Apparently in the early days of working on the script for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, director Edgar Wright and his co-writer Michael Bacall toyed with the idea of not actually showing any performances by the various bands in the film. Similar to what Gareth Edwards did this year with the fight scenes in Godzilla, you'd see everything ramping up, and just as things were about to get good, BAM! it would cut to the aftermath. This way they could avoid having to produce musical numbers that lived up to whatever fans of the books imagined Sex Bob-omb or The Clash At Demonhead to sound like. And let's face it, most bands in movies are crap, right?
While that statement might be true of most movie bands, one of the most notable exceptions is The Carrie Nations from Russ Meyer and Roger Ebert's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Written by Stu Philips, performed by studio musicians and belted by the awesome Lynn Carey (accept no substitutes), these songs truly ROCK! Barn burners like "Find It" and "Sweet Talking Candy Man" have easily accumulated more plays in my iTunes library than songs by some of the more respected artists of the period. Slap one of these babies on a mix disc and you're almost certain to be asked, "Who's that awesome band?" And once you've hooked them with the music, then you can subject them to the weird world of Z-Man, Bentleys and mayonnaise.
Key Tracks: Find It and Sweet Talking Candy Man
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