Head in the Clouds I finally

Head in the Clouds

I finally got around to watching the movie tonight and scratching out some notes about the soundtrack. Ironically enough, the title song isn t even featured in the movie. There are 25 other songs from the eighties that are in the movie Take Me Home Tonight, so it s not a total loss. A handful of the songs in fact, most of them that the soundtrack producers put onto the album they released, are typical eighties songs that you could find on just about any eighties compilation mix. These include Come on Eileen, Video Killed the Radio Star, Everybody Have Fun Tonightand Hungry Like the Wolf. These are all good songs, but don t really stretch the imagination very much. Thankfully, the songs from the movie get a little more creative than this standard fare. Richard Blade might not embrace the whole album but at least he give a good listen to half of it. The bestsongsin the movieare Ship of Fools by World Party, Der Komissar by After the Fire, Situation by Yazand Modigliani Lost In Your Eyes by Book of Love. All three are great songs that get slightly less rotation in the eighties lexicon. I d also throw Jet Fighter and TheFanaticon that list as well. As a child of the eighties, I knew all of the songs except for one which I didnt remember right off the bat: Doot-Doot by Freur. It plays when they are on the trampoline. As soon as it got to the chorus We go doot-doot I recognized it, but it took quite a bit to get there. A little bit of digging into memory banks and Wikipedia ranks, and I discovered that the song was also used in the movies Valley Girl and Vanilla Sky. Definitely super fitting for the freaky bits of the latter. Buteven more interesting, the duo that comprised Freur later formed Underworld of Born Slippy/Trainspotting fame. The album they released a year before Trainspotting, dubnobasswithmyheadman, is still one of the best of the early 90s. The soundtrack album for Take Me Home Tonight has about half of the songs from the movie on it, but it is missing some of the choicest ones. Plus, you can t download them individually even from the MP3 album. Thankfully to the wonders of modern digital music and the power of search, you can find the individual songs standing on their own. Here s the complete list of 25 songs from the movie, with notes on the scenes they were in and links to the individual downloads. I hope you enjoy. Guy playing the guitar Oh Sherrie Bill Cuomo, Steve Perry, Randy Goodrum, Craig Krampf link to original song performed by Steve Perry The most ridiculously, secretly popular song of the movie is Live is Life by Opus to the tune of 15 million views on YouTube: Heres The Fanatic by Felony, which became a hit on KROQ at the time: June 11, 2011 Leave a Comment There are 8 songs in X-Men First Class, primarily consisting of music from the 60s, includingmusic fromFreddy Cannon, The Jarmels, Booker T theMGs and Chan Ramero.