Epic Movie Soundtracks

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
• 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
• 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
• Pretty in Pink: OMD - If You Leave 
• Pretty in pink - original song
• Pretty Woman Montage
• Tears for Fears: Everybody Wants to Rule the World
• 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
• Every opening Bond song
• What makes a Bond song?
• Star Trek Beyond: Beastie Boys Sabotage
• Peter Gabriel’s The Veil from Snowden

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