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PoP!
As seen in: Music and Lyrics (2007)
чистый Кар-Мэн :)
With everyone these days willing to get history lessons through the Internet, the only way to test the authenticity of Music and Lyrics' fake music video for a 1984 song called "PoP! Goes My Heart" is through YouTube. Can it convincingly be put in a video playlist with Rick Astley, Flock of Seagulls, and Talking Heads? Our prognosis: the band's wardrobe is a bit too 1980s exorbitant, and Scott Porter's performance as the lead singer plays it a bit too hard for laughs, but the song's insanely catchy and Hugh Grant hits the right note of idiotic earnestness. Best of all, Music and Lyrics was only a modest hit, so you can stick this song for your 1980s-themed party. Do it quick, though -- everyone's starting to get nostalgic for acid wash and sweaters wrapped around waists.
The Blues Brothers
As seen in: The Blue Brothers (1980)
Как же без них-то!
Other bands on this list may have more interesting backstories, but none of them were on a mission from God -- and none of them boast a pedigree as stellar as the Blues Brothers. As Donald Fagen noted in Steely Dan's 1980 hit, "Hey Nineteen," "It's hard times befallen the soul survivors" -- and none of them had more soul than Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, Willie Hall, Steve Jordan, and Matt Murphy, the Stax veterans who made up the core of Jake and Elwood Blues' orphanage-saving combo and enjoyed career boosts after the movie was released. It was all too good to last, and soul purists may have taken offense at the band's very existence, but if they were good enough for Brother Ray, hey, they're certainly good enough for you.
The Soggy Bottom Boys
As seen in: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
О,да!
The music in O Brother, Where Art Thou? was so extraordinary that it almost eclipsed the film itself. The Coen Brothers' twisted take on Homer's The Odyssey was something of a musical journey itself into the roots of American country, gospel, and blues. The the SBBs (played by George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson) are based (albeit very loosely) upon the musical stylings of such old timey groups as the Foggy Mountain Boys, and the O Brother soundtrack featured such roots stars as Ralph Stanley, Allison Krauss, and Emmylou Harris. But the group's secret weapon is an itinerant bluesman named Tommy (Chris Thomas King, singing for himself), who, like the real-life Tommy Johnson (famous for "Canned Heat Blues," about the pleasures of getting drunk on Sterno), has sold his soul to the devil in order to acquire his mind-blowing guitar skills.
The Wonders
As seen in: That Thing You Do! (1996)
Мне даже жалко было в свое время, что они не настоящие
Writer-director Tom Hanks makes his influences clear. See The Oneders have a Monkees-style clown-around on a map of the U.S.! Hear as The Oneders ape the lesser-known British pop invaders the Dave Clark Five (a fave of Hanks')! The band's name, "The Oneders," is a cute reach to U.S. Beatlemania, but that little stab at cleverness goes south when the MC of the band's first show hollers "The Oh-Nee-Ders!" Adam Schlesinger (of Fountains of Wayne), Howard Shore (composer for Lord of the Rings) and Tom Hanks are three of the songwriting contributors to the film's sassy 1960s pop soundtrack. Though their contributions were all stellar, Schlesinger earned an Oscar nom for the film's title track.
Sonic Death Monkey/ Kathleen Turner Overdrive/ Barry Jive and the Uptown Five
As seen in: High Fidelity (2000)
Джек Блэк зажигает еще до Школы Рока
Jack Black spends much of High Fidelity stealing scenes; his turn as an obnoxiously opinionated (but strangely endearing) record snob was a breakout performance. Still, he saves his coup de grace for the film's penultimate scene, in which he and his band of metalheads (with more band names than songs) lay down a convincing version of Marvin Gaye's come-hither anthem "Let's Get It On." Black had been doing the comedy/rock thing for years with Kyle Gass as Tenacious D, and he would later lend his irreverent rockist persona to Richard Linklater's School of Rock.
PoP!
As seen in: Music and Lyrics (2007)
чистый Кар-Мэн :)
With everyone these days willing to get history lessons through the Internet, the only way to test the authenticity of Music and Lyrics' fake music video for a 1984 song called "PoP! Goes My Heart" is through YouTube. Can it convincingly be put in a video playlist with Rick Astley, Flock of Seagulls, and Talking Heads? Our prognosis: the band's wardrobe is a bit too 1980s exorbitant, and Scott Porter's performance as the lead singer plays it a bit too hard for laughs, but the song's insanely catchy and Hugh Grant hits the right note of idiotic earnestness. Best of all, Music and Lyrics was only a modest hit, so you can stick this song for your 1980s-themed party. Do it quick, though -- everyone's starting to get nostalgic for acid wash and sweaters wrapped around waists.
The Blues Brothers
As seen in: The Blue Brothers (1980)
Как же без них-то!
Other bands on this list may have more interesting backstories, but none of them were on a mission from God -- and none of them boast a pedigree as stellar as the Blues Brothers. As Donald Fagen noted in Steely Dan's 1980 hit, "Hey Nineteen," "It's hard times befallen the soul survivors" -- and none of them had more soul than Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, Willie Hall, Steve Jordan, and Matt Murphy, the Stax veterans who made up the core of Jake and Elwood Blues' orphanage-saving combo and enjoyed career boosts after the movie was released. It was all too good to last, and soul purists may have taken offense at the band's very existence, but if they were good enough for Brother Ray, hey, they're certainly good enough for you.
The Soggy Bottom Boys
As seen in: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
О,да!
The music in O Brother, Where Art Thou? was so extraordinary that it almost eclipsed the film itself. The Coen Brothers' twisted take on Homer's The Odyssey was something of a musical journey itself into the roots of American country, gospel, and blues. The the SBBs (played by George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson) are based (albeit very loosely) upon the musical stylings of such old timey groups as the Foggy Mountain Boys, and the O Brother soundtrack featured such roots stars as Ralph Stanley, Allison Krauss, and Emmylou Harris. But the group's secret weapon is an itinerant bluesman named Tommy (Chris Thomas King, singing for himself), who, like the real-life Tommy Johnson (famous for "Canned Heat Blues," about the pleasures of getting drunk on Sterno), has sold his soul to the devil in order to acquire his mind-blowing guitar skills.
The Wonders
As seen in: That Thing You Do! (1996)
Мне даже жалко было в свое время, что они не настоящие
Writer-director Tom Hanks makes his influences clear. See The Oneders have a Monkees-style clown-around on a map of the U.S.! Hear as The Oneders ape the lesser-known British pop invaders the Dave Clark Five (a fave of Hanks')! The band's name, "The Oneders," is a cute reach to U.S. Beatlemania, but that little stab at cleverness goes south when the MC of the band's first show hollers "The Oh-Nee-Ders!" Adam Schlesinger (of Fountains of Wayne), Howard Shore (composer for Lord of the Rings) and Tom Hanks are three of the songwriting contributors to the film's sassy 1960s pop soundtrack. Though their contributions were all stellar, Schlesinger earned an Oscar nom for the film's title track.
Sonic Death Monkey/ Kathleen Turner Overdrive/ Barry Jive and the Uptown Five
As seen in: High Fidelity (2000)
Джек Блэк зажигает еще до Школы Рока
Jack Black spends much of High Fidelity stealing scenes; his turn as an obnoxiously opinionated (but strangely endearing) record snob was a breakout performance. Still, he saves his coup de grace for the film's penultimate scene, in which he and his band of metalheads (with more band names than songs) lay down a convincing version of Marvin Gaye's come-hither anthem "Let's Get It On." Black had been doing the comedy/rock thing for years with Kyle Gass as Tenacious D, and he would later lend his irreverent rockist persona to Richard Linklater's School of Rock.
