Pump Up the Volume

Yeah

... nobody really talks about those kind of things, but it's like, you know, what? Like, uh, The Gleam in the Cube, Pump Up the Volume.

Yeah, yeah, sure.

Um-

Fuck the, uh, FCC.

Um, and that's Pump Up the Volume.

Mm.

I haven't seen that in years.

[laughs]

Anyway, sorry.

Uh, Pump Up the Volume.

Continue.

Like Tina Fey was watching and taking notes.

Yeah, and so this also does have something to nod back to a decade previous in Heathers and, to a lesser extent, Pump Up the Volume, that feel of an American high school that operates on this very clicky, popular-driven thing that always has me descending into...

In other words, everybody that you see in these films that you know you hate, you can reassure yourself with the fact that you know they're going to peak before they actually graduate.

I noted that Bogie Lowenstein and his clique are now running the fucking world and investing all of our money into AR, even though we keep saying, please don't, we don't want it.

Oh, what was the name of it? Uh.

Pump Up the Volume.

[bell dings]

Yes.

Yeah, it was like the-

Yes

... yeah, Pump Up the Volume.

Yeah.

But I didn't know whether you were a Heathers.

How about Pump Up the Volume? Have you ever seen Pump Up the Volume?

I haven't, sadly enough.

That is...

Yeah, you're like 18 years younger than me.

Yeah.

And a lot of the people that really identified with Pump Up the Volume are about 9, 10 years younger.

So I'd be interested to see what you think of it.

We're going to look at tracks that were banned for various reasons here in Australia primarily and also look at a pirate radio soundtrack.

The film Pump Up the Volume, which was out in the late 80s, had a pretty cool soundtrack.

But yes, and even recently with the September 11th anniversary, I guess, of those attacks, I know a lot of songs were banned post that.

So we'll be looking at all that today.

We're going to follow it up with some tracks from a great Pirate Radio film, which probably came out in about 1989, I think.

It was the film starring a young Christian Slater.

It was Pump Up the Volume, all about Pirate Radio.

He was operating a pirate radio station from his home and then later on from a van and all those kind of things.

And what I'm going to do with is I'm going to give the first one on my particular list of soundtracks.

And that is the soundtrack for the movie Pump Up the Volume from 1990.

So.

This is a really good film that almost in a lot of ways feels like it is right on the cusp of the 80s, but also feels like kind of ahead of its time in a lot of ways with the themes, the subject matter, some of the performances and the music.

Just do it while we're recording.

We'll figure it out.

Pump up the volume when I first was recording.

thinking about it, I'm like, oh yeah, instantly top tier.

shrouded in a little bit of darkness so yeah well you know like as soon as we see it because it's christian slater and like i don't know how famous he is at this point like super famous yeah okay so we've we've had his big movies robin hood's happened yeah

this is yeah post heather's post pump up the volume god i love pump up the volume dude

You ever seen Pump Up the Volume? No, I have not.

It's an 80s classic.

I've seen

I would watch Cuffs.

I would watch it.

In Pump Up the Volume, he's operating a pirate radio station out of his bedroom, which is causing havoc in his small town.