No Filler Music Podcast - Hughes Tunes: Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Episode Date: September 21, 2020

To kick off our batch of deep dives into some of the iconic soundtracks of John Hughes beloved 80s films, we start with a film that finds its main character singing "Twist and Shout" from the top of his lungs on a parade float in the middle of Chicago. From Wayne Newton to The English Beat, the soundtrack for Ferris Bueller's Day Off was so eclectic that Hughes didn't commercially release it as he had his previous films. But that only generated more interest around the artists and songs featured on the film, and created a challenge for lovers of music and the film to seek out this music on their own. On this episode, we chat about some of those artists and play some tunes of theirs that weren't featured in the film. Tracklist: Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 Ira Newborn - Cameron In Bed / Ferris Goes Hawaiian Yello - Oh Yeah Yello - Blue Nabou The Flowerpot Men - Beat City The Flowerpot Men - Melting Down On Motor Angel Zapp - Radio People Zapp - I Only Have Eyes For You Yonderboi - Eyes For You Jonathan Richman - I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar Octo Octa - Not Sure What To Do (Variation Zoning 4) The Dream Academy - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (Inst.) This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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That's redundant. This is the beginning of something a little bit different here, Q. This is different. Like these next batch of episodes, this is going to be a change of the established no-filler formula. Yeah, this is the first time that we're covering multiple bands in one episode, besides like our year-end episodes that we do. So here's what happened.

Q and I had decided a while back we were going to do a batch of 80s episodes after our Dad Tunes episodes, right? And then we just, it dawned on us, Q, that our experience of the 80s when we were young was through John Hughes films, right? Yep. Because we were born in the late 80s, so we weren't kids, really, in the 80s. we were kids in the 90s, but our parents would show us these John Hughes films. And one in particular, we watched over and over and over again. Countless times. Yeah, I can't even count, can't even count how many times I've seen this film.

And that would be, of course, Ferris Bueller's day off. So we decided, hey, let's just do a batch of episodes where we talk about the music featured in John Hughes films, specifically, well, maybe we won't list them out. But we're going to do at least four. and we're going to start with Ferris Bueller and to try to stay true to the to the no filler format at least in some way if the song that was featured in the film was a single released by that band then we are going to play a non single from that band but we're still going to talk about the song that that was featured in the film and this just going to be a blast dude yeah man the music right the music is so dude you know we've been talking about this a lot with dad tunes but I feel like the kind of music that found its way into John Hughes movies probably had a pretty big influence in the kind of music that we listen to now. Yeah. You know, it all goes back to that hypnagogic pop. Yeah. And that love for that 80s sound. So that, yeah, that song that was playing in the background of our

intro clip there, which was the very beginning of the movie, was that band that I talked about with Mark from CD Addict and the Mad World Records he was on. Yeah, dude. He was, He's almost positive that you were the one and only person to ask him if he could order you a copy of Seek Seek-Sputnik's greatest hits. Yeah, and I specifically did it because I wanted to hear that song in particular. I wanted to own that on CD and I wanted to hear what else they were, those guys were doing. And this was before Spotify, you know, so I couldn't just, I couldn't pull it up and realize, oh, yeah, this is all crap. You know what I mean? I had to buy a CD as, you know, as we all had to do.

We all had to buy the CD back in the day to realize that the single was the only good thing on there. Or to realize, as you and I did with lots of albums, that, oh, the single is actually the worst song on the record and everything else is even better. But six, six, bugning, that was not the case. They very much had their signature sound, that sound, basically, that song, all of their songs. Over and over. Anyway. So, Travis, you did most of the research. Yeah.

Just kind of diving into how he decided to put music into his phone. films. I'm going to guess that a lot of it was all him, right? Yes, absolutely. Is that a big part of it? Definitely. So, um, that's awesome. As, as he has said in many interviews, like he, he, he wanted to be a musician before he made films. He just didn't have the, the talent. So music has always been a part of John Hughes. And, you know, when the director and also the writer, it's because typically he wrote the script for these movies, too. And it, you know, it's the same person that's, picking the music for the film. That's why the music so often perfectly accompanies the scene, right? Because it's all coming from the same mind, you know. And a lot of times he would purposely,

because he was such a music fan, he would be listening to bands that were obscure and not on the radio yet. And he would break bands in a way. That's so cool. Which is really crazy to think about. But yeah, that's how important these soundtracks became. And we're going to talk about some of other iconic movies in the coming episodes. But the interesting thing about Ferris Bueller, in particular, that was one of the few films that didn't have a soundtrack that was released that you could purchase, which is interesting. And one of the reasons was he thought that the mix was such a weird, eclectic mix of music, that

it wouldn't really go well together as a CD released. as in like he you know going from way newton donkachine to the Beatles twist and shout to some of the more kind of obscure stuff like yellow uh which we'll talk about on this episode would just be you know he assumed that it wouldn't sell well and he might have been he may have been right about that but that sort of built up this demand for this record right that it was finally released yeah i know this has been really leases of Ferris Bueller's Day off soundtracks. Yeah, it wasn't released until the 2000s. But basically what's funny about it is everybody loved the music so much that it would basically, you know, create this sort of like bootleg mixtape type way of getting the song. So in the liner notes of this release, right, the re-release or, well, I guess the first

release, his son, so the same. is after John Hughes passed away in 2009 is when the record was put out. So his son, James Hughes, put in the liner notes that the absence of an official soundtrack was a challenge to music lovers to track down this music on their own. And so people would do that. People would make, either you have to find them online or you have to find like, you know, file sharing sites back in the day, like, you know, Kazah, Napster. Like you could find it. Right. But it was, you know, piecemeal together. You have to piece it together. Yeah. So it's really interesting.

But yeah. So, oh, yeah, here's another fucking, okay. You know, let's get in it. Let's get into our first track. I've got some more little anecdotes here. But let me just, let me say this real quick, dude. So we were babies when this came out. We were newborn.

We weren't even alive yet. It came out in 86. Not even, we weren't alive when it was released in theaters. But, you know, by the time it reached the home box office. Home cinema. Yeah, we were, you know, just little, little baby. little one-year-olds. But I can imagine that if I was at the right age, seeing this in the theater,

like I imagine that having this like obscure music that I'm hearing for the first time while watching this movie, that must have made it that much more exciting and fun to see, you know? Yeah, well, you know, by that time he had already released 16 candles, Breakfast Club, pretty in pink, right? All of those movies had already come out. This is actually the last one that he did that was kind of this teen. The teen stuff.

Yeah. So I read an interesting article that was saying that while those previous films truly had his fingerprints all over them, Ferris Fulose Day Off is the first Hughes film to capture the radiant joy and reflective inquisitiveness that can sometimes be the flip side of all that passionate upheaval. So, you know, the character is a little bit or a little bit older, right? Ferris is a little bit older than 16 candles or the breakfast club teenagers, right? That's more explored like sort of the teenage angst and adolescence type predicaments that all teenagers go through, right? Like with Ferris, it's just, you know, you get some of that anxiety and stuff from Cameron's

character for sure. And from his sister. Jeannie. What's her name? Jeannie. Yeah, his sister Jeannie, you know. Yeah, that's true. But yeah.

But you get it. Otherwise, it's just, it's just fair. Paris getting away with manipulating his parents into thinking that he's sick and taking a day off of school. Right. But it's just the fucking perfect film, dude. It really is. Yeah. I love this movie.

It never gets old, dude. Ever. It's one of those films that you, you know, not that anybody has, I mean, I don't, at least, I don't pay for cable. I haven't paid for cable in almost over a decade now. Yeah, same, same. If I were in a household that had cable and I was flipping through channels and this was on, of course I'd stop and watch it. Like, it's one of those films. Absolutely.

So what we're going to do is go through the film in a way as far as when we're going to play these songs, you know? So we're going to go through the scenes. And we're going to go in order that they appear. In order that they appear in the film. So what's cool is the first one we're going to play is actually part of the original score by Ira Newborn, who is a musician, actor, composer. and he actually does a lot of scores for John Hughes. He did 16 candles. He did weird science.

He did planes trains and automobiles. He did Uncle Buck. John Hughes loves this guy. So this is the scene when we first get introduced to Cameron and he's in bed. He's actually sick. And Ferris is trying to convince him to come pick him up so they can go have a day off. So here is our first clip. This song is called Cameron in Bed slash Ferris Goes Hawaiian.

What's happening? Very little. How do you feel? Shredded. Is your mother in her room? She's in Decatur. Unfortunately, she's not staying. Where are you?

I'm taking the day off. They get dressed and come on over. You can't stupid. I'm sick. That's all in your head. Come on over. I feel like complete shit fairs, I can't go anywhere. I'm sorry to hear that.

That come on over here and pick me up. I can't think of anything good to do. If anybody needs a day off, it's Cameron. He has a lot of things to sort out before he graduates. Can't be wound up this tight and go to college. His roommate will kill him. When Cameron was in Egypt's land, by Cameron Gold.

I love that scene, man. Now, I might be wrong about this, but isn't that the first time that we see Cameron? Yes, it cuts to him in bed. But that's our first introduction to him, right? Yeah, yeah. So it's got, you know, it's got Ben Stein's character, the professor, doing roll call, and he says, he calls out Cameron Fry. Yeah. So he calls out Frye.

And it cuts to him. And it cuts to that phone call with Ferris. That music is perfect because, you know, between that kind of melancholy, very depressing sounding melody and cuts right to that Hawaiian like luau kind of music you take away the script and that is Cameron and Ferris like perfectly distilled in music format right and that's how it plays out on the soundtrack and it does actually end with that little choir singing let my camera go yeah it's yeah it's really funny but no it's it's interesting to think about the score right Because a lot of times with John Hughes films, until you get to Home Alone or whatever,

which wasn't directed by him, you never think about the score all that much, right? You think about the songs, the pop songs or whatever that ended up on the movie. Yeah, and I think what Newborn does here, it really is so, it's just part of the film, you know. It's not anything too extravagant or orchestral, you know. And I love that guitar, man. And that vibe, I love it, dude. It's a, it's kind of a, it's not a slide guitar. It's not like a, whatever.

It's, it, I like the delay. But yeah, it's a little, a little slide note, and then that delay kind of hits. It's cool. It's really well done. Dude, I got to say one of my favorite lines or whatever when Ferris is like, how are you feeling? He's like, shredded. Shredded? Yeah.

I'm dying. The way he says I'm dying too is just perfect. I just like how he's like My mom's in Decatur Unfortunately she's not staying As in like Please for the love of God mom Just stay wherever you are

Just stay there Yeah Because you being in this house with me It's the worst thing I can imagine But now it's just the perfect introduction For his character And then like not too long after that scene It cuts to Cameron like contemplating

He's sitting in his car Like I don't fucking go pick him up He's just going to keep calling me. He starts pounding the steering wheel. Yeah. Dude. And his freaking car won't turn over because it's a piece of crap.

Yeah. When he starts beating the seat next to him. Yeah, dude. Dude, what a brilliant performance by that guy. Yeah. That's Alan Ruck, by the way. Yeah. Yeah.

Not to be confused with Alan Rickman, who played Professor Snape in Harry Potter. Dude, I'm all stoked right now about Harry Potter, by the way, because PS5, or PlayStation 5, they just announced that there's going to be a Harry Potter. RPG on the PS5. So guess who's about to shell out 400 bucks to get a PS5? Me. You? Yeah, me.

I'm not going to wait around a few years, dude, like I usually do. This is going to be the first time that I buy a console right when it comes out. Treat yourself. Because of Harry Potter. If there's a list, you better get on it, dude. Early pre-order is tomorrow. Okay. Anyway.

Hey, let's move along. Yeah, let's move along. Yeah, let's move along. So, okay, so if I'm not mistaken, the next song that we're, we're doing is Beat City, right? Nope, we're going to do yellow next. Okay. So the next thing that we're visiting is the famous Ferrari scene.

And that song comes up toward the end, too. I believe it's played twice. Oh, that's right. It's played while... When Rooney's walking home. Yep, that's right. That's in the credits, isn't it? At the beginning of the credits?

Yeah, yeah, that's right. This is one of those songs, I bet you, that people were dying to know who it was. You know what I mean? And when you didn't have a soundtrack, that you can just go pick up off the shelves. Like, you know, because it's such a, like, it is so synonymous with the film. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Especially the scene that it accompanies, right? The Ferrari scene. So this song in particular was a single. Yep. It's by the band Yellow, Y-E-L-L-O. So, yeah, let's play the scene. And then we got a cool, a cool, a cool, non-single to play with kind of an interesting backstory. So, all right, so here is the famous Ferrari scene with yellows.

Oh, yeah. The 1961 Ferrari 250 GT, California. Less than 100 one beat. My father spent three years restoring this car. It is his love. It is his passion. It is his fault. He didn't lock the garage.

Harris, what are you talking about? Ooh. Ferris, my father loves this car more in life itself. Men with priorities so far, a whack, doesn't deserve such a fine automobile. Dude, I don't think it gets cooler than that. That song is so dope. What a perfect song to accompany just gushing over this super rare Ferrari. Right. I mean, yeah, perfect song choice. But yeah, so dude, I sent you a picture of one of the members of Yellow right now.

Yeah. First, I thought it was Stan Lee. Yeah, it does kind of look. The only reason I sent it to you, I thought it was funny because he kind of resembles the matri-D at the famous or the fancy restaurant that Ferris and the crew end up at the French restaurant, which is. just kind of funny. He's morphed into that guy. Yeah, exactly. The Abe Roman scene. Dude, so Yellow is still kicking it. Yeah. They just released an album this year. Which is insane. So we're going to play a song from the album that, oh yeah, shows up on, right? All right. So yeah, we are going to play a track off of the record, Stella, which came out in 1985. So this song is called Blue Naboo. So this song, what's interesting about this, it started out as a piece of music that they wrote for an advertising for the soft drink Orangina in France in 1984. Dude, I love me some Orange Gina. Some Orangina.

That's hard to say. Really? You've had Orangina before? Yeah, dude. You can find it in like random delis every now and then. Well, there you go. Super fancy. I'm sure you could find it at, uh, some of the same.

Central Market or Whole Food, something like that. So I don't know if it actually appeared in a commercial or anything like that, but that's what it was made. That was what it was intended for. And then it was developed entry track originally intended for release on this album, but eventually came out as a B-side in the 2005 reissue of the album. So anyway, let's play the song. So this is called Blue Naboo by Yellow.

But yeah, you can see how this is the group that made, oh yeah, right? Like it's got a lot of those same, it's got the same kind of drums. You know, they use the same, you can tell they're using the same synthesizer, right? Like the same collection of samples and stuff. And that's what they were known for, you know? Yeah. A heavily sampled. Synth pop group, yeah.

But I thought that was- Killer bass line, dude. Killer baseline, but I really like the classical piano sound that they kind of throw in there. Like that sound is done so often these days. and like down tempo. I was going to say, do you, have you heard of a band

called Caravan Palace? No. Okay. So, yeah, it reminds me of that a lot where it's kind of like a callback to the old, like,

jazz, like swing big bands. You know, there's, yeah, the Caravan Palace is a really cool group. They have some synthesizer in their music as well,

but they're actually a big band, but it's like, it's a modern, like swing band. That's what that reminded me of, which is cool. And that, that album came out in,

what, 84? No, 85. Yeah. So right before Ferris came out. So what I like about exploring these songs, right, in these artists, is that it's very likely that this is the stuff that John Hughes was listening to, you know? Yeah, as a music fan. As a music lover.

Yeah. So I've got another quote here from this article that I read that accompanied sort of the re-release of the soundtrack. But he was saying that he was so obsessed with the music choices during the filming. of this. He was kind of a, as one record executive called him a rock and roll freak and a music aficionado. He was characteristically obsessed over the music in Ferris, listening to the Beatles White album daily during filming and teaming up with music director Tarquin Gotch and composer Ira Newborn on the songs and score. So what I want to know, this dude, because we know Ira was the composer, right? I wonder what this

gotch guy, Tarkwin, or Tarkin, got, he's the musical director. I wonder what does a musical director do in the film business? I wonder if he was the guy, because he talks about, later on this article, there's a quote from Tarkin talking about, like, trying to obtain the license for Twist and Shout. Like, apparently, the twist and shout that ends up in the movie is not the actual version of the Beatles record.

apparently in 88, Paul McCartney said he was unhappy that the song used in the parade scene had been overdubbed with some lousy brass, as McCartney put in, which is funny. But anyway, like Hughes was obsessive about the music choices, probably because by this point, he knew how many, you know, people were paying attention to the songs ended up in his films by this point because, you know, basically he turned simple minds into a huge hit in the U.S. by putting, don't you forget about me on, you know, the famous scene in the breakfast club, right? Oh, yeah. So, like, by the time you get to Ferris Breeler, like, you can't separate the music from his films

and his movies, right? Like, they're the same thing. So, like, that must have been so fun for him, too, you know? Like, once, if he was confident enough, like, it must have been so cool knowing that he was, like you said, breaking a lot of these bands and getting, getting that music out there. That's really cool to think about. Yeah. Let's play another one.

Yeah, so our next song, Q. So let's paint the, let's paint the scene. Yeah. Yeah. I know what you're about to say, dude. This is probably one of my favorite songs that shows up in the movie. This was one of the few songs that I actually do remember downloading illegally. Me too.

With a Napster or Limewire or whatever it is we were using at the time. Soul Seek. Soul Seek, yeah, yeah. You remember that one? Yeah, I do. Okay, so Ferris convinces Cameron to steal his dad's car for this. the day. And the only thing missing is Ferris's girlfriend, Sloan. So they make a prank phone call to Edward Rooney, the principal, and convince him to let Sloan out for the day because they tell him that

her, what, her grandmother died or something. So they're picking her up at the front steps of the school and they're about to take a joyride through the city of Chicago. Here we go. This song is from a band called The Flower Pot Man. The song is called The Song is called Beat City. What are we going to do? The question isn't what are we going to do. The question is, what aren't we going to do? Don't say we're not going to take the car home.

Please don't say we're not going to take the car home. If you had access to a car like this, would you take it back right away? Neither would I. So, here's the interesting thing about this song. Because as we mentioned, it was released as a single, because I think we mentioned that. it was released as a single almost specifically for Ferris Bueller. This was considered like the closest thing to an official soundtrack for Ferris Bueller. It was this song and on the flip side was another song that shows up in the film by a band called The Blue Room called I'm Afraid.

And listen to this dude. This will make you love John Hughes even more. He would send out this final to fans. of the movie who wrote him letters. That's awesome, dude. And apparently, as the music director, Gatch said, he says, John just loved the idea of some kid in the middle of nowhere who's seen his film, who gets something in the post he wasn't expecting, and that makes him cool.

That is amazing, man. So how awesome is that, dude? And that, again, shows you how much of a, how much he enjoyed sharing music with people, like, literally, right? He would send. he would send these at least 45s in the mail. Yeah, so cool. How dope is that, dude?

Yeah, so, I mean, clearly this is a band that not a lot of people knew about, you know? I mean, I'm sure people are hearing the flower pop in for the first time watching Ferris Brewery's Day Off. There's not a lot about these guys online. I couldn't find much about them. No, get this, man. This says it all to me right here. He put that song in because he was tired of. gotcha's first choice. So yeah, this does show that this guy, this director, music director

did have some say in the music that was picked. And he originally had picked the song Walking on Sunshine. Are you? By Katrina and the waves. Dude. The movie would not be the same. Are you kidding me? That scene would not, it just wouldn't have the same effect. Dude, yeah, this is the perfect song for like, Beat City. They're driving the fucking City. The scenery. The scenery. of downtown Chicago and the Ferrari driving through the city

yeah man it's perfect walking on sunshine just think about it though that tells you how crucial Hughes was to this because dude I almost want to dub it I know it's really insane

play it yeah so this song Beat City was produced by the same guy his name is Mike Thorne who produced Tainted Love by Soft Cell so that's pretty big deal. So I've got another song from

the Flower Pot Men, and this is a non-single, as best as I could tell. So it seems to me like most of what they were releasing were smaller releases for sure. I can't off the top of my head tell you where this song shows up. I think it may have been a B-side, but they actually

later became known as Sun Sonic, all one word, so they changed their names to Sun-Sonic, and released a full-length LP in 1990, with the title of the same name of the song that I'm about to play. So this is again a track from the band The Flower Pot Man. This song is called Melting Down on Motor Angel. Man, I really like that song, too.

That's a great. I love the blend of synth with sort of like that punk rock kind of flare. Yeah, so this reminds me a lot of that post-punk neo-psychadelia genre that I spoke about briefly, the tiny little episodes that I did by myself leading up to our Strokes episode with the band The Soft Boys. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, it's like that dark, new wave kind of punk stuff.

Yeah, really dark and kind of sinister sounding. It doesn't sound anything like Beat City, you know? No, which is what I liked about it. Yeah. All right, so let's bring this home. dude. We got one more song from the movie to play, which, man, this song is so great, dude. So they have a fun day out in the city, all as well. They drop off the Ferrari at a parking garage down in the city so they can go walk around and, you know, so Ferris can go sing his song at the parade and all that. And the parking garage attendance take the car on a joyride themselves.

and on the way back home, they realized the miles on the odometer is a bit higher than when they left it in the garage. The artist is called Zap. The song is called Radio People. Cameron, how many miles did you say this thing had on it when we left? 126 and halfway between 3 and 4.10s. Why? How many miles are on it now? to where Cameron goes for ZERC.

Dude, another, just another amazing track. Yeah. And of course, you, you seamlessly blended it there, Cue, so we didn't get to hear Cameron scream. Yeah, I didn't want to, you know, shock your earbuds with Cameron's iconic scream. Yeah, and we got to hear a little bit more of the song. Yeah, and so Zapp is, they are full-on funk electronic band. They started out in the late 70s.

and they kind of put that robotic sound on the lead singer's voice and all their songs, I feel like they must have had some influence on daft punk and that kind of, you know, French electronic sound that became popular in the late 90s, you know. Yeah. And we have a non-single to play from them. So this is off of an album. So all their album names are Zab, Zap 2, Zap 3. In 1985...

Just like Seal. Right? Just like Seal. In 1985 is where this song Radio People shows up. The album is called The New Zap for you. And it's Roman numeral four

and the letter U. And so this song is actually a cover. Everyone knows the song I only have eyes for you, right? Oh yeah. Tons of bands have covered it. So this is their version of it.

And dude, you're gonna fucking love this man. All right. So here is Zapp. cover of I only have eyes for you. This is like the, this is the music that that is making a comeback right now, dude. I know, dude. I knew you'd love it, man. Yeah.

It's that hypnagogic pop? Yeah. And the vapor wave and all that. Paperwave, yeah. This is who they're kind of pulling from. So, dude, this is completely random. I didn't know that you're going to play this song. So now I have to.

We have to pull up another song because every time I hear eyes for you, any version of it, I immediately think of my favorite version of it by Yonder Boy. You know who Yonder Boy is, right? Yes. Dude, I featured this on our music blog on my weekly Electric Saturdays. This version is the best version, dude. Yeah, and Yonderboor is another electronic artist in that, like, jazzy down-tempo vein. Yeah, and I think he's French, actually.

He is for sure. Yeah. Cool. Let's play it. Yeah, let's play. I love how he turned it into like almost like this dark rock song, you know. Yeah. There's really nothing electronic about it.

I think that was the Flamingos version. Like the original version. I want to say they're the guys that not the original because that's actually. What's the original? Like pretty much everyone is covering this song. It was written by some composer named Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubbin, but I don't know if he actually ever sing it. It's just one of those standards. Standards, yeah, exactly.

But yeah, dude, that's great. I didn't, I never listened to that. to anything past shallow and profound with as far as Yonder boy albums go. Yeah. So cool. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, that's just random. So, yeah, I think that's all we had, dude.

Now, we have another one that we're going to talk about toward the end here. Well, yeah, we'll talk about it at the end after what you hurts. But first of, I just want to give a huge thank you to John Hughes for sharing all this music with us. Well, dude, we're only, we only just begun, dude. We're going to do this for the next three weeks. I know, but dude, like, maybe none of us would have ever heard this music if John Hughes didn't put it on Ferry's Wheelers Day off. That, that's very true. Unless you were looking for it or unless you found it, you know.

Yeah, you would have to stumble upon it. But, I mean, that's definitely the case with some of the bands that became a huge success because they were featured on a John Hughes film. Like I talked about earlier with Simple Minds. There's other examples like that that we'll talk about in the next few weeks. So anyway, yeah, we just scratched the surface. Obviously, there's a lot more music that shows up on this movie. If you haven't, you know, I would encourage you to pull up Spotify. You can find there's plenty of people that have put together Ferris Bueller soundtrack

playlist on Spotify because I don't think the official record is on there. It's not. It's not on Spotify. But yeah, same with YouTube. You can find people have put together YouTube playlists of the, soundtrack. Yeah, what's great about, you know, Spotify, people throw on really random stuff, like the I Dream of Jeannie theme song, you know, shows up for half a second while Ferris is dancing around in his room, you know. Right, right after he convinces his parents to leave him alone for the day. I do. I'm so glad that I just read this name because I wanted to mention

this. One of the artists that's on the soundtrack, it's a really cool song, too. It's called Bad by a band called Big Audio Dynamite. And I, mentioned them last week on our SEAL episode. And I knew that that band sounded familiar to me. It's probably because I heard a Southern name on this soundtrack at some point. But yeah, I think it was the roommate or something like that of SEAL was in big audio dynamite. So what a small fucking world we live in, dude. Yeah, really.

But, yeah. And also, like we sort of touched on, the actual score by Ira Newborn, also a huge, huge part of the movie. You know, because it added that sort of background element. And, you know, it's kind of the point we were making, like did a perfect job personifying the two main characters in music format. And really great. The other song that we're going to talk about later kind of did the same thing. So sure. Anyway, let's do our What You Heards, Q.

Why don't you go first? So I got to give another shout out to the vinyl community on Reddit. I can't tell you now how many great albums and artists I've. discovered just with people sharing a record that they picked up, you know? I don't know if you're part of that subredited dude, but I highly recommend checking it and out because there's always something interesting to find on there. So does the name Jonathan Richmond mean anything to you? Not off the top of my head.

Okay, so you know the guy that's sitting up in the tree playing guitar and there's something about Mary? Yeah. It's kind of like a theme song for, yeah, that's Jonathan Richmond. Okay. He actually shows up in a few of those movies. The Farley Brothers. Yeah, the Farley Brothers.

He's like the house band in some bar in Kingpin, which is one of my favorite movies. By the Farley Brothers. Anyways. So one of his albums was posted on the vinyl subreddit. It's an album called I Jonathan that came out in 92. He just releases a lot of great, like kind of surf rock Americana, I guess, is one genre that gets thrown around with him. Um, just really simple, fun, kind of lighthearted tunes. This song I'm going to play is probably his most popular.

According to Spotify, it's been played the most out of all his songs on Spotify. It's an awesome song, dude. I think you're going to like it. So, again, the artist is called Jonathan Richman. And the song is, I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar. Well, I was dancing. at a nightclub one Friday night and that nightclub bar was a little uptight

Yeah, I was dancing all alone a little self-conscious When some kids came up and said for dancing, come with us And soon I was dancing in the lesbian bar, oh, oh, I was dancing in the lesbian bar, ooh, ooh, ooh, Dread songs and dancing Got me tapping my feet by the end of it. Fucking love it, man. Yeah, that's a great song.

Great guitar work. The lyrics are great, dude. Like, he was at a stuffy bar, like not enjoying himself at all. And these kids come up to him and they're like, follow us, dude. Let's go dancing at this lesbian bar. You're going to have a blast.

Oh, so he ended up there. I didn't realize that. I thought he was there the whole time. No, no, no. Okay. That's why he's saying the first bar was all uptight. I see. Yeah, yeah.

It's great, dude. I fucking love it. Anyways, so yeah, I kind of dove pretty deep into Jonathan Richman. He has a lot more surf kind of music earlier on if you go back into the 80s. He played a lot with a band called The Modern Lovers. I'm pretty sure. I think I know those guys. Yeah, well, they're like a surf rock kind of band.

So anyways, yeah. So that's my what you heard. What have you been heard lately, brother? All right. So I think I've mentioned this before. I typically go in cycles with the music I'm listening to, and it's in between like rock, metal, and electronic, right? Oh, yeah, dude. That's your bread and butter.

Yeah, I've swung back to electronic. Shocker. Yeah, I know. But I think that's probably been obvious by my last two, what you heard's. because what was last week was some artist that I picked up from a playlist made by the artist that I brought the previous week. So I'm still on that. I'm still on the electronic swing. Like I'm still going that way.

Okay. You think you're going to go full on metal pretty soon? Yeah, I'll be back to metal probably in like January or something like that. Pretty predictable. Dude, you got it all, you got like a schedule. I don't know. chart it out on your calendar? No, it's definitely not chart.

it out of my count. I'm just saying most likely. Oh, you know what, dude, it's because October comes around and you got to play some ghosts, got to play some Metallica, some Halloween season. I saved another what you heard for next week. Okay. That's, hey now, dude, that's not

in the spirit of what you heard. No, it's not. But you'll see why. And I'll still be listening to it, and it'll still be relevant. All right. Anyway. So I'm pulling another, I'm kind of using this guy, this guy's playlist, because he's got a lot of great stuff on it. So this is another pick from Equip.

Like, it's got, you know, it's eight hours of music. Nice. So there's some good stuff on here. So anyway, I've got another band from this dude, another artist, I should say, not a band. This person goes by Octo Aksa. That's one of her names. She is a house producer, a very well-known house producer. and this particular song shows up on a compilation album that came out in 2018 called Silk to Dry the Tears.

Oh, I like that album cover. It is pretty cool. Yeah. So the name of this track is called Not Sure What to Do in parentheses Variation Zoning Number 4, which sounds like a Sonic the Hedgehog. Yeah, it does. Level or whatever. Emerald Zone or whatever. Anyway, so yeah, here we go.

This is by Octo Octa. All about it, brother. Dude, if you like that kind of stuff, man, I could give you a whole playlist that I've been putting together over the years of stuff like that, man. I love this kind of shit. Please do. Let me tell you, man. And this is just me, you know, it's just my preference.

I think there's a right and wrong way to do four on the floor house music. And Octo Octa is doing it in all the right ways, man. Well, that's the thing. Like, you have to find it. Like, you have to find this really well-done stuff. And it's all over the place if you know where to look. Yeah. And it's like, there's such a subtle, like, evolution in the song.

Yeah. That's we've talked about it all the time. That's why you listen to electronic music. Down tempo. Yeah. Yeah. And it, yeah, that's just enough to, to keep you interested. Yeah.

Yeah, dude, it took nearly two minutes for it to really get gone. And it keeps going, too. Oh, yeah. She introduces a whole. second solo. All other element to it that you just missed. Very cool. I love this kind of stuff. It's the perfect kind of music. I know. I see this all time. With a good pair of headphones, like there's nothing better than this kind of music because the base, the way that the bass comes through and a good pair of headphones, it's got that driving kind of

beat to it. It's perfect back from music. Yeah. It's just everything to say. Yeah, it's great, man. But yeah, I think what I like about this kind of, this, I use. just where, because it's the only word I think of, but like this darker electronic music, like more atmospheric, it just puts you in a mood, you know, and it's really great for just sort of background music, driving music if you're driving around at night, driving around through the city at night, if you will. Yeah, I don't know if it's exactly the same, but it reminds me of the moods of Aymn Tobin, you know? Yeah, it's the same. Yeah, I mean, Amy and Tobin obviously is a different kind of electronic artist.

Yeah. But what's interesting, this particular house musician, Octo, Octa. And let me give her some credit here. She actually came out in 2016 as transgender. So our name is Maya Boldry Morrison. And she's been doing this for a long, long time making music. But she just now recently came out in 2016 as transgender, which is really cool. Cool.

That kind of stuff makes me happy. That kind of representation and stuff like that. Absolutely. Being somebody who comes out and not afraid, not afraid to come out. And this was after she had already gained popularity and prominence as a house DJ record producer. Cool. And I hope she's had nothing but support since then. Yeah, I hope so.

All right, let's tease. So next week, we chose to do Ferris Bueller first because Ferris Bueller is. one of our favorite John Hughes films. Yeah. But we're going to go in order of release date going forward for the next three weeks and possibly more if we choose to keep doing this. So next week we're going to talk about 16 candles. Dude, and I need to go watch that film.

Yes. I don't know if I've ever watched it all the way through. And if I did, it's been years and years and years. The thing about Ferris Bueller is I immediately had songs in mind for us to talk about. So did I, dude. We pretty much had it all mapped out. Yeah, for this one, no clue. Yeah, I'm going to have to take some notes while I'm watching the movie.

Time stamp it, you know. So Ira Newborn was the composer. Cool. So there you go. Oh, dude, here we go. We got it figured out, man. Thompson Twins appears on here. You know we can find another great track by them to talk about.

Oh, yeah, dude. Well, don't spill beans, brother. Yeah, yeah. Oh, dude, we got it all. There's so many bands. Okay, we're good. We're good. Anyway.

Yeah, so that's next week, and we're just going to keep doing this, man. That's going to be great. This is the perfect way to sort of explore 80s, right? It's John Hughes. Absolutely. So again, thank you, John Hughes. Yeah. Wherever you may reside in this realm.

In this realm. Or a different realm. Or in a different realm. Or in a different realm, yeah. Thank you, sir, for sharing this great music. Or he might just be worm food, Q. What? I said he might just be worm food, too, if you want to just get for real reels, you know.

Well, then I just thank you, universe. Let's just put it this way here. I'm happy that we existed on this planet with that man. There we go. For 23 years, because he died in 2009. Well said. 26 years. That's how you do math.

It's 26. No, 22. God damn, dude. Now that's how you do math. Now that's how you do it. All right. So that's it. Travis, you had an outro.

Oh, yes. Okay. So one of my favorite scenes in the film, it's one of those scenes that just stands out and sticks with you. I would put this in like top 10 just beautiful scenes in a film period. Like with no dialogue. It's one of the best scenes in any film period. We're talking, of course, about the museum scene is what it's referred to as.

It does not belong in a teen movie. You know what I mean? That's what I like about it. Yeah, it's just so great. It's an appreciation of the art in the museum. That's what it is, dude. They're walking around and enjoying the museum and we get to enjoy it with them. Yeah.

So the story behind the scene is that, so John Hughes grew up in Chicago. So, you know, this film is like a love letter to Chicago, right? Yeah. And he used to go to this museum all the time. So this was just an excuse for him to film in the museum. And the art pieces that he shows in the film are his favorite art pieces in the museum, which is really cool. And this song in particular, you can't have this scene with any other song.

You know what I mean? It's the perfect song. I agree. And we're talking about what's interesting about it is this is a song that was originally recorded by the Smiths. It's called Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want. And a band called Dream Academy put out a cover of the song. And then they also put out an instrumental version of the song.

and John Hughes chose the instrumental version. My mind is being blown right now, dude. Sorry to, sorry, but guess what the art museum is called? Fry, I'm looking at Cameron. It's the Frye Art Museum. That is why the character is named Cameron Fry. Well, shit. Let my camera.

Oh, that's cool. So anyway. Sorry, so yeah. So he decides to do the B-side version of the Dreaming Academy's cover. Well, it wasn't the B-side. I'm wrong. It wasn't the B-side for the single. Oh. So the cover of the Smith song with the words in it was released as a single. I don't know when the, like where the instrumental version showed up. But I read an article on this website called Gocker. You may have stumbled upon it. I've gawked it a few times. There you go. The name of the

article is the museum scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off is the greatest scene from any 80s movie. And this guy kind of goes in the case that he's making for it. But I wanted to just read a couple lines from this article before we play the song. So he says here, I believe Hughes chose to use this instrumental cover version because it is both clinically cold like Cameron and uniquely optimistic like Ferris. The song juxtaposes these two very strong emotions and perhaps points to the future direction that the lives of these two characters may take. Yeah, it's cool. And it is cool again like like you said that he decided to use this beautiful instrumental version by the dream academy it's perfect and there's like that crescendo at the end of the song you know and that's how how it

cuts straight to the parade scene i believe is the next scene yeah you're right yep really cool all right kew so we're going to let that close us out you can uh find us on our website nofeelerpodcast com, where you can find all of our show notes for every episode, including track lists. So this will have a lot of tracks on it because we mentioned and played a lot of music. And then, of course, you can find us on the Pantheon Podcast Network as well. That is our home, Q. And it's also the home to a lot of other great music podcasts. That's Pantheon Podcasts.com.

All right, Q, that'll do it for this week. We're going to have the Dream Academy close us out with their instrumental version of please please let me get what I want which is a song originally about the Smiths so I thought there were three pleases you're right there are three pleases this is an instrumental version of a cover of the Smith song it's kind of funny but anyway yeah so yeah that's it we'll come at you next week with an exploration of the the bands and the music showcased in 16 candles and yeah that's it my name is Travis and my My name's Quentin.

I'll see y'all next week.