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[Dannyalcatraz]

And I never heard the original, despite my parents being big on Motown. One day I was trying to remember who did the song and did a quick Google search, and the original came up as something like the 10th result.

EDIT - If you've seen "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" then you have, in fact, head the cover.

I’ve seen the movie, but I have no recollection of the song, then! It happens.

 

[Ryujin]

I’ve seen the movie, but I have no recollection of the song, then! It happens.

No one ever seems to remember movie soundtracks, for some reason. I remembered it because before the movie was released the song was rather popular in the Toronto club scene, for whatever reason

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

No one ever seems to remember movie soundtracks, for some reason. I remembered it because before the movie was released the song was rather popular in the Toronto club scene, for whatever reason

I don’t have that excuse, unfortunately. I have an unusually large collection of soundtracks & scores, in keeping with my unusually large music collection. There’s a lot of songs out there that only get released on soundtracks, or have unique versions of songs on soundtracks.*

Off the top of my head, some soundtracks & scores I own, in no particular order:

1984
Godzilla
Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal 2
Conan the Barbarian
Miami Vice
Miami Vice II
James Bond 30th anniversary soundtrack collection
Space Jam
Strange Days
The Crow
Judgement Night
Jesus Christ Superstar
1776
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Sorcerer
Antarctica
Blade Runner
Chariots of Fire
Johnny B. Goode







* and some songs you hear in movies don’t get placed on the soundtracks.

 

[Milieu]

You know Aretha Franklin's signature song, "Respect"? It's a cover. The original recording is by Otis Redding.

 

[payn]

I don’t have that excuse, unfortunately. I have an unusually large collection of soundtracks & scores, in keeping with my unusually large music collection. There’s a lot of songs out there that only get released on soundtracks, or have unique versions of songs on soundtracks.*

Off the top of my head, some soundtracks & scores I own, in no particular order:

1984
Godzilla
Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal 2
Conan the Barbarian
Miami Vice
Miami Vice II
James Bond 30th anniversary soundtrack collection
Space Jam
Strange Days
The Crow
Judgement Night
Jesus Christ Superstar
1776
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Sorcerer
Antarctica
Blade Runner
Chariots of Fire
Johnny B. Goode







* and some songs you hear in movies don’t get placed on the soundtracks.

Some good ones in there but Judgement Night dayyyyum...

A little surprised not to see Singles in your list.

 

[Reynard]

I don’t have that excuse, unfortunately. I have an unusually large collection of soundtracks & scores, in keeping with my unusually large music collection. There’s a lot of songs out there that only get released on soundtracks, or have unique versions of songs on soundtracks.*

Off the top of my head, some soundtracks & scores I own, in no particular order:

1984
Godzilla
Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal 2
Conan the Barbarian
Miami Vice
Miami Vice II
James Bond 30th anniversary soundtrack collection
Space Jam
Strange Days
The Crow
Judgement Night
Jesus Christ Superstar
1776
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Sorcerer
Antarctica
Blade Runner
Chariots of Fire
Johnny B. Goode







* and some songs you hear in movies don’t get placed on the soundtracks.

The first X-Files movie soundtrack is really great.

 

[Ryujin]

I don’t have that excuse, unfortunately. I have an unusually large collection of soundtracks & scores, in keeping with my unusually large music collection. There’s a lot of songs out there that only get released on soundtracks, or have unique versions of songs on soundtracks.*

Off the top of my head, some soundtracks & scores I own, in no particular order:

1984
Godzilla
Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal 2
Conan the Barbarian
Miami Vice
Miami Vice II
James Bond 30th anniversary soundtrack collection
Space Jam
Strange Days
The Crow
Judgement Night
Jesus Christ Superstar
1776
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Sorcerer
Antarctica
Blade Runner
Chariots of Fire
Johnny B. Goode







* and some songs you hear in movies don’t get placed on the soundtracks.

And some songs on the soundtracks never actually make it to the theatrical release. Does the soundtrack for "1984" say anything about how the director thought inclusion of a song by The Eurythmics trivialized his film? When I saw it in a theatre, a couple of days after release, I think it had maybe 3 bars of the song in the opening credits.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Some good ones in there but Judgement Night dayyyyum...

A little surprised not to see Singles in your list.

Just forgot it. It’s in there.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

And some songs on the soundtracks never actually make it to the theatrical release. Does the soundtrack for "1984" say anything about how the director thought inclusion of a song by The Eurythmics trivialized his film? When I saw it in a theatre, a couple of days after release, I think it had maybe 3 bars of the song in the opening credits.

I don’t remember anything of the kind in the liner notes.

Thing is, the title song wasn’t the only thing Eurythmics did for that movie- they did the entire soundtrack.

 

[Ryujin]

I don’t remember anything of the kind in the liner notes.

Thing is, the title song wasn’t the only thing Eurythmics did for that movie- they did the entire soundtrack.

And there wasn't really anything that could be recognized as their style, in that whole theatrical release, apart from the a fore-mentioned quick blurb in the opening credits. I watched it again, maybe a year ago, and none of the music really sticks with me.