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October Soundtracks: Pump Up the Volume

Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume

Pump Up the Volume
1990
Buy the album on Amazon

Since the theme choice is mine, it means I get to swoop in and do this entry before Lance does, since I know it would be at or near the top of his list as well (which is not to say he might not write his own entry about it). Maybe not the soundtrack to end all soundtracks (though it may just be), but certainly the movie of movies to me, and it’s tough for me to express just how important this movie and soundtrack were to me in my impressionable youth. I’m going to try hard not to write too much about the movie, because some day I’ll write a proper entry about it in the Movies category, but this came out right around the beginning of my freshman year of high school,  when I was just starting to become the MNP person I am today.

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Cover Friday: “Kick Out The Jams”

Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume

Chris suggested  that we institute some theme days during the week to get the juices flowing.   I opened the e-mail a bit late in the week so I’m skipping ahead to Friday’s  theme, #CoverFriday.  So consider this, “challenge accepted” old boy… BAM:

“Kick Out The Jams”
by Bad Brains w/Henry Rollins (originally by The MC5)
from the soundtrack Pump Up The Volume
1990 MCA
Buy the album on Amazon.

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