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It's time for Movie Meltdown's Attack of the Killers soundtrack. The live transmission has begun, and we're into the final hour of hell. What's up and welcome to Movie Meltdown's Attack of the Killer soundtrack. I am Brian. And I'm George.

And we're coming to you live via digital recording from the Oddity Studios back home. for another soundtrack-themed episode. Woo-hoo! Rockin' out! I have been, again, that's one of those that we just keep trying to like, okay, what's the next episode? What's the next episode?

And then I get where I'm like, It's been like months and we haven't done one. So it's been since the beginning of the year. And I was like, we need to do another soundtrack episode. Nice. I dig it.

We threw this episode idea out there like several months ago. And we kept kind of, okay, whatever. We got to do Thor. We got to do this. And so like it's gotten pushed off enough that it also gave us a little time to work on it.

So this should be fun. Most of which we didn't know. Beforehand, either. We kind of kept it as you do half, I'll do half, and we'll just throw them out and see what we end up with. So that way we can see what we get ourselves into.

Okay. So this is one I at least just wanted to... My only intro for it is there are songs, and that's kind of what so much of this version of the show has become over the years. It's sort of not just... music-based and not just movies, but how much they end up tying themselves together. Specific songs are then attached to specific movies and vice versa.

And then there's also something that I've noticed for me over the years, and maybe everybody has this, but again, I think at least movie geeks will. Normal people probably don't think about these sort of things, but there are ones that do get stuck in my head as a credit song. Right. And I will hear it and in my mind, credits will be rolling on the screen. Yeah, you're thinking of that movie.

I'm like, oh yeah. And then there's other ones. This is what I realized in this. Because I had one that I very... I had a movie and I very specifically associated one song with it.

And I'm like, probably because it's the end song. And I listened to it all the way through as the credits were rolling. I specifically went back and watched it and like, no, it's not at all. So like we get it in our head that it's part of it in a specific place. And if you haven't watched it in a while, you gotta, you gotta double check.

So this is, yeah, that, that's interesting to me too, that we not only associate it with a movie, but also very specific parts of movies. Even something is, you know, run of the mill as credit scrolling by sometimes that attaches itself in a weird way too. So, Yeah, just, you know, like you said, it's the bow on the top of the package. You know, it just wraps everything up nicely. You know, gets you all feeling good, you know, at the end of the movie.

There's just something that's like, yeah, that's, you know. It can, and I think when it works best, it definitely does. It is one of those, sometimes I'm like, and even one or two that I've picked, I feel like that's something I've noticed putting these together over the years a lot, is like there's kind of two... main camps there's like this is a concept idea from the moment i started this movie i either am that person writing the songs or i working with this person writing the songs and it's all one big thing and it's all interwoven into the story or the other camp is we're a studio movie we're also co-owned by this company over here that puts out all our music so we're gonna work in as many of our songs into the soundtrack here's your list.

Pick 10 of them. Call it your soundtrack. You're good to go. Yeah. And you can feel that in some of them.

And I'm like, this doesn't officially have anything to do with it, but I really liked the song. So I don't care. So yeah, it's, I go back and forth on like, sometimes I like the randomness of the other ones. And then sometimes you like, if you're really thinking as a director, as a writer, like you also were working in songs as you go. So yeah.

Any movie that Sony has released or had anything to do with is the worst offender of that. Yeah. Like, you know, There's so many movies like, okay, these are all Interscope artists. We get it. Thank you very much.

It's our job. Yeah. Cross promote ourselves. And this is kind of a bit of a lost art, too, because it used to be like, especially, you know, up until maybe like the 90s, you still had a lot of. Music that was written specifically for the movie.

Not just score work, like pop songs, rock songs, country songs, whatever. You would bring in a popular artist and be like, here's what we're doing. Create a song specifically for this movie. Yeah, and you don't, I mean, like, about the most recent maybe usage of it is, like, Eminem doing songs for Venom. Yeah.

That's about really, I mean, that's about the most thing I can think of. The only one that's, like, the running one that always has done that is, like, Bond. Yeah. Bond will take whoever the new person is of the last five or ten years and be like... Here is Bond.

Go run with it. But you kind of still got to stick within these parameters. But otherwise, do your thing Bond style. Yeah. And of course, sometimes they take chances.

The Jack White, Alicia Keys one was a big chance. And it almost... They were a replacement, because originally it was supposed to be Amy Winehouse. Well, they kept doing that. They got so big in that, and specifically from the Brosnan era on, they got so big they were bringing in multiple people.

And they were like, okay, you do one, and you do one, and you do one, and we'll pick and see which one we really want to be the big song of the movie. And the rest we'll throw on the soundtrack, too. Because I think that was the one that I think we ended up being the big Madonna one. I think that same soundtrack, like there's also a Katie Lang song that like they told her, hey, you're going to be the big move. And then they went, oh, wait, we got Madonna.

You'll be on the soundtrack. Don't you worry. That check will clear. So I'm sure it's not fun for the artist when you get to pick and choose and you're not chosen to be the big finale song because that's where they put their big song is at the end credits. Or the beginning.

Sometimes, yeah. Or that's the fallback a lot of times. It's like, okay, you're not chosen to be the opening credits, so we'll put you in at the end credits. How about that? Or there's some artists that just get rejected outright.

Radiohead apparently had an offering at one point. I think it was one of the more recent, like the Daniel Craig ones. They had an entry and it was just, nah, thank you, but no. Radiohead's not for everyone. Well, I mean, but, you know, it's like.

But they are huge names. Yeah, but in the right setting, if they don't get too terribly experimental. I mean, you know, Tom York's got a beautiful voice, and they can totally have done something. And you have somebody in there who can write film scores. Yeah.

You'd think they'd have an inside track. About half the band, yeah. Coming up with a good score, but. Yeah, so. Whatever.

But, yeah, you don't get that. But what you get a lot more, though, is, like, directors and writers who will curate. Like, you know, the best two were, like, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino. They really kind of started that trend of, like, being curators for the music in your movie because it's also telling a story. You know, Paul Thomas Anderson does it.

Simon... Oh, shoot. Edgar Wright. Edgar Wright. Yeah, that's what I was just trying to think.

I was like, definitely Edgar Wright. Yeah, Edgar Wright definitely used it, too. And Wes Anderson is another one of those. So, yeah, it's like you get a lot of the bigger directors. I think that is sort of a post-2000s thing.

Like, Tarantino sort of started in the 90s, and all the, like, indie directors started. Well, and actually one of my first ones is another one of those. I'll wait and get to that one. But so many of the other big ones came along in, like, Just that became the thing. You know, that's how they started coming up with the concept of the movie a lot of times is like, I've got this vibe and I'm putting these songs.

I know, I know Edgar Wright does that. Like they were just talking like these last two movies. Like I remember them talking about he's writing it, listening to the song, sometimes the same ones he ends up with if the licensing comes together. But if not, there are other ones of that same era, especially this last movie was very era-oriented. But even Baby Driver, he's got so many things that he wants to put in and has specific beats and types of songs that even if they can't get the licensing on that one, they'll go with something similar.

So he's already got the sound kind of going in there. Unfortunately, he picked older songs or obscure stuff. I just thought it was great. He had the idea. for Bell Bottoms to be the opening song for the opening scene of the movie. And he's had that same idea since the song came out 20 some odd years ago.

And so it's like, that's awesome that you had that idea journey for so long and we're still able to see it through. And it's a fantastic scene. It's a great song in general. Great song, great scene. It's good to start with.

And then that scene is so perfectly orchestrated, literally, like that movie in particular. For the cast issues now, that aside, like the structure of that, not just the movie as a whole, but those individual scenes and the way he works music in is awesome. It's so perfectly put together. And I didn't realize he was kind of going for that. I knew like bell bottoms was, you know, a specific part, but I didn't think like he was going for the whole movie.

And then like the next scene where baby's walking down the street to Harlem shuffle and you see like, he's dancing in time or things are happening in time. You see lyrics printed on the walls. Like, okay, I see what you're doing. This is nice. And continues by the end, they're firing guns in beat with the music.

And I was just like, that is a lot of plan. and orchestrating on the set that day let alone mixing and editing later like it's just it's exhausting to think about that he's that skilled and just crazy obsessive about it but like it When it works, it works. It really does. Yeah. These are good examples of the current version of that. A lot of mine are going back further, so it's kind of back and forth for me.

I think my most recent movie on my list here is in 2000. That's the newest movie on here. I've got it. A few newer depending on where we go because we've got some alternates in case we need them but yeah i've definitely got one more in my head more recent now when i do the math it's actually been several years but you know how that goes it scares me sometimes when i'm like no that's a recent wait not 12 years ago i'll be damned so like i do that a lot these days i'm like why don't you know that move oh wait because you're 24 okay that's why you were a child when this came out never So it's disturbing when I run across that, but. That happens.

All right, we should probably get on into it. So would you like to kick things off? I would love to. Well, my first selection here comes from Goodfellas. Now, of course, everybody remembers towards the ending of Goodfellas, you get the piano suite from Layla, and everybody always remembers that part.

That was the trailer. That sold it before you even saw the movie. Sure, yeah. Of course, people remember a lot of that from the ending, but that doesn't actually end the movie. What does end the movie was a very inspired choice.

We take the Classic, My Way. Many people have covered it. Frank Sinatra, of course, has popularized it. But one other particular person has covered this song. Sid Vicious from the Sex Pistols.

And the song actually appears on the Sex Pistols' second and final album before they kind of broke up proper and Sid died. And then they got back together again. But anyway, the real Sex Pistols was on the Great Rock and Roll Swindle, which basically is also the soundtrack of their kind of mockumentary movie as well. That's the only place this appears on. It doesn't actually end the Goodfellas soundtrack if you went and bought it.

Hmm. Yeah, it ends with the Layla piano suite. Of course, yeah. But no, just to end with Sid's cover of My Way, which he definitely, of course, the tempo is a lot faster. The lyrics are very different.

He takes some of the lyrics and they kind of go his own way. And then there was another version where basically there were some things that had to. Be edited out. Imagine that. He's obnoxious.

He's dropping C-bombs. He's making references to homosexuals that are no longer considered proper nomenclature. That's the thing. I've always kind of taken that. In general, what they're doing is like, Sex Pistols are like, you're important in the arc of punk rock. musically i don't really need what you're doing.

Yeah i can't i mean i'm a big punk fan i can honestly say i like about three sex pistol. Songs and they like the hits and even even the fictionalized version i went back a few years ago talking to the director and i was like oh i need to watch you know sid and nancy and i'm like man i cannot stand these guys and this isn't even them these are actors and this performance of you creating sid is amazing but I don't want to hang out with Sid because he and Johnny are freaking obnoxious. Like, so yeah, it's one of those, the more and more exposure I have to them, the less I like these guys. But again, like as Puck Rock goes, it's like, they're essential. They're really important for what came out of that. they're the least talented part of what came.

Out of that. There's plenty way more talented bands that came along. They were basically a lot more style and great PR from Malcolm McLaurin. Just a big middle finger to society and the corporate world and all of that. Yeah.

But honestly, yeah, you, I mean, I agree. Yeah. They're not the most musically gifted of the punk bands, but yeah, you know, they, they have, they definitely have their place in there, but I just thought that was just a great cap. Just, you know, having this, you know, This little kind of almost massacring of the song. And, well, again, coming out of a massacring kind of a movie.

Yeah. This is, yeah, we're taking what normally would be a very, you know, I know a lot of the Italian mobster guys, you know, Sinatra's their dude. So, like, this is sort of a Marty going, you know, I'm going to put my own spin on it. Much like Sid, I'm going to put my own spin on this closing of the movie. I did what.

I had to do. I saw it through with nothing to fear. I planned it, got a cup, and kept on drinking along the outward. much more than this. I didn't know why at. One time I'm sure you knew when there was fuck fuck fuck.

A little else to do but then we found who knew I've loved and been a snide I've. Had my fill of shit, of little things. And now that tears have dried To think I killed a cat And my eyes say Not in the day way Oh no Oh no not me They didn't mean Right For what is. A friend To what has he got When he was asked. Oh, shut the fuck up.

And finish mine. You kind of remember where Henry's kind of at in the middle. He's basically, he's no longer in New York anymore. He's no longer with the guys. It's like he's now stuck in the suburbs.

You know, he's got white neighbors that mow the lawn and put mayonnaise on everything. And, you know, they don't know, you know, a rigatoni from, you know, a calzone or anything like that. Hey, Chef Boyardee is good pasta. Sure. You know, he's complaining about getting, you know, ketchup and macaroni when he asked for, you know, you know, Pasta and marinara sauce.

You know, so it makes total sense to them, basically, like, you know what, let's just stick this one last little nail in. Yeah. Just thought it was a great choice. All right. Well, my first one here is kind of what I was just talking about, that little indie wave coming up in the 90s there.

And this is one, thinking back, and I'm going by my memory, which is faulty, but if I remember, this is the first thing I heard about this movie. was there was a and again i'm remembering that it was in premiere i could be wrong but i have you know decades worth of uh premiere magazines sitting in a box somewhere so i i read that i was as I read anything. I looked at pictures in premiere every issue when it, from the seriously, the first issue. Oh yeah. So I remember seeing an article that came out before, well before the movie and was the first time I ever heard of clerks. And it was specifically because of the soundtrack and, how this nobody director had put together not only this great soundtrack, but I think at the time, He had so many different songs that they were considering putting out a double album.

Oh, wow. For a new director on a movie that was made for no budget. Then I'm like, how do you even come up with enough songs that you could pay for to put out a soundtrack, period? Let alone a double album, which eventually got scrapped, obviously. Yeah.

But that was, I think, the first thing I ever heard of that. And then later I heard what it was about and, you know, all my dorky friends that worked at a video store said, Got super excited, and we went to see it together at the theater. We were seeing, yeah. But, yeah, it's like, finally, a movie for us. But, yeah, it was like the first thing I ever remember hearing about it was the soundtrack.

And he, at the time, was kind of one of those guys. He was an up-and-coming director and was putting together these really interesting soundtracks with, at the time, like most of the people on that album are kind of unknowns to most people, band-wise. with the exception of the big one here but you get to even his next soundtrack is already pulling in huge names so it's like suddenly then he was the golden boy and you know the studio got involved and he could do whatever but even that next soundtrack is a great soundtrack and then the one as time went on and this is A touchy subject for me because I don't love him as a director anymore. Right. But at the time, I thought, you know, what he was doing was great.

And I thought it was interesting, especially because of what the song is. And that's kind of why I threw it on this list is because I like the song, but the song... ends the movie that we got so perfectly. And if even you're a casual Clerks fan, you know originally that's not how it was supposed to end. If you've watched it, because it's on me being a geek, I had the LaserDisc of it. If you watch, the alternate ending is on there.

And not only the scene, but, and I guess spoilers for the movie that didn't happen, in the original concept and the way that they originally shot it, Kevin Smith had it. He was so influenced by Do the Right Thing, he thought at the end of the movie, somebody's got to get shot. Like, that's how you end an indie movie. So he has... They're wrapping up.

Randall leaves. Dante's closing up the shop. Some guy comes in, shoots him, dead on the floor, takes money out of the register, walks out the door, and it... Is just credits going by, silence, and cash register noises. Yeah.

There is no music. Yeah. It's disturbingly, horrifyingly sad for these characters that you've loved for the last hour and a half. Like, it's weird. I mean, it would kill.

You know, I'm very familiar with that ending as well. It would have absolutely killed the movie if they would have gone with that ending. Definitely. Because it's like, what? Holy crap.

I mean, you're just like, you know, yeah. Half the movie just got killed here at the end. It varied. It's kind of like, there's not even any dialogue. I think Dante says like, oh, or what?

Hey, what are you doing here? He just has like a single word he says, then it gets popped. Mm-hmm. And of course I love that. And if you've seen the trailer for the, you know, clerks three coming out, they totally bring that joke back.

I figured that would be a, somewhere we would go as well as the fact that that came kind of out of nowhere. I mean, it's been rumored for years, but I still, he's been saying that for God knows how long. So I was just like, eh, whatever. And I didn't know if I cared, but it is, I've seen the trailer at least it's, interesting mostly the only thing that won me over enough that i at least want to see it now is the fact that it's very randall centric like that's my guy you know it's like watching it now i'm like dante gets kind of on your nerves but like randall is so much fun and like doesn't really care what's going on and like he again he's he's written to be a super cool character he's not necessarily a realistic character but he's the one you like in the movie and again, he's the best thing that came out of the sequel.

So it's like, seeing how much they're centering on him in this new plot for the third one, I'm like, eh, alright. This makes me at least want to see it more than I wanted to see anything he's put out in years. I'm definitely a little more hopeful about this one. I agree. I'm not a humongous Soul Asylum fan, but I definitely will always love this song of theirs.

And I thought that this was Can't Even Tell from Soul Asylum, and That change is what... Because then it's... All you have to do is back it up a little. I think it was like John Pearson was the producer that they inherited that was creating all these little indie superstars at the time. And he came in and was like, no, no, no.

You can't end the movie like this. And again, it has no... reason within the story it's just kevin didn't really know what else to do and he's like oh here we'll do this and like he's like no no and all you have to do is back it up because it ends the exact same way except we scroll back and randall walks out the door and he takes down the banner and throws it at him and like that's when the song kicks in and that changes everything about this movie. I may never get what I want, but. I'm happy just to die trying. And I hope I ain't done nobody wrong, but I'm missing it finally.

And I'm looking. For a cure because I'm born. To get it. Stuck in here, stuck out here, stuck in. Here We live through.

Another day It's a good excuse. To celebrate Take another knock on wood. We'll find a reason to feel good I know you know I want to know how I feel I can't even tell you I can't even tell I can't even tell No one. Knows nothing about me I'm guessing I'll just keep on. Guessing No one sees what I see This is my blessing And I'm looking for a way.

To get out of here. Get me out of here, out of here, out of here. Feeling through another day is a good excuse to celebrate. Take another knock on wood and find a reason to feel good. I know you know.

Just want to know how I feel. I can't even tell. I can't even tell. I can't even tell. I'm right here, right here, right.

Here I know you know I. Want to know how I feel I can't tell I know you know I'll. Tell you if it's real You thought. Our lives were fair I can't even tell I can't even. Tell you're right it does you know cap it off very nicely yeah and you end up you leaving feel good yeah.

And this was like that peak for them like this is probably the pinnacle because because i was going back to check and i'm like i liked them all right time i had everybody i guess at that point was issued a grave dancers union here you go you've got a cd player here you are so but they were i mean they'd been around for a while because i went back to i knew i'd seen older albums when that one came out but i went back there was at least like four albums that came out before grave dancers union and nobody knew who the hell they were outside of their hometown right yeah before that came along so like when that album came out and they were it's like 90 the end of 92 so it's like about a year of them riding high on all those singles and And then this, you know, they get added in.

So they're kind of the big name for that Clerks soundtrack. Everybody else is just like up and coming bands, people that I think they knew. Like, again, it's several people that repeat on there and like they're doing specific songs for the movie. so like everybody else is a little like down a couple of notches but like they were the big you know name that they brought in to round out the round out the soundtrack and the movie itself and even I again at the time thought it was pretty great they were even game enough to come shoot the music video and And recreate the movie, essentially. They're playing hockey on top of the grocery. And, you know, Dave Peerner's there playing hockey.

So, like, all right, this is pretty fun. And also kind of a fun little side note, too, that Kevin tried that magic again with Chasing Amy because their song, We Three, ends Chasing Amy. Yeah. Which also, again, written for the movie. That was the one I didn't continue on with that.

I was like, Mallrats has a great soundtrack. Yeah. Chasing Amy didn't get one. something went wrong with the studio and the backing got pulled out or something. And like, there are plenty of songs in it, but they never released an official soundtrack. I think somewhere I've got the single that they put out on CD.

That was like one of the other songs. It wasn't even we three. It was like one of the others that they kind of released as a single. But other than that, I don't think hardly anything got officially put out from that, from that. third movie. And that's unfortunate because next to Clerks, Chasing Amy's is best film.

Chasing Amy's, yeah, it's great. And I like Red State. Other than that, these last several I am not happy about. I have not seen Tusk or Yoga Hosers. I've seen Red State.

I couldn't make myself watch Yoga Hosers. And Tusk makes me angry. There's so many things about it that infuriate me. As much as the last stupid reboot movie. I feel like he's not the same guy anymore.

He changed so much, even as a character. Even when you see him, I remember listening to, again, dork that I was, I was listening to the commentary on Clerks. And I'm like, that kid that he was that made that movie, midway in, I always pin it to Cop Out. I think that little thing with Bruce, Bruce broke his heart. And like from that point on, he just was like, screw it.

I'm just going to do whatever gives me money. And yeah, he has not been the same. He has not been the same since then. And I feel like just even as the character that, I mean, he's become a cartoon, just silent Bob version, even when he's doing stuff as Kevin now, which I'm like, that isn't who he used to be when you see interviews with him when he was a kid. Yeah.

And he does a lot of TV directing and he's become one of those directors that you know, yeah, I used to have, you know, some pedigree. Now I direct, you know, TV and I get, it's a paying gig and whatever else, but you can't recognize my style from one. Episode to the next. Again, style was, even in his films, he made fun of himself for like, I didn't move the camera. You know, my style was all my writing.

Like he didn't really focus so much on the visual end of it. And I guess that's fine for TV now. So it, I don't know. He's doing fine. Whatever.

Yeah, so hopefully maybe Clerks 3 is kind of a little bright spot, like maybe this is a bit of a return. I would hope. There have been some directors who have had their low points, and then all of a sudden they get inspired again. They'll turn around and come back. They'll pop another one out, you know, so you never know.

Maybe so. I mean, I'm hopeful for him. Yeah, I want good from him, and I like, again, Randall's back. I love that actor who's not really even an actor. That's why he's so good in that first one.

He just... Pulled his friend in and was like, hey, you want to do this movie? And he's the best thing about it. All right. We was hitchhiking down a long and lonesome road.

All of a sudden, there shined a shiny demon in the middle of the road. And he said. Hey, this is KG of Tenacious D, and you're listening to Movie Meltdown. Well, my next selection here, we were talking about basically clerks being their movie geeks. We're going to the other side of the spectrum.

We're music geeks for this one here. All right. High Fidelity is definitely a movie that spoke to me being a music geek. And, of course, I love the book as well. The Nick Morby novel is great.

The great thing about it was aside from a couple different cultural references like In Great Britain, Solomon Burke had a much bigger career than he did in the United States. So Solomon Burke is referenced a lot in the book. And in the movie, they change it to Marvin Gaye. Yeah, in the movie, we'd be like, who? I mean, I knew who Solomon Burke was.

I feel like. Most people wouldn't have a clue. Yeah, well, a lot of people end up covering his songs and end up making them bigger. Yeah, but we all know who Marvin Gaye is, so we'll just make Marvin Gaye. Other than that, it's a really...

You know, great translation. And, of course, we're dealing with a lot of love and relationships. And we're also dealing with a guy who's basically he's a music geek and he likes making his mixtapes and likes going for some songs that fit but not necessarily they're a hit song. So a great choice to end this movie was a Stevie Wonder song. And it's not one like Sunshine of My Life or whatever else.

No, no, no. We're taking the end of probably one of his greatest albums, Talking Book, which had Superstition on there. Yeah. But it's, I believe, when I fall in love with you, it'll be forever. A beautiful, wonderful song, but not a single.

It's a deep album cut, but that is such an inspired choice to end this movie with Talking... It wasn't written for the film. The song was done in 1972. The movie came out in 2000. So, nowhere really related.

But it's just great curation. I think that's what that change was. Because you get even the Scorsese era of directors are still pulling kind of big... I mean, again, he's just going to the Rolling Stones half the time. And like, what are the songs that I love that the Stones do?

And he puts them in over and over. But you get to that 90s and 2000s era of the directors that were coming up. And they were like, everybody knows these songs. Let's go for these B sides and let's find these like deep cuts that people don't know and then make it super important to this scene. I'm putting it in.

And that's, I think from Tarantino on, everybody else saw that and went, Oh, that is a good idea. And so like now you'll find people and they'll be pulling their stuff. I'm like, I don't know this song and why don't I know this song? Cause it's great. And I'll go back and look into it.

Cause that's what we do. We're geeks. Yeah. But it is, you know, I just absolutely, it's one, it's one of those moments. I mean, of course, I was with the movie from the first moment.

Yeah. But, yeah, it just absolutely spoke to me. And just using, you know, just picking a great song that wasn't a big hit for Stevie Wonder, but it just perfectly matched. Of course, you know, that film is full of, you know, yeah, you know this artist, but, you know, this is a lesser known song. Because it's a movie about music geeks, nonetheless.

So you're going to have a soundtrack that sounds like this kind of guy would have made it. It was curated by somebody who loves music. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I just, that's, of course, it's always one of my favorite Stevie Wonder songs anyway, but it's kind of like when that song, the first notes kind of start coming, I'm like, oh, shit, guys, you don't make me just messed up here.

Thank you for this song. Yeah, so, yeah, great choice there. ¶ ¶. Shattered dreams, worthless years. Here am I encased inside a hollow shell. Life began, then was done.

Now I stare into a. Cold and empty. I believe when I fall in. Love with you, it won't be forever. I believe when I fall in love this time, it will be forever.

Without despair, we will share in the joys of care and will not be weak. What has been must never end. And with the strength we. Have, one be erased. When the truths of.

Love are planned and firm, they won't be hard to find. And the words of love I. Speak to you will echo in my mind. I believe when I fall in love with you, it will be forever. I believe when I fall in love with you it will be forever I believe when I fall in love with you it will be forever.

I believe when I fall. In love with you It won't be forever I believe when I fall in love with you It won't be forever I believe when I fall in love with you I'm in shape when I fall in love with you, and I'm hoping for a friend. I'm in shape when I fall in love with. You, and I'm hoping for a friend. I'm in shape when I fall in love.

With you, and I'm hoping for a friend. I'm in shape when I fall in love with you, and I'm hoping for a friend. I'm in shape when I fall in love with you, and I'm hoping for a friend. I believe that I'm falling in love with you. I believe that I'm falling in love with you.

Come on, let's fall in love. Come on, let's fall in love. You're the girl that I really adore. Come on, let's fall in love. Well my next one this maybe tone wise isn't too far off from that way less serious but um again this is a little more of a fun movie for some people.

Uh not not high on anybody's resume does have the same star surprisingly uh i'm going with uh what does it take from one crazy summer now this is one of those again when we started throwing this idea out this was maybe the second song that came to me it was like when i think of this movie this song is a tat and i hear like i'll put stuff i'll be playing youtube all day now because it's better than most streaming services. But like whatever thing I pick, a lot of times if it's older, eventually before the day's out, I'll hear this song. And every time I'm like, isn't this the closing theme to that movie? And it is. I think it was even like maybe billed as like, you know, the theme for One Crazy Summer.

Yeah. Which again is not the most highly regarded of Cusack's films. But at the time, again, it was another one of those like, just kind of dumb comedies and we got our ragtag group of misfits and sort of a slobs versus snobs kind of a storyline and then so yeah it's playing on a lot of cliche stuff film wise but this one is one of those that like I feel like is it cheesy yes But if you're okay with that, like it is so perfectly executed for that kind of cheesy song that I'm like, when I hear it, I'm just like, this is just really like, this is top form. If you like this kind of cheesy music, it's like perfectly done. The two of us are one of a kind.

Our combination ain't easy to find. Why do I... Get a feeling from you. Things ain't right. Do you need something new?

Knowing how both of us. Live leaves us so little to give. If I could grow wings, I would do anything just to keep you with me. Can't you see? If I could fly, I would give you the sky.

Don't you make that mistake. What does it take? It's not like I've been mean to you. It's not like I got something better to do. The life I.

Live, you'll never understand. If you fly with me, we'll never have to land. It's easy to land. I would do anything just to keep you with me. Can't you see?

If I could fly. I would give you the sky. Don't you make that mistake. Is love that mean? What does it take?

Knowing how both of us am. If I could fly high, I would give you the sky. Don't you make that mistake. What does it take? If I could grow wings, I would do anything just to keep you with me.

Can't you see? If I could fly high, I would give you the sky. Well, Savage Steve was such an inspired director. And, like, you know, because this was, you know, he did, you know, Better Off Dead, and then One Crazy Summer was his next movie. Yeah.

And, I mean, yeah, this guy was just like, I'm going to throw in a lot of 80s cheese where else, but there's going to be some weird, absurd kind of comedy thrown in here. Just some real strange stuff. In both of those movies. Yeah, and it just, it worked. I mean, you know, Better Off Dead, I think, for me, is...

I love One Crazy Summer, but Better Off Dead for me is my favorite of his movies. Yeah. It's just, yeah, to get John Cusack to start in those movies. Those type of movies. Yeah, it's like, yeah, that's a lot of fun.

All right. My next one here, you know, of course, what kind of got me started with this whole idea is, for me, the 80s is the golden age of, a song that was written for the movie that closes out the movie. It doesn't matter what genre we're doing. We're talking action, horror, romance, whatever else. But the 80s was just a golden age of like, we're going to have a song that ends this movie, and hopefully this song will be a hit song to give us more money.

That's what we want. Because we love money. But for me, there were so many action films, especially horror movies, that had a song written for it. But one of my, of course, I'm a huge Schwarzenegger guy. Grew up in Schwarzenegger and Stallone movies and a lot of those beefcake dudes.

Oh, yeah. But Commando was probably one of my favorites of his because it's just such a pure film. Like, we're just, you know, we got some comedy thrown in there, some real stuff. But we're just, we're kicking a lot of ass, blowing up a lot of stuff there. And We Fight for Love, also known as Somehow, Somewhere, Someone Must Pay. because that was written on the poster, and they're like, yeah, that's a good song title.

And then it was retitled We Fight For Love. I don't know why. Both lines appear in the song. But an odd choice, though. The band's Power Station.

Of course, we know them for their bang-a-gong and communication. That's one of those I put on all the time now. It's funny that, I i mean to me it's that one album mostly that was like the outlier that i don't think i was as familiar with but i played that cassette kids you'll have to ask your grandparents about it uh yeah i had that that one and played it to death back in the day and i can still like just type it in and be like just play the album don't even switch to anybody else just play it straight through yeah. Well, this particular song doesn't actually appear on that record. For the longest time, the only way you could get We Fight For Love is by watching the Commando movie.

Which you did many times. Which I did many times, yeah. Or you can find it on YouTube as well. Now you do, yeah. Yeah.

I think eventually, like in the early 90s, when they reissued the album overseas, and they reissued the album here in the States as well, but the British version has that song on their first record. It's not on the American version. But also, interestingly enough, Robert Palmer does not sing on that, because he was the the recognized singer for power station. Uh, this is Michael Debar who has had a number of bands throughout the seventies and the eighties. Also was his replacement.

Cause I remember them going on tour. That was such a weird little dynamic. Cause that album was huge. And by the time they went to go on tour for that album, the lead singer wasn't even in the band. Yeah.

Cause his own solo career taken off. Yeah. Yeah. I remember them coming here that summer and like, Somewhere I had the ad for it because it's like, the four guys, and I'm like, who's this Michael DeBar? Well, see, I knew him because he had a band in the 70s called Detective, which they were going to be a big thing.

And then, of course, he did a lot of acting, too. He was on an episode of WKRP. Now he's on it. I've seen him way more as an actor over the years. There's so many TV shows that you're like, of course, and here's Michael DeVar.

So, yeah, now you see him constantly in acting roles. Yeah, and it was great because a lot of times, especially in the 70s and 80s when he'd play a– a role he was playing a rock star and it was it was great authenticity because like well you're kind of already a musician and a rock star so you look the part so there you go uh but yeah he was uh famously married at one point to the infamous pamela debar who she was the ultimate groupie and uh. I think that's where i knew the name more was like i they'd already made a big deal out of her book at that point by the time i put the two together and i was like That's the only other DeBar I know is the guy who was touring with Power Station. Yeah. So, yeah, eventually I was like, well, that, I guess, would make sense, her being groupie girl that she is.

You're going to eventually hook up with that guy. Yeah. But it just, yeah, We Fight for Love is a great rock song. It's very 80s, but it just, like, it matches. But it just, like I said, it's hilarious, but they had retitled it.

Ah, we'll just, you know, We Fight for Love appears in the song, too. We'll just retitle that because Somehow, somewhere, someone must pay is a really long title for a rock song. Nah, it's fine. Yeah, Michael DeBarlu, like, yeah, we'll just title it that because that says that on the movie poster. I don't want.

To have to think of any other words. Good enough. Yeah, but yeah, I still love this song today. We'll protect you Nothing can. Hurt you No storm clouds gathering terrifying I am a mountain Surrounded by your love You are a fountain That dreams are made.

Of We. Fight for love We fight for love. Somewhere, somehow, someone. Somewhere, somehow, someone. I fight with fire.

As I watch them conspire to blow my world. We fight for love. We fight for love. We fight for love. Somewhere, somehow, someone Somewhere, somehow, someone Somewhere, somehow, someone.

Somewhere, somehow, someone, you feel it in me. Somewhere Somehow Someone Somewhere Somehow Someone Somewhere, somehow, someone. Somewhere, somehow, someone. So as a semi-tie-in, I brought this up on a recent episode. Have you ever seen Sugartown?

No, I don't think I have. It is directed by recent guest Allison Anders, and I went back to watch it. And there were several of her, you know, her IMDb listings. And I was like, yeah, I need to watch that. I want to watch that.

And I saw that one and I wasn't familiar with the title, but I clicked on the cast and immediately like top list is John Taylor. And I was like, like. bassist john taylor and yes that's him and moving into acting but i watched it and he's he's an aging rock star was in a super big band back in the day so he's playing kind of john taylor okay and he the band that he's you know they they're on their album when they're working on it trying to get the sound just right and it's terrible by the way it's supposed to be within the context of the story uh but the lead singer is michael debar so he also brought in his former somewhat Again, depending on when you got the band together. So yeah, he is the lead singer of this band that he's in.

And as a side, if you need incentive of another thing to see Michael DeBarra, He's so full of himself rock star and thinks all the girls are into him. But again, this is like well into the 2000s. So it's like he's already pretty aging Michael DeBar. So he's still hitting on 20-year-old girls and they're like, okay, grandpa, what are you doing? They're just not even interested, really.

They don't even realize he's hitting on them. They're just like, hey, my mom's really into you, man. But the little gimmick on there, because it's sort of vignette, so like different people's lives all mixed together. But their story as it goes on is they are trying to get the funding to finish putting this album together. And most of the other stuff falls through.

So this guy's got, oh, I've got this investor. And she really wants to get into music. And it's Beverly D'Angelo. And she decides, she sees who's in the band. She's like, oh, him.

You want to get the funding? Send him on over to me. Oh, no. So, yeah, that's a fun little scenario. Michael DeBar and Beverly D'Angelo working out the finances, we'll say.

All right. Just banging it out over dinner. We'll say that, sure. So, that led me to another one that I thought, if anybody, you would want to put this together. That's what came of this idea. as I started putting this list together is I came up with five other episodes that I wanted to put together.

One of which was, and this was kind of a good leadiness down that road for the future episode. I'm assuming you'd be okay with putting together a episode that is entirely about action movie weird side songs that came it's because i like immediately thought it's like oh yeah that one and that one and why was it such a thing that like action movies that shouldn't have had a weird schmaltzy song in the middle of it kind of did and then other ones would want to go super like hardcore rock and roll kind of version so I feel like we could easily come up with an entire episode of this. Oh, yeah. Well, I've got one definite and an alternate on my list that basically a rock band specifically was hired to write the soundtrack for the movie.

Yeah. And yes, there are ballads that are included in there. And one specific soundtrack, basically the movie did not work out very well and the band didn't work out very well. So it was kind of gone. Yeah.

The other movie, basically, the movie itself is popular in cult audiences. Of course. The band, of course, is a classic. I feel like we should put all these on the back burner. What we don't use today.

We've got a whole other episode waiting for us. Oh, yeah. Well, basically, since we're talking about that, the one I will bring up that is my definite on the list is a little movie called Flash Gordon. A childhood favorite of mine. It's a love it or leave it for a lot of people, especially younger audiences today.

It did not age well. It looks like a italian nightmare uh you know because it's very gaudy and colorful and just. A comic book come to life it really is yeah i i. Think this was far better executed this way than what they try to do in the 90s with dick tracy with kind of the same thing like everything's brightly overly colorful. I like dick tracy more than a lot of people but but i guess it's maybe depends it's a preference because i read flash gordon comics and i didn't have much to do with dick tracy so there you go I feel like they both work, but they're so different tone-wise that, like, yeah.

Definitely. Flash Gordon tried to be much more serious while Dick Tracy is fully aware of it being tongue-in-cheek, which I think, again, why it didn't work for me. I don't like movies that are self-aware. I want you to be completely blissfully... It depends on the movie.

Sometimes it works, but again, it's like a small percentage of when they're trying to do that. Yeah, well, for me, for a self-aware movie like Rubber, works perfectly. It's a self-aware movie because you're buying the ticket as soon as you go in there. But, you know, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes should not be self-aware and it's beautiful that it isn't. And that's why it's a favorite.

But anyway, back to what I was talking about here. Flash Gordon here. So, we all know the theme from Flash Gordon. The Flash, ah, you know, that kind of thing. But for me, the end of the movie, the best song in that soundtrack was Hero.

Because it's, you know, has like a great drum open, you know, just, you know, Roger Taylor. Was it Roger Taylor? No, that's Duran Duran. No, John Taylor's Duran Duran. Roger Taylor is that drummer.

Roger is also. There's three Taylors in Duran Duran. Yeah, there's Andy and John Taylor's Duran Duran. But yeah, Roger Taylor, no relation. They're all no relation.

Which is weird. Well, they're all, I guess Taylor's a popular name. Yeah, just a random name. Anyway, but yeah, Roger Taylor's just got a great drum open. But yeah, just, you know, and then, you know, Brian May comes in with the guitar, just as complete.

It's probably one of Queen's most rocking songs next to like, stone cold crazy or dragon attack or whatever else we're just like it just just comes in and hits you in the face hard yeah but of course the lyrics like you know so you feel like ain't nobody you know like this is the end of the story well i'll tell you my friend this is more than the end you know it's just kind of just great inspirational lyrics you're you're going out of the movie like you know what i'm gonna go get on a rocket ship and just go take off and just conquer universe and help out some people because i'm a fucking hero too you know it's It just stirs you still. And then, of course, they have, like, you know, there's a couple different remixes.

Like, they have, like, some, you know, movie stuff kind of thrown in, some score. They kind of go in and put out a middle part of it, and then it comes right back at the end. Yeah. Or they got, like, the much shorter version, which basically is a pretty short version. It's kind of, you know, just rocks out.

But, yeah, to me, it's like, you know, come for the Flash Gordon theme, stay for your own. Yes, you're a. Hero! Thank you. you score every one of. Us That is one of those, I mean, your lead singer always gets all the attention in most bands.

And rightfully so. He's one of the greatest frontmen ever. But it is one of those sometimes it'll be on the radio, any random song, and I'll just be like, Brian May will kick in with something. I'm just like, man, he's amazing. They were such a force to be reckoned with as a band because each member had their moments to shine in a lot of hit songs that they had.

Yeah. And I mean, it's like, you know, you can't think of another one bites the dust of that bass line. Yeah. I mean, that's John Deacon just kicking ass right there. So everybody had their moments to contribute.

Yeah. Yeah. That's what just made them just a so, you know, when Freddie passed, like it's just hard to recreate that band. Yeah. We've got, you know, the American Idol.

They keep trying. I know. Yeah. They got the American Idol dude, which he sounds. He's not bad.

He sounds really good, but it's just, it's, it's not the same thing. With any band, I feel like just. it's okay when it's more of like a tribute, but like when they still try to continue as a band and many key members are gone, especially like lead singer is just such a signature sound that like you almost can't swap out. I know it's been done a few times successfully, but for the most part, it's just, just get yourself a new band name and like, just if you, the rest of you want to play together, that's cool, but don't try to be something that's gone. But sometimes they make it work. Like, yeah, I mean, they are basically a nostalgia band at this point.

You know, they're, they're, They tried doing new music at one point. Nobody cares. Just play the hits. Just play the hits. Well, on this one, again, it's mostly because it's going out in a very fun way and the song itself is relatively silly, but at the same time, so is the movie.

And it's so, like the message it's giving you is so perfectly tailored to this movie. This would be Two heads are better than one by Power Tool from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Yes, sir. Love this song. Well, I remember the sparks that flew in the summer of 79.

My brother went wild for a pretty girl's smile, but he didn't care that she was mine. We fought each other like never before, and beat till we were black and blue. And when we told her it was time, she made up her mind. She said, I've had it with the four of you. That was when the pact was made.

No woman could sever. We swore it forever for the rest of our lives. We would stick together forever. Cause two heads are never the one. It's double the pleasure, baby.

It's triple the fun. I said Two heads are. Better than one. It'll make you come down. Two heads are better than one.

When we found ourselves in Vegas, the city of sin We were restless and looking to play When this little black dolly in the hotel lobby Blew a kiss as she walked out of way She said, I'm feeling kind of lonely, and gave us a wink. Feeling bold, we expressed our intentions. We said, you're going to have both. She said, that's a joke. It takes two.

Just to get my attention. What's the strange in life? That's a part of our lifestyle. I'm gonna tell you, baby, just where we stand If you won't let us fall, it ain't worthwhile Because two heads are better than one It's double the pleasure, triple the fun I said two heads are better than one It'll make you come down Two heads are better than one We've come this far together It's too late. For turning back.

But it's only fair to warn you. Because when you rock with the boys, you never go back. Hey! Hey! Two heads are better than one.

It's double the pleasure, triple the fun. I tell you, two. Heads are better than one. They'll make you come undone. Nothing's better than two heads are better than one.

It's double the pleasure, baby. It's triple the fun. Two heads. Two heads are better than one Two heads are better than one Whoa, whoa. Whoa, baby Two heads are better than one.

Two heads are better than one Whoa, whoa. Whoa, baby. This is one of those that I remember in the theater and like, well, I mean, if there's anything that's the perfect song to round out this story about these two dorks, here it is. Like, this is such a goofy, fun song that also... just just yeah that's it these two share a brain. Like double the pleasure triple the fun without the other.

Everything falls apart you two have to be together and this song you might as well just have two heads in one body because you're one entity bill and ted oh yeah you know. The fun thing about the bill and ted movies like the original bill and ted that's such a fun soundtrack filled with nobody oh yeah like none of those bands really went on to do anything they were just you know Whatever else. The C, the D-listers of the hair metal era. Yeah. But then you get to Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, and they go all out.

Let's get Kiss. Let's get Primus. Firehouse. You know, Winger. You know, just all these known bands at the time.

Yeah, because then they were popular. They had funding. Yeah. You know, Faith No More's on there. You know, stuff like that.

All that kind of shit. And then, like, That movie didn't do as well. And while those are good songs, I'm kind of like, you almost kind of went too much. You know, it's like, we like the little indie. I mean, that's most, again, that's back to Kevin Smith.

Your indie one has all these nobodies and it's really cool. I really like that second one, but it's like, it's a huge studio push. And like, you've got nothing but recognizable bands when suddenly you've got. Well, it is just bogus journey is while it's fun, it's not as fun. Yeah.

I've always felt that there's a lot of defenders lately. I feel like in the last couple years, I've found this undercurrent out there in the internets and everywhere else that's just like, no, I like the second one better. I'm like, are you just being contrarian? Yes. Because I remember seeing it at the time and going...

I don't like this as much. There's elements I do like. Well, basically, death. Death makes that movie worth watching. Yes, he does.

Station bugs me. Death puts it right over the top. I'm just like, yeah, William Sandler, you nailed it. This is what we needed. out of this character and in this movie to make it awesome. Why, of course, like, you know, the stepmom, Missy, like, they get another kind of joke, like, oh, she's moving on to the other dad now.

That's really funny. That's funny there, but, like, some of the best jokes in the original movie come from all the other historical figures they picked up and everything, and now, basically, you just got Death, who's making jokes, and, like, he's kind of like a little kid, you know? Thankfully, he's really good, because, yeah, you're missing all the other cool cameos we had that were from history, not really the actors most of the time, just other than Jane White. Though it was kind of funny, though, to see Alex, oh, Bill. Oh, Alex Winter.

Alex Winter, yeah. You see a lot more of his directorial style and his style kind of come through with, like, you know, the grandma nightmare scene. Of course, like, you know, that looks much like Idiot Box and looks like his movie Freaks that came out later on. So you definitely see a lot more of his style in the second movie. But yeah, I still was like, yeah, the first is the best.

It's not the same as the first one. Yeah, first is the best. But, you know, everybody likes Bill and Ted. Let's see here. I've got a couple of songs left here.

And it's difficult for me to pick which one I want to use last because both are just like, for me, like the perfect ending song. Yeah. So I'm going to go with my second choice, I guess, first because my first choice is Bill. One of my all-time favorite movies. One of my all-time favorite songs.

So I'm going to go next with The Busboys' The Boys Are Back in Town from 48 Hours. Definitely, you know, really good choice for band. This is a song that was written for the movie. And interestingly enough, this is one of the most... Popular songs in American music that has not been available on its own.

Like, you know, if you could find a vinyl copy of the 48-Hour Soundtrack, it's on there. But it's not appearing streaming or digitally anywhere. The Busboys later on did a re-recording of the song for a 2000-era record, but it's not the same record. feel yeah it's basically guys 30 years down the road re-recording an old song but the 82 version you can find on youtube or like myself i still have a 45 of it of course um and it's really cool because the flips out of the 45 is the song clean up the town they did for ghostbusters. Well that's what i was gonna say this is like the era of the busboys because that's why the main reason i originally knew them it's funny that of all bands in the middle of that at the time, the biggest comedy album in the world was that Eddie Murphy win.

And he named drops the bus boys. Well, because, well, because they were huge at the time. Well, and then if, uh, if you watch the delirious movie, the bus boys opened the show. Um, and cause yeah, he basically just became a big fan of the band. Uh, cause really what it was that they had their first album that had, uh, the song New Shoes, which also was in 48 Hours, because basically they performed two songs in the movie.

Yeah. Because, yeah, of course, you've got the one bar they go into originally, where it's the very racist bar, and Eddie has their new sheriff in town, you know, kind of thing there. But then they go in the other bar, and Eddie's like, oh, this is my kind of place. Yeah. Busboys are playing in there.

But, yeah, they basically wrote, like, three or four songs for the movie, and... I think only like two of them ended up getting used. And of course, Boys Are Back in Town was one of them there. Has no relation to the Thin Lizzy song other than the title. The band, like we dug that song.

But like this is kind of like that's the UK version. This is kind of our version. This is our take on it. Yeah. But yeah, just, you know, basically I think... was it i think it was like the producer maybe was a fan of the band or something like that and said hey you know i kind of want a black rock and roll sounding you know boogie woogie kind of band these guys are perfect choice for it and then basically that ghostbusters and then delirious i mean just they had a triple threat and that just made them huge for a.

Time yep that was the era of the bus. Mm-hmm And well-deserved. They're a great, fun band. They still are. They're still kind of doing their thing from time to time.

They haven't released a new record, I think, since the early 2000s. They still sound good. And you should swear your favorite lady and promise her you'll do it right. Damn fat jack, I'll jump back and give you a shot of some booze. So you can party.

You should fall down, butt bumpin', rock and roll, rhythm and blues. The boys are back in town. The boys are back in town. I know that everybody, when they hear the music, they'll be doing it on the floor. Don't open down the door no more until the band do.

Play some more. So tonight you can dance and romance and do anything you feel like doing. So don't look surprised. Because you know what I like. And tonight we.

Ought to do it. Because the boys are back in town. The boys are back in town. Well, there's a reason everybody should be shaking in the house tonight. And you should grab your baby lady and promise her you'll do it right.

Get on back, jack the jump back and give you a shot of some booze. So you can run. And do some stomp down, butt bump and rock and roll, rhythm and blues, boy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The boys are back in.

Town. And when the boys are back, there ain't no foolin' around. Woo! This is john spencer and you're listening to movie meltdown. Next up for me this is another i was just i was kind of rounding things out and i was like just trying to think of other movies at that time that i was just a really big fan of and i'm like what's something that you know i was like what what takes us out of this movie and um because i knew the soundtrack and i knew most of the songs on there but i was like what is the closing song and so i went back to watch one of my favorite movies summer school and uh i remember this being in there but i forgot i mean because you've got the big epic you know we've got the kids making the grades that's the big thing and then our round out is them on the beach doing their own little uh special little beach rolling around on the sand yeah recreating that classic scene except more importantly with wonder mutton bob who gets the real kiss and so the plants one on the dog and then the immediately kicks in with uh happy by oingo boingo.

I've got a pretty girl who loves me a lot. I've got a fast car that looks real hot. I've got a fine pad, old stereo, and I taught you well in the. School where I go, go, go, go, go. But I'm happy.

Happy. I'm happy that the world is upside down. I'm happy that we all made it through the day. When I pick up the phone, I still remember what to say. I'm happy that my.

Brain still lives. Inside my head. Most of all, I think I'm ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-happy. I think I'm an angel. I'm happy.

I'm happy. I read the paper. I saw the news. All those people out there singing the blues. They get excited.

Why don't they just relax? All they gotta do is get back, go back, go back and be happy. Happy. Happy, but the whole world is ready to go. Happy that I made it through another day.

When I pick up the phone, I still remember what to say. I'm happy that my brain streams inside my head. Most of all, I think I'm happy, happy, happy, happy, happy. I'm happy that I ain't dead. I'm happy that I ain't dead.

I know a guy with plenty of loot. You'd never catch him in a two-ton suit. He's got gold chains and plenty of rings. He told me, buddy, you don't man a bang, don't. Man a bang if you ain't happy.

Happy. Happy though the whole world goes upside down. Be happy that you made it to another day. When you hit the phone, you still remember what to say. Be happy that your brain still lives inside your head.

Most of all, I. Think I'm happy. So happy. I'm happy that the whole thing is ready to go. Be happy that the sun is right at the beginning.

The summer in this world, I still got a friend. Be happy that the big one, he has a trouble year. Be happy that. You're still alive. Something, something, something I do forget.

Oh, I'm happy. Yeah. I'm happy. So happy. So happy.

So happy. So happy. This was one of those that I was like, mostly just for like, once again, much like the bus boys, this was the time of Oingo Boingo. And like, I don't remember paying that much attention to them at the time. I just knew them for the one or two songs that got played on the radio.

But like, as I went back over the years and like, they are fascinating. Like they're just so different from what was going on as far as like radio rock at the time. And like, it makes sense when you know who's in the band, but yeah, They're just the fact that they have such a distinct sound. It's kind of stolen from several other types of music and all just sort of melded together into this oingo boingo thing. Yeah.

And the fact that they were. no surprise, I guess, looking forward, so involved in movies at the time. So, like, there's all these soundtracks that they pop up on or movies that they're in. They appear in a couple of movies at the time as just the house band playing in the background. Hey, wait, is that Oingo Boy? Yeah, I mean, I definitely remember them from back to school.

Yeah. That's kind of basically them doing Dead Man's Party. I mean, like, after watching, I think we rented that movie. You know, we, like, the whole family's in there watching it and Dead Man's Party comes on and, like, my dad buys that record the next day. Yeah.

That's the main one I knew at the time because, again, horror dork that I am, was buying all those soundtracks that were like spooky Halloween songs and they would half the time have Dead Man's Party on there. I'm like, that's one of those that it works as a creepy Halloween song, but also... it's just an awesome song and then you go into their other stuff and I'm like they all kind of have a signature sound to them but this one doesn't have to be spooky dead man's party. Like they don't, that's not their gimmick. Their thing is just, here's what we sound like. Yeah.

We're Elfman's. Here's our thing. So. And Oingo Boingo is such an interesting band because it's definitely, their career is a tale of two different bands. Oh yeah.

You've got basically the pre forbidden zone Oingo Boingo, actually the Knights of the Mystic Oingo Boingo. Yeah. The original band. Yeah, that Richard Elfman, his older brother, started up. And Danny was kind of like, he's the guitarist and would kind of sing along as well.

Which, by the way, I hate my little brother. He's super talented. Yeah. But I guess we'll put him in the band with us. And then, of course, they do Forbidden Zone, which is kind of this really messed up, arthouse, Alice in Wonderland kind of movie.

That I love. Yes. And am horrified by at the same time. Exactly. It is so weird and yet so amazing.

It's the most wonderful fever dream you'll ever have. Yes. But then, of course, Richard leaves the band and decides to go into a filmmaking career. Danny takes over as the leader of the band, shortens the name, and then suddenly the 80s come along, and then it's an entirely different band. They're in everything.

They are still a weird, quirky band, but they're far more accessible than in their earlier days. They became a marketable version of the weird stuff that Richard was doing. Yeah then basically danny closes out the 80s becoming film scorers and works with this dude named tim burton a couple times. And well the rest is history well yeah and now he does everybody like his sound has changed so much that now he is very marketable and like it doesn't have to be tim burton weird it doesn't have to be that throw in a bunch of human voices like he got so cliched with that that i think post 2000s he's like well i can do other stuff guys so like you start seeing branching out and doing a lot of different stuff.

So now his stuff is a little more like orchestra based and like a little more normal score compared to crazy Oingo Boingo stuff. Except last year he got back into doing rock music again. Oh yeah. And he was, what was it? Lollapalooza or Coachella or one of the two, one of those big, maybe it was Coachella I think.

Yeah. He was like one of the headliners for that last year and like killed. I mean, I wouldn't see that. And people were kind of like, Danny Elfman? The whole crowd was entranced.

I was like, whoa! Of course, he's social, he's political, he's bringing back a lot of that stuff that Boingo Boingo was. So it's like, what the shit, dude? Welcome back. Amazing.

But it is funny that the older brother leaves to go have the real career and you can take over my band, kid. And then who becomes the much bigger name in film? Much bigger name in film. So yeah, that's, again, gotta hate your little brother, don't you? Though I did get to spend an evening hanging out with Richard Elfman at a film festival.

As did I. Where he was a guest of honor. And he's a cool dude and he had himself a wonderful time there. He was great. It's funny that we were both there and we didn't know at the time.

I know. That's so weird. That was a long time ago. Yeah. So yeah, we had no idea we were both there.

But he was great. That was the takeaway. I was like, he was really cool and super laid back about everything. I probably charged you for your admission because I was working the door. You probably did.

Yeah, so my wife and I were working the door to that festival. Yep, I was there. That's crazy. That was, yeah, but happy. So much better than the Pharrell version.

Can we all block that out of our memory for life? Actually, I did, but there you go. All right, so my last movie, of course, you probably got one more here, too. My last movie, for me, this is always the first song I think of ending a movie that just kind of like, it's perfect. It encapsulates the movie.

It was written for the movie. But for me, it's the Warriors and the Joe Walsh song in the city. It just, you know, just perfectly encapsulates everything that kind of happens in the movie. You get the feeling. And, of course, it's period appropriate as well.

Yeah. But yeah, looking up kind of some backstory on this one, Barry DeVorsen did the score for the movie and his personal friends with Joe Walsh. And at the time, Joe was still, he was, you know, hot off, you know, doing James Gang stuff, doing his own solo work. And this is before he joins the Eagles. Literally, I think like the next year he joins the Eagles.

And so Barry asks him, hey, you know, I'm doing this work on this gang movie. can you help me out with a song for the end? He's like, oh yeah, sure. So basically he kind of, you know, gets to the script and kind of just sees a little bit of what it is. And he's like, well, he's like, I spent time in a gang in my youth too. Granted, it's like, we were all kind of lame.

Like our curfew was 730. The James gang, sure. Yeah. But he was like, I used a little bit of street gang too. It's like, we weren't really that great, but yeah, whatever else.

But so he had a lot of relation to it. And the funny thing that was like, he, you know, like, He did live in New York for a while and wherever else, but he did grow up in Ohio. So it's like not quite the mean streets of New York City. Cleveland's a city. Most people don't want to go there either.

But yeah, just to me, In the City is still one of my all-time favorite songs. The Warriors is one of my all-time favorite movies. So it was just all that in there. It's just wonderful. And the cool thing is there's two different versions of this song.

There's the one that's actually on the soundtrack where it actually starts with like subway sounds before the song kicks in. And then there's the later version that appears on the Eagles album, The Long Run, which basically the band kind of like, well, it's like we need another song to fill this one in here. And this kind of works for the, so we'll just throw this one in here too. Even though it's not really an Eagles song or anything like that. But we thought I'd do one there.

But yeah, that's just to me, it's a perfect song, perfect movie. And just kind of wraps everything up. Out beyond the neon lights. When you live from day to day City streets don't have much money When you're down that's where you'll stay. In the city.

I know there must be something better. In the city. In the city. In the city. That movie as a child or however old I was at that point, I can't tell you how many times I watched that.

Like that was an odd obsession that there are many of that era for me, but that is one of those that like just fascinated with it and thought it was the coolest thing. And I, i was right as far as i'm concerned yeah i still to this day think it's the coolest thing i do not like the re-edit Did you watch the re-edit? Okay, I'm glad it wasn't just me. Actually, everybody I've talked to doesn't like it. So everyone other than the director doesn't like the re-edit.

The reason why I do not own this movie on Blu-ray is because I can't find a version that's not the re-edit. I don't think they put it. Yeah, because I ran across it and went, oh, I've been meaning to see this. Here's a good excuse for me to get it on Blu-ray. And then I watched it and went... wow, I gotta get another copy of this because I don't need to watch it like this ever again.

It just kills the momentum. I get the idea of what you're trying to do, Walter, but I'm like, it just kills it. I'm fine with your little throwing out the beginning of the story and where you pulled the idea from a little bit. It doesn't need it, but whatever. You could almost throw that in, but the in-between stuff just kills.

The Yeah, they do the comic book paneling sort of trick there. I mean, there's literally two moments in the movie where it completely, like you said, just kills the momentum of two of the most exciting scenes. And one of those is the chase with the baseball furies. Yeah, the thing that people remember most about that movie is probably the furies. Yeah, I mean, the only reason to have that DVD are the, at the time, current interviews with some of the cast members looking back on their time in the movie.

Debra Van Valkenburg, I know is one of them. Swan, a couple of other warriors. They talked about them. So that was cool. But that's the only reason to own that DVD.

The movie, it's like just... Just get the regular DVD. Find an old one that's super cheap now because that's how I buy them. Or here's the real weird cusp. Find it streaming anywhere because the only version you find is the original 79. yeah like you can.

Normally i want to back the director on all of these type of things but sometimes i'm like no you're wrong man. Yeah i mean it pops up on amazon youtube hbo max all the time and it's always the 79 version as it should be but but if you want to own a copy of it you gotta go find the dvd yep not. The blu-ray I was not thrilled with my purchase. And it pisses me off because Blu-ray even has the capacity to have both cuts. Why wouldn't you?

Well, I guess because he's backing it and he wants this to be the definitive version. Fuck you, Walter. You're wrong. You made a great movie, and then you messed it up. Ridley Scott has recut Blade Runner four fucking times.

And you know what? Each version is available on Blu-ray. As a matter of fact, you've got a box set with all of them together at once. Just put them all out there. You can pick and choose which one you want to watch that night.

It's like, don't pull a George Lucas on us, Walter Hill. Give us the damn real version of The Warriors. No, I'm changing it. This is the way it's always supposed to be. It's not.

Coppola has recut Apocalypse Now. Both versions are available. He even just did a new cut of Godfather 3. Both versions are available. Walter, you made a good movie, but just give us the good version.

Not your version. Alright, the next one is I would say the most recent. I think this was the one I was like, yeah, this is a current movie. Oh, no, wait. That's been a long time ago.

But this is another one of those that I still hear the song pretty regular, if not on the radio, because most pop radio just plays the last 10 songs that were put out and they loop them all day long. Yeah. But for anywhere else, or again, YouTube, if you put it on anything of this type before the day's out, you'll get to this song. But this is one that like, I knew it and I'm like picturing it as it's playing with credits rolling by. And I had to figure out what it was from that I, what was making that connection for me.

And I think it's a couple of different ones it's been used for over the years, but I was like, nope, That's it. I remember seeing that, and I remember, I think that's what laid the groundwork, and it's like, now when I hear the song, there's credits rolling by in my head. Yeah. This is Lights by Ellie Goulding, and what I'm pretty sure I remember it from originally was Spring Breakers. Hmm.

So if you go and it does a weird little, like, because it's already a disturbing movie, as Harmony does. That's all of his things as well. That's his go-to. That's maybe one of the more normal ones, truthfully. Yeah, in comparison.

And it's still weird, but, like, it's, yeah, maybe a little more accessible for regular people. There's no underage children having sex in very uncomfortable scenes. I mean, they're barely legal and in bikinis the entire time, but whatever. But they're not 13 year olds. And our lead has become even more creepy as the years go on.

At the time, he was only a little creepy. So all that aside, when they finish their horrifying story, the credits kick on and this starts going. And it's also this little animated thing is like the title comes up and he's like hand drawn like. So it becomes almost like a weird little animated music video of credits as you're watching this and the song's going on. So that is one of those that, again, attached itself as a credit song, and that's still the way I hear it every time it's on.

I had a. Way then Losing it all on my own I had a heart then, but the queen has been overthrown And I'm not sleeping now, the dark is too hard to beat And I'm not keeping now, the strength I. Need to push me. You show the lights that stop me, turn to stone You're. Shining when I'm alone And so I tell myself that I'll be strong And dreaming when they're gone Cause they're calling, calling, calling me home Calling, calling, calling home You show the lights that stop.

Me, turn to stone. I play within my head Touch my own skin And hope that I'll still be there And I think. Back to when My brother and. My sister slept in. An unknown place.

The only time I feel safe. You show the lights that stop me turn to stone. You shine when I'm alone. And so I tell myself. I'll be strong and dreaming when they're gone Cause they're calling, calling, calling me home Calling, calling, calling home You show the lights that stop me, turn to stone.

You show the lights once, don't be turned to stone. You're shining when I'm alone. And so I tell myself that I'll be strong. Dreaming when they're gone. Cause they're calling, calling, calling me home.

Calling, calling, calling home. You show the lights once, don't be turned to stone. I mean, that's a good song too, but yeah, it definitely fits the movie. It's very catchy in general, so that's why I think I still hear it as much because it's been around for years. But yeah, that's one of those that's the only way I remember it.

What's funny in looking it up, it's tied into another more recent movie that I actually really like. Again, I don't know how many people saw it at the time. But if you see Teen Spirit, it's Elle Fanning who wants to be a pop star and is doing like an American Idol type of thing. And when she goes to perform, one of the songs she does is lights. So she actually performs a live version in the movie.

And it's her doing her version of it. And she has a pretty good voice. So even that one's pretty good. So, yeah, that was just one of those that stuck in my head as a credit song. Interesting.

Yeah, I was going to say there's... Definitely, like there was kind of this period, every now and then we get these little periods of actresses who want to record music. Yeah, a lot at this point. You almost kind of have to as an up and coming, definitely just an up and coming kid coming into the business now. but specifically for the girls for some reason you have to also be a pop star and like it's rare I feel like that from those like teenage girls 10 years ago to kids coming up now like it just became a go-to and every one of them also has an album out and I don't know if it's just producers kind of pushing them that like look You need to be in every market. You need to have this.

You need to have this in your arsenal to be able to put out an album. And when they come to you and want you to do a song, you're ready to do it. So I don't know if it's just pressure from the industry or that's the way it used to be. It used to be vaudeville and you did everything. So it's like maybe they're just going back to that version.

I don't know. It was big in the 70s too. There was a lot of actors too. Yeah. It was just weird crossover back and forth and nobody ever took anybody serious when they crossed over was the problem a lot of times.

Most of the time, yeah, it's like the song's like, okay, that was kind of nice or something. I mean, like occasionally you'll get like some good, like I remember like Haley Steinfeld does a song for the end of Bumblebee. Yeah. And it works. I like that song.

Yeah, it's a good song and it works for the movie because it has kind of an 80s kind of, you know, electronic kind of beat to it. So yeah, it works for it. It's a good song. But then, You got like Scarlett Johansson who says, I'm going to do a cover album of all Tom Waits songs. Well.

I love Tom Waits. I love Tom Waits. I love Scarlett Johansson. I don't know that they go together, but more power to you. That is not a chocolate peanut butter kind of combination there.

I'm sorry, Scarlett. Chocolate Jesus. I like what you did there. I like what you did there. But Hayley's a good example of that.

I was just like, she is, for a lot of people, probably more well-known as a pop star. And I'm like, you know she's an Oscar nominee, right? I'm like, One of the youngest Oscar nominees. And like nobody, yeah, like half the time it's two different worlds and people don't put that stuff together. And see, that's weird because up until the Bumblebee song came, the song for Bumblebee came out, I didn't know that.

She has a huge career. Again, if you go put her songs on, you'll be like, oh yeah, I have heard this. Oh yeah, I have. And you don't even know that it's Haley Steinfeld. Yeah, I know her from like True Grit and the other movies and whatever she's done, but it's like, oh.

Okay. She's got a whole other career as a pop star that people don't realize. And I think a lot of those young actresses are like that. I'm good on her. Yeah, I give them credit.

It's hard enough to make one career work. You've got two going, so more power to you. Yeah, and it works. All right. Well, if we're for real rounding it out, I feel like, I don't know, do we have any overall views on this?

I think I've said mine. It's just so many things attach themselves to credits. What? And I had a difficult time making the list because, of course, when we originally started this idea, a lot of my movies were horror movies. And they're like, well, we can kind of save this for another show.

Yeah, I was going to throw that out there. We did like this idea so much that don't feel too bad if we didn't get to some of them because we liked. It so much. I was like, you know, October's right around the corner. Let's just put together a horror version.

And I've got several others that are action movies as well. There's many spinoffs of this concept, so we'll come back to it. Oh, yeah. I've got plenty more. Definitely.

But for this, I was trying... And actually, that's why I kind of... One of the reasons I wanted to go to this, because as soon as you threw out this concept... first thing that went into my head was like, there's few times when you're like in a movie and you're watching the finale and the music's already kicking in and you're like, okay, well this works. And then like by the end, I'm like, I don't know that you could have this and have it work without that also running behind it. Yeah.

Especially for what's going on in this. So, um, we'll be going out with where is my mind by the pixies and, From Fight Club. And it's what I thought of as you said that the first time. I was like, well, that one, I mean, that's not just... And you play a song and the credits roll.

I'm like, you're watching this character... I guess, spoilers for Fight Club. Because you kind of need to address what's going on. But I won't... I mean, there's the whole Jack thing.

But if nothing else, we've just watched our lead shoot themselves in the head. And then stand there as a huge portion of the city... blows up and falls down. Yeah, all these major financial infrastructures. Giant buildings are dropping in front of them and the song kicks in and the credits roll. And I'm like, you can't just do that with any old song.

Luckily, it works so well with this song. Yeah. So we'll round out with that. I did want to stop while we were on there and just talk about also that time period because not only do i love the pixies in general but mostly for the movie because this is one of those movies and some people love it some people hate it it's it's definitely got its fan base and then there's a lot of people that later came to respect fincher but don't like that one still think that's a low point in his career really at the time i liked it uh i do feel like i want to watch it again and see how i feel about it now but it's interesting to me that we got that ending Because it's a 1999 movie. Two years later, there's no way in hell we would ever get that indie for that movie.

Right, yeah. I mean, this was 99 and you could still. Blow up buildings and nobody cared. Because it was fictional it's not the kind of thing that happens in the real oh shit two years later it's real life and our entire country goes into shock rightfully so and has to readjust and you see all those movies that come out after that i mean the they always talk about the ones that got taken out in the process that you know you've got your schwarzenegger when that like Oh, we're going to put this out. Not this weekend.

Oh, let's put this on the back burner. And it got buried in the movie tanked because they couldn't put it out because it had bombs in it and people were freaked out still. So you see like the after effect of that. But I always like noting when things were like right before that and how much you could do and nobody questioned it anymore. But yeah, we have just huge buildings dropping in the end of this movie.

And like, Yeah, that's something I think even now people would be... I mean, they still kind of freaked out by the time you get to even something as sensationalized as. The superhero movies. You know, they were... When you had Batman v Superman and they're just tearing through that city, people are like, um...

What's going on? How many people are dying in the process? And that kind of stuff. Gets flack now that it didn't used to. You could just blow up buildings and be like, ah, it's a fun story.

Who cares? It's going to be like cleanup afterwards. Yeah. I was like, it's not like that anymore. You can't do that without having repercussions.

And it's a funny thing is that it's always been that way. We just didn't think about it. It should have horrified us then. But it just wasn't a real thing to us so much, you know? To that extent, it had never happened before.

So, yeah, it should have been. I mean, the weight of the story is that's supposed to be a huge thing. And it's supposed to change everything from that point on. Right, yeah. And we saw that in real life two years later.

It exactly happened. A version of that happened and everything changed after that. It's funny, too, because Fight Club is one of those movies that, you know, in later years has taken on kind of different meanings because of a lot of the nihilism that that movie projects and a lot of basically, like, you know, life, you know, the life you know actually doesn't mean shit. No. You know, the way you've been pursuing it has been really wrong.

Or the things that we focus on all day long that we think is so important in the big picture. It's just bullshit. Not really. Yeah. And, of course, a lot of that has since kind of, like, grown up with its audience.

So, of course, there's a lot of people who still kind of buy into that sort of, you know, mentality. Or a lot of people who had their mentalities changed because of this movie. Yeah. And kind of now, like, when you look at kind of, like, a lot of America's, you know, especially white males of a certain age. Yeah.

You know, it's like it could almost– the movie could be almost twisted into, like, It was inspiration for some of the January 6th shit. That's why I think it has such a reputation now. I think before even that kind of stuff happened, but it was just those little teenage boys that saw that and were. Like, that guy's cool. I want to be just like Brad Pitt.

He's kind of the villain of the movie, really. As it expands, you realize he, if in fact he is a character, he is insane and is really going to be killing people potentially so the end doesn't justify the means it's like it's i don't know it's like there's a lot of stuff that could be taken out of context well which is the story it's like he comes from a place of trying to capture this thing but again it's centered around a bunch of white males getting together and to smack each other in the face and it just gets blown out of proportion literally by the end of the movie and like that i think is what some people later became very critical of it's like it's a it's a fantasy movie for these eternal teenage white males that don't ever really grow up and still think this guy's cool and i'm like yeah they're kind of missing the point of the movie.

Well, and it's the point of the movie and the point of the book. Yeah. Because basically it's, you know, essentially it's like, okay, it's like, you know, life is bullshit. The way we've been doing things is bullshit. So there's another way to do things.

There's another way to live. A grown-up way to do things that isn't violence for no real reason. But at the same time, too, you could still have those same intentions and go about it completely wrong-headed and cause violence and chaos and destruction. Yeah. So it's kind of like, which way do we actually need to go?

And unfortunately, some people have answered that question in the wrong answer. The wrong way. We have yet to see that in the correct answer. Yeah. It's like, there can be revolutions where not a single shot is fired.

You know, where no one is, no one is harmed. Yeah. There are all kinds of those ways it can happen. I feel like if you don't put all that weight on, you know, again, it's at the time was just trying to recreate this book in concept. Not exactly.

It changes a lot of things and that's fine. But I'm like, it's just trying to tell the story. And if you just. Look at it as that. It stands on its own and it works, but yeah, people sort of take the wrong things from it a lot of times.

But the thing that I think really, like I remember at the time seeing it and was kind of blown away by that scope of like, it starts with dorks in a parking lot and then like becomes this life changing thing by the end of it for everyone, whether they like it or not. They're a social group that turns into a terrorist organization. Yeah. That's the part I wasn't really prepared for because I didn't read the book. I don't know how to read.

So like I just went in kind of knowing what the trailer is. It's just idiots standing around the parking lot hitting each other. So like, yeah, I was like, I didn't know that that's where it was going. So go through this movie and you kind of experience all this craziness and you get to the end and this is our finale and you get that theme kick in as he's standing there with her. And then that's how it sent us out.

And I was like, that's, Such an epic way to end a movie. And this is the epic song that we should go out on. And you're right. It's really kind of just... You can't picture anything else ending the movie.

It's kind of like the same way with John Carpenter's usage of music in the original Halloween. Yeah. It's like if you buy some of the DVDs and they show you some of the behind-the-scenes stuff. Like, hey, here's a scene where we actually take the... The scene where basically Laurie's running for the door...

And banging on the door, like trying to get the kids to open up the door while Michael Myers is chasing behind her. That scene without music, completely different. Nowhere near as suspenseful. It's all about that mixture and finding the right tone and finding what works for the movie you're trying to make. Again, you get these masters that kind of know how to do it and you can work it just perfectly.

And then you get the 90s Godzilla, which is like, this is an advertisement for Interscope Records and none of these songs have any fucking thing to do with the movie. I like that cover of David Bowie. Oh, the Heroes? Yeah, that's not bad. I like the Wallflowers.

And the Rage Against the Machine song is good in there, but it was not written for the movie. I remember at the time, I had a friend that was kind of into them, but was just like, yeah, guys, way to Rage Against the Machine on the Godzilla soundtrack. Like, I don't know if you... Do you get the irony? They didn't have shit to do with that because...

You do. But either way, you took a check. I mean, you've cast a check from that company for your music to be used in the biggest, dumbest movie of the year. So, what are we accomplishing? And the ironic thing is the only song that was actually done for the movie, still having nothing to do with the movie, is the P.

Diddy, Jamie Page... Kashmir, come with me, whatever the fucking thing was. That mashup. So we get a big mashup of a, at the time, popular hip-hop artist and a legendary guitarist covering a legendary song. We're sampling it heavily.

It's going to be for this movie. It has nothing to do... Shit! I think even the Raging Machine song actually says Godzilla in the song. But that was an accident.

Well, they heard it and went, this is about our movie. Because again, some corporate executive thinks the world revolves around them. These guys wrote this for our movie. No, we didn't. This was a song we just didn't use for an album and you all want to stick it on a soundtrack?

You guys got money? Alright, cool. Alright, well. We'll go out with those same notes here and wrap it up. I think we, um, we, we came up with some good ideas and we also came up with a lot of other side projects.

So I like what we did with this one and I like where we can go with it in the future. So, and we're kind of, we were kind of all over the place. I mean, you know, there were many other movies we could have taken with head, you know, big hit songs, you know, that, you know, like, you know, what was it? Uh, The Phil Collins song, Against All Odds. Never actually saw the movie Against All Odds until many, many years later, but that song was huge.

Actually, I have a side project episode that will fit in perfectly. Because it's the all Phil Collins episode? Oh, we can do that too in just an hour of Tarzan. What was the one song, Billy Don't Lose My Number? a big hit song for him, was supposedly written for the film Silverado, a western. Interesting.

A classic western. Not everybody can take current day music and work it into a period piece. Except... It happens. Every once in a while, but.

The weird thing is that the song, A, does not appear anywhere in the movie. No. Doesn't begin it, doesn't close it, it's not heard anywhere whatsoever. Phil Collins doesn't even have a damn cameo in the movie. Not everything can be Buster.

It's still marketed for that. I mean, like, the third Back to the Future movie has a ZZ Top song in there, and ZZ Top is in the movie. As they should be. And the song is featured in the movie at the end, and they're kind of playing a little riff of it when you see them in this. It's like, that worked.

That was a great cameo. I remember we played that one years ago, and I was like, is there a better ultimate cameo? You're tying in your soundtrack. They're playing the song on your soundtrack, but they're playing it in character. And was there ever a band that looks like they need to be in the Old West more than ZZ Top?

I would say second runner up would be Alice Cooper's Prince of Darkness for Prince of Darkness. And he appears in the movie as like the lead ghoul. That he does. All right. So, yep.

We got our work cut out for us. Yeah. We can do a couple more episodes. We got plenty. More in the works.

Yep. I think we need this whole other episode to contain all of this. Indeed, yes. We will be back for that. But until then, I will remind you, get a light.

We'll provide the soundtrack. Yes, we will. Where is my mind? Where is my mind? Where is my mind?

Where is my mind where is my mind. When you beat on the air, your head on the ground Where is my mind? Where is my mind now? Utilizing his love of cinema as the method for killing people and stuff like that, and just his obsession with cinema and whatnot. It's like, stop.

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