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So the other day I was looking for the soundtrack for Terminator when I discovered that there were not one, but two Terminator soundtracks! At first I was excited, but then I was a little wary, wondering what the difference was. Turns out I was right to be wary. The original soundtrack, the one I wanted, has half of the disc being the theme song and original score by Brad Fiedel, and the other half is the real gold: the non-score songs from the movie. The other soundtrack is the "Definitive Edition", which just means that it is ALL score by Brad Fiedel. Now anyone who's seen Terminator must remember the gloriously awful early-80's pure synth score accompanying the multitude of chase scenes in the movie. Now, while it is truly an impressively awesome example of cheesy synth score, I don't really need a full album's worth of it. The one good synth song (the Theme from Terminator) is on the original soundtrack, and there's like 5 or 6 of those cheesy synth songs, and then there are five absolutely awesome early 80's pop-disco songs, with the highlight being "Burnin' in the Third Degree" by Tahnee Cain and the Tryanglz, which plays while Sarah Connor is holed up in the club called Tech Noir waiting for Paul Winfield and Lance Henriksen to come rescue her.

Ok, admittedly it's probably only gonna be geeks like me that even remember some cheesy song in a movie that's 20 years old like that, but maybe those geeks out there can help me out. I'm trying to think of other scenes like that with music like that. There's nothing better than that cheesy pop-disco that you heard in movies like that back in that era. I'm sure everyone is probably tired of me bringing this movie up over and over, but there's a scene like that in Fright Night, where Charlie Brewster and Marcy Darcy from Married With Children are trying to avoid Jerry Dandrige (the vampire) and duck into some disco club to get away from him. There's a great group of songs that get played in the club scene, most notably "Good Man in a Bad Time" by Ian Hunter. Interestingly enough Brad Fiedel did the score for Fright Night as well, and thankfully it's more of his trademark cheesy synth.

Really my question here is, what other movies out there feature this kind of silly cheese-pop songs that you really wouldn't ever hear anywhere else if you weren't watching the movie (or if you weren't a weirdo like me who tracks down soundtracks like these :lol)? About the only other one that comes to mind is the song "The Power of the Night" by Terrence Mann's group, Mann, from the movie Critters (although that song doesn't play in a club scene, but rather in a hilarious music video by fictional rocker Johnny Steele that two aliens watch on a spaceship). Somebody help me out here, got any other good songs like these? Also, what are some of the best synth-scores from movies out there? I figure Tron is probably gonna be at the top of that list, but what other great ones are there out there? You know what, Tron's probably got some great songs by Journey. Iron Eagle might have some good ones too.