What are your favorite movie soundtracks? They don’t really make any sense in any modern context. “Grab your baby by the heel and do the next thing that you feel?” These are weird lyrics to me. It’s a carefree song, but some of the lyrics wouldn’t be acceptable in today’s world. He looks like a five-year-old dancing around in the video. Their vibe had this kind of weird, unspoken darkness to it from behind the cheeriness. The Wang Chung version of the song is pretty bizarre. It sounds like you kept things pretty reverent, but you gave your own spin to Wang Chung’s “Dance Hall Days,” which is even more ominous than the original. Like I did some method acting to muster the character in songs like “Word Up.” There are some other ones that aren’t on the soundtrack but are in the movie. I really just got a big list of songs from the studio, and Jeff Blitz whittled it down from there, and I picked my favorites from Jeff’s list.
How did you determine which songs you wanted to to? Oberhofer Announces 'Chronovision' Deluxe Edition, Premieres Video For New Song 'Hey Man' For me that’s the only band who when I dug back, I realized I loved a dozen more of their songs on top of the single I covered. I’ve become obsessed with that band and I listened to all of their records and I’ve been DJing that record Listen - you can almost DJ that record in its entirety. I’ve probably listened to “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)” 1,000 times. That triggered me going into an insane Flock of Seagulls kick. And you picked one of their best non-“I Ran” hits with “Space Age Love Song.” It doesn’t get much more eccentric than the lead singer of A Flock of Seagulls. What carries all the songs and the videos is the charisma of the front person or the eccentricity of the band, which is an aesthetic I admire and something I think doesn’t exist as much today. So a lot of the effects in the music and the sounds in the music are dated just like the music videos. It was new technology everybody was using, and it was very obvious and dated.
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I definitely identified with the culture of those videos more than the high-budget sheen of all the videos to come out in the last decade and a half. They were high-budget at the time, shot on film with these cheesy ’80s effects, that actually embodied the character of the music just at the cusp of this transition into full electronic drums, which often times sounded kind of cheap.Īnd the videos, I guess at the time they didn’t look cheap, but they looked basic. I was not surprised so much as impressed by all these videos and the aesthetic mastery of them. You said you watched all the old videos for these songs - what surprised you about them? They were on oldies radio in my childhood, those stations that play hits from the 60s, 70s and 80s.