Score Selecion #24: My Stepmother is an Alien (1988)

music by Alan Silvestri & CAMEO

Hey gang,

For this weeks score selection, we're diving back into the 80's because I'm just hard wired for it. Not too far deep in the 80's though, so don't worry...we're hitting that cusp of screw ball 80's nonsense with the seeds of 90's misguided sensibilities with music from My Stepmother Is an Alien. This movie was nothing to write home about really, other than seeing what Dan Aykroyd probably thinks about nightly in his cramped apartment in the back of his Paranormal Investigation supply store while he....yeah basically he gets with 80's Kim Basinger in this movie, okay? She was hot tamales back then, and way out of his league...even if he was, at one point, Doctor Detroit.

The score is sparse and fun, but I couldn't post without giving a sample of the soundtrack which features the likes of Aykroyd himself, along with Jackie Jackson, Ivan Neville, and most importantly CAMEO. I leave you with one track from the score, and the magical track from Cameo. No, it's not "Word up".


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Score Selection #23: Kuffs (1992)

Kuffs (1992)
music by Harold Faltermeyer

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For this weeks score selection, I thought I'd drop a few tracks from one of my all time favorite soundtrack-smiths. Harold Faltermeyer. This guy ruled the 80's and early 90's. His campy synth mastery made detective work totally hip (Beverly Hills Cop, Fletch, Kuffs) and made any the worst high fives in history (Top Gun) one of the coolest ever. Bravo Harold. Today though, I wanted to feature some music from a film that's totally fallen off the map, much like the career of it's leading man, Christan Slater. Check out two tracks from the action-comedy Kuffs who's tag line was "When you have attitude, who needs experience?". Kind of makes you laugh when you look at Slater today.


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Podcast for April 20th with Special Guest

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We've got a special episode for you tonight and it has nothing to do with 4-20 brah. Actually, had it dawned on me that millions of filthy hippies were out at concerts making jokes about the date I might have played some more appropriate music. Oh well, maybe next year dudes. Oh yeah, to the point. We had a special guest in the studio, a columnist from Pajiba.com who, for the show, called himself The Gaffer. We talked about all kinds of fun stuff and heard music from the following:

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Broken Flowers - Mulu Astatke (2005)
Deliverance - Eric Wiessburg (1977)
Fireworks - Joe Hisaishi (1997)
Cyborg - Kevin Bassinson (1989)
A Series of Unfortunate Events - Thomas Newman (2005)
Mega Man 1 & 2 - C. Manami & Yuukichan's Papa (1987)
The Bourne Supremacy - John Powell (2004)
Tango and Cash - Harold Faltermeyer (1989)

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Podcast for April 6th 2008. This show is presidential!

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WHOA NELLY. I'm back with another podcast from last week. I'll get this week's one up in a jiffy...but let's get caught up shall we? This show was a lot of fun because it just so happened that former president George Bush senior happened to be in town giving a lecture at the same time, so I felt it was my civic duty to dedicate this show to a former commander and queef. Now you might be asking yourself...how do films like "Taxi Driver" and "Bloodsport" fit into this theme Mr. Boom Operator? Well I suppose you'll just have to download and find out Mr./Ms. "doubts my artistic genius". We heard music from the following films:

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Top Gun - Various Artist (1986)
First Blood - Jerry Goldsmith (1982)
Mo' Money - Joy & Mo Money Allstars (1992)
Tucker - The Man and His Dream - Joe Jackson (1988)
Taxi Driver - Bernard Herrmann (1976)
The Delta Force - Alan Silvestri (1986)
Stripes - Bernard Herrmann (1981)
Bloodsport - Paul Hertzog (1988)

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Finally, some freaking podcasts already.

Howdy folks,

I know it's been a while since the last podcast...not that they haven't been recorded...but they are back! Hosting is back to normal and we shouldn't have any more problems unless one of you goobers gets me stuck in another Russian casino web crawler loop that downloads my podcast 1,000 times in an afternoon. Anyway, let's try this older show from March 16th. If all goes well, I'll start posting others to catch up. Toodles.

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Airwolf - Sylvester Levay (1984)
Get Carter - Roy Budd (1971)
Flashpoint - Tangerine Dream (1984)
The Fox - Lalo Schifrin (1967)
Labyrinth - Trevor Jones & David Bowie (1986)
Buio Omega - Goblin (1979)
Commando - James Horner (1985)

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A bit of news whilst we wait for podcasts.

Howdy folks,

I'm here and I'm hard at work getting the hosting back for podcasting and more reliable score selections. I know I don't post a lot of movie news, mostly because of this thing called the internet, but I just had to share this new poster for the upcoming film "The Girlfriend Experience" directed by Stephen Soderberg. You know, Soderberg is actually really awesome, when he's not directing things like Ocean's Twelve and Erin Brockovich. Do yourself a favor and watch Schizopolis.

Anyway, this new project is starring Sasha Grey NSFW, who is also pretty cool in that slutty, trashy, girl you wish you hung out with in college sort of way. Not that I know anything about her porn career. Or watch porn. Or think lewd thoughts about females...all the time. Pffft. My phone's ringing...I need to go take this, it's my super model girlfriend. You wouldn't know her, she lives in Norway.


via Vulture