Showing posts with label Ray Parker Jr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ray Parker Jr. Show all posts

Saturday, 12 October 2013

TUNEDR'S PLAYLISTS - Breakfast Club

TuneDr's Breakfast Club




Great Scott!! Did you ever dream of skipping school and having a fun actioned packed day dodging your headmaster instead? Did you long to sing to your fancy piece standing on the tables in the school canteen? If so, welcome to TuneDr's Breakfast Club! Put your watermelons down and hop into our musical DeLorean, we'll make you want to dance like Emilio Estevez in detention! Nobody put this playlist in the corner........


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1) Simple Minds - 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' (1985) - The Breakfast Club

The fashion, hair and dancing may be out of date but this song is timeless. An absolute classic!

2) Wayne Newton - 'Danke Schoen' (1963) - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Guys wanted to be Ferris and the girls with Ferris. Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it! Pretty damn good advice advice that I wont ever forget!

3) The Psychedelic Furs - 'Pretty In Pink' (1981) - Pretty In Pink

Ah Molly Ringwald, proof that it's ok to be ginger! Another John Hughes classic and a track that I loved as a tomboy, a punk sound with girlie content!

4) Oingo Boingo - 'Weird Science' (1985) - Weird Science
Imagine the possibilities of designing your ideal date: tall, dark brown wavey hair, medium build, thick black rimmed glasses and a penchant for comics.....uh that sounds like a certain London Scouser! Oh well, geeks rule!

5) Furniture - 'Brilliant Mind' (1986) - Some Kind Of Wonderful
A girl drummer! Nuff said, one of my favourite films and one that inspired me to play the sticks...albeit very briefly!

6) G Tom Mac - 'Cry Little Sister' (1987) - The Lost Boys

This epic never fails to bring a shiver down my spine. Visions of gliding through the air over Santa Barbara's funfair and into the arms of Keifer Sutherland. I'd eat maggots for him anyday!

7) Ben E. King - 'Stand By Me' (1960) - Stand By Me

Feel the summer heat drawing in, a beautiful and quiet song and a 'coming of age' classic on life and friendship which stands true to this very day. Oh River...why?

8) The Righteous Brothers - 'You've Lost That Loving Feeling' (1964) - Top Gun

Want to make a bold love statement to that certain someone you've had your eye on? Do it in Top Gun style, singing this at the top of your lungs and you'll have them feeling like a control tower thats just been buzzed! Just make sure it's not your flight instructor!

9) Huey Lewis & The News - 'The Power Of Love' (1985) - Back To The Future

Hey Mcfly! Probably one of my favourite ever tracks, bringing with it fabulous memories of a movie classic. If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour...you're going to see some serious shit!

10) Bill Medley & Jennifer Warner - '(I've Had) The Time Of My Life' (1987) - Dirty Dancing

A song that'll have you on that dancefloor quicker than you can say Johnny's Mambo!

11) Limahl - 'Neverending Story' (1984) - Neverending Story

You're soaring through the air on your Luck Dragon, the wind through your striped mullet, 'The Nothing' can't get you now!

12) Billy Idol - 'Hot In The City' (1982) - Big

Stick this track on and clamber through the sunroof of your Fiesta for full effect!

13) Ray Parker Jr. - 'Ghostbusters' (1984) - Ghostbusters

Listen...do you smell something? All gatekeepers and keymasters must play this really loud to avoid full platonic reversal!

14) Kenny Loggins - 'Footloose' (1984) - Footloose

Was this some of the best dancing you've ever seen?! Uh yeah of course it was! The ideal song to assist in jumping off walls and running around energetically!

15) Harry Belafonte - 'Banana Boat Song (Day-O)' (1956) - Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice....Beetlejuice...Beetle...shhh! Don't say it! A perfectly weird and wonderful song to go hand in hand with a mental Tim Burton classic.





Saturday, 29 October 2011

SATURDAY NIGHT JUKEBOX! - Ray Parker Jr - 'Ghostbusters'





Ray Parker Jr - 'Ghostbusters' (1984)

Every time I hear Ghostbusters I always get so excited! Being a child of the 80s means its one of my favourite films as well as favourite 80s songs. So in the spirit of Halloween, it joins my Saturday Night Jukebox!

A good way to indulge in some 80s cheese on a larger scale is heading down to The Underworld across the road from Camden tube station. At their 'Pump Up the Volume' 80s night you could do the running man, moonwalk or shuffle your feet Rick Astley style to your hearts content, without anyone so much as batting a coral pink eyelid! Feeling at one with my people(and a lot of them seem to be European tourists strangely enough), I bumped into a charming German girl whilst my friends were at the bar. She mentioned she liked my t-shirt as she passed. I was sporting the 1989 Batman logo as I was trying to the dress the part without going through my mum and dad's current wardrobe. Thinking "why aren't the British so friendly!" I got talking to her. She asked whether I lived nearby and if I came here often. It wasn't until she said it would be great if I came to join her and her 2 friends nearby that I started to squirm. I apologised and said I was already with my friends and pointed to them at the bar, who waved. The German girl said it was a shame and gave my arm a squeeze, then left. Hey wait a minute... I've been hit on, by a girl....Cool! I felt my face go really hot when my friends arrived and said, "So, who's your girlfriend?!"



Listen...do you smell something?

The highlight song of that night for me was Ghostbusters. We bombed it to the centre of the dance floor and jumped around like fools. I've never had the opportunity to be part of a mass dance routine like the ones people took part in, in discos in the 70s, but we noticed there was a group doing the Ghostbusters "walk" from the video so we joined in. Soon the whole dance floor plus those on the bar mezzanine were doing it! Es war fantastisch!


If someone asks if you're a God, you say yes!




What a disgusting blob!
Full plotonic reversal is not an issue, grab your proton pack and click for more Saturday Night Jukebox!
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