Top Fifteen Movie Songs 13/15 (in no particular order that I will admit to):
13)"People Are Strange"
Written by The Doors
Performed by Echo & The Bunnymen (as Echo and The Bunnymen)
Produced by Ray Manzarek
Courtesy of WEA Records
Film: The Lost Boys (1987)
This was the first... "shared"... music I had ever received. The girl that gave me the CD also introduced me to Echo & The Bunnymen. This was some time ago... like a few years. We had been talking about bands we liked and she said that she had this soundtrack with these really cool bands and she gave me a copy. She was like the first "goth" I knew. She copied her older sister with like, everything. Thought it was cool to wear her hand-be-downs because it was like being all "indi" and shopping the second-hand stores, but it was free, and she knew who had it last.
I was listening to it and Dad had thought I was watching the file, until he came into the room-proper. I was like, no, someone gave me a copy of the soundtrack. Later, we watched the film. It was cool. I don't think too much of some of the tracks out of the context of the film, but I was like... wait, this one band sounds familiar. Dad was like, Yeah, that's E&tB. He went out with a girl that was really into them. She gave him a tape of the soundtrack because it had E&tB on it. Then he named some other E&tB songs, showed me his 12" of "Paint it Black". So, Monday at school, I went back to my friend and was like "Wow, I really like E&tB" and said I saw the film and she was like "Yeah, ain't it great?" and I was like comparing them to Love and Rockets and her "boyfriend" was like "Yeah, they are great" and started trying to talk to me about L&R a lot... a lot... and creeping me out and my friend thought I was trying to steal her boyfriend, or didn't want him to be around me because she felt threatened or something. Then it was Summer Break and she had new friends in the fall.
Boyfriend was in quotes because we were pretty young. It was like, this is the boy, that is her friend, and the one that she let hold her hand and buy her desert at lunch. (Due to research I had conducted trying to figure things out about me, I paid a lot of attention to any of my friends relationships with "boyfriends"... I was already terrified of boys.)
So, back to the film. After Dad and I watched it, he asked me what I thought because I looked pensive, he said. So I curled up in his lap and explained: If I was a vampire, it would cure me and I wouldn't die.
He said that the trade-off would be that I had to kill people.
I said that in some of the stories, they don't have to kill.
We went on then talking about a number of books and films about living forever, and miracle cures. That was when he gave me Virtual Light. See, in Andromeda Strain, they explain that for a virus to be successful, it could not kill its host. So it mutates to a non fatal strain by the time it is unleashed on the world. In Virtual Light, this happens to HIV - a non-fatal, dominant strain is identified and vaccine is made. I love the book, but I was also pissed because I didn't want to die. I wanted it to be real. I was kinda torn because I both loved and hated the book. So he gave me Neuromancer to read and I got over the hate and read the rest of the Sprawl trilogy, then re-read Virtual Light and moved on to Iduro and All Tomorrow's Parties, then backed up to the Burning Chrome collection of short stories, and I read The Difference Engine.... and I have really wandered away from The Lost Boys, haven't I.
In short, I was introduced to my favourite author because of a conversation about vampires and "cure-alls" and whatnot.
The title of the film is a reference to the companions of Peter Pan, who remained forever young.
This film invented the phrase "vamp out", which has passed into common usage on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
In the cave of the Lost Boys you can see a poster of Jim Morrison who recorded the original version of "People are Strange" with The Doors. And when Star and Laddie are being carried into Sam’s room, you can see a poster of Echo & the Bunnymen who recorded the version used in the film.
Notable contenders:
"Cry Little Sister (Theme From The Lost Boys)"
Written by Mike Mainieri (as Michael Mainieri) and Gerard McMahon (as Gerard McMann)
Performed by Gerard McMahon (as Gerard McMann)
Produced by Mike Mainieri (as Michael Mainieri)
Co-Produced by Gerard McMahon (as Gerard McMann) and Bruce Martin
"To The Shock Of Miss Louise"
(uncredited)
Music by Thomas Newman
Sorry about getting a little off topics there, but I had recently read Welcome Chaos, by Kate Wilhelm where there is an enzyme that kills about 50% of the people that come in contact with it (transmitted sexually, but it also goes out as a "vaccine"), but the survivors live for ever, immune to all disease, even old age. It had brought that old conversation back to mind. It was a Regan Era "Cold War" story.
Anywho,
Take Care-
LQ
13)"People Are Strange"
Written by The Doors
Performed by Echo & The Bunnymen (as Echo and The Bunnymen)
Produced by Ray Manzarek
Courtesy of WEA Records
Film: The Lost Boys (1987)
This was the first... "shared"... music I had ever received. The girl that gave me the CD also introduced me to Echo & The Bunnymen. This was some time ago... like a few years. We had been talking about bands we liked and she said that she had this soundtrack with these really cool bands and she gave me a copy. She was like the first "goth" I knew. She copied her older sister with like, everything. Thought it was cool to wear her hand-be-downs because it was like being all "indi" and shopping the second-hand stores, but it was free, and she knew who had it last.
I was listening to it and Dad had thought I was watching the file, until he came into the room-proper. I was like, no, someone gave me a copy of the soundtrack. Later, we watched the film. It was cool. I don't think too much of some of the tracks out of the context of the film, but I was like... wait, this one band sounds familiar. Dad was like, Yeah, that's E&tB. He went out with a girl that was really into them. She gave him a tape of the soundtrack because it had E&tB on it. Then he named some other E&tB songs, showed me his 12" of "Paint it Black". So, Monday at school, I went back to my friend and was like "Wow, I really like E&tB" and said I saw the film and she was like "Yeah, ain't it great?" and I was like comparing them to Love and Rockets and her "boyfriend" was like "Yeah, they are great" and started trying to talk to me about L&R a lot... a lot... and creeping me out and my friend thought I was trying to steal her boyfriend, or didn't want him to be around me because she felt threatened or something. Then it was Summer Break and she had new friends in the fall.
Boyfriend was in quotes because we were pretty young. It was like, this is the boy, that is her friend, and the one that she let hold her hand and buy her desert at lunch. (Due to research I had conducted trying to figure things out about me, I paid a lot of attention to any of my friends relationships with "boyfriends"... I was already terrified of boys.)
So, back to the film. After Dad and I watched it, he asked me what I thought because I looked pensive, he said. So I curled up in his lap and explained: If I was a vampire, it would cure me and I wouldn't die.
He said that the trade-off would be that I had to kill people.
I said that in some of the stories, they don't have to kill.
We went on then talking about a number of books and films about living forever, and miracle cures. That was when he gave me Virtual Light. See, in Andromeda Strain, they explain that for a virus to be successful, it could not kill its host. So it mutates to a non fatal strain by the time it is unleashed on the world. In Virtual Light, this happens to HIV - a non-fatal, dominant strain is identified and vaccine is made. I love the book, but I was also pissed because I didn't want to die. I wanted it to be real. I was kinda torn because I both loved and hated the book. So he gave me Neuromancer to read and I got over the hate and read the rest of the Sprawl trilogy, then re-read Virtual Light and moved on to Iduro and All Tomorrow's Parties, then backed up to the Burning Chrome collection of short stories, and I read The Difference Engine.... and I have really wandered away from The Lost Boys, haven't I.
In short, I was introduced to my favourite author because of a conversation about vampires and "cure-alls" and whatnot.
The title of the film is a reference to the companions of Peter Pan, who remained forever young.
This film invented the phrase "vamp out", which has passed into common usage on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
In the cave of the Lost Boys you can see a poster of Jim Morrison who recorded the original version of "People are Strange" with The Doors. And when Star and Laddie are being carried into Sam’s room, you can see a poster of Echo & the Bunnymen who recorded the version used in the film.
Notable contenders:
"Cry Little Sister (Theme From The Lost Boys)"
Written by Mike Mainieri (as Michael Mainieri) and Gerard McMahon (as Gerard McMann)
Performed by Gerard McMahon (as Gerard McMann)
Produced by Mike Mainieri (as Michael Mainieri)
Co-Produced by Gerard McMahon (as Gerard McMann) and Bruce Martin
"To The Shock Of Miss Louise"
(uncredited)
Music by Thomas Newman
Sorry about getting a little off topics there, but I had recently read Welcome Chaos, by Kate Wilhelm where there is an enzyme that kills about 50% of the people that come in contact with it (transmitted sexually, but it also goes out as a "vaccine"), but the survivors live for ever, immune to all disease, even old age. It had brought that old conversation back to mind. It was a Regan Era "Cold War" story.
Anywho,
Take Care-
LQ
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