Epic Movie Soundtracks

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Sn 2 Ep 18

This week the gang waxes nostalgic about the movie soundtracks that scored our youth. And our midlife. And everything in-between.

Tune in to hear why we think soundtracks can make (or break) a movie, the unvarnished truth about overplayed songs (hint: Titanic), what it takes to get picked for a Bond film intro, and how movies are our “gateway drug” for discovering great music. Oh, and CHOMPERS. (Wait, what?).

Are you ready to drop the needle?

Episode links

• 10 best 80’s soundtracks

• Spotify playlist of 80’s Soundtracks (From FB member, Melinda)

• Best Songs from 80’s movies

• Top Gun volleyball scene

• What is a music supervisor?

• Lost in Translation soundtrack

• Yello's “Oh yeah" from Ferris Buellers Day off

• Ferris Bueller end credits - The English Beat

• Maniac in Flash Dance

• Risky Business Tangerine Dream train song

• Say Anything boom box scene

• Dirty Dancing: the time of my life

• Big Chill soundtrack

• Don’t you forget about me - The Breakfast Club

• Grosse Pointe Blank soundtrack

• Use of music in Grosse Pointe Blank:

• Reality Bites My Sharona scene in the mini mart

• Wayne’s World moment

• Pretty in Pink: OMD - If You Leave

• Pretty in pink - original The Psychedelic Furs song

• Pretty Woman Montage

• Tears for Fears: Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Chompers)

• Everybody Wants to Rule the World Hunger Games cover

• Tears for Fears & movies their songs were in

• Xanadu

• LaLa Land intro

• This is Me from The Greatest Showman

• Kesha’s version of This is me

• Bond songs

• Every opening Bond song

• What makes a Bond song?

• Star Trek Beyond: Beastie Boys Sabotage

• Peter Gabriel’s The Veil from Snowden