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Episode 98: Fast Times at Ridgemont High
School's back in session, and we're back to discuss one of the most iconic high school comedies of the 80s: Fast Times at Ridgemont High! Fast Times is a year in the life of your typical gang of high school kids: You got the kids just try to make a buck, the ones obsessed with sex, the ones obsessed with finding love... And then, of course, you've got Jeff Spicoli, Sean Penn's totally baked surfer dude. As their stories weave in and out, the film is threaded throughout by one of the largest soundtracks we've ever covered. We'll talk about solo tracks from four members of the Eagles, The Go-Gos, Billy Squier, Jimmy Buffett, Donna Summer, and a whole lot more! SHOW NOTES FOR THIS EPISODE: Fast Times at Ridgemont High is available to stream here Libby's second novel "Negative Girl" is out now! Joe's writing about movies again at Joe's Cinemarama! INTRO/OUTRO: "Dance Rocket" by Jesse Spillane MUSIC VIDEOS: "Raised on the Radio" by The Ravyns "The Look in Your Eyes" by Gerard McMahon Have a soundtrack you'd like us to cover? Follow us on Twitter @OSTParty and let us know! Or email us at [email protected]
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Episode 97: With Honors
It's graduation season and that means it's time to reminisce about the time we spent in college. And we do just that on this week's episode! We're discussing the soundtrack to the 1994 college dramedy With Honors. Joe Pesci plays homeless man Simon who befriends college senior Brendan Fraser, who's desperate to finish his senior thesis, and Pesci offers to help him in exchange for room and board. All the life lessons and general feelgoodery is the perfect canvas for a soundtrack full of early 90s schmaltz and Gen X longing. We get a surprisingly great theme song by Madonna; requisite cover songs from Duran Duran, Belly and The Pretenders. There's also a haunting duet between Kristin Hersh and Michael Stipe, a goofy one-off from Mudhoney, and hey! Lindsey Buckingham is back! The film ain't much to talk about, but the soundtrack sent us down some wild rabbit holes. So crack open a cold one, put on your favorite alma mater sweater and join the party! SHOW NOTES FOR THIS EPISODE: With Honors is available to stream here Libby's second novel "Negative Girl" is out now! Joe's writing about movies again at Joe's Cinemarama! INTRO/OUTRO: "Dance Rocket" by Jesse Spillane MUSIC VIDEOS: "I'll Remember" by Madonna "Fuzzy" by Grant Lee Buffalo "Cover Me" by Candlebox "She Sells Sanctuary" by The Cult "Your Ghost" by Kristin Hersh (feat. Michael Stipe) Have a soundtrack you'd like us to cover? Follow us on Twitter @OSTParty and let us know! Or email us at [email protected]
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Episode 96: RAD
We're back! It's been too long since our last episode, but Rad Day is here and we couldn't let it go without celebrating it properly. What is Rad, you ask? Rad is every 80s sports movie you've ever seen, wrapped up in a package of BMX bikes, cheesy butt rock and more synthesizers than you can jump a bike over. It's ridiculous, it's kinda lame, but's also so completely RAD. Helltrack is coming to town, and our hero Cru has a chance to prove to the BMX world he's the best racer around. And, in the process, he manages to woo Christian, a racer from a professional team who also happens to be played by a pre-Full House Lori Loughlin. Anyway... It's Rad! SHOW NOTES FOR THIS EPISODE: Rad is available to stream here The Charm Kings' "Caught Up in the Crossfire" Libby's second novel "Negative Girl" is out now! Joe's writing about movies again at Joe's Cinemarama! INTRO: "Break the Ice" by John Farnham OUTRO: "Dance Rocket by Jesse Spillane MUSIC VIDEOS: "Send Me an Angel" by Real Life "Music You Can Dance To" by Sparks Have a soundtrack you'd like us to cover? Follow us on Twitter @OSTParty and let us know! Or email us at [email protected]
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Episode 95: 1995 Soundtrack Misfits
We're back! For our 95th episode, we bring you a collection of soundtrack cuts from 1995. It was the height of the 90s, when 80s pop stars showed up in the most random movies, fledgling rock bands popped up on teen cult classics, and also Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh Eagles teamed up with Lita Ford to do the theme song for a RoboCop TV series. 1995 was definitely a mood... Also appearing in this episode: Tom Jones covering Lenny Kravitz for the Jerky Boys movie, The Proclaimers covering The Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love" for the movie Bye Bye Love, we get a few cuts from Green Day, Wax, and Salt N' Pepa. Also Bryan Adams performs the drippiest, horniest song ever written... Ladies and gentlemen, this is 1995. SHOW NOTES FOR THIS EPISODE: Jack Black in Bye Bye Love Tom Jones performing "Are You Gonna Go My Way" on The Tonight Show INTRO/OUTRO: "Dance Rocket" by Jesse Spillane MUSIC VIDEOS: "There's A Future To This Life" by Joe Walsh & Lita Ford "Moonlight" by Sting Have a soundtrack you'd like us to cover? Follow us on Twitter @OSTParty and let us know! Or email us at [email protected]
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Episode 94: Airheads
Hello all you OST Party fans out there in radioland! Are you ready to rock?! On this episode we're looking at the 1994 comedy AIRHEADS! Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi and OST Party fave Brendan Fraser are The Lone Rangers, a down and out LA rock trio. In a last ditch effort to land a record deal, they take a radio station hostage and demand to have their music heard. The movie may be a grim foreshadowing of FM rock radio's future, but the movie's a hell of a lot of fun. And the soundtrack is pretty neat too. We get a slammin' opening credits song from Motorhead and Ice T, a weird Smiths cover from Anthrax, an even weirder Van Halen cover from Four Non Blondes, and naturally, the #1 hit single from the movie's own Lone Rangers! So strap yourselves in and get ready to rock! SHOW NOTES FOR THIS EPISODE: Airheads available (for now) on Hulu The Immediate Family Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler Airheads Reunion Billy Joel Wants To Start His Own Traveling Wilburys INTRO: "Dance Rocket" by Jesse Spillane OUTRO: "I'm The One" by Van Halen MUSIC VIDEOS: "Born To Raise Hell" by Motorhead, Ice T & W. Crane "Feed The Gods" by White Zombie "No Way Out" by D Generation "I'll Talk My Way Out Of It" by Stuttering John "We Want The Airwaves" by The Ramones Have a soundtrack you'd like us to cover? Follow us on Twitter @OSTParty and let us know! Or email us at [email protected]
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