I was living in NYC in 1988 and the last thing clubs were playing was Blondie.
Who was the music consultant for this movie? Roll with It by Steve Winwood, Def Leppard, It Takes Two by Rob Base, George Michael ruled the airwaves that year.
Dude means nice guy. Dude means a regular sort of person.
The explanation given by the director is that the music choices were Bobby's. Oldies that he loved. Not everything we listen to is current. Gray wanted to illustrate that.
"sometimes we leave everything to find ourselves"
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That makes total sense. I could somehow see that in Bobby's character. He wasn't so young and flashy, seemed more like a nostalgic kind of guy.
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shareThank you! That's what I was saying aloud during pretty much EVERY club scene. I loved the film but Jesus... the film opens with 1988 supered on the screen and fifteen seconds later we hear "Heart of Glass"? That song was a single released in 1979! There should have been NO disco beats whatsoever. Great film... incredibly inaccurate music representation.
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i hear heart of glass and blondie being played in clubs to this day, especially in NYC since debbie harry is still part of the scene there.
shareA good song is never out of date.
"a malcontent who knows how to spell"
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The DVD has a special feature entitled "a scene in crime" where the director says it's tricky to make a period piece of a recent time because of the "period Patrol" who always complain that one song wasn't out at the time, another wasn't famous, etc...This thread is loaded with them. I thought it was refreshing for a change, and the direction and cinematography were excellent overall. However, every movie based in the 80's has David Bowie's Let's Dance at some point in it.
shareYeah, I agree Blondie wasn't topping the playlists then but that didn't mean it never got play.
The 80's reached its zenith during the time the film was set but it looks nothing like 80's Brooklyn that I remember.
The film should have had "Hungry Eyes" playing, that song was all the rage that year. XD
I hear that song to this day in the retro clubs. It's still popular over 30 years later. Besides, when you have a great club song does it really go out of style? Ever? Look at House of Pain's "Jump Around", 50 Cent's "In da Club", stuff like that. A DJ plays those songs and everyone loves them despite them being 10, 20 years old.
shareYou are missing the point. The reason they were playing Blondie, they figured most Clubs do not play current music. To keep it real they were playing music from a few years prior. Just like today's music, most places play whatever was popular say a couple of years ago...you know...dancing music...Club music.
At lease that is what I read when they did the write up on this movie. Go check out.
He sure loved Blondie...but they are still great songs..
shareHeart of Glass was a classic most DJs in a club like that would play.
If you really want to get technical, well, I remember in '88 when I started to go to clubs they would play mostly House Music.
But I dunno, this movie seems more suited for something like Heart of Glass; its a real simple movie in the club sense. The focus is not on the club; if it were like Saturday Night Fever, which had all the latest music at the time, then that would be one thing; most of the drama and the action revolved around the club. Beat Street is another example of a movie which has the latest and best music of the time when the movie was made but that was because it was about the hip hop/rap culture, which changes and evolves constantly so the audience would want to hear what was hot at the second.
In this movie, the club is something of a backdrop and a metaphor for the main characters alternate and rebellious lifestyle, which puts him at odds with the rest of his family. It seemed to be a hangout place for white working class and collegiate young people and most of the time when you go to their clubs it seems you can throw anything on and they will dance. So, the music is not so important but Heart of Glass is a good song that would play well in most clubs (except maybe a hip hop club, but then again..) and in any era.
Inconceivable? I don't think so. A disco in Brooklyn playing music from roughly ten years earlier is far-fetched? And for the record, I lived in NYC in 1988 as well, and right above a disco, no less.
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