Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that
takes the classic mixtape approach to building
a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn.
Joining me for tonight's collaboration is Alex
Gomez, and if that sounds strangely familiar
to you, he's also known as Just Gomez from Playlist
Wars, and now The Sleepy G Show. Gomez, welcome
to My Weekly Mixtape. What's up, Brian? How you
doing, man? Long time no see, as we did first
episode one on The Sleepy G Show. Yeah, been
a long time. Even though we talk every single
day, it's been a long time since we've been in
a podcast discussion for our shows. It's always
good to see you, and it's really awesome to be
back on your show finally. Well, I'm excited
to have you. It's bright and early on a Sunday
morning. The birds are outside chirping. Most
people that listen to this show are still asleep
right now. And I'm going to start off this episode
the way I start off each episode, meaning there
is no get out of jail free card for you, Gomez.
What does the word mixtape mean to you? Man,
reminds me of sitting home and remembering listening
to the radio. hitting record that time when the
song comes out and it's your favorite song that
you want to keep hearing over and over again.
I remember I had the big speaker system, you
know, with the stereo, with the five disc CD
changer and, you know, just listening to the
music of back in the day, you know, even trying
to get the TV volume up so you can record, bring
the speaker near the TV so you can record that
one song live. That's my memories, you know,
and. from djs at that time too you know what
i mean when you know when underground mixtapes
were being made and all that great stuff too
and just and then making my own you know when
i hear something on z100 or at that time k -rock
and uh before it became ktu you know all that
good stuff so you know it brings back a lot of
cool memories Well, tonight's going to be a lot
of fun, and I'm taking a page out of the old
Playlist Wars notebook here because I, for one,
happen to know through 80 -something episodes
of Playlist Wars that you happen to be a fan
of movies or something along those lines. So
what better way to kick off a series of movie
-themed My Weekly Mixtape episodes than to dive
into what I think might be your personal favorite.
movies category and that is the songs that are
featured on 80s movie soundtracks and this decade
like the 90s was part of what i feel was the
peak of soundtracks because once you work your
way into 2000s soundtracks became less of an
event and more of just a compilation of songs
but in the 80s and 90s The movie companies and
labels worked really hard to make the soundtrack
as big as an event as the movie itself. So I've
got a ridiculous bank of songs ready to go for
tonight. And specifically, I gave myself one
rule. There are no rules on this show, but I
like to kind of confine myself when I'm pulling
together my list. So my rules for tonight are
the song. For the most part, I'll put that little
asterisk right there. Okay. For the most part,
the songs need to have been created specifically
for the soundtrack or came out on the soundtrack
prior to the band using the song on their official
album. Now, Gomez, I know you're a big 80s movie
buff, so I'm sure you spent an inordinate amount
of time coming up with your list. What were you
looking for in the songs that you brought to
the table? So the songs I was looking for is
the ones that remind me in the movie. Of course,
you know what I mean? Where they used it and
how they used it. But let me tell you something.
It was very difficult to choose. I could have
had 900 songs written down from almost every
80s movie probably put out. Almost. There's some
movies I didn't like. There was so many great
songs in every movie I loved. You know what I
mean? So a lot of this of the 80s passion for
me was my childhood. It was just very difficult,
but I went with, I resided with movies that I
do love. You're trying to nail down a certain
amount of songs. And like I said, I could have
done a hundred songs easily, but I kind of contained
to like 25 somehow. And now we're going to whittle
it down together to 10 each. So let's get down
to business tonight. As I mentioned earlier,
Gomez and I will be creating the ultimate. 1980s
movie soundtrack songs mixtape, and we'll use
the old cassette deck approach, meaning our mixtape
will be broken up into two sides, side A and
side B. Gomez, as the special guest, will begin
side A with his first song choice, and then I'll
add a song that I feel best follows up his choice.
We'll then flip -flop choosing songs until we've
mapped out 10 songs for side A. We'll then give
our mixtape a proverbial flip and we'll map outside.
Be only this time, I'll kick things off with
Gomez choosing second. Our overall goal for tonight's
episode is to craft the best 80s movie soundtrack
mixtape possible through only 20 songs. At the
end of the show, you can take our conversation
to the next level by visiting the 80s soundtrack
songs page at myweeklymixtape .com to give our
final mixtape a listen via the embedded playlist.
And finally, if you like what you're hearing
on the show, please consider becoming a Patreon
mixtaper at patreon .com forward slash myweeklymixtape.
And speaking of those Patreon mixtapers, a few
have chimed in with some of the songs they would
kick off their 80s soundtrack mixtape with. Starting
with Cactus Pete, who chimed in with his all
-time favorite, The Power of Love from Back to
the Future by Huey Lewis and the News. With a
close second to Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into
My Car. From Licensed to Drive. Licensed to Drive.
Yeah, by the one and only Billy Ocean. I couldn't
resist. I was up early this morning and it was
on, so it was kind of funny you mentioned that.
And he says, we almost have to say Simple Minds,
Don't You Forget About Me from The Breakfast
Club because that might be the ultimate one.
Also, Patreon mixtaper Ben from the Too Vague
podcast chimed in with Wang Chung's Wait from
the To Live and Die in L .A. soundtrack. Elsewhere
on the socials, those who follow me at My Weekly
Mixtape on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and
TikTok also chimed in, and here's what they had
to say. Philip Bergman chimed in with Kenny Loggins'
Danger Zone from Top Gun. Jim Santora chimed
in with Kenny Loggins' I'm Alright from Caddyshack.
Jason Whistle from the It's Not That Bad and
There Can Only Be One podcasts, as well as our
friends at the Nostalgia Test podcast, both chimed
in with Robert Tepper, No Easy Way Out from Rocky
IV. Kuya Ozzy chimed in with Stan Bush's The
Touch from Transformers The Movie. The Music
Rewind podcast chimed in with Elda Barge's Who's
Johnny from Short Circuit. The 80s movie soundtrack
podcast chimed in with Flesh for Lulu's I Go
Crazy from Some Kind of Wonderful. The So Wizard
podcast chimed in with Kenny Loggins. Again,
Meet Me Halfway from Over the Top. Rob Jones
chimed in with John Parr's St. Elmo's Fire, Man
in Motion from St. Elmo's Fire. Gnarly Thotep
chimed in with Eve, The Walls Come Down for Rock
and Roll from Armed and Dangerous. There's a
deep cut. That is a deep cut. Tony R., R .L.
Lewis, and Jeff Scoble all chimed in with Simple
Minds' Don't You Forget About Me from The Breakfast
Club. The Music List podcast chimed in with anything
from The Big Chill. Hutch chimed in with Dokken's
Dream Warriors from Nightmare on Elm Street 3.
Matt Kennedy from the X Radio X podcast chimed
in with Plastic Bertrand's Kaplan Pour Moi from
National Lampoon's Vacation. With me adding my
sincere apologies if I butchered the pronunciation
on that last one. Tazi44 chimed in with the Blues
Brothers Soul Man from Blues Brothers. Ken aka
Mr. Gentleman and Ryan Pack from the Soundtrack
Your Life podcast both chimed in with Prince's
Let's Go Crazy from Purple Rain. LiSportsFan
chimed in with the Jesus and Mary Chain's The
Hardest Walk from Some Kind of Wonderful. Amy
Borchin chimed in with Cyndi Lauper's The Goonies
Are Good Enough from The Goonies. The Dr. Matt
FM chimed in with Huey Lewis and the News' Back
in Time. And both Chris Darling and Sean Faust
both chimed in with Huey Lewis and the News'
The Power of Love, with both of those songs coming
from Back to the Future. Now, Gomez, you said
you had 100 songs. I think I just rattled off
100 there. And you'd actually named some of it
that's on my list already. All right. Well, with
that amazing list of 80 soundtrack songs out
in the atmosphere, let's officially press the
record button on this mixtape. And I'll start
by throwing it over to you, Gomez. What Kenny
Loggins song are you starting tonight's 80s movie
soundtrack mixtape with? I am actually not. And
why? I am not starting with Kenny Loggins this
first. What? Yes. He's in the mix. Don't get
me wrong. He's in the mix somewhere. Remember,
once an artist or movie is pulled, that's it.
They're off the table. The one I would start
off with, one of my favorite songs from the 1986
Transformers movie, the cartoon, and it was already
mentioned. I'm going with Stan Bush, The Touch.
I love that scene of the movie. Once Optimus
Prime sees Megatron, he goes, one shall stand
and one shall fall. And he transforms and you
hear the song. And then towards the end of the
movie, if anybody's not seen it, sorry, but I'm
going to spoil it. Oh, you're doing spoilers
on the show? These poor people. It's from 1986.
They must have seen this movie by now. But even
when Hot Rod turns into Rodimus Prime, and you
hear that song, and he's telling Galvatron that
this is the end of the road, which was like that
one -liner in the movie. So that's how I'm starting
this little mixtape up with us. It's definitely
Stan Bush, The Touch, 1986 Transformers, man.
Absolutely love it. Easily on my list. Kuya Ozzy
chimed in with that one. I have sound waves all
over the studio where I record here. Of course,
that is in my list. But Gomez, you're giving
me the Kenny Loggins lob. You have lobbed me.
Kenny Loggins on an 80s movie. This is like,
I don't even have to swing at this one. I'm obviously
taking the bait and pulling a Kenny Loggins song.
Now, here's the problem. Here's the problem.
I have five Kenny Loggins songs on my list. I
think I got two. I have Danger Zone from 86's
Top Gun, Footloose from 84's Footloose, I'm Alright
from 1980's Caddyshack. Nobody's Fool from 1988's
Caddyshack 2, and Meet Me Halfway from 1987's
Over the Top. Now, Meet Me Halfway, I'm going
to pull right out of the mix. As much as I love
the song, we're only track two into a mixtape,
and it's too soon to hit the balance. It's way
too soon. It would be a vibe killer. It would
ruin the mixtape. But I love the song. I'm all
rights a little too breezy and happy coming out
of Stan Bush's The Touch. So I'm going to take
that out of play. I'm down to Danger Zone, Footloose,
and Nobody's Fool. Believe it or not, my favorite
song in the mix is Nobody's Fool. But I'm not
going to put that in here because that is not
really a massively popular song. You and I talked
about this song. On the It's Not That Bad podcast
with Jason Whistle when we did the Caddyshack
2 episode. I love the movie. I love the song.
But man, this is like whittling down just Kenny
Loggins here. You could do a Kenny Loggins 80s
soundtrack mixtape alone. Alone, yeah, because
he's got way too many. Now, coming out of the
touch, I've got Danger Zone and Footloose. The
only song that seems to like, they both work,
but I think I got to give the edge to danger
zone. The need for speed. Yeah. 1986 is top gun
coming out of the touch. I feel like we're setting
the energy level at a 10 and I feel like footloose
is a little too dancey to come out of the touch.
We want to keep the pedal to the metal and we
want to go with Kenny Loggins danger zone, but
I'm glad that I got a chance to at least chime
in on all of the. that you gave me in the, what
I am now calling the Loggins Lob. Yeah, I know,
right? The Loggins Lob. Don't worry, there might
be another Kenny Loggins somewhere in these 10
songs. He's off the table now. Oh, that's true.
He is done. And now Top Gun is off the table,
so your pick of Berlin's Take My Breath Away
has floated away. Actually, I didn't make my
list, but Kenny Loggins' Danger Zone. Didn't
make mine either. But Kenny Loggins' Danger Zone
did make mine, which we're off, and then meet
me halfway. But you're right, it's too early
for a battle. We're going from... the touch to
danger zone yeah that just went well for that
one yeah honestly i think the earliest that you
could drop a power ballad on a mixtape is track
three or four you need to get the energy level
up and if you're putting a power ballad that
early in a mixtape it's got to be one that's
so perfect for that tape yeah that it needs to
be there unless of course You're doing an all
power ballads mixtape, which is the only time
you could start track one or two with a power
ballad. Exactly. I agree with you 100 % on that
one. All right. Well, now I am tossing it back
to you. We've got a pretty top notch mixtape
started here. What are you going to follow up
to touch in Danger Zone? So I'm going to go take
it back to one of my other favorite movies. And
no, it is not another Kenny Longin song, but
this particular artist was. in the same movie
with the Kenny Loggins, and no, it's not Top
Gun. I want to go back to Over the Top. Okay,
Sammy Hagar's Winner Takes It All. Yes. Okay,
because we're getting that vibe. The first three
songs, we're going mano y mano. How's that? I'll
do Spanish here. I love this song. I remember
hearing it for the first time in this movie,
Winner Takes It All. It was just one of those
songs that I don't know what it was about it.
Hearing the song during the arm wrestling matches,
it just fit that movie perfectly. At that time,
you'd just seen, of course, one of my favorite
actors, Sylvester Stallone at that time. You
know what I mean? He did his Rockies. He did
this. He's done a bunch of great 80s movies,
too. And just seeing him in this was just ridiculously
awesome. And I thought he did the character.
Oh, my God. What the hell is his name? Lincoln
Hawk. I couldn't think of his name. Holy shit.
Lincoln Hawk. It's early on a Sunday. I'll let
it slide. I remember Bull Hurley because he had
the cutoff shirt like I do. So maybe that's probably
why. I love the whole movie, but that song stood
out to me always in the movie. The only thing
about that movie that I feel like didn't stand
the test of time, and I know it works in the
80s, but the whole turning, like the switch that
happens when he turns the hat around. I mean,
you've got yours already in arm wrestling mode.
I always do that. I always have it in the front.
Before I do a show, I switch it over. You turn
the switch and then you're ready to arm wrestle.
You know, as he does it, I do the switch. That's
actually my favorite Sammy Hagar song over I
Can't Drive 55. I love this song easily on my
list. And I'm glad you did that because I was
definitely going to pick that tonight. But now
following that up, we are at, again, high energy,
high energy, high energy. The Touch, Danger Zone,
Winner Takes It All. I think I'm going to stay
with a movie that I know I am taking from you,
and I apologize in advance. We're lucky we're
on Zoom here, Matt, because this would have been
Mono Emon. I'm only kidding. Well, this is different
for us. Usually we're working against each other,
and we can have crossovers on Playlist Wars.
Here we're working together, which we did a couple
of times when we did tag team episodes on Playlist
Wars. So this is kind of the process that you
and I went through for that. The episode we did
on weekend anthems with Jay and Kay from the
F My Work Life podcast. This is how you and I
kind of put the mix together. Yeah, exactly.
So we're doing it now in real time. And the movie
I'm going to steal from you. And as soon as I
say the movie, you're going to know exactly what
song I'm talking about. But I actually had a
couple of songs from the soundtrack on my list.
And I'm going to go with 1987's The Lost Boys.
Yep. And I think you know exactly what song.
Energy wise, I'm going here with Lou Graham from
foreigner lost in the shadows, keeping that energy
level up. I had Gerard McMahon cry, little sister
on my list. And I just, again, that's dragging
the energy down right now. And I want to keep
it exciting and fun and keep it just amped up
to 10. So coming out of the touch danger zone
and winter takes it all. Lost in the Shadows
just fits so perfectly. It does. It does. That's
actually a great pick. Was it on my list? Yes.
But I actually went with Cry Little Sister because
it went with the popular one. But that's a really
good pick, though. I like that one. All right.
Throwing it back to you. So the next song, you
know, we're in this cool power vibe, but you
know what? Kind of bring it back to the future.
1985. I'm going to put Huey Lewis in the news.
The power of love. All right. You know what I
mean? It's just that song when you hear him,
when he's skateboarding and the song's on, you
know what I mean? It just makes sense. And then
when he tries to jam that song in his, the auditorium
and you see, he's like, you're just too damn
long. No, no, you're done. You know? And it's
Huey Lewis right there. You know what I mean?
Telling him you can't do it. No. Having him actually
play a couple songs in the movie back to the
future, you know, back in time is another one
towards the end of the movie, but this was hard
in the movie in the beginning. which I thought
was a great fit so far what we're doing here
on this Side A. It's absolutely a fantastic pick.
Obviously in my list, so was Back in Time. It
was just a matter of when. There are certain
songs I feel like will make this mixtape tonight
no matter how we spin it, and that is definitely
one of them. Come on. When you talk about iconic
soundtrack songs, I think the first two that
might come to people's mind, and again, I'm generalizing
here, but for the most part, we had a lot of
chime ins for two specific songs. And that was
the power of love by Huey Lewis in the news from
back to the future. And don't you forget about
me by simple minds from the breakfast club, which
we haven't gotten to yet. And we're not going
to get there yet because I'm not picking that
song yet. Same here. So we're on the same page.
We're on the same way. Yeah, well, this next
one I think is going to work really well because
I feel by track six, we need a montage. And I'm
going to go with Side A's perfect montage song,
Robert Tepper, No Easy Way Out from Rocky IV.
Now, mind you, there are other Rocky movies.
So there is a gray area here. If you have other
Rocky songs you like, you just have to make sure.
It was on that soundtrack. So I'm just putting
that out in the universe. But to me, no easy
way out. I go back to the days at St. Mary's
High School when we were practicing and working
out. And this song was always on Coach Parcell's
workout mixtape. I love this track. I love the
montage in the movie. Rocky IV is the Rocky that
was. Pretty much made for our generation. Yes.
The Rocky one, two and three were my parents
movies, but I felt like Rocky four was the one
where it was aimed at us, the kids that were
getting older. And that movie to me was the Rocky
movie. It still is the Rocky movie. It's the
one that everybody kind of holds up. Some of
the parts, you know, obviously dated with the
eighties, you know, vibe and stuff. And I do,
I have to say. Not that we're a movie podcast
here, but Rocky Balboa is right up there with
it. I think that movie was absolutely fantastic,
but it wasn't done in the 80s. No, it was done
much later in the years, you know, after Rocky
V. Yeah, we won't talk about that. No. Let's
not talk about Bruno or Rocky V. But, you know,
it was kind of funny that you wanted to do a
montage. I actually have one of my favorites
from Rocky IV's soundtrack. Now, you're right.
Taking it back to the same areas might be here
too. uh during weight lifting and day before
games we had the uh the rocky greatest hit soundtrack
you know what i mean so the one i always that
put me in a zone before a game was war uh slash
fanfare nice training montage you know what i
mean hearing that and that was by uh victor cola
and rocky four yes yeah vince also did some great
stuff for the transformers the movie yes he did
so i mean Either way, no matter what song you
pick, and Robert Tepper was on my list too, actually.
No matter what you pick from there, it was one
of those great movies, great soundtrack, great
everything about that movie. It was at the time
in the 80s where US and Russia were battling.
So they made the right movie at the right time
for our generation. Definitely. Great pick, dude.
Oh my God, I feel like we're back in Playlist
Wars. Yeah. Well, I'm now throwing it back to
you. And we've got a fantastic side A being built
right here. So what do you have for track seven?
So now that we're talking a little montage, okay,
I'm actually going to kick it back to the 1987
movie, Less Than Zero, with the Bengals' Hazy
Shade of Winter. Yes. Thank you. It's just flowing
in nicely with this mix that we're doing here.
Yes. Great movie, let me tell you. Robert Downey
Jr. in a very, really weird role. I'm not even
going to give that up because if no one's seen
this movie, I highly recommend watching it. These
guys did a great job. And then this song they
were playing in the movie, you know, where he's
driving his, I'm going to say it was a 65 Corvette
convertible with Jamie Girtz. And, you know,
they're trying to make out and trying to find,
you know, Robert Downey Jr. It was like one of
the best scenes, but such a great song, great
movie too. Absolutely love. the less than zero
soundtrack. Another example of a soundtrack that
I love and adore to a movie I've never seen.
I have several songs from this soundtrack on
my list. I had the bangles hazy shade of winter.
I was actually holding that one to possibly close
out this side, but you put it early. That's totally
fine. I had Aerosmith's rock and pneumonia and
the boogie woogie flu cover. I had poisons cover
of kisses, rock and roll night. And I knew it
wouldn't make the list because there was not
much that could go into it. But Slayer's cover
of Inigata De Vida by Iron Butterfly was also
on there. Just an all -around fantastic soundtrack
with a ton of cover songs. And you know my love
for cover songs. But coming out of the bangles.
It's hard. That one rocks. And I want to keep
that energy going. And I was scrolling back and
forth through the songs. All right. I think I'm
going to go back to 1983. This one doesn't rock
like Hazy Shade of Winter, but to me, it's one
of the premier 1980s soundtrack songs. And it's
because it's built around when I say the name
of the song, you're immediately going to say
the name of the movie. But this was actually
a fictitious band. And the song is On the Dark
Side. Oh, yes, yes. So immediately you're thinking,
oh, that's by Eddie and the Cruisers. No, it's
by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, who
were also on my Rocky IV list for today for Hearts
on Fire. Yes. But I am representing them because
I put Robert Teppert's No Easy Way Out. I have
to represent Eddie and the Cruisers soundtrack
because that soundtrack is... amazing even the
second one was amazing too like i like both oh
running through the fire love that's such a great
song and that was on my list too uh you know
you just can't i have not put on this list eddie
and the cruisers man you really can't i actually
had thought about Also closing side A with Season
in Hell, Fired Sweet. But that's a little bit
of a downer song. Fantastic tune. And then I
also thought if we did ballads, Tender Years
could fit really well in here. But where we're
going on side A, On the Dark Side is the only
song that works. That I agree with you, man.
That's just a kick -ass song. It just fit the
movie well, too, On the Dark Side. It just had
that rebel Eddie look. You know what I mean?
If you've ever seen the movie, you'll know what
I'm talking about. love both movies and i'll
say it i love both movies i love part two so
did i in all of its cheese there is more cheese
on that movie layered on it you sometimes have
to like take a lactate pill before watching yes
because there's so much cheese in the movie but
i love it you know in the beginning of the movie
he's walking he's in canada the guy commits a
suicide in new jersey off the raritan bridge
which was two feet high only from the river compared
to what it is now And then you find him in part
two in Canada. And where's Eddie now? Is Eddie
dead? And he's got his little horn stash. That's
all it took for the whole world to not recognize
him was a mustache. The greatest disguise ever.
I'm sorry, Gomez, if you shaved your goatee,
which I know you'll never do, but you just left
a mustache, I still think I'd recognize you.
I'm just putting it out there in the universe.
I think you would, but if I shaved it all off,
you might not. Maybe not. Maybe not. But I don't
know if you were a world famous singer with hit
songs like Eddie and the Cruisers had in the
movie. Maybe somebody might have pointed out,
dude, you bear a striking resemblance. Especially
in Canada. You know, I guess his popularity didn't
reach the Canadian tubes. Maybe not. We'll have
to ask Jason Whistle about the Eddie and the
Cruisers lure up in Canada. We definitely have
to go and ask him about that one. All right.
You've got one song left for Side A. What are
you going with? All right. So I got a lot to
choose from for Side A, especially like how we're
going here. You know what? I'm going to go back
to 1984. Beverly Hills Cop 1, Eddie Murphy. I'm
going to go with Glenn Frey. The heat is on.
It's literally right in the beginning of the
movie is when he's in a truck full of cigarettes
and he's from Buffalo. Let's just say that line
right there. You know what I mean? You know,
it was just a perfect fit for the movie. because
they're chasing that truck full of cigarettes
and destroying half of Detroit, which the guy,
who knows what kind of jail time he was doing
for that, smashed up every single car he hit.
Fruits flying everywhere when he hit the fruit
truck. It was just a lot of fun. It's a great
song, great movie. Glenn Frey, The Heat Is On,
Beverly Hills Cop, 1984. You can't go wrong.
You certainly can't go wrong. I love that pic.
I love that movie. That was prime Eddie Murphy.
And I know they're doing a new one, but recently
the track record on sequels that are long after
the original, the newer Dumb and Dumberer, whatever
the hell it was called, Coming to America 2,
they just didn't hit the right way. It just felt
forced. So, no, but I'm thinking this one might
because, first of all, he wrote it, I think.
Eddie Murphy wrote this one. Bear the Hills Cop
3 was boom. Good soundtrack. Good soundtrack,
yes. But one and two were better than three.
Oh, yeah. So I think this fourth one with Judge
Reinhold coming back as Billy Rosewood, the guy
who plays John Taggart is coming back. There's
a couple other people. There's more into this
one. I think the way that it's being directed
and being made, I think this might be one of
those movies that will kind of forget the third
one like Rocky Balboa did for Rocky V. Okay.
Okay. Well, now I have the tough task of trying
to close out this amazing side. Yeah, you do.
Sorry. And I think I'm going to break my rule
that I talked about earlier. I said I had one
song in here that has an asterisk on it. And
the reason this song has an asterisk on it is
because the movie never had an official soundtrack
that was released on any format. The song was
released in February of 1986. and the movie was
released in August of that year, I'm pulling
the exception to my soundtrack list rule because
A, no soundtrack exists, and B, because I can.
I love that. This is a song that when I say the
band's name, you're immediately going to raise
an eyebrow. And that band is Honeymoon Suite.
You're right, I am raising an eyebrow. Okay.
And the song's name is What Does It Take? And
again, the look on your face is perplexed. I'm
trying to think of the movie. 1986, one crazy
summer. Oh my God. How did I forget that? End
of the movie. Uncle Frank wins the radio contest.
And he pulls the phone plug out of the wall and
proceeds to take a bazooka and blow up the radio
station. And as... The Stork brothers are running
to the exploding radio station with their marshmallows.
If I could grow wings, I could do anything. That
is Honeymoon Suite. What does it take? That was
such a great song. And that was a perfect ending
to that movie too. Oh my God. There were so many
great songs. It is a deep cut. It is a strange
way to end the song. But anybody who's as big
as a... one crazy summer fan as I am understands.
That's a great closing song to me. That's one
of those songs that if you're a fan of one crazy
summer, you know, the exact scene I'm talking
about, you know, the lyrics to the song, you
just don't know what song that is. And that is
hopefully a lot of people out there that are
going, Oh my God, I could listen to that on Spotify.
Yes. Honeymoon Suite, What Does It Take, What
Crazy Summer, Closing Out, Side A. Oh, my God.
I totally forgot about that song. You know what's
funny? I was watching the movie two weeks ago
when it was still slow at work. We showed it
to the girls recently, and it holds up. It's
still just as funny. It still holds up. I just
love the scene where he finds the money in the
bathroom when he meets Demi Moore for the first
time, and the guy with that purple spiked hair,
and they go for the car chase, and he thought
he could make the boat. And he was like, get
me out of here. He's got fish. I love that movie.
There's so many great lines in that movie too.
Oh, the kids love the, Oh no, not the chili.
Yes. Oh, come on, man. Have a heart. Let me just
leave it. Well, there you have it, folks. Side
A of our 80s movie soundtrack songs playlist.
Kicking things off with Stan Bush, The Touch
from Transformers, the movie. Kenny Loggins,
Danger Zone from Top Gun. Sammy Hagar, Winner
Takes It All from Over the Top. Lou Gramm, Lost
in the Shadows from Lost Boys. Huey Lewis in
the News, The Power of Love from Back to the
Future. Robert Tepper, No Easy Way Out from Rocky
IV. the bangles hazy shade of winter from less
than zero john cafferty and the beaver brown
band on the dark side from eddie and the cruisers
glenn fray the heat is on from beverly hills
cop and honeymoon suite what does it take from
one crazy summer head over to my weekly mixtape
.com to hear all the songs we've discussed in
this mix through the playlist embedded on the
episode page. Now, Gomez, I know we're still
only at the halfway point, but I'm just going
to go ahead and put this out there in the universe.
I think we're well underway of creating a mixtape
that's better than any of our 80s movie playlists
from the Playlist Wars episode. This one is purifier
so far. I mean, you start off with Stan Bush.
You go to Kenny Loggins, Sammy Hagar. You know,
I'm looking at the list right now. And that side
A is a kick -ass side A. Now, what's funny is,
notice we didn't put one thing in there. A ballad.
Well, Honeymoon Suite is slightly slower. It's
mid -tempo. We've got all of side B, though.
Yeah, that's true. Side B should be very interesting
because I still have so many songs to list here.
I can't wait. Well, before we start, Side B Gomez,
why don't you tell listeners a little bit about
your new podcast, The Sleavy G Show. So, Sleavy
G Show, it's a fun -loving show. It's jam -packed
with a lot of things. First episode, of course,
was my partner in crime here, Brian. And then
right now I'm up to episode 10, so I hit the
double digits. You know, it's been very honoring
and humbling for some of the special guests that
I've had. I had a two -time Emmy winner, Christina
Barron. Carrie DeFalco with Karis Kuchina on
YouTube. She's the only one that I know that
has an Emmy nod on YouTube. I had Don Smith on.
I'm going to have a couple other special guests.
I had Mike Cam from Greetings from the Garden
State Podcast. It's been going so awesome. Like,
everyone's like, wow, this is not an interview.
It's a legit conversation. Talking about anything,
really. Restaurants. We're talking about video
games. We're talking about movies. Some sports
we got going on. entertainment news. It's a little
bit of everything that I love. I'm actually blogging
too on sleevygpodcast .com. I've also been blogging
some of my personal work. I'll be releasing new
material every week or every two weeks on the
blog and on the playlist, on the playlist, on
the podcast. Try to do every week. I do have
a new show almost every week. I've got some interesting
people coming on. One thing I've learned so far
on my own. is the thinking you have to put towards
the show, which I didn't realize until I did
Sleepy G. As you were more of the creative thinker
when we did Playlist Wars, you had all these
ideas. I chimed in with some ideas, but you had
the creative thinking. Now I have to do the creative
thinking, which is a different thing for me.
And luckily, as you helped me along the way,
grooming me into a better podcaster from Episode
one to episode, wherever we ended on the hiatus
until now, I feel like I've grown more comfortable
being who I am and to really speak more freely
in my show. And I think it's been really a great
thing because when we go back to playlist wars,
it'd be like, boom, we're, we're back at it.
Like here we are today. We're back at, we're,
we're having fun. So sleepy G podcast .com also
on Twitter at sleepy G underscore 79. instagram
is sleepy g find me on youtube sleepy g show
facebook under ando gomez so it's been a pleasure
and you know and i gotta thank you and everybody
who's been helping me along the way oh can't
forget tt man space castle for the logo oh yeah
it's awesome it's awesome the show is great anyone
who's listened to playlist wars knows that gomez
likes a lot more than music and this is a chance
for in the Playlist Wars extended universe, if
you will, the way you and I lovingly refer to
my weekly mixtape and the Sleavy G Show. If you
enjoy what Gomez does on Playlist Wars, he's
taking that to the next level on the Sleavy G
Show because the constraints of Playlist Wars
doesn't kind of permit the free -flowing conversation
that you have on that show. And I'm glad you're
able to do that and kind of branch out and do
other things so that way... When Playlist Wars
comes back from hiatus, we can kind of dive back
into what we're known to do there. But we still
have these respective outlets as well. And on
top of that, I got to record my own show. Oh,
see, there you go. So you're just warming your
voice up. Yeah, exactly. All right. So we're
going to start off side B now and I get to kick
things off and kicking off side B. I'm going
to go with one of the first soundtracks that
I had growing up as a kid and a song that to
me. Is one of the pinnacles of 80s soundtracks.
And I'm not even going to say the name of the
song. I'm just going to say dearly beloved. We
are gathered here today to get through this thing
called life. And I am going off of 1984's Purple
Rain. And I am going with Prince. Let's go crazy.
A lot of people chimed in with stuff from this.
I could have easily went with. Let's cry. I could
have closed side A with the title track Purple
Rain. But let's go crazy is a perfect. Side starter.
And I was about to jump in and you say, hey,
Sing 2 did that already. You can't use that.
It was later in the years. Yeah, this one to
me, I mean, it's everything I love about Prince.
It's the. flamboyant bombastic nature that he
is it's the energy of the opening of the song
it's that ridiculous guitar solo at the end it
is everything you love about prince in one song
it's funky it's rocking it's upbeat and it's
guitar pyrotechnics it's everything i love about
prince in one song kicking off side b with prince
let's go crazy from purple rain dude that's a
great great pick i would have probably went with
when doves cry because that song personally i
i just love the beat to that song and everything
about it. But Let's Go Crazy is another great
song. But when you have two kids and you hear
it and sing two a lot, it starts to drive you
a little crazy. Especially when your one kid
likes Johnny a lot and all you do is all the
songs are Johnny and that song has to play full
length. Yes, yes. So coming out of that. Man.
This is a hard one. But I think I got a good
one. I'm going to have to go with It was in two
great 80s movies. Well, maybe one wasn't as great
as the other. One was Short Circuit and the other
movie was Footloose. So I got a two for one deal
on this song. Okay. Bonnie Tyler holding out
for a hero. I'll tell you, this song has a good
resonation for me on this. Just love the song.
You know what I mean? It's just one of those,
you hear the harmonies, you know, and when you're
thinking Footloose, you're thinking of the tractor.
chicken race with kevin bacon come on that's
an ultimate thing and then you see johnny five
trying to survive and you're hearing the song
as he's holding on a pickup truck hearing the
song when he's trying to kill not kill but hurt
the bad guys from stealing uh the diamonds so
i got a two for one movie on this one but more
resonated with footloose because probably some
people never like short sir but yeah bonnie tyler
holding out for a hero from the footloose soundtrack
And Short Circuit. So you got a two for one there.
I like what you're doing there. I had Who's Johnny
on my list from Short Circuit. So you're actually
killing off two movies here with Footloose as
well, which is fine. It happens. It happens.
It happens. That's a great song. And I think
I know where I'm going to follow that up. All
right. I'm ready for it. Let's go. And it's a
cover song. Of course it is. Yeah. It was originally
recorded in 1984 by Frankie and the Knockouts
for their album Making the Point. Nobody knew
about it. And I'm saying nobody because I didn't
even know this was a cover song until I looked
it up. Okay, neither did I. And I know my cover
song. So I learned this fact as I was researching
this song. I'm going to go to 1987's Dirty Dancing.
All right? And I'm going to go with Eric Carman
from the Raspberries. Hungry Eyes. Yes. I love
the song. It's pure 80s. I get it. It's dirty
dancing. I know most people are going to say,
why aren't you going with I've Had the Time of
My Life? Because Hungry Eyes, in my opinion,
is a better song. And coming out of Bonnie Tyler,
I feel like it actually works. Yeah, it does.
I feel like it works in this mix here. And you
know what? That's a great soundtrack. Yes. Why
didn't we pick the most popular one of the Dirty
Dancing? It's simple. It's our soundtrack here.
No. But there's other great songs. You're going
to laugh at me when I said I actually had a soundtrack
from Dirty Dancing. But I went with Patrick Swayze's
She's Like the Wind. Okay. I actually like the
way he sings that song. He had a good voice.
I can't even remember this. Some of these 80s
actors, Don Johnson, Patrick Swayze, Bruce Willis,
actually. Yeah, Bruce Willis had a whole album.
He did. These guys actually had. Good singing
voices. I'll even say David Hasselhoff, he's
bigger in Germany than he is in the U .S. But
these guys had really good, not just acting voices,
they were actually legit singers. Matter of fact,
Tom Cruise even has a decent voice. We all heard
it in Rock of Ages. I mean, granted, not the
greatest movie, but we did hear him actually
belt out some lyrics in that movie. So that's
a great pick, dude. All right, so you now have
to follow up Let's Go Crazy, Holding Out for
a Hero, and Hungry Eyes. So now you gave me a
little, now more wiggle room on this next song.
And it is the 1989 John Cusack movie, Say Anything.
And I'm going to go with Peter Gabriel's In Your
Eyes. It's just a fantastic song. First of all,
I would be that guy with the damn boombox on
my head. trying to get the girl outside my well
at that time was a mercury tracer getting to
serenade the girl to come out and say hi to me
you know but didn't work in the 90s i guess it
was an 80 thing damn you john cusack the song
first of all peter graveyard talented singer
the song in your eyes is just perfect it's not
i don't know if i would call it a huge power
ballot i call it a ballot but i don't know if
our ballot but it's just got something in that
song The way he sings the song, the way the instruments
play, it's just perfect. So I think it just goes
well with how we're swinging here. Peter Gabriel,
In Your Eyes from the Say Anything soundtrack.
Love the song. Love the movie. It's an iconic
scene from the 80s. It's one of the most memorable
scenes when he's holding the boombox up over
his head. And I'm going to go, I'm going to follow
up your pick with the song that I think was on
John Cusack's tape next. Okay. after in your
eyes played on his boombox i'm all right no no
no i i i think that if he let the tape continue
playing the opening to holiday road by lindsey
buckingham would have been next on the mix and
just because i could not think of a better way
to shoehorn this song in but i love this song
when it comes to 80s soundtracks the song only
has 23 words in it for christ's sake And did
you know that Howard Ramis asked Lindsey Buckingham
to record this song? Really? And he said, make
it fun, make it goofy. And Lindsey Buckingham
triggered the sounds of the dog barking at the
end of the song, having not seen the movie. No
way. So he had no idea about the dog scene, but
it was like when Howard Ramis heard it, he's
like, that's perfect. He had no idea. And he
put that in the song. I love the song. It's upbeat.
It's happy. The Aquabats do a fantastic cover
of it if you like ska punk. I know coming out
of In Your Eyes, it's a total left turn, but
I just thought it was a funny thought. Like,
wow, what would be the next song on that cassette
for John Cusack? And if Holiday Road started
playing, Say Anything would have ended a whole
different way. Oh, yeah. Without a doubt, without
a doubt. So now how are you going to follow that
up? I'm going to follow up with a fun movie.
We're going to do a treasure hunt, and you're
wearing the shirt. We're going to put in Cyndi
Lauper's Goonies Are Good Enough, 1985 The Goonies.
I'm going to tell you, you can't say anything
wrong with Cyndi Lauper because she came out
with such a great song, and it's in the beginning
of the movie where Mikey's mom and Rosalita are
coming in, and Brandon is all tied up, and they're
all running away to go find this treasure. You
know, One -Eyed Willie. That's a bad name, but
One -Eyed Willie. enhance joke now everybody
out who's listening to this and um it was just
a clever song for the soundtrack too you know
what i mean i'll tell you right now it was a
misleading song to open the movie because you
think you're getting this family comedy whatever
you want to call it your friend's comedy and
it really opened up with this really light 80s
kids comedy And then it got to the adventure
part of it. And it really became the movie that
we all fell in love with. And I think that opening
was kind of a perfect way to start the movie
because it gives you this illusion of who they
are before this adventure. And I love the song.
I love the pick. Yeah, the Goonies are good enough,
damn it. Yes, they are. So here we are at track
seven. And. On side A at track six, I did my
montage. I feel like side B needs a montage as
well. So I'm going to go back to 1984 and I'm
going to montage the hell out of this side with
Joe Esposito. You're the best from the Karate
Kid soundtrack. Because when you do a montage,
you need to do it right. And there were no better
montages in the 1980s than Robert Tepper's No
Easy Way Out and Joe Esposito's You're the Best
from The Karate Kid. Come on. I mean, Cobra Kai
is as massive as it is now because of all of
our age group loving this movie so much. And
I know I'm stealing a song from you because I
know it's from The Karate Kid, too. I'm guessing.
I'm guessing. You know what? I didn't pick anything
from The Karate Kid. You went with part two.
No, I did not. I didn't pick anything. You didn't?
I didn't pick anything from Karate Kid, to be
honest with you. Wow. Why? Because we're going
to be doing movie montage. I don't think it's
better than Joe Esposito, but it's up there when
it comes to memorable movies. But we'll get to
that when I explain. I love your pick. First
of all, the song is awesome. You see him, Ralph
Macho, Daniel LaRusso, picking everyone's butt,
you know, in Cobra Kai. You know, you get to
the final step, you know what I mean? And to
the championship. So that's a great pick. It
teetered in my list, but I didn't pick it. I
mean, look, he beat Lamar from Revenge of the
Nerds. You underestimate that Lamar went on.
To somehow go back in time and do karate after
Revenge of the Nerds in college. Especially with
his throwing style. Yes. But he turned it into
being a karate tournament. And he could have
beat Daniel LaRusso. Imagine if the movie ended
that way and Lamar beat him and the movie just
ended. How would that have been? That would have
been bad. And another thing I love about this
song, it always followed up No Easy Way Out on
Coach Purcell's workout tape. Gomez. You have
two songs left. I have one song left. What are
you following up? You're the best. All right.
So I thought long and hard. Now we're talking
about this. We're talking movie montage. I'm
going to throw another one up in there for you.
And it's one of my personal favorites. And when
I mean personal, I pretty much imitated my childhood
off this movie. It is the 1986 blockbuster Matthew
Broderick movie, Ferris Bueller's Days Off. And
the song is the flower pop men beat city. It's
when he steals the Ferrari, when he takes the
Ferrari and you hear the song, something about
this song in the guitar play, it just works so
well. I highly recommend it. I love that movie
to death. And in the song where they're saying,
when you hear the engine roaring, that's actually
the song, not the car. So it was kind of cool
to hear it. flowerpot man beat city is just another
great montage of them driving the car i'll only
respond to that by using another song from the
ferris bueller soundtrack and i'll just say oh
yeah this movie i mean i love this movie though
the death i really imitated my childhood a little
bit off this movie Oh, who didn't? I mean, come
on. Whenever you wanted a call out, who had a
keyboard that had all the coughing noises? Like
I used to have the one where you could record
your voice and I never got it to sound as good
as Matthew Broderick's did. His was much better.
Mine was a smaller hand sized keyboard. He had
the full with the disc drive in it. So he got
the full. If I tried to do that in the 80s and
push the phone button, it might have been like.
And I would have never gotten out of school.
No, you would have definitely sounded like Cartman
from South Park, though. Yes. All right. Well,
we are down to one song each. And I am going
to close my night with a cover song that is extremely
special to me. It's from one of my favorite movies.
And it is the song that my wife and I came into.
Being announced as husband and wife for the first
time ever. And everybody in our wedding party
all had black hats and sunglasses on. And then
when Katie and I came down, we had our black
hats and sunglasses on. And that would be 1980s
Blues Brothers. And the song, Everybody Needs
Somebody to Love. To me, you can't talk about
a 1980s soundtrack episode without bringing up
the Blues Brothers. I could have picked. anything
from this soundtrack aretha franklin's thing
yep even though she had recorded it earlier the
version from the movie i like it was the best
ray charles shake your tail feather perfect i
could have did the theme from rawhide for christ's
sakes but no i am going with everybody needs
somebody to love somebody to love sorry so we
don't miss i have to go to that one this song
just means so much to me and It's the Blues Brothers.
It is. So, of course. Actually, if I was doing
the Blues Brothers, I'd actually shake a tail
feather with Ray Charles, which I love that scene.
Oh, it's a great one. It's awesome. Awesome.
Also, Minnie the Moocher. There's not a bad song
on that soundtrack. It's hit after hit after
hit on that one. So, great pick. Great movie.
You know, especially the scene for Rawhide. Let's
give them something they really like. Rawhide.
And they're all cheering. Play it again. Now,
Gomez, you had the tough job of starting things
off. Yes. And you did it in epic fashion with
Stan Bush to touch to kick off Side A. We have
been playing Chicken with a Train this whole
episode. I know. And there's one song left. Yep.
You're either going to make a lot of people very,
very happy or very, very upset with this pick.
What song are you closing the night out with?
All right, so this was a really tough choice,
but I'm going to have to go with Mannequin. No,
I'm only kidding. No, I definitely, the song
that we all know and love, and it's from the
greatest movie, one of John Hughes' greatest
movies. He's got a lot of great hits, Ferris
Bueller, you know, all these great movies he
has, but I'm going to go with his best one, The
Breakfast Club, Simple Minds, Don't You Forget
About Me. This is the best way I think to end
this awesome soundtrack that we just did. I mean,
this is probably the best work we've done together
collaborating. I'll tell you, if this is a mixtape
I'm listening to now, I'll be very damn proud
of it. I'll tell you right now, and I love Chris
to death, but I think the mix we came up with
tonight tops all three Playlist Wars 80s soundtrack
episodes. I feel like this is the perfect spectrum
of what the 80s had to offer with music. I had
two songs from... the breakfast club in my list
i had simple minds don't you forget about me
but i also had wang chung's fire in the twilight
and i was damn near tempted on side a to put
that in there would have been good but i knew
the amount of hate mail you and i would both
get for removing don't you forget about me from
the equation i think would have been too much
to have the email servers could not have handled
it messages and instagram and twitter and youtube
it would have been bad it would have been really
bad it would have now gomez normally at this
point i say why don't you tell people where you
could find your show but we did playlist wars
for a long time so i'm throwing a curveball in
here and there's a little bit of extra space
at this end of the side b So we're each going
to get to pick one bonus song. Oh, nice, nice.
Okay, cool. Because I feel like the 80s soundtracks,
there's a lot. Now, these songs, I'll put out
the end of the playlist. They're not official
songs. But they're bonuses for us. But they're
bonuses. A little bit of the hidden track at
the end of a CD, if you will. And we each get
to pick one. Gomez, what song are you going to
do? This one I will go with Mannequin, the soundtrack.
Jefferson Starship, Nothing's Going to Stop Us
Now. Something every time I watch this with my
wife, we both sing this song, even though we're
not the greatest singers, but it's just fun.
It just, you know, it's one of those songs that
like how you had with your wife, the Blues Brothers.
It's meaning. So it's really meaningful to me
every time we hear this song. All right. And
I am going to give my bonus song. I'm going to
go back to 1984. And there's actually a cassette
of me singing this song in 1984 in Hershey Park.
at one of the karaoke booths and i was i think
seven and in second grade and it was one of my
favorite movies of all time it's still one of
my favorite movies of all time and it's a little
song by ray parker jr and it's the theme from
ghostbusters that is my bonus song little honorable
mention if you will yes that's a great pick too
all right and side b officially For our 80s mixtape,
kicked off with Prince, Let's Go Crazy from Purple
Rain. Bonnie Tyler, Holding Out for a Hero from
Short Circuit and Footloose. Eric Carman, Hungry
Eyes from Dirty Dancing. Peter Gabriel, In Your
Eyes from Say Anything. Lindsey Buckingham, Holiday
Road from Vacation. Cyndi Lauper, The Goonies
Are Good Enough from The Goonies. Joe Esposito,
You're the Best from The Karate Kid. The Flower
Pop Men, Beat City from Ferris Bueller. The Blues
Brothers, Everybody Needs Somebody to Love from
the movie The Blues Brothers. And Simple Minds,
Don't You Forget About Me from The Breakfast
Club. Make sure to head over to myweeklymixtape
.com to hear all the songs we've discussed in
this mix through the embedded playlist, as well
as the two bonus songs, Nothing's Gonna Stop
Us Now by Starship from Mannequin. And... Ray
Parker Jr., Ghostbusters from Ghostbusters. Gomez,
why don't you remind people where they can find
the Sleavy G Show before we close up shop for
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