"Cruising" Soundtrack

[Energyguy]

I have just got hold of the LP soundtrack from the 1980 Al Pacino film "Cruising"...One of the tracks is a really cool funk track called "Lump". I really love this and its by a group called MUTINY. Does anyone have any info in this group and di they release much material ?

[ol'skinflint]

Originally Posted by Energyguy

I have just got hold of the LP soundtrack from the 1980 Al Pacino film "Cruising"...One of the tracks is a really cool funk track called "Lump". I really love this and its by a group called MUTINY. Does anyone have any info in this group and di they release much material ?

I've had the soundtrack for months and am just now getting around to playing it. I played "Lump" and like it. If you read the writer's credit, it lists Jerome Brailey as one of the writers, and he is a member of George Clinton's crew of writers and musicians (and in fact he is co-writer of Parliament's biggest hit, "Tear the Roof Off the Sucker".) The song has the Clinton/Parliament sound. I suspect there's no real "group" involved here. Many writers and producers would invent group names for soundtrack songs, even Giorgio Moroder has done it. By the way, that movie "Cruising" was so violent and dark that each time I've tried to watch it I've turned my eyes away from the screen during some of the scenes..

[Videoskooter]

Originally Posted by Energyguy

One of the tracks is a really cool funk track called "Lump". I really love this and its by a group called MUTINY. Does anyone have any info in this group and di they release much material ?

Neil, check out:

MUTINY

It's so long ago that I've seen that movie. Wasn't it mainly Punk and Rock?

[thommy2458]

I've always loved the music from this film-sorta punk/funk
rock.Is this available on CD yet?

Thom

[Energyguy]

Originally Posted by Videoskooter

Neil, check out:

MUTINY

It's so long ago that I've seen that movie. Wasn't it mainly Punk and Rock?

Yep - its a great film and finally getting a region 1 DVD release later this year !
Its an interesting soundtrack which is mainly made up of hard rock music.

[remicks]

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This a great film??

Why would anyone find even an ounce of entertainment in watching a film whose sole purpose is to savagly depict gay people being brutally set up for murder ????????????

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[markydefad]

Yeah, I think it's a failure as a film...but totally fascinating as a timepiece reminder of what the S&M/leather scene looked like in Gay culture in the late Seventies....I love watching the club scenes and the leather guys dancing...it so reminds me of SF back then.... but the story makes no sense...especially the ending.....

[remicks]

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I have no idea how it ended . I had left the theatre by then .


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[Energyguy]

Originally Posted by remicks

*****

This a great film??

Why would anyone find even an ounce of entertainment in watching a film whose sole purpose is to savagly depict gay people being brutally set up for murder ????????????

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Its only a movie.. You should not take it so seriously. If we took offense at everything we saw at the cinema/on TV we would not watch anything. It is a very dark and disturbing film but a great thriller !

[Energyguy]

Originally Posted by thommy2458

I've always loved the music from this film-sorta punk/funk
rock.Is this available on CD yet?

Thom

It's one of those very rare soundtracks that got deleted years ago and is only available in the original LP format (if you can find it). As far as I am aware it has never had a CD release.

[markydefad]

"Cruising" was very controversial & un-p.c. back then..because of it's depiction of Gay guys as serial killers [oh yeah, just what we needed] ...and was a cinematic stink bomb when it was finally released....I think I've only seen it on cable...but each time I come across it on late night Encore or whatever...I always watch it ......

William Freidkin, the director, was a very talented guy...but couldn't pull this one off....


Leonard Maltin gives it *1/2 stars...

" distasteful, badly scripted film. Gay world presented as sick, degrading and ritualistic. Filmed on authentic NYC locations..."

Yeah, Leonard but that's the good part...

[markydefad]

The authenticity of the NYC Gay club scenes in "Cruising" reminds me of another 1980 movie I recently watched again on late-night cable..."American Gigolo"..... wherein Richard Gere, at his homoerotically attractive best, chases down black pimp, Bill Duke, by asking some Santa Monica Blvd. hustler Duke's whereabouts....he replies.."The Probe"..this leads Gere to the club-- PROBE...wherein we watch Gere enter and go up the stairs and down the stairs to the dancefloor where there seems to be a somewhat sparsely atttended leathermen convention on the dancefloor...we see S&M porn star Val Martin "dancing" with someone [I think they were doing "poppers/ethyl chloride" just like Pacino did, well "over-did", in "Cruising"]...and then Gere & Duke go off to the stairwell again to have their scene...I've read that director, Paul Schrader, straight but maybe bi-curious in the old days, used to dance with the boys at Probe, back in the glory days of disco.... that was before my time with Probe...which is still there on Highland Avenue...but named something different now....

The club was THE place to go in Hollywood back then...not as spacious and glorious as SF's Trocadero...but Viteritti played there also....

When I came to LA in 1984...it just remember they did not know anything about "morning music"....it was 130+ bpms to 7:00am...then they turned on the lights and shooed you out the door and down the street to Greg's Blue Dot...the bar that's now a coffee house...to continue the party in the harsh light of day....

Memories...misty, murky memories of the was I was.

[thommy2458]

Originally Posted by markydefad

The authenticity of the NYC Gay club scenes in "Cruising" reminds me of another 1980 movie I recently watched again on late-night cable..."American Gigolo"..... wherein Richard Gere, at his homoerotically attractive best, chases down black pimp, Bill Duke, by asking some Santa Monica Blvd. hustler Duke's whereabouts....he replies.."The Probe"..this leads Gere to the club-- PROBE...wherein we watch Gere enter and go up the stairs and down the stairs to the dancefloor where there seems to be a somewhat sparsely atttended leathermen convention on the dancefloor"

Marky-Is this the scene where they play Cheryl Barnes "Love and Passion"? Everytime I hear that song I think of the Probe...

Thom

[Videoskooter]

Marky, do you mean this scene?



And for the people that don't know the movie "Cruising":

[markydefad]

Videoskooter, you are good!!!

Yes, that's exactly the scene...and it is Cheryl Barnes singing "Love & Passion" ...and the dancefloor didn't seem as sparsely populated as I remembered it... that's good...if you're gonna film there you might as well hire enough extras to make it look fun and not depressing....cuz when it's empty..it IS depressing....

The oddest thing is that Gere could park his car in front of Probe and just walk in...never happened to me ...most likely you had to park several blocks way.... but in the movieworld....no cars can park on Highland to ruin your shot of Gere entering Probe.....

The "Cruising" trailer is odd...why those images of the girls in leather biker gear? They weren't in the movie...how misleading making straight guys think they were gonna see the likes of Traci Lords or whoever in leather biker gear when in reality it was only MEN!!!