This is a fun post. And of course Don't You Forget About Me has to be on it, and I love the inclusion of the Lauper song from The Goonies - but any such list of seven that doesn't include OMD's If You Leave isn't to be taken seriously.
And personally I would have thought that Let's Hear It For the Boy would've been the direction one would go with if you were picking a song from Footloose (and not going in the Bonnie Tyler direction), but I guess the title track is iconic enough to be chosen instead. Maybe.
Posted by armand at September 14, 2007 04:10 PM | TrackBack | Posted to MusicYah, I think a case could definitely be made for switching Bonnie Tyler to the Footloose soundtrack and still including Kenny Loggins for the Top Gun soundtrack's Danger Zone, as well as OMD for Pretty in Pink (or The Smiths, I could really go either way), and maybe even Peter Gabriel from Say Anything for a whole top ten.
Personally, I would say throw in something from Streets of Fire (probably Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young), and something from Beyond Thunderdome (One of the Living), and maybe even some score pieces from Aliens or Johnny Handsome or Salvador, but most people didn't like those as much as I did.
Posted by: Morris at September 15, 2007 03:37 PM | PERMALINKWell you know of my appreciation for Streets of Fire, but I don't think I'd put anything from it if the point is to really make a soundtrack to the 80s movie of our lives (and if I was including such, I'd likely opt for Nowhere Fast).
A Tina song from Beyond Thunderdome though ... I can kind of see that.
And yeah, flipping the Loggins entry to Top Gun makes more sense.
As to Peter Gabriel ... eh, whatever. I can see it b/c so many people love that song and that part of the film soooo much. But it never did that much for me (or as much as it seemed to do for many).
I'm halfway surprised you didn't suggest anything from The Lost Boys.
Posted by: Armand at September 15, 2007 05:19 PM | PERMALINKYah, I cannot personally think of that scene in Say Anything without thinking of that scene in Night at the Roxbury, but as you say I still like the song. I hadn't thought of Lost Boys, but it did occur to me that there was no mention of Prince and the Revolution and Let's Go Crazy (or Jungle Love by Morris Day) from Purple Rain.
Posted by: Morris at September 16, 2007 02:46 AM | PERMALINKWell I guess my response to that is that when I think "80s movie" I tend to think coming of age movie. And I don't really see Purple Rain as that.
Though ... well I guess I could also see "it could only have come from the 80s" as fitting, so maybe Streets of Fire works after all. And can you believe Diane Lane was only a teenager when she made that?
Posted by: Armand at September 16, 2007 11:31 AM | PERMALINKYah, how did she ever make the stretch from Rumble Fish and Outsiders?
Posted by: Morris at September 16, 2007 12:03 PM | PERMALINK