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What do you think about the theme song ?

posted 21 years ago by surf_dude
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Wow - It's almost embarassing to start a Message Board thread about the "Green Slime" (then again, maybe everyone else was ashamed to start one).
Okay, the theme song seems to get some positive reviews from a lot of the reviewers on the IMDB. Granted, it is NO "Stairway To Heaven", "Yesterday", "Free Bird", "Billy Don't Be a Hero", etc. However, it is a nice "garage band" style rock song (with sci-fi sounds thrown in). It is totally unexpected at 5 minutes into the movie but it somehow fits. (sort of). Also, in the good old days of Napster, I was able to download the full version of this song. Gee, Napster was great. Anyway, I like the darned song. What do you folks think?

[–] ejs 21 years ago

Wow, all I remember about the theme song is the singer yowling "Green Sliiiiiiiiiime!!!" -- but it still had quite an effect on me as a kid watching this movie on TV oh so many years ago. How weird to discover now, decades later, that the director of this movie went on to direct Battle Royale, one of my favorite movies ever.

[–] surf_dude 21 years ago

Wow - a mere four months after I started this message board topic, I got a reply !!!
ejs - it is funny how very famous people started out in sci-fi "schlock" such as this.
One of Francis Ford Coppolla's early efforts was "Dementia 13".
James Cameron worked on the set of "Galaxy of Terror".
And of course Michael Landon always joked about one of his earlier movies "I Was A Teenage Werewolf".

[–] efrasnel-1 21 years ago

One of my fav bands, the Fuzztones, covered it. Stands the test of time, that song. Of course the Fuzztones always had a thing with B-movies, wether it be horror, SF or basic gore.

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[–] imogen007 19 years ago

Does any-1 actually still have it? I would like to get my hands on that song

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[–] KingVidor 14 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izr3Cidaz1M&feature=related

Yeah baby! The original Green Slime by rockin' Richard Delvecchio!

[–] surf_dude 14 years ago

King Vidor's post gave me the idea to check You Tube for other YouTube videos. The first is the one he posted, but this one is clickable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izr3Cidaz1M&feature=related
The full version (includes the part "man has looked out to space in wonder ...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKycp_ysE0U&feature=related
(the Fuzztones)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwlQDEgvy2E&feature=related
Full theme song and includes an extremely edited version of the entire movie.
Something to watch while you are listening to the song.

[–] erico_suave_007 19 years ago

Oh, I know the lyrics to the theme song all too well. I've had this movie for 10 years now (since I was 14). The song is my favorite part of the movie, besides the monsters and Bond babe Luciana Paluzzi. Here are the lyrics for your enjoyment (and my everlasting shame!):

Open the door and find the secret
To find the answer is to keep it
You'll believe it when you find
Something squeaming 'cross your mind!
Green Sliiiime!

Where did it come from? What's the reason?
Could it be the end of all that we've done?
Is it just something in your head?
Will you believe it when you're dead?!
Green Sliiiime!
Green Sliiiime!
Green Sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime!

Plus, I checked out the website for The Fuzztones (www.fuzztones.net) who are mentioned in an earlier post. I found out that, besides covering the Green Slime theme, they have an album with the original on it too ("Songs we taught The Fuzztones"). Cool!

[–] moviecollector 19 years ago

I love the GREEN SLIME song.

I'm so glad that Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will be playing this movie on November 4th. Finally, I'll have my own copy of THE GREEN SLIIIIIIIIIIIIME.

:)

[–] Elspode 19 years ago

The theme song to this film is positive proof that everyone in Hollywood was on drugs during this period in film history.

That being said, I'm sitting here watching it right now on TCM. I don't think I've seen it since I was 13 years old (now 49), and I *still* remember when the redheaded babe sees the smoldering corpse of the guy in the lab, and says "He's dead", the *entire* audience yelled out simultaneously, "No *beep* lady!"

One of my favorite bad cinema moments of all time.

[–] Yzsaakc 19 years ago

I'm watching it too, it's almost-too-bad-to-be-funny bad. (And I'm not reccomending everyone to use Shareaza to download the theme.)

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[–] MeanMachine2005 19 years ago

This movie is under my "so bad, it's good" category. Forgettable acting performances are made up by the laughable special effects and the ridiculous plot. However, it is true that certain concepts from this movie were adopted in future sci-fi flicks. So I guess in that way, it served its purpose.

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[–] Woodyanders 19 years ago

I absolutely love the theme song; it's a totally groovy fuzztone-rippin' blast! Not only was it released as a 45, but it was also used in the trailer. My good friend Rob did a radio show on eccentric cinema and rightfully included the song as part of the program.

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[–] otto4 19 years ago

You asked for it, I found it. Here's a downloadable recording of the original theme music, which totally ROXXZORS!

http://www.earthstation1.com/pgs/themes/dos-gstheme.wav.html

Greeeeeeeen Sliiiiiime..

I just got a, cough, DVD of this film and watched the first 15 minutes. It's worse than I remember :). It's so bad, it's GOOD. And this is only in the first 15 minutes, before the two alpha males start fighting, before the GoGo dance party, and before the Green Slime spawns on the space station.

Man that music kicks booty.

[–] wreeah 19 years ago

I found it a few years ago, and still have it somewhere saved on my computer.
I'm still trying to figure out who sang the original version of this song.
Anyone know?

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[–] blondinii 17 years ago

The Fuzztones sang it.....

[–] BlazeYaDeadHomie 16 years ago

That theme song is one of the greatest of all time. Its on my "most listened" list on iTunes.

The Fuzztones didn't record it...just covered it.

[–] erico_suave_007 19 years ago

I found this tidbit on the Dr. Mysterian website:

Green Slime boasts one of science fiction's greatest theme songs, a psychedelic soul number by former surf music drummer Richard Delvy (he cowrote the Bel Aires' "Mr. Moto.") Featuring a theremin-like moans, a sitar, and shrieking Jimmi Hendrix-style guitars, the theme also benefits from snarling, gravel-voiced vocals, sounding like the sort of music that would play behind an LSD freakout scene in a Roger Corman film, and not at all like the sort of thing you would find in a willfully naive space monster flick. "You'll believe it when you find /something screaming 'cross your mind," the singer informs us, growing hysterical. Perhaps this blast of groovy acid rock is intended to offer us an alternative interpretation of the film: It shouldn't be watched as an alien invasion horror film at all.

Another piece of info: the theme was written by songwriter Wes Farrell.

[–] dalldorfw 16 years ago

...Invation Of The B-Grils. On this album she also covers

Girl In Gold Boots (awful movie; great song)

Run, Pussycat, Run (from 'Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill)

Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls

and more...

[–] surf_dude 15 years ago

Since someone posted the lyrics, how could this thread be complete without posting all the lyrics? Yes there is another part to this song (NOT played in the movie)

Man has looked out to space in wonder, for thousands of years,
Sometimes thinking that life could be out there ... and now, now it's here !!!!!

Yes, in typical "Green Slime" style, the singer really screams the "now it's here" part.
Well, it was a story that had to be told.

[–] dalldorfw 15 years ago

Thanks. I didn't know about that.

[–] occidentalchandala 15 years ago

Green Slime is a classic. Hate to divulge secrets but this song desperately needs to be preserved.

Green Slime is by Green Slime, 1968 (not the Fuzztones). There exists a 45 (mono) for those of us who still collect vinyl. For those of us who still buy CD's you can get the stereo remaster on the "Monster Rock 'n' Roll Show" compilation, 1999. It's the only track you need bother with aside from the sublime radio advert for Astro-Zombies. It's out of print but you can still find used copies for around $20.00.

That's my good deed for the day.

BTW this track is way better than Free Bird.

[–] toycoon-too 9 years ago

So bizarre and psychedelic! I love to play this song when I DJ at a local garage music club. People always come up and ask me a million questions about it.

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[–] Theystillcallmebee 15 years ago

lol I just love it and the words are printed on the back of the DVD I have! :)

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[–] MuggySphere 15 years ago

I love the theme song.

Didn't Josie Cotton do a redo of this? I think she did because I have an mp3 of a woman called Josie Cotton singing The Green Slime...