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  • jefito · 1 year ago
    Every time I catch myself wishing David Foster had never been born, I just remember "Love Theme from St. Elmo's Fire." God, I love that song.
  • terje · 1 year ago
    Sometimes you really surprise me, Jeff. It almost makes me feel bad about dissing one of your heroes in next week's entry.
  • jefito · 1 year ago
    I have no heroes.
  • terje · 1 year ago
    No, but in my post I claim that you do - and then I'm building up my entire post based on that assumption.
  • jefito · 1 year ago
    Hey! This whole series was my idea! Is that any way to...oh, wait.
  • David_E · 1 year ago
    Wha--?

    Dude. It's just "Music Box Dancer" slowly dragged through powdered sugar.
  • jefito · 1 year ago
    What do you have against powdered sugar?
  • terje · 1 year ago
    I'm listening to it right now and I'm sorry David, but you're just plain wrong. There's nothing quite like it in the entire world. I'm flying high above the sky on the wings of love, bro! It's splendiferous.
  • DwDunphy · 1 year ago
    Ech! Ecccchhhh!!

    It's pretty, I'll give you that much. But this song has accompanied three billion movie previews that say things like, "In a world full of changes, choices and heartache, it's good to have your friends around. This Christmas, from 20th Century Fox, Julia Roberts stars in "Your Friends Around This Christmas""

    The same could probably be said for Dave Grusin's theme from The Goonies.
  • mojo · 1 year ago
    The madness is complete. Have you read "Old Yeller?"

    Both of you?

    It doesn't end well.
  • terje · 1 year ago
    Oh, but you claimed exactly the same thing months ago. I'm fine. We're fine. No sign of mental decay here - I'm exactly the same person I used to be back then (oops).
  • DwDunphy · 1 year ago
    No, you're exactly the same person I used to be back then.

    Shoot Him! Shoot Him!!
  • terje · 1 year ago
    Don't listen to him, folks. It's my espadrillo-footed friend, and he's out to get revenge.
  • DwDunphy · 1 year ago
    No, don't listen to him, McReady! He got the Doc already! If I was the damn monster-thing, would I do this?

    (Tears head off, spins it on fingertip like a Harlem Globetrotter, then plants it back on spine stem...)

    Of Course Not!
  • Ted · 1 year ago
    I admit to loving these soundtrack gems, too. However, may I direct your attention to Michael Gore's theme from "Terms of Endearment" that has a similar sound to the "Love Theme from St. Elmo's Fire."

    Check your email in a few minutes, Terje.
  • terje · 1 year ago
    Ted got what he had coming to him for daring to compare "Love Theme" to "Terms of Endearment," but we settled it in private. I didn't want to humiliate him in public for his ignorance.
  • hagen · 1 year ago
    ... and now we know the rest of the story.

    So it all comes down to the synth cellos, Terje? I confess to enjoying the Love Theme from St. Elmo's Fire within the confines of the movie, but hearing it on the radio felt like I was getting an audio enema. Not sure if that disqualifies me from ever seeking public office since I think I just admitted to enjoying that movie, but dammit, I did. Anyway, thanks for the origin story. I think we can start working on the antidote now.

    By the way, is David Foster the same David Foster who is a producer of House, the television show not starring David Foster but Hugh Laurie? I'm too lazy to look it up anywhere, confident as I am that you know all things David Foster...
  • terje · 1 year ago
    Interesting story: When Foster set out to record "Symphony Sessions", an all orchestral affair, in 1987, he was reluctant to give up on his synth orchestra demos - at first he thought they sounded better than the full orchestra - this goes a long way to explain just how corrupted the human ear was in the 1980s.

    The House Foster is not the same. He's a prolific Hollywood mainstream movie producer.
  • Sharon · 1 year ago
    I think you may know David Foster better than Foster himself. One of the differences between your posts and the Hitman book, is that you give more "technical" info and background and give more explanation. In the book, he mentions "Symphony Sessions" in about half a sentence, in passing.
  • terje · 1 year ago
    Thanks. "The Symphony Sessions" wasn't a commercial success. Maybe he hates to talk about his flops?
  • Sharon · 1 year ago
    That would be my guess as well. After all, his book is titled "Forty Years Making Music, Topping Charts and Winning Grammys", NOT "40 Years Making Crap, Flopping Charts and Losing Grammys"!
  • Anders Bernstrom · 1 year ago
    Actually David Foster IS producer on the 2007 House Television Soundtrack. He produced "Band From TV" doing "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
  • terje · 1 year ago
    I didn't know that. Thanks. It turns out I didn't do my homework properly when I left the comment - the series producer isn't the same as the Hollywood mainstream movie producer, either.
  • Jodi · 1 year ago
    I haven't read all your posts yet, but in case you haven't added this into your ipod yet, I absolutely love David Foster's work on the music for the movie, Secret of My Success.