Happy Hump Day! From now until July 11th, I’m taking over for Don Durito, spinning the tunes and serving drinks for everyone’s entertainment.
My love of movie music inspired me to choose My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (TKK) as this week’s featured musical act. Not only was the band itself named after a proposed film but never made film of the same name, the band itself incorporates spoken word samples from B-movies and television shows in its music. Hollywood reciprocated, using music from 30 different song titles in 17 movies and 23 television showssince the band was founded 30 years ago.
Probably the best known of the band’s songs is also the one most frequently appearing in soundtracks, “Sex on Wheelz,” used in eight different movies and TV shows. Its most famous appearance was in the movie “Cool World,” which earned it a second music video directed by Ralph Bakshi.
Arguably the next most famous use of a song by My Life with The Thrill Kill Kult in a movie was After the Flesh from “The Crow.” The band appeared as itself in the film playing this song.
To finish off the music selections in the diary proper, I’m sharing a song by My Life with The Thrill Kill Kult that was not used in a movie or TV show, but whose title is too on the nose for me to pass up, Apollo 69.
With all my talk of sex and flesh, my readers should have figured out that the volume number of this installment of the series inspired me as well.
Once again, I’m concluding the diary proper by quoting Don Durito.
For those of you wondering how I and Neon Vincent are circumventing Sucuri to embed videos, here is an example of the embed code we use, so that you can replicate as wanted:
Just remember that each unique 11-digit video code in YouTube needs to be pasted in two separate locations within the embed code in order for your video to show up properly. So easy that I can do it!
With those instructions, feel free to post your favorite music videos in the comments.
Tipsy Bartender has just the drink for today’s volume number, Sex on the Brain.
Tomorrow is National Bourbon Day and National Strawberry Shortcake Day as well as Flag Day. Expect drinks made with bourbon or strawberries (not and — I don’t think that combination would work) in addition to more music by My Life with The Thrill Kill Kult from movies and TV in the comments. In the meantime, the bartender is taking requests.
I promised both a bourbon drink and a strawberry drink for today. First, the bourbon drink, Date Night.
Next, Strawberry Shortcake.
Happy Flag Day, Bourbon Day, and Strawberry Shortcake Day!
I just saw Thrill Kill Kult play live last month. Still a really fun show.
They played Confessions of a Knife in its entirety, along with a bunch of other tracks.
I’m not surprised. I’ve watched videos of their live shows and they look like a blast. The other songs were probably from I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits, the band’s debut album. I’ll post songs from that album and “Confessions of a Knife” that were used in films and TV next.
As promised, here is “A Daisy Chain for Satan” My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult@Baltimore, MD 4/21/18. The song is from “Confessions of a Knife” and was used in the movie “Sexy Evil Genius” in 2013.
Love A Daisy Chain for Satan.
For some reason this album never took off to the same extent as their earlier stuff and the band sort of dropped off the radar for a lot of people, but damn, Hit & Run Holiday is amazing.
I second your opinion of the album. I hadn’t heard it before I started working on this project, but I was floored. I’m not even going to bother with picking out the title song. Here’s the entire album in video form, Hit & Run Holiday Tour 1995.
First, The Days Of Swine And Roses from “Confessions of a Knife” used in Emimem’s Biorhythm on MTV.
Next, “And This Is What the Devil Does” from “I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits” used in the movie “Crazy Eyes” in 2012.”
Much of this song was reworked into “The Devil Does Drugs,” which was used in “Cool World” (it’s the song Holli Wood dances to when she first appears), “Totally F***ed Up,” and “Showgirls.” I might post the scene from “Cool World” later.