Time Bomb Town

[littlelies7]

Every time I would see "Back to the Future", and I would watch it, I can't hear the song. Where does it play in the movie? :shrug:

[wondergirl9847]

When Marty wakes up, it's playing on the radio. Can't remember exactly where, but it only plays for 5-10 seconds, I think.

[sodascouts]

It's before he goes out to meet Doc, near the beginning. He has to wake up at like 2 am, and the radio alarm clock that wakes him plays "Time Bomb Town" for about 5 seconds before he hits it to turn it off, lol.

[face of glass]

To me it seems like pretty much every song in this movie that wasn't "Johnny B. Goode" or made by those yuppie turds Huey Lewis & The News got a bad treatment; Eric Clapton's song comes out from the radio too for a short time. Sure, the director might have thought it was more realistic but since "Time Bomb Town" is the best song on the soundtrack I'm bugged by it. :rolleyes:

[sodascouts]

I think some of Lindsey's soundtrack offerings are better than stuff he deemed worthy of his own albums!

I agree! Law and Order has no standout songs to me at all, but "Holiday Road" is my second favorite Lindsey solo song. Also, he could have ditched one of his retro covers like "September Song" for the retro-sounding blast that is "Dancin' 'Cross the USA." Those two songs are better than anything on the Law and Order album, frankly. "Time Bomb Town" could have replaced that majorly annoying "I Must Go" (although perhaps Lindsey thought he needed the latter for thematic reasons). "On the Wrong Side" is better than "Turn It On," but Lindsey might have been too embarrassed about its lyrics containging repetitions from other songs to include it on OOTC.

My favorite songs of Stevie's are often non-album tracks as well: "Battle of the Dragon" and "Sleeping Angel" are my two favorite Stevie solo songs. In fact, BOTD is leaps and bounds better than anything she did in the latter half of the 80s, although I do enjoy "Ooh My Love." Also, "Gold and Braid" and "Blue Lamp" are favorites as well, beating out many an album track. So it's a shared phenomenon. :)

[sodascouts]

made by those yuppie turds Huey Lewis & The News

Ah, I loved "The Power of Love"! True, I was only ten at the time, but to this day it makes me smile. "Don't need money! Don't take fame! Don't need no credit card to ride this train!" As Michael J. Fox grabs the back of the jeep and skateboards around the town. Gotta love it!

[sodascouts]

But what's wrong with them both giving away such great songs for soundtracks! Maybe it's just another output for their material.

It's not "wrong," but it is a shame that putting something on a soundtrack severly limits those who will get to hear it, as a rule. Your casual Stevie fan has never heard of most of those songs, which as we've said are among her best. And to this day, "Holiday Road" and "Dancin' 'Cross the USA" are unavailable on CD thanks to their inclusion on the National Lampoon's Soundtrack. In that sense, I definitely wish they had gotten put on an album instead.

[stefan]

I seem to be the only LB fan who really hates both songs- Holiday road and DATUSA. They are always praised and mentioned- but if that were the kind of songs he always had done I wouldn`t have gotten a fan...
Time bomb town on the other hand is cool, with the barking sounds and all the stuff going on. It`s typical LB, not too serious- humorous like Johnny Stew on Law and order with the voice making and stuff at the end.
Despite my reluctance towards too much of cover songs by any artist the ones on Law and order are fine and I'd miss September song f.e. I`d always liked Turn it on too as one of the best songs on OOTC. Ups and I love Law and order and my standout there would be Shadow of the West- so Nancy and I couldn`t share the same CD player :laugh:

[wondergirl9847]

I love Huey Lewis and the News!! Yeah, he's wearing those huge glasses in that scene, lol.

TBT is one of the most uniquely sung songs I've ever heard. It's Elvis meets punk or something. :lol: I adore the opening, it's so breezy. :)

[shackin'up]

I seem to be the only LB fan who really hates both songs- Holiday road and DATUSA. They are always praised and mentioned- but if that were the kind of songs he always had done I wouldn`t have gotten a fan...
Time bomb town on the other hand is cool, with the barking sounds and all the stuff going on. It`s typical LB, not too serious- humorous like Johnny Stew on Law and order with the voice making and stuff at the end.
Despite my reluctance towards too much of cover songs by any artist the ones on Law and order are fine and I'd miss September song f.e. I`d always liked Turn it on too as one of the best songs on OOTC. Ups and I love Law and order and my standout there would be Shadow of the West- so Nancy and I couldn`t share the same CD player :laugh:

There's another one who dislikes those songs. Guess you have to be from Europe to hear the cheesyness in those songs. But in "hatred" you stand alone, Stefan. That pushes a little too far for me. :wavey:

[Mari]

I love Holiday Road, but Dancing Across The Usa, naah.

[Janet]

The songs aren't that lost, we all have heard them.

I really like Time Bomb Town.

But I also love the songs he did with Tom Petty, for She's the One.
I also love On the Wrong Side, from With Honors. He has a pretty good track record with soundtracks,.

Let's not forget the remake of Magnet and Steel ( I love it!) and then the song he did for that movie with the four witches, the Craft, he did something on that too.
He did alot and I think it's cool, because now so many movies are associated with him, not just albums.

[sodascouts]

The songs aren't that lost, we all have heard them.


Yes, but we had to make a big effort to (or at least I did). I didn't realize that Lindsey was on the Back to the Future soundtrack until I started my website, and it's one of my favorite movies. That's pretty bad. lol And you'd be surprised the number of people who write me thanking me for putting up "Holiday Road" for download, because they haven't been able to hear it for years on anything except a casette player or LP. Like I said, it's not "wrong," it's just a shame. What we need is a Lindsey Enchanted Box Set that includes them all. ;)

[Mari]

When you compare it to the number of Stevie-download sites, I'm surprised (and a little disappointed of course!) there just aren't a lot of Lindsey dedicated download homepages on the net. If I had the webspace, I'd certainly make one.

[Janet]

Yeah, well, frankly, Stevie is more popular than Lindsey.

Stevie had one of the most popular BTM yet Lindsey's they showed 2 times? It really sucks.

I love them both equally but Lindsey has an edge because he's so gorgeous.

Anyway, regarding his songs, I just think once you go here as someone new and find out his soundtrack records, it's not hard to find them. All the movies he was associated with are big movies.

Stevie had movie moments like the scene in Fast Times and the one in that movie Against All Odds ( you here Violet and Blue I think as one of them enters a club or something)

Anyway, I'm happy Lindsey has his movie moments and that he was good enough to have songs in big movies JUST like Stevie.

In the end, they both just did a song together ( and thanks to that, we got the Dance)

As for more Lindsey sites, we need more, of course. As for a box set, he could totally release one. Maybe instead of a new album, he should do a box set with one disk being his new album. It would be so great and so worth it.

[sodascouts]

When you compare it to the number of Stevie-download sites, I'm surprised (and a little disappointed of course!) there just aren't a lot of Lindsey dedicated download homepages on the net. If I had the webspace, I'd certainly make one.

It is a bummer there's not more Lindsey sites, period, not just download sites. Not to be presumptuous, but I bet you could make a nice LB site if you put your mind to it, even if there are no downloads. It would be great to have one more regardless. Think about it! :)

[Mari]

Well... I didn't want to make any promises, because I have such terrible procrastination habits (which Gaius can affirm) but I ám thinking about it ;)

[Mari]

I think I have a concept idea for that page :D http://home.tiscali.nl/thenicksfiles/other/beinglbklein.jpg

[face of glass]

Oh, that's brilliant Mari. Wonder what that odd face is doing in there. :lol:

I like your new banners as well. I'd like to see someone actually using one of those. :D

[Mari]

that odd face is the 'real' lindsey, wondering "who are these people and what are they doing in my head" :D

[DownOnRodeo]

Lindsey would love that I think! :laugh:
PS Thanks for the most recent Tusk downloads, Mari. I think the only one left now is Tusk itself!

[Mari]

:)
I think there were a couple more.. but Tusk is 12 mb :shocked: I hope I can find a way to put it up there.

[wondergirl9847]

That poster is hysterical!!! BWAH!!! I wanna see that movie!!

[michelej1]

We Are Movie Geeks

http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2015/10/30th-anniversary-reissue-of-back-to-the-future-music-from-the-motion-picture-soundtrack-double-vinyl-picture-available-on-october-21/

30th Anniversary Reissue Of Back to the Future: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Double-Vinyl Picture Disc Available On October 21

By Michelle McCue | October 6, 2015

[excerpt]
Thirty years after the release of Robert Zemeckis’ beloved time-travel feature film, Back to the Future, we still don’t have hover skateboards nor DeLorean’s for that matter, but the Chicago Cubs may be on the verge of a World Series for the first time since 1908.

Perhaps the best news of all, a 30th anniversary reissue of the original Back to the Future: Music from the Motion Picture soundtrack will be reissued as a special, double-vinyl picture disc by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) on October 21.

The image on Side A is a recreation of the original album cover, while Side B sports a view of the digital clock ticking inside Doc Brown’s time-tripping DeLorean, with the meter set at the current release date, making this a valued collector’s item.

The original Back to the Future album, which came out July 8, 1985 right after the movie hit theaters on July 3, was a hit, spending a total of 19 weeks on the Billboard 200, peaking at #12, in October, producing Huey Lewis and the News’ first chart-topping single, the RIAA-certified gold single, “The Power of Love,” nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Lewis also contributed “Back in Time” to the soundtrack (and appeared as a judge during the battle of the bands contest which featured McFly’s rock group). The album – appropriately highlighting songs both from the ’50s and ’80s — also features such artists such as Lindsey Buckingham(“Time Bomb Town”), Eric Clapton (“Heaven is One Step Away”) and Etta James (“The Wallflower [Dance With Me Henry]”). There were also a pair of tracks featuring Alan Silvestri’s score, credited to the Outtatime Orchestra, two ’50s classics credited to the fictional Marvin Berry (played by Harry Waters, Jr., who did the vocals) and the Starlighters (“Night Train,” “Earth Angel [Won’t You Be Mine]”) and Michael J. Fox’s character Marty McFly and the Starlighters’ memorable “just too darn loud” version of Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode,” though it was actually sung on the soundtrack by Mark Campbell. If you recall, McFly and his cohorts played the song back in 1955, three years before Berry even wrote it.