Friday, May 6, 2011

Friday Nite Video (Lost Boys)

Hey all! Happy Friday Nite! Tonight I thought it would be fun to do something not yet done on FNV and do a video of a song from a old skool movie. And what better movie to feature first on FNV then that 80's classic The Lost Boys. The Lost Boys came out in 1987 and it was a pretty good and popular movie. Now most people reading this more then likely have seen the movie but in case a few of you didn't here's the brief story. This family moves to Santa Carla, California to start fresh only to discover the town has a vampire problem. The vampires run around in a gang and their leader is David, played by Kiefer Sutherland. Well pretty soon David and his cohorts are chasing the new kids in town, trying to indoctrinate them into their gang. Really cool movie but what was just as cool was the soundtrack. I remember going out and buying the soundtrack soon after I had been to see the movie. My cousin Shawn Whaley and I would ride around jamming out to music from the Lost Boys. Most of the songs were older songs that were covered for the movie by modern artist like, for an example, the old Doors hit People are Strange. Echo & The Bunnymen redid that one and did a good job. But I think my favorite song from the movie was the one that opened it. Cry Little Sister was the song that started playing at the beginning of the movie and it set the stage for the whole movie. After that movie whenever we would pop The Lost Boys soundtrack in the old stereo we were transported back to Santa Carla, the town that was overrun with vampires. It's one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite movies. Irishman Gerard McMahon (who?) recorded the song and did a darn good job. From 1987 it's Cry Little Sister from the movie The Lost Boys. Enjoy!

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