-R-L-F-R-E-N. That’s a Girlfriend . . .”
“When you get out of the hospital, let me back into you life.”
“I called this number three times already but I, I got scared, I put it back in place. I put the phone back in place.”
And of course, the aforementioned Pablo Picasso line.
Of course, that album was recorded in 1971-2 and not released until 1976. It was still almost a decade ahead of its time. Just brilliant.
by Josh Timmers on Jun 22, 2010 12:19 AM CDT up reply actions
+1 Josh on the Modern Lovers album - although I'm Straight wasn't on the original vinyl -- one of my top 5 albums
when I saw all the pop rubbish cited, I shook my head and thought no one would remember the Repo Man movie, let alone the soundtrack.
Favorite line from the movie: “….I blame society…”
My brother and I still get together once in awhile to hoist a few, watch the movie
and laugh. Sing the 7up song, everything is generic in the stores, the book dianetics falling out, and famously, as the puddle of beer is found after Otto pours it on the ground…who pissed the floor again?
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 8:06 AM CDT up reply actions
What about
“What about our relationship?”
“F%^* that.”
“You S!%t head! I’m glad I tortured you!”
by Josh Timmers on Jun 23, 2010 2:16 AM CDT up reply actions
"I thought you had to pick up your wife at the hospital?"
“Nah don’t worry about her…she’s a rock.”
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 23, 2010 9:08 AM CDT up reply actions
That's true
but since the whole thing wasn’t really put together by the band and was just thrown together by someone (Matthew “King” Kaufman according to Wikipedia) with the tapes that were available, what was on the original vinyl was pretty arbitrary. So I don’t have a problem including “I’m Straight.”
by Josh Timmers on Jun 23, 2010 2:13 AM CDT up reply actions
WORF YOU CHANGED YOUR AVATAR
I WIN
"The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money." --Ernie Banks
I'm gonna go with:
this Billy Ocean gem just because my teacher in college produced it and I played with the master tapes quite a bit.
Worf your list is crap.
By the end of this list you’ll be crying, Worf, for I will lead you to the promised land.
1 – CADDYSHACK—Kenny Loggins, I’m Alright. Anybody that thinks Loggins’ Danger Zone is a superior track to I’m Alright is wrong. And not my friend.
2 – THE TERMINATOR—Brad Fiedel, Terminator Theme. Oh. My. God. How. Could. You. Forget. This.
3 – FULL METAL JACKET—The Rolling Stones, Paint It Black. The closing credits song. This is (1) power, (2) rock, (3) anthem. And one of the greatest movies of all time.
4 – INDIANA JONES & THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK—John Williams, Main Theme. A necessity for any 80s movie music discussion.
5 – THE BREAKFAST CLUB—Simple Minds, Don’t You (Forget About Me). Yup, you forgot this one, Broseph.
6 – BACK TO THE FUTURE—Huey Lewis & the News, The Power of Love. MY SPECIAL SAUCE! If you have never lifted weights, ran, or exercised while listening to the entire BTTF soundtrack, you haven’t lived. It’s like Metallica on steroids.
7 – GHOSTBUSTERS—Ray Parker, Jr., Ghostbusters. Goes without saying.
8 – DIRTY DANCING—Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes, (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life. Can’t forget about the Swayze, RIP.
[walks away from microphone like B.Rabbit/Eminem in 8 Mile]
Dan
"The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money." --Ernie Banks
Ghostbusters
turned into “Cub Busters” in 1984 in SD.
Hated the MF’ing song ever since.
by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Jun 21, 2010 7:18 PM CDT up reply actions
And he ripped that song off from Huey Lewis anyway
I spit on your list. Axel F is the only instrumental that should be considered.
The Rolling Stones do not belong in the 80s.
The 80s weren’t about QUALITY! They were about STYLE!
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
Yes, I love "Paint It Black"
Was the theme song for some 80’s TV Show I think. But doesn’t fit here…one of the very first hits the Stones had.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 7:32 PM CDT up reply actions
Ah...Tour of Duty!
Sorry that was buggin me. Great opening scene with that playing. And was 80’s!
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 7:36 PM CDT up reply actions
You do know that you have forfited you man card after posting
anything from dirty dance, right?
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by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Jun 21, 2010 9:43 PM CDT up reply actions
I also watch THE BACHELORETTE.
It is awesome.
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by dtpollitt on Jun 22, 2010 8:57 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I know, right?
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 9:35 AM CDT up reply actions
Gotta agree here big time
My fav is #5.
“Wanna know what I got for Christmas? It was a banner fuckin’ year at the ol’ Bender family. I got a carton of cigarettes. The ol’ man grabbed me and said, ‘smoke up Johnny’!”
Just win the next game...!
Meh...
that movie just makes me feel old. It was so RELEVANT to me back then.
Now, if anyone were to try to tape little Worf’s ass cheeks together, I’d pound him with a baseball bat.
And don’t even get me started on Ferris Bueller. You do NOT wreck a Ferrari for attention.
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
You might wreck it for that gf ...hubba hubba
Yeah I know Ferris didn’t wreck it, so what, I don’t have to make sense.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 9:34 AM CDT up reply actions
Exactly how does a putz like Matthew Broderick
end up playing love scenes with Mia Sara, Ally Sheedy and Sarah Jessica Parker?
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
Worse how does he MARRY Parker.
That shows more than anything life isn’t fair.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 10:20 AM CDT up reply actions
I'd rather marry Sloth from Goonies than Sarah Jessica Parker.
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by dtpollitt on Jun 22, 2010 11:09 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
But he drools.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 11:51 AM CDT up reply actions
Dan, are you above 30?
No sarcasm…just a question.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 1:33 PM CDT up reply actions
No.
But seriously, Jessica is fug-ly.
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Cool.
I do think people think girls are hotter when they are closer to their age. Could be wrong. I ….think she is hot overall but have definitely seen movies in which I can see what you mean. Never wanted to watch that Sex in the City crap to know anything about it.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 1:49 PM CDT up reply actions
Remember "LA Story" where Steve Martin was a weatherman?
Great flick, especially the part where he has his mid-life crisis fling with SJP. This quote still cracks me up…
Harris: SanDeE*, your… your breasts feel weird.
SanDeE*: Oh, that’s ‘cause they’re real.
Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."
Yeah, I do remember it well.
Wasn’t his best effort to me but still a fun movie to watch. And yes that mid-life crisis was a good part of it for sure.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 4:32 PM CDT up reply actions
For no particular reason:
Diane Lane.
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yes
"Wait, are you saying I'm a sunshine-pumping, koolaid-drinking, Soriano-loving, rainbow-rising, unicorn-riding, double-clutching, Sweet Lou-backing, Hendry-supporting, hey hey whaddya saying, Cubs are going all the waying, glass is overflowing, Rothschild is all-knowing, Cubs fan? - ballhawk
How bout Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds?
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 23, 2010 2:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Rapid decline from the start of that list
Sarah Jessica Parker ?!?!?!
Now if he married Mia Sara, that would be a whole different story.
Just win the next game...!
SJP in Honeymoon in Vegas
she was hot. She was actually somehwat cute in Footloose.
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
Loved her in Striking Distance. Was easy to see what Bruce wanted.
I think she’s kept her looks over the years, especially that body…but I have seen movies where she can look uh…off sometimes lol.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 4:34 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't think of it that way
That movie was so my HS. Brings back fond memories. It was filmed at Maine North a few years after it closed.
Better get that bat (and some lawyers) ready if the kid is hairy. Even worse for him if they throw him in a hot shower after all that medical tape is wrapped on.
Bueller, Bueller, Bueller…..But Cameron was a Dead Things fan so he got what he deserved. Bet Morris baseball batted his knees.
Just win the next game...!
8) for the win
Dirty Dancing my favorite movie, it was the first VHS movie we had.
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And the Lost Boys don’t have to ever grow up. Some do, anyway, but that is not a universal characteristic"
by Madison Cub Fan on Jun 22, 2010 7:32 PM CDT up reply actions
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)
Anne Lennox….Dave Stewart…
by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Jun 21, 2010 7:17 PM CDT reply actions
What movie?
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by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Jun 21, 2010 9:43 PM CDT up reply actions
"We Don't Need Another Hero" - 1985
Tina Turner from “Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome”
Ron Santo - .277 BA; 342 HR; 1331 RBI = NO Hall of Fame?
Brooks Robinson - .267 BA; 268 HR; 1357 RBI = Hall of Fame.
Enough said ! Any more questions ?
Can't ever read that movie title without thinking of the porn parody title
Beyond Thunderbone.
Yeah, I need therapy.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 7:28 PM CDT up reply actions
One of my faves is "Debby Duz Dishes" even though I never saw the movie.
I thought the title deserved a view…but, alas, the movie is hard to find.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 7:34 PM CDT up reply actions
"Saving Ryan's Privates" is a winner, too
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Everyboday Wants Some
from Better Off Dead.
agreed
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by BrewCrew'sPrinceofDarkness on Jun 21, 2010 9:44 PM CDT up reply actions
Awright...I get Worf needing meds as the highest votegetter,
But “You’re the Best!” as second? Really? That’s a sarcastic vote, right?
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 7:43 PM CDT reply actions
I'm a little pissed Win in the End is doing so badly
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
Never got much airplay. Which also happened to the "Repo Man" soundtrack.
And, consequently, though Pablo Picasso IS considered an a$$hole, no one will ever know.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 8:01 PM CDT up reply actions
No Easy Way Out getting a lot of votes
Classic 80s song. Put in just to make a mini-music video. Added nothing to the plot.
That was how we rolled in the 80s
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
I had held myself back from mentioning "Miami Vice" with this because it was a TV Show.
But surely it had an effect on movies and using songs to try to set a mood. Unfortunately, after watching that movie a lot of guys did roll wearing linen suits and stubble.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 8:07 PM CDT up reply actions
lol
I think I left just before you said that.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 21, 2010 9:00 PM CDT up reply actions
Lost Boys - Cry Little Sister by G Tom Mac
This song is still awesome!
I still love this movie also. It and Fright Night were the best Vampire movies of the 80’s.
Not even the best song on the soundtrack
Say Hello to the Night!
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
Cuz Rocky sucked....and as the great Eddie Murphy said in RAW in 1987
“Oh, you just saw Rocky. Look, little Italian white man. I enjoy Sylvester Stallone’s
movies too. But I’m waiting to get some candy and I’m gonna go see a movie. Why don’t you just go hop in your IROC Z-28 and take your ass home.”
Just win the next game...!
It was a great movie but from a much different generation than now.
Besides that car was not in his movies until RockyII …which I think was not as good…not so bad but definitely a different movie.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 1:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Hang on, the dialogue I wrote...
…came from Eddie Murphy’s RAW stand-up in 1987…
Just win the next game...!
Yep, many Rocky movies had been out by that time...even IV.
Eye of the Tiger was from Rocky III. And not a good movie to me. Good song though.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 1:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Mandate.
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by Craig in South Bend on Jun 22, 2010 12:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Two choices for me:
The popular one: “Don’t You Forget About Me” from “The Breakfast Club”
The obscure one: “Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young” from a basically forgotten but very good film, “Streets of Fire”.
Many good ones above
Another angle:
Heavy Metal (Hagar) – Movie of the same name.
Hey You – The Wall – Floyd (80s for the movie)
Not sure if it was mentioned above but.. Axel F – Beverly Hills Cop.
There goes one over the fence...a Tru-Link fence.
An often forgotten gem:
“The Boys Are Back In Town” by the Bus Boys, from “48 Hrs.”
"One of the things I like about baseball is that between innings you can go to the restroom.'' ~Manny Acta.
Great movie
Reggie after nailing Luther with the Caddy door:
“Did that hurt, Luther? It sure looked painful from here…”
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Everyone around was saying that I'm your worst nightmare line for awhile.Substituting approrpriate race.
Probably would inspire race riots now. Boys are back in town is good, I also liked that song they played near the end…New Shoes. You hear to have a good time Reggie? No, my man, I’m here to have some sex!
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 8:14 AM CDT up reply actions
"Hearts on Fire" by John Cafferty, from Rocky IV
Every time I hear that song, I, too, feel like I could run up the tallest mountain in Russia in the span of minutes.
+1
Hearts on Fire ftw, I have additional special affection for it since it was one of the preloaded ringtones on my very first cell phone (for some reason) in the late 1990s
by PrincetonCubs on Jun 26, 2010 3:55 PM CDT up reply actions
It was funny for awhile when that came out how half the people going to see them
Didn’t realize it was a parody. They toured successfully.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 8:15 AM CDT up reply actions
I saw this in the Fine Arts Theatre on Michigan Avenue when it first released
Hard to be believe it could only get art-house distribution, but there really weren’t any satires of pop culture/rock music/youth culture given the big budget Hollywood treatment until AFTER this movie was so successful.
I think.
That would be cool.
When I first heard the title of this movie I thought it was a horror flick about an evil doctor giving spinal taps. I didn’t see it til it was released on VHS…or was that Beta?
I saw ’Stop Making Sense" at the Fine Arts a couple times. That was fun. People were dancing in the aisles.
"Fasten those seatbelts!"-Pat Hughes
Big Suit fan eh?
Was a little funny to me how crazy Time got over David. They seemed to think he could do anything possible, not just make a great experience to see. Kinda sad he sure faded after that to me.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 9:37 AM CDT up reply actions
The scene with Stonehenge was priceless.
It took me a good 20 minutes to watch the concert and the postconcert bitchfest. I just couldn’t stop laughing.
Wasn't on the list and didn't read this whole list of responses,
but I like “Way to Go” also off of the Teen Wolf Soundtrack.
"You've got to get your damn shirts rolled up and go out and kick somebody's ass. That's what you've got to do. Period." -- Lou Piniella
How about "Hot Rod"?
Not an 80’s movie, but definitely an 80’s soundtrack featuring no less than four Europe songs!
♪♫ Danger! ♪♫
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Can I add About Last Night
A great Chicago movie with David Mamet writing. And when Demi Moore comes on the screen, I’ll listen to any song on the soundtrack.
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Yes sir!
Hearing Belushi talking about the girl in the german flak suit setting the place on fire was hilarious. He made that movie to me…along with a very sexy Moore in it, thankfully pre implants.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 9:39 AM CDT up reply actions
FLASH!!!!
AHHH- AHHHHH
HE’LL SAVE EVERYONE OF US!
Sorry- how could everybody forget about that one by Queen for the Flash Gordon movie. I suppose I was just young enough to think it was awesome and just old enough to think the song rocked.
MIlwaukee is Chicago's largest suburb
Yeah that was iconic. I thought it was 70's...at 1980 it just barely makes the cut.
Count on Worf to shoot this down lol.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 9:41 AM CDT up reply actions
No, I love that movie
What is hysterical is how many respected British actors — Brian Blessed, Timothy Dalton, Max Von Snydow — are in that.
HAWKMEN! DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
As I said... the 80s are a state of mind
You could make a case the 90s really don’t start until Nirvana and Pearl Jam come along and pretty much destroy the hair bands.
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
Life wouldn't be the same without Bad English, Poison, Warrant etc.
Course Nirvana…yeah blowing them up for that was worth it. I think if Eddie Vetter had eaten a shotgun (and I do not want anyone to do that) Pearl Jam might have been remembered as groundbreaking even more. I still have my ticket from seeing Kurt and the boyz during his last tour….he killed himself only 2 months after I saw him at the Mecca in Milwaukee.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 10:25 AM CDT up reply actions
I don't idolize the man, but
Cobain was the conduit for music that I call inevitable. It’s like how Stephen Hawking described the unified theory…it’s so compelling it calls itself into existence.
Pop, pathos, heavy distortion, and self-involvement. Here comes the 90’s!!!
"One of the things I like about baseball is that between innings you can go to the restroom.'' ~Manny Acta.
Stars and innovators like that seem to burn bright and fast.
Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, etc. Course Cobain had a stomach problem that led him a little to that more than just addiction…but still pretty similar. James Dean baby…we hardly knew ya.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 6:17 PM CDT up reply actions
And it's use in Blades of Glory
too funny
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by RiskyBusiness on Jun 22, 2010 9:47 AM CDT up reply actions
As long as we're talking Queen songs
“Who Wants to Live Forever?” from Highlander is awesome
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
Did Queen have some sort of movie theme deal?
They had the whole Highlander movie (remember “Give me the Prize” too) and I think “It’s a kind of Magic” was used in another one
MIlwaukee is Chicago's largest suburb
Never mind...
apparently all of those were from Highlander… I need to dig all these movies out and watch them again… Now where did I put that VCR in the attic?
MIlwaukee is Chicago's largest suburb
That movie was awesome. Would have been even better remembered had they stopped there.
Those eyes were definitely penetrating.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 10:29 AM CDT up reply actions
Also, it wasn't an 80s song, but...
…the dance scene at the end of The Great Outdoors (1988) with Dan Aykroyd to “Land of 1,000 Dances” by Wilson Pickett is sensational. Aykroyd puts on a clinic showing off old 50s and 60s dance moves. A must see.
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I've already voted for You're the Best
which automatically wins the PUT HIM IN A BODY BAG….YEAH, AHAHAHAHAHA award, but I’m surprised that there has been no mention of Goonies Are Good Enough. Still though, I love this thread.
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by Craig in South Bend on Jun 22, 2010 12:34 PM CDT reply actions
Don't forget about "The Touch"
by Stan Bush from the Transformers soundtrack. And pretty much that entire soundtrack. My favorite cartoon movie ever.
I came back just to add that one
Thanks for beating me to it as that deserves to be in the conversation. The commercials for the new Transformers video game crack me up too with Soundwave turning into the boombox and playing that song.
Speaking of that, I need to pick that up tonight.
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by Craig in South Bend on Jun 22, 2010 12:52 PM CDT up reply actions
Transformers? You do realize this is a 80's movie song list, right?
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 1:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Ah my bad. Didn't realize that animated movie had a soundtrack, My mistake.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 1:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Hmm which movie?
That song was very cool to see as a rock opera performed in concert. It is definitely dated and overplayed now.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 4:41 PM CDT up reply actions
The only good thing about the 80s
is that they’re over. I completely tuned out pop culture back then, and I’d rather eat paste than relive that godforsaken decade.
by Mike Vails Evil Twin on Jun 22, 2010 2:40 PM CDT reply actions
Well, they say (whoever "they" are), the retro trend usually lags about 20 years
so I guess it’s time to get ready for whatever made the 90s cool.
Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."
That's a really sad but true commentary on today's music
Especially since most of the music of the eighties is noteworthy for being over-produced, overly pretentious twaddle. However, in a way I’m grateful for it, because it inspired me to get into the blues in a big way. I’ll take the music of the sixties and seventies (except for disco) over the eighties any day.
by Mike Vails Evil Twin on Jun 22, 2010 2:57 PM CDT up reply actions
If Anybody Had A Heart with John Waite
From the movie About last night , beacuse of that movie I am reading this site ..
Worf-seeing your new profile image
makes me wonder why you didn’t pick “Kiss the Girl” from Little Mermaid.
"Fasten those seatbelts!"-Pat Hughes
i love that song
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by cooliogirl47 on Jun 22, 2010 4:13 PM CDT up reply actions
No, but I've had "Here We Go Again" from Barney
stuck in my head all day. I was in charge of the Worf-Spud today
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
I stayed away from the room anytime my nieces had him on and that I love you crap came out.
Was sure good to be the uncle then and not the father. I like to encourage them with anything that makes them happy and has a good lesson…and thank god I didn’t have to do it with that stuff. I’d take sesame street or those dragon things in a heart beat over Barney.
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions
I can relate to that. "The Song That Doesn't End"
from Lamb Chop has been going through my head since 1992 because ♪ it goes on and on, my friend. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they’ll continuing singing it forever just because…♫
"Fasten those seatbelts!"-Pat Hughes
You tryin' to get us to share your pain? Hmm? lol
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by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 22, 2010 6:18 PM CDT up reply actions
"Tonight is what it means to be young"
from Streets of Fire. Diane Lane- Yowsa
I'm partial to the "Push it to the Limit" song from Scarface.
It’s such a perfect 1980’s montage song that it is now being used, unchanged, as a 1980’s montage parody in “South Park” and “Grand Theft Auto 3”, and many people think it was just written recently.
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I can't believe I had forgotten this one:
“Teenage Suicide (Don’t Do It)” by Big Fun from “Heathers.”
It’s got it all—tongue-in-cheek humor, new wave-style synth, computer beats and hokey guitar, and it’s absolutely central to the plot. Not to mention it’s by a band that was invented solely for the film. How very.
"One of the things I like about baseball is that between innings you can go to the restroom.'' ~Manny Acta.
Like totally forgot the song "I melt with you" - Valley Girl soundtrack. As if.
Cracks me up we have two generations who think they invented the term totally… or I’m so anything. From Clueless to now, you got it from the Valley Girl generation baby. Course they did morph so sure to soooooooo over that. Gag me with a fork!
"The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves." - Da Coach
by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 24, 2010 5:59 AM CDT reply actions
Some 80's news...Tiffany and Debbie Gibson are gonna be catfighting on Syfy in "Mega Python vs. Gatoroid"
Not making this up…apparently both have played bit parts in a previous monster flick.
Here’s a recent pic of Tiffany who aged well to me….
and now Debbie Gibson
"The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves." - Da Coach
by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 25, 2010 6:45 AM CDT reply actions
Tiffany should go back in time and shoot whoever decided the course of her career
That girl had some serious pipes, and they turned her into a mall singer.
I had both of their Playboy issues.
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
I was surprised to find pictures of both issues readily available to print...censored or ones
Strategically posed. Yeah, they’re both smokin’ and realize where money is to be made for them. Tiffany actually had two minor dance hits in the last few years. “Deborah” seems to have figured out worrying about her first name is less profitable than posing for pictures.
"The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves." - Da Coach
by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 25, 2010 8:16 AM CDT up reply actions
I know Gibson did some Broadway work
Wikipedia reveals that her and Tiffany are going to star in a SyFy movie “Mega Python vs. Gataroid”
I miss the 80s.
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
That's what I had in the title of my post over Tiffany!
hmmm…methinks you like redheads too.
"The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves." - Da Coach
by Sandberg's evil twin on Jun 25, 2010 9:37 AM CDT up reply actions
"Cheer Down" from Lethal Weapon II
An “almost Wilbury” song – written by George Harrison and Tom Petty, produced by George Harrison and Jeff Lynne, and sung by George Harrison.
I'll go to my grave believing Armando Galarraga tossed the 21st perfect game in MLB history.
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