Well, I think I managed to surpass myself in strange ways to start the year. On the 4th day of the year I ended up live on Radio 1 talking about digging up dead animals… certainly a new one for me. Oh well.
Aside from this madness I’ve mostly been at work. Meh.
I was listening to Radio 1 a bit over the past few days, and on Boxing Day encountered a show counting down their selected Top 40 Movie Songs, listed here.
Some of the songs are fantastic (I turned in to hear Huey Lewis & The News – ‘Power of Love’ from one of my favourite films – Back to the Future), and while I enjoyed listening to it, but this is by no means a list that I’d agree with in its entirety.
To my mind the track from High School Musical shouldn’t have been in there. It was a straight to DVD film that clearly doesn’t merit its inclusion in this list. I’m not too sure about the inclusion of the South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut track either; especially as high up the list as 23. Of course, that would probably have been replaced by a song from Team America: World Police had the show been broadcast at a later hour.
Aside from these inclusions that I disagree with, there’s a whole manner of songs that are – in my opinion – missing. Where was Steppenwolf – ‘Born to be Wild’ from Easy Rider? or Kenny Loggins – ‘Highway to the Dangerzone’ from Top Gun; both classic songs. Of course I’d have liked to hear anything from another of my favourite films – The Blues Brothers as well. I suppose that in order to make the songs selected appeal to a greater range of people they decided to sacrifice some classics.