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.