{"id":721,"date":"2008-05-05T07:42:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T11:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=721"},"modified":"2008-05-02T15:59:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T19:59:32","slug":"awful-songs-from-geek-movie-soundtracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=721","title":{"rendered":"Awful Songs from &#8220;Geek Movie&#8221; Soundtracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topless Robot has cut loose with a condemnation of the worst 11 songs from geek-friendly movies such as <I>Superman<\/I> and <I>Men in Black<\/I>, and they do not spare the mouth froth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Say what you will about the changes and additions Lucas made to his original trilogy for their Special Editions&#8211;even if you didn&#8217;t agree with them, you could usually at least <EM>understand why they were made<\/EM>. And on the other hand, you have the new fucking Ewok song. For some reason, Lucas and composer John Williams excised the single most joyous piece of music in the whole trilogy, the song to which a generation of nerds had celebrated the fall of the Empire, <EM>the Yub-Yub Song for God&#8217;s sake<\/EM>, and replaced it with what sounds like a B-side by Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just a warm-up.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve thoughtfully included videos of each offender, so you can wince all over again.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2008\/04\/the_11_most_awful_songs_from_geek_movie_soundtrack.php\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.amctv.com\/scifi-scanner\/\">SciFi Scanner<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topless Robot has cut loose with a condemnation of the worst 11 songs from geek-friendly movies such as Superman and Men in Black, and they do not spare the mouth froth. Say what you will about the changes and additions Lucas made to his original trilogy for their Special Editions&#8211;even if you didn&#8217;t agree with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}