Best soundtrack to a vampire movie ... ever
Must be talking about The Lost Boys, starring today's birthday boy, Keifer Sutherland (39!). A vampire-crazed girlfriend in college dragged me to see this movie back in 1987. Tuns out The Lost Boys had some great tunes: "Good Times" and "Laying Down The Law" by INXS, "People Are Strange" by Echo and the Bunnymen, and "I Still Believe" (a cover version originally performed by the vastly underappreciated The Call).
Throw in some great performances by Jason Patric, Barnard Hughes, the birthday boy Keifer, Jami Gertz and -- dare I say -- the two Coreys, and you have a classic 80s flick.
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Posted by: asian xxx sample | February 07, 2008 at 07:24 PM
"Rural development?" Hmmm, me thinks there's a ghost in the machine.
Anyway, yeah, Steve, The Call is something else. I've got their greatest hits, and was really surprised not only by the quality all these years later, but that I actually knew most of the songs.
Posted by: Rick | February 06, 2008 at 03:45 PM
Rural development is the main cause of wildfires
Posted by: firsttimeswallows passwords | February 06, 2008 at 01:11 PM
My mind is like a bunch of nothing. I've just been letting everything wash over me lately. Oh well. Such is life.
Posted by: Lee | October 01, 2007 at 03:18 PM
this movie rocks on so many levels; most of all my own memories on these very sites...of COURSE there were
vampires out on that raiload trestle! I was there!
Posted by: joolia | March 21, 2007 at 03:33 AM
Yeah, that was "I Still Believe." I'm not saying I like the performance of it, but I do like the song. At least the original version of it.
Posted by: Steve Spears | December 21, 2005 at 12:21 PM
Get outta town! I love Echo and the Bunneymen and I always thought that was the Doors. Silly me.Yeah, the soundtrack rocks my face off. However, that song where the guy is all muscley and oiled up playing a saxophone creeps me out. I think it was "I Still Believe."
Posted by: Wendy O | December 21, 2005 at 07:55 AM