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“The Lost Boys”

sfilzen — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 21:03:50 +0000

“The Lost Boys” soundtrack 1987. Just picked up this new-old stock record (still in 80′s shrink-wrap) this week – I had The Lost Boys soundtrack on a dubbed cassette in ‘87 that I listened to fairly obsessively after the movie came out and now I finally have it on vinyl. I loved The Lost Boys; I still do and realized our teen hasn’t seen it yet so that’s on the movie-watching agenda for this weekend. I’ve written about Echo and the Bunnymen’s cover of The Doors’ “People Are Strange” a couple of times before (definitely one of the soundtrack’s highlights); that track appears during the movie’s opening montage, shot in Santa Cruz, CA, and supposedly one of our Wisconsin friends who ran away to California during the summer of ‘86 is one of the punks filmed that were hanging out but I’ve never confirmed this. The other highlight on the soundtrack is “Good Times” by INXS and Jimmy Barnes (in the Australian band Cold Chisel as well as one of the best-selling Australian solo artist of all-time). They also collaborated on “Laying Down the Law,” and it’s OK but not nearly as good as “Good Times.” Roger Daltrey’s cover of Elton John’s “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” is OK but of course Elton’s original is better: Daltrey’s is too 80′s over the top/sax heavy and the heavy metal guitar jam at the end of the song is just plain weird. I kind of guilty-pleasure like Lou Gramm’s (Foreigner) “Lost in the Shadows (The Lost Boys)” but I think I like it mostly because of its association with The Lost Boys and 1987 (a particularly interesting year for me personally). “Cry Little Sister (Theme From The Lost Boys)” by Gerard McMann is just plain creepy. Eddie & the Tide were San Fran/Berkeley area band in the 80′s who had a big club following in Santa Cruz in the 80′s and from what I can tell their main claim to fame was getting included on this soundtrack with “Power Play” – it’s an unremarkable and bland 80′s rock song, with plenty of saxophone, of course. Tim Cappello is remarkable and memorable but mostly for his muscular performance in the film (you remember, the muscly oiled dude playing saxophone), not necessary for his song “I Still Believe.” “Beauty Has Her Way” by Mummy Calls is alright – it’s very 80′s smooth new wave, think Spandau Ballet with Robert Smith hair.

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Echo & The Bunnymen “People Are Strange”

sfilzen — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:03:15 +0000

Echo & The Bunnymen “People Are Strange” from The Lost Boys soundtrack, 1987. 12″ single, UK import, 1988/1991 release. “People Are Strange” is, of course, a Doors cover that Echo & The Bunnymen recreated rather faithfully (and Ray Manzarek produced) for the opening sequence to one of my favorite 80′s movies. (Back in the day rumor had it that one of the punks filmed on the Santa Cruz streets was one of our friends who had run away to California, but I’ve never been able to spot him in any of the scenes). The B-side has three more covers, recorded live, that are slightly less faithful to their originals though still quite respectful, all great and Echo’d up: “Paint It Black” (Rolling Stones), “Run, Run, Run” (Velvet Underground) and “Friction” (Television). That last song in particular is notable because I’m not a big Television fan but Echo & The Bunnymen’s cover is hard-driving (well, to be fair, the original is as well), melodic and a bit Talking Head-ish with notes of neo-psychedelia thrown in. These three tracks, along with “People Are Strange” also appear on Echo & The Bunnymen’s 1988 EP New Live and Rare; the live songs were recorded in Sweden for a radio show in April 1985.

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Echo & The Bunnymen “Lips Like Sugar”

sfilzen — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:00:47 +0000

Echo & The Bunnymen “Lips Like Sugar” 1987. 12″ single with “Rollercoaster” on Side A. “People Are Strange,” a Door’s cover from the movie The Lost Boys, is on Side B. UK import.

“Lips Like Sugar” appears on Echo & The Bunnymen’s fifth studio album and reached #36 on the UK charts. It was still going strong two years later, at least at the university I went to, as it was on heavy rotation on my dorm floor and on the jukebox in the student union – “Lips Like Sugar” for me is freshman year at UW-Madison.

“People Are Strange” from The Lost Boys is the best song on the movie’s soundtrack. In the film, the song introduces the audience to the “strange” and fictional city of Santa Clara, CA – which is actually Santa Cruz – by showing all of the missing person posters and punks hanging on the boardwalk. Rumor had it that one of the group of punks pictured in the intro had several runaways, including a guy from our hometown who was supposedly in Santa Cruz during filming. I’ve watched The Lost Boys probably a hundred times, pausing it and examining that crowd of kids – haven’t spotted him yet.

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