![]() ![]() You can draw a direct line from the look of Flashdance to the neon sheen of the Brat Pack movies and to the oiled-up muscularity of the Stallone/Schwarzenegger school of action flicks.įlashdance was huge. In cribbing its techniques from the music-video world, Flashdance more or less invented the ’80s movie, or at least the non-Spielbergian variety of ’80s movie. Something like half the movie is montage, and the whole thing takes place in a beautiful, ecstatic otherworld. The cinematic style of Flashdance is pure cocaine-dust-cloud MTV decadence: Clouds of dry ice wafting everywhere, big haircuts shown in backlit silhouette, editing cut to the beat of the pop songs on the soundtrack. That’s probably the best way to explain what happened with Flashdance.įlashdance is a pretty ridiculous movie - a retelling of the Rocky fairytale that subs out Sylvester Stallone’s down-on-his-luck mob-enforcer boxer for Jennifer Beals’ nervously striving steelworker and aspiring dancer. A year after that, the MTV influence had spread to cinema. A year later, the channel had already started to make a huge impact on the pop charts. ![]() MTV first went on the air in August of 1981. ![]() It's just a pipedream of mine really, I love 80s soundtracks, but when some of these CDs sell for £100+, it has to have legs.In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. but then also expanding into soundtracks which have exclusive material, like Mannequin (Belinda Carlisle's 'In My Wildest Dreams'!), or best selling soundtracks which I'd like to see expanded with 12" mixes, ie. I'm initially thinking of films with a music/dance theme, like Breakdance, Breakdance II: Electric Boogaloo, Fast Forward, Krush Groove, etc. Would anyone be interested in such a venture? I've just spent a lot of money on the Krush Groove soundtrack, and I was thinking how great it would be if there was a dedicated label putting out reissues of soundtracks? Perhaps even a DVD + CD set of the movie, with the accompanying soundtrack? A quick look on a site like iOffer would suggest there is a (small) demand, where there's a lot of bootleg CDs, of a high standard to be fair, of soundtracks which are long out of print (or never released on CD before). Ok, so, a lot of these old 80s dance films which you can get cheaply on DVD have cool soundtracks which are very collectable/expensive on out of print CDs. ![]()
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