The MASTAS Summer Of Soundtrack swelters on with a look at the soundtrack for City Of Angels, a reimagining of Wings Of Desire that did fairly well at the box office, and even better at Tower Records...and then kind of disappeared? As we join our Patreon supporters in ranking the ten non-instrumental tracks, we're talking about the days when radio wielded power, the 1889 sound of 1969 Hendrix, and the right blues song for a bar-fight scene in a political thriller. Take a break from glazing your compunctions and join us!

Intro and outro by Laura Barger and Jack Baldelli; for more information, visit patreon.com/mastas.

SHOW NOTES

• Summer Of Soundtrack Episode 1: Hughes Highlights
• SDB wrote about Wings Of Desire for Modern Vintage News, which you can sort of find here?
• More on the leaking of "Uninvited" from Rhino
• Episode 109: Def Leppard, "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
• The Lilith Fair 40, Episode 08: The Final Ranking
• Episode 97: Hit-Single TV Themes Of The '90s

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We're declaring 2026 the Summer Of Soundtrack, contemplating film soundtracks across the decades -- and we're starting with 10 selections from the 1980s John Hughes teen oeuvre, some you'll remember and some you'll forget...or regret. As we contemplate the definitive Hughes tunes (or, for one of us, speak truth to Thompson-Twins power), we're also discussing NuRo wallpaper, post-prom fire hazards, keyboardist video indicating, and the Nirvana-Clash pipeline. Grab that Sport Walkman, folks: it's a very hot! very hot! new episode of MASTAS.

Intro and outro by David Gregory Byrne; for more information, visit patreon.com/mastas.

SHOW NOTES

• Jonathan Bernstein's Pretty In Pink: The Golden Age of Teenage Movies
• Kevin Smokler's Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies
• The Lost Songs Project
• March MASTAS Single 01: Welcome To The '80s British Band Bracket!
• Ira Newborn's NYU-faculty page
• Episode 80: Pat Benatar's Greatest Hits, Ranked
• Our esteemed colleague Danny Elfm-- uh, Adam Sternbergh
• A 2019 oral history of Some Kind Of Wonderful that suggests Sarah isn't completely off-base about Watts

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Dan Rogge returns -- with our new friends L.V. Beethoven and Phyllis Domain -- to discuss his least favorite William Joel album, 1983's "An Innocent Man." The recurring Diane character, elegant internal rhymes, car-tape-deck privilege, protecting the children from doo-wop, wedding-band improv exercises, and how big a pop star you have to be to get away with pairing Uggs and a tux: keep the faith that we're talking about all of that and much more. Grab a harmonica and join us!

Intro and outro by Andrew Byrne. Visit us on Patreon for more!

SHOW NOTES

• Billy Joel's "Glass Houses," Ranked (with Dan Rogge!)
• Billy Joel's "The Stranger," Ranked (with Dan Rogge!)
• The Easy Money trailer
• America's Damp 40, Episode 00: An Introduction
• Adam Blau
• Episode 125: ABBA-sode!
• The Best Evidence newsletter
• Give Dan a job!
• The Lady Doth Protest

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