Life Is Better In Movies this week on Listen Up!. Songs about films and cinematic joys, plus the director of Steve Chong Finds Out Suicide Is A Bad Idea , Charlie LaVoy chats with us about this independent movie that is currently getting some notice on the film festival circuit. The wacky world of the movie biz and more.
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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)
Opening Theme
Man or Astroman – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996
Background Music
Various Artists – Ultra-lounge vol. 16, Mondo Hollywood
Butterfly Joe – Life is Better In The Movies – Butterfly Joe -2007
Genesis – The Cinema Show – Selling England By The Pound -1973
Sloan – In The Movies -Pretty Together -2001
Garland Jeffreys – 35 Millimeter Dreams – Ghost Writer – 1977
The Kinks – Groovy Movies – The Great Lost Kinks Album – 1969
Interview with Charlie LaVoy, Director of Steve Chong Finds Out That Suicide Is A Bad Idea
Vagabond Swing – Kampania/Merry Go Wrong – Soundtrack To An Untimely Death -2012
Vox and The Hound – High Horse – 20??
Interview with Charlie LaVoy, Director of Steve Chong Finds Out That Suicide Is A Bad Idea
Gary Numan – Films – Pleasure Principle – 1979
Eugene McGuinness – Those Old Black and White Movies Were True – Eugene McGuinness – 2008
Yo La Tengo – Tom Courtenay – Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs: 1985–2003 -1995
Flaming Lips – Godzilla Flick – Hear It Is – 1986
The Psyclone Rangers – Godzilla – Third Story -199?
Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead – 1979-1983: Volume 1- 1979
Julian Cope – Robert Mitchum – Skellington – 1990
Roxy Music – 2 H.B. – Roxy Music -1972
EDO – This Is Your Life Boris Karloff – Wrinkles – 1998
Go To Blazes – Bloody Sam – Anytime…Anywhere -1994
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