The OST Party

It's been six whole months since our last episode. And even though we promised an episode on Night Shift, here we are...

Perhaps it's fate that today is the 30th anniversary of Independence Day, and we will once again be hooting and hollering about how much we love this silly, overblown, 90s-ass summer popcorn movie.

And while the movie doesn't have a true soundtrack album, we can still talk about the music featured in the movie, as well as the way ID4 perfectly embodies the era in which it was made, all the things we love about it, and why it's the perfect summer popcorn movie

Today... we celebrate... INDEPENDENCE DAY!

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Ladies and gents, welcome to episode 100 of the O/S/T Party!

Now that we've hit triple digits, let's slow things down and relax with the dulcet tones of PURE MOODS!

Released in 1994, Pure Moods is a compilation of new age, Eurobeat, and classical film compositions designed to relax suburban wine moms the world over.

You may have the commercial playing in your head right now, and if that's the case then you're probably exactly in the mood for this podcast!

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Happy Halloween, kiddies! The OST Party is back to celebrate spooky season with an episode all about 1995's Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight!

"Tales from the Crypt" ran on HBO from 1989 to 1996, featuring spooky tales adapted from the comic series of the same name, and in 1995 they broke into movies with Demon Knight.

The film stars William Sadler as the titular demon knight, protecting a sacred talisman from The Collector, played by national treasure Billy Zane, who's having a hellaciously good time in this ridiculous movie about demons, holy blood, and all kinds of gross, goopy nonsense.

The soundtrack is wall-to-wall 90s metal, featuring tracks from Pantera, Filter, Megadeth, Gravediggaz, and more! 

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School's back in session, and we're back to discuss one of the most iconic high school comedies of the 80s: Fast Times at Ridgemont High! 

Fast Times is a year in the life of your typical gang of high school kids: You got the kids just try to make a buck, the ones obsessed with sex, the ones obsessed with finding love... And then, of course, you've got Jeff Spicoli, Sean Penn's totally baked surfer dude.

As their stories weave in and out, the film is threaded throughout by one of the largest soundtracks we've ever covered. We'll talk about solo tracks from four members of the Eagles, The Go-Gos, Billy Squier, Jimmy Buffett, Donna Summer, and a whole lot more!

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It's graduation season and that means it's time to reminisce about the time we spent in college. And we do just that on this week's episode! We're discussing the soundtrack to the 1994 college dramedy With Honors. Joe Pesci plays homeless man Simon who befriends college senior Brendan Fraser, who's desperate to finish his senior thesis, and Pesci offers to help him in exchange for room and board. 

All the life lessons and general feelgoodery is the perfect canvas for a soundtrack full of early 90s schmaltz and Gen X longing. We get a surprisingly great theme song by Madonna; requisite cover songs from Duran Duran, Belly and The Pretenders. There's also a haunting duet between Kristin Hersh and Michael Stipe, a goofy one-off from Mudhoney, and hey! Lindsey Buckingham is back!

The film ain't much to talk about, but the soundtrack sent us down some wild rabbit holes. So crack open a cold one, put on your favorite alma mater sweater and join the party!

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We're back! It's been too long since our last episode, but Rad Day is here and we couldn't let it go without celebrating it properly.

What is Rad, you ask? Rad is every 80s sports movie you've ever seen, wrapped up in a package of BMX bikes, cheesy butt rock and more synthesizers than you can jump a bike over. It's ridiculous, it's kinda lame, but's also so completely RAD.

Helltrack is coming to town, and our hero Cru has a chance to prove to the BMX world he's the best racer around. And, in the process, he manages to woo Christian, a racer from a professional team who also happens to be played by a pre-Full House Lori Loughlin. 

Anyway... It's Rad!

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We're back! For our 95th episode, we bring you a collection of soundtrack cuts from 1995. It was the height of the 90s, when 80s pop stars showed up in the most random movies, fledgling rock bands popped up on teen cult classics, and also Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh Eagles teamed up with Lita Ford to do the theme song for a RoboCop TV series. 1995 was definitely a mood...

Also appearing in this episode: Tom Jones covering Lenny Kravitz for the Jerky Boys movie, The Proclaimers covering The Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love" for the movie Bye Bye Love, we get a few cuts from Green Day, Wax, and Salt N' Pepa. Also Bryan Adams performs the drippiest, horniest song ever written...

Ladies and gentlemen, this is 1995.

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• Jack Black in Bye Bye Love

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• "There's A Future To This Life" by Joe Walsh & Lita Ford

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Hello all you OST Party fans out there in radioland! Are you ready to rock?! 

On this episode we're looking at the 1994 comedy AIRHEADS! Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi and OST Party fave Brendan Fraser are The Lone Rangers, a down and out LA rock trio. In a last ditch effort to land a record deal, they take a radio station hostage and demand to have their music heard. 

The movie may be a grim foreshadowing of FM rock radio's future, but the movie's a hell of a lot of fun. And the soundtrack is pretty neat too. We get a slammin' opening credits song from Motorhead and Ice T, a weird Smiths cover from Anthrax, an even weirder Van Halen cover from Four Non Blondes, and naturally, the #1 hit single from the movie's own Lone Rangers! So strap yourselves in and get ready to rock!

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• Airheads available (for now) on Hulu

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• "Born To Raise Hell" by Motorhead, Ice T & W. Crane

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We're ringing in the new year with a film we've been wanting to cover for a long time. It's the 1978 cult film FM, about a Los Angeles radio station fighting back against The Man with some of the coolest rock jams of the 70s.

Or at least, that's what the movie is supposed to be about. Mostly it's an excuse for Martin Mull to ham things up while they shoot a Linda Ronstadt concert. And maybe we'll get celebrity cameos from Tom Petty and REO Speedwagon along the way. It's barely a movie, and not even a good one at that.

Really though, FM is more famous for its soundtrack album, which is absolutely STACKED with some of the top rock hits of the era. We get two cuts from Steely Dan, including that excellent title track, as well as songs from Bob Seger, Boston, Foreigner, Boz Scaggs, and a whooole lot more! So put on your denim jackets and let's rock & roll!

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• FM is available on DVD, or you can watch it on YouTube

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We may have missed Halloween, but so what? On this episode we take you back to sunny Los Angeles for a look at the soundtrack to 1992's Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the feature film blueprint for one of the most iconic TV series of the 90s.

This soundtrack is pretty typical of what you'd find on a movie soundtrack in 1992. You've got the requisite covers from artists like Divinyls and Mary's Danish, the sensitive guy rock from Matthew Sweet and Toad the Wet Sprocket, The Cult and Ozzy Osbourne giving us a couple of random metal tracks, and hey why not, have some C+C Music Factory!

So throw on your leather jackets and sharpen your stakes, because it's time for some Buffy!

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• Buffy The Vampire Slayer is available to stream here

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• "Keep It Comin' (Dance Til You Can't Dance No More)" by C+C Music Factory

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