I Lied: We Can Always Become Geekier
Posted 14 June 2009 in Strange Conversations
While listening to Cheap Trick’s re-recording of the Transformers theme song for the new movie.
(Yes, you read that correctly. Cheap Trick.)
NICK: Hmm.
ME: What’s up? You don’t like it?
NICK: Well, I don’t know. I think I preferred the other movie one.
ME: The movie where Optimus Prime dies?
NICK: Yeah.
ME: But was that done by Cheap Trick?
NICK: No, but it was another ‘80s’ hair band. Maybe it was Whitesnake?
(For the record, it was Lion), who are, and I quote, “a 1980s heavy metal band best known for their theme song from the 1986 animated movie The Transformers: The Movie.”)
For the curious, the Cheap Trick version is here.
And the Lion one is here.
Share your thoughts [4]
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Wendy wrote at Jun 14, 07:42 PM:
one vote for Lion even though I have never heard of them before. much better sound than that awful cheap trick version.
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Catriona wrote at Jun 14, 07:46 PM:
I think I prefer the Lion version, too.
And I don’t think anyone’s heard of them, except aficionados of the 1986 Transformers film—and even we had to look them up on Wikipedia.
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John wrote at Jun 16, 01:17 PM:
It’s like when you see a band playing at the Bronze in Buffy, and you say, “Hey, they’re kinda cool: let’s look them up on Wikipedia”, and the only entry says “[Insert band name here] are best known for their cameo in season four of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Slightly embarrassing that we’ve done that a few times lately…
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Catriona wrote at Jun 16, 01:58 PM:
Well, either that or they turn out to be (mostly) Frente, and you think, “Wow, I had their album once, and played it fairly constantly. Whatever happened to it? And whatever happened to them?”
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