The Goonies was a hit straight out of the gate, grossing $125 million at the box office against a budget of $19 million. But if anything, it’s got even bigger in the years since, becoming one of the most popular cult favorites of the last 40 years. In 2017, the Library of Congress recognized its…
Diane Eve Warren is an award-winning American songwriter, musician, and record producer. Warren’s career was jump-started in 1985 with “Rhythm of the Night” by DeBarge. From there, she wrote some of the most iconic songs of the past few decades. Warren has written hits for everyone throughout her career, from Mariah Carey and Celine Dion…
Weezer has released many albums in their long career, but among their most interesting have always been their self-titled, or color-themed albums, such as “The Blue Album” or “The Black Album”, which are nicknames technically as the albums are truly titled “Weezer”. In total Weezer has released 6 self-titled albums, starting with their debut “Weezer”….
Danger Danger was a rock band that formed in the late 1980s. They were best known for their hard-rocking anthems and catchy hooks. The band released three albums before splitting up in the mid-1990s. They have since reunited and continue to tour today. Their songs are still popular among fans of classic rock music, and…
Jennifer’s Body was a comedy horror made towards the end of the 2000s. It tends to be best-known because it featured Megan Fox as the titular character Jennifer Check. However, she didn’t play the heroine. Instead, she played a rather sympathetic horror movie monster, seeing as how her character became possessed by a demon after…
Scars, whether the emotional or physical kind, have provided the inspiration for hundreds of songs over the years. Regardless of genre, style, decade, or anything else, countless artists over history have used their music to reveal their scars or to try and help others heal their own. Here, we take a look at 10 timeless…
The Village People is a group that was formed in 1977. The group is best known for their hit songs “Macho Man,” “In the Navy,” and “Y.M.C.A..” The group was originally formed by French producer Jacques Morali and American businessman Henri Belolo. Their name refers to New York City’s Greenwich Village, home to a large…
Any film that takes its name from a song by The Replacements is almost guaranteed to have an awesome soundtrack, and Can’t Hardly Wait certainly doesn’t disappoint on that score. Even if you haven’t seen the film (although if you haven’t, it’s worth doing, for no other reason than name-checking all the ‘before they were…
The biggest positive about 1995’s Batman’s Forever is that it isn’t Batman & Robin. But even if the film itself has its low points, the soundtrack is in a league of its own. Somewhat strangely, only 5 of the soundtrack’s 14 songs actually appear in the film, but even if the selection method is a…