Wednesday 24 August 2022

Jojo Camel

Oi Spartorialist - I've just thought of a glaring omission from the canon of Great Songs Recorded Especially For Movies: Camel Lips' Gas Chamber from Serial Mom. There's hundreds upon hundreds of Great Songs Recorded Especially For Movies, but precious few where the artist got to cameo their song with a live performance set-piece. Kathleen Turner lit Justin Whalin up like a Christmas tree, but he went out with Donita Sparks spilling a little liquor on his burning body. Death by Donita! A Grunge Grand Guignol.


If Gas Chamber is the G.O.A.T live performance scene featuring a Great Song Recorded Especially For A Movie, then the Beastie Boys performance of Desperado in Tougher Than Leather comes in in second place, closely followed by Stu Gardner's performance of Mighty Good Times in Point Blank. Their Desperado performance was our last glimpse of the #problematic Beastie brat era before they left Def Jam. Like my man KRS said R.I.P Ad-Rock.


Camel Lips were, of course, L7 with prosthetic vulvas down their leggings. Nowadays most regular folk know L7's Shitlist as "that song from Natural Born Killers", but between 1992 and 1994 Shitlist was known as "that song from Pet Semetary Two." Edward Furlong was that movie's star and it was him who suggested Shitlist for that particularly horrible scene. What a little sicko eh? Plot twist: John Connor was the real villain in Terminator 2. Come back, T-1000 - all is forgiven!

11 comments:

Spartan said...

The world really does need The Martorialist's Great Songs Recorded Especially For Movies list, blud.

Didn't expect to see more dead rabbits this month. Cheers, though.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Maybe all the rabbit cruelty scenes in movies from the late 80s/early 90s were revenge from a generation who were mentally scarred by Night Of The Lepus as kids in the 70s?

Spartan said...

Or we just became desensitised after watching Watership Down.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Damn, it all makes sense now 🤯

Anonymous said...

Donita Sparks was cool af

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Everyone knows L7 doing Pretend We're Dead on The Word, only real headz know L7 on Naked City with Johnny Vaughn.

Spartan said...

Some honourable mentions:

Ennio Morricone - Man With a Harmonica
Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead
Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
Quincy Jones - Money Runner
Badder Than Evil - Hot Wheels (The Chase)
Rose Royce - I'm Going Down
Bixio, Frizzi & Tempera - Nucleo Antirapina
Riz Ortolani - Much More
Blondie - Call Me
Michael Sembello - Maniac
Grandmaster Caz - South Bronx Subway Rap
Ice-T - Colors
Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg - Deep Cover
Teenage Fanclub & De La Soul - Fallin'
Mobb Deep ft. Big Noyd & Rakim - Hoodlum
Pharoahe Monch - Fuck You

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Prince is probably king of the live performances of Great Songs Recorded Especially For Movies canon for his on-stage scenes in Purple Rain.

Couple of other examples of bands playing live in movies though the songs weren't specifically recorded for the movies: Motorhead in Eat The Rich and Devo in Human Highway.

D said...

Shitlist also infamous as Brian Pullman's ECW intro music

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Iconic song on so many levels.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

I just thought of another entry in the live performances of Great Songs Recorded Especially For Movies canon: Circle Jerks doing the Lounge version of When The Shit Hits The Fan in Repo Man.