Best Songs in films

[TREVOR THE RAT]

Return Of the Living Dead
     Dead Beat Dance - Damned (I love that band)
     Partytime - (45 Grave (later on "Penis Flytrap minus the whole band but Dinah Cancer))
     Partytime (Zombie Version) - 45 Grave
     Nothing for you- TSOL aka True Sounds Of Liberty (Again Love them)
     Eyes Without A Face - Flesheaters (These guys are hard to find but are well worth the effort)
      Burn to Flames- Roky Erickson
       
       and the rest.....

Fright Night

Armies of the Night-The Sparks

Terrorvision

Sac of suite- not made clear which artist did what on the album so don't know.

Girlfriend from Hell

everything

Well damn i have to go. since i don't have anymore time to finish this post i'll leave it at that. i don't feel like writing all this again. what about you guys?

[TREVOR THE RAT]

Don't forget "Take a Walk" by the Tall Boys who also made some kick ass songs in their day

[Drezzy]

Everything from Tromeo & Juliet...I love Troma's choice in music...even if I'm not a fan of punk, they pick some damn good mixes of punk, alternative, and metal...and the fact that they get Lemmy into their movies makes me bow down.

I agree with the Return Of The Living Dead mention, as well...DOO YA WANNA PARTY?!

[Chopper]

freddie got fingered:

 Cars, as performed by Gary Newman. oh yeah.

[Squishy]

Worst: Well, I just tried to watch the excrementally awful Can't Stop The Bowel Movements...I mean, Can't Stop The Music, sorry--on AMC, and I can say that watching Steve Guttenberg rollerskating past porn theatres and stopping for garbage trucks and public ass-grabbings in the Times Square of the '80s--to the tune of a song celebrating New Yawk, New Yawk--is the most surreal experience I have ever had...and I've been clobbered by exhaust fumes. (This turned into Can't Finish The Movie real quick. Steve Guttenberg, Bruce Jenner, Valerie Perrine's breasts--and the woman attached to them--and the Village People? And they're the best things in the movie? Yaaaaaaaaaaah)

Best: "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life," Monty Python's Life of Brian. It formed my life philosophy:

Life's a piece of s***
When you look at it.
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true

You'll see it's all a show,
Keep 'em laughing as you go,
Just remember that the last laugh is on you

Truer words, never spoken.

[BlackAngel]

Hey, guys.  I don't have much time so, I'll tell you two of my favrorit songs:

Purple Rain by Prince (if anyone else sings this song, they're WRONG!!!!)

Gangsters' Paradise by Coolio (the beat is just hypnotizing)


...and one of the worst song ever played in movies

Ninja Rap by Vanilla Ice ('nuff said)

Well, those are my picks gotta go to work now.  C-ya

[StatCat]

I would say he whole Return of the Living Dead soundtrack minus the Burn the Flames song which I can't stand because of some of the lyrics. TSOL were pretty much dead when they did the ROTLD soundtrack and the whole band lineup was changed almost, punk to bad 80's hair band metal in a snap. 45 Grave appear on a video called New Wave Theatre which was a California punk show back in the 80s, I think it's out of print. The flesheaters played serveral shows with the Misfits back in the early 80's era. They have a few albums that peaked into the 90's. Some cramps music I like but other albums I'm not too fond of, surfing dead was always a good song though. The napa mental institution featuring the cramps is hilarious.

[Trevor the rat]

Yeah, the whole TSOL punk rock to heavy metal thing really sucked ass. Dinah Cancer's new band "Penis Flytrap" do a lot of songs based on horror movies especially fulci. A really kick butt song by the Tall Boys is "Dawn of the Flys" which i recomend you all check out among others. It still doesn't come close to being as great as the classic "Take a Walk". what p**sed me off though, cat, was the soundtrack for ROTLD didn't include the original partytime even though you can hear it playing in the background during Suicide's classic speech. Not that it matters anymore since i got it.

But the main reason i'm again responding to my own post is to mention the really really great song "Rock Lies" by madlight from the one and only bad tast. otherwise known as the song playing when we're introduced to frank and barry drving in their car.

And of course for the fans of the ever so corny b-movies 80's soundtracks, i'd recomend anyting from any movie released by urban classics. which reminds me about how galactic gigolo plays the same footage of the "star" bouncing from planet to planet at the beginning and the exact same static during the credits as terrorvision. it's obvious it was originally meant for terrorvision because the stolen footage was the best effects used in the movie. it is still fun to watch every once and a while.

later

[StatCat]

Penis Flytrap's music is also in the dead hate the living. On the dvd of the dead hate the living there is a music video for Tears of Blood which I thought was kind of cheesy in a way. Personally I would take 45 Grave anyday over Penis Flytrap. Isn't the only tall boys record that still is in print an import? I remember looking for some of their albums at a couple of online retailers and that was the only one I came across. If you watch the credits of ROTLD you'll hear a different version of the ssq song in the movie with an added guitar riff. I always wondered why they never included the trioxin theme on the soundtrack, never noticed the other version of partytime in the suicide scene.  The guy who played suicide (Mark Venturini) is dead to my surprise, found that out a few months ago. I don't know when or how he died but it must have been in the past few years. Heres a really good rotld site which you've probably come across before: http://members.tripod.com/uneedamed/

[Trevor the rat]

Mark venturini is dead?!!! Man I'm all depressed now. how the hell did he die?

I have the trioxin theme on cd and in mp3 form if you want it e-mail me.

surfin dead had a different intro than the album too.

Penis Flytrap is a little on the scratchy side i know tears of blood wasnt that great but the whole cemetery girl idea they seem to flaunt which is obviously influenced by cemetery man kind of gets on my nerves.

There's just something about the atmosphere, humor, but seriousness all jammed into a brain munching zombie meets punk rockers fest that amazed me at a young and tender age. been addicted to this movie ever since.

I got the novel a while back. the one return of the living dead book with the similar story to the movie not the 70's one. There was a lot of stuff that was in the book that they should have added to the movie and there's a lot of stuff i'm glad they didn't add in the movie.

still on a hunt for memoribillia. in fact i'm checking out ebay in a little bit.


mark venturini...dead.....i hope you're wrong, but thanks for the info,cat.

[StatCat]

Heres the page that refers to him as the late Mark Venturini and has a picture of him under the dead cast members section. I wish I knew how or when he died but the site doesn't say:

http://www.angelfire.com/ma2/livingdead/1rotld.html

I have the book too by Russo and it was kind of interesting reading what things stuck and what things didn't. There is a bootleg of the soundtrack floating around with all of the songs featured on the offical album plus sound clips and full versions of score music in order, kind of wish I had that.

[Scotty Xtreme]

Come on, you know you liked it when the movie first came out, admit it.

[Jay O'Connor]

I like the music from "LadyHawke" (but I like most stuff that Alan Parsons has been associated with)

Also the "hoard" music from Beastmaster

Some of David Bowie's stuff in "Labyrinth" is pretty cool