But most of all, thank you Hollywood for allowing me to believe that nerds with guns are heroes, Australians with Bowie knives and cowboy boots have all the answers, boxers can topple the Soviet bloc with a swift uppercut, and Jackie “I’m not Rodney Dangerfield” Mason and Randy “big, loser brother of Dennis” Quaid can redistribute wealth and cure social class conflict through miniature golf course development.David Gulpilil was jailed in 2011 for abusing his wife (Image: WireImage) Read More Related Articles I miss you.Īll in all, I want to thank the sweet maker for allowing me to be alive from 1987-1989. If you’re out there Kenny, don’t be afraid. K-Log, a name I’d call him to his face if he’d ever respond to one of the 40 pieces of fan mail I send him a week, truly sealed his reputation as a hit-maker with the heart of a rock and roller. Fresh off the Top Gun blockbuster, Loggins penned this musical masterpiece while attempting to bring about the synthesized harmonica revolution.
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But, Loggins, arguably the greatest movie soundtrack auteur of all time, knew that Rodney Dangerfield’s absence from Caddy Shack 2 would require one of the greatest hits of 1988 to send this Randy Quaid vehicle into the box-office stratosphere. Speaking of prepackaged fools, have you listened to “ Nobody’s Fool” by Kenny Loggins lately? Me neither. Thank you Mick and Iggy for teaching us to “dance like a fool” in order to be a “wild one.” But are all wild men fools?
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Paul Hogan not only knew how to use a machete, but also that by reproducing the same movie with a prepackaged pop piece of shit tune, he could still create a classic film. Crocodile Dundee II proved he was a two-hit wonder, and that being outback savvy was necessary in order to defeat a Colombian drug cartel and save the blonde bombshell. Even Ogre became a nerd, and in the case of this cinematic entity, a hero.Īnd it was Iggy Pop’s commercial chart topper “ Real Wild Child (Wild One)” that taught us Paul Hogan wasn’t just a one hit wonder on the silver screen. The Trilambs were through with taking shit from the Alpha Betas, and it was time for payback. The nerds were much more playful then, yet this should have been seen as a warning. This sensational song inspired Booger and Poindexter to take up arms against the jocks and infiltrate the national fratboy convention with tanks and grenades, perhaps an ominous precursor to the coming wave of high school massacres, but with a feel-good, positive rock and roll tempo. 38 Special reinvented themselves with their single “ Back to Paradise” on the Revenge of the Nerds II soundtrack.
“ No Easy Way Out” taught us that even if a Siberian mutant killed your best friend, you could still lift logs and outrun KGB agents while driving Mercedes Benz’s in three feet of hard-packed snow. “ Survivor” fueled Rocky’s mountain toppling ambitions.
From the early days of 1987, when Predator defined American foreign policy to the waning months of 1989, when Val Kilmer played with midgets, movie sequel soundtracks became a savior for the collective American mentality. What a time it was to be four!īut it was music that truly left an impression on my fragile conscience. I thought Hulk Hogan was Ronald Reagan and Arnold and Sly were single-handedly battling communist infidels and menacing drug cartels, making it safe for a red-blooded patriot like myself to sleep under the blanket of impending nuclear winter. I was tiny, and my life was being shaped by neon colors, hair metal bands, acid stained denim, and neo-conservatism. The years 1987-1989 are but a faint whisper in my memory.
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