26
Apr
09

Everyday is Like Sunday, Except for Blue Monday and Ruby Tuesday, and…Well, Friday I’m in Love: Weekly Mix #63

class-of-1984

After reading a post by Rol about Huey Lewis and the News and Back to the Future, I was prompted to re-visit the films that I watched when I was younger, including an obsession with Michael J. Fox starting at age thirteen. There’s no really good reason for this dedication to an actor who had hit the nadir of his career at the exact time I started delving into all of his older films (although there was a bit of a timely renaissance as he started Spin City soon after). I’m certain of my addictive personality, but there are times that I wish I could forget all of Michael J. Fox’s character names from Midnight Madness through to The Frighteners. At least I won’t be able to recite them in chronological order anymore.

At any rate, in addition to my nostalgic impulse to go back to my Back to the Future soundtrack (cassette), I went to YouTube and re-watched the absolutely brutal cult film Class of 1984, in which Fox is the trumpet-playing kid who gets stabbed in the gut, and the film was exactly as I remembered it, though perhaps not quite so traumatizing now that I’m thirteen years older; in fact, it seemed more like a poor man’s Jubilee. I was reminded of how that Alice Cooper song never really left me – especially the line “Look at my face, I am the future” – even though I didn’t actually hear the song again until recently. This then prompted me to re-watch an even more brutal, obscure film, Light of Day, starring Joan Jett, and of course, Michael J. Fox, sporting the exact same haircut and singing the Bruce Springsteen song. Lastly, I took a listen back to the title track for Fox’s relatively successful film The Secret of My Success, and since the song was by Night Ranger, I was reminded of a Christian Bale interview in which he stated one of his favourite bands is the Manic Street Preachers, but that his wife thought they sounded like Night Ranger. They don’t.

In many ways, I lived in a time warp for my teenage years. While I definitely remember seeing many of the films in the teen flick boom of the late 90s (ie: 10 Things I Hate About You, She’s All That, Can’t Hardly Wait, etc), I was most affected by and most obsessed with films from the previous decade. I’m still trying to pinpoint what could have precipitated this, but all I can think is that I had some sort of subliminal memories of my childhood in the 80s, and that these films, which evoked that time, comforted me. These movies seemed to fall in a few broad categories: fantasy, teen/Brat Pack, or dance/musical. In some cases, I’ve continued to watch these older films as I grew, and others I completely left behind or forgot I had on VHS.

As for this mix, I’ve included songs from favourite films from both my childhood (Labyrinth, Little Shop of Horrors, Beetlejuice, Princess Bride, Never Ending Story) and from my skewed adolescence (Class of 1984, Back to the Future, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire, The Secret of My Success, Say Anything, Grease, Adventures in Babysitting, Footloose). While Doc Hollywood (yeah, don’t even bother trying to shame me) was technically a 90s film, I did watch it in my teens and it featured that Chesney Hawkes one hit wonder, which provided one of the better comic moments on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. And while I have seen the Brat Pack film Weird Science, as a teen, I was more into watching the television series/re-make. This one’s called Hipster Kryptonite.

Then He Kissed Me – The Crystals

Skid Row (Downtown) – Little Shop of Horrors Cast

I Am the Future – Alice Cooper

Light of Day – Joan Jett and the Black Hearts

Back in Time – Huey Lewis & the News

You’re the One That I Want – Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta

Oh Yeah (Indian Summer Version) – Yello

Weird Science – Oingo Boingo

Pretty in Pink – The Psychedelic Furs

(Don’t You) Forget About Me – Simple Minds

St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion) – John Parr

The Secret of My Success – Night Ranger

I Am the One and Only – Chesney Hawkes

I’m Free (Heaven Helps the Man) – Kenny Loggins

Beetlejuice Theme – Danny Elfman

Underground – David Bowie

Never Ending Story – Limahl

I Will Never Love Again – Mark Knopfler and Guy Fletcher

In Your Eyes – Peter Gabriel


9 Responses to “Everyday is Like Sunday, Except for Blue Monday and Ruby Tuesday, and…Well, Friday I’m in Love: Weekly Mix #63”


  1. 1 tallglassofmilk
    April 27, 2009 at 10:27 am

    OMG. This list is fantastic. Thanks for the trip down movie memory lane.

  2. 2 Mickenzy
    April 27, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    Yes.. I remember this stuff hehe.

  3. 3 Stuart Kaufman
    April 28, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    You might be interested in this album…
    http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3pfuxqwdldhe

  4. 4 Rol
    April 29, 2009 at 7:03 am

    The 80s has a lot to answer for… but there’s never been a better decade for teen movies, and I doubt there ever will be.

  5. 5 Jack
    May 2, 2009 at 8:21 am

    Hi!
    Can you reupload Lorraine’smsong Touch me?From this post https://condemnedtorocknroll.wordpress.com/2008/09/06/everyday-is-like-sunday-except-for-blue-monday-and-ruby-tuesday-andwell-friday-im-in-love-weekly-mix-33/
    I’ve been hunting for it for ages. PLEASE help me out. Thanks!

  6. 6 jc
    May 4, 2009 at 6:47 am

    For once m’dear, I cant agree with you. Too many of the tunes in today’s mix have not aged well…..and are verging on the unlistenable.

    But then again, I am a crotchety old man.

    • 7 condemnedtorocknroll
      May 4, 2009 at 10:16 am

      JC, that’s perfectly fine – I, myself, hadn’t listened to many of these until I decided to pull them out for this mix. I will admit that many of them bring back good memories despite how cheesy they are.

  7. 8 RichMoly
    November 16, 2009 at 7:01 am

    The music track listed above as being ‘Oh Yeah (Indian Summer Version) – Yello’ is NOT the Indian Summer version!


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I'm much too fast to take that test

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A dreaded sunny day

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Your confusion

My illusion

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Confronts and then dies

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You then put me under

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