Haha, I saw this movie a long time ago, it can be said to be my 80s music enlightenment movie. Since then, I have gradually understood and liked many classic new wave/synthpop bands. Here is a brief introduction to the music elements in this movie.
The background of the story is set in the summer of 1984. The protagonist Eric is a high school student who loves music. Therefore, the whole movie runs through many classic pop music elements of the year, directly (the music eric listens to) and indirectly (other bgm) reflecting the taste of the protagonist Eric.
The opening bgm "Mickey" is a 1982 title single, the cheerleader divine comedy of that year, authored by Mike Chapman (producer of blondie, mentioned below), eric deliberately pronounced "Mickey" in this song as " Maggie", which is the name of the heroine.
Later, when Eric and Rode had lunch, he played the single "right by your side" from eurythmics' new album "touch" in November 1983. This is a British synthpop duo ( Synthesizer pop duo), lead singer Annie Lennox is the premier white soul singer (like Adele?), famous for her avant-garde looks. So when Rode saw Eric's tape, he commented "Annie lennox is a freak" and "i prefer Madonna". Back home Eric wall, and he went to the record shop, there are album covers of "touch".
eric secretly bought an album in the album store. When he went home to listen to it, he was shocked by his mother who broke into the door because the author of this album was bronski beat, a synthesizer composed entirely of open homosexuality. Pop band. The song he is listening to is called "why". Another masterpiece of the band, "Smalltown Boy", is about the unfortunate experience of a gay boy living in a small town.
When Eric and Maggie were at Eric’s house, Maggie looked at a poster on Eric’s wall and said, "You should take it off." Eric asked "What?! Debbie rocks forever". They were talking about blondie. , The lead singer of post-punk/new wave iconic band Debbie Harry (Debbie Harry), a phenomenal singer in the late 70s and early 80s, the band just disbanded in 1983.
The background music for eric, rode, and angie when they go bowling is "love plus one", a representative work of haircut 100 (haircut 100 band).
Sometimes it’s too long to remember. I remember the songs of a flock of seagulls (a flock of seagulls), which were all classic bands in the new wave scene at that time.
Later, Eric met the soy sauce brother in the gaybar (wearing an Annie Lennox t-shirt), he and Rode formed a contrast, he and Eric have similar interests, but Rode and Eric are not the same people at all. But eric just loves Rode and never forgets, this is no way!
By the way, the title "edge of seventeen" is taken from the title song of the solo debut "Bella donna" released by Fleetwood mac's Stevie Nicks in 1981.
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