No Filler Music Podcast - Hughes Tunes: Sixteen Candles

Episode Date: September 28, 2020

Next up on our batch of episodes devoted to the music of John Hughes iconic 80s films, we explore the one that started it all: Sixteen Candles. The soundtrack to this film is what would happen if you hit shuffle on Hughes' iPod (or more accurately what you'd hear on that sweet mixtape he made you in 1984). Crammed into its 93 minute runtime is over 30 songs, from Bowie to The Godfather theme. On this episode, we focus on some of the lesser known artists Hughes highlighted in this iconic (and often cringe-worthy) 80s teen comedy. Tracklist: Kajagoogoo - Kajagoogoo (Inst.) Altered Images - Happy Birthday Altered Images - Love & Kisses Nick Heyward - Whistle Down The Wind Nick Heyward - Don't Get Me Wrong Divinyls - Ring Me Up Divinyls - Elsie Viagra Boys - Down in the Basement Big Black Delta - Love You This Summer Big Black Delta - Betamax The Revillos - Rev Up! This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Now, don't give me that pouty look of yours. You can eat your carrots when you get home. That's it? You don't have anything else to say to me today? What would you like me to say, Sam? Come on now, honey, you're going to miss the bus. Have a good day. I can't believe this.

They fucking forgot my birthday. And welcome to No Filler. The music podcast dedicated to sharing the often overlooked hidden gyms that filled the space between the singles on our favorite records. My name is Quentin. I've got my brother Travis with me as always. And this is our second installment of our Hughes Tunes. Whose Tunes? Last week we did, Hughes Tunes. Oh, Hughes Tunes. John Hughes Tunes. Mr. John Hughes and his tunage. Last week we played a bunch of music from Ferris Bueller's Day

off. That was a blast, dude. Yeah, and I think one of the reasons that we had such a blast is because of how much we loved that movie and how, like, important that movie was to us when we were growing up. Really, it really was. The reason I see that is because, Q, this is not going to be the case for this episode, but we're going to do it anyway. We're going to do it anyways. We're going to cover 16 candles.

And should we do a little PSA for people that maybe haven't? seen the movie or maybe someone who hasn't seen it in a while. Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. Okay. You know, here's the deal cue. If you saw that movie in the 80s, if you saw that movie in the 90s, you're going to have a different experience of that movie than if you watched it last week for the first time like you and I did. Yeah. Honestly, I don't think I've ever seen it.

I've seen Pretty in Pink. I've seen Breakfast Club. Yeah, same. I was realizing that maybe like probably after the first. the opening scene. Like, oh, okay, I definitely haven't seen this movie. But let's just say that in the year 2020, watching this movie, you know, it falls into a lot of the same traps.

I don't even want to call it a trap. Well, let's call it a trope. In 80s. 80s tropes. Yeah. There's a lot of cringe. Let's just put it that way. There's a lot of cringe.

So much cringe, man. It ticks all the boxes. Hey, you want some racism? Some, not even thinly veiled. stereotyped Asian character. I think his name was like Long Duck Doggong or something like that. And every time he popped up in a scene, there would be a gong sound effect just as part of the scene. Now, Q, you and I, we grew up with family guy.

That's the same type of family guy humor that we died laughing at, you know, when we were teenagers. So, yeah, it's the same kind of thing. But like, I think even worse, Q is all the, I'm not just going to say hash, Me Too stuff that we saw all throughout that. Like I was telling you, like this could be, they could play this movie in like a, here's, here's, uh, or do you want to get M2'd? Do you want to get hashtag me too'd? Do anything that you see the male characters doing in this film.

Yeah. Uh, and you're going to get me too. And then, you know, and that's the thing, dude. You got to like, you got to think about it. Like that was just totally acceptable. That was part of the culture in the 80s. And especially if you're, if you're, imagine being a high school kid or middle school kid, boy, and you watch that movie, of course you're going to think that's totally acceptable. Yeah.

Behavior. And to your point, it was quote unquote acceptable back then because, well, that's just how it was for women back then. The fact that John Hughes wrote this script and it made it onto the screen. Right. It shows how acceptable it was. Right. Now, here's the thing. He wrote for National Ampoon.

prior to being a director. Animal House came out before this, dude. And yeah, you want to talk about some horrible moments in that movie, too, man? Yeah, of course. We're not going to get into all that. Yeah, it's not. We didn't want to. We're not condemning the movie.

We're not condemning John Hughes. This is just the decade. It reflects the decade that it came out. Yeah, let's just put it this way. As terrible as a lot of the shit that these main characters do, the dudes in this movie, they're written to be liked, you know, like their characters are the ones you're rooting for in this movie. Yeah. So that's like what more is there to say.

Like that's just, like I said, that's just part of how it was in the 80s. And it was just acceptable. And it was actually all written in as humor in the movie. A lot of, yeah, we're trying not to say the word rape, but there's pretty much. Yeah. I mean, it's strongly tied to like the rape culture. Yeah. definitely.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's all we're going to say about it. Let me just say one more thing. If you haven't turned us off yet, if you're still listening, good on you. You know, you're not a fucking, well, never mind. Hey, you know what?

If you turned it off, if you stopped listening to us already, then I don't want you listen to our podcast anyways. Okay, Q, so yeah. We are not as familiar with this film because we literally saw it for the first time last week. I watched it this morning, dude. You watched it today. I watched it today.

And that dude is funny because with each scene, I was texting like, are you fucking kidding me with this cringe bullshit? Yeah. Like, I just couldn't believe it, man. There's a lot of cringe. But let's, all right, put aside the cringe. It's, you know, it's a fun movie. There's lots of, there's funny parts in it.

Yeah. I like the dialogue between, I like the main character's dialogue. What's her name again? Her name is Molly Ringwald. Samantha Baker. Yeah, Samantha Baker, Molly Ringwald. I like her dialogue. I think she's written well.

I like Michael Anthony Hall. He's a funny little kid. And there's a super young John Cusack and he's hilarious in it. And his sister too. His sister's always, she always tags along. Were they a package deal? Did they just like come together?

Because they're in so many movies together, especially back then. Yeah, they really are. Do you think the agent was just like, hey, you want John? You got to get Joan too. Yeah. The director's just like, okay, fine. I guess we'll put Joan in. But anyway, yeah, Michael Anthony Hall, Molly Ringwald, the Cusacks.

There's a ton of other actors that show up that if you, if you're a fan of John Hughes films, like, you recognize them as like bit characters and in other films, you know, it's kind of fun. John Hughes definitely had his go-to actors, right? And I think this was Molly Ringwalt's first appearance in a film for him. Yeah. She obviously comes back for Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink. But anyway.

So, and I also want to say, like, for the rest of this episode, let's just focus on the music. I don't even want to go into the plot. Yeah. We're not going to do what we did with Ferris where every song had a little bit of a bit of the scene. Yeah. You know, tied in. So we're not going to do any of that. Well, let's just put it this way. That little intro clip that we had, that is basically the movie, the gist of the movie. Her family, you know, it's her 16th birthday. Her family forgets her birthday. She's having a shitty day. She can't get the guy that she wants to get. with. Yep. She finally gets with them at the end. They kiss over a birthday cake and that's the end of the movie.

That's basically all you need to know. And then, you know, there's a lot of other shenan. A lot of other classic 80s shenanes. Yes. That's all you need to know. But yeah. Yeah. We'll maybe describe the scene that the music that we're playing, or at least the band that

we're talking about, uh, yeah. And just in case you're wondering. Yeah. But yeah, we're not going to, we're not going to go into it as much as we did Ferris Bueller. Just because we just don't have that much of a connection. into this film. I think that's basically it. But when I talk about a great soundtrack, there's like 30 songs that appear in this movie.

I'm reading an article about it here that you had, I'm just going to name off a few of them, Thompson Twins, Billy Idol, David Bowie, Wham, right? They all make an appearance in this. ACDC? ACDC. Night Ranger? Night Ranger. Those are obscure, too. Like, that's the band that her little kid brother is listening to and his walking.

Yeah, in his tape deck or whatever it was. Right, right. But yeah, you know, from what we discussed about John Hughes last week, being that he was a rock enthusiast and a music-a-holic, much like we fancy ourselves. You know, this was like, I want to say this was his first. Was this his first director? Director-chair movie? Yeah, this is his direct real debut. So, yeah, there was all sorts of interesting.

Like, if you were paying attention. Steve Ray Vaughn shows up. When they're in the garage. Oh, yeah. It's like the, you know, it's like the, what do they call that auto shop? It's like the auto shop garage or whatever. And the main character, she's sitting in the car. Michael Anthony Hall comes and starts creeping on her.

Yeah. Yeah. Steve Rayvon starts playing, which is like a fitting, like, music for a garage scene. But like, if I'm making my directorial debut and I'm a music freak, I'm also going to, I'm guessing he obsessed over this music. music as well. Because like, yeah, if you're a music lover, you're going to spend a ton of time figuring out the perfect song for the moment. You know what I mean? Yeah. And some of the songs that we're playing today are really in the background of the scene. I feel like with this movie,

it's like you're getting to see the equivalent of John Hughes iPod if they existed back then just on shuffle. Because there's such a wide range of music on here. And, including things like the Dragnet theme song, which he used over and fucking over in this movie. There's a Frank Sinatra. Frank Sinatra. There's the Godfather's theme song. There's all that kind of stuff.

So, you know what I mean? It really is like an eclectic mix of music. But also, as this article perfectly puts it, well, I mean, I'm going to read it. It's going to say the word perfectly again. I like to repeat myself. The music perfectly captures the new wave zeitgeist at the time. and its popularity among the films gawky, insecure protagonists.

But yeah, New Wave. That's some of the artists who are going to play are some New Wave artists, and that's what's cool about this. So this film came out in 1984. So, Cue's a Coming of Age comedy, starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schufling, and Anthony Michael Hall. This Michael Schofling guy, whatever, I guess he was the main, he was the, Jake?

He was the hunky boy. that she was going after. Yeah. What the hell is he done since then? I don't know, man. I don't recognize that guy at all. He was completely forgetable. That's why he doesn't show up anywhere.

Like I, that guy had the acting chops of a fucking of a two by four. That's probably why they put him in there. Anyway, Michael Anthony Hall steals the movie, in my opinion, because he's just, he's fucking hilarious. His acting is effortless. Yeah. For sure. And he was in vacation.

He's one of those guys. He was one of those actors. Anyway, yeah. All right. Let's get into our first pick. So let's just put the, let's say this one thing real quick because we didn't, we kind of glossed over it. The intro clip that we played featured a song by a band called Kajoo, what is it? Kajugu, Kajuju.

Kajugu. Kajugu. Kajuku. Kajuku. Do you think they regretted that, like, later when they're like, why did we name ourselves Kajogu? This is so good. There's probably a lot of bands that regret their name. But Kajagugu is mostly known for their song Too Shy, which is one of those.

Hush, hush. It's one of those songs that showed up on the best of the 80s. You know, call now for your... Which, dude, we were definitely the last generation to get to experience the beauty of those fucking CD. Those compilation sets, yeah. That's true. But I remember Too Shy was on there.

I will never forget the... Pure Moods? What was it? Pure Moods, dude. Man, I meant to, we need to do a pure moods. I would be totally down to do it. Pure Mids episode? Yeah, let's do.

Yeah, no, like maybe two or three of them. I mean, I don't know if it deserves three, but we could at least do one. Okay. Yeah, where we pick three artists, kind of like we're doing with these. Yeah. Because that includes Inya. There's got to be at least one good inya song out there. Oh yeah, let's not forget the X-Files score, dude.

Dude, I was listening to the X-Files soundtrack yesterday. I'm not even kidding with you. Because I'm actually rewatching the show while I'm working. Yeah. Dude, I love that music. The guy's name was Mark Snow, the guy that did the soundtrack. Anyway, that's a tangent. But yeah, that was a song called, well, it was named after the band.

Kajuga, right? Kajigugu, yeah. That was off their debut record. White Feathers came out in 1983. But it was an instrumental track, which I thought was a pretty cool track. It sounded like, it didn't sound like a, let's just put it this way. I was surprised that that was the same man that did too shy. You know what I mean?

I think it's cool that they were doing kind of instrumental stuff like that too. But anyway, all right, let's move along. Let's just get right into it here. We're going to focus on the tunes. What is our first song, Q? So we're going to try to go through as they appear in the movie. Our first song is a single. So we're going to play a couple songs from this artist.

The band is called Altered Images. They have a song playing in the background. Oh, this is a pivotal scene, Q. Yeah, I guess it is. This is when she's, I don't know what, I was trying to follow along where this note came from, but it was like a sex trivia. It's a sex quiz, like handwritten note thing that someone, that Sam gets, and she's like filling out the answers to the questions in class.

and the questions are like, have you ever done it? And she answers like, I don't think so. If you had a chance to, would you? Sure, maybe, something like that. One of the questions is, if you could do it, who would you do it with? That's right. And in parentheses, it's like, don't worry. This is totally anonymous.

Your name's not on the list. Yeah. Or on this list. And she writes in Jake, her crush. And she tries to pass it behind her without looking to her best friend who's sitting behind her and she drops the note, her best friend's not paying attention, note falls on the floor, guess who picks it up? Jake fucking Ryan.

Jake fucking Ryan, dude. But yeah, in the background, and I guess it's just part of the soundtrack, we're not supposed to believe that this song was playing in the classroom. No, no, no. John Hughes pick for, actually it was happy birthday, right? Yeah, the song's called Happy Birthday. It is a single. Yeah.

So let's play a little bit of that song. The band is called Altered Images. The song is called Happy Birthday. I bet John Hughes is an altered images fan, and he was just like, well, this song has the word happy birthday in it, so I'm going to put some altered images in this movie, you know? Probably. I mean, he was definitely, I think it's fair to say that the only reason this song is in the movie is because it's called Happy Birthday.

But yeah, it's probably also likely that he's a fan of the band. So I'm reading something from the... And it does work pretty well for the... Yeah, it's a playful kind of... It's very, very in the background of that scene too. Because you're paying attention. The audience is paying attention to what she's writing on the paper. You know what I mean?

I didn't even realize there's a song playing when I went back and read that this is what was, this is the scene that accompanied. It was like, oh, I didn't even, I don't think it registered that a song was playing. Yeah, he has a lot of these songs are really low in the mix. But interesting about this band cue. So these were classmates who shared an interest in the UK post-punk scene, the members of altered images. And the majority of the band, all of them were members of the Susie and the Banshees fan club. Oh, wow. Now, listen to this. They learned that the banshees were coming to play in Scotland,

and they sent a demo tape to Billy Chainsaw, who managed the official Susie fan club with a note asking, can we support them on tour? And the banshees gave the band a support slot on their kaleidoscope British tour of 1980. Can you imagine that's a lot? That's a lot. That's a fucking dream come true. You're a member of the fan club. I mean, it just tells you how good that demo tape must have been. But man, how dope is that? Yeah.

So the name of this album is also Happy Birthday. This came out in 1981. And yeah, they're from Scotland. This is that new wave punk, you know, all their age in the 80s. And so we're going to play another song that's not a single. This one I really liked. It's a good one. Just more of that new wave goodness.

Yeah, I'm a fan of the musicians. I like the singer's voice, too. I think it's unique. It is really unique. I really like the band, the backing band. Yeah. All right, so this is actually track two on that record. It is called Love and Kisses.

So yeah, that's the whole song, man. I like it. It's really repetitive, but I like how it quiets and then swells up throughout the whole song like that. It reminds me of the stone roses a little bit. And they didn't come about. And I need to, I need to listen to them, man. I still haven't, I still haven't. We'll do an episode on them at some point.

But they came along a couple of years later. But yeah, there's a lot of, there's a little bit of shoegaze in there. Mm-hmm. I mean, I don't know if shoegates was even a thing yet, was it? Maybe this is proto shoe, proto shoes. Shoegazing, late 80s. So this was like precursor to shoegaze. I like to think that John Hughes was into really,

obscure stuff and like, you know, pushed bands that were unknown or unheard of, you know. And that was the case for some bands. But apparently with these guys, they had received quite a bit of success in 81 when this came out. Like they were voted Best New Group at the NME Awards and most promising new act in the 1981 smash hits readers poll. So these guys, and happy birthday was their biggest single. So this song wasn't necessarily some obscure hidden gym, as we like to say, that John Hughes kind of snuck in there.

Like this one may have been more well known than I may have thought I'd never heard of it. I'd never heard of the band either. It doesn't mean anything. But anyway, cool song, cool group. Yeah, man, new wave greatness, like you said. Yeah. And you had mentioned, you know, off the record. You know, it's a really good way for us to cram in a lot of 80s artists that we otherwise would never listen to, you know, going through these John Hughes movies.

So this is great. Exactly. So let's move on, dude. The next artist we're going to cover is Nick Hayward. And this is another instance where we're going to play two songs. He has a song that is playing during the, I'm. high school dance scene. He crams a ton of music in that small window of the high school dance, right?

I mean, yeah, there really is a lot. Yeah, it's just a classic, you know, 80s high school dance scene, you know? Yeah. Lots of stuff happened, lots of people watching not dancing. Lots of shenanigans are being had. Lots of shenanes. So this song stood out to me and I made sure to dive into it and see who it was because I really like the song that pops up in in the movie. So let's play, uh, this song by Nick Hayward.

Uh, this is a song that comes off of his album from 83 called North of a Miracle. Uh, this song is called Whistle Down the Wind. That just sounds like so many other songs from that decade, dude. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, you're right, dude. This does sound like a lot of that new wave stuff and you know it's kind of hard not to come across as a copycat when there's just so much music like this coming out around this time so that was a song from the actual film right what's your what's your next pick yeah so i i actually well i was going to say i listened to this album all the way through i didn't i skipped through it um but you gave it a proper shot i gave it a i gave it a shot and uh something happens towards the end that kind of threw me off guard turns out this

is from a remastered version that came out in 2010 that has a few more songs on it, that were B-sides on singles. So I just say, dude, I'm kind of a sucker for harmonica. And like, this is something that I'm learning about as I get older. Like, I don't know, I wasn't feeling it when I was a kid. But when it's done, right, dude. That's because all we heard was blues travelers. And he's an amazing harmonica player, dude.

But you're right. Yeah, I wasn't a fan of blues travelers. But anyway, so this is a song again from Nick Hayward. This song is called Don't Get Me Wrong. It's like a totally different band, huh? You hit a little Mick Jagger Swagger in that voice. Yeah, dude. Yeah, after hearing that song, that's when I gained a little bit more respect for Nick here.

And it's no wonder this didn't make it in the first release of this album. It doesn't fit in at all with the rest of this album. Yeah, dude, the record label was like, Like, let's just toss this aside and let's focus on your... Yeah, let's just save this. Maybe we can throw this on a B side some other day. The harmonica is not doing well with the teens right now. Yeah, right.

I mean, and that was just dominated by that harmonica, dude. But I love it. Yeah, you didn't hear a harmonica in a new wave pop track ever back then. No, definitely not. Yeah, that's cool. But if you picked up a copy of his single Blue Hat for a Blue Day, and you flipped over that B-side, you were going to get smacked in the face with some harmonica. All right, so we got a couple more artists to play.

One of them we're going to do is the outro song. So we're going to play a song from a band called The Divinels. Never heard of them before. but if you saw the first Austin Powers movie and that's just because for me this is when I first heard this song you know that I touched myself oh yeah that's the divinels dude there you go and that song's great man I love that song man I rewatched the first Austin Powers movie doesn't age well either dude it doesn't but it still cracks me up dude I have Mike Mike Myers is great in that film.

Mike Myers is hilarious. Yeah, you're right. He's hilarious in that. So the divinels. It's an Australian rock band. They've been around since the 80s, since 1980. And they have a song that pops up. This is still part of the high school dance scene, but this is playing in the background when Molly, well, it is Molly. when Sam runs into Jake while he's grabbing his coat before he leaves

but she's so shy that she doesn't say anything to him and she runs away embarrassed. And this song is playing during that scene. We're going to play two songs from the divinels. The first one is called Ring Me Up. So here's what stood out to me about this group. The vocalist is so interesting. She has got such a range

We got a shout out her name here. Chrissy Amflit. Chrissy Amflat, dude. Her vocals are amazing. And she has such a range. Yeah, they're really interesting, dude. Especially in our next pick here. I immediately thought of a particular vocalist, another vocalist.

So I want to see if you got the same vibes when we play the next track here. But yeah, I mean, you said that this was. was the song that played during the scene where she kind of runs into him briefly in wherever they were. Yeah, no, he's grabbing his coat because he checked his coat in. He spins around and she's, yeah, she has her back to him because she was about to say something to him, but she kind of chickened out. Yeah. Dude, I mean, and then she just kind of runs away. It was such a quick scene. That to me. Okay, so the fact that John Hughes had a composer for this film, which is the same guy he used for Ferris Bueller, I were newborn, I think to me that just proved like he was cramming songs.

He was cramming his favorite bands into every scene he could. You know what I mean? Because why would you have a band play during like a 30 second scene? Right. And I see why, dude. They're really unique. No, they're really cool. And I really like this next track that we're going to play a cue because what we wanted to

do, as we've done, is play another song from the band to give you another taste. if all you did was hear the background music of this film or if you rushed out to grab the soundtrack. So this song, dude, is a banger, as I like to say every once in a while. And I feel like it is a timeless track. It does not sound like it came out of the 80s. It sounds modern. I even said that about the album art. I feel like the album art for this group.

the name of the album is desperate. This is their debut record came out in 1983. Like that looks like it could have came out. It looks like early 2000. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, big time. Now, now, let's just be clear, dude. That's probably because early 2000s bands were emulating 80s new wave stuff, maybe. But everything about it, dude, the fucking typography, like the hand letter and handwritten scripty font.

Like it looks very modern. That's what I'm saying. Like this record could come out now, and that could be the record, the album art that some indie band puts out, right? Totally. Anyway, I really liked the song that stood out to me on the album. So this song, Q, is called Elsie. A vocalist that came to mind, Q. I'm thinking Gwen Stefani was a fan of this band.

I bet you she was. Yeah. But that's not who you were thinking of, huh? No, not at all. I'm talking about Getty Lee of Rush. Yeah. Big time, right? You're right.

Absolutely. Big time. But yeah, again, when you listen to that first song that we played, the one that was featured in the film, like she has a lot of range. This band has a lot of range, right? Well, yeah, and then think about I touched myself. I don't know when that song came out. But that song, dude, I love that shit. They're all over the place.

The baseline is killer in the beginning. That song, I'm telling you, man, that song that holds up compared to some of this other stuff we're heard today. I was really, I really enjoyed that song. if that's not obvious. I like that a lot. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah.

So that's it, dude. That's the songs that we have from the movie. We are going to play, like I said, another song as an outro. But yeah, dude, that's our pick for songs from 16 Candles. Yeah, here's the thing, man. Like, they were so... We really could do a whole other episode and pick three or four other artists. because there are so many songs that appear on this movie.

Yeah, and we had two other artists that we were going to play, but we swapped him out for other ones. Yeah, dude. There's a lot of great stuff fun in this movie. Oingo Boingo showed up, and it was a really cool song called Wild Sex and the Working Class. But since we're talking about weird science next week, obviously we're going to play Ongo Boingo next week, right?

Oh, for sure. We have to. But, yeah, I mean, like we said earlier, David Bowie, Billy Idol, Wham, the vapors turning Japanese obviously shows up to accompany the character, the over-the-top stereotyped Asian character. Long duck dong. But yeah, we could have done a whole other episode of this, but we're not going to, unfortunately. I think weird science will be fun. Another Michael C. Hall appearance.

You know, it's funny, kind of like what John Hughes was saying, he was afraid of, you know, know, wouldn't translate well as a soundtrack, like on Ferris Bueller's Day Off, because it's just so varied. You want to talk about even more random music in this movie. Right. I mean, you don't get a soundtrack like this without a music lover in the director's chair. You know what I mean? You just don't end up with something like this.

You end up with freaking walking on sunshine for... Don't remind me that that was almost the reality. Yeah, but no. If you want to know what we're talking about, go back and listen to our Ferris Bueller's Day Off episodes in last week. Go back. They dodged a bullet. Let's just put it that way. Yeah.

Try to think about Ferris Bueller's Day Off and ask yourself what would be the worst scene to play Walking on Sunshine as the backing song. And then go back and listen to our episode and you'll find out that the music director of the film, who wasn't John Hughes, obviously, wanted. that song in place of, actually, that was the original pick. And John Hughes was like, fuck that. Check this badass song out instead. Yeah. Which you can't separate that scene from that song, in my opinion. Yeah.

Anyway, yeah. So as we mentioned earlier, this film doesn't age well. But the humor is still there. There's a lot of cringe. You have to laugh through the cringe. But let's say it's not one of his best films. And it's, you know, knowing that it was his first movie behind the director's chair, I'm not surprised that it wasn't that good. Not good, but he pulled it off and it was wildly successful.

Yeah, there you go. That's a good freshman effort. And, you know, he introduced the world to Molly Ringwald. I'm pretty sure this was probably her first film, right? Yeah, I think so. Or at least her first big film. Anyway, all right, Q, so next week we're going to do weird science. I honestly haven't seen this film, so I'm going to have to look this up again.

I haven't seen it either, man. We'll be watching it for the first time this week. A couple of geeks. So obviously you go to your, you know, John Hughes has his, he's got Michael C. C. Hall on Michael Anthony Hall, not Michael C. Hall. Michael C. Hall is another one, right? Michael Anthony Hall, he's got him on speed dial. He's like, hey, I'm writing, I'm writing another nerd. So naturally, can you just come in and do what you do? Michael C. Hall is Dexter, which is a great show until the final season where they fucked everything up. Did you ever watch Dexter? I watched a few episodes. Dude, great show.

I'm really bad about finishing shows when I start him. Do yourself a favor and skip over the last season if you ever watch it because what they do with his character, basically what they do is they say, hey, fans of Dexter, all your hopes and dreams for this character, nope. We're going to take a piss all over it. Anyway, I get Michael C. Hall and Michael Anthony Hall mixed up. Yeah, a couple of nerds. They're in the, you know, they, this is what I know about the film. They, they create a female in the lab who's a bombshell cue. Yeah, they're basically Frankenstein and they create a lovely lady.

A lovely lady that I'm sure they take to the dance. Yeah, probably nothing like Frankenstein. But hey, let's watch the movie. We'll find out. We'll find out. Yeah, we'll find out. Anyway. Yeah.

And we'll be bringing tunes from that movie to your earbuds next week. it's time for our what you heard cue yes sir and i told you in private that i had a song in mind for this cue that you're gonna fucking dude hey that was private dude well i'm making it in public that you're gonna fucking love all right i'll let you go first brother i shared it with our our number one listener mitchell earlier today well i shared the record with him and he agreed to you that some of these tracks are bona fide head nodders is what he said. All right, man, bring it. So I'm going to play.

Okay, well, here, a little backstory, because you know how I like to give backstores. Do you remember, I don't recall if you played this game as much as I did, but do you remember Tony Hawks pro skater? Are you kidding me, dude? That's one of the games that I played more than any other game. Okay. You know, they're releasing a remastered version of it, the PS4. Oh, what do you know, Q? What do you think of them playing the last two days? What? Is it amazing? Oh, dude. It's literally remastered. Yeah.

Version of one and two. So it's the same levels. Oh, dude. Do you get the same gameplay? Oh, man. You know what was a lot of fun? Was the creating your own course? Yeah. Component of it. I don't, I don't like to mess around with that kind of stuff. Yeah. Back when I was a kid and I had nothing better to do. Yeah, I probably spent hours building parks. But now I just want to play the game. But yeah, it's great. Dude, it is so. it is so fun getting that airtime, man. And dude, it, it transported me right back to that time, dude, because it's, the gameplay is the same.

Like, you, I don't know if you remember. Oh, yes, Travis, trust me. I was playing that right along with you, man. You collect the letters, skate. Yeah. That was one of the goals you had to do. And you have a bunch of other random goals like find five cafeteria tables and grind on them. Yeah, you got to, you got to get that grind on.

Exactly. Anyway. And the soundtrack was phenomenal. It's almost like you know my script here. I don't have a script. This is all coming at you live. Can I ask you this? What?

Is it the same soundtrack? Same soundtrack. But they added some more songs as well. But yeah, some of the ones that were in the original games, like, of course, Guerrilla Radio was one of the songs, apparently. But a bunch of other new bands. So anyway, so that is the music. hearing in the background because I've been playing the shit out of this game. One of the bands is a band I've never heard of before. They're relatively new. Their debut record came out in 2018.

They are called the Viagra Boys and this record. It's called Street Worms. It's actually their only record. They've got some EPs and stuff. But I'm going to play for us here the very first song on the record. And how badass is that cover? Let me just say that. Oh, yeah, dude. Oh, man. Yeah.

It's fucking awesome. Anyway, we're going to have to play a pretty good portion of the song because there's one part that you have to, you got to hear. Q. Okay. But anyway, this song is called Down in the Basement. Yeah. I mean, it's like, it's such a level of like, it's kind of like what we talked about

with the Me Without You leads. singer. Aaron Weiss. Aaron Weiss. Yeah. About how like the, the emotion is right there. Like, yeah. And it comes off 100% whatever the emotion is that he's trying to portray this singer. Like, you feel it, right?

Because he portrays that emotion. Like this song is so interesting. The lyrics are about some guy with some kinky sex thing that he's into. And it's literally about his wife catching him in the act, basically. There's this, there's a, there's a line. here. And now you're down in the basement, all dressed up in latex, one red light bulb hanging from the ceiling, and a live goat standing on a small chair in the middle of the room. Now, how are you going to explain that, man? Like, how are you going to explain your nasty sex life to your

wife? Like, what a weird. You can't keep those secrets from your wife, man. Yeah, you can't, but yeah, what a weird subject for a song. But anyway, that's not the song that shows up on Tony Hawk Pro Skater wanted to. I loved it, man. That was great. But if you're curious, the next track's Low Learner is what's on the video game. And it's also a banger, as they say. But a lot of interesting things on this record.

They're bringing the same level of intensity that the hives bring. Yeah. You know? Yep. And I don't know why this came to mind, but I really want Spoon to cover this song. I don't know why. I could just see Britt Daniel pulling this off, like a more. heavy side of Brit Daniel

I don't know I think his voice kind of fits in with that style We're gonna have to see what Tyler Darling has to think about Basically I want his I want Britt Daniel To start writing music like this Well you know we have a direct connection

To Brit now Q So we can just ask them to do it It's not direct I would say it's direct We're one degree of separation away We're one Kevin Bacon removed. I mean, I basically, I feel like I know Brit, you know, since we're such good friends with Tyler Darling of the turn my podcast on. Mr. Spoon himself. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, so those guys are a

post-punk band from Sweden. Good stuff. Stockholm, to be specific. So, anyway, that was the Viagra Boys. That was a song called Down in the Basement. All right, Q, what you got for us? All right, man. So this is an artist that goes by Big Black Delta. This is a solo project of a guy named Jonathan Bates. He's also in a band called Melodrome. Never heard of them? I feel like I have heard of them.

Yeah, it's one of those names, yeah. I don't know much about them. Actually, I don't know anything about him. Yeah, but that name sounds familiar. Anyways, this is a solo project. He's been spitting out albums under Big Black Delta since 2011. It's kind of hard to describe the music. It's very like industrial comes to mind.

It kind of reminds me of at times that band The Faint, you know, very heavy, dancey, but at times like very, I don't know, Post-punk. It's hard to describe. But he actually just blew up because he has two songs in the soundtrack for the new Bill and Ted film, Face the Music. Have you watched it? No, I haven't seen it yet. Me neither. I'm afraid to. I am too. I am too. I'm worried about it. But anyways, this is a song from a self-titled album that came out in 2013. This one's pretty mellow, dude. I think you'll like it. This song is called Love You This Summer. I like that a lot. I was getting some spoon vibes too from that synth, that heavy synth. Yeah, I like that really

fuzzy like synth like strings. Yeah. Totally something that, that, uh, Brit and the boys would do. I mean, specifically kill the moonlight spoon. Yeah. Totally. You know what else I was getting? heavy Beck vibes. Yes, me too. Big time. Totally. So that's a little more on the mellow side. If you listen to more of his stuff, it's pretty heavy.

So when you say heavy, like you're saying electronic heavy? Let's play a little bit. Okay. Something for me. Here's a song from the same album. I think this one's heavy. It's called Beta Max. I like it.

Yeah, I like it a lot. A bit more going on, yeah. A little bit more bold. with his vocal delivery too is a lot more mellow and love you this summer yeah yeah yeah I guess I have a I have a different idea of what heavy is well that's because I didn't want to go through the entire I don't remember how all these songs sound dude I don't remember which one but there's some heavy electronic stuff going on like distorted heavy electronic music cool Yeah. So again, that's an artist that goes by Big Black Delta. That song was called Love You

This Summer. And that's it, man. Let's wrap this puppy up. Yes. All right. So like we said earlier, weird science is coming up next week on our Hughes tunes. But yeah, man, I don't know why I didn't know that prior to us digging a little bit, that John Hughes was something. such a music fan, but I mean, obviously, it's so obvious, right? Yeah. It's so obvious. Yeah. But, yeah, I mean, I think that just makes me appreciate the man that much more, you know.

Absolutely. Especially since he, it's just so obvious that, like, that was a priority, like, a, like, at the forefront priority, you know. Yeah. I would do the same thing. If I was a director, I would obsess over the song choices to the point of, like, absurdity. And I'm sure that's what he did. Yeah, it would be such a

like part of the film that that it wouldn't work without it. Yeah. And that's how he wrote the movies. I wonder how many scenes as he's writing them out. He already has a song in mind that he thinks would be perfect for it, you know? Well, I have a quote that I'll have to say for the Pretty and Pink episode, which will come out in two

weeks where I've got something that plays right into that cue as far as like, how he went about directing and thinking about the music that would accompany a scene. So, all right. There you go. All right, Q. So that's that. You can check us out on our website, nofeelipotcast.com.

And, hey, you can find us on the Pantheon Podcast Network. You can find a ton of other great music podcast content. And you could find them on Pantheon Podcast. You can also follow us on Twitter at No Filler Podcast, where we don't engage too much, but whenever on the episode drops, we post about it. Honestly, Q, we should do a lot better with the tweets, but... Well, once we hang up this, or once we turn off these mics, dude, I got, I got some ideas. I got some ideas.

But yeah, dude, I mean, I don't think it's a secret that we don't like, we don't like social media, all that much. We're not great at it. We don't know what we're doing it. I personally don't spend time on Twitter. So I've never been a tweeter, as they say. As the kids are saying these days. Yeah, I've never been a Twitter ever.

So, you know, whatever. We're trying. You know what? Maybe we should hire an intern, Q. As long as they're cool with working for free. That's what interns do. All of them? Well, not anymore.

Those are the good old days when you could get away with not paying people or anything. for a day's honest work. But anyway. So, yeah, find us on the tweeters. It's at No Filler Podcast. But our website is the go-to place. If you want to find a track listing of all those songs that we played, if you want to find any sources that we cite.

I don't think we had any sources today, dude. Maybe one. But anyway, that's Nofeelerpodcast.com. and I'm just a rambling man right now, Q, so let's wrap it up. Well, I got an outro, I got to get us all. That's right. So we have another, another song here from the film. This was the party scene.

The party scene at Jake's house. Party scene at Jake's house. And Q, I know that you're probably the same way as a 30-something year old who owns a house now. Or, you know, has. obligations, adult obligations. Responsibilities. All I was doing this whole time during the scene was just looking at all the damage that these kids,

these snot-nosed punks. Dude, I was so upset too. And I was like, my God, man. Yeah, they absolutely destroyed that house. They destroyed the house in Jake Ryan's character. Didn't seem all that much bothered by it other than just kind of putting his hands on his hips. He didn't seem

bothered at all. Like I said earlier, the guy couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. but that was him trying to be like, oh, this was upsetting me a little bit. Oh, darn, my parents are going to be so upset. Darn it? Yeah. But yeah, dude, the amount of destruction is troubling. I mean, if it was a car, it would have been totaled for sure.

Totaled. Yeah, thousands and thousands of dollars. So, yeah, that's all I could think about. But here's one thing that I noticed that I really enjoyed, the song that was playing. And that was a band called the Revelos. And when you look into this band, they used to be called the Rezalos. There's a lot of history with this band. I'm not going to go into it.

But they are a punk new wave band, surprise, surprise. And yeah, there's just a really fun, a lot more kind of, I don't know, rockabilly, more retro-sounding. The song that we're going to outro out with is, again, the song that was playing during the party scene in 16 candles. And that's going to do it for us. The song is called Rev Up, again by the band The Revelos. And yeah, that's going to do it for us today. We will shout at you all next week.

Thank you so much as always for listening. My name is Quentin. My name is Travis. Y'all take care.