The OST Party

Happy holidays, gang! This week we're getting into the Christmas spirit with one of the most beloved 90s Christmas classics. Or depending on your mood, a sequel to a 90s Christmas classic. We're talking about HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK! Kevin McCallister finds his way to the Big Apple, which means lots of tourism montages, snow-covered cityscapes and wacky hijinks involving one of the most fam...

On this edition of our On The 5's series, Libby takes us into the dark underbelly of fame, where actors decide it's time to strap on the guitar and play rock star for an album or two. That's right, this episode is dedicated to rock songs from some of your actors! Y'know, provided your favorite actors are Bruce Willis, Kevin Bacon and...*checks notes* Stephen King? He acts sometimes, right? Look, n...

Happy Thanksgiving, party pals! This week we're giving thanks for all things ROAD HOUSE! Patrick Swayze is Dalton, the world's greatest cooler/bouncer/NYU philosophy major and he's here to clean up a seedy backwater bar and maybe the whole town too. The soundtrack features several tracks from the Jeff Healey Band, who appear in the film as the Double Deuce's house band. We've also got cuts from Bo...

Martin Scorsese recently called comic book movies "theme park rides" and the internet had a collective meltdown over it. Coupled with the release of his latest film, The Irishman, now seems like a pretty good time to discuss a Scorsese film! Join us this week as we dig into 1986's THE COLOR OF MONEY!  The Color of Money follows retired pool hustler Fast Eddie (Paul Newman) taking a young hotshot n...

Happy Halloween, party people! Join us on a strange and spooky journey to the Sixth Dimension as we discuss the soundtrack to FORBIDDEN ZONE! In the early 80s, Richard and Danny Elfman were straining to break free of the musical theatre circuit. Richard devised Forbidden Zone as a showcase for Danny's band, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, as well as a means of breaking into the film indust...

It's time to get spoooooky! Join us this week as we slide into the Halloween spirit with the soundtrack to SHAUN OF THE DEAD! Not only is Edgar Wright's 2004 debut one of the greatest horror comedies of all time, the soundtrack is a rip-roaring ride through 80s power pop classics, hip-hop and electro beats, a couple of Queen songs, and all points in between. Wright is one of the last filmmakers st...

It's hard to believe we've made it twenty episodes! But here we are, and as we like to do on the 5's, this week we're counting down some 80s soundtrack cuts. Songs that maybe don't have the full support of a soundtrack album, or might get lost in the shuffle of an artist's other work. You might not think of some of these as misfits, but when else would we ever get to talk about them? Now, that's w...

It's party time! P-A-R-T...Why? Because this week we're jumping in with both feet to discuss 1994's The Mask! This year marks the 25th anniversary of one of Jim Carrey's breakout roles, and we're here to talk all about it. The movie's soundtrack sits at an odd moment in 90s music, a crossroads between new jack swing and the neo-swing revival. As a flashpoint for the swing revival, The Mask is more...

On this episode, we're digging into Walter Hill's 1984 rock n' roll fable STREETS OF FIRE! It's a musical with numbers that can level entire city blocks. It's an aggressively '80s take on motorcycle gangs of the '50s. It's a wannabe western starring a stoic hero with a duster and a Winchester. It's all of these things and so much more. Michael Paré is Tom Cody, a drifter hired to rescue his ex-gir...

This week on The O/S/T Party, we're jumping through a portal into another dimension to walk some dinosaurs and discuss the soundtrack to 1993's SUPER MARIO BROS! It's a film that pushes viewers to the breakpoint and offers so much off-the-wall creativity, it's almost unreal. Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo, an Englishman and a Colombian, play Italian brothers chasing a kidnapped princess into a dim...

On this week's episode, we want to share with our fellow Americans (and international friends) one of our favorite forgotten 90s comedies: My Fellow Americans! Two ex-presidents (Jack Lemmon and James Garner) go on the lam after a government cover-up leads to their attempted assassination, and the only way to save their skins is by taking a road trip to Ohio! That's right, it's another one of thos...

Once upon a time, Will Smith was the reigning king of the 4th of July movie weekend. And to accompany these huge blockbusters, Smith brought us some of the all-time great movie raps! This week we're taking you through his entire history, from New Line Cinema attempting to squash "A Nightmare on My Street" to Smith's late-90s heyday with Men in Black and Wild Wild West, and all the way to the prese...

This week we're hitting the road like Sam and Max! Or rather, like Beavis and Butthead, because on this week's episode we're discussing Beavis and Butt-Head Do America! If you had told us twenty years ago that THIS would be one of the 90s' most enduring comedies, we might have laughed in your face. Or we might have said, "Yes! That rules!" Because, honestly? This movie still rules. It's held up fa...

It's time to hit the dance floor, people! On this episode of the O/S/T Party, we aren't just covering the soundtrack to Adam Sandler's 1998 rom-com The Wedding Singer. This week we're discussing EVERY SONG IN THE FILM! When your film revolves around a down-on-his-luck wedding singer warbling out 80s jukebox hits and screaming at newlyweds, as well as tons of homages to the heyday of MTV, how could...

This week's episode is all about 1998's Godzilla, the summer blockbuster that proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that size doesn't actually matter. You would be hard pressed to find a movie soundtrack more 1998 than Godzilla: The Album. Featuring the likes of The Wallflowers, Jamiroquai, and Ben Folds Five, the soundtrack to Roland Emmerich's epic disaster is chock full of radio-friendly 90s rock...

This week we invite you to sit back, relax and have a mental margarita as we discuss the soundtrack to 1989's Earth Girls Are Easy. This movie is a lot of things all at once. It's a bouncy 80s sex comedy; it's a parody of MTV-obsessed LA youth; it's a sci-fi film with a wacko retro-future aesthetic. It's also a showcase for Julie Brown's brand of humor and music, and man do we get a lot of that! W...

To celebrate our tenth episode, we're counting down our top ten James Bond theme songs. For as many cliches and signatures as the James Bond series has invented and perfected over the years, one that everyone can get behind is its classic theme songs. Sometimes brassy and orchestral, other times painfully pop-oriented, there really is a James Bond theme for every taste. We're covering everything f...

We're gonna have an O/S/T Party tonight, alright? Alright! This week, we are joined by Niel Jacoby, cohost of the podcast Spall Talk , to discuss the soundtrack to Alex Cox's 1984 punk rock sci-fi opus REPO MAN! Repo Man is a deeply strange film about punks repossessing cars, government conspiracies, alien life forms, and the soul-crushing nihilism of Reagan-era Los Angeles. On top of that, it's a...

On this episode, we take to the skies to discuss the smash hit soundtrack to the most 80s movie ever made: TOP GUN! This soundtrack is full of hard-rockin', synth-wavin', oldie-croonin' radio cheese, so it's no wonder people bought it nine million times. Half the soundtrack barely even registers on this episode, because we're trapped in the thrall of Kenny Loggins, Giorgio Moroder, and Val Kilmer'...

Holy Schnikes! Are you sick of the mid-90s yet or what? This week on The O/S/T Party, we're hitting the road and jamming out to the soundtrack of 1995's TOMMY BOY! Our hosts agree that this is one of the great comedies of our time, and the soundtrack is secretly just as good. On top of some choice needledrops from REM and Dexy's Midnight Runners, we've got The Replacements' Paul Westerberg, a pre-...

Devil's Night may not be until October, but that's no reason not to FIRE IT UP! FIRE IT UP! FIRE IT UP! On this episode of The O/S/T Party, we discuss THE CROW, the 1994 dark comic fantasy that served as Brandon Lee's tragic swansong, and launched the goth phase for a million terrible 90s kids. This soundtrack was one of the surprise hits of the mid-90s, mostly remembered now for Nine Inch Nails c...

Between 1999 and 2001, Smash Mouth's "All Star" was a truly inescapable earworm, making appearances in no less than FIVE FEATURE FILMS! This week's O/S/T Party is dedicated to exploring this dark period in music history. But fret not, because for every villain there must be a hero. A savior waits in the wings to deliver us from Mr. Mouth and his gang of bowling shirts. That hero is none other than...

Alright you 'noids, brace yourselves because this week we're diving into a world full of early-90s EDM, horny cel animation and acid-washed cartoon freakouts. That's right, on this episode we're talking about COOL WORLD, Ralph Bakshi's 1992 Roger Rabbit-inspired fever dream starring Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger and Gabriel Byrne. This is an album loaded with '80s dance holdovers, early-90s mainstays an...

Grab your hoverboards and count up your jigowatts, because it's time to go back! To the future, that is! This week, Joe and Libby discuss the entire Back to the Future trilogy and the music that made it iconic. Who is the narrator of "Back in Time"? How much "Power of Love" is too much? Are we seriously going to just let Eric Clapton reggae up this soundtrack? The answers to these questions, and m...

Riddle me this, riddle me that, how many tunes were inspired by the Bat? This edition of The O/S/T Party finds Libby & Joe diving into the mid-90s superhero muck that is Batman Forever. It's a neon dayglo nightmare, and the soundtrack is no different, full of smooth R&B, college rock leftovers and one or two of the best songs of the 90s. Not only did this album spawn SIX. RADIO. SINGLES. ("Kiss Fr...