Sunday, September 8, 2024

Sunday Music: Stranger Eyes


Great cut from the Cars' 1984 album, the last track on the A side, of Heartbeat City. Most of you don't remember (and indeed, some of you weren't even born) a little over a year later, when Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer released the trailer for a little airplane movie they'd made with Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer, long before Kenny Loggins had recorded Danger Zone. They needed appropriate music, so this track was the background music they used six months before the movie was released. Personally, when the flick came out, we were disappointed they hadn't kept the Cars' tune on the soundtrack.

2 comments:

  1. Excellent, lesser-known choice. Didn't realize that was associated with Top Gun.

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  2. I'm fully aware that the Duster 340 bringing back more memories than the track is a sacrilege but at THAT time I was a MOPAR-head.

    Night Driver

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