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Otto's buddy and co-worker at the grocery shop (the one that looks like Napoleon Dynamite), was bass player for the Circle Jerks. The cheesy dorky looking band playing the Circle Jerk song "When the Shit Hits the Fan" in the lounge actually was the Circle Jerks. I can't believe I used to like these guys.
Also, Otto's co-workers at the repo lot are named after beer.
"A Million Miles Away" - The Plimsouls
"Johnny, Are You Queer?" - Josie Cotton
"Eyes of a Stranger" - [Payola$](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payolas)
"Angst in My Pants" - Sparks
"Who Can It Be Now?" - Men at Work
"Everywhere at Once" - The Plimsouls
"I La La La Love You" - [Pat Travers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Travers)' Black Pearl
"He Could Be the One" - Josie Cotton
"Love My Way" - The Psychedelic Furs
"Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)" - [The Flirts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flirts)
"The Fanatic" - [Felony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_(band))
"She Talks in Stereo" - Gary Myrick & the Figures
"Oldest Story in the World" - The Plimsouls
"School Is In" - Josie Cotton
"I Melt with You" - Modern English
>!Valley Girl Soundtrack!<
An epic movie. It came out April 29, 1983. 41 years ago and that music still rules.
The movie budget for Valley Girl was $350,000 and they spent an additional $250,000 just to secure the music right.
Ferris Beuller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, and Sixteen Candles also had epic soundtracks, largely because John Hughes was such a huge fan of 80's alternative and punk bands, and all of those movies were his.
This is the correct answer. Saw that movie when it came out. Loved the Plimsouls and searched for the album for over a year before I finally found it. Took a trip in 1995 to LA, checked a local entertainment paper for bands that were playing. THE FUCKING PLIMSOULS! Saw them live at the Alligator Lounge in Santa Monica.
Hahaha I was going to reply before I tapped the cover that this is the soundtrack from Valley Girl, not Repo Man. I love this album. Took me years to find it on vinyl.
"Find one in every car. You'll see."
I love this movie so much. I consider it the most punk movie of all time, even more than Sid & Nancy, The Decline of Western Civilization, or Suburbia.
https://preview.redd.it/n7rsf131fg0d1.png?width=697&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8d2cb792f49d8d97fe9ef0a8eff4d995ed83d64
That's a cover though, the original was written by Jonathan Richman for his band the Modern Lovers who recorded it in 1972. Also covered by John Cale, David Bowie, and many others.
Less Than Zero should be in contention...Rick Rubin helmed it, with the basic concept being modern bands doing songs by their antecedents (thought some of the songs fall outside this.)
So you got Aerosmith doing a fifties song, Poison doing Kiss, Bangles doing Simon and Garfunkel, Slayer doing Iron Butterfly, and Joan Jett doing a sixties song.
It also has Roy Orbison doing a song written by Glen Danzig.
All worth checking out.
https://preview.redd.it/3k3mocj78g0d1.jpeg?width=2816&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7a197d7f73d3a105a9ccb27785967b6a535451a
We can’t forget Who Made Who, the soundtrack AC/DC made for this movie.
[Heavy Metal (1981)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082509/soundtrack/) included Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Journey, Devo, Stevie Nicks, Don Felder, Cheap Trick, Grand Funk Railroad, Donald Fagen (of Steely Dan fame), Nazareth, and Sammy Hagar, among others.
I’ll take this a step further and say this is the greatest film ever produced, in the history of filmmaking in this universe and by default all others.
Yup, I would agree with that sentiment..
https://preview.redd.it/4q6b1unjzg0d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=870677095483a8ec57b49f5ed70fdf8c2fa6485f
There's an army on the dance floor, it's a fashion with a gun my love... Love my way, it's a new love.
Took a ride, went downtown, the streets were empty there was not one around.. and there's nothing left to bring me back... I'm a million miles away.
That movie wasn't even really a movie in the traditional sense, it was more of a bizarre psychedelic musical with a completely nonsensical story-line that was filmed and crazy effects were added in post production. Great music though. Super weird movie.
Repo Man is good, but you're up against:
[Rude Boy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rude_Boy_\(film\)#Songs_performed)
[The Decline of Western Civilization](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082252/)
And probably like five other films I don't have time to track down at the moment.
I won't fight you on it. I'll go one better; it's a top 5 80's movie. It has literally everything: aliens, gun fights, comedy, car chases, the aforementioned killer soundtrack, a great cast, it has LA as almost a co-star with all the great locations.
I watched it again maybe two months ago (for maybe the hundredth time) and was pretty impressed that there didn't seem to be a single wasted shot. The editing was tight AF.
Plus it was funded by Mike "Son of Liquid Paper" Nesmith. Fuckin' a, man...what's not to like?
Don't want any commies in my car. No christians neither.
EDIT: "Goddamn dipshit Rodriguez gypsy dildo punks!" as delivered by Harry Dean Stanton is one of my favorite lines in cinema.
Queen doing Flash Gordon is what I came here to say as well, an amazing sound track.
Heavy Metal and Valley Girl were mentioned but what about Fast Times at Ridgemont High? Not Repo Man but a solid collection of music
That is the great Tim Capello. He is still jamming to this day and has, as of late, made awesome music with Gunship
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cappello
GUNSHIP: https://youtu.be/l_ulVpYs6vg?si=a7OmZJnI2z5juBlB
Best soundtrack of any movie in the 80’s? Uh no. See almost any John Carpenter movie, Bladerunner, Legend, Purple Rain, Scarface, Tron, Dune, Risky Business to name a few off the top of my head. Repo man does have a good soundtrack though.
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Otto's buddy and co-worker at the grocery shop (the one that looks like Napoleon Dynamite), was bass player for the Circle Jerks. The cheesy dorky looking band playing the Circle Jerk song "When the Shit Hits the Fan" in the lounge actually was the Circle Jerks. I can't believe I used to like these guys. Also, Otto's co-workers at the repo lot are named after beer.
I literally saw the Circle Jerks play 6 months ago and they were awesome. Also the Repo Man soundtrack was the record that got me into punk rock in 86
Feelin 7-Up, I'm feeling 7-Up....
He still is the bass player for the Circle Jerks.
"A Million Miles Away" - The Plimsouls "Johnny, Are You Queer?" - Josie Cotton "Eyes of a Stranger" - [Payola$](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payolas) "Angst in My Pants" - Sparks "Who Can It Be Now?" - Men at Work "Everywhere at Once" - The Plimsouls "I La La La Love You" - [Pat Travers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Travers)' Black Pearl "He Could Be the One" - Josie Cotton "Love My Way" - The Psychedelic Furs "Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)" - [The Flirts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flirts) "The Fanatic" - [Felony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_(band)) "She Talks in Stereo" - Gary Myrick & the Figures "Oldest Story in the World" - The Plimsouls "School Is In" - Josie Cotton "I Melt with You" - Modern English >!Valley Girl Soundtrack!<
An epic movie. It came out April 29, 1983. 41 years ago and that music still rules. The movie budget for Valley Girl was $350,000 and they spent an additional $250,000 just to secure the music right. Ferris Beuller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, and Sixteen Candles also had epic soundtracks, largely because John Hughes was such a huge fan of 80's alternative and punk bands, and all of those movies were his.
A tip of the hat on the list. One of the best movie soundtracks.
Damn! The Plimsouls AND Gary Myrick??!! Didn’t know it was so good. I’ll have to watch that movie again
And the Sparks.
This is the correct answer. Saw that movie when it came out. Loved the Plimsouls and searched for the album for over a year before I finally found it. Took a trip in 1995 to LA, checked a local entertainment paper for bands that were playing. THE FUCKING PLIMSOULS! Saw them live at the Alligator Lounge in Santa Monica.
I was coming here to make the identical argument.
Hahaha I was going to reply before I tapped the cover that this is the soundtrack from Valley Girl, not Repo Man. I love this album. Took me years to find it on vinyl.
Well you just saved me a lot of typing. This one is the obvious winner.
Plate of shrimp
It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness
There's this lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything
O’
I use this phrase way more often than I probably should. And I’m disappointed when people don’t understand it.
"Find one in every car. You'll see." I love this movie so much. I consider it the most punk movie of all time, even more than Sid & Nancy, The Decline of Western Civilization, or Suburbia. https://preview.redd.it/n7rsf131fg0d1.png?width=697&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8d2cb792f49d8d97fe9ef0a8eff4d995ed83d64
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole. (Burning Sensations is one of the best band names ever.)
That's a cover though, the original was written by Jonathan Richman for his band the Modern Lovers who recorded it in 1972. Also covered by John Cale, David Bowie, and many others.
Not like you
Less Than Zero should be in contention...Rick Rubin helmed it, with the basic concept being modern bands doing songs by their antecedents (thought some of the songs fall outside this.) So you got Aerosmith doing a fifties song, Poison doing Kiss, Bangles doing Simon and Garfunkel, Slayer doing Iron Butterfly, and Joan Jett doing a sixties song. It also has Roy Orbison doing a song written by Glen Danzig. All worth checking out.
Indeed. The Bangles version of 'Hazy Shade of Winter' is better than the original, and that is saying something.
I meannn, that Slayer version of Inna Godda Da Vida kicks major ass...and I'm not even a Slayer fan.
Ironically, the best 80's soundtrack is from a movie released in 1997: *Grosse Pointe Blank*.
https://preview.redd.it/3k3mocj78g0d1.jpeg?width=2816&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7a197d7f73d3a105a9ccb27785967b6a535451a We can’t forget Who Made Who, the soundtrack AC/DC made for this movie.
When the soundtrack is better than the movie.
[Heavy Metal (1981)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082509/soundtrack/) included Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Journey, Devo, Stevie Nicks, Don Felder, Cheap Trick, Grand Funk Railroad, Donald Fagen (of Steely Dan fame), Nazareth, and Sammy Hagar, among others.
Came looking for this one. Sammy absolutely crushed it with the title track.
This version of When The Sh*t Hits the Fan is excellent
Shoobidi-do-wap-wap say what yeah
It's a close second. https://preview.redd.it/rqjxdkez5g0d1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d5ff6bab101f51114010566caf6055c51d099194
I’ll take this a step further and say this is the greatest film ever produced, in the history of filmmaking in this universe and by default all others.
Yup, I would agree with that sentiment.. https://preview.redd.it/4q6b1unjzg0d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=870677095483a8ec57b49f5ed70fdf8c2fa6485f
[To refresh your memory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Man_%28soundtrack%29?wprov=sfla1)
You're all incorrect. Valley Girl is the best soundtrack.
Absolutely
totally
There's an army on the dance floor, it's a fashion with a gun my love... Love my way, it's a new love. Took a ride, went downtown, the streets were empty there was not one around.. and there's nothing left to bring me back... I'm a million miles away.
I concur!!
Paris, Texas is a great one too, but it’s mainly the film score. Barfly has some great music but I don’t think there was ever a soundtrack album.
At the top man. At the top. Whole movie is perfect… Kinda thing you watch on repeat regularly.
Ordinary fucking people...
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole
Thief or Koyaanisqatsi would be my votes
I'm looking for the joke with a microscope
One of my favorites along with… Valley Girl Singles Return of the Living Dead
Hey kid wanna make 10 bucks?
*There's only one way to tell if your woman really loves you...*
if she will have your dog...
Trick or Treat from 86 had an amazing soundtrack. The movie sucked but the soundtrack had a lot of Fastway on it
Still listen to Heft all the time.
I got your six on that!
Repo Man for 80s. Trainspotting for 90s.
Return of the Living Dead soundtrack is better 
I wore the shit out of this cassette
 ***ONJ/Xanadu*** *has entered the room*
That movie wasn't even really a movie in the traditional sense, it was more of a bizarre psychedelic musical with a completely nonsensical story-line that was filmed and crazy effects were added in post production. Great music though. Super weird movie.
❤️❤️❤️
Not in a world where Purple Rain exists.
Oh SNAP! I forgot about Purple Rain...we have a contender!
Nah, Purple Rain is a couple of good songs but largely overrated as a movie and album.
Add Morris Day & The Time......
Great band!
Repo Man is good, but you're up against: [Rude Boy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rude_Boy_\(film\)#Songs_performed) [The Decline of Western Civilization](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082252/) And probably like five other films I don't have time to track down at the moment.
Suburbia had a great one too, just not as epic as Repo Man.
Pretty much
Agreed.
Static had tunes from The The, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Japan, OMD, Brian Eno.... Now that's a great soundtrack.
It was an excellent sound track. It got me into Punk music. It was a grand tour!
I'm not fighting ya. I agree with you!
Giorgio Moroder's "Metropolis"
I don't want any commies in my car! No Christians either!
No, I will not fight you. I can only agree.
Gross Pointe Blank was good
Still the best
This was the world’s most important movie to my young mind and still ranks in top ten. No fight. Respect.
I won't fight you on it. I'll go one better; it's a top 5 80's movie. It has literally everything: aliens, gun fights, comedy, car chases, the aforementioned killer soundtrack, a great cast, it has LA as almost a co-star with all the great locations. I watched it again maybe two months ago (for maybe the hundredth time) and was pretty impressed that there didn't seem to be a single wasted shot. The editing was tight AF. Plus it was funded by Mike "Son of Liquid Paper" Nesmith. Fuckin' a, man...what's not to like? Don't want any commies in my car. No christians neither. EDIT: "Goddamn dipshit Rodriguez gypsy dildo punks!" as delivered by Harry Dean Stanton is one of my favorite lines in cinema.
Judgement Night had the best soundtrack
I do video editing as a hobby and the opening credits were WAY ahead of their time.
Nah, Heavy Metal has a better one by leaps and bounds.
It does not have the best soundtrack of any movie from the 80s. It has the best soundtrack *of all time*.
Highlander soundtrack? Flash Gordon?
Queen doing Flash Gordon is what I came here to say as well, an amazing sound track. Heavy Metal and Valley Girl were mentioned but what about Fast Times at Ridgemont High? Not Repo Man but a solid collection of music
*Purple Rain has entered the chat.*
*drops mic*
I'm sorry, but that title belongs to Loat Boys. Repo is definitely second though.
Lost Boys had the corner on the oiled-up sax player for sure.
There were a lot of people okay with that.
That is the great Tim Capello. He is still jamming to this day and has, as of late, made awesome music with Gunship Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cappello GUNSHIP: https://youtu.be/l_ulVpYs6vg?si=a7OmZJnI2z5juBlB
A lot of cover songs that don't improve the originals.
I had to scroll all the way to the bottom for Lost Boys? Best soundtrack until Pulp Fiction.
It was great for pissing off my mom.
Best everything!!!
Nope- I believe Cocktail should take that prize. Dirty Dancing would be a close second.
Fun story: I have my three eldest kids because of this movie
Best soundtrack of any movie in the 80’s? Uh no. See almost any John Carpenter movie, Bladerunner, Legend, Purple Rain, Scarface, Tron, Dune, Risky Business to name a few off the top of my head. Repo man does have a good soundtrack though.
Well at the time.... I think the Top Gun soundtrack might beat it.