Top legendary adventure movie songs from the eighties

Welcome again to my little blog. Today we're gonna discuss some of the best songs that are long forgotten today, but give me all that pleasant memories of sunny youth. The numbers aren't about who's first. Just numbers for... enumeration.

1. Jerry Reed and the theme from Smokey and the bandit. Today even I don't find that movie so amusing itself, but it just took 20 nostalgic seconds in one of the final scenes of my name is earl episodes where Earl gives a chance to Randy to be the bandit, the song goes in and they ride off with the pontiac trans am to the sunset. Incredible piece of tv filmmaking and even more incredible piece of music



2. Lindsay Buckingham Holiday Road. This is a big one. This is a hit that threw Chevy Chase and the Griswald family into top cult comedies of the eighties. Chase became a celebrity, and there is no woman that won't dance to this song. Unless she's paralysed. Legendary disco-pop that now deserves place in every digital albumbook on youtube. Never go on holiday without it !



3. Sammy Hagar Heavy metal music. This is the track that threw the violence-erotica themes of classic comic book series into the mainstream. I think this movie and song started the violence-pop era of die hard and all of those action-adventure movies where killing and violence is entertainment and when the kill-show is over during the credits you hear relaxing and energizing rock hit on the way out of cinema. This song is a great compliment to the era of vixens, sadomasochism erotics of heavy metal comic books and unforgettable, iconic trailer. Should be played during football matches or nascar crashes.



4.Cindy Lauper Good Enough. This is one of those adventure titles like all the rest, you hear it once, you'll remember that pleasant time to the rest of your life. And I know I can listen to those songs all my life. One of the songs that is played in adventure movies where 1-2 people is running away from around 50-100.



5.Chuck Berry Johnny Be Goode. Well this is not an eighties song but I guess early fifties. But it got into mainstream when Michael J. Fox played it in legendary first part of Back to the Future... and kicked the AMP! This is the song that created Rock n Roll which is very nicely portrayed in the movie that actually it was Marty Mcfly who created rock n roll.



6. Elvis Presley Jailhouse Rock. Well of course this is not an eighties song. But thanks to nostalgic blues brothers the song got into an adventure movie with angry sounding american cars chasing and crashing each other. One of the greatest car chases in cinema, suprise that people don't rank it that well as back then.



7.Kenny Loggins Footloose. Created in the era when almost everyone could watch musicals and not feel ashamed of himself. Another next to Good Enough songs that radio stations still play, best either to dance on the bar table in a pub or to play in a scene where large group of people chase 1 or 2. Really cool and you really should try dance on the table sometime along time ago in an irish pub far away.



8.Queen One Vision. In the era of glam jet dogfights and hot dates this movie went on with a wave of promoting this whole youth fascination of jets and dogfights, so they made a teen movie, which had this classic song that everyone that watched it still remember. Actually this movie promoted the idea of listening to typical eighties rock while flying jets, smashing cars and that stuff. Highly recommended track.



9.The pirate movie theme song. Well Eroll Flynn rolls in his grave of jealousy that his movies didn't have such a staggering pirate theme which probably is the best pirate movie theme in history. Track got so popular in some places that they even play it during naval academy celebrations. Is that creepy or hilarious ? Guess a little bit of both.

The movie

Hi, in my first post I would like to share with you  one of the best underdog movies of all time (at least in my opinion). Why I think its great ? Do you also have got one of those movies that you keep rewatching again and again since you were a kid and it just can't get old ? Its like the movie title those were the best of times. Why so much buzz about such a small movie - you don't have to make a movie about nfl, you don't have to make a movie with super big budget and young stars and so on. Cult classic movies are all about that passion that all of us have in life, at least for some time, that we always keep getting back to those times. That's why this movie serves as a motto for this blog, for finding that our thing in life, our meaning of being a part of something bigger than ourselves and enjoying it to the deepest limits. I literally thanked god for this movie. A comedy about life, hope and getting even. In a nutshell as we can read on the poster. You liked animal house, you will enjoy the best of times !
 

Despite having rather awful trailers, like all underdog cult movies it deserves seeing it. Check out refreshed version released on dvd !