Lost 80s: The Truth
I watched the classic 1987 sci-fi thriller The Hidden with the kids yesterday. Kyle MacLachlan stars as an FBI agent who enlists ace cop Michael Nouri's help in tracking down a sluglike alien who takes over human bodies and makes them steal fast cars and listen to loud music. There's a lot of not-quite-mainstream new wave rock on the soundtrack that manages to capture some of the musical excitement of that era. The song playing during a scene in a record store , "Weapons of Love," sounded so familiar, but I couldn't quite place it; the closest I could guess was INXS, but the voice is wrong. It is actually by a different Australian band, The Truth, from their 1986 album of the same name:
I've called this a "Lost 80s" track, but it's not so lost that it didn't appear on a Lost Hits of the 80's CD from EMI Special Products. It's also a guilty pleasure for me: I know it's vapid and formulaic (and cribs some lyrics from "Gimme Shelter"), but they sure do nail the formula! And I still think it sounds like an INXS outtake, or even a... what's the opposite of outtake? Intake? Input? Final inclusion?
