Following on from an earlier item - less description of formulaic teenage US drama, the best songs that we were unable to fit onto Volume One!

1. Dire Straits – Walk Of Life
2. Eric Clapton – Behind The Mask
3. James Brown – Living In America
For all those shots of crowded beaches and models strutting their stuff on the boulevard – not a stray hair or piece of cellulite in sight…

4. The Bangles – Manic Monday
The new dizzy blonde one wakes up late for work – calamity!

5. Madonna – Holiday
6. Bananarama – Venus
To accompany footage of the girls going shopping etc. (Obviously all paid for by Daddy’s trust fund because these life guards earn a pitiful salary you know…)

7. Van Halen – Jump
8. Guns ‘n’ Roses – Paradise City
9. Kriss Kross – Jump
10. EMF – Unbelievable (Live)*
To accompany footage of the boys playing basketball and street hockey, making dramatic rescues (all in slow mo) etc. What guys!

11. Cameo – Word Up
For the comedy scene when Garner, the chubby policeman tries to outrun one of our red swimsuit clad lovelies. And fails. Oh how we laugh.

12. Whitney Houston – How Will I Know?
13. Boy Meets Girl – Waiting For A Star To Fall
14. Poison – Every Rose Has A Thorn
Teenage angst and unrequited love is always a big theme for the producers…

15. Richard Marx – Right Here Waiting
16. Mr Big – To Be With You
17. Cutting Crew – (I just) Died In Your Arms Tonight
Power ballads for the inevitable sad bits when someone, or their pet, cannot be saved and subsequently dies.

Bonus Track
David Hasselhoff – Hot in the City / White Wedding / Rebel Yell – Billy Idol medley
Well, he is the Executive Producer, so what he says goes. And he needs the royalties to pay for that expensive loss-leading tour of Europe (although he continues of course to make a big profit in Germany.

Any suggestions for Volume 3?

* All compilation albums seem to contain, by right, a needless and crap live version of an otherwise great record.

Posted by damian at September 07, 2003 03:38 PM