Repo Man (1984 Film)

Great Soundtrack....Captures Early 80's Punk Perfectly

It's probably been 20 years since I last listened to "Repo Man", and I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked up the CD recently. As soon as Iggy Pop's "Repo Man" started pumping out of my speakers, I was instantly taken back to my mis-spent youth listening to bands like "The Circle Jerks", "Suicidal Tendencies", "The Dead Milkmen", "The Meatmen" etc. "Repo Man" manages to capture the raw energy of the early 80's punk scene, and the music manages to still sound fresh and raw today. (Maybe moreso in this day and age of "sampling" and lip-sync pop stars)
"TV Party", "When The Sh** Hits the Fan", "Pablo Picasso" & "Mean Man" are all stand-outs, and a great introduction to old-school punk. Now that I have re-discovered this disk, I can't imagine why it took me twenty years to finally upgrade my old scratchy LP to CD...but I'm glad I did. January 7, 2008

a soundtrack for dreary beer-filled nights...

Dig it--

Something like you see in Small Town Punk, I spent high school locked into a place that was neither a small town or big city and WAY too far to access any kind of culture. Punk shows? Forget it. And of course, I was angry. What else was there to do about it but sit on the sidewalk and flick lit cigarettes at passing cars? (Okay, so they were just butts I flicked, cuz who the hell wanted to waste a full, good cigarette?)

Fast-forward to watching some TV late at night, wasted--USA network, Night Flight, and there is this movie that includes other punks, insulting each other, doing some damage to public property, getting drunk underage, and...stealing cars with alien corpses in the trunk? And whoa, who's that in the background? Black Flag? No, wait, no, Suicidal Tendencies? No way!

So this was it--the reason to find a little hope in life, because maybe someone actually got why you were angry and hopeless and wanted to do nothing but break things...and they had the musical taste to back it up. The Circle Jerks, Iggy Pop (one of his best songs EVER!), Suicidal, Flag, Fear. This is the perfect soundtrack not only for a wild movie but for throwing beer bottles at stop signs and hiding under your hoodie when the cops come by...

...but don't throw full beer bottles, of course. Granted, it may be Stroh's, or even generic, but don't waste the beer you scraped together quarters for, man...
May 16, 2007

Great music from an odd film

I bought it because I couldn't find a few of these songs anywhere else (coup d'etat in particular). June 26, 2006

In my top five soundtracks

This is one of those movies where I can't really remember where the first time I saw it was but I get the feeling I was some where having a good time... The background music fits the vibe of the movie flawlessly and I went in search of the soundtrack the next day.

There's a song or two on the album that I could pass on but overall it's a great bunch of tracks. If your not at a party plug this one in and I guarantee you'll feel like your at one somewhere, standing around a boombox circa 1984 surrounded by mohawks and cheap beer. January 7, 2006

Punk Cinema Soundtrack 101

This movie was flat-out punk cinema. After nearly a decade after its release its soundtrack was released on CD and immediately was I immersed into the music of my childhood. I used to have the soundtrack on audio tape while my brother erased the video tape (!) that I had of the flick. Thank goodness for the free market and digital technology to bring back these lost classics.

Call it a fine introduction into punk 101 with the movie and music to back it up. This was the soundtrack album which got me into the music of Henry Rollins (Black Flag) and Suicidal Tendencies. The Repo Man theme is classic Iggy while the infectious new wave saxophone-powered groove of "Pablo Picasso" by Burning Sensations literally became an 80's anthem in its own right. Sy Richardson's recitation of Alex Cox's "Bad Man" dialogue with the Juicy Bananas providing a downright smooth blusey funk with a toughness to back it up. And the tequila-tinged sounds of The Plugz ("Reel Ten" is just an AWESOME closer) rounds out the diverse musical styles in a little over a half hour.

Short but sweet. It's a great soundtrack which is all over the map as to its music. It's a perfect accompaniment for a movie which features car reposession, dead aliens, flying cars (way before it was mentioned by Dante & Randal...much less Back to the Future), government UFO coverups (before it became trendy with the X Files), guns, punk mosh pits, televangelists (I liked the sniping at ), car airbags, pop-psychological nonsense, tons of generic-branded FOOD (and BEER)...and much more (I may have to review the DVD tomorrow...in the meantime I'll watch the DVD tonight).

If Quentin Tarantino were to compile a soundtrack to Repo Man it would feature the identical music lineup...but with dialogue. Awesome disc! Get the DVD as well. November 25, 2005

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