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vintageadsI love both these movies...
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
PJ Soles! Clint Howard! Paul Bartel! Mary Woronov! and the Ramones!
Truth be told it's pretty crummy when the Ramones are offscreen. But when they are onscreen, it's fantastic, even if they were lipsynching. (Or when DeeDee was trying to act.)
Fact: according to the commentary track, the Ramones had never heard of lipsynching before this. "You mean the Beatles weren't really singing in A Hard Day's Night?"
I totally recommend the DVD, both for the ability to skip to all the Ramones parts and also for the commentary which is hilarious and informative for fans of the Ramones and Roger Corman movies.
Huge poster:
click to embiggen. I wanted to buy this poster @ a poster shop in NY and the guy wouldn't sell it to me because it was cheesy. :P
And... because this movie is like Rock 'n' Roll High School only serious. And both are really dated, but that's OK! Nice soundtracks too...
Pump up the Volume (1990)
Christian Slater! I love this movie so much.
Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
PJ Soles! Clint Howard! Paul Bartel! Mary Woronov! and the Ramones!
Truth be told it's pretty crummy when the Ramones are offscreen. But when they are onscreen, it's fantastic, even if they were lipsynching. (Or when DeeDee was trying to act.)
Fact: according to the commentary track, the Ramones had never heard of lipsynching before this. "You mean the Beatles weren't really singing in A Hard Day's Night?"
I totally recommend the DVD, both for the ability to skip to all the Ramones parts and also for the commentary which is hilarious and informative for fans of the Ramones and Roger Corman movies.
Huge poster:
click to embiggen. I wanted to buy this poster @ a poster shop in NY and the guy wouldn't sell it to me because it was cheesy. :P
And... because this movie is like Rock 'n' Roll High School only serious. And both are really dated, but that's OK! Nice soundtracks too...
Pump up the Volume (1990)
Christian Slater! I love this movie so much.
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Date: 2015-07-15 03:17 am (UTC)Can you believe that they originally wanted Cheap Trick for the film instead of the Ramones? No... Just no.
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Date: 2015-07-16 02:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-16 02:37 am (UTC)I just read about this this morning…
Date: 2015-07-15 03:51 am (UTC)Serious! I read about it on my neighborhood blog, E.V. Grieve (http://evgrieve.com/2015/07/meanwhile-in-riverdale.html#links):
Yes, it’s true. In 2016, Riverdale’s typical teenagers will be teaming up with New York City’s original punks in a musical crossover for the ages. Saturday night at San Diego Comic-Con‘s “Comics & Pop Music: Making New Noise” panel, writers Alex Segura and Matthew Rosenberg revealed Archie Comics‘ latest, greatest, rockingest release to date, a special comic that brings together the formerly disparate worlds of CBGB’s and Pop’s Chocklit Shop in a hyperspeed bubblegum battle of the bands.
Re: I just read about this this morning…
Date: 2015-07-16 02:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-15 10:59 pm (UTC)we had a mattress thrown in the back of the pickup, and parked backwards at the drive-in, with the speaker hung on the side of the truck. (it was later than 1979) good times, good times.
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Date: 2015-07-16 02:43 am (UTC)I only remember one drive-in way out in the country - actually I'm not sure it was still open.
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Date: 2015-07-17 04:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-17 05:55 pm (UTC)