Less Than Zero - The Soundtrack Poll

"In Your Room" is an astonishingly sexy song.

voted PE btw

wtf guys, "Eternal Flame" is a great song

tough choice between PE and LL, but I voted for Cali - mainly because I still listen to the song probably once or twice a month. I've always had a soft spot for Slayer's inagaddadavida cover, but mostly because of Lombardo's awesome caveman-ish drumming.

WTF Missing Chapter of Clockwork Orange?

Yeah, the original final chapter that was excised from the American printing. (And as a consequence is not in the movie.)

in a Gadda da vida was awful. even Slayer loathe that cover.

During my lunch break I walked to the library and actually flipped through this issue on microfiche. Rolling Stone ran...content then (lots of crap too).

As much love as I have for "Bring the Noise" gotta vote Bangles on this one.

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Not surprised to see LL Cool J win this so handily, but very surprised to see Roy Orbison poll so low.

About this soundtrack....

This soundtrack is great, the movie... not so much. I'd never seen it before last night. I like Spader and some of the locations are gorgeous though. Maybe it's just the nearly four decades of rich kids descending into addiction films since, but every single beat played out exactly like you knew it would. Interesting to read that there was apparently a lot of studio meddling to make it "less decadent", maybe there was a better film in there somewhere.

There is. The novel's trash, but its ersatz Didion-esque approach was too much at the time, therefore the Cautionary Tale approach.

film is bad yep but still worth watching for peerless 80s aesthetics and really beautiful score by thomas newman

It has a scene where Robert Downey Jr breaks into his dad's mansion's mirrored weight room to steal Robert Palmer's Riptide so he can get cocaine by selling it, what more does one want out of a movie.

Watch Bright Lights, Big City and you'll want to apologize to Less Than Zero

Tho I think BL, BC's soundtrack exposed me to New Order

The BLBC soundtrack album was pretty great. M/A/R/R/S, Donald Fagen, Konk, Depeche Mode, New Order...as a 15-year-old I was mesmerized.

I won't waste energy defending it, but I actually like Bright Lights--seen it two or three times. Mostly I like a few of the performances: Fox, Frances Sternhagen and John Houseman (more my idea of The New Yorker than a certain recent film), even Robards' hammy drunk.

I read the book but never saw the movie.

This was peak era for porno with titles that parodied popular films and yes, there was indeed a film released around the same time entitled "Bright Lights Big Titties"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161325/