Soundtrack - Streets Of Fire A Rock & Roll Fable [EAC-FLAC] [ReP

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Original Soundtrack - Streets of Fire (A Rock'n'Roll Fable)

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CD: Various - Streets Of Fire - Soundtrack

YEAR: 1984



01. Fire Inc. / Nowhere Fast [0:06:04.00]

02. Martin, Marilyn / Sorcerer [0:05:11.10]

03. Fixx, The / Deeper And Deeper [0:03:48.45]

04. Philinganes, Greg / Countdown To Love [0:02:59.12]

05. Blasters, The / One Bad Stud [0:02:31.40]

06. Fire Inc. / Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young [0:06:56.20]

07. McKee, Maria / Never Be You [0:04:06.63]

08. Hartman, Dan / I Can Dream About You [0:04:12.32]

09. Cooder, Ry / Hold That Snake [0:02:40.10]

10. Blasters, The / Blue Shadows [0:03:15.25]





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THE ALLMUSIC REVIEW

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Review by William Ruhlmann



Jim Steinman (the melodramatic writer behind Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell) is the

author of many of the tracks here, and they have his typical rock & roll Sturm

und Drang, especially when the backup group consists of members of Bruce

Springsteen's E Street Band. Also on hand are The Blasters, Maria McKee, and Ry

Cooder. The album's hit single turned out to be Dan Hartman's "I Can Dream about

You."





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SOME WIKIPEDIA INFO

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Jimmy Iovine produced five of the songs for the film and the soundtrack album.

[2] For Ellen Aim's singing voice, he combined the voices of Laurie Sargent and

Holly Sherwood. The Attackers were the real-life (Face to Face) bandmates of

Sargent, who provided the lead vocals on Ellen Aim's songs "Never Be You" and

"Sorcerer" and supporting vocals on "Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young."[2]

The version of 'Sorcerer' on the actual soundtrack album was performed by

Marilyn Martin (written by Stevie Nicks).



Two Wagnerian rock songs written by Jim Steinman were part of the soundtrack:

"Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young" and "Nowhere Fast," both performed by

Fire Inc. with Holly Sherwood as lead vocal. The title of the former was used as

the tagline on some promotional materials for the film.[2] Dan Hartman's "I Can

Dream About You" is the most successful song from this movie and became a

Billboard top 10 hit in 1984. In the movie, the song is performed by "the

Sorels," a fictional doo-wop style group consisting of actors Stoney Jackson,

Grand L. Bush, Mykelti Williamson, and Robert Townsend.[2] However, the song was

actually sung by Winston Ford, whose vocals were convincingly lip-synced by

Stoney Jackson in the movie. There are thus two versions of the song, but the

most popular was sung by Dan Hartman for commercial release.





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THE LYRICS

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On the first pressings (on vinyl), the album contained a leaf with the lyrics

for all songs. Call me old-fashioned vinylmaniac, but I want to add them here.





FIRE INC. - NOWHERE FAST



Lying in your bed and on a Saturday night

You're sweatin' buckets and it's not even hot

But your brain has got the message

And it's sending it out

To every nerve and every muscle you've got



You've got so many dreams

That you don't know where to put 'em

So you'd better turn a few of 'em loose

Your body's got a feeling that it's starting to rust

You'd better rev it up and put it to use



And I don't know how I ever thought that I could make it all alone

When you only make it better

And it better be tonight

And we'll fly away on those angel wings of chrome in your daddy's car

Waiting there for you tonight

I'll be there for you tonight



Even if you don't have anywhere to go

You go down on the pedal and you're ready to roll

And even if you don't have anywhere to go

You go down on the pedal and you're ready to roll

And your speed

Is all you'll ever need

All you'll ever need to know

Darlin', Darlin'-



You and me we're goin' nowhere slowly

And we've gotta get away from the past

There's nothin' wrong with goin' nowhere, baby

But we should be goin' nowhere fast



Everybody's goin' nowhere slowly

They're only fighting for the chance to be last

There's nothin' wrong with goin' nowhere, baby

But we should be goin' nowhere fast

It's so much better goin' nowhere fast



Ah...



Stalkin' in the shadows by the light of the moon

It's like a prison and the night is a cell

Goin' anywhere has gotta be heaven tonight

'Cause stayin' here has gotta be hell

Dyin' in the city like a fire on the water

Let's go runnin' on the back of the wind

There's gotta be some action on the face of the earth

And I've gotta see your face once again



And I don't know where I ever got the bright idea that I was cool

So alone and independent

But I'm depending on you now

And you'll always be the only thing that I just can't be without

And I'm out for you tonight

I'm comin' out for you tonight



Even if you don't have anywhere to go

You go down on the pedal and you're ready to roll (ready to roll)

Even if you don't have anywhere to go

You go down on the pedal and you're ready to roll

And your speed

Is all you'll ever need

All you'll ever need to know

Darlin', Darlin'-



You and me we're goin' nowhere slowly

And we've gotta get away from the past

There's nothin' wrong with goin' nowhere, baby

But we should be goin' nowhere fast



Everybody's goin' nowhere slowly

They're only fighting for the chance to be last

There's nothin' wrong with goin' nowhere, baby

But we should be goin' nowhere fast

It's so much better goin' nowhere fast



Godspeed

Godspeed

Godspeed

Speed us away!



Godspeed

Godspeed

Godspeed

Speed us away!



Godspeed

Godspeed

Godspeed

Speed us away!



(We're goin' nowhere fast!)



(Ah...)







MARILYN MARTIN - SORCERER



I'm tired

I'm thirsty

I'm wild eyed

In my misery

Timeless

In your finery

A high price

For your luxury



(Chorus)

Sorcerer

Who is the master

Man and woman on a star stream

In the middle of a snow dream

Sorcerer

Show me the high life

Come over

Let me put you on ice



I'm tired

When I need you badly

Wild eyed

In the middle of your dream

Timeless

It's a mystery

All they way

Now it's never what you are



All around

Black ink darkness

Who found

The lady from the mountain



I'm tired

I'm thirsty

I'm wild eyed

In my mystery

Timeless

In your finery

A high price

For your luxury



(Repeat chorus)







THE FIXX - DEEPER AND DEEPER



Talking about stealing the show no one would know

Talking about stealing the show when they're all letting go

Take a look at the witch see the twitch in her eye tell me what did she feel

Is this the way of the world take a boy and a girl show them lying is real



(Chorus)

Then I see the edge I look I fall

And I get deeper and deeper

The more I see the more I fall no place to hide

You better take the call

I get deeper and deeper



Was it the smell of the oil the sweat and the toil that made living unreal

Was it the man in the suit or the boy with the flute tell me what did he steal

Is it beginning to break can you see the mistake there'll be nowhere to go

Once in a fool's blood in the wrong neighborhood what price did he pay



(Chorus)



So make you see what I mean tell me what do I say

Hire your voice freedom of choice what do you say

So I'm talking about stealin' the show no one would know

Oh I'm talking about stealing the show when they're all letting go



(Chorus)



I see the edge I look I fall

No place to hide I better take the call

(repeat)







GREG PHILINGANES - COUNTDOWN TO LOVE



Ten remember when you didn't love me

Nine now all the time you're thinking of me

Eight life is great you are all I'm living for

This is my countdown to love

Oh this is my countdown to love



Seven we'll be in heaven before the night is through

Six I'll play no tricks I'm always straight with you

Five love's alive in our heart's every day

This is my countdown to love

Oh this is my countdown to love



Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one

Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one



Ten nine eight seven six five four three two one countdown to love

This is my countdown to love

Oh this is my countdown to love



You are the one love in my life

I know you feel that way too

Oh what a thrill when I'm holding you near

All of my wild dreams come true



(Four) Forever more you'll be my lover

(Three) It's you for me there'll never be another

Two-gether for-ever

We'll be as one

This is my countdown to love

Oh this is my countdown to love









THE BLASTERS - ONE BAD STUD



Oh well one bad stud moved in my neighborhood

Oh well one bad stud moved in my neighborhood

He's big and man I know he ain't no good



He don't wear no hat and Lord he don't wear no shoes

He don't wear no hat and Lord he don't wear no shoes

He just hangs on the corner singin' those country blues



(Chorus)

Well one bad stud, one bad stud

One bad stud, one bad stud

I said one, one, one, one, one bad stud



If he likes your baby you can kiss your baby goodbye

If he likes your baby you can kiss your baby goodbye

Cause girls all love him like a schoolboy loves his pie



He loves his whiskey loves his rockin' rye

Yes he loves his whiskey loves his rockin' rye

You know it takes ten bottles to make that fool get high



(Chorus)



Well he stole ten dollars and they locked that cat in jail

He stole ten dollars and they locked that cat in jail

He got my baby to come and make his bail



He got great big muscles lord he lookS like a bear

Yes he got great big muscles lord he lookS like a bear

When that cat gets loose you know I won't be there



(Chorus)







FIRE INC. - TONIGHT IS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE YOUNG



I've got a dream 'bout an angel on the beach

And the perfect waves are starting to come

His hair is flying out in ribbons of gold

And his touch has got the power to stun



I've got a dream 'bout an angel in the forest

Enchanted by the edge of a lake

His body's flowing in the jewels of light

And the earth below him's starting to shake



But I don't see any angels in the city

I don't hear any holy choirs sing

And if I can't get an angel

I can still get a boy

And a boy would be the next best thing

The next best thing to an angel

A boy would be the next best thing



I've got a dream 'bout a boy in a castle

And he's dancing like a cat on the stairs

He's got the fire of a prince in his eyes

And the thunder of a drum in his ears



I've got a dream 'bout a boy on a star

Lookin' down upon the rim of the world

He's there all alone and dreamin' of someone like me

I'm not an angel but at least I'm a girl



I've got a dream when the darkness is over

We'll be lyin' in the rims of the sun

But it's only a dream and tonight is for real

You'll never know what it means

But you'll know how it feels

It's gonna be over (over)

Before you know it's begun

(Before you know it's begun)



It's all we really got tonight

Stop your cryin' hold on (tonight)

Before you know it it's gone (tonight)

Tonight is what it means to be young

Tonight is what it means to be young



Let the revels begin

Let the fire be started

We're dancing for the restless and the broken-hearted

Let the revels begin

Let the fire be started

We're dancing for the desperate and the broken-hearted

Let the revels begin ...(Tonight is what it means to be young...)

Let the fire be started ...(Before you know it it's gone...)

We're dancing for the restless and the broken-hearted

Let the revels begin

Let the fire be started

We're dancing for the desperate and the broken-hearted



Say a prayer in the darkness for the magic to come

No matter what it seems

Tonight is what it means to be young

Before you know it it's gone

Tonight is what it means to be young

Before you know it it's gone



Ah...



I've got a dream when the darkness is over

We'll be lyin' in the rims of the sun

But it's only a dream and tonight is for real

You'll never know what it means

But you'll know how it feels

It's gonna be over (over)

Before you know it's begun



It's all we really got tonight

Stop your cryin' hold on (tonight)

Before you know it it's gone (tonight)

Tonight is what it means to be young

Tonight is what it means to be young...



The things they're saying

And then the things they do

Nothin's gonna stop us if our aim is true...



The things they're saying

And then the things they do

Nothin's gonna stop us if our aim is true...



The things they're saying

And then the things they do

Nothin's gonna stop us if our aim is true...



(Tonight is what it means to be young...)







MARIA MCKEE - NEVER BE YOU



Take a look in my eyes

It's been a long, long time

I used to feel so strong

When I knew you were mine

Since you let me down

I'm hard to be around

I don't know what I'm gonna do

He could never be you

He could never be you

He could never be you



I guess it all comes around

Baby please don't cry

Love is gonna be a little reckless

Oh Love is all I have to stand trial

But since you let me go

There's nothing going on

I don't know what I'm gonna do

He could never be you

He could never be you

He could never be you



He knows the moves

He play's the part

But he only has me

He don't have my heart

He could never be you

He could never be you



So take a look in my eyes

No you can't hide the truth

No, you don't get by on pride

Cause it'll run over you

But since you let me down

I'm hard to be around

I don't know what I'm gonna do

He could never be you

He could never be you

He could never be you



SOLO

He could never be you?







DAN HARTMAN - I CAN DREAM ABOUT YOU



No more timing each tear that falls from my eyes

I'm not hiding the remedy to cure this old heart of mine



CHORUS:



I can dream about you

If I can't hold you tonight

I can dream about you

You know how to hold me just