Friday, August 28, 2009

John Hughes Tribute PLAYLIST!!!

By multiple request...here is the playlist from our John Hughes Tribute show. playing all day today on Houndstooth Radio

BREAK #1
kajagoogoo by Kajagoogoo
Happy Birthday by Altered Images
Kazooed on Klassics by Temple City Kazoo Orchestra
True by Spandau Ballet

BREAK #2

Wild Sex (In The Working Class) by Oingo Boingo
Little Bitch by The Specials
When it Started To Begin by Nick Heyward
Ring Me Up by The Divinyls

BREAK #3

Turning Japonese by The Vapors
Rev-Up by the Revillos
Farmer John by The Premiers
Young Guns by Wham

BREAK #4

Geek Boogie by Ira Newborn
Young Americans by David Bowie
If you were here by The Thompson Twins
16 Candles by The Stray Cats

BREAK # 5

Beat City by the Flowerpot Men
Danke Schoen by Wayne Newton
Love Missile F1-11 by Sigue Sigue Sputnik

BREAK#6

March of the Swivelheads by The English Beat
Twist and Shout by the Beatles
Oh Yeah by Yellow

BREAK #7

Beat's So Lonely by Charlie Sexton
Can't Help Falling In Love by Lick The Tins
Miss Amanda Jones by The Rolling Stones
I Go Crazy by Flesh For Lulu

BREAK#8

Wouldn't it Be Good by Nik Kershaw
Positively Lost Me by The Rave Ups
Thieves Like Us by New Order
Elegia by New Order

BREAK # 9

Bring on the Dancing Horses by Echo and the Bunnymen
Try a Little Tenderness by Otis Redding
Please, please, please, Let Me Get what I want....by The Smiths
Pretty In Pink by the Psych Furs
If you Leave by OMD

BREAK #10

Weird Science by Oingo Boingo
Eighties by Killing Joke
Don't you forget about me by Simple Minds
Holiday Road by Lindsay Buckingham


BREAK # 11

Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones
A Town Called Malice by The Jam
Ca Plane Pour Moi by Plastic Bertrand
Mele Kalikimaka by Bing Crosby

BREAK #12

Mess Around by Ray Charles
This Woman's Work by Kate Bush
You just haven't earned it yet baby by Kirsty MacColl
Go by Tones on Tail

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

This Friday on The HOUND! Shining the Flashlight on Legendary filmmaker John Hughes!



Just a little taste to wet your whistle. We have put together an amazeballs tribute to Mr. Hughes and his soundtrack choices that helped guide all of us through our adolescence and beyond!
Tune in all day this Friday, August 28th! Featuring music from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Some Kind of Wonderful, Pretty In Pink, Weird Science, The Vacation films, and more! Including an in-depth look at the masterpiece Sixteen Candles.
click here to listen now: Houndstooth Radio
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see you Friday!!!

Thursday, August 6, 2009

RIP JOHN HUGHES


You made my teen years so much more interesting and fun. It was a pleasure quoting all of your movies, practically every day since 1983. You will be missed.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Bruce has another awesome show for you...and I ramble about Hollywood

Hey guys, So Bruce McDonald has a new show today...it's an homage to the Bo Diddley beat featuring songs from Bo, Buddy Holly, The Stooges, Bowie, Elvis, Nick Lowe and more. tune in at noon pacific!!! I'm sure there will be an encore presentation later on as well. This show is too good NOT to repeat!!! tune in to The HOUND now if ya like.
Now, on to the Hollywood musings....
It was just released this week that Spielberg is going to remake the classic Jimmy Stewart film HARVEY. It got me thinking about Hollywood, and remakes...and the continued flood of regurgitation that keeps the Hollywood machine spinning. Now, Harvey, I get. Very few people under the age of 40 have ever even heard of the film. So it makes sense that a flick like that would be ripe for a remake. Then I read that Hollywood is remaking RED DAWN. WTF???

Now, maybe I'm showing my age here...but Red Dawn??? The classic cheese 80's flick starring the fantastic Patrick Swayze, C.Thomas Howell and Charlie Sheen? Not to mention stellar over-acting from Jennifer Grey and Lea Thompson! The Powers Boothe cameo alone is worth it's weight in gold!
Of course, as my friend @Heitzie pointed out to me on FB, they will no doubt change the enemies from Soviets to MidEast terrorists. That part's a no brainer. But how can you improve on the campy badness of this movie? Are you going to make it a serious film??? Reading that the hot girl "Tara" from The Friday Night Lights tv show has already been cast leads me to believe they're not going to shoot THAT high...but one never knows how these things will play out.
Let's just hope it's not Kurt Russell in the Harry Dean Stanton role of Patrick and Charlie's character's father in the concentration camp scene. ("Boys!!! Avenge Me!!! Avenge Me!!!!) That powerful scene still gets me.
Okay, maybe Kurt wouldn't be so bad. But if they cast Ashlee Simpson or Demi Lovato in this movie I am NOT GOING. I mean it! Unless I get free passes to the screening.