Feel Your Breath On My Face -- The Dirty Dancing Soundtrack thread

"Hungry Eyes", because it sounds like "What Makes You Think You're The One?"

no oldies no credimability

hungry eyes bc of nostalgia

Jeez, is that Doobie Brother Tom Johnston? Didn't know that!

("Love is Strange", btw)

"Hungry Eyes", but the old soul numbers work much better in the film for the most part (this isn't just a statement about their quality - there's just a better fit between the scene and the soundtracking song by and large). Like the use of "These Arms of Mine"...

I voted for "(I've Had) the Time of My Life" just because Jennifer Warnes won my heart with that album where she sings all those Leonard Cohen songs.

How about that scene where Patrick Swayze flies in a rocket ship seven years into the future and brings back "Love Man"?

I keep reading the thread title wrong, e.g., "Feel Your Brain On My Face." Horrible.

your (headless) body close to me

"Love Man" and Solomon Burke were used quite well, methinks. I always think of the bulging impossibility of Swayze's chest while it's playing in that love scene.

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I keep reading the thread title wrong, e.g., "Feel Your Brain On My Face." Horrible.

-- Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:05 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

fucking ilx in a nutshell amirite?
this shit worst drug ever.

I voted for "She's Like the Wind" but I'm not saying why. In other news, a friend and I made a hi-larious sound collage involving Merry Clayton's "Yes" in part. In more news, these are all gruesome songs.

NOBODY PUTS BABY IN A CORNER

lol xgau's grouchy review:

Dirty Dancing [RCA Victor, 1987]
Five pre-Beatle classics plus six postmodern horrors equals the soundtrack to the world's longest rock video, a brutally depressing top-forty apotheosis. The comparisons are torture--revolting as the contempo material is, it sounds even worse in among the Five Satins and Mickey & Sylvia, who are in turn rendered unlistenable by the commercial manipulations that bring them back to commercial life. Even accessory before the fact Phil Spector sounds not just innocent but simple up against the technocratic ardors of Medley & Warnes's Grammy/Oscar-validated "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" or Eric Carmen's merely radio-validated "Hungry Eyes." The new songs epitomize AOR as CHR, turning everything rock and roll taught us about rhythm and emotion into the melodrama that prerock schlock left behind when it abandoned operetta and the drawing-room ballad. They're almost as good a reason to hate mass culture as Ronald Reagan. D

Yeah, they are "gruesome." Anyone notice that the "Alfie Zappacosta" number sounds like one R. Palmer?

"six postmodern horrors" - that's another t-shirt. brilliant.

I heard the Swayze song at Market Basket the other day, did a double take. Then again they also played "September Morn" (supermarket singalong moment there) and "I Write The Songs"

Oh the Blow Monkeys are on this?

Ol' Dr Robert must have got a few bob outta that one.

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I missed this one, but why are all the oldies left out? After all, the movie was about them, the new songs didn't quite fit in.

Cuz the new songs wouldn't have stood a chance. And I don't see how the movie is any more about the oldies than, say, the climactic "(I've Had) The Time of My Life."

how did i miss this poll?

you didn't spend all afternoon in a lake learning to catch it

NOW I GOTCHA IN MAH SIGHTS WITH DOZE

a coworker today heard “Freeway of Love” and said oh this is the song from dirty dancing where she’s going to see Johnny on the beach and i let her be wrong bc i dont like her but in my head i was screaming NO YOU DIPSHIT THIS IS ARETHA THE SONG IN DIRTY DANCING IS “YES” BY MERRY CLAYTON THEY DONT EVEN SOUND THE SAME

nb she once tried to give away “free lemons” that were underripe oranges and i told her as much and she got all bitchy at me so i dont tell her shit anymore i just let her be publicly wrong about everything now lol

instead of shitting up the Raspberries thread with Dirty Dancing love i figured i’d come here & celebrate our king Eric Carmen

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2Fb0%2F5a%2Fcb%2Fb05acb8b3f63d0c6c18ab4c7f8724ecb.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=36a7bfff9557994d573e11701fda5afa7ffdf3a9d81269ecc7344e10fd3ca22e&ipo=images

and i’m rewatching the movie <3
it rules and this goddamn soundtrack slays

also “Cry to Me” is SUCH a perfect song in the movie, so good