The third season of Stranger Things is over, but you can still dig up some treasure in the soundtrack.
The soundtrack for the third season of Stranger Things
Music director Nora Felder's duties are simple to say and do to find a needle in a haystack. She's going to salvage the right soundtrack in the vast ocean of synthwart pop, heavy metal, and folk rock of the 1980s. Not only the situation is right, it is best to have the lyrics of the picture and talk like the lyrics that just float into the audience's ears, and the deep meaning of the song also needs to be in line with the play. The inexhaustible must also be reflected in the song.
15 original songs from this season are recommended. Listening to it again alone is equivalent to re-brushing the play from another angle. Treat cultural goods with the same hunger and thirst as people in the 1980s to get the deep happiness of the 1980s.
1、Mötley Crüe - Home Sweet Home / The Who – Baba O'Riley
American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe's Home Sweet Home and The Who's Baba O'Riley appeared as trailer soundtracks. Toothless Dustin Summer Camp returns, and Hawkins Town is unpopular. Lonely staring at the tortoise, "Home Sweet Home" was included on the band's 1985 album Theatre of Pain. Of course, the homecoming of the little fat dun is not so lonely, and the warmth and excitement of heavy metals in the 1980s is to burn loneliness to ashes.
Baba O'Riley, included in Who's Next in 1971, is the opening song for the album, with most of the vocals being sung by Roger Daltrey, pete Townshend singing the bridge in the middle, with wonderful lyrics: "Don't Cry, Don't Raise Your Eyes/ This Is Just Teenage Wasteland".
2、The Red Army Choir - The Red Army Is The Strongest
The "Red Army Choir" here is the Alexandrov Red Flag Song and Dance Troupe, the full name of the Russian Military Yava Alexandrov Academy Song and Dance Troupe, is a Soviet army song and dance art group founded in 1982, formerly known as the Soviet Red Army Song and Dance Troupe.
On December 25, 2016, the Tu-154 passenger plane belonging to the Russian Ministry of Defense crashed, and 92 members of the Alessandrov Song and Dance Troupe carried on board were not survived, including the current conductor Valery Khalilov.
Recommend a set of studio works of the group, "The Best Of The Red Army Choir", a double CD of 32 songs, very good to listen to.
3、Corey Hart - Never Surrender
"Never Surrender", the kissing song of Mike and 11. The song begins with the following words: "All we want is a little more time / A little more time to open the closed door". It is not only the voice of two passionate kissing fish, but also the secret coincidence with Sheriff Hope's emphasis on "opening the door and opening a slit".
You can still hear a deeper meaning at the end of the season. Hope lamented that the wheel of time could not be reversed, but "if you are lost alone / Don't surrender". This song is for the dear Fat Rambo whose life and death are uncertain.
The song, from the first song from Canadian singer Corey Hart's second album Boy in the Box, is his best-performing single on the U.S. charts and reached number three on the Billboard singles chart in August 1985.
4、Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim
The theme song of "Fat Rambo" is actually the first half of the song: Never engage with the big Jim, and don't even move this thought.
Sheriff Hope successfully scared Off Mike and drove into town, playing this song. The first half of this country folk song with two guitars and piano is full of energy. The song was featured on American singer-songwriter Jim Croce's third album in 1972, and was on the U.S. Best Selling Albums chart for five weeks in 1974.
Fat Rambo was overjoyed too soon, and Jim Crose died in a plane crash soon after reaching the height of his fame (1973, at the age of 30). In the second half of the song, Jim is crushed to pieces by a skinny man who comes to the door to collect debts. But Fat Rambo wouldn't have been so miserable.
5、The Cars - Movin' in Stereo
Billy's shining debut song. The summer sun was shining, and the mothers finally waited for the muscle-glowing Billy to ascend to the throne of the lifeguard god.
The song is from the self-titled debut album of the American rock band The Cars, and all the instruments appear in arrogant square steps, and electronic sounds drag the tail of the comet to jump across the border. There is not a trace of superfluous lines and roughness, just like Billy's brilliant image of the combination of Dionysus and the sun god in the mother's mind.
6、Stray Cats - Rock This Town
In February 1981, the second single by the American country rock band Stray Cats was first released in the United Kingdom, and was later included in the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" list of "500 Singles Influenced on Rock".
By the pool, Billy, who has the same half-length hair as the members of Stray Cats, is not yet blackened, and Mrs. Wheeler and a group of small-town housewives are imagining under an umbrella.
The song can be used as a guidebook for small-town affairs, and Billy's flirting methods are not much different from the songs, but they lead to a completely different ending.
7、Huey Lewis And The News - Workin' For A Livin'
Nancy went to a local newspaper internship during the season and had a bad time. When she appeared in the conference room with everyone's lunch, the song "Workin' For A Livin' sounded.
American Huey Lewis worked many jobs before becoming a full-time musician, and this song, written in his career as a truck driver, was published in 1982 under the name Huey Lewis and the News, and was included on the album "Picture This".
"Some days never end / Some days are fleeting / But I will always work here / Until the time I die". The first paragraph of the song is the proverb, for Nanxi, to be discriminated against, but also to do things, fight to the death.
8、Madonna - Material Girl
California girl Max takes 11 to the newly opened Star Court Mall, bringing triple freedom. First, the material world freedom brought by the large shopping mall that integrates shopping, leisure and catering; second, the 11 first taste of image freedom that has never chosen clothes for themselves; third, in addition to lovers, there is a new world as dazzling as the Star Court Mall.
Madonna's 1984 breakthrough ,Like A Virgin, 'Material Girl's' scale is far greater than max and 11's first taste of freedom. Disco, hedonism, gold worship, and men as clothing, this song broke into the second place of the American Billboard singles in that year (1985), and will be drowned by feminist spit stars today.
9、Foreigner - Cold As Ice
11 When he didn't understand what "breakup" meant, he told Mike at the door of the mall: "I'll dump you." The one-sided breakup song "Cold As Ice" is innocent and confident, with beautiful harmonies paving the way, and the flowing electric guitar melody is dazzling.
Founded in New York in 1976, the British band Foreigner excelled at concocting catchy melodies under the compilation of hard rock, with playful electronic elements. Cold As Ice is from the band's eponymous debut album (1977) and sold 5 million copies.
10、Wham! - Wake Me Up (Before You Go Go)
Wham!'s Wake Me Up (Before You Go Go) appears as the Living Brothers Steve and Dustin crept through the mall's aerobics classroom. Silly love songs are not as good as their friendship songs, Dustin seriously said to Steve "you die and I die" when he was handsome.
The song, released on May 14, 1984, quickly topped the LinkedIn-American singles charts, with two beautiful boys twisting their dance steps in the MV, a large "CHOOSE LIFE" printed on a loose T-shirt, and butterflies flying in the crowds of beautiful women. The overall fluorescent effect after the lights are dimmed comes from the same aesthetic source as the magic aerobics of the same era.
11、Don McLean - American Pie
The classic of American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released on the self-titled album in 1971, topped the 1972 US Singles Chart for four weeks. It has been passed down for decades, but it is still a mysterious work.
The repeated "music is dead" sung in the song, whether it refers to the plane accident that killed the musician, or the innocence of rock and roll, has a secret connection with the timing of the film.
It appears when Billy and Heather kidnap Heather's parents. Heather's father is a typical white middle-class bastard, and the song here refers to the fact that people who are no longer innocent will "die", which is quite enjoyable.
12、John Mellencamp - R.O.C.K. in the USA
A song from Mayor Klein's visit to the carnival. The song, subtitled " Tribute to '60s Rock ' Roll, is from John Mellencamp 'd'état's 1985 album Scarecrow , which was in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
The album revives the American tradition of protest folk songs, including heavy works such as "Rain on the Scarecrow" and "Face of the Nation". John Mellencamp didn't want to include the song at one point, probably because it was so hilarious. But it actually misses the innocent era of rock and roll as much as "American Pie", painting a long, scalding scroll of black whites, Ayutthaya young people saying goodbye to their families, making the world their home, and "turning the world upside down" with pianos and drums.
13、Limahl - Never Ending Story
When Dustin finally calls his girlfriend Susie, the "Heartbreaker" is raging in Hawkins, and Sheriff Hope and Joyce are anxiously waiting for the mysterious string of numbers.
But Susie was so arrogant that she had to listen to Dustin sing "That Song"—the theme song of the same name from the 1984 fantasy movie Never Ending Story—before she would report the numbers. Almost all the people who save the world hear the intoxicated chorus of the duo from the walkie-talkie in their hands, and the violent world is temporarily defeated by love and beauty.
The story of "Great Demon Domain" is also very interesting, telling the story of a "fantasy country" that is about to be swallowed up by "emptiness", and a human boy saves it with abundant imagination. Stranger Things is also a story that grows by imagining words. If you make it up to the end, find that all this is just the imagination of a child, don't be sad, it is delicious to have imagination and be a person.
14、Peter Gabriel - Heroes
Peter Gabriel, a former Genesis band, covered one of his favorite David Bowie songs in 2010. "It is heroism in the face of oppression and despair; it is a little victory in desperate circumstances."
The song appears at 11 crying as she read Sheriff Hope's speech and Joyce closes the door of the empty room to take her away from Hawkins. When rearranging the song, Peter removed the driving forces in the original song, the guitar and drums, and replaced it with a cobweb-like strong string group that was violently shaken and shiny.
The hero chokes, can the separation still be reunited?