Attack of the Killer Soundtrack: Musical Technobabble

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I'm Brian, and this week I'm coming to you with a wide array of movie-themed music, and in actuality, the majority of it won't be coming from me. Instead, I've got two guests to supply you with a double-barrel blast of The Killer Five. Now, at some point a while back, I was hanging out with Ben and Dave from Tower of Technobabble. Now, that's two-thirds of the cast from Tower of Technobabble. Paul won't ever leave the house, but I don't know what to tell you about him.

Actually, technically speaking, it's one-half of the cast of Tower of Technobabble, if you include Towerbot, the robot who. Is, in fact, my favorite member of the cast. But that darn restraining bolt that keeps him from coming out and hanging out with us. Unfortunately, I wish he would come join us on many occasions. Now that I think about it, maybe Paul has.

A restraining bolt, too. That's why we never see it. Anyway, so I was hanging out with Ben and Dave, and we had the microphones in front of us, and I said, hey, while we're here, let's record one of those awesome Attack of the Killer soundtrack episodes. I don't know if they bought that crazy pitch, but... Ben thought it was a cool idea, and actually Dave didn't know it was coming.

He sort of had it thrust upon him, so you will hear he's winging it a little more than Ben. Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? But anyway, they put together a great collection of songs. We had a lot of fun doing it, and I wanted to share it with you guys. Now, I'm pretty much going to let it play for the majority of this episode.

We run through them pretty good all on our own. But I am going to have to come back and interrupt us midway in here to call a technical. On one of these two. And sort of make an adjustment. You'll see when we get there.

But for the most part, I'm just going to let it roll, and we will get into this week's episode with Ben's Killer Five. It's time for the Killer Five. We're here with Ben and Dave from Tower of Technobabble. Hey, Brian. Hi.

We're going to go over some of our soundtrack choices. So, yeah, we'll divide them up. Have you explained the bit? Have you explained the bit? Explained the bit.

Yeah. To you? To the audience. They're listening to it, so I'm assuming they'll already know. Oh, do they know?

Okay, all right. Cool. Well, explain it again to me just so I get the right context. In this segment, we're going to discuss, you know, basically, since we talked to so many people out there in the world anyway, of all different varying, you know, movie geeks to people involved in the industry, I thought we'd just sort of ask people what they're into music-wise that is still like movie. It's sort of much like the show, focuses on.

The movie music thing and how both the songs that get featured in there and the scores kind of you get attached to them. Or vice versa. Sometimes it shapes the movie, the fact that that's in there. Thank you, because I thought I maybe, I might have misunderstood what the assignment was. It's a little of both of those.

This is all crap what I prepared. Crap! Well, we were going to think that eventually. I actually have a list here. But yeah, basically it's not even like, I won't even make people pin down favorites, because I can't even pick favorites.

But just pick five that you think are cool or. Maybe you hate and you want to make other people suffer, but just stuff that you, you know, pick five that you think are worth talking about and then why you like them or don't and. Got it. Yeah, yeah. Just your five that you want to put out there.

Oh, it could be something that you don't like. It could be. But I like everything because I'm a positive, sunny person. Like. everything musically in those Transformer movies. Got it.

I'm ready. Let's go. Or even the 80s cartoon. You got the touch! That's a classic.

Classic. But yeah, basically just five songs that you would like. To share with people. Alrighty. Okay.

Number one? Okay, we'll ask this. Are they in... A specific order or just random five? They are in the order that I noticed them as growing up.

The first sort of musical thing... Like, you know, when I was a kid, you'd watch the movies, and music never really occurred to me. I never really noticed it. The first time I ever noticed a song hand to Oprah was that Lonely Goat heard song in Sound of Music. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Okay, when I was a kid, it was like... Every year, the Sound of Music would come on, and it was a big deal. Because back in those days, it was before cable, before VCR. People would rearrange their schedules. They would cancel their school board meetings.

Because you had to be home to watch the four-hour Sound of Music. We've discussed this. It's very similar with the annual Wizard of Oz event. And the annual Star Wars, you know. So, like...

When I was a kid, I just really liked the whole Lonely Goat Herd song, because it was... Can you hum some of it for us? Because I haven't watched it. High on a hill, lonely goat herd, lady, oh, lady, oh, lady. And the thing that made it great, Conduit, was as they were singing it, they were doing this little marionette puppet show thing to it.

And I think that's what got me into it, because I didn't really like the movie, because it was like lots of... flowery, over-the-top music, and it was all about love and stuff. Love and crap. So what I would do is I would sit through the movie for two hours, you know, going. Through, climb every mountain. You know, like all this over-the-top old lady singing just to get to this three-minute moment of them playing with toys and puppets, talking about little puppets drinking beer and goats doing it.

And it was just... It was my favorite part. That's where little birds come from, by the way. And it was like I had to suffer through this entire, and then whenever Rolf the Nazi turns on him and all that. Spoiler.

I had to sit through all this just to get to the one good part with all the little puppets. And I think that might be why I kind of like stop motion because marionettes are beautiful. In essence, kind of the same school, you know. So really you just wanted to see him play with toys. I did.

So if you would have watched a two-minute commercial, you would have been saving like an extra. Almost two hours worth of time to get that like, you know, little couple. Of minutes of toys. As a little kid. And, you know, the song, it's very hummable.

It's very dum-dum-dum-dum. It sort of spoke to my German roots, you know. Kind of like an oom-pah feel to it. It's very Teutonic. As a kid, I just remember thinking, why isn't the whole movie like this?

Why do I have to sit through, how do you solve a problem like this? Not even the right music. By the way, is this going to cost you money? Am I getting you into some copyright problems? No, you've got to sing it for 30 seconds.

Okay, good, good. And it has to be recognizable. I had to sit through Julie Andrews analyzing her feelings just to get to the really kind of fun part. And my mom actually had the soundtrack on a vinyl record. And I would always play the Lonely Goat Herd song.

It was just something about it. I loved it. Until I finally said, Ben, stop playing the Lonely Goat Herd song. So, yeah. If you were to see this record today. pristine, except for the one little bit where the lonely girl turns.

Right here, just beat the hell. It looks like the trench on the Death Star. That's how much I wore it out. So that was number one. That was the first time I ever noticed a song, a specific song in a movie.

High on a hill was a lonely goat, heard lay, hoot, lay, hoot, lay, hoo. Loud was the voice of the lonely goat, heard lay, hoot, lay, hoot, loo. Folks in a town that was quite remote, heard lay, hoot, lay, hoot, lay, hoo. Lusty and clear from the goat's throat, heard lay, hoot, lay, hoot, loo. A prince on the bridge of a castle moat.

Heard lay, o'd lay, o'd lay, o'd lay. Men on a road with a load to tug heard lay, o'd lay, o'd lay. Men in the midst of a troubled dote heard lay, o'd lay, o'd lay. Men drinking beer with a foam of float heard lay, o'd lay, o'd lay. One little girl in a pale pink coat heard lay-ho-da-lay-ho-da-lay-hoo She yodeled back to the lonely goat heard lay-ho-da-lay-ho-loo.

Soon her mama with a gleaming gloat heard. Lay-ho-da-lay-ho-da-lay-hoo What a duet for a girl and goat. Heard lay-ho-da-lay-ho-loo Music. One little girl in a pale pink coat. Lady, oh, lady, oh, lady.

She yodeled back to the lonely goat head. Lady, oh, lady, oh, lady. Soon her mama with a gleaming gloat heard. Lady, oh, lady, oh, lady. What did you ask for a girl.

And goat head? Lady, oh, lady, oh, lady. Happy a day, lady, oh, lady, oh. Oh, lady, oh, lady, lady, oh. And you asked for the karma trio.

This says a lot about you, the lonely goat. Why is it every podcast we wind up psychoanalyzing Ben? He asks for it? You all seem to be suffering from a mild form of hysteria. You are such a geek.

Way to go, Egghead. Geek. What is a geek? My number two. I'm a little bit older now.

Let's see. I really got into the Star Trek movies. At what point was this? It was actually the movie that got me into it was The Voyage Home. I kind of wasn't a Star Trek fan, but for some reason, my parents actually took me to see The Voyage Home, and I really got into it, and so I started going backwards.

You're going to. Say something about the space hippies, aren't you? No. I don't know how we got it, but somehow we had a videotape of Star Trek 3 the search for Spock and I really found that I was something about the music the really cinematic orchestra music by the way I'm totally avoiding Star Wars I'm not going to talk about that but this was this was a movie where I'm talking specifically about the scene where they steal the Enterprise that long kind of 15-20 minute scene you know And I just really liked how the music was making it more exciting. And essentially, you're watching a very slow model backing up at two miles an hour.

But the music just made it. Like, what I actually did, I loved that scene so much. And I began to realize it was because of the music. I was loving how the music was punctuating the action, making it really emotional. I actually got my little tape recorder, put it up in front of the TV speaker.

I recorded onto cassette that 20, 15 minute stretch from the moment where Lieutenant Hura turns her phaser on the guy at the transporter, like, this is fantasy, you want an adventure, whatever, you know, get in the closet. From that moment up until the moment where Scotty gives Dr. McCoy the spark plugs from the Excelsior. And I would play that bit over and over. Keep in mind, kids, this is when you had to tape record stuff off the TV.

You didn't have your DVDs and your Netflixes. I'm glad I'm not the only one that did that, because I did that with Star Wars. And several other movies. And, you know, later on in life, I actually, somehow I got a copy of the Star Trek III soundtrack, and I didn't like it. Because it was all, it didn't have any of the dialogue, it didn't have any of the sound effects.

And the music, it was like the whole piece. So I could kind of remember, okay, this is when the Starship's backing out. And it just wasn't as exciting because it was cut together and edited in a way on my tape. So this was kind of like a gateway drug to me. I began to think maybe I like orchestra music.

So I tried to listen to classical music and stuff. It didn't affect me the same way. And I think it's because I needed sound effects. I needed like warp stuff going on. It was just so much exciting with the music.

So I don't know. So that little bit from Star Trek 3. Even Starship's backing up to really sell the deal. So listening to the song just isn't going to do it for you. No, no.

I kind of needed the whole thing. Oh, well, that's too bad. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. We'll be right back. Oh, my God. Thank you. But then, isn't that kind of what the movie is?

Like, a movie takes music, sound effects, dialogue, drama, mushes them all together. Yeah, and it's funny how much, like you said, how much that changes it, and like, you know, you would have been. Bored by just the ship backing up, but just adding that element to it makes it a whole different experience. And as I got older, I began to notice that they were using the same music from Star Trek 2 in Star Trek 3, but They kind of added more orchestra bits to it. In Star Trek II, it's the same melodies, but it's a little bit thinner.

They didn't have as full of an orchestra. In Star Trek III, it was sweeping and emotional. I haven't felt this way since The Lonely Goat Heard. Oh, my God. Imagine if The Lonely Goat Heard backed up.

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Sounds better. This is Hunter Carson, and you're listening to me have a meltdown. On Movie Meltdown. All right, number three here? Okay, next one would be Hard Day's Night, the Beatle movie.

And at this point, I was getting into music. I was learning how to play bass. And the great thing about that movie was it showed the Beatles playing, and it wasn't like a video where they would be showing a story or something. It actually showed them playing their instruments. And I just spent a lot of time watching their hands, like how they were moving, and it kind of, as I was trying to learn bass, it was really kind of an inspiration because it just seems so simple but complicated at the same time.

And that and the whole movie, the whole plot of the movie is the Beatles are going to go, they're going to play a show, and then they leave. The Beatles are going to be the Beatles. That's the plot of the movie. And the music, it was just a great period for them where the music was really good. But I spent many happy hours just watching it and studying it and trying to unlock the key, the secret to what makes a good band a good band, what makes a good bass player a good bass player.

Turns out it's talent. You really need that. Well, that's no good. Was there a specific song... Was.

There one that highlighted the bass more? Yes, there was a song called And I Love Her, and it stood out to me because it was so easy. And basically, Paul McCartney is singing it, and he's standing there, and it's just this kind of simple bass line. It was simple enough for him to sing, for him to sing lead on, and it looks simple enough to where I could be like, I bet I could do that. Because it was just a couple of notes, but the way that it was played... made it essential to the whole song.

I give her all my love That's all I do. And if you saw my love. You'd love her too. I love her. She gives me everything And.

Tenderly The kiss my lover brings She brings to me And I love her. A love like ours. Could never die. As long as. I have you near me.

I'll never die And. I loved her. I know this love of mine will never die. And I love her. There was a lot of slow sweeping camera moves showing the fingering and all that.

It was cool. I watched that over and over and over. Like, a lot of people will say, you know, like, I guess in our age, you know, like more modern bands got them into it. But seriously, it was Hard Day's Night that made me want to play bass because it actually looked doable. These simpletons can do it.

They'll never amount to anything. You will believe a man can play a bass. Hey, that's in black and white. I'm going to do it in color. I'm going to be a real rock star.

Those guys, they'll never amount to anything. Yeah, it was cool. All right, number four. The only Japanese animation or anime, as people in the know say, was an animation called Cowboy Bebop. Have you ever heard that?

I have seen some of it, and it's one of those I was not big into anime, and I saw that and went. Oh, it can be pretty good. I was amazed how much I liked it. I sort of see Cowboy Bebop. As the way I see Tolkien and fantasy.

I loved Tolkien. I loved Tolkien. When I was a kid, I read it. I loved it. So I was like, ooh, I should try some of these other books with sorcerers and dragons on the cover.

And they sucked! So I was like, I just like Tolkien. So the Cowboy Bebop, the anime was so good, I'd try others. But the thing about the music in Cowboy Bebop was it was jazz. Up until that point, I really didn't like jazz.

Whenever I would hear jazz, it always sounded like public radio, slow, kind of boring. But this was like violent jazz. It was visceral. That's a good word for it, actually, visceral. The opening theme song, for the show was actually called Tank.

The song was called Tank. It was really fast paced and you could hear the guy straining to reach the notes on the upright bass. It was a way to make something exciting that was different from what I was used to. I was used to cinematic John Williams making space exciting. But this was more I don't know, foreign in a weird way, which is odd because jazz...

Came from here. Came from here, but it took this Japanese animation to make me really interested in. I. Don't know if you're going to keep it at just movies, but they actually did a full-length Cowboy Bebop movie, and they got a lot of this jazz in there too, but specifically it was their theme song, Tank. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Play that stock record scratchy noise. Yeah, that's what this situation calls for. All right, I'm going to have to call a technical foul on Ben here. Now, you hear him. He goes on about this, and everything else he says is right, and he is correct that they did make a Cowboy Bebop movie, but where he was mistaken is he thought they also played the song Tank in the movie.

And very quickly, I went back and double checked and I emailed him. I'm like, hey, you're totally wrong. Way to go. Now, I knew as soon as I set up a basic idea of how these episodes would work, people would start trying to make their own little adjustments or work something in there that didn't specifically fit. Now, I will be a stickler for the details and tell people when something isn't from a soundtrack, like the majority of the stuff we play is.

But rules are made to be broken. And on this show, I rule. So I have decided that I am going to go ahead and play Tank, even though it's not on the film soundtrack, but because more importantly. It's an awesome song. It kicks so much ass.

So with that, I am going to go ahead and play Tank. And then just to keep it balanced later, I'm going to have to come back and make an adjustment. You know, he's only got four out of five technically from a film soundtrack, so maybe I'll fix it later. But for now, we are gonna go ahead and play Tank from the opening of Cowboy Bebop. I think it's time to blow this scene, get everybody and the stuff together.

Okay, three, two, one, let's jam. Thank you. I'm just it. It really got me excited just every time I heard it. I was like, yeah, I want to go beat up people.

In space. I like that that's your motivation. And the last movie with music was The Commitments. And The Commitments, I saw that like if Hard Day's Night kind of inspired me to learn bass and to play bass, Commitments is when I kind of knew what what what i was doing and it it kind of just um it's just really good music and um it's it's about a irish soul band basically and there's one particular song in there called um um why am i going blank. Which one i think i know most of.

Them oh she make me i can do the bass line for you Try a little tenderness. Try a little tenderness, thank you. I don't know why I was blanking on that. Teaser, pleaser, you got to, you got to, you got to. Yeah, thank you.

Let's just perform it now. Oh, she may be weary. And young girls, they do get weary. Wearing that same old shaggy. Dress But when she gets weary, try.

A little tenderness. You know she's waiting. just anticipating the things that she never, never, never, never possesses yet. But while she's there waiting without a hope, try a little tenderness. That's all you gotta do. This is for you.

It's not just sentimental. No, no. She has her grief and. Her care. But soft words They all.

Spoke so gentle It makes. It easier Easier to bear. You won't regret it, no, no Young girls, they never forget it Love is their only. Happiness But it isn't so easy. All you gotta.

Do is try to live your time today. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Squeeze her. Squeeze her.

Never leave her. You got to. You got to. You got to. You got to.

Try to live it. . . . . . Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Yeah! It was interesting because, again, kind of like how jazz music came from this country, but I didn't really notice it until I saw a Japanese movie. I'm embarrassed to say that soul music, which kind of came from America, I didn't really get into it until this movie. Through the eyes of weird Irish guys. Through the eyes of a foreign country who appreciate what was born in this country, but they kind of put this spin on it that makes me suddenly notice it.

I can't put my finger on what it was, but as a bass player at that point, I was just really in love with how Again, it seemed simple, but it really, really wasn't. And that song, Try a Little Tenderness, it starts out slow, it builds, it builds, and it just gets to this neat crescendo. And that's a movie I really paid attention to a lot. Also because since by that point I was in a band, I can say hand to heart, that is the most realistic band movie you will ever see. Because all they do is fight.

I won't spoil the ending, but... 99.99999% of bands kind of turn out that way. That's my list. Hurrah! That album takes what are already amazing songs and somehow.

It lives up to all of them. You would think nobody could do that good, especially a bunch of dorky kids in Ireland, but they find a way to do these interpretations of them that are really impressive. And I think something else, too, was by getting the soundtrack, I had, again, this is before there was the Internet. You could just download songs here and there. By getting the soundtrack, I sort of had a best-of sampler of soul.

Intro to blues and R & B. And because at that time, whenever I would hear the phrase R & B, it would always be applied to people like, Mariah Carey, which I didn't really find that interesting, honestly. It's neither R nor B. She's a little off. But whenever you would watch the Grammys, she'd be up for Best R & B.

So I didn't associate R & B with that. But this was pure old-school soul, and I just love it. I still love it. And I'm actually looking for a soul band to join. So if anyone out there is wanting to start up a soul band.

I'm up for that. Let's go. All right. On it. I'll play the washboard.

I'm going to teach you the meaning of commitment. Dave, I do not get superheroes. Oh, my God. I don't get you. What don't you get?

Towerbot here. Well, the meatbags were going to say that if you're a geek and like podcasts, then you could try Tower of Technobabble at www.toweroftechnobabble.com. Then this started. Well, it's up to you. I'm gonna get my taser and put a stop to this.

Tower bot out. Okay, monkeys. It's nap time. Alright, and now for the other barrel in our double shot of the killer five, we are going to continue. On with Dave's picks.

It's time for the kill of five. What are your important songs that you'd like to share with the world? Let me preface this by saying that I didn't get this assignment until right before the record button hit. Again, it doesn't have to be favorites of all time. We don't have to pin it down.

Just five songs that you'd like to share with us. Well, I'm going to do a lot of that one song by this guy. Okay. So just kind of hang with me here. And I don't have Ben's well-thought-out reasoning.

It's going to be much more on the fly. That was a slam. You might not have known it, but I. Well, you're crazy. Okay, in no particular order, number one is the theme to Superman, the 1978 Donner film.

Amazing. The way it builds, because it doesn't start. It just goes, dump, dump, dump. It really builds. It gets a motion.

It gets a momentum. And with the title credits going, it just... And then we've talked about this before. It's like every good Superman theme, you can sing the word Superman in the theme. Superman.

Superman. Superman. Superman. You know, it's funny you say it because usually credits... are the big the opening credits of the part i hate the most i want to fast forward through it but you're right superman is one of the ones where. It is the start of the movie and we've talked about this on our own podcast before but for some reason that movie just seems bigger it's the way it's shot it's the i don't know what the technology i don't have the i don't have the words to really explain what i'm richard donner yeah but for some reason that movie just looks big even on like a tv now i mean it doesn't even have to be in the theater i like it But there's just something big about that movie, which is perfect for the subject matter.

But that theme gets you in that mood from the very beginning. You know, it's funny. You say the way the theme starts, it grabs your attention immediately, but then it slowly builds and gets more. That's sort of how a movie should be. Right.

That theme song is textbook Cliff Notes 101. This is how you should make a movie. Make it like this theme song. Grab your attention. Yeah.

And then get the suspense and keep you on the edge of your seat. Right. Oh, no! Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. I mean it is amazing it is one of those that's held up like it's still like you can't name most of the other theme songs. What's the Wolverine theme? Wolverine! You know Superman.

No matter how many bad movies they make. You're not seeing the big picture here. Who did the music for Superman? John Williams. That one is just so recognizable to this day.

You can have whoever you want playing Superman now, but in my head, that's the Superman music. You can't Yeah. Well, the other thing is, I mean, I saw, let's say, Iron Man 3. I saw that last week. I couldn't tell you what that thing was.

Yeah. There's nothing wrong with it. It wasn't anything bad. It was just not memorable. Not memorable.

Yeah. But, you know, for 30 years ago, I can still. Yeah. You know, it's funny. After Star Wars came out, I think a case could be made that a lot of the guys in Hollywood, you know, they wanted to do the special effects like Lucas.

They wanted to, you know, they wanted to do the framework. I think a lot of the musicians suddenly wanted to be John Williams overnight. I mean, he was, he was movie music for that, you know, and still kind of continues to be. At least now, new people have sort of stepped up, but at the time, there was nobody, like, recognizable. Like, nobody, there were no composers in the modern era that were a household name.

That was it. Like, John Williams was it. Right. Okay, so, number two, we'll go the other direction. The movie Once, and I can't, Once?

Yeah, Once. It's a story of a band in... Were they in Ireland? Yeah, they were in Ireland. I'm not familiar with this.

Look it up, kids. Well, it's Glenn Hansford and. I. Can't remember what the girl's name is. See, that one girl?

Do you have your iPhone? It came out a few years ago. Falling Slowly, that was the song from it. I don't know you, but I want you All the more for that Words fall. Through me and always fool me And I can't react.

Games that never amount to more than they're meant will play themselves out. Take their St. Kimball and point. It home. We've still got time.

I've had the choice, you've made it now. Falling slowly, eyes that know me And I can't go back Wounds that take me and. Erase me and I'm painted black. You have suffered enough and warred with yourself. It's time that you walk.

Take this St. Kimball and pour it home. We've still got time. Raise your hopeful voice. Take their St.

Campbell's out Let's slowly sing your melody out. These people basically scraped up the money to get a recording. They were trying to get a recording deal, but they had to get a demo reel. And so they scraped up enough money to get in a studio, and basically they just got in a studio after hours and just jammed out an album overnight. And at the end of the night, the engineer says, okay, you sound good on these $ 50, 000 speakers in the studio.

Let's take this CD, go out to my crap car and listen to it in my crap speakers. Nice. And if it still sounds good, then we know we got a hit. But it was just the feeling of getting in a car and listening to something you've done all night and listening to the fruits of your labor. It's the way it's shot.

It's the way it is. But I can imagine a band doing that. I mean, just getting in the car and driving. I will tell you that that is actually still... still done they you basically make the recording you go out and you get in your car and you drive around and you listen to it yeah. So i mean that's spot on but it was just it's not it was it wasn't the song particularly that they were listening to but it was it was the music the feeling of the music i mean that whole movie is it's about musicians so that the music is a character in the story almost um that point of the music sort.

Of like how the theme to jaws was almost a character in the movie too exactly Hope I didn't take one of yours by saying Jaws. Damn it! No, but that would have been a good one. Again, much like the last John Williams. I mean, he's not a bad composer.

No, I think he'll be good. I think he's got good works ahead of him. One of these days, he's going to put out a really memorable tune. He's going places. It's funny.

There's a Mystery Science Theater movie where he did the music. Was it... It wasn't Tatio, was it? Or was it. Oh, John...

Where. And it's just, you see his name come up in the credits, and it's just amazing. Number three, it's the movie Crossroads. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. The Ralph Macchio or the Britney Spears?

I'll give you a hint. I'm not a girl, but not quite. So you like girls, thus the Britney Spears. All right. No, it's actually the other one.

I want to mix the two, and I want to see Britney Spears playing slide guitar. Can we make that happen? I want to see Britney make her deal with the devil. I think she did. Become a pop star known all over the world.

That would never happen unless the devil was there at the crossroads. I think she did, and her time came, and she paid for it. Your golden hair will be shorn by your own hand. Yeah, sure, whatever. Anyway, no, I'm talking about the Ralph Macchio movie.

About a young white boy who wants to play the blues and actually kind of does well at it. If you make a. Deal with the devil. Anyway, basically he's trying to win his mentor's soul back from the devil by having a... It's called Cutting Heads, a guitar... competition with the devil's advocate, who in this case is Steve Vai.

I haven't seen that in forever, but yeah, I was like, isn't that Steve Vai? I'm trying to think, who was the guy who actually played the guitar? It wasn't Ralph Macchio. You mean the older guy? No, he wasn't in the.

They went out on the actual soundtrack. It actually might have been Steve Vai, honestly. Well, he played his, but. No, but I think Steve Vai may have done the Ralph Macchio bits, too. Google!

Ry Cooter. There we go. Oh, okay. Thank goodness. There we go.

I thought you meant at the very end when they were doing that. Yeah, but the Rye Cooter is actually playing. Oh, okay, okay. It's a soundtrack. Right, okay.

But that's another movie that the music plays such a big part of. And the music is actually the weapon in the end of it. And it's a very interesting use of the music. And they have such two different styles. The Rye Cooter slash Ralph Macchio bit is much more blues-based, much more... you know, slide guitar, even though they, it gets faster and faster.

It's still in that genre. Whereas Levi is much more of the heavy metal rock. It was interesting watching those two again, because they're such different, different and distinctive styles, like trying to pit them against each other is weird, but in the way that they do it, where they almost have to play the same thing, but he does it in blues style and he plays it in heavy metal style. And it is interesting to watch that same piece of music, like get, shoved into these two different machines, more or less. Right, and basically the way it rises, each round rises in tempo.

Yeah. It's an interesting mix of music. This is the mojo hand, the Louisiana voodoo charm. The winning boy's magic. You see, there's only one last true.

Mojo left in the world. Take it right now. Take it and go up there and do your stuff. I'm giving you. All the magic I've got.

What shall I do? Then you can call upon your brother. Who's next up there? Who's coming on up? Who's going to get their head cut?

How about you, chicken boy? Oh, my Lord, what shall I do? What shall I do? Well, well, well. Who sent you here?

Can't talk, little man? That can't play none either. Oh, huh. Thank you. Oh, my God.

We'll be right back. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Thank you. So so Thank you. Again, it's a better movie than I think people realize.

Yeah. And it's... It's very, very quotable, too. I don't know. Plus.

Hellhounds on your Twitter, Willie Brown. Plus. Jamie Girtz. I mean, come on. Well, Jamie Girtz.

Anything with Jamie Girtz. And it was Jamie Girtz of that era. There ain't nothing wrong with that. If you kept your hands on that guitar as much as you keep them on that there girl's ass, maybe you'd be a guitar player by now. But yeah, I think even more than anything, the finale there makes that movie.

It really does bring. It all together. Number four, I'm going to go with the soundtrack to Tron Legacy. Really i've heard a lot of good things about that i have not listened to. Much of it is a a it stands alone you can actually listen to it it's a if you're in if you're in a techno kind of mood which you know sometimes i'm a graph designer by trade and when when i you know i can't listen to music all the time but when i can when i'm doing something i can listen to music that's a really good really good background because it makes me feel like i'm typing with purpose and action.

And creating my own world. Take this program i am leader of this world but it's a really solid piece of work and it really helped the movie a lot it really worked well with the visuals in that movie so any in particular song wise there's uh one called the fall and it's about halfway through the movie where the action on the screen is they're plunging in an elevator but But the sound on the soundtrack is it's almost like a wordless scream. I mean, it's just the way it's going down. And it's very evocative. I thought.

Bye. End of line. Hi, this is Tom Kane, the voice of Yoda. And listening to Movie Meltdown, you are good. All right.

Grand finale. And grand finale. I'm going to go for it. I'm going to grab the third rail. The theme from Star Wars.

And I say it because of this. I'm old enough. I'm probably the oldest person at this table, as I usually am these days. Go to bed, old man. As the older generation dies off, I'm the tip of the spear.

Last man standing. Last man standing for now. I'm the oldest man in the world for now. There's always somebody behind you. All right, explain it.

You were old enough to see it in the theater. I saw it in the theater. It was 1977. I was eight years old. Yeah, I was eight years old.

And the way that movie comes on, it was... You've got to look at it from the historical perspective and not the 30, 40, 50, 60, 80 times you've seen it since. First time you see it, and keep in mind you hadn't seen anything like this. Screen goes black. Long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Screen goes black again. Boom. You see the title. You hear that big trumpet fanfare. grabs your attention, drags you in. It's kind of the opposite of Superman, where it's like it builds.

No. It's all lead. There is no lead in. We are here. We don't need no stinking credits.

You're not here to see credits. You're here to see explosions. And they deliver. It's a period of civil war in the galaxy, Pitch. Thank you.

Thank you. So so. Thank you. There are any trade negotiations. There's no tax disputes.

Boom. War. Awesome. So, I mean, and that, again, it's been repeated and it's almost hackneyed right now. But if you look at it from the historical perspective of actually seeing it for the first time, it grabs your attention and it doesn't let go.

So. Yeah. As far as a piece of functional music, movie music. And again, one that completely, like, shaped the movie. Like, that movie.

I don't know what it would have been certainly without the entire score, but maybe even just that main title theme is like so important that, yeah, it may have changed the entire final outcome. Was there, was there ever any question that it wouldn't be a orchestrated sound soundtrack? Like, because a lot of sci-fi up until that point was all like the synth kind of keyboard and the theremin, you know, was, was the orchestra something that Lucas wanted or fought for? I don't know. I can't imagine it being any other way.

Because that movie would have been terrible if it had been there. Again, the music really pulls you into the movie. It tells you there's not going to be any subtlety in this movie. There's not a lot of subtlety in Star Wars. No, and it's funny that he was bringing in a pretty big gun there.

He was already pretty well established even by then. This was after Jaws. Yeah, after Jaws. So it's like they really didn't have a lot. It's like they had his music, and Obi-Wan.

Alec is a really well-established actor. But other than that, it's a bunch of nobodies and some special effects that they're not even sure if. They're going to work on screen. They had to develop on the fly. This will probably work.

It feels like that was almost legitimizing them. It was like, hey, look, this guy, he's a big name in movies. And it does, because it's a real orchestra. And it really kind of brings back sort of that old Hollywood feel, I guess. That, like, yeah, this is a new kind of sci-fi idea, but we're going to have a little bit of the old world, you know.

We'll have the old Hollywood stuff. Kind of makes you, again, the whole prequel thing, you know. It's like you need that real world. You need the feeling. You need the weight.

Like the orchestra versus a synth, you know. Yeah. Which is why the only good part in the prequels is that one song that has, like, human voices in it. Oh. Qui-Gon is dead.

Yeah, that one, yeah. No, the big battle scene with Darth Maul, which is, again, the best part of that movie. You've got to set through Edelweiss before you get to that part. You finally get to that part at the end, and it's like, oh, see, once again, Duel of the Fates makes this movie. So, yeah.

That's mine. What are yours? I don't know. I'm not playing this game. Oh, hey.

I have to bring other people in. I know what your favorite song of all time is. You take me higher than the sky. From the Star Wars Holiday Special. Starship.

Come on. It's a great song, and I love that music video. It deserves me that you've seen the holiday special enough to just pull that out of nowhere. And yet, I can't do the Diane Carroll song. He watches it on a little box at home.

I still maintain that the only reason they got that job is because their name was Starship. Because they were trying to do space-themed things. And the guys from Emerson, Lake, and Palm were like, Oh, we could have the Star Wars... Job, if only we had named ourselves Galactic Nebula or something. Galactic Emerson Lichen Palmer.

In the most popular holiday special ever. Oh, no, wait, never mind then. Scratch that. This is going to make somebody's career. Scratch that.

Sorry, Starship. What's this yellow crap? We could have been in. The Star Wars. And like Jefferson Starship was so embarrassed, they were like, look, we need to change our name again.

Let's drop this Jefferson thing and see if we can skate by on just. Yeah, actually, it was Jefferson who got us the deal to be in the Star Wars. It was all Jefferson's idea, man. So we, like, fired him, and then we had to be Starship because he technically owned the copyright to. Our new band's name is John Smith.

We don't like Jefferson. That's our new band. Good stuff. You have failed me for the last time. All right, so no, I am not going to play Jefferson Starship at this point.

You're welcome. But I am going to play one more to round things out and to fix that problem from earlier. Now, Ben chose a song that wasn't from the Cowboy Bebop movie soundtrack. So now I will play one from that very soundtrack to fix the issue. And thus, all is once again right with the world.

So he wanted to play the opening of the show. So now I'll trade up for the opening song of the movie, which is performed by the Seatbelts. Well, something like that. The Seatbelts, it seems, is a whole lot of different people. They've been many members over the years, different variations, depending on what era.

I mean, they did the music for the TV series, and then they've done the soundtrack for the video game, and then at least some of them came back to do the soundtrack for the movie. So it's many different people over the years. But to simplify, I'm just going to call them the Seatbelts. So this is The Seatbelts with Ask DNA. So thank you for joining us on this musical journey through cinema.

We had a lot of fun assembling it for you, so I'm glad you could share in this little experience we had. And with that, I will remind you, get a life. And we'll provide the soundtrack. You can't free enough You can't hide You. Can be cool You.

Can cry Do it wrong Not at all Do. It right. No one owes you No one's to blame. Ask your conscience the. Why and how Do it then, do it when, but do it now.

What's up? Sweet cakes Who's here? Anyway Oh, girls. Easy What you. Gonna do, little buckaroo?

Yeah, you gotta do it. Happy for his eyes, come on. No, we all can be super fly. G, Q, P, H, D, F, B, I. You can pretend to you can.

Try Move ahead, lay down dead or slip on by. When the truth seems so far away Need answers for your dismay. Ask yourself. Ask your mom. Ask PMA.

What's up? What's up? Sweet case. Who's here? Who's here?

Anyway. Anyway. The girls. The girls. Are easy.

Are easy. What you gonna do, little buckaroo? Hey, you! All you gotta do, happy fool, is ask your mom. Yeah, just ask your mom.

Do, do, do. Just ask your mom. Do, do, do. Yeah, ask your mom. Do, do, do.

Super Guru Mama Dalai Lama Come. On, come on, come on, ask your mama Super Guru. Mama Dalai Lama. Come on, come on, come on, ask your mama Super Guru Mama Dalai Lama What's up? What's up?

Sweet cakes. Sweet cakes. Who's hip? Who's hip? Anyway.

Anyway. Up girls. Up girls. Are easy. Are easy.

What you wanna do, little buckaroo? Come on! What's up, sweet cakes? Who's here? Anywhere here?

Oh, girl, I'm eating. So what you gonna do, little buckaroo? Hey, you better ask him out! All you gotta do happy food is ask your mom theme. From Battleship is my favorite because it really is feel free this.

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