Many thanks to C-Shift reader John S. for sending along these two goodies, which I have duly uploaded to Circadian Shift: The Outpost:
"Oh Yeah"by Yello (MP3; 2,962 KB)"March of the Swivelheads"by The English Beat (MP3; 7,371 KB)
More alert (and older!) members of the viewing audience will recognize both these tunes from the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Actually, there never was an official soundtrack release, so you'd have to do some scrounging to find all the songs featured in the film.
The Yello tune seemed to be darned near ubiquitous during the mid-80s (it appeared on a few movie soundtracks, if I remember correctly), and isn't too hard to find on CD. The tune from the English Beat featured here was an instrumental that appeared as the B-side to one of their 12-inch singles.
Links to the bands:
- the official website for The Beat (as they were properly known in the UK) has information, a complete discography, linkage, and more
- YELLOzone is a fairly extensive fan site with info, lyrics, and video clips; the official Yello site is currently a blank page
Addendum 06 March 2005: More Ferris Bueller soundtrack goodness! Thanks to Colin at Canuckflack for sending this in:
"Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (instrumental)"by The Dream Academy (MP3; 3,026 KB)
Yes, that is The Dream Academy covering The Smiths -- they did a vocal version of the tune as well.
Comments
Oh Yeah was also featured in "the secret of my success" which had a soundtrack. Its also on the gatorade jams disc if you know someone who drinks to much of that stuff.
Posted by: Derek W | March 7, 2005 4:12 AM
"Oh Yeah" has got to be one of the Top 10 '80s anthems, if not at least the Top 20. Thanks for posting it!
BTW, thought you might be interested in something I found the other day - "The Mod Pop Punk Archives" -- according to the site: "This web site feature Mod '79-Power Pop-Punk Pop '77 band biographies, discographies, line-ups...loads of picture sleeves, bands, pix, sounds, links. The bands listed here were active between 1976 and 1985." Nice, although I never would have said "mod" and "punk" in the same sentence back in my parka-clad days. Enjoy...
*Note: Ugh...I keep receiving an error for "questionable content" when trying to paste the URL in your comment box. They don't like mods, I suppose! Anyways, try Googling "Mod Pop Punk Archives," it should be the first link that shows up.
Posted by: GN | March 8, 2005 1:03 PM