Just wanted to note that I'm aware of the poll, but honestly having trouble picking between my two or three favourites. The bad/corny parts of the movie are AWFUL, and the great/corny aspects of it are brilliant, so...hopefully a few more days of reflection will help me pick one. For the record, Lovey-Dovey and High Times. Hard Times are positively odious, but most of the rest is fairly ace...
― the other Alex in MTL, in fact (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 26 December 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)
This is hard! I kinda love "High Times, Hard Times"!
― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Saturday, 27 December 2008 18:24 (seventeen years ago)
Carrying the Banner – "If I hate the headline, I'll make up a headline" is one of the best lyrics of all time for being both extremely half-assed and extremely terrific
Santa Fe – Dude when I was seventeen and working at a newspaper in a shitty small town this had my ANTHEM: "Trapped where there ain't no future, even at seventeen/Breaking your back for someone else's sake/If your life don't seem to suit ya, how bout a change of scene?/Far from the lousy headlines and the deadlines in between?" OTOH, Santa Fe is a crappy town and cowboy dreams are silly, plus this song has the worst choreography in the movie.
The World Will Know – "We're a union, just by saying so!" Totally captures the spirit of the movie, really inspiring in spite of mostly being about newspaper publishing moguls of the turn of the century.
Seize the Day – Even more inspiring! Fuck you Dead Poet's Society, your shitty use of this phrase did not involve adolescent newsboys doing pirouettes and somersaults all over a city square.
King of New York – Why didn't Jay-Z sample this song? Wouldn't that have been perfect? I mean he did "Hard Knock Life," something with this song could have been the B-side and could have been AWESOME.
Seize the Day (Chorale) – This is like church if church was actually decent.
Once and for All – On one particularly emotional day I cried during this part in the movie when a kid with his self-made pape asks asks another child laborer, "Can you read? Read this." Illiteracy = *96 tears.* Anyway, this song is gorgeous and and way more "fuck the man" than any rock and roll song could ever hope to be. The only drawback is that stupid girl singing.
And THOSE are the best songs on the soundtrack. I have the whole thing straight memorized.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Saturday, 27 December 2008 19:25 (seventeen years ago)
Oh man only four people on this board have good taste, apparently.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Thursday, 1 January 2009 19:56 (seventeen years ago)
one year passes...
one year passes...
one month passes...
three months pass...
I joined a union today and it took a lot of resistance to not constantly make Newsies allusions. Though tbh 'real' unions probably don't appreciate if you sing "we're a union just by saying sooooo" because I think they got to get paid.
― in charge of refreshments tonight is (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 01:06 (thirteen years ago)
Also I was VERY disappointed to hear my friend say the Broadway Newsies UPPED the roles of females, something you will never hear me say in any other context. Also I think they got rid of Spot Conlon? Is this true? He was kind of the best one.
― in charge of refreshments tonight is (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 01:08 (thirteen years ago)