In this week’s episode, Crush On Radio goes to the movies! Rich, Andrew and Matt discuss some of their favorite music movies: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, URGH! A Music War, and That Thing You Do!. Also, we talk about film adaptations of musicals in general, the Hedwig and the Angry Inch sequel, Hedwig versus Rocky Horror, the development and separation of New Wave, Post-Punk, and Synthpop circa 1980, Klaus Nomi, Rush Limbaugh(!), verisimilitude vis-a-vis recording quality in period pastiche pieces (try saying that three times fast!).
Picks this week: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, URGH! A Music War, and That Thing You Do!
(Additional music, “Stop Gap” by Wilfred Burns.)
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Rich
- Sanspoint
- @sanspoint
- Want a Breath Mint?
- Urgh! A Music War
- Urgh! A Music War Trailer | YouTube
- Urgh! A Music War Burn on Demand DVD
- And now, a list of my favorite Urgh! performances, in order of their appearance in the film
- Wall of Voodoo – Back in Flesh
- John Cooper Clarke – Health Fanatic
- Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Enola Gay
- Oingo Boingo – Complete Urgh Performance (Only “Ain’t This the Life” made the film)
- XTC – Respectable Street
- Klaus Nomi – Total Eclipse
- Dead Kennedys – Bleed For Me
- Gary Numan – Down in the Park
- Magazine – Model Worker
- Au Pairs – Come Again (Sadly censored)
- Pere Ubu – Birdies
- DEVO – Uncontrollable Urge
- Gang of Four – He’d Send In the Army
- Skafish – Sign of the Cross
- More information on Invisible Sex than you probably need
Andrew
- andrewmarvin.net
- @andrewmarvin
- That Thing You Do! | iTunes
- That Thing You Do! soundtrack | iTunes
- That Thing You Do! | Wikipedia
- “That Thing You Do!” music video | YouTube
- That Thing You Do! trailer | YouTube
- Tom Hanks interview | YouTube
- “Chemical Bomb” – The Aquabats | YouTube
Matt
- Kittysneezes
- @kittysneezes
- KS Tumblr
- WP on Hedwig
- WP on the stage play version
- News on the Hedwig sequel!
- Weird – I don’t think I really went on too many digressions this time, so I don’t have a whole lot to link. HOORAY!
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