Montage barrage.
Most-honoured Girlfriend has created a fairly comprehensive playlist of montage music from our favorite 80’s songs. Missing from my list is Would I Lie to You? by Eurhythmics for One Crazy Summer and an English Beat song from the running home scene of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Clare has them on her list, but could not share since she purchased them via iTunes.
My personal favorite is, of course, You’re the Best by Joe Esposito from the end of The Karate Kid. The lyrics I found online don’t do it justice apart from the awesome all-caps instrumental break:
Try to be best
‘Cause you’re only a man
And a man’s gotta learn to take it
Try to believe
Though the going gets rough
That you gotta hang tough to make it
History repeats itself
Try and you’ll succeed
Never doubt that you’re the one
And you can have your dreams!
You’re the best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
(repeat)
Fight ‘til the end
Cause your life will depend
On the strength that you have inside you
Ah you gotta be proud
starin’ out in the cloud
When the odds in the game defy you
Try your best to win them all
and one day time will tell
when you’re the one that’s standing there
you’ll reach the final bell!
You’re the best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
(repeat)
INSPIRING GUITAR SOLO
You’re the best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
(repeat)
Fight ‘til you drop
never stop
can’t give up
Til you reach the top (FIGHT!)
you’re the best in town (FIGHT!)
Listen to that sound
A little bit of all you got
Can never bring you down
You’re the best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
(repeat)
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“Ah you gotta be proud
starin’ out in the cloud
When the odds in the game defy you”
This is where the song shows its complexity. What is the subtext here?
Comment by Chad — 12/18/2007 @ 7:41 pm
One moe thing to note about Karate kid:
From wikipedia, so it could be totally fake:
“The first script originally called for Daniel LaRusso to have spina bifida. ”
All I can say now is , “Sweep the spine, Johnny.”
Comment by Chad — 12/18/2007 @ 7:52 pm
I think that should be “crowd.”
Comment by steelbuddha — 12/19/2007 @ 11:12 am
That explains it. Still, I liked to think of LaRusso as a radical dreamer.
Comment by Chad — 12/19/2007 @ 3:54 pm
Real Genius is probably the most desired movie soundtrack ever that was never released. Chaz Jankel released a “greatest hits” style album this year, so I finally have a full-length version of “number 1”, but Comsat Angels are still all pissed off that people are fixated on “I’m falling” and have not released the song on any of the “best of” albums that have followed the dissolution of the band.
Is the English Beat song from Ferris Bueller’s “Mirror in the Bathroom”? I have several EB cds. Haven’t seen Ferris Bueller in a while, but I remember the scene.
Comment by Tazja — 12/28/2007 @ 4:50 pm