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

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I omitted the oldies: it wouldn't be fair. I must admit to a fondness for Eric Carmen's comeback song.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
"Hungry Eyes" - Eric Carmen – 4:06 9
"(I've Had) The Time of My Life" - Bill Medley, Jennifer Warnes – 4:47 3
"She's Like the Wind" - Patrick Swayze – 3:51 2
"You Don't Own Me" - The Blow Monkeys – 3:00 1
"Overload" - Zappacosta – 3:39 1
"Where Are You Tonight?" - Tom Johnston – 3:591
"Yes" - Merry Clayton – 3:15 0


Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 02:47 (seventeen years ago)

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

Euler, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 03:10 (seventeen years ago)

no oldies no credimability

PappaWheelie V, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 03:20 (seventeen years ago)

hungry eyes bc of nostalgia

tehresa, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 03:22 (seventeen years ago)

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

("Love is Strange", btw)

Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 03:34 (seventeen years ago)

"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"...

Tim F, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 05:09 (seventeen years ago)

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.

banjoboy, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 06:21 (seventeen years ago)

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

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 16:02 (seventeen years ago)

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

Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 26 August 2008 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

your (headless) body close to me

andrew m., Tuesday, 26 August 2008 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

"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.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Thursday, 28 August 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

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.

PappaWheelie V, Friday, 29 August 2008 00:32 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 29 August 2008 00:52 (seventeen years ago)

NOBODY PUTS BABY IN A CORNER

Steve Shasta, Friday, 29 August 2008 00:54 (seventeen years ago)

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?

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 29 August 2008 01:04 (seventeen years ago)

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

Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 29 August 2008 01:06 (seventeen years ago)

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"

zaxxon25, Friday, 29 August 2008 11:42 (seventeen years ago)

Oh the Blow Monkeys are on this?

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

Mark G, Friday, 29 August 2008 11:48 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Friday, 29 August 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Geir Hongro, Friday, 29 August 2008 23:46 (seventeen years ago)

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."

Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 29 August 2008 23:59 (seventeen years ago)

how did i miss this poll?

gabbneb, Saturday, 30 August 2008 00:02 (seventeen years ago)

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

ledge, Saturday, 30 August 2008 00:03 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

NOW I GOTCHA IN MAH SIGHTS WITH DOZE

Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 01:12 (fifteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

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

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 05:59 (three years ago)

one year passes...

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

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 02:18 (one year ago)

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

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 02:26 (one year ago)


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