I love 80s' music, and in my spare time I love trying to find deleted or hard-to-find songs from 80s' movies that had no soundtracks. What about 'Stakeout'?..Mr. Mister's 'Is It Love' was off the album 'Welcome to the Real World' which earned them 'Best New Artist' in 1986..Steve Winwood's 'Higher Love' was a Top 10 hit around when the movie was made..the Pointer Sister's 'Hot Together' should've gone Platinum but was overlooked and is now impossible to find..Even 'This Night Was Made (For One Thing Only) by I think Gloria Gaynor didn't manage to convince the producers to put the soundtrack out..That sucks! I really loved 'The Allnighter' in 1987 with my sweetheart Joan Cusack, that movie had a soundtrack that could've blown the music stores away..but they only released a limited Vinyl copy with a third of the songs to the cast and crew only. What I did was find one of those brand new which set me back about $45. Then I found every possible song from different artists from the movie on CD as I could. Then I found two more rare LPs' and 45s' with the remaining two and had all of the Vinyl transfered onto CD-R by this company in Florida. When it came back, I put them together on a soundtrack of my own with all 23 of the songs in the movie. It took nearly two years to finally do and cost me more money than I wish to say, but hey movie making people this is what some of us have to go thru to enjoy the music from our favorite movies!! Get it together!
Posted by McFly (Member # 354) on :
Finally, a Mr. Mister fan!
"Broken Wings" is my number 1 fave song of all time. "Kyrie" is about number 9 (list is somewhere in my desk).
"Is it Love" is great. Found the Welcome to the Real World album for 99 cents on cassette at a thrift store a few months ago! Weeeeee!
Got "Hot Together" off Napster last year, always liked the blurb I heard in "Spaceballs" and wondered what the rest of the song was like.
Good tunes :).
Posted by Ali_with_an_i (Member # 27) on :
No soundtrack for Real Genius, such a shame! Also the three missing songs from the Karate Kid soundtrack, I can't seem to find "The Ride" by the Matches. Why do they do that to us? What's so hard about making a couple of songs available??? :)
Posted by Nick (Member # 404) on :
There is a core of people who hang around this site who are major 80's soundtrack nuts.
Among them, there are some major collectors who also have contacts with some of the composers (Simon Barber in particular).
Simon is very knowledgeable about the soundtrack side of things and regularly has to do exactly the kind of thing OConner is talking about. Thanks to him, I have the soundtrack to "Can't Buy Me Love" --including the instrumental score!
It would be great to see more record label support for these old classics...
Posted by Dan (Member # 131) on :
Hi there. I found a website dedicated to soundtracks that may be of interest to you in your search for '80s movies soundtracks. The link is:
http://www.soundtrackcollector.com
I hope this helps :o)
Dan
Posted by trivebij (Member # 1197) on :
Does anyone know where to find the "biggles" soundtrack?
Posted by The Wizard (Member # 533) on :
If anyone can help me get the tracks used in the film "The Wizard" I'd be really grateful as there was no soundtrack produced, so far I have these three in mp3:
BoDeans - You Don't Get Much BoDeans - Red River Real Life - Send Me An Angel
but still need:
Patsy Cline - Leavin' On Your Mind New Kids On The Block - (You've Got It) The Right Stuff New Kids On The Block - Hanging' Tough Martha And The Vandellas - Nowhere To Run Paul Carrack - I Live By The Groove Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel Paul Anka - My Way Sally Dworsky - I Found My Way
I had to get the vinyl versions of Breakin' and The Wraith because the CDs go for really silly prices. I put The Wraith soundtrack onto tape and listen to it in the car lots, great to drive to.
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
Part of The Wizard's request list:
quote:Paul Anka - My Way
No offense, Wizard, but why would you want to hear that schlocky "My Way" song, either sung by Paul Anka, Frank Sinatra, or Elvis Presley?
