I do appreciate that it inspired one of my all time favorite songs from Crazy Ex Girlfriend. "Oh god, this car ride's gone on so long that we're now in the later more commercial stages of our career..."
I just watched this clip after reading your comment and I believe the Beach Boys song being parodied is "Fun, Fun, Fun"? Or did I click on the wrong clip?
The one thing that saves Kokomo for me is a misheard lyric. Instead of "tropical drink melting in your hand," my friends misheard it as "got the cocaine money in your hand," and now I can't hear it any other way.
But seriously, thank you for inviting me here to discuss Maria McKee! I (re)discovered Mckee and Lone Justice about a decade ago, and it's a shame they don't get discussed more. Between 1989 and 1994 Mckee was doing great work. Her first two solo albums, tracks in Days of Thunder (eh) and Pulp Fiction, a song on Sweet Relief.... There was all kinds of promise there. And then it kinda all disappeared. I don't know if it was studio interference, Mckee just going in a different direction, or what. But I do know that she and her band on Opelousas (the sweet relief track) should have made an album immediately. They were on fire.
Her version of Richard & Linda Thompson's Has He Got A Friend For Me? is somehow even sadder and more depressing than the original, which I wouldn't have thought was possible.
Me realize these lists only exist to start arguments, which is good, because me have lot to argue with! Much as me love Aimee Mann, Danger Zone belongs at top of this list. Cheesy and awful as it is, it also banger that encapsulates era and is Tom Cruse-iest song every written.
U2 mangling Mission: Impossible theme by playing it in plodding 4/4 instead of snappy, off-kilter 5/4 of original is crime against music that should only be placed ahead of Limp Bizkit because they do same thing while also being Limp Bizkit. Playing Mission: Impossible theme in 4/4 is like covering Theme From Shaft without using wah-wah pedal — it take away most distinctive and interesting thing about song and result is depressingly generic and uninspired.
'Werewolves' was nearly a decade old by that point, so doesn't meet the criteria... That said, nor does 'Old Time Rock N' Roll'. In both cases, they were (re)popularised by their respective films, but weren't contemporary singles and/or the main themes from them.
But you couldn't NOT include Old Time Rock & Roll on the list--it's the first thing anyone would think of if you said "Song from a Tom Cruise movie." (Okay, maybe second thing after Danger Zone.) But Werewolves soundtracks the scene everyone remembers from Color Of Money, while I only remember that Clapton thing because the video was all over MTV, presumably because 80s kids loved middle-aged blues rockers.
Well, of course the correct top answer is György Ligeti's Musica Ricercata No. 2, but then again I have a pretty skewed idea of what constitutes popular music.
fyc Jonathan Coulton's classic "Tom Cruise Crazy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVEzaBzVve8
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I do appreciate that it inspired one of my all time favorite songs from Crazy Ex Girlfriend. "Oh god, this car ride's gone on so long that we're now in the later more commercial stages of our career..."
I just watched this clip after reading your comment and I believe the Beach Boys song being parodied is "Fun, Fun, Fun"? Or did I click on the wrong clip?
you have to go past Fun, Fun, Fun, and the Pet Sounds phase to get to Kokomo
It is also, at the very least, a better karaoke song than any on this list.
The one thing that saves Kokomo for me is a misheard lyric. Instead of "tropical drink melting in your hand," my friends misheard it as "got the cocaine money in your hand," and now I can't hear it any other way.
Days of Thunder, right? Or did I miss the top-40 ambitions of that blockbuster Days of Heaven soundtrack?
Tom Cruise was in both Vanilla Sky and Magnolia?
But seriously, thank you for inviting me here to discuss Maria McKee! I (re)discovered Mckee and Lone Justice about a decade ago, and it's a shame they don't get discussed more. Between 1989 and 1994 Mckee was doing great work. Her first two solo albums, tracks in Days of Thunder (eh) and Pulp Fiction, a song on Sweet Relief.... There was all kinds of promise there. And then it kinda all disappeared. I don't know if it was studio interference, Mckee just going in a different direction, or what. But I do know that she and her band on Opelousas (the sweet relief track) should have made an album immediately. They were on fire.
Her version of Richard & Linda Thompson's Has He Got A Friend For Me? is somehow even sadder and more depressing than the original, which I wouldn't have thought was possible.
Me realize these lists only exist to start arguments, which is good, because me have lot to argue with! Much as me love Aimee Mann, Danger Zone belongs at top of this list. Cheesy and awful as it is, it also banger that encapsulates era and is Tom Cruse-iest song every written.
U2 mangling Mission: Impossible theme by playing it in plodding 4/4 instead of snappy, off-kilter 5/4 of original is crime against music that should only be placed ahead of Limp Bizkit because they do same thing while also being Limp Bizkit. Playing Mission: Impossible theme in 4/4 is like covering Theme From Shaft without using wah-wah pedal — it take away most distinctive and interesting thing about song and result is depressingly generic and uninspired.
I have ranted about this very thing - perhaps even twice - in the comments back in the old country. It raises veins in my temples thinking about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xRtT4Oo6fI
Shouldn't Werewolves Of London be on this list somewhere?
'Werewolves' was nearly a decade old by that point, so doesn't meet the criteria... That said, nor does 'Old Time Rock N' Roll'. In both cases, they were (re)popularised by their respective films, but weren't contemporary singles and/or the main themes from them.
But you couldn't NOT include Old Time Rock & Roll on the list--it's the first thing anyone would think of if you said "Song from a Tom Cruise movie." (Okay, maybe second thing after Danger Zone.) But Werewolves soundtracks the scene everyone remembers from Color Of Money, while I only remember that Clapton thing because the video was all over MTV, presumably because 80s kids loved middle-aged blues rockers.
Well, of course the correct top answer is György Ligeti's Musica Ricercata No. 2, but then again I have a pretty skewed idea of what constitutes popular music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIDN_3EkWN8