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Side Two of the original soundtrack album for 1984's The Terminator featured 5 songs: You Can't Do That, Burnin' In The Third Degree, and Photoplay by Tanhee Cain & Tryanglz, Pictures Of You by Jay Ferguson & 16mm, and Intimacy by Lin Van Hek.
Tané McClure, daughter of Doug McClure (famous for his role on TV's The Virginian), was married to Jonathan Cain, keyboardist for The Babys and Journey. Her previous album featured two singles (the non-charting Danger Zone, and Holdin' On, a top 40 hit). The backing band, Tryanglz, consisted of Dave Amato on guitar (REO Speedwagon, Ted Nugent), Ricky Phillips on bass (Styx, Bad English), Brett Tuggle on keyboards (Rick Springfield, David Lee Roth), and Tommy "Mugs" Cain (Tané's brother-in-law) on drums (Thompson Twins, Michael Bolton).
Jay Ferguson had previously found some success with the prog rock band Spirit, specifically their top 40 hit I Got A Line On You. His solo hits include Thunder Island and Shakedown Cruise. His most recent well-known work is the award-winning theme for the TV series The Office.
Australian author Lin Van Hek penned her track with her partner Joe Dolce, whose big claim to fame was novelty hit Shaddap You Face. Together they have developed (and continue to perform) the long-running Difficult Women, a cabaret theater show which profiles feminist visionaries such as Virginia Woolf, Frida Kahlo, and Gertrude Stein amongst many others.
Tané McClure, daughter of Doug McClure (famous for his role on TV's The Virginian), was married to Jonathan Cain, keyboardist for The Babys and Journey. Her previous album featured two singles (the non-charting Danger Zone, and Holdin' On, a top 40 hit). The backing band, Tryanglz, consisted of Dave Amato on guitar (REO Speedwagon, Ted Nugent), Ricky Phillips on bass (Styx, Bad English), Brett Tuggle on keyboards (Rick Springfield, David Lee Roth), and Tommy "Mugs" Cain (Tané's brother-in-law) on drums (Thompson Twins, Michael Bolton).
Jay Ferguson had previously found some success with the prog rock band Spirit, specifically their top 40 hit I Got A Line On You. His solo hits include Thunder Island and Shakedown Cruise. His most recent well-known work is the award-winning theme for the TV series The Office.
Australian author Lin Van Hek penned her track with her partner Joe Dolce, whose big claim to fame was novelty hit Shaddap You Face. Together they have developed (and continue to perform) the long-running Difficult Women, a cabaret theater show which profiles feminist visionaries such as Virginia Woolf, Frida Kahlo, and Gertrude Stein amongst many others.
Burnin' In The Third Degree is playing in Tech Noir. I think Intimacy is playing through the roommate's headphones at one point. I just watched the movie, as in, while I was writing this up, and can't remember where the others occur in the film.
posted by hippybear at 9:19 PM on August 13, 2011
posted by hippybear at 9:19 PM on August 13, 2011
I knew someone who had a dub of the Terminator soundtrack in like 1989. I hated it. I think the other side was like Shock Treatment or something.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 10:03 PM on August 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by kittens for breakfast at 10:03 PM on August 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
...I should say, I'm not saying that to crack on this FPP, because why not an FPP about the Terminator soundtrack, but just to register that I too have been touched by this obscure object of note. It's weird because everyone has seen this movie, yet I'm guessing no one would know any of these songs out of context.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 10:07 PM on August 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by kittens for breakfast at 10:07 PM on August 13, 2011 [1 favorite]
Honestly, it's one of those things... I've had the soundtrack for ages, never really cared for the pop song side of the album, then I sat down to do the research for this FPP (intended ironically), and discovered there's a whole wealth of stuff attached to what I thought were some throwaway '80s nothing acts.
Putting together this FPP has given me a new respect for these 5 songs, and I'm actually able to listen to Side Two without cringing, something which was never possible for me in the nearly 3 decades until now.
posted by hippybear at 10:13 PM on August 13, 2011
Putting together this FPP has given me a new respect for these 5 songs, and I'm actually able to listen to Side Two without cringing, something which was never possible for me in the nearly 3 decades until now.
posted by hippybear at 10:13 PM on August 13, 2011
All these songs were stolen from Harlan Ellison.
posted by w0mbat at 10:36 PM on August 13, 2011 [13 favorites]
posted by w0mbat at 10:36 PM on August 13, 2011 [13 favorites]
and discovered there's a whole wealth of stuff attached to what I thought were some throwaway '80s nothing acts
It took me the better part of 10 years to appreciate what was contained on the original Mortal Kombat The Motion Picture soundtrack.
These kinds of releases are always a fun trip, especially in retrospect.
posted by Dark Messiah at 11:51 PM on August 13, 2011
It took me the better part of 10 years to appreciate what was contained on the original Mortal Kombat The Motion Picture soundtrack.
These kinds of releases are always a fun trip, especially in retrospect.
posted by Dark Messiah at 11:51 PM on August 13, 2011
I have been looking (not very actively) for these on and off for years!
Thanks!
posted by artaxerxes at 12:14 AM on August 14, 2011
Thanks!
posted by artaxerxes at 12:14 AM on August 14, 2011
I'm almost scared to click on any of the links. The various Tryanglz resumes are like a laundry list of bands that encourage me to suicide.
posted by mannequito at 12:34 AM on August 14, 2011
posted by mannequito at 12:34 AM on August 14, 2011
Also, who has sex with a walkman on? Jeez.
This afternoon I was out on my bike and I came across a free box on the sidewalk, digging through it I came up with a walkman. Must have been staring at it in a weird way, as some guy walked by with a dog and said "It's kind of like unearthing dinosaur fossils, isn't it?"
posted by mannequito at 12:37 AM on August 14, 2011 [2 favorites]
This afternoon I was out on my bike and I came across a free box on the sidewalk, digging through it I came up with a walkman. Must have been staring at it in a weird way, as some guy walked by with a dog and said "It's kind of like unearthing dinosaur fossils, isn't it?"
posted by mannequito at 12:37 AM on August 14, 2011 [2 favorites]
Well, that took me right back to the early eighties, and how the music sucked so hard that even good movies ended up with shite soundtracks if they tried to go the pop route.
posted by Decani at 2:28 AM on August 14, 2011
posted by Decani at 2:28 AM on August 14, 2011
Doug McClure (famous for his role on TV's The Virginian)
I think technically, that should read "Doug McClure, who you may remember from such movies as Warlords of Atlantis and Monster (Humanoids from the Deep) "
posted by Grangousier at 2:37 AM on August 14, 2011 [3 favorites]
I think technically, that should read "Doug McClure, who you may remember from such movies as Warlords of Atlantis and Monster (Humanoids from the Deep) "
posted by Grangousier at 2:37 AM on August 14, 2011 [3 favorites]
Also, who has sex with a walkman on? Jeez.
In 1984, the Walkman effect (wandering around in real-life with a personal soundtrack filling your head) was still brand-new and exciting. People wore a Walkman everywhere they could. During sex? Obviously!
posted by Thorzdad at 5:02 AM on August 14, 2011
In 1984, the Walkman effect (wandering around in real-life with a personal soundtrack filling your head) was still brand-new and exciting. People wore a Walkman everywhere they could. During sex? Obviously!
posted by Thorzdad at 5:02 AM on August 14, 2011
It's weird because everyone has seen this movie, yet I'm guessing no one would know any of these songs out of context.
This is the case with more than a few 80s movies. See also: Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Obviously!
I believe the right word is totally.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 6:40 AM on August 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
This is the case with more than a few 80s movies. See also: Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Obviously!
I believe the right word is totally.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 6:40 AM on August 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
Speaking of The Terminator, this is a fairly amusing twitter account.
posted by zamboni at 10:59 AM on August 14, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by zamboni at 10:59 AM on August 14, 2011 [2 favorites]
Also, who has sex with a walkman on? Jeez.
Well, it's kind of a plot point, so she won't hear the police calling and leaving messages (though this doesn't explain why the boyfriend doesn't).
But I think it's mostly a character point: Ginger (the roommate) is supposed to be weird and hedonistic and a bit deviant — a stereotype of kidsthese days those days with their walkmans and their music and their irresponsibility — as a foil for normal, virtuous, hard-working Sarah Connor. For their respective Friday night dates, Ginger wears a hot pink long tank top which comes to mid-thigh; Sarah wears muted colours, arms covered, skirt past the knee. Sarah leaves the top button on her blouse closed; Ginger unbuttons it for her. Ginger's boyfriend calls to have phone sex; Sarah's date calls to cancel — how chaste! (And in the message, the guy leaves his full name, so we presume they don't know each other well. Probably it's their first date. Certainly she hasn't been having sex with him!) Ginger's boyfriend comes over and they have walkman sex; Sarah goes out alone.
It's all Ginger as whore to Sarah's virgin. And, of course, Ginger gets killed, and Sarah becomes the mother of the saviour of the world. sigh
Alternatively: the key thing is their attitudes toward Sarah's iguana Pugsley. Sarah turns to Pugsley for comfort after whatsisfullname cancels their date. It's a close friend, a key element of her support system. Ginger calls their relationship disgusting, and while making her postcoital sandwich, she threatens to make a belt out of it — and less than a second later, in the very next shot, the Terminator enters their apartment. The juxtaposition couldn't be clearer.
posted by stebulus at 11:00 AM on August 14, 2011 [2 favorites]
Well, it's kind of a plot point, so she won't hear the police calling and leaving messages (though this doesn't explain why the boyfriend doesn't).
But I think it's mostly a character point: Ginger (the roommate) is supposed to be weird and hedonistic and a bit deviant — a stereotype of kids
It's all Ginger as whore to Sarah's virgin. And, of course, Ginger gets killed, and Sarah becomes the mother of the saviour of the world. sigh
Alternatively: the key thing is their attitudes toward Sarah's iguana Pugsley. Sarah turns to Pugsley for comfort after whatsisfullname cancels their date. It's a close friend, a key element of her support system. Ginger calls their relationship disgusting, and while making her postcoital sandwich, she threatens to make a belt out of it — and less than a second later, in the very next shot, the Terminator enters their apartment. The juxtaposition couldn't be clearer.
posted by stebulus at 11:00 AM on August 14, 2011 [2 favorites]
Never seen the any of the Terminator movies, so I was expecting a cover of this song. Not quite the same:P
posted by eviemath at 5:02 PM on August 14, 2011
posted by eviemath at 5:02 PM on August 14, 2011
(I guess the timing is wrong: The Cure's Disintegration came out in 1989, which clearly does not predate 1984.)
posted by eviemath at 5:03 PM on August 14, 2011
posted by eviemath at 5:03 PM on August 14, 2011
Well, see.. that's how we know you have actually never seen any of the Terminator movies. Time travel is a big plot point in all of them.
posted by hippybear at 4:51 PM on August 15, 2011
posted by hippybear at 4:51 PM on August 15, 2011
It's all Ginger as whore to Sarah's virgin. And, of course, Ginger gets killed, and Sarah becomes the mother of the saviour of the world.
Yeah, but Ginger was really Bess Motta of :20 Minute Workout fame, so she's got that goin' for her.
posted by Thorzdad at 3:30 PM on August 17, 2011
Yeah, but Ginger was really Bess Motta of :20 Minute Workout fame, so she's got that goin' for her.
posted by Thorzdad at 3:30 PM on August 17, 2011
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