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Film Sack 658: Sound Track Movies

Another round table episode is UP! This week we are all about what makes for a great soundtrack film! Does the movie even matter when the music is that good? Turns out, the answer to that question is rather complicated. Enjoy this! We sure did!

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Duration:: 39m
Broadcast on:: 30 Jun 2024
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Welcome to yet another round table episode from your film sack host. Yes, that's right. Someone's out of town. And as a result, we pre-record this and we talk like good friends around a table about an aspect of filmmaking that doesn't come up on a regular episode when we focus in on a film. You're in a very comfortable chair and there's a big ficus next year. I'll be in town. I'll just be on a bike and I can't do the show. That's too much huffing and puffing when we try to do that. I'll be out of breath. We can't have that. But also, even though you're there right this second, we hope that you're having an amazing ride. I hope so too. I hope I am not tipped over in a ditch and like a turtle and get back up. If I didn't know you, I would hope that that had happened because it's funny when I don't know you. Because it's a great story. Yeah, it's a great story. But anyway, we'll see how it all turns out. In the meantime, it's me, it's Brian, it's Brian, and it's Randy. Here once again to talk about something cool in the entertainment world slash business of filmmaking, like soundtracks. Hey, Randy, why don't you give us the lowdown on the overall today? What are we discussing? So a couple weeks ago, we're talking about women led action movies and the subject of music somehow came up alongside all of this. And we realized that there's actually like three distinct categories of movies with regard to the music in the movies. And so the one that I think is the most interesting, at least right now, is the idea of a soundtrack movie. So what we're saying is it's a movie where there's a bunch of standalone songs that are arranged in some way to fit the movie. So the movie and the music carry each other. So this is different than orchestrated scoring, right? Which is just the score of a movie, right? And it's different than musicals, right? Musicals are movies where the songs tell the story overtly. So we're talking about that third thing, soundtrack movies. And so we're kind of like looking at a big, long list of them. And I just want to know what this means to you. What does it do in your life? It's kind of a newer thing. Like soundtrack movies haven't been that prevalent until the last 40 years or so. Sure. And so, you know, like just like the first thing on the list that came up was eight mile. The movie eight mile, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Can't separate the two, right? Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I'd go back. I'd say Star Wars is my first soundtrack movie. And I know it's orchestrated and not, you know, full of songs. So we're not talking about that. We're not talking about that. Not score. Not score. Right. Yeah. Which are great. Like I love one of my favorites. It's a man standing with Raya Kooter doing all kinds of cool shit. But I think, yeah, I think that's, I kind of just missed that one as well. What was the name? Ryan, who? Who was that again? Raya Kooter. Raya Kooter. I don't know who that is. He's never heard of that. He's got a dry Kooter. Oh, oh. All right. No. Dude. Never tell me the odds. Anyway. So let me give you another example. The breakfast club is often referred to in this discussion because you have these songs that are played to affect, right? And it's not just don't you forget about me at the end, right? But it's even though it is. It's I'm the dude and it's we're not alone. Hey. What's her face? Carla DeVito. Yeah. DeVito. Yeah. She was a staple on a lot of sound. I feel like she was a staple on a lot of soundtrack movies. That sounds like... Yeah. Go ahead. A soundtrack movie, you can get an album and you can listen to songs. Yeah. And the songs are the songs are not all the same, right? They're the songs from that movie. Dude, do something like different artists a lot of time. Since we just hit the 30th anniversary, does something like the Lion King animated film count? Oh, yeah. Okay. So it's not just like a diverse bunch of songs from different artists or whatever. It can be like a musical where they've got, you know, music from... Well, and I wouldn't call that this though, but it sounds like Randy Wood because you've got the circle of life, Elton John, but you don't really have other songs. Right. Yeah. I mean... Well, you have a kunima-tata and you have, you know... Oh, yeah. You have a good point. Yeah, of course. They're all sung. They're all sung. They're all sung. They rule out, say, the sound of music, right? Because it was a musical. That's a musical. And then... But at the same time, the sound of music provides us with a great template for this because my mom had the album. She had the LP, you know, and you can listen to the tracks and you can like pick a track and listen to it. And it was a good standalone song. Sure. I think it's probably a good... A lot. Yeah, go ahead. Maybe a good representation is either movies coming, either movies that have music that has charted, you know, tops of the charts at some point in time, or has music that comes out of it that tops the charts. Because a lot of these, you know, stuff like that just seems more like maybe it permeates into the popular culture beyond the movie. Ah, that's interesting. Yeah. That's interesting. I think of soundtrack movies. I always think of Top Gun. Because every one I knew, every household I went to in a certain time frame had the Top Gun record. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The vinyl. Probably. Yeah. The Pulp Fiction. We talked a lot about Pulp Fiction last week, but that's another great one with, you know, Urge Over Kills. You'll be a woman soon. And Reservoir Dogs. The soundtrack too. Reservoir Dogs. Yeah. Reservoir Dogs. Yeah. Which Tarantino is great. He's been right doing narration like the DJ between each track and he mispronounces Behemoth as Behemoth. Yeah. Behemoth. Do you think it counts? You think it counts? You think it pronounces, I say, doesn't it? Intentionally. Yeah. Well, it probably is intentional. Dale's thing is, that's a cover too. That's an old German Greek, old Greek song that he adapted into a surf rock song. Oh my gosh. He did it very well because that's all I think of now. When you hear it miserly, you associate it with Dick Dale more than anybody else. But yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Because it's an instrumental, you know, I feel like it's still, Pulp Fiction is still a classic soundtrack album. For me, a soundtrack album is one where the movie's longevity extends far beyond the two hours you watch it into hearing the soundtrack over and over and thinking about the soundtrack, the parts of the movie that associate with the soundtrack. Maybe a driver, which we just watched a few weeks ago, that soundtrack or that collection of songs, because I don't even think there's an official soundtrack. You go to Apple Music. You get a playlist with a few extra- Well, that makes me mad. That makes me mad. Because it gives you more of an opportunity to explore the albums that each of those songs came from. So it's like, oh, I love this, this Jonathan Richman in the Modern Lovers song, Egyptian reggae. Let me go back and listen to some more Jonathan Richman while I'm in the mood. But I feel like that is a fantastic soundtrack movie. So in the case of 8 Mile, which is mostly M&M music, maybe entirely, I don't know. There's other stuff on there that I can't think of, maybe. Anyway, that works then, right? So if you have something like Purple Rain or- No, that's perfect. Okay. Purple Rain was the first one that came to mind, and then I saw that it was number one on the list that Rain gave to us. Well, I don't like what crap I can't- Kickable. Exactly. I'm actually in the middle of listening to Purple Rain because it's the 40th anniversary of the album and I'm doing a show on Coverville. I mean, last week I did a show on Coverville, where I'd cover it each of the tracks, track by track with different artists. Sure. And I can answer Scott's question. The 8 Mile soundtrack, the album that you can still purchase and listen to, has songs by Mob Deep, Leonard Skinner, Notorious B.I.G, South Central Cartel, Mattel, Georgia, Naughty Bite Nature. Okay. A lot more than just his- Yeah. In the moment, b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b. That whole thing. There's a lot more than just that. I was waiting for that to come up. Yeah. So, I like his new track, by the way. Oh, it's great. A lot of tunes. I don't like it. Best use of "Abracadabra" by including the original, because I freaking hate that song. But somehow it works here. It's real good. Yeah. He's good at that. OK, how do we feel about something like, I mean, one of my favorites is "Dazed and Confused." And the reason I love that one is because the music serves one very specific and important role, and that is to keep this thing in the place that it's set. It's like, here's the time, here's the place. There's no confusion. You're hearing lowrider. You know what the F's going on. You don't ever get confused and go, "Is this set in the late 90s?" Like, you never do that. You know exactly what we got. And I love that about that movie. And it's a bigger soundtrack than movie, I think, right? Like, if you get the "Dazed and Confused" soundtrack, you're getting "Sweet Emotion" by Aerosmith and "Schools Out" by Alice Booper. Yeah. And why can't we be friends by war? Exactly. By the way, these are all songs that I think are probably up here in plenty of other movies. Sure. But I want to put them all together, and you've got a soundtrack that you're going to listen to repeatedly. So good. I don't think you're going to watch "Dazed and Confused" repeatedly. Oh, I love that movie. I would watch it again. No problem. So I don't know if I agree with you there, but I will, you know, the soundtrack plays a heavy role. There's no question about it. Yeah. There's some movies, like maybe that's even an interesting subset of discussion here. Some movies that are so propelled better or made better because they chose to put so much tapestry in the music that without it, you're like, "Ugh, I don't know if I want that movie to be around." You know? I'm just making notes here. So I got "Ibit with Purple Rain" Scott with "Dazed and Confused." I'm not going to make it, but I'm not doing any more choices. I've got two other choices that I like better, and neither of them are on that rancor list, by the way. Oh, good. So I do. Me too. I'm like the last round table. You can't tell me that my choices are wrong. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I also have one I just saw that I'm going to put on this list that no one's going to see coming. I can't wait to say it, but go ahead. I've got it. Continue. I've got several, but I have one that's right on the cusp of the two, and it was a huge impact on me. When I think of these, I think of not only the things that I enjoyed and maybe had some chart topping hits, but also severely impacted either my enjoyment or lack of enjoyment of the movie. And I've got to say that Ghostbusters soundtrack, I mean, even though Ray Parker Jr. totally stole that Ghostbusters magic, I was just listening to that a couple months ago by Mick Smiley never really did anything again, but I love the town by the yeah, yeah, you know, boy. Yes. Ghetto boy. Anyone is there. Not the Ghetto boys. The bus boys, the bus boys. Bus boys. Yes. And even the second even the second movie had some pretty good songs to it. And I feel like it's very important, especially that magic song in the freakin ghost bus. Yes. That's like a turn. You hear that song and you think of the montage of them when they're going around and dealing with all the ghosts, because that's when it comes up and yeah, that's also the soundtrack that gives us Flip City by Glenn Fry, which is I think the only place you're going to find that song. I do love it when a soundtrack includes a song that you can't find anywhere else on any other albums by that artist. Right. I'll give you one of those then, Fast Times, Ridgemont High soundtrack. A good one. And you get your classics like Somebody's Baby and Oingo Boingo gives you good bye goodbye, which was if I remember correctly, not released on an album, but was eventually released on the Oingo Boingo EP. But God, that's such a great that album gives you so many eighties hits. One right after another. And for me, hearing that album only makes me think of the sins. And there's apparently a Criterion Collection version of Fast Times and I am kind of interested here. It's an important movie. I would like to watch this one with the, you know, because like Amy Heckerling and Cameron Crow talking. Yeah. What the hell? Okay. Oh, I know. And they talk about, they say how, and I was going to bring up the cars moving in stereo. If you were a boy growing up in the eighties and you think of that song, you only think of Phoebe Kate's coming out of the swimming pool. But they were talking to the Amy Heckerling and Cameron Crow discussion where they talk about how at Blockbuster Video, they would constantly have to replace the VHS tapes of Fast Times because people would pause on that scene and the stretching of the tape would cause it to go. They should like the same. You're walking and still real people and pause on that one scene of Phoebe Kate's undoing her top. Yeah. I want to go ahead and declare Cameron Crow the winner of this category. Yeah. Cameron Crow is the person who has worked the hardest to soundtrack his movies. I'd give, I'd, I'd put what's his name in there too since, since, um, uh, no, um, since Scott Pilgrim, uh, we just watched the baby driver, uh, Edward, or, uh, Edward Wright. Yeah. I put, I put him in the running. I think he really works hard to get music as part of his movies, no matter what the movie is. Um, here is my other, uh, other one. So this is my second, uh, for me and I just saw it and I was blown away by the soundtrack. Um, holdovers. I thought was amazing. Oh, that's such a great movie in a soundtrack. And it's something about, it's, again, it's a movie that knows when it wants to be. So it works very hard to make you feel like you're there. And the, and the movie, the music is so reminiscent of that 1971 era ish thing that it just takes me, it takes me places I haven't felt since I was a tiny baby, like just a little kid, like a three year old kid. And it also has a bunch of Christmas music and, um, Christmas music is a, uh, sub genre of the sub genre here. Yeah. And so like, uh, we definitely want to allow holdovers, but don't think too much about Christmas music in this context because the movie has a lot of the, there is some, yes, I will give holdovers more credit though, because it, it only, I think only has two cases of where it's playing Christmas music. And it's not at a party or something where it's playing in the scene. So they don't actually shove it down your throat, even though it's all set around Christmas. And it's, it's mostly these like hits, but also weird songs I've never heard of from 1970, 1971, and they just, I don't know, man, they paint a picture. It's really, that movie freaking was so good, dude. I loved it. It took too long to watch it, finally watched and loved it. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to, I don't want to skip too quickly past Scott Pilgrim versus the world because it is a giant in this, in this genre, just the, I have listened to the two songs on that soundtrack from sex bob-omb many times, you know, they're just, they're just awesome originals, right? And then, and then there's all of these other, you know, there's plum trees on this album and Frank Black is on this album. Yeah. It's really good. That one is probably, I don't know, probably top five tier if you were objectively to look at it all. It goes back to it, but what's, what's another one for you? Yeah. The second choice for me is a movie whose soundtrack was so good and so full of great songs that they had to actually release two volumes, two separate albums of soundtrack music, and it's a favorite of Scott's movie-wise, gross point blank. Oh shit. I totally forgot about that. Yeah. You know what? I know we're not allowed to share the same list, but I just, I'm, I'm, I'm my little wagon. I'm going to hook on to this one from Brian. Great. I'll allow it. Yeah. So good. The sun, the clash, Rudy can't fail. I'm here in the bathroom English beat. And then they had to release a second volume because there were so many good songs that were included on the first one. So the second one has War Crab by Joe Strummer, White Lines by Grandmaster Flash, Killing Moon by Echo and the Bunny Men. That's great. How many? A great pair of soundtracks. How many soundtracks did they release for a Guardians of the Galaxy? Was it just one per? It gets a big guy. One per movie. And, and I didn't want to use that as a cheat because there's that, the, the soundtrack to those films is another character in the films. Mr. Blue Sky is a character in that opening part of Guardians Two and come get your love, you know, when, when Star Lord is walking across the planet and kicking little critters. It's very Cameron Crow-esque. Yeah. It totally is. Great. Great call on that. The, the scene with Yondu zing in the air around killing all of the, the, the reavers or whatever it is. I know we've just been watching a lot of Firefly, but whatever they're called, yeah. And, and it's, the, um, come a little bit closer. You're my kind of, I can't remember the name of the song, but those songs, again, when you hear those songs from the soundtrack, now it's all you can think of. I can't hear coming to your love without thinking of Peter Quillen to be written on this. No, you know, overwritten. It's, it's not just that. The move. I think the movie thrives the series, uh, thrives on the fact that this choice was made. I think if you just made a straight sign, even if you had some of the comedy and the fun of, of Guardians and the great directing and acting and all that, if you do that without this soundtrack, it's less of a movie. It's not. Yeah. It's the character. Yeah. It really adds to it. Certainly not accidentally, whoever first put kind of Westerny music in, in a, in science fiction, like, like a cowboy music, it wasn't firefly does it, but they weren't the first. Um, they may be maybe, maybe, but, but those kinds of things where you add a little guitar twang to a ship going off in the nowhere land, like the minute you made Westerns and science fiction work together, that was a permanent thing. I feel like this happened a bit with, with those movies, with the, with the, um, Guardians movies. Guardians. You, you just, if you're going to have cosmic marvel, you now are stuck with this, or you do it wrong if you don't, if you don't have it, like you have to have it. So you're, you're right. That is a really powerful combo. I love that. Truly good. Um, how, Randy, how does, um, uh, Deft Punk's Trump legacy fit into this, is this a great example? Absolutely. I don't know. It almost feels musical. It is score, score, score like, yeah. But there are some tracks in there like the bar, a track for the bar plays. It is such a great standalone song and it did. It still does. People love that. Yeah. And it so supersedes the quality of the film, although I still, I think I was too judgmental back when it came out. I watched it recently. I think a couple of us did. Maybe if it did. Yeah. I did to it. Yeah. I came away with that weird animated series from MTV. Oh, right. Yeah. That's what I could do. The weird body shape. Yes. Stories were good. But the animation of that was so weird. The animation is so wack-a-do. Yeah. But that, that movie is way better than I ever gave it credit for, but also the soundtrack just holds the F up. It's so good. Yeah. Like if those guys are going to retire, fine, but don't retire from film scoring. Keep doing that. Oh, yeah. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Take off your film. Not bad. You know, like keep film storing. Yeah. Even if, even if you're not going to release any more like pop albums for sure. Yeah. And if you're going to keep wearing helmets, fine. If you want to, if you want people to think you're 20, but you're really 62, that's fine. Do whatever you got to do. But fine. Yeah. That's fine. Yeah. We don't mind. I really, I really like how some movies go to a particular time frame. And then the soundtrack for the movie takes you back to that. So like almost famous is a good example. Yeah. Almost famous takes place in the early 70s, mid 70s or whatever, you know, rock is dead. But the whole score is this sort of like really typically mid 70s rock and it just like takes you right there. Dirty dancing, right? Takes place in the, I want to say the mid 50s. That's a great one. Yeah. And then a lot of those songs changed after the movie, Dirty Dance came out, it was like you can't just unassociate the two. That's really cool. I could be off here because like the first song that came to mind from Dirty Dancing was "Big Girls Don't Cry" by Frankie Valley and "The Four Seasons" and that might have been early 60s. Now that I think about it. For me, that album, if I skip the brand new song that I've had time of my life, then it's almost a perfect soundtrack for me. But I can't. Time will be really good. That thing is so pandering and it's like, "Hey, let's get together and create a song that feels like it would have been part of that soundtrack." No, I can't do it. I like those things. How do you do? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I'm tired of my life. I hate that song. I hate that song. But then every time. The movie opens with "Be My Baby" by the Ronets and that becomes the sound of the opening of a movie. Like "Dirty Dancing" establishes a thing. Just like "Breakfast Club" established, the end of a movie, "Sound" of a song, right? That's a really cool thing. Like some of these soundtrack movies are making a new thing for you to enjoy and think about when it comes to movies. How do we feel about my next pick? This will finish my top three. So we have days to confuse holdovers and for me, the big winner is one that will not be like those other two at all. It's Mulan Rouge. I cannot get enough of the Mulan Rouge soundtrack now. It is a... All the mashups stuff. Yeah, it's definitely a musical, right? Like it fits in two categories at once, but they're basically cover. Everything's a cover. And they're done in these crazy styles and these different things. And then some cases, like you said mashup or medleys, that are so... To me, I hear those songs and I immediately am taken to a very specific place with that movie and I love it. That's another example of that is that movie is shit without this decision. Well, it's a case where some of these songs are way better than others. And that's an okay thing, right? Right. These great soundtrack movies do not need to be a dozen perfect songs. Some of them can be kind of funny, kind of weird, right? That's okay. And so like, what's the actress who sings Diamonds or Girls Best Friend? Nicole Kidman. Nicole Kidman. Yeah. She's not perfect. You and McGregor as a singer is not perfect. But like, that's okay. That's perfectly fine. It's a great soundtrack. Yeah. Since Scott did his third one, do I get to do my second one now? Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were on your second. I thought you already did it. My bad. My bad. You go. I've only done Ghostbusters. Right? Randy? Yeah. What else? All right. Then I'm going to go next up. I'm going to go with... Just because I'm of that generation, it's not my fault. Don't judge me. Oh, Minority Report. Oh, I'm sorry. That was too that crap. Yeah. The faculty. I loved the soundtrack. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah. It's a really good soundtrack. Great cover. Got the Alison Chains. Yeah. Another brick in the wall. Another brick in the wall. Great cover on that. Yeah. Yeah. I got the kids are all right from the offspring. Great place to put it in this movie. This movie thrives on this music. All these kids are very much of that age. Schools out from a solo asylum. Yeah. And it was a time before we all hated Creed. Like Creed was fun. Yeah. Yeah. I made teen Creed's fun. I don't hate Creed. People annoyed with Creed. How about that? I don't like Creed. I don't hate them. I don't. I just don't seek them out. There's an Oasis song to Creed. Oh, yeah. The Oasis song is good too. Oasis is all right. They had a moment. I really liked Oasis in their heyday before they started fighting. That's stabbing Westward. Yeah. Stuff was good. Yeah. No, I think that's a good pick. I like that movie too. Didn't John Stewart get a pencil in the eyeball in the faculty? Yeah. Nailed it. Yeah. Just like that pencil in his eyeball. Yeah. That's pretty gross. This has been a huge subject throughout my life because I grew up around music people. My first high five was a hand me down from my brother-in-law. My brother-in-law is like 16 years older than me. Yeah. Because it was. Because it was. And because my sister and her husband were so much older than me, I was constantly being given like, oh, here's a record they don't want anymore or they got two copies of the same record. I'm constantly giving things and this is a way that I came into appreciating movies. Like I said, the top gun soundtrack seemed to be everywhere. And what the first time in my life that I watched a movie, heard the music, bought the record and felt like it was truly my own. This was not handed down to me. This was not recommended to me. But it was just truly my own was the Cameron Crow movie Singles in 1992. And it came out a few months after Pearl Jam's first album, which the movie included some Pearl Jam that I had never heard before. And it also included a bunch of things I had never heard before. Like even though Pearl Jam came from Mother Love Bone, I had never heard Mother Love Bone before. And hearing them in Singles made me go get Mother Love. Yes. And it made me go buy Paul Westerberg's album and it made me go buy Allison Shane's album. And like it all came from there. They were listening to the day of the dog and like, "What happened? Had this happened? I don't know." Yeah. And so Singles was a really big deal for my precise generation of the people who happened to be in that watching that scene and wanting to hear more and more of that kind of music. And it really like, it really like solidified for me even that movies, movies should occasionally do this. Yeah. Yeah. Like being as much about the music as anything. Yeah. I think is, well, I mean, I'm no expert on human beings, but I feel like humans are uniquely- That's human. We are uniquely positioned for music, right? We don't, nobody else hears music. Maybe some, there's some birds and stuff to do and maybe stuff we don't understand about some in the animal kingdom, but we're the only mammals that music affects so deeply. So why wouldn't you want that to be a bigger part? I mean, back to the John Williams thing, yes, we can't really count it for today's category, all the films he did, but I don't think most of the movies he's done would be anywhere near as good as they are without it. Like it is such an important tapestry and whether that's songs in a soundtrack or it's a beautiful score or whatever, when that stuff's done right and it meld so well with what you're watching, whether it be, you know, something like Jurassic Park is absolutely elevated by that soundtrack versus if it wasn't in there, like, I just don't know. I don't know why this isn't a more of a priority. And then sometimes the absence of music, though, can be just as powerful. No country for old men has no soundtrack of any kind and it's incredibly effective. So it's weird how we are both emotionally impacted by music and the absence of it. The absence of music. Yeah. I want to just name one more, my favorite soundtrack movie of all time. And to get there, I have to recognize that there are filmmakers who are just kind of copying Cameron Crow, like Zach Braff, right? He's just kind of, not only is he copying what Cameron Crow does, he has a character literally say, listen to this, it'll change your life. And like, it's too much, right? But for my money, the best soundtrack movie ever is 51st dates, the Peter Seagull, Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore movie. When Peter Seagull-- Oh, radio covers. Yeah. People went to put some music into this movie. He realized that he was able to get some people, like Wayne Wonder to cover, Hold Me Now. And there's an Elan cover slave to love and this kind of thing. And it's got some straight reggae, right? It's just got some Bob Marley songs. It's got one of his children. That's just gonna say, Ziggy, or somebody else's got a song in there. It's amazing. It's such a good soundtrack. And it elevates the movie, and the reason it's my favorite is because that's a pretty good rom-com that is dragged up to the highest peaks by the quality of the music. And then, of course, having said that, you can't get this soundtrack. I try your best. Yeah. It's just not freaking available. I still have it. I do have it on CD. Yeah. I got the CD back in the day. And that's it. There are some that never had-- at least never had an official soundtrack. Ferris Bueller's Day Off because of the Beatles. And that's another. It's funny. Mere in the bathroom, also in that one, too. And Edge of Forever by the Dream Academy, of course, Twist and Shout, the Beatles song. That's the reason that they had such a hard time getting the soundtrack out for that thing. So a lot of people have made their own Ferris Bueller soundtrack- Playlist. Playlist. Yeah. Yeah. And it's great. I can't explain 51st dates. I think it's a combination of when you have to pay, no doubt, and Jason Moraz and Seale and 311. I think that's probably where the problem is, but this soundtrack isn't on Spotify. And I don't think it ever will be. But if you can grab the CD and listen to it, man, it's my favorite. Yeah. I don't understand why. Like the songs can all-- well, that's just the streaming world we live in. But these songs can all exist as separate songs. And so people making custom playlists on YouTube music, Spotify, Apple music, whatever. They do, right? You can find anything. Yeah. Like if you're like, "Where's that old soundtrack?" I love it. Well, here it is. But why-- you'll find-- sometimes you'll find the soundtracks themselves and they're missing like eight tracks. It'll be great out. Even though those tracks are available-- yeah, but it's so-- it's just digital. Like-- You know what I'm saying? Exactly. Why does it matter if it's available digital from the original Art of Studio album or on this soundtrack? Yeah. Same reason why I have to look at posters with one actor's name over top of another because they've left to right because one got published, he got one side of kind of rights and I'm like, "Oh, my God. I don't--" Just put the right name above the right people's faces. Yeah. Call it. It's very weird. But yeah. It's fine. I'm not going to complain. The '50s-- Do you want to get one more? The '50 First Dates album has a dried and Mitchell cover of Friday I'm in Love by the Cure. Yeah. And I always wonder, "Are the Cure out there preventing this from being reprinted?" I don't know. It's just-- It might be. It might be. I'm sure. I get down it. I feel like Robert Smith-- because those guys would contribute to every tribute album you put out there. But we're doing a Jimi Hendrix tribute. Oh, we'd like to be part of that. Yeah. So I don't feel like they would be the whole-- But then again, I don't know if this is a story or not, but I was watching something recently. I don't remember what about Eminem. I don't remember. Anyway, for some reason, Michael Jackson purchased Eminem's library or something. And so then he was like, "If and with him or something like that, Michael--" Really? Is that the kind of case too? Really? Yeah. Michael Jackson, back of the day. I have not had that. I don't know if this is a true story. I can't source all this material because I just remember seeing it in brief. In some other kind of show I was watching, I was like, "Oh, is that a fact? Is that a rock fact?" I've never heard of that. I knew he bought the Beatles music, right? Yeah. Right. I'm not saying I still had a ghost because I'm pretty sure Michael Jackson isn't on anything right now. But-- [LAUGHTER] No. I don't get to argue with that. It is. Yeah, I think his family is a state might, but I don't think he-- Yeah. That's different. Well, I think that brings us to the end here. We want to hear Dunaway's third though. But I get to do my third? Well, that's why I was saying, "Let's let Dunaway do his third before you enter up to me." Hey. Hey, Brian Dunaway. Do you want to do your third? Do your third. I don't want to tell you. No, I want you to tell us. That's why I was saying it. [LAUGHTER] I just pick it. Hey, here's my third pick. Another weird one, when I saw this movie and I heard the music they included with it, I was like, "This is dumb." But then later on, I really loved it and it's a night's tale and they used a bunch of queen songs and Bowie songs and just a weird pick of songs for a historically inaccurate time. Absolutely great example for us to finish on, too, because it's got the songs. It's got BTOs taking care of business and it's got a war's lowrider. It's the songs and it's just a fun collection of music. Yeah. Great pick. It's good stuff. Do you have any others they wanted to fart out before we go? Oh, brother or art thou deserves a mention because it's another one that's good. It's one of those where you've got, again, everything was so good in that that they toured with the soundtrack, like all of the artists went on tour and performed the songs from the soundtrack. You can go see the old brother or art there or tour and then they released a soundtrack of the tour. Right. Snake eating itself kind of stuff. And they would play scenes from the movie on a big screen behind it. Oh, would they really? Oh, cool. That's cool. And so people would come out on stage and it was like, here's James Carter and the prisoners and they're playing music for you. Yeah. Now that's a great one. Yeah. There's a bunch of like, I think his name all of a sudden, Wes Anderson movies that I think deserve to be on this list, but your mileage may vary. Royal Tan-a-mom's probably my favorite in terms of soundtrack. Yeah. All right. Actually, I feel like, oh, brother is an awesome example of you kind of know of a person because of a great movie soundtrack. It's Alice in Crouse, right? Yeah. In that example. And there are some. There are some soundtracks that make a person. Like I say, singles, there's no way without the movie singles that I or most people would have ever heard of Paul Westerberg. But Paul Westerberg like kills it. You know? Yeah. And that thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's how I discovered Smashing Pumpkins was that Drown song from the single soundtrack. Yeah. And I love the first three minutes of that song and I hate the last minute and a half. Why did they end our feedbacks? Yeah. Just noise. Well done, everybody. This is great. I'm in the mood now to go listen to a bunch of soundtracks for real. I'm going to do it. Oh. I'm going to start with, uh, what we hoped? I'm going to start with that day's to confuse and I'll move from there. Well, there you go, everybody. Let us know what you think about our picks and in your own. We'd love to hear what you think. You can send them to filmsack@gmail.com or you can text them in at 8014710462 and you're feeling brave. You can leave a voicemail there as well. We'll be back next week with, uh, I forgot the movie. Mighty ducks. Mighty ducks. Yeah. Mighty ducks. We're back on the Emilio Estebes train next week. Yeah. Why not? Yeah. Who else is in that matters? I can't think of anybody. All the Disney ducks are in attendance and there's actually some really good stories of a couple of the actors who went on to, you know, run into some problems and have, or more recently recovering from it. Oh, very nice. All right. Yeah. We'll do all of that and more. Uh, that'll be next week right here on Film Sack. Thank you guys for watching. We'll see you next time. (Music) I don't know why I said watching, but, uh, sure. Watching. Are you ready for Hulu anime ham? 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