For this Fourth of July weekend we bid adieu to the horror genre for an inspirational Eighties theme song from a classic Eighties slice of cinematic jingoism. American cheese doesn’t come any cheesier than this signature song or its fab-u-lous music video.
Ah, 1980’s cinema! Back when Middle Eastern terrorists were treated as being only slightly more competent than Dastardly & Muttley and a movie could be made in which a hotshot high school senior and an old fighter pilot could all but single-handedly defeat an entire Arab country’s military force just to save the life of a single captive American. Such was the premise of the 1986 flag-waving flyboy fantasy Iron Eagle.
Ronald Reagan famously amended the Us Constitution shortly after becoming President to make it legally mandatory that all patriotic movies of this era much have at least one theme song that was either extremely jingoistic and/or...
Ah, 1980’s cinema! Back when Middle Eastern terrorists were treated as being only slightly more competent than Dastardly & Muttley and a movie could be made in which a hotshot high school senior and an old fighter pilot could all but single-handedly defeat an entire Arab country’s military force just to save the life of a single captive American. Such was the premise of the 1986 flag-waving flyboy fantasy Iron Eagle.
Ronald Reagan famously amended the Us Constitution shortly after becoming President to make it legally mandatory that all patriotic movies of this era much have at least one theme song that was either extremely jingoistic and/or...
- 7/2/2011
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
I'm not sure how the heavy metal and horror movie connection started but it's a match made in hell. The two go together like chocolate and peanut butter. It's a natural pairing. Alice Cooper had been combining Grand Guignol stage theatrics with live music since the 70's. Blue Oyster Cult wound horror and science fictions themes into their lyrics. Black Sabbath took their name from a Mario Bava movie yet the movies and the music maintained a safe distance from one another until heavy metal became the undisputed king of album sales in the mid to late 80's. The two seemed to officially become bed mates in 1986 with Friday the 13th Part 6 when the very same and this time very crazy Alice Cooper provided the synth happy track "He's back! (The Man Behind The Mask)" to the soundtrack. Before you knew it, Dokken was writing the theme song to my...
- 6/3/2009
- by Bryan White
- SoundOnSight
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