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There's a podcast that's sure all that rocks hard is gold. And they're climbing the stairway to 11. When they get to there they know the record stores are all closed. But online they can get what they came for.

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Oh, and they're streaming the Stairway to 11.

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Hello, and welcome to Stairway to 11. My name is George.

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This is John. And I'm TR.

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And this episode, we're doing something a little bit different, but a little bit the same.

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John, why don't you tell us what we're doing? Or rather, tell them I know what we're doing.

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Okay. So I'm not sure if this is my idea. Is it anyone else's? I can't remember where this came up from. I'm going to say it was your idea. I can't remember. Yeah. And you know, it doesn't even matter. We decided that we would do an episode on our favorite soundtracks from movies. And that would be both song oriented soundtracks and original soundtracks slash.

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or what do you call it? Backslash scores. Yeah. Musical scores from movies. And we were thinking about, there's so much ground to cover that we would divide it in two parts. We're all familiar with soundtracks because they get released. There's a bunch of songs you hear during a movie. Albeit, sometimes you hear a song for a minute. Sometimes you hear it for like 10 seconds. 90% of the time you're like, damn it, play some more. But those are kind of the popular releases because you

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You know them as singular songs. They're probably even more popular today because you could just download whatever song you want from that soundtrack. And then there's the original soundtracks, the OSTs slash scores, which are the music that goes behind, the sound design that goes behind movies. And trust me, you know a lot of these we'll talk about, that I'm positive of, because a lot of them have kind of seeped into culture.

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A few of them, I know, because TR, you've already mentioned a couple, come up all the time. Even when you're joking with your friends or when you see a commercial or you see the movie, you always instantly know what you're referring to. So we thought it'd be kind of fun to talk about these soundtracks, these scores, because let's be honest, for movies, they do make the film. Yeah, it's a huge part. I mean, it can definitely take the film to the next level if you've got an awesome set of songs to go along with it.

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You could have a horrible lead actor. And the music saves it. That's right. And I think it'd be kind of a fun exercise because on my list, I have probably more than the two of you combined. And that's because I have a lot of scores. And I actually did some television stuff because it was really hard not to. But it's limited. Trust me. It's not much. But yeah, this will be fun. John scores a lot. You said score. Yeah. Yeah. That guy's cool.

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He's so cool. Anyway, so should I kick it off now? Part one of this is going to be our favorite soundtracks, which would be song-oriented soundtracks. Yes. And go ahead, kick it right in the music. All right. So I have my music. Now, I'm a big fan of these. I've always have been since I was pre-high school. And it's because of this particular soundtrack.

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seeing this movie when it came out, even though it was rated R, when it came out for really good. I think I know what this is. Perhaps. But this soundtrack stuck in my head. I like every single song on this soundtrack, even from the artists I don't like. Because this got so ingrained in the fabric of my music, my own personal music upbringing. When I was cutting my teeth,

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This was part of my rotation. I first had the tape, then I bought the CD, and it was never re-released on CD, so I have this shitty recording. You have to turn it up because the volume's so low on a production. But without wasting any more time, my first pick, and I asked to go first because this one is so important. This is what's driven me now for soundtracks following this. I'm not obsessed, but I actually like buying them or listening to them.

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The suspense is killing me!

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All right. So my number one pick came out in 1981. Oh, from a movie. Like I said, that was rated R. Oh, yeah, but it was animated. Oh, yeah, I knew it. I saw about that one. Yeah, I knew it. And I anticipated this because I was like, this is based on a magazine that I see at 7-Eleven when I'm playing video games that I'm not allowed to buy. I'm not allowed to buy because there's

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There's boobies on the cover. And what I'm referring to is heavy metal. Oh, John. Is it on your list? No. It was my number one pick. Oh, let's, why don't we share it then? You want to share it? Okay. Let's share it. But dude, like it's all you because we'll both talk. I had a feeling, but let's share it. Cause I was going to say, George, if you had it, then we'd all do a group thing. And then we would just pick up again. But this really was important to me because,

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This movie was loaded with songs from big names, obscure names I've never heard of and never heard from again. And when doing a little more research, I'm like, this dude played with who? What? And even if you don't like some of the songs, there's just something about these songs that they put together. It's not a heavy metal record. No, that's actually, that's a great point because, you know, these songs are not heavy metal songs.

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There's one heavy metal song on the whole album. Yeah. And one that's called heavy metal, but it's pretty much hard rock. Yeah. There's two heavy metals. That's right. Yeah, that's true. And the one you're thinking of is not even the album theme song, or I guess the song that was touted as the lead into the movie, meaning this is a song that was associated with the movie itself. Right. Right. Even I didn't know until yesterday. Hmm. So.

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I'm just gonna read this off real quick. TR please jump in anytime you want because you have this on your list too and if it's your number one let's do it together and George obviously I want to hear what you think. So this is the soundtrack in order and I listen to this all the time. This is crazy. Yes. All right so it starts off with Sammy Hagar's Heavy Metal. It's the original version it's not the version that's on the album Standing Hampton. I still don't know the difference that much but it's cool. It's followed by

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a band called Riggs, which is a dude's name, but it's Riggs, and the song's called Heartbeat. This guy ended up being the guitarist for Pat Travers for a while, and he's like the lead guitarist for 38 Special. All right? It goes into Devo covering Working in a Coal Mine. I couldn't think of a better band to play that song. I mean, seriously. Then it follows up. Yeah, they definitely had their own take on that song. Yes, they do. It's followed up by Bloister Colts' Veteran of Psychic Wars.

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which is just such a good song and now mind you that album came out this year too and mind you

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blister colt was tapped to do the soundtrack or at least participate more in the soundtrack and the songs that they wrote for the soundtrack didn't end up on the soundtrack this one did which is also on their album fire of unknown origin okay number five cheap trick reach out i absolutely love this song i don't know what it is love this song and up to this point i like cheap trick so this is it fits

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Then there's the theme song. Don Felder's heavy metal, parentheses, taking a ride, close parentheses. It's a decent song. Yeah, I like that song. It's cool. TR, do you have any idea what the next song is? As a matter of fact, I do. Why don't you go ahead and give it, because I know how much you like this guy. It's Donald Fagan's True Companion, which was not on any other album, so it was kind of its own track. As a Donald Fagan fan,

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And it was kind of cool to hear, you know, this other song that was never released on an album. So, yeah. And let's be honest, Steely Dan Fitz on a heavy metal record. Right. Yeah. I mean, like you said, all this stuff is, it's pretty eclectic. Yes. Now this next song gets kind of, this is one of the heavier songs, Nazareth, Crazy, A Suitable Case for Treatment. It's such a cool tune. We get a second Riggs song, Radar Rider. Which is a rockin' tune. It's a rockin' tune.

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Say Radar Rider three times and tell me. Radar Rider. Now, I will say, this next song, this one's a tough one for me. No, I'm with you. It's Journey Open Arms. Yeah, didn't want this one. No, they can take it off. Didn't want it. Yeah, and it's on there. It's all right. It's all right. Yeah, Stone didn't love it a bit cooler, but I get it. Open Arms, it fits the scene. Yeah. All right, let's finish this up. Grand Funk Railroad, Queen Bee. It's kind of a cool tune. I dig it. Cheap Trick comes in with I Must Be Dreamin'.

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The best song on this whole list. Go ahead, T.R. I want you to give it. It's Black Sabbath with Dio. The Mob Rules, the alternate version, which is, it just has, it's so much more brutal than what ended up on the Mob Rules. Like, this version, it's just got more edge. It's got more aggression. It just sounds more raw. And, yeah, this version of the Mob Rules is,

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It's really, to me, like the definitive version of the Mob Rules. And it's really a shame that the rest of the album, when they recorded the rest of the album, you know, they couldn't, they didn't put this on the album because when they tried to record the rest of the album, it sounded totally different because they recorded it in a different studio. And so unfortunately, you know, they couldn't really capture the sound of this version of Mob Rules on the rest of the album because if they had, I can't even imagine like what that would have sounded like. I know. Yeah. And if you've never seen the movie, just,

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The Riff Starting and that horde coming over the hill. It's just perfect. It's just perfect. All right. Three more songs. Don Felder back again with a song called All of You. It's all right. Yeah. All right. Let's see if anyone knows this band. Then we have a band called Trust. A song called Prefabricated. George, you know the band Trust? I do. I was just going to ask, is Nico on this? I do not know if he's on this recording. This song is from 1979 from Trust.

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And he was in the band at the time that this came out, I believe. TR, do you know? Is this a re-recording? Offhand, I do not know. I looked. I could not find it. But if anyone's not familiar, Tress is a French. I guess they would be like a proto-metal band a little bit. They're pretty heavy. Anthrax covered them too. Antisocial. Yeah, they had some heavy stuff for the time. And Nico was in the band for a two-year period, roughly. Apparently Clive Burr was.

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He followed him, didn't he? I can't remember. Yeah, kind of wild. And a final song, Stevie Nicks' Blue Lamp, which I'm not a Stevie Nicks fan. I actually like this song. I think it's kind of a cool tune. So this is the one that got me hooked on soundtracks. Now this is song-oriented, radio-playing type songs. And I played this thing to death. And I never skipped songs. I don't know what it was. This thing just seemed to work for me. Had some of my favorite bands, had bands I didn't listen to.

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I mean, you got everything from Sammy Hagar to guys from the Eagles, to a guy from Steely Dan to Black Sabbath. To Debo. To Debo. Yeah. I mean, honestly, it's very eclectic. And, you know, when you watch the film, you know, the film is basically a melange of a number of different segments that are all kind of held together by this one theme of this, you know, this orb and the,

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power of this thing coming through. And each of these segments is different from the other. And that's why I think that's one of the reasons why all this works, right? Because you've got these different segments in the movie that kind of demand different types of music. And I think that's what gives this soundtrack the strength that it has is the eclectic nature of the music and how it, you know, how it really fits together with the

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the animated segments that it went with. They did a good job of pairing these songs with those segments. And yeah, totally with you on this, John. You know, it's really just like, and it's that sweet spot in the early 80s, late 70s kind of sound that you get. And yeah, I knew this was going to be on your list. I knew it. I love this song. And I think also, what, especially

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Especially if you're not our age, or roughly our age, where FM radio was not something that you actually jones for really hard every day, get out of school, FM radio goes on immediately, you know, because you're listening to tunes of your friends, or you're in the car, or you're whatever. This is pretty much an FM radio playlist. I mean, stuff was that mixed together. Yeah, that's true. And you know, that's the thing, at the time, this was what FM radio did sound like.

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And there wasn't any kind of opposition to this, right? People accepted. I don't know. I don't know if people were more open-minded or if the genre was just broader. But back at that time, and even if you look at the festivals and various other live things that were happening at that time, you had bands coming together that today, I don't know that they would put them together in a

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They do in Europe. Yes, I would agree. But over here, you don't get that. You don't. It's very compartmentalized. It's very compartmentalized, and you don't get the diversity of what you had at this time on FM radio. All of these bands and all of these songs were the type of thing you would hear back-to-back on the radio. Easily. Maybe Devo might not have been on this.

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with everything else.

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You still had like Whip It was being played.

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Might have.

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Right.

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But there was, this was also the start of alternative radio.

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I don't want to call it goth radio yet, but there was alternative radio.

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I guess new wave radio, I guess, would be the better way of describing it.

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So anyway.

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All right.

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Cool.

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I'm glad.

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I was wondering if one of you would have this or both of you.

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So Heavy Metal, 1981.

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All right.

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Tiara, you want to go next?

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All right.

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So I'm gonna kind of work backwards and so this is kind of my lowest one. So first you know first the first thing I want to say about this is when I when we talked about doing this and when we talked about like soundtracks the funny thing about some of the soundtracks that I've listed here is on some of these soundtracks I never saw the film. I like the soundtrack and you know this is what

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We're talking about our favorite soundtracks, right? And in some cases, I have never seen the film. But the soundtrack was phenomenal. And so you're going to find a couple of these. Now, the next one, actually, the one I'm going to bring up in this instance, I did see the film. I've seen the film many times. And it was the second highest box office movie from 1977. And that is...

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Smokey and the Bandit.

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Oh.

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Oh, man, yes.

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So the cool thing about this soundtrack is that there's all this incidental CB dialogue that's taking place.

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Like, they interspersed parts of the movie where they're talking on the CBs.

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And for those of you, I mean, look, you have to be of a certain age and of a certain demographic to really love this.

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But when this movie came out, I don't know that I probably didn't see it when it came out.

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I did. In the theater.

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Yeah, I can't remember. I'm trying to remember now.

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But I know I saw it because there was a drive-in theater not far from my house.

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Literally, like probably a couple miles from my house.

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I missed the drive-in so much.

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Yeah, and this was one of the movies that, you know, one of those dusk till dawn kind of deals.

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And this was one of them that was like piled into that. And, but this was a number of years later, but anyway, so the soundtrack to this, of course, everybody knows Eastbound and Down. That's been actually getting a lot of, it's been showing up in commercials and various other things lately or over the past couple of years. And of course, Jerry Reed was, you know, he was in the film as the snowman, you know, driving the truck.

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And of course, you know, he came up with a number of the lyrics to some of the songs that are found on this soundtrack. Just to go through the songs, just so you know what's on here. The first song is called The Legend, and it's the song that actually begins the film where, you know, it's... First of all, this is 1977. This was released in 1977 with the film. And the music on this is pretty much clasping.

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classic 70s country music. Or, you know, that style of country music that was going on at that time. And, you know, so the first song is The Legend. It's kind of like this song about, like, you know, this guy who's just like, basically it's, you know, the bandit, but it's like, it's talking about this guy who's a trucker who, you know, performs these feats that, you know, can't be believed. And then, of course, Eastbound and Down,

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A Song Called Foxy Lady that is not the one you think it is. Another one called Orange Blossom Special. And then the song called The Bandit, which was kind of a slow song that was kind of a tribute to The Bandit. March of the Rednecks, which is kind of when the snowman gets into the fight at the bar. And then If You Leave Me Tonight, I'll Cry. Another Eastbound and Down. Actually, the first Eastbound and Down was actually Westbound and Down.

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because they were going to get the beer. And then they're coming back with the beer to go eastbound and down. And then a reprise of the Bandit. And the fight played on, which is kind of like this crazy band thing that's going on. And then My Cousin Plays Steel, which is a steel guitar song. The Hot Pants Fuzz Parade. And then another reprise of the Bandit.

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And interspersed throughout all this are a number of different incidental CB dialogue where they're all, you know, talking back and forth on the CB or citizens band radio for those of you that don't recall what a CB is. So anyhow, this, this movie was, you know, definitely a favorite of mine. And the music is really goes well with this movie because it's just, you know, it's, it takes place. It's supposed to take place.

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down south and they're crossing the state lines to try to get this Coors beer, which at the time, if you're taking Coors across the Mississippi, that's bootlegging, son. You can't do that. That's against the law. Anyway, that's my pick. I like Jerry Reed. Yeah. He's phenomenal. He was great in that movie in terms of his acting skill was great.

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He did a great job. He's very believable as a trucker. Very believable as the Bandit's buddy. And then the fact that he actually sang and played a lot of the music was terrific. I love Junior. I can't believe you came from my loins. And the dog's name was? That's Fred. Fred's good with that. Yeah.

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Boy, that's the movie that made me want to Trans Am when I was a kid. Oh, yeah. Hell yeah. Honey hush. Yeah. We should also state that film had Burt Reynolds, Sally Fields, and Jackie Gleason. Jackie Gleason. And he was phenomenal as Sheriff Buford D. Justice. Sheriff Buford D. Justice.

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And he was perfect for that. He played it up and he did it so perfectly. They couldn't have gotten anybody better than that. I can't imagine anybody doing a better job than he did in that movie. And the best part of that film is you feel like you're along for the ride. You're going along and you're seeing all this and you're rooting for the bandit. It's such a great, fun adventure.

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I don't know that they make films like that anymore. This one, I mean, it's a drive-in movie. And if you're thinking about drive-in movies, what else are you thinking about from that time period? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Cannonball Run, yo. Yeah, that's right. Which actually, when you watch it again, kind of doesn't hold up. I haven't seen it in a long time. I did. I thought, oh, you know, let me look at this. And I watched it again and I was like, oh, God, this is a

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is actually not that good. Really? Really? Dom DeLuise? Yeah. I like the doctor guy with the finger. Yeah. Oh boy. So I will say those two movies and Death Race 2000 were the original Fast and Furious films. Yes. That's right. Anyway. Awesome pick. All right. Thank you, sir. Alrighty. My first pick goes back to what year is that? 1992.

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It defined the music of an era. And that would be singles. I know. Interesting. Okay. That was not where I thought you were going to go with that. Nice. Yeah. This is like, this is the whole grunge thing in a movie and in a soundtrack. And I mean, there's no Nirvana on here, but you've got Alice in Chains with Wood, which is just like the greatest song in the world. Pearl Jam, Breathe. Chris Cornell doing Seasons.

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Paul Westerberg from The Replacements doing Dyslexic Heart. Love that song. The Lovemongers, a.k.a. Nancy Wilson, doing the Battle of Evermore Zeppelin cover. Mother Love Bone, the short-lived pre-Pearl Jam band with Andrew Wood before he died of a heroin overdose, doing Chloe Dancer slash Crown of Thorns, which is just an amazing song. Love that one and only Mother Love Bone album. Soundgarden with Birth Ritual, Pearl Jam,

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State of Love and Trust. That was one of the big songs on here. Mudhoney, an underrated grunge band doing Overblown. I loved those guys. Paul Westerberg again, Waiting for Somebody. And then the original son of Seattle, Jimi Hendrix, May This Be Love, one of my favorite Hendrix songs. Screaming Trees with Mark Lanigan, Nearly Lost You, one of their really great songs. I like that song a lot. Oh, yeah. My band actually used to play that.

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Yeah. Love that tune. Underrated band from Seattle, too. Yeah. R.I.P. Mark Lanigan. And then it closes out with Smashing Pumpkins. Yeah. What's not to love about this album? I bought it when it came out. Yeah. I remember that being really huge. And just, yeah, absolutely. The film was big. I mean, it hit at the right time. You know, everything about it. Yeah. And the songs, you know, like you said, George, I mean, it's like a cavalcade of, you know, what was massive at that time.

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Yeah. You know, Cameron Crowe really put together something that not only defined the music of the time, but paired well with the movie that kind of defined the time as well. Definitely. Now that film was released in 92. So which means they were probably in pre-production and filming during 91. Most of those bands had not hit the mega status at that point.

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And think about it. It had Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees. There's some big names in that movie at that point in their careers. That's right. I mean, you kind of feel like they were maybe taking a chance, right? Like there, there was probably, you know, those guys were, like you said, were not at that level yet. No. I mean, Alice in Chains had Facelift that was already out. Right. And I believe Pearl Jam's first album was out. Wasn't 10 out in 91, I think. Yeah.

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Yeah, I mean, none of those bands were mega bands yet at that point, which is, I mean, Pearl Jam probably was the biggest at that point. Yeah, they were huge, but yeah, but still, like, some of those songs, you know. That's a good pick. Yeah, that's good. All right. Okay. Back to John. So should we stick with Cameron Crowe? Ooh, here it comes. Is this also on your list? I'm sure it is. Is it almost on your list?

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Sure. Do you want me to do it? Go somewhere else? No, sure. Go on, dude. I'm with you. All right. So my number two, which sounds like is on everyone's list. So please join in with me on this one, is the film Almost Famous from 2000. Oh. Not what you thought it was? That was not what I was expecting. Oh, wow. Really? Okay. Yeah, Almost Famous. Definitely. Okay. Yeah. That's good. But like, I'm thinking of a different Cameron Crowe movie. We got plenty to talk about. Yeah, we do have plenty.

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You're not familiar with this film? It's a film set in the early 70s about a fictitious hard rock band just trying to make it. And like the title says, they're almost famous. I am a golden god. Did I really say that? Yeah, you said that. And it's also semi-biographical of Cameron Crowe because the film also focuses on a young teenage journalist who's basically following this

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around and trying to write and eventually writing for Rolling Stone magazine, which is, you know, kind of Cameron Crowe's story a little bit. And the beauty of it is that there's amazing music in this movie, but the fictitious made up music for the band Stillwater is actually really good too on top of that. So there's kind of two soundtracks in this, in essence. And I, when I bought the DVD for this, I made sure I

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I've got the one with the actual CD, Stillwater CD, so I could get the five songs. But I'll run through just some highlights from the album because there is a ton of music in this movie. But I believe from the original release, just some of them, Simon and Garfunkel's America, which is not the America that Yes sings about, even though it's based on that. It's the same, yeah. I know, but it's just such different worlds. It's kind of wow. The Who Sparks, Yes, I've Seen All Good People,

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The Beach Boys feel flows. I always get tongue twisted with that, which is a really cool tune for the movie. I think they do that during the credits, and it just really works for me. Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells a Story. The Allman Brothers' One Way Out, the live version, of course. Leonard Skinner's Simple Man. Led Zeppelin, one of like a thousand Zeppelin songs in there. That's The Way. Elton John's Tiny Dancer, which I believe they sing on the bus, don't they, as a group, everybody. David Bowie covering

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And then Thunderclap Newman, Something in the Air, which is a really cool tune also, which I believe they also do during a scene that really works. There's other songs too that came up as kind of like snippets or less than a minute. Paranoid by Sabbath, Burn from Deep Purple, Reeling in the Years from Steely Dan, Voodoo Child from Jimi Hendrix, Peggy Sue from Buddy Holly and the Crickets, My Sherry Amour from Stevie Wonder, which I believe is the scene where she almost

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"Color My World" by Chicago, Cortez the Killer from Neil Young, and then like a thousand Led Zeppelin songs. I'm not joking. The Led Zeppelin's just played throughout the whole thing. And then there's the songs from the Stillwater Band, "Fever Dog," you know, "Chance Upon You," "Love Thing," "You Had to Be There," "Love Comes and Goes." And it's a band that featured Nancy Wilson, Peter Frampton's on the song, Mike McCready from Pearl Jam's on the song. So it's actually a very cool movie.

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Followed a band around a little bit. I don't want to name any names. Starts with a no on this podcast. If you've rhymes with snow path, might involve a tree, an animal with spikes. There might be a porcupine in there. Yeah. They have followed a band around for a whole tour. Maybe. I don't want to mention any names. John's a groupie. Might have been drunk in a park across the street from a bus.

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Woken up by someone in the band saying, dude, what are you doing? You may have flown 6,000 miles to go look at a bridge that was on their album cover. And actually took a picture with it. Yeah. Several. Yep. And almost got beat up by a bunch of drunk rugby hooligans at nine o'clock in the morning. And then? No, and then? Yeah. So this film does kind of hit to me a little bit too, because

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I may have traveled a little bit. May have been on a bus or two. There are nicer buses. And I know you guys have traveled for shows. George, I know you've gone to Europe for... Borken. Borken. You know, and TR, I know you've done a little traveling for bands too, just a tad bit. Yeah. Here and there. Maybe. A show here and there, maybe in a different state, different country. Yeah. So it kind of hits because there is that camaraderie amongst people you know on the road that you see at shows.

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you may never talk to the rest of the year, but then as soon as you see them in some bar in Buffalo in a snowstorm, you automatically have a friend. I like the film too. What the hell's his name? You've got a friend in me. Isn't that the folk dude? You mean James Taylor? James Taylor? No. You've got a friend. Carly Simon sang that angry song about him.

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I think it's her, isn't it? Randy Newman. Oh, Randy Newman. Yes. By the way, is like an unsung hero for writing songs for everybody else. Yeah. He's like the Michael McDonald of his time. Oh, wait, they're at the same time. Yeah, they were in the same time. Those two guys wrote so much music. Anyway, if you haven't seen the film, I mean, maybe it's slightly dated. It's just loaded with an incredible cast. Billy Crudup's in it.

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in it's in it.

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Seymour, Philip Seymour Hoffman, who's awesome as Lester Bangs from Rolling Stone, I believe.

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Is he from Rolling Stone at that point in his career?

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It's just loaded with people.

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It's such a good movie.

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So I liked, I enjoyed it.

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Maybe you might not, but the best part of the whole film, it originally was the Don

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Beebe band, if you remember correctly, who became Stillwater.

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And Don Beebe, or is it Don Beebe?

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I can't remember.

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Maybe it's John Beebe.

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I can't remember his first name now.

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Jeff Beebe?

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I can't, I'll look it up.

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He still gets screwed on the Rolling Stone cover at the end, which is so funny. Ironically, the guy that played Luster Bangs, who died of an overdose, died of an overdose. I know. And he was amazing in that role. And he's only in it for a short minute. But I can't think of anyone better to play that at all. So anyway, Almost Famous, my number two. Right on. Okay. What you got? Yeah. So my next one.

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Actually had a preponderance of a band that has done numerous soundtracks. Numerous? Yes. Apparently over 50. Whoa. Yeah. What? 25 of which are actually, you know, you can go and purchase as a soundtrack. And that band is Tangerine Dream. I knew it. I love it. And the movie is Risky Business. Really? Yeah.

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And this is mostly for the Tangerine Dream part of it all. But it does have In the Air Tonight. Bob Seger. It does have Journey After the Fall. Jeff Beck. It does have Jeff Beck, The Pump. That's so good. Yeah. Yeah. So this is a movie that I think I've maybe seen once on TV. What? Yeah. I don't know if I've seen it all the way through either. Yeah. I know this was pretty

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It's much like the prototypical massive film of 1984 or whatever this came out. But again, this comes back to the soundtrack. It's less about the movie and more about the soundtrack for me. I get that the soundtrack goes with the movie and that's cool. Honestly, how cool is love on a real train? But yeah, I think that first of all,

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I love Tangerine Dream. And I just, you know, pretty much, they crapped out stuff like this so easily. And some of this actually came from other albums and stuff, but I just love them. And so anytime that they're on a soundtrack, I'm digging it. I can't say a whole lot about the film because I haven't seen it a lot of times. I mean, you know, obviously there are certain scenes that everybody knows and like you can't help but know. But for the most part, like I picked this because I like the music.

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And that's really mostly based on the Tangerine Dream part of it. And the title, No Future, Get Off the Babysitter. And Guido, the killer pimp. Yeah, I will say, yes, the scene where he slides into the living room with his underwear and his dress shirt to Bob Seger is iconic. It is. Yes. And it probably, all his early films, I actually liked Tom Cruise. I actually enjoyed those.

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But if you want to see a scene where the music matches what's happening, in my opinion, is when he takes out the Porsche and the pump from Jeff Beck plays, and he's cruising in this, and it's just, there's no talking at all. It's just this perfect song for cruising in a car. Yes. Yeah. And it's at night. There's no one else on the road. It's just perfect. And then where it ends up makes it even better. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Good pick. All right. Yeah. So my next pick, the soundtrack, I believe, is all one band. I can't actually find anything that shows me a lot of details about this soundtrack, unfortunately. But it's a movie about a band, about a made-up band. And that movie came out in 1983. Okay. And this is Eddie and the Cruisers.

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Oh, wow. Yes. Featuring John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown band. Wow. It's got to be, it's got a bit of a Springsteen vibe, particularly on the main song on the dark side. Definitely. That's like Johnny's definitely a Springsteen type band. Yeah. So I love the movie. I even kind of like the sequel, I think. I mean, I don't know. Oh, when he comes back. Yeah. Yeah. When he's back. Spoilers. It's only 30 some years old. Yeah. And honestly,

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I don't even know if I recognize all of the song titles I'm looking at here I mean Run Around Sue I remember that one and Tender Years Betty Lou's got a new pair of shoes so that's supposed to be a Peggy Sue kind of thing I don't know but and then I should have listened to this beforehand but Season in Hell I remember that was the whole like music that wasn't that the music that was recorded but never released and right it was all like dark and moody that's about this is such a good picture

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It really is.

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Oh yeah.

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I mean,

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I'm,

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you know,

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I know it is more as a whole than as like individual songs other than on the dark side,

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because that one gets played a lot on the radio still,

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but yeah,

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I mean,

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such a,

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you know,

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there's not that many cool rock and roll movies other than,

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you know,

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all the ones we're talking about.

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No,

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but you're right though.

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You're actually right.

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There's not many that you can point back to organically made movies.

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Right.

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where the movie's actually about the music. I mean, almost famous, obvi. But this is very specifically about an artist, a troubled artist. And yeah, it's just such a good movie. I'm going to tell you right now, if Bruce Springsteen had recorded the song from that movie, it would have been number one, hands down. It would have been one of his biggest songs ever because it really sounds like Bruce Springsteen. It does. It actually does. And had he recorded that hit. But the funny thing is,

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Vocals, I think, would work better from the movie than it would for him. They just seemed to fit. Just my opinion. I'm not knocking on Bruce, but I think had he recorded it, it would have been mega big. Because of the buildup of that song. And of course, you'd have Clarence coming in to play the sax and everything. I will say, if you watch that movie, you need to watch the second one. Because of the scene where he tells the guitarist, the young kid, that you don't always have to shred.

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Sometimes a well-played melodic guitar solo without a thousand notes is a thousand times better. I love that scene. It's just, they got a lot of things right with that story in terms of telling a story. At least I thought they did. Yeah. Nice, man. So we only have one so far out of six picks. One what? That we were matching on. Yeah, this is great. Yeah. I love it. Oh, yeah. All right. What do you have next, John?

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All right. I'm going to read off a list of people from the movie. You'll probably figure it out. But this is quite an ensemble cast for this movie. Are you ready? I'm ready. All right. Mark Wahlberg. I got it. Julianne Moore. Burt Reynolds. Don Cheadle. Oh, man. C. Reilly. Yep. William H. Macy.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman and Heather Graham. Most of these people were not megastars yet. I got it. Thomas Jane is another one. I'm referring to a film that came out in 1997 called Boogie Nights. Oh, and Louis Guzman is also in this movie. Of course he is. Don't want to forget him. If you don't know this movie, it's basically, it's based on a mockumentary short film that director Paul,

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Thomas Anderson wrote and directed while he was still in high school called the Dirk Diggler story, which is loosely based on the infamous John Holmes. Porn star John Holmes. I absolutely love this movie. I love everything about it. It's just, it is a effed up film across the board. It really is. It's dark as hell. There's amazing, cool scenes. And yeah, it's all about,

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Porn in the 70s, and you almost don't even care about that part of it because there's all these other storylines going on at the time. I only ever saw it once, but I thought it was all like disco and stuff. You've never seen the movie? I said I've seen it once. Oh, once. Oh, it is, but there's just, it's just a cool soundtrack that fits everything. First off, the soundtrack opens with John Reilly and Mark Wahlberg doing the intro for the song Feel the Heat.

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I imagine it was extremely hard for Mark Wahlberg to sing at a key and sound atrocious.

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Then he did this because they sound terrible singing this song.

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And that's all part of it.

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And if you watch the extras, there's an amazing scene with those two in the studio fighting to get their tapes.

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But there's just all these great songs like Best of My Love by the Emotions, Eric Burton and Worst, Bill of the Wine,

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Marvin Gaye's got to give it up. The Commodore's machine gun, which is just so cool. Walter Egan, Magnet and Steel. You've heard this song, trust me. You know, there's just all kinds of cool songs. Night Rangers, Sister Christians in this movie, which is interesting because I don't think this was set in the 80s. I thought it was the late 70s. This is in the film. Lecture Light Orchestra, Live-In Thing, Beach Boys, God Only Knows, which is cool.

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And then, obviously, the theme song from Michael Penn, Big Top. And there's other songs on it. And there's one song that keeps coming when all these soundtracks that I have, Elvin Bishop's Fooled Around and Fell in Love, which is just such a cool tune. That's cool, though. You know, Three Dog Night doing Mama Told Me Not to Come, which isn't a perfect part in the movie. And it's just filled with tons of songs. It's cool. If you haven't seen the film, it's just...

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It is wild. And it's cool. And it's disturbing and dark. And it's messed up. And most of that cast had not become big names yet. Minus, you know, Burt Reynolds at that point. Which actually kind of revived his career. Yes. Without question. So in a sense, it was, you know, he's not an unknown. He's a known. But he wasn't a trusted known at that point. And he did completely revitalize him. I mean, even William Macy at that point was not a big name.

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Considering his stature, now when you look at this list, I mean, Mark Wahlberg now is just massive. And then obviously, you know, Don Cheadle, John Riley, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Are you kidding me? Really? You know? And then Julianne Moore and Heather Graham. I mean, it's just, it's crazy. Yeah. Yeah, that's my next one. Right on. All right, John, so this is the film that I thought you were going to say earlier when you mentioned Cameron Crowe.

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And this was released in 1982. And this is, yeah, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I really understand. Yeah. I'm having a pizza and learning history. So I'm really surprised that I beat you to the punch on this because I would have thought this would have been on your list. But this has got some great songs on it.

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So to lead it off, Somebody's Baby performed by Jackson Brown. I just, this song was so prevalent back at this time. I mean, this was a huge hit and it was played all the time on the radio at that time. And not a flattering scene in the film either, by the way. Yeah, but you know what? It told the story. Yeah, it did. And it was like so appropriate. And then you got Waffle Stop by Joe Walsh.

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Love Rules by Don Henley. So you got a lot of, you know, a bunch of eagles in here. Town Boys by Louise Goffin. So Much in Love by Timothy B. Schmidt, another eagle. Raised on the Radio by The Ravens, which is a really cool tune. The Look in Your Eyes, Gerard McMahon. Speeding by The Go-Go's. Don't Be Lonely by Quarter Flash. Never Surrender by Don Felder, another eagle. Yeah. And then,

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Two Songs with the word Fast Times in their title. Fast Times, The Best Years of Our Lives, Billy Squire. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Sammy Hagar. And then I Don't Know by Jimmy Buffett, Spicoli's Theme. Love is the Reason, Graham Nash. I'll leave it up to you, Poco, which had another eagle in it, Timothy B. Schmidt. Highway Runner by Donna Summer, Sleeping Angel, Stevie Nicks. She's My Baby and She's Out of Control, Palmer Jost.

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And then Goodbye by Oingo Boingo. Another future soundtrack genius. Yes, actually, that's right. And this was, you know, just the very beginning of that, right? But yeah, this movie was huge. And the soundtrack was huge. All these songs were certainly, like many of these songs were big on the radio at the time. I remember hearing Raised on the Radio a lot. Somebody's Baby. All the time. That song. Yeah. All the time. And Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which was,

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You know, specifically, like, Sammy Hagar did this song just for this movie, and this is the only place that it appeared other than, like, you know, you could get it on a.45. So, yeah, this was huge. I remember hearing it a lot on the radio. The movie was huge because it really kind of captured it. It was one of those coming-of-age movies that was just so perfect and really kind of captured a time.

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that, you know, when you look back on it now, there's like, it's just got an enormous amount of nostalgia when you watch this film. Because if you grew up during this time, and you remember what it was like during this time, this movie captures it perfectly. And it was just like that. It really was. And that's what's so amazing about this film, because it captures it so well that it and I mean, you know, granted, it was

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of that time. They filmed it in that time and it was of that time. I don't think

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they had any idea of how well they were capturing that time at the time.

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When you look back on it, it's just so nostalgic.

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You get overcome by the feeling of how accurately

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it represents that period of time. If you grew up during that time,

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It really hits a chord and it really is something that, you know, I have to admit, like a lot of these songs I wasn't really into, but when I hear them, the nostalgia factor is so big that, you know, it's just a great thing to hear it. And that's my pick for this one here. Awesome. That's a great pick. And that cast was huge. Yes. I mean, it's massive. Who was in that film? You don't even notice or recognize some of them.

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people in that. And I mean, just Sean Penn and Forrest Whitaker alone is huge. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Another person that really captured that moment in time was John Hughes with like Breakfast Club. Yes. Anything he did, honestly, at that time. Yeah. That's, you hit it on the head when you said it captured the time. It really was of the time during that time. I mean, it's, yeah, they got it right.

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because I remember some of those scenes where I grew up. Those things happened. So that's so cool. Love it. Yeah. All right, George. All right, my next one is going a little bit darker. A little bit deeper, a little bit darker. We actually talked about this album recently on the Metal Heads podcast. I knew it. I knew it was coming. Yeah. With our good friend Holly. This is the Crow.

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So good.

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This is one of my favorite movies of all time.

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And it just happens to have a really great soundtrack with a lot of really cool bands.

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It opens up with The Cure doing Burn, which I didn't even like The Cure back then, but I liked this song.

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Now I love The Cure.

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And then Machines of Loving Grace, Golgotha Tenement Blues.

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I picked up their album after this.

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I don't know if they ever did anything again.

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It was kind of an industrial kind of music. And it was cool. I liked it at the time, but I don't know whatever became of them. This next band you might have heard of, Stone Temple Pilots. What? And the Big Empty. Oh, yes. Yeah. Hell yeah, man. Another band you may have heard of, you know, if you listen to music and stuff, called Nine Inch Nails. Maybe you crawled out from your rock. Yes. This is their cover of the

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The Joy Division song Dead Souls, which it's like when Eric starts running across the rooftops and it's like, boing! You know, the perfect song for the perfect moment in the movie. Such a good song. This is one of those rare instances where I actually like the cover better than the original. I like the Joy Division version, but the Nine Inch Nails version is so much better. Then you've got Rage Against the Machine doing a song called Darkness. Violent Femmes. I'm a huge Violent Femmes fan.

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me once. Rollins band doing a cover of Suicide's Ghost Rider. Band called Helmet. And their song Milk Toast, which I believe was from Betty. Pantera, The Badge, which is a Poison Idea cover. For Love Not Lisa, that rings a bell, but I don't really recognize that one. This is one of the songs that we talked about on the Metalheads. My Life with a Thrill Kill Cult after the flesh. Hell yeah, man. Yeah, those guys are crazy, man.

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I love TKK. Yeah. The Jesus and Mary chain, another band. I really dig snake driver. And then the last two tracks, I don't really know very well band called medicine and Jane Seabury. It can't rain all the time, which of course, you know, is a poignant song from the movie. So yeah, if you haven't heard it, listen to it. If you haven't seen the movie, what are you doing with your life? Go watch the crow.

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Don't watch any of the sequels. Don't watch any of the spinoffs or TV shows or whatever. Just watch the original. When the credits end, turn the TV off. Yes. Go no further. Exactly. I hear they're doing a remake. I'm not, I don't know. Is it done? Is it out already? I don't know. No, I'm just saying no. Yeah, I just don't see. There's no way. I mean, and this is like holy ground. It's stupid. Like this is what happens, right? Like they do remakes of stuff that you should never

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You can only fail from there.

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Yeah.

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Also has the little thing, you know, Brandon Lay died and all that stuff.

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That's why it's like untouchable.

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It's holy ground.

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You can do sequels or prequels.

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Those are fine.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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But if you can get someone who's true to the storyline, that's hard.

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Right.

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But if you redo, you go to hell.

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You go to hell and you die.

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So we're going to talk a little bit about sequels that were done pretty well in the future on this. Okay. We'll go back to the future. No, not that one. Maybe. You never know. All right, John. Good pick, George. I didn't want to say that one because I knew at minimum you would bring that up. So I wanted to make sure that one of you guys got that. All right. You're welcome.

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I don't know where to go next.

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Because I have two that are really cool.

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I have one that kind of mimics TR's last pick a little bit.

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A little earlier, timeline-wise.

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Okay.

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I hope it's not on my list.

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But I may hold off because I may go to one that is semi-recent within the last 10 years.

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And a lot of these songs became really famous again in this movie.

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Am I potentially taking some of these here? No, it's on my extended list, but it's not on my main list. All right. So I'm going to just sing you a little bit of this, which is just what nobody wants to hear. Oh, I do. But I will tell you, this is a long-standing running joke with my brother from another mother, who was my second mother, my buddy Rich.

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I use this song all the time to describe his brother, Kurt, who's like my older brother, for the music he listened to in the 70s. And I would always play this song, and then I would follow it by, and now this is what we listened to growing up in the 80s. It would always be like Number of the Beast or Run to the Hills. Right? Are you ready? Ready. Ready. All right. It's real easy. It goes, Ooga Shaka, Ooga Shaka, Ooga Shaka, Ooga Shaka.

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Hooked on a feeling. Can't do it. I can't sing as good as that guy. He's a very good singer. Or was. Love that song. The movie I'm talking about, which is one of the few superhero films I absolutely loved when I saw it. Most of them, I think, suck bad. Yep. Because they're boring. And that's Guardians of the Galaxy. Oh, wow. Yeah. 2014. Great movie. Great soundtrack. I get the soundtrack on vinyl. Yeah. It's the

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Peter Quill's mixtape. Yep. Which is awesome that it's a tape. Yeah. You know? And just everything about this movie I loved. I'm sure you know this movie. I'm sure you know these songs now. But a lot of these songs kind of went away. You know? They were always like, hey, folks. It's I'm Mr. Nobody and I'm with Ms. Nobody and we're here from Time Life to talk about the 70s. And I...

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Really great Mr. Nobody. Mr. Nobody. I remember growing up with my friends riding in the back of my boyfriend's van. Do you remember all that? That was so great. Why do you want to pay $170 for this? Do you know how much it would cost to buy all of these albums? Yes. Now you can get them for $10 less. Oh, man. Spirit in the Sky. Yes. Let's do these songs real quick. You know the movie. Come on. Everyone knows the movie. But on his tape, Blue Suede doing Hooked on a Feeling.

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I didn't realize that the band that sung that version was from Sweden. The Raspberries Go All The Way. George just mentioned Norman Greenbaum, which, okay, let's be honest, for a hard rock song, that's not the name I'm thinking that's singing Spirit in the Sky. Norman Greenbaum. I appreciate he wrote that. Yeah. David Bowie's Moonage Daydream. Hey, Elvin Bishop again with Fooled Around and Fell in Love. 10CC, I'm Not in Love. Jackson 5, I Want You Back.

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Redbone,

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come and get your love.

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Come on.

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That was awesome during the film.

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The Runaways,

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Cherry Bomb.

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Cherry Bomb.

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Rupert Hines.

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Holmes.

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Oh,

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Holmes,

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excuse me.

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Sorry.

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Hines.

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Rupert Hines.

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Is that the producer for Rush?

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Yeah,

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that's right.

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Shit.

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See,

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every episode,

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Rush has to be mentioned.

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You gotta pull Rush into this somehow.

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Yeah.

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Rupert Holmes,

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Escape,

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the Pina Colada song.

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Oh,

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yes.

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I mean,

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five stair steps.

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Ooh,

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child Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell ain't no mountain high.

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Oh yeah.

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And that's,

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I think,

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I believe that is the original release.

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I know there's been subsequent releases,

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but I believe that was the original soundtrack.

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George,

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you said you had the vinyl.

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Is that sound correct?

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What I'm saying?

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Yes.

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Good.

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It's just,

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it's great.

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It's fun to see a film that's set in the future with a mixed

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from Earth. And those are the songs on the mixtape. And it's funny because some of these songs like, you know, Ooh Child, I remember from another film, which was another coming of age film from the 90s. And God, I can't remember it now. But I know Seth Green was in it. And a bunch of other actors who are now in their, you know, late 40s, going into the early 50s. And I wish I could remember the name of the film. I think James Van Der Beek was in it or something. Oh, yeah.

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But I remember a lot of these songs from other films. I mean, obviously, I knew a lot of these growing up. They just this was a feel good soundtrack because none of the songs really matched what they were doing because it's obviously it's a superhero film and it's, you know, a sci fi based type superhero film. And here you are, you know, hearing hooked on a feeling. Yeah. I mean, it was like a certain amount of irony or just like, you know, it just seemed like, okay.

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Tongue in cheek. Weird. Yeah, right. Yeah, exactly. But yet it seemed to go very well, right? It just worked perfectly. And it's still one of the few superhero films that I like a lot when I see it. Some of the subsequent Guardians were good, but this one always hit me right in the feels for the type of superhero film I liked. And he's just so oblivious to these songs, you know, what they really meant at the time, which makes it even better, you know, so.

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Anyway, that's my number four. Good. Yeah, that was kind of unexpected because I honestly, there are very few films in recent times where I've gotten kind of excited about the soundtrack. Well, that's exactly, yes. And that's kind of a cool outlier, if you will. That was on my extended list. Okay. I don't want to steal it if it was on someone's list because I haven't watched it. No, not at all. Cool. Now, here's another one. I never saw the film, but the soundtrack,

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is so solid and so good that it's almost unbelievable really. It was released in 1978. The movie was called FM. Oh, yes. And it was a terrible movie apparently. I never saw it. I did. But what a soundtrack this movie had. A double disc. Double disc soundtrack.

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And just to

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we'll go right down the line

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FM no static at all

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Steely Dan

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Yes

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Night Moves

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Bob Seger

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So good

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Fly Like an Eagle

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Steve Miller

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Cold as Ice

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Foreigner

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Wow

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This is so good

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Breakdown

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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Great song

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Randy Meisner with

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Bad Man

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Not that great of a song

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but it's on there

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Life in the Fast Lane

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The Eagles

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I do like that song

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Do It Again, another Steely Dan song. Lito Shepel. Love it. Buzz Gags. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Oh yeah, good old Buzz. And then More Than a Feeling, Boston. Wow. Linda Ronstad performing Tumbling Dice by the Stones. And also a live version of Poor Pitiful Me. Ooh, Warren Zeevon. Yeah, which is Linda Ronstad performs it.

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And then Jimmy Buffett doing Livingston Saturday Night. There's a place in the world for a gambler by Dan Fogelberg. Just the way you are, Billy Joel. Wait, that's three sides. We still have a side to go. Yeah, there's one more side. Like, if you're like, oh, wait, how many more hits can you pack in? Oh, wait, there's another side. Oh, no, TR, this next one. God damn it, I gotta try not to sing. It keeps you running. Yeah, yeah, keeps you running.

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Doobie Brothers. Your smiling face, James Taylor. Life's been good, Joe Walsh. We will rock you, Queen. Wow. And a reprise of FM, which is just kind of an edit of the original FM, no static at all, by Steely Dan. What a soundtrack. And we've talked about this before. This was a Columbia Records Club special for me because it was like, you know, one of those,

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I need to pick an album that I would like to get. And I don't know what to pick. Oh, look, here's a soundtrack that has all these awesome songs. Let me pick this. And that's exactly what I did. I got the vinyl for this, which is a double album. And there really aren't a lot of bad songs on it. Never did see the film. John, I don't know if you have any comments on the film. Oh, my God. It's been so long since I've seen it. But I believe it is about a radio.

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Gostation? Right. Like they kind of go on strike or take over or something. I don't know what the deal was. A little bit of interesting trivia about this is that Martin Mull. Dr. Johnny Fever. Yes, right? Yes, Martin Mull's in the film and Dr. Johnny Fever. WKRP Cincinnati. Howard Hussman. I did read a little bit about this and they claim that, you know, that WKRP didn't come from this, but. Oh boy, come on.

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I don't know. Maybe they were trying to distance themselves from the film. Maybe. Yeah. But anyhow, I was I just remember looking at this set list or this, you know, song list and thinking to myself, oh, my God. And, you know, when you think about 1978, this I mean, everything on here was like what was huge in that time. You know, all of these songs were massive right at that time.

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They couldn't have gotten more hits jammed into this movie soundtrack than this. Definitely, this would be an FM radio playlist again. Yes, exactly. Yeah. And I think it's safe to say that because, yes, after an hour, Steely Dan would be played again. Because that's what FM does. They keep replaying certain things. That's exactly right. Back at that time, that was huge. Yeah. This is spot on.

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of make requests.

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Yeah, I did.

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Yeah, me too.

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And I called in to try to win contests too.

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Yep, so did I.

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I actually did win a couple.

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Wow.

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I got like a t-shirt and like this Grammy week for Chevrolet or something or other,

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and I got like a hoodie thing for that.

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It's wild.

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Yeah.

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Wow.

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God, I haven't heard that film in probably 40 years.

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Yeah.

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All the world has changed.

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My day.

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Ish.

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All right, so my next pick is from 1984. This album is one artist and one artist only, but when you have an artist like this artist, you need no other artist. I know what this is. Formerly known as The Artist. I know it. Aha! This is Prince and Purple Rain. Ah, it's a good movie. It's fun. You know, I didn't see the movie for a long time after it came out, but I was into the album. I bought that like right away.

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Yeah. It's good for what it is, I should say. Sure. Yeah. It's not an Academy Award winner or anything. Yeah. But in terms of what it was, yeah, it went bad. Yeah. So the opening track, Let's Go Crazy, probably one of, if not my favorite Prince song. You know, when this came out in 84 and I was a young lad, the first thing that pops into my head when I hear this song is me in the back of the year.

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the bathroom before school with my boombox on the counter, rushing my teeth, bobbing my head to let's go crazy. And like, I used to take the boombox into the bathroom with me and like play music while I was in the shower, drive my parents crazy. Cause it's like six o'clock in the morning. And yeah, that's what this song makes me, takes me back to, because that was just such an amazing song. And he just rips on the guitar on the song. He does. And that's, I was,

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I was always wondering like dude more of this please yeah yeah I didn't care for a lot of his later music but this album is amazing next up is the beautiful ones that was never that that one and the next one computer blue never really did a whole lot for me but then closing out the first idea of darling Nikki which back in 1984 was such a naughty naughty song yes that was quite controversial

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She's very dirty, but it's still a good song. And then flip over the cassette, please. On side two, you have When Doves Cry, which is amazing. Love that song so much. I Would Dire For You, another really good one. Baby I'm a Star. It's another one I don't really know very well. And then, of course, the title track, Purple Rain, which is just phenomenal. So I'm just going to take my crickets and go home now.

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No, you forgot a song. Did I? Not from Prince. Jungle Love by the time. Oh, from the movie, but not on the soundtrack. Not on the album, but yeah. That's right. More is day in the time. Jungle Love. Oh, we, oh, we, oh, we, oh. That's right. Nice. No, I consider that just because it was such a big deal when it came out. And that soundtrack has huge songs on it.

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It was purple that year. Yeah. Seriously. Mm-hmm. You know, and there's all the Apollonia talk and Prince and all these bands at the time that were, you know, people didn't realize Prince had been around for a while, actually. Yeah. He wasn't new to the scene at that point, but that's, he still broke it somewhat on MTV with the previous album, but this is the one that catapulted him like to the stratosphere. Yeah. 1999 was good. I mean, the title track for that and Little Red Corvette, Let's Pretend We're Married, stuff like that.

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They did well, but this is the one that just blew up. Crazy. I mean, I saw this film so many times back then because it was on a lot once it got to TV. I didn't go to the theaters to see it. That's good. I like it. It's cool. All right. So my last album, is that far already? Yep. Yeah. All right. So I don't know what to do here. I got two from 1993.

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So I don't know which one to pick. I don't want to steal one, but I want to talk about both. Dude, do it. All right. So I'm going to let you guys choose. So they're both from 1993. One is current. One takes place in the 70s. I'll let you guys choose which one. I know which one. I know the 70s one. Okay, so I'll do the current one then. Yeah, do it. Okay. Now,

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I don't like a lot of this music on this album. Until it gets paired up with another band. And what I mean by that is there's a lot of hip hop and rap on this album. And then there's a lot of hard rock and metal. I'm referring to the album Judgment Night of 1993. Oh, wow. Which I did buy this and I'm not a hip hop fan. But there was just something about, and I never got into the

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the whole anthrax and public enemy thing. But there was just something about putting some of these bands together with some of these hip-hop artists, some of these hard rock, hard, I don't know if they're hardcore, but definitely more alternative hard rock and metal, I guess is a safe way to say it. But there was just something about putting them together for some of these songs, and it just kind of created some interesting sounds that I didn't expect. So you had Helmet and House of Pain with just another victim.

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I always thought it was kind of a cool tune. There was things like Living Color paired up with Run DMC for me, myself, and my microphone. Biohazard and Onyx doing Judgment Night. Come on, Slayer and Ice-T. Yeah. Doing that whole medley of three exploited songs, War, UK82, and Disorder. You had Faith No More and Boo You Tribe doing Another Body Murdered, which is kind of a cool tune. And it just seemed to fit with Faith No More to do that.

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that song. Let's see what else is on here. Cypress Hill. So there's going to be a song about weed. Sonic Youth in Cypress Hill. I love you, Mary Jane. That one coming. Then there's, remember Dinosaur Jr.? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And Della, is it Deltha, Funky, Homo Sapien doing Missing Link. A song I always thought was kind of cool, Therapy with a question mark. And Joe Fatal doing Come and Die, which I always thought was a cool tune. And then Pearl Jam's on there with Cypress Hill,

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singing a song called The Real Thing, which is funny because the movie's about drugs in the inner city, and it stars Emil Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jeremy Piven, Stephen Dorff, and Dennis Leary. You know, I don't think I ever saw the movie, and I never really listened to the soundtrack either. It's kind of wild. I mean, if you like the whole Anthrax Public Enemy thing, you might like some of the songs on this. I might. I like some of the bands. Yeah, and I picked this just because it's different.

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It's not like an anthrax did. That was a small piece of their career. And it blew up. It really worked for them. And obviously it kind of cross-pollinated both them and Public Enemy with metal and hip-hop in either direction. This is a full soundtrack. And I just found it odd. And it kind of pulled me in. And the story's okay. I mean, I saw the movie and everything. But I always just thought it was kind of an interesting one.

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And it's a different soundtrack to bring up too. Cause there's so many. Duh. Soundtracks. Like I could have picked that one. That's an easy one. Yeah. And I have a couple duh ones. Yeah. I'll mention. I won't even go. Right. I didn't pick them, but they're on my list of like, yeah, almost have to say it. Cause you know. All right. So that's it. Judgment night. Judgment night. All right. So should I pick the one that you didn't pick? Yeah, please do it. All right.

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I mean, it's on my list, but it's hard to... I've got a handful left. There are like two or three left that I was thinking about. I'm sure the one that you were talking about, John, from 1993, was Dazed and Confused. Hell yeah. Was that your pick? Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, it's on my list. So here's another one. I think I saw this movie maybe once. I don't have any recollection of it, but I'm telling you... You were Dazed and Confused.

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I couldn't remember. And here's the thing. What a soundtrack. So here's what's on the soundtrack. Rock and Roll Hoochie Q by Rick Derringer. Slow Ride, single version by Foghat. School's Out by Alice Cooper. Jim Dandy by Black Oak, Arkansas. Tush, ZZ Top. Love Hurts, Nazareth. Stranglehold by Ted Nugent, which I think is probably his best song, to be honest. Cherry Bomb,

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the runaways fox on the run by sweet low rider by war tuesday's gone leonard skinnered highway

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star by deep purple rock and roll all night by kiss and paranoid by black sabbath nice i mean what a lineup

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right and it's just the first release by the way yeah yeah the second release the second release if you look uh for even more dazed and confused has free ride by edgar

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No More Mr. Nice Guy by Alice Cooper. Living in the USA by Steve Miller Band. Never Been Any Reason by Head East. Why Can't We Be Friends by War. Summer Breeze by Seals and Cross. Right Place, Wrong Time. I've been in the wrong place. I've been in the right time. That's Dr. John. Balinese, which is kind of an obscure ZZ Top song. Lord Have Mercy on My Soul, another Black Oak, Arkansas song. I Just Want to Make Love to You, Father.

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Show Me the Wave, Peter Frampton. And Do You Feel Like We Do, Peter Frampton.

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Yeah. I mean, come on. This is pretty much a who's who of 70s rock that, you know, was massive.

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And this was, I think, another one of those Columbia record, Columbia House record things that I was just like, oh, look at all these songs.

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They're cool. I'll do this and I'll buy this record, you know, this month and this will take care of my subscription requirement. No, that's a great. Thanks, John. You know, I kind of thought that might be part of your list too. Yeah. All right, then. What do you got, George? What do I have? What do I have? So from teen 79. Ooh.

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I knew it. Yeah. The shirt should have given it away. Yeah. I'm wearing my Ramones shirt and rock and roll high school is all about the Ramones. However, they are not the only band on the soundtrack, but they do feature heavily with their song rock and roll high school produced by Phil Spector. I want you around by the Ramones. Come on, let's go. The Ramones and the Paley brothers.

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I don't know who they are. There's a Ramones medley with Blitzkrieg Bop, Teenage Lobotomy, California Son, Pinhead, She's the One. And then there's Nick Lowe. So it goes. Nice. Brian Eno, Energy Fools the Magician. Reprise of Rock and Roll High School sung by PJ Souls, the female lead in the movie. Devo, Comeback Joanie. Eddie and the Hot Rods, Teenage Depression. Brownsville State.

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Smoking in the boys room the good version Chuck Berry school days Todd Rundgren a dream goes on forever and mentioned on the last album schools out by Alice Cooper so a really bad good movie again a soundtrack could make the movie yeah I mean it's a terrible 70s teen stupid movie most of those were but the

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The whole point is about the main character, PJ. She wants to go to see the Ramones. And I'm like, I can't argue with that plot. It's dumb, but it's fun. Yeah. And it's got Clint Howard in it. Oh, does it really? Yeah. Making one of his quick appearances. Yeah. You know, you just made me think of another film based on the idea of that film, which would be Detroit Rock City. Oh, yeah. Oh, that would have been a good one, too. Didn't even think of that one. But we'll throw it out there.

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Great movie.

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Throw it out there.

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But that's the idea.

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We're just trying to go see Kiss.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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You know.

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Wow.

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That's a great.

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Bit of a better story than Rockin' Old High School.

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But.

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Yeah.

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I actually liked Roxanne.

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That was pretty cool.

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Yeah.

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It was very good.

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I love that.

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I've got the DVD like right over there.

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Wow.

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That's awesome.

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We couldn't have been any more different on those picks.

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Only two of them, I think, were matches, right?

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That's awesome.

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I was worried.

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I was like, oh man, I'm going to hit all these guys on everything here. We forgot to mention it at the beginning. So in case you're wondering, we agreed ahead of time that this is Spinal Tap is above even consideration because it is the Hall of Fame album. The archetype. It's the archetype that the podcast was based on and that would be pointless for us to even talk about it again. You want to hear us talk about it, go back to the first episode. Exactly. Yeah. So I've got six other ones to mention.

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So are we talking soundtracks or original soundtracks? I'm still on soundtracks. Yeah, I got like three that are still on my list here. I got two, which so we're just going to mention these and nothing. Just say that. All right. Yeah, that's fair. If you want to say a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So who's going to go first? Here's the next one up. Okay. I'll keep this short. These next two I picked one because it's culturally significant. And one because

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I remember it at the time. I thought the film was annoying. But when I went back and looked at the soundtrack, I thought these songs matched the content of the film. So the first one, I did buy this. I did own this. And it didn't last long. I was only nine years old when I got this. Came out in 1977. Of course, I'm referring to Saturday Night Fever. Oh, God. Oh, no. I was nine years old. I know.

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Hey, look, I had Disco Duck. All right. Okay. This, yeah. This one sold 40 million copies. And it actually is in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. So this is Spinal Tap. Yes, exactly. And you might say that there's some similarities between the two. However. Maybe not. The amount of number one hits off this album alone is, I don't want to say staggering, but it's pretty impressive.

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when you think about it. Sure, the Bee Gees have, what, six songs on this soundtrack, but it's still loaded with other big songs, you know, that you've heard. I'm not going to go over them, but there's big names on this for that time. I'm not a disco fan, but there's no denying how big this soundtrack was when it came out. And it was a double album, too, on top of that. And yeah, it's got John Travolta and his famous pose on the cover. So anyway, that one.

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My second one real quick. And again, I find this film annoying because the content is annoying for me. And that would be The Big Chill, 1983. Yeah. You know, we talked about like movies that you almost can't get around. Yeah. And that's one of them, right? This is the roadblock. Yeah. You're driving and it's like, damn it, I gotta pull over. Yeah. You can't get away from it. It's just nothing but a bunch of annoying 30-year-olds.

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Contemplating Life, and all the songs they picked matched their annoyance. But what's funny is I love all the songs on this album. Well, yeah, that's the thing. It's hard to get around that part, too. Right. But you could just like My Girl from The Temptations. Yeah. Just think back to the film. You're like, oh, these people are so annoying. Right. Or Good Lovin' from The Rascals. Right. You know, or... Yeah, like if it had been like a fraternity movie, it would have been so much better. Exactly.

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I would have had all those same songs.

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No.

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With that said, that ensemble cast is quite impressive.

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That's true.

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Who's in the movie.

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I mean, it's just loaded.

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And it's one of the biggest names had a scene cut from the film in Kevin Costner.

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Oh, wow.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, those are my two.

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I'm done.

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We've mentioned everything that was on my list for this portion of the episode.

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Okay.

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All right.

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I'll knock through the remainder of my soundtracks.

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1992, I thought this was going to come out earlier. Wayne's World. Oh, yeah. Bohemian Rhapsody. That was huge and became big again for Queen. A lot of great songs on this album to include Black Sabbath's Time Machine with Dio. And Ballroom Blitz again, that got really big. And of course, you know, everybody remembers the foxy lady scene in the movie, which was really pretty funny and pretty cool. Yeah.

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That was a really good one that I enjoyed

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And we talked about this earlier

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And I have to bring it up

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It's the Back to the Future soundtrack

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Nice

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The Power of Love and Back in Time

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Both awesome, really great Huey Lewis songs

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I mean, The Power of Love

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That is such a great hit

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And I think I mentioned that on the 1985 podcast that we did

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Just really love that

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Of course, John E.B. Good is on there, Earth Angel. A lot of cool tunes on there, on that soundtrack. Don't take money. Yeah, no, don't take time. But yeah, it does take time. Never mind. And then the final one that I wanted to mention, mostly because of maybe two or three, no, four or five, yeah, five songs. The Vision Quest soundtrack. Oh, yes. Nice. So this had the hit for Journey called Only

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Young, which was not on an album. Literally, this was the only place that it showed up, as well as the 45 that came out with it. Great song. They still play it to this day live. The other tracks on this album that I really liked were Hungry for Heaven by Dio, Lunatic Fringe by Red Ryder, I'll Fall in Love Again by Sammy Hagar, and Hot Blooded by Foreigner. A lot of great tracks on this movie soundtrack.

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That kind of rounds out my soundtrack. That's a good one. Wow. I can't believe nobody hit on any of my last six. I'm dying to know, George. I mean, a couple of them I understand, but like the first one, the Blues Brothers. Oh, man. Yeah, that's a good one. Jeez. I mean, that's all I got to say. Orange Whip. Orange Whip. Yeah, two Orange Whips. All right. Grease. That's a great. Yes. Oh. You're the one that I want. Ooh, ooh, ooh. You're the one that I want. Yeah, no.

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No, no, no, no. I don't want that. It's the only musical I like. Yeah, it's really I hate musicals. I can't stand musicals. And it's the only one. Don't want that one either. I don't know why. Sorry. It's only one. OK, this next one, I wasn't all that great a movie from what I recall, but. It had a certain band on the soundtrack. That's less than zero. Oh, yeah. Oh, because Slayer did In a God of the Vita. Wow.

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It's also got some Aerosmith and I haven't heard it but there appears to be a collaboration between Glenn Danzig and Roy Orbison and some other thing with Danzig. It says performed by Glenn Danzig in the Power and Fury orchestras. I need to actually check some of these out but it also has Bring the Noise with Public Enemy. Oh yeah that was classic. And Hazy Shade of Winter, Paul Simon. Okay next, Footloose.

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I thought about it. The king of soundtrack music and about to be mentioned again, Kenny Loggins. Yeah. But also let's hear it for the boy by Denise Williams. Love that song. Oh, God. So here's the thing. That was what? 1985? Four. Four? Okay. I worked as a teller in a bank that summer. And that song came on so many times.

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that bank you're done honest to god i heard that so many times like i don't ever have to hear that song again

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it whatever radio station they played in that bank play that song at least 50 times a day let's hear it for the boy

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let's hear it for my baby i dig that song i hear it every once in a while still um there's a big song on here

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holding out for a hero bonnie tyler one of those jim steinman songs that sound like jim steinman songs

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There's not much else on here. However, it should be noted that Sammy Hagar has a song on here called The Girl Gets Around. Oh, yeah, I know that track. So many soundtracks in this time. Exactly. Yeah, he really was. But the dude that really gets around on the soundtracks is Kenny Loggins and Top Gun, Danger Zone. All right. And let's see, looking at this, there's not a lot else on here that I really care for. However, there are

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some collaborations with a fellow by the name of Harold Faltermeyer. Oh, yeah. And if you know that name, then you probably know Axel F. from Beverly Hills Cop. One of the coolest synth lines ever that were not done by Herbie Hancock. Yes. All right. My last one. Ghostbusters. I played the crap out of this soundtrack. Okay.

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Harry Parker Jr. The title song Ghostbusters. I ain't afraid of no ghost. Totally ripped off Huey Lewis. Huey's making the money off of this song now. That's right. But there's a lot of stuff. I don't know how obscure it is, but there's an artist called the Busboys and their song Cleaning Up the Town. Love that song. Alessi Brothers and Saving the Day. It's another good one. The Thompson Twins in the name of love. That's a big one. Air Supply. I Can Wait Forever. I'm not an Air Supply fan, but I dug this at the time.

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Laura Branigan's Hot Night. I haven't heard that name in years. Oh God, yeah. Mick Smiley and Magic. I liked that song. And then to segue into our next segment, there's the Ghostbusters main title theme by Elmer Bernstein, Dana's theme, and the instrumental version of Ghostbusters. Okay. I can't tell you how many times I played that. And the cassette case came in a red case that was so cool. That's awesome.

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So I neglected to add the couple of movies that I loved, but soundtracks that I didn't really care about. And that would be The Breakfast Club. I mean, I did. I looked that up. And other than the Simple Minds, there's not a lot on there I care for. There's not a lot on there. Yeah. And I'm with you, George. I mean, like, yeah. But what a great song or what a great movie, right? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, that defined pretty much.

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our generation. And then Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Yeah. Great movie. Songs were okay. Twist and shout. Twist and shout. Don Cachone by Wayne Newton during the parade. Not so much. Yeah. And Oh Yeah by Yellow, right? Like that was like, Oh yeah. Yeah. Anyway, there were a number of movies that we could have picked that were big at that time.

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But I just didn't really care. I love the movie, but the music really didn't do that much for me. Okay. All right. Let's move on to part two. Yes. The original soundtrack part. Scores. Sound design. All that fun stuff. Wait, that's goal, right? Never mind. Yeah. All right. Goal. All right. Do it, John. Okay. I'm going to choose not to pick some obvious selections.

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I'll let you guys do them. Yeah. Mine are all very obvious. So, okay. Because I've got a lot. So I'll let you guys do them. Get a couple. And I'm, and it's the same composer. Right. Yeah. I'm going to cross my sheet. Okay. Do it. But this composer I'm taken. Sorry. Do it. It's going to do it. All right. And I'm going to list all the films I'm referring to. I think he's a national treasure to be honest with you. And I wish more people.

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appreciated the films he put out. I'm, of course, referring to John Carpenter. Oh, yes. All of his film scores. Yes. He is the king of the synth wave. Yeah. I'm just going to list a few of them. The thing. We're going in order. All right. All these films I love. Are we ready? Yes. Assault on Precinct 13 in 1976. Oh, my God.

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Probably his most iconic one. Halloween. In 1978. I had that on final. Oh my god. So good. The fog 1980. Yeah. One of my all time favorite films. Escape from New York. 1981. TR mentioned The Thing. Maybe we'll just wait and find out. Fuck I love the end of that movie. God it's so good. Come on. You know what old Jack Burton says.

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trouble in a little china thank you very much and then let's be honest the greatest fight scene ever in any movie period 19 1988 they live yeah all right so let's move on i'm sorry if i'm bringing this up i don't want to steal all of it but you had me go first and i'm referring to the james bond films oh yeah i don't know if you guys had that on there no let's be honest

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Dr. No.

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Good stuff.

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The theme song from Dr. No is played in every single James Bond film.

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I prefer everything through the mid-70s.

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So Dr. No from Russia with love.

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Gold finger from Shirley Massey.

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Come on.

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It's one of the greatest lines ever.

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It's the kiss of death from Mr. Goldfinger.

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It's just so awesome.

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Yeah.

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And it's also is one of the greatest lines ever between Bond and Goldfinger.

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You expect me to talk? No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die. I love that scene. Has the red lasers going towards his groin. Thunderball, Tom Jones singing the same song. You Only Live Twice. Nancy Sinatra singing You Only Live Twice. Diamonds Are Forever, again, Shirley Bassey. Live and Let Die, Paul McCartney and Wings singing the title track to that. The Spy That Love Me, Carly Simon, Nobody Does It Better. For Your Eyes Only, Sheena Easton singing that title track. And then I mentioned recently, if you know,

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Kill. I ran. I viewed what kills the movie. All right. I'm going to run. I'm not going to do all these. I'm going to save some of these for you guys. Cause I got a lot of these. Now these are the rest. Blade Runner. 1982. Ah, you got me. Composer and angels. Just. Cross that one off. Class is coming. Sorry. It's my favorite film. It is. It's awesome. I'm going to skip these. If you guys don't mention, I'll come back to them. One, two, three. All right. Lord of the Rings trilogy. I don't know if you guys had that. Nope. Nope. Howard Shore.

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The Fact That He Pulled Off That Music, Considering The Project That Was Ahead Of Him, I Especially Like The Council Of Elrond, Which Features Anya Singing On That One, Which Is The Theme Song For Eragon And Arwen, That Is Amazing, I Love It. Right, Page Three. Oh, I Feel Bad Taking This, If I'm Taking It From Someone. Scott, Does Anyone Know What I'm Talking About? Not Yet. Zip It.

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Dr. Evil.

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Yeah.

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The Alan Parsons Project.

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Austin Powers' International Man of Mystery.

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I chose it for two songs.

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Quincy Jones and his orchestra doing Soul Bossa Nova,

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that kind of, you know, flirtatious.

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And then George Clinton doing the shagadelic Austin Powers' score medley.

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It's not my bag, baby!

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Yeah, but that's also the Dr. Evil theme song.

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Which is the take on Goldfinger? Of course. The Pink Panther. Oh, yeah. Did you have that? Yeah, no, I didn't. But that's a good one. Henry Mancini. Yeah, that's good stuff, dude. Here's one I forgot about. And I listened to it last night. I was like, oh, my God, this is amazing. Lawrence of Arabia, 1962. If you haven't heard it, go back and listen to it. The theme of that is amazing. I bet. One of the great, you know, songs that is,

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Very disturbing. Or I should say sound score. Planet of the Apes 1968. Composer Jerry Goldsmith. You blew it up. Damn you. You damn dirty apes. Now I have two more left on this. Nosferatu the Vampire by Papal Voo. If you don't know who this is, check it out. If you're an Opeth fan, you definitely know who this is because they play three songs from this.

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So when they would walk out on the stage, they would play the music. So as soon as the music started, you knew they were coming out. I'm going to, I hope you guys didn't pick this one. This is probably the most iconic sound score ever. And it was all music that was previously recorded from other composers. And I'm of course referring to 2001, A Space Odyssey. Quite possibly the most recognizable sound score ever. My number one.

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Was it? Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry, George. It's all right. I apologize. Bring it up again. Okay. Television small screens. Come on. These have to be on here. Television show called Canon from 1971 to 1976. The theme song composed by John Carl Parker starring William Conrad. I absolutely love this song and I love this show. And I would suggest you go back and watch these intros to this because it was a Quinn Martin production. And if you remember those shows. Oh, man.

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this music, this huge, big band playing. And they're like fast. They're like, kind of a Quinn Martin production starring William Conrad, guest starring Paul Skerritt or whatever, you know, all these names. And then it's like tonight's episode, the Salinas jackpot. You know, I just, I would go crazy for these shows. Streets of San Francisco. Come on. Theme composed by Patrick Williams from San Francisco, but that song itself.

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Let's get a little later in the game. Composer's Mark Snow. Does anyone know what show I'm going with? The X-Files. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's a good one. Yep. All right. George, I hope I'm not stealing this. If I am, please bring it up again. The greatest soundtrack ever for any television show. Supernatural. Starring Sam and Dean Winchester. Not even the actors' real names. And then TR, I'm going to say it.

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Most Recognizable Guitar Riff Ever on a Television Show. And it only lasts for about 10 seconds. The theme song to Beavis and Butthead. Oh, Beavis and Butthead. Yeah, okay. Which, by the way, there's a three and a half minute version of the song, but on the show it's only 10 seconds. Yeah. I thought you were going to say Magnum P.I. because that's a pretty good, that's like a rock and tune. I didn't do all of them. Yeah, I didn't actually do any TV shows. I didn't do any TV. But I did just jot down Magnum P.I. and The Fall Guy.

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Oh, the poor guy. Oh my God. Lee Majors, you know. Ah, yes. I loved that song. And I have to say I'm disappointed with Blake Shelton's rendition in the movie remake because they didn't use any names. I think I may have mentioned this before, but, you know, in the Lee Majors version, he's like, you know, Farrah Fawcett and Sally Field and Bo Derek. And there's no names mentioned in the new version, which obviously those old names would mean nothing.

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to people these days. Maybe, but at the same time, it's like, who would you pick now? Yeah, you could have updated it with new people. That would have been cool. I don't know. Yeah, maybe. Now, I should tell you, I did not pick. I could think of seven films right away that you guys have on your list. Yeah. And then another three. So ten films I didn't pick because I want you guys, because I had so many. I didn't want to haul them. All right. That's fair. Okay. Let's see if I have any left after TR. We'll see. So I think you're going to be okay, George.

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because I picked some of this stuff is semi-obscure. So John, I'm kind of surprised you didn't pick this, but Journey's Dream After Dream. Are you familiar with that? It's the last album with Greg Rowley, and it was for a Japanese film that is not very well known, but there is some really great music on this. If you like that period of Journey, go look for Dream After Dream.

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It's a phenomenal film. And in recent times, if you look on YouTube for, I think it's the Japanese name of it is Noato. And somebody actually was able to upload it because the film was never put out on VHS or DVD because the producer of the film or the director of the film, I guess when, I guess he wasn't satisfied with how it came out.

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So Journey did the soundtrack to it and it never got put out on DVD but it was released on like Japanese television or yeah I think it was Japanese television somebody like recorded it off of video or off TV and somebody posted it to YouTube so you can actually finally see this film which for so long nobody had ever really remembered or seen so it's not great but it's kind of cool to see it.

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because when you hear the music and you look at the lyrics and you kind of get into that, you gain a whole new understanding for the way Journey made their music for that. The next set of songs that I want to do with a movie and its sequel, and that is Tron. Oh, nice. With the soundtrack by Wendy Carlos and Tron Legacy with the

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Daft Punk soundtrack. Both of those, like when Tron came out, that was such a cool thing. The movie was amazing. I remember being a kid watching that film and just being blown away and thinking like, wow, this, you know, this synthesizer soundtrack is really cool. And, you know, there was a lot of cool stuff in that, including a couple of Journey tracks in that Tron soundtrack. And then if you listen to Tron Legacy, of course, many years later in 2010,

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Daft Punk does an incredible job for the Tron Legacy soundtrack. So those were a couple of albums I wanted to mention. And now the next one, I'm thinking maybe you guys, and this might be on John's list, might be on George's list. Amadeus. Amadeus. Yes. This soundtrack with Neville Mariner and the St. Martin in the Fields couldn't have been more perfect.

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So it's one thing to pick the right Mozart songs, which they did. And then there are other songs from that period that they played on the soundtrack. But it is so well played. And Neville Mariner, as a conductor, you can tell this guy asked for perfection and got it from the people that played it. And when you listen to this soundtrack, it is essentially flawless. When you listen to the soundtrack,

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There's nothing wrong with it. And it is incredible. And they evoke all the emotions that the music is supposed to evoke. And it goes so well with that film. I got the original soundtrack when it came out on vinyl. I have since gotten the CD that also has that. It's just so tremendous. If you like classical music, you like Mozart, you can't go wrong with that soundtrack.

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that it's phenomenal yes it is mozart rules yes and that movie was incredible i remember being like basically in high school and going to see that movie and thinking and you know like these guys from 1700 too are awesome you know so now this is kind of a hard right turn the next one is joe jackson with the tucker a man in his dream soundtrack nice and when that came out i remember

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First of all, I love the movie. Jeff Bridges did a phenomenal job in that movie as Preston Tucker, who basically tried to launch an automobile in kind of post-war years, but was kind of struck down by the big three, who saw him as a threat and decided to turn the screws on him. Oh, he was a threat, no doubt. Yeah, he had innovated a number of different things that we still use today, like seatbelts, and then also making

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One of the things that was happening at the time was in various automobile accidents,

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the windshields were shattering and all the glass was cutting up people.

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He made windshields that didn't shatter.

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He made dashboards that were padded so that if you hit it at high speed, you wouldn't be lacerated.

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He put seatbelts into his cars.

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He had headlights that turned as the wheels turned. So the Tucker in 1948 was, you know, he wanted to make a car that was completely new. What was the gas mileage on the engine? Not to cut you off. It was pretty high, wasn't it? So I don't recall, but, you know, that was certainly something that they looked at. And, you know, everything, they started from the ground up and they tried to make a car that was innovative and something like all the big three.

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were still basically using everything that they used before the war. So whatever they had before the war, they just kind of started from that and kept going. And he was like, that's ridiculous. We need to, you know, we need to, this is, it's, you know, seven years later, we need to really kind of push the envelope. And when I think of the soundtrack, you know, Joe Jackson, everybody kind of knew from Look Sharp and here's this kind of synthy keyboard guy.

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And he made this big band soundtrack for this album that was, for me, completely unexpected. I did not expect Joe Jackson to make a big band soundtrack at all. And it is catchy. It's captivating. It was really a surprise and just a welcome surprise. I love the film. I love the album. I'm not a big Joe Jackson fan,

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But I was after that album just because I thought, this is amazing for this guy who I really didn't know that he had this in him to come out with this big band soundtrack. That was awesome. He was already doing kind of that. He had an album called Jump and Jive. Well, that's true. He was starting to venture a little bit. Yeah, that was kind of almost rockabilly, but this was almost big band sound. He did another one, I think, called Mike's Murder was another one he did. Okay.

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Yeah, so he was venturing in that world. That's excellent. I love Joe Jackson. That's a great pick. Yeah, me too. Only got a couple more. I'm not going to steal too much thunder. You know, here's the elephant in the room, John Williams. I got to go with the Star Wars soundtrack. Obviously, it's just, you know, come on. Like, everybody that saw that film was blown away by the soundtrack to that film. And then all the themes that followed through the successive films that, you know,

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We're part of that. I won't dwell on that because I'm sure you guys will kind of echo those thoughts. But we should throw some props out to the fact that he borrowed quite a bit from Gustav Holst and the planets. The planets, yeah. Because Mars bringer of war is basically Star Wars. That's true. But, hey, look. No, I love it. Yeah, and look, Star Wars is not only the only John Williams amazing song or, you know,

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The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night. He had so many to choose from, and he went with that one. I picked that just because... Magical Mystery Tour. Hard Day's Night, yeah, I know. I could have picked that, but I picked this one just because a lot of great tracks on this album. Is that the one where one of them falls when they're getting chased by the girl?

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There is a song called If I Fell. I know, but there's a scene where they're running from girls and one of them falls. That pretty much describes every movie, right? No, but what's great about it is I can't remember who falls, and they look back and see that he fell, and they're laughing, and they just left him. So that's all I got. So thanks, guys. Okay, there's still some left. Go, George. Well, TR just wiped out half my list. Sorry. So I've got a trilogy of John Williams.

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The Star Wars movies and everything that entails. The Indiana Jones movies and all that entails. Oh, yes. And Close Encounters of the 30s. Oh, right. Yeah. Is that all your John Williams? That's all my John Williams. I mean, I know he did like Harry Potter stuff, which was also good. One elephant in the ocean. Yeah. Jaws. Jaws. Yes, yes, Jaws. I almost put that down too. Two nodes. You're looking over your shoulder.

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Yeah, my one that is mildly obscure and probably not something you would have thought of, but Conan the Barbarian. Oh, man. Yes. I thought about it, but I figured you'd bring it up. Basil, or Basil, Basil? I don't know how you say it. Basil. Poldurus. A name that will live in legend as the guy who did the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack, and I think he did the Conan the Destroyer as well, but Conan the Barbarian, you know. Yes.

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I know if Marcusan's listening that he is just like giddy with glee now because I'm sure he loves this soundtrack and I mean it's so metal sounding anvil of crom riddle of steel riders of doom gift of fury wheel of pain you know yes such a cool soundtrack for such a cheesy but classic movie oh yeah I love them come on and then the only other thing I was going to mention I'm not even going to specify a movie just

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Anything Danny Elfman. Yeah. Really? That's it? Oh, look. Yeah. No. I. Oh, okay. I got some more then. Then go. Oh, I want you to finish. I'm sorry. I interrupt you. I apologize. It's okay. I'm not done yet. Oh, now I'm done. Now he's done. Yeah. I think I saw that coming. Yeah. Go for it. All right. Boy, nobody mentioned it yet. It's on my list. Come on, my friends. Run up those stairs.

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and then turn around and jump up and down. 1976 is Rocky. Oh, yeah. We kidded about this, but I didn't really think you'd put it. Oh, God, yes. Bill Conti's? Oh, it is classic, yeah. Who did that? Bill Conti. Okay. Yeah. I mean, you've got the famous, you know, Final Bell song, you know, where he just collapses and everything, but the theme song, and then obviously Gonna Fly Now, which was... Oh, yeah.

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That was huge. There's two more. And growing up in this area, you know, I know you grew up in the kind of San Francisco area, but around here, that was huge. That was really big. Philadelphia, right? Like, I mean, those guys went crazy for that. I mean, they actually put a statue of the dude up. They kept it at the museum for a while. All right. There's two more, and it's the first film and sequel that nobody mentioned, and it's very metal. The Terminator. Ah, yeah. Nice.

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Come with me if you want to live. Yeah, exactly. So, and obviously with Terminator 2, you had the music soundtrack portion of it too. Guns N' Roses. Yeah. So. You could be mine. Yeah. Which I actually do like that song from there. Yeah. You could be mine. Yeah. Move out of your parents' basement. That's, I believe the name is Brad Fidel, Fidel, is that the name? Which was a composer.

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that did a lot of synth work. So the first one is very synthy. Second one's a little more bombastic in the synthy sound, but very cool stuff. Nice. Nobody mentioned Miami Vice. I almost did. I did in the 1985 episode that we did. Go ahead, George. When I was jotting down shows, I did Magnum, Fall Guy, and I was about to put down Miami Vice, but then I got interrupted and didn't.

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And there is one from the 60s that is very guitar-heavy twang, Bonanza. And another cowboy film, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. I thought about putting him down. Yeah. Spaghetti Westerns all filmed in Spain. Or Italy. Yeah, I thought they filmed that. Wasn't that in Spain, though?

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I thought they did them in Italy. That's why they called them spaghetti. Right. But I thought that was because it was an Italian director. One of them I thought was because of the desert scenes. Oh, maybe. I'll have to find out. But yes, definitely spaghetti westerns. Yeah. That's good stuff. Yeah, I didn't think about those. It was shot in Spain. Ah, very good. That's what I thought. Okay. But I believe it was all Italian produced because, I don't know, some crazy thing, it was cheaper or something. Because let's be honest,

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They're not big budgets. Yeah, no, but they were great. Not a lot of dialogue, but you didn't need any. You know? Yeah. Yeah, that's good. There's a ton more that we didn't talk about. It's really amazing because I, you know, honestly, when we talked about doing this, I kind of didn't think there'd be much. And then the more I kind of got like, like started digging into it, the more I was, oh yeah. I feel like this happens to you every

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episode.

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Yeah, maybe pretty much.

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That's good. That's good.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Do we have anything more to say this year?

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No, we made it to the end of 2024.

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Thanks to all our listeners who are very, you know, faithful and yeah, they come and they enjoy our show.

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I want to make a couple of shout outs to my buddy Matt Higgins and my buddy David Reynolds who are staunch listeners and enjoy our podcast and I thank them for listening all the time. They always have ideas and things that they think we should do and they enjoy listening to our show all the time. So I thank those guys. My brother Jeff just started listening to the show. He's like four or five episodes in. By the time he gets to this one, it'll probably be next.

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Christmas, but hey, I'll give him a shout too. That's great. All right. If there's nothing else, we'll talk to you next year. All righty. See ya. Rock on. Happy New Year.