Found my old LP of this Soundtrack, almost pristine and maybe played once. Very bombastic in parts, some patriotic flavorings with a tad of S.T.R.I.P.E.S. and one theme sounds just like the finale music in JURASSIC PARK. Hey Johnny W, what's up with that? Maybe it's a classical piece that they both borrowed? Perhaps something from "The Firebird"?
I think my fave Landis/Bernstein collabs will always be ANIMAL HOUSE and THE THREE AMIGOS.
What is/are your faves from the team and your thoughts please on SPIES LIKE US?
I believe that this was another project that Aykroyd had planned on doing with Belushi like GHOSTBUSTERS. Chevy Chase ultimately played the Belushi role.
I'm a huge fan of this score and you used the same word I've used to describe it: "bombastic." I wouldn't call it Bernstein's least popular Landis score - the film simply isn't considered a classic (or cult classic) like Animal House and the others.
"Escape" is one of my favorite chase cues from any soundtrack.
"Ooh, Ooh, what do ya do/no one else can dance like you..."
That's what I remember, musically speaking about Spies Like Us. I had the Paul McCartney 45 single. I don't recall a note of Elmer Bernstein's score, however. I don't have the dvd because it's not widescreen.
The film was out when I was a freshman in high school, though I had to look that up because that period was an "in-between time" for me, as I was still a kid even though the shiteness of high school dictated I embrace adult unhappiness.
I enjoyed the antics in the film and did so even more when I realized that Spies Like Us was a then-contemporary take on the Crosby-Hope "Road" movies, though Spies Like Us lacked any Dorothy Lamour female presence (sorry, Donna Dixon). My childhood chums and I enthusiastically quoted the movie and laughed uproariously at Chase and Ackroyd's "usual brilliance."
Ah, such bittersweet times, those fleeting days of childhood's demise.
Love these open-ended, free-to-discuss-what-you-will zooba threads.
Good gravy, does that song sound '80s...with all the negativity that this implies.
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