put together an 80's soundtrack! My good friend has an idea for an 80's movie and I am going to put together the most bitchin' 80's soundtrack EVER! Help me out...what are your suggestions?
So there are a couple of rules...
1. All songs must be written in the 80s
2. All songs must be written before 1986
3. John Hughes must come out of hibernation and direct this movie
I have already chosen a song...Real Life's Catch Me I'm Falling. Let's do this!!!!!!!
update
Rough outline of the movie...
"It's the year 2008 and the Class of 1986 finds out there was a computer glitch that has prevented the whole class from graduating. Little do they know that it was their Principal that has sabotaged their graduation and they now find themselves without degrees more then 20 years later. They must now go back for the last 2 weeks of school. Some of the members of the class of 86' have changed, others will always remain the same, but one thing is for certain...High School was a bitch!"
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The Great Curve - Talking Heads
Anything off the first Golden Palaminos album
Run To The hills - Iron Maiden (I might be wrong on the date of that one)
Panama - Van Halen or maybe "Janies Crying"
One night In Bangkok - Taco
Break My Stride - Wilder Mathew
Somebody's Watching me - Rockwell
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everything counts by depeche mode MUST be one
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then again it would help if we had a rough outline of the movie
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throw some Roxy Music "More Than This" in there
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updated with a rough outline...
contra - Run to the Hills...must be on the soundtrack. number of the beast was such an awesome record!!!
conrad - everything counts...a MUST...in large amounts.
lyrikhan - Roxy Music...more than this, classic!
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A Flock of Seagulls' "Space Age Love Song" needs to make an appearance for the inevitible jock-guy/geek-girl romance scene.
The beginning scene, where the valedictorian finds out his diploma is invalid as he's trying to land that coveted VP position, should be soundtracked by The Smiths' "Panic".
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Propaganda - Duel
The Monroes - What Do All the People Know?
R.E.M - Driver 8
Let's Active - Every Word Means No
The Smiths - Stop Me
The English Beat - Best Friend
And please please please NO Modern English 'I Melt With You'....
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Your title is stressing me!
I'll be back with suggestions...
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Dale - you are brilliant...Panic is an awesome song to base the movie off of.
misstee - noted...NO to I melt with you....yes to best friend
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Love the pitch!
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Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round
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New Order - Blue Monday
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
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anna - how could any of those not work!
i was also thinking violet town - the church...love that song
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The Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Blondie - The Tide Is High
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tupelo
Tom Waits... you pick one from Rain Dogs, I can't do it! :)
I'll shut up now :)
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hand down your head....there......i did it.
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Wasn't Tide is High written in '79?
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Ah! Blondie covered it in 1980, but I guess that doesn't count.
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i just wiki'd it...apparently written in the 60's covered by Blondie.
Funny story about Tom Waits. My friend said his dad took him to see Tom in concert when he was 9. His dad turns to him right before he is about to sing and says "Son, you will never hear anything like this, ever again."
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So, shouldn't the timeframe really be 1982 to 1986?
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Great movie concept!
I'll say...
Crowded House - Don't dream it's over
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Heart of Glass
Seek & Destroy --> Metallica
Every Breath you take -> Sting
Seperate Ways -> Journey
Hit me with your best shot -> Pat Benetar
Girls just want to have fun -> Cyndi Lauper
The Thriller -> The Mike Jackson
Everybody wants to rule the World -> Tears for fears ->
Headed for a heart break -> Winger (stewart from beavis & Butthead's tee-shirt)
Bang your head -> Quiet Riot
We-re not gonna take it -> Twisted Sister
Heavy Metal Rules --> Pantera
Smokin in the boys room -> motley crue
I won't forget you -> Poison
2 minutes to midnight -> Iron Maiden
You can't kill Rock & Roll -> Ozzy (Diary of a madman 1981)
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Awesome dad was right....and awesome.
Hi Helen!
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Level 42 - Something About You
Love My Way - Psych. Furs
Do these sound teen angst-y enough?
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I don't know how to speak 80's let alone write in it. Is that like binary type language or something? This is a tough assignment.
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Hi Anna!
Tyler - We're not gonna take it! Good one!
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something about Violent Femmes first record in there ... Please Please Please Do Not Go, or Kiss Off
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We're not gonna take it...AWESOME
carmenSD - I guess that would make sense. So many good songs from 80 and 81 though...and Love My Way...HUGE YES!
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Well, since the plot is pretty outlandish I guess I can't really hold you for using songs outside the timeframe. I mean, if you're gonna go crazy, go crazy.
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At least go for the lesser known "Too Fast For Love" Crue if your gonna do Crue.
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Thanks SUNNY-D -> you're looking FINE -> aren't you going to drop a few songs??
GUNG-HO -> Anthrax (spreading the disease 1985)
I love it Loud -> KISS (creatures of the night 1982)
Don't Love me -> L.A. Guns
Peace Sells -> Megadeth
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We've got a bigger problem now -. Dead Kennedy's
Terminal Preppie -> Dead Kennedy's (great album name: "Plastic Surgery Disasters" 1982)
so they go back to schoole for 2 weeks to get their diplomas? Well, what the hell happened for the 20 years they were out of school? It's got potential, I'm digging all the songs people are dropping, but Pat, I think you'll have to release a 5 CD compilation of the songs that never made it onto the Soundtrack ->
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tyler...hahaha. 5 cds full of songs...the rate we are going i'd say 10. i think the story line is going to incorporate a computer glitch that happens in the present day that is set off by the principal, so all this time they were graduated until the glitch.
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I'm not sure of the exact dates on these tunes, but I'm pretty sure they're all pre 1986:
"Don't You Forget About Me" - Simple Minds
"Once in a Lifetime" - Talking Heads
"Safety Dance" - Men Without Hats
"You Spin Me Round" - Dead or Alive
Van
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What? No Clash? Well "Combat Rock" is certainly fair game (Rock The Casbah, Should I Stay Or Should I Go) - and even though it's not packed with hits, "Sandanista!" was released late '80 and I'd say there's more depth in that one..(Somebody Got Murdered, Police on My Back, Charlie Don't Surf)
Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief '82
Prince's Purple Rain is '84 (When Doves Cry)
And finally Big Audio Dynamite's first "This Is" came out '85, fertile ground with both Medicine Show and The Bottom Line
A lot of great tunes in this post!!
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i was going to put Magnificent Seven in there.
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The quintessential one hit wonder track "Voices Carry"('85) by Til Tuesday has to make the cut!
The Cure's "Close To Me" or "A Night Like This" off "Head On The Door"('85). Or "The Hanging Garden" but no "The Lovecats", "The Caterpillar" or "Let's Go To Bed" please, since they've been overplayed to death.
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i am at work (and waaay working) but you are not allowed to close this thread without my suggestions. ;p be back later.
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New Order - 'Thieves Like Us' as they drive down the highway...
Car Jamming by The Clash
Buffalo Girls - Malcolm McLaren
She's In Parties by Bauhaus
Take The Skinheads Bowling by Camper Vaan Beethoven
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Just reading thru to make sure I don't duplicate...Damn you August...I was going to say "Voices Carry"
Carmen mentioned Psych. Furs, but I would vote for "Ghost In You".
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Some others I forgot (sorry if they are dups).
Modern English - Melt With You
Stray Cats - Rock This Town
Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face
Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
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Last but not least
Moon Unit Zappa - Valley Girl
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And for a laugh
REO - Can't Fight This Feeling
Christopher Cross - Sailing
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I almost forgot...
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
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Haha, beat ya to it Annie! I'm a huge Aimee Mann fan so I had to suggest that song. Also, Misstee said above "And please please please NO Modern English 'I Melt With You'...." DOH! @;P
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hahaha...yeah no "melt with you". everything else is golden.
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I'll go with some of what others have suggested... Psych Furs (definitely), "Valley Girl" by Zappa (I was IN the Valley when that song came out... oh the irony!) Sandinista-era Clash, (too bad "Squeezing out Sparks" came out in '79... "Discovering Japan" or "Local Girls" would be great"... how about Parker's "Break Them Down"?)
XTC "Senses Working Overtime", Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers", The Call's "The Walls Came Down",
Also.. Wall of Voodoo "Mexican Radio" or "Can't Make Love" or "Ring Of Fire"... Rush "Spirit of the Radio" or "Tom Sawyer" (seriously, you couldn't go to the beach without hearing a boombox booming out those two songs....)
Do I win some sort of prize for using Rush and Wall of Voodoo in the same comment?
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winner...zenpop
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If the (English) Beat is involved, "Save It For Later" is a must. And as a real left-field choice, Westworld's brain-rattling technobilly raver "Sonic Boom Boy." But I have so many suggestions and no patience to set 'em all down. Good luck. w.t.c.
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What, no Go Go's, no Bow Wow Wow, no Cars?
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Sorry, I missed the Melt With You clause.
I guess I didn't see the fine flippin' print.
Can I redeem my self with Tony Basil - Oh Micky?
Didn't think so.
Did someone mention...
Van Halen - Jump
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
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One more to add..
Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
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THE FALL
Wrong place, Right Time or Gramme Friday
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I Am is right...there HAS to be some Cars in there, like:
Moving in Stereo or Bye Bye Love
Also, The Go Gos....Vacation or Head Over Heels
How about more of The Police (NOT Every Breath You Take, please, but anything else.....like SynchronicityII)
Some Duran Duran--Rio or Save a Prayer
The Polecats--Make a Circuit With Me
Bow Wow Wow---Baby Oh No
Tears for Fears--Change, or Pale Shelter or Everybody Wants to Rule...
The B52's--Rock Lobster
Devo--Through Being Cool
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What? No Hall & Oates? There needs to be something on that list. "You Make My Dreams" is one of my favorite songs of all time, but I'm sure there's something else suitable to the plot. "Maneater"? "One on One"?
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let's dig a little guys!
Gang of Four--To Hell With Poverty, Is It lLove
Shriekback--Nemesis, Hammerheads
Fishbone--Lyin Ass Bitch, Party At Ground Zero
Sisters Of Mercy--First and Last and Always, Rock and a Hard Place (only pre '86 release)
Red Hot Chili Peppers--Get up and Jump, Mommy Where's Daddy, Catholic School Girls Rule
The Cult--Big Neon Glitter, She Sells Sanctuary
Icicle Works--Whisper To A Scream
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sorry....a couple more
X--c'mon! John Doe, Xcene, Billy Zoom, and D.J. deserve some love here!
Gene Loves Jezabel
early Billy Idol--Flesh For Fantasy
and don't forget.......Kajagoogoo!