BrianDeuelDotCom has posted one the most awesome Move songs of the 1980s. Am I talking about the theme from Top Gun? Eye of the Tiger? Heck no, its the theme song to the rightfully underrated movie, Joysticks. Words cannot express how much I love this move and this songs is perfect distillation of its essence. Its like eating the sweetest of royal jelly ripped from the largest most neon beehive you could lay your hand on back in 1983. For more info on Joysticks check out the IMDB.
Download the song from BrianDeuelDotCom and see what I mean. You will not be disappointed.
TOTALLY AWESOME VIDEO GAME!!!
Update:Brian found the link to a band that covers this tune. Its awesome! Check out the LSDudes.
InfomercialReviewer
July 10th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I had never even heard of the movie “Joysticks” before reading this post…but now it’s at the top of my Netflix queue!
The Retroist
July 10th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
You are going to love/hate it. Its both a pale imitation of everything you have ever seen and at the same time completely original.
Madness!
Tell me what you think when you see it.
Brian Deuel
July 13th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Some Joysticks actor/actress trivia:
-Jon Gries (i.e. King Vidiot) plays Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite
-Corrine Bohrer (Patsy) was recently in a Mac/PC commercial and a Bounty commercial
- Leif Green (Eugene Groebe) played one of the T-Birds in the horrible Grease 2
- Logan Ramsey (Mayor Neville) played husband Luther to his real life wife Anne Ramsey’s (Goonies’ Mama Fratelli) Loretta character in Any Which Way You Can.
- The characters of Lola and Sandy were played by Playboy Playmates.
- John Diehl and John Voldstad (Arnie and Max, respectively) were both previously in the movie Stripes together.
- No one knows what became of Carole Burkett (Connie) :)
The Retroist
July 13th, 2008 at 10:40 am
A veritable pantheon of extra small c celebrities.