Risky Business - The Business Undone Edition (1983)

Time for another contribution from Mike Solof, and this time he's gone all the way back to 1983 to put together the complete soundtrack to a classic movie, so over to Mike.......

Inspiration struck tonight. I was doing some research and down the YouTube rabbit hole I went to finally drop down into the soundtrack for the 1983 movie 'Risky Business', featuring Tangerine Dream and classic cuts by Bob Seger, Muddy Waters, Prince and Phil Collins to name just a few. In doing my research, I found that 4 songs (by The Talking Heads, The Police, Bruce Springsteen and the Living Strings ) were cut from the Original Soundtrack. As well as that five of the songs that were on the album were shortened edits of their original versions. What made it even worse was that no official score of the entire Tangerine Dream material was ever released. I've therefore put together the ultimate 'Risky Business' soundtrack which Iʼm calling 'Risky Business - The Business Undone Edition'. My version expands the original soundtrack to include all the unedited original songs, including the Tangerine Dream selections, which consist of two new compositions and three reworkings of previously released material from 1979 and 1981, re-titled to correspond to scenes in the movie, plus the four songs left off the released soundtrack. Not only that, I've also included the complete super rare, hard to find and heavily sought-after promotional press kit album. 'Risky Business (The Audio Movie Kit)', which was issued in 1983 on a 17 minute, double vinyl set, with roughly 50 to 100 copies being made and shipped to various radio stations to promote the forthcoming movie. Eight pieces composed by Tangerine Dream were provided for this kit and they can only be found on this album, being different from the material that was used for the official release of the 'Risky Business' soundtrack album in 1984 by Virgin Records. As a final treat I've also included the entire original score of the movie, as performed by Tangerine Dream, with its 26 cuts totaling over 46 minutes of music. 

Track listing for 'Risky Business - The Business Undone Edition'

01 Every Breath You Take (The Police)

02 My Heart Tells Me (The Living Strings)
03 Old Time Rock And Roll (Bob Seger)
04.The Dream is Always the Same (Tangerine Dream - unedited version)
05 Cloudburst Flight (Tangerine Dream - unedited version of 'Guido The Killer Pimp')
06 The Pump (Jeff Beck)
07 Force Majeure (Tangerine Dream - unedited version of 'Lana')
08 Hungry Heart (Bruce Springsteen)
09 Mannish Boy (Muddy Waters)
10 Swamp (Talking Heads)
11 D.M.S.R. (Prince - full version)
12 After the Fall (Journey)
13 In the Air Tonight (Phil Collins)
14 Love On A Real Train (Tangerine Dream - unedited version)

Track listing for the 'Risky Business (The Audio Movie Kit)'

01 No Future (Film Version)
02 Lana (Press Kit Version)
03 Guido The Killer Pimp (Press Kit Version)
04 U Boat Commander 

05 U Boat Commander (Press Kit Version)
06 Catching The Egg
07 Returning The Furniture (Press Kit Version)
08 Love On A Real Train (End Credits)
09 Joel's Dream (The Dream Is Always The Same) (bonus track)
10 Love On A Real Train (Train Sequence) (bonus track)

Track listing  for 'Risky Business - The Full Score' by Tangerine Dream

01 The Dream Is Always The Same 
02 Joel's Dream (The Dream Is Always The Same) 
03 Watering Flowers 
04 Watering Flowers (Tangram Set One) 
05 Wrong Date 
06 No Future (Film Version) 
07 No Future (Get Off The Babysitter)
08 See You Tonight 
09 Lana 
10 Bond Withdrawal 
11 Guido The Killer Pimp (Film Version) 
12 Guido The Killer Pimp (Press Kit Version) 
13 Guido The Killer Pimp (Album Version) 
14 Joel & Lana 
15 Confrontation With Guido 
16 U Boat Commander 
17 U Boat Commander (Press Kit Version) 
18 Love On A Real Train (Film Version) 
19 Love On A Real Train (Album Version) 
20 Love On A Real Train (Train Sequence) 
21 Porsche Ride 
22 Yard Sale 
23 Catching The Egg 
24 Returning The Furniture 
25 Returning The Furniture (Press Kit Version) 
26 Love On A Real Train (End Credits) 

(Tracks 15 and 16 compiled by Anthony Morales and remixed by Andy Morales)

Don Felder - ...and on guitar (1981)

Donald William Felder was born in Gainesville, Florida, on September 21, 1947, and was first attracted to music after watching Elvis Presley live on The Ed Sullivan Show. He acquired his first guitar when he was about ten years old, which he has stated he exchanged with a friend at the five-and-dime for a handful of cherry bombs. A self-taught musician, he was heavily influenced by rock and roll, and at the age of fifteen he started his first band, the Continentals. Around that time he met Bernie Leadon, who later became one of the founding members of the Eagles, and Leadon replaced Stephen Stills in the Continentals, which eventually changed its name to The Maundy Quintet. Felder gave guitar lessons at a local music shop for about 18 months, where one of his students was a young Tom Petty, and he also learned how to play slide guitar from Duane Allman. The Maundy Quintet recorded and released a single on the Tampa-based Paris Tower label in 1967, which received airplay in north-central Florida, and after the band broke up Felder moved to Manhattan with a band called Flow, which released a self-titled improvisational rock fusion album in 1970. After Flow split, he moved to Boston where he got a job in a recording studio, and in 1973 he relocated to Los Angeles where he was hired as guitar player for a tour by David Blue, replacing David Lindley who was touring with Crosby & Nash. 

In early January 1974 Felder was called by the Eagles to add slide guitar to their song 'Good Day In Hell' and some guitar solos to 'Already Gone', and shortly afterwards he was invited to join the band. After founding member Bernie Leadon departed in 1975 Joe Walsh joined, and his and Felder's dual guitar leads would eventually become one of rock music's most memorable onstage partnerships. The first album that the Eagles released after the lineup change was 'Hotel California', which became a major international bestseller and cemented their reputation as one of America's best bands. Once Felder's skill as a guitarist was recognised by the music industry he started to be asked to provide guitar on albums by a variety of artists, including Bob Seger, Andy Gibb, J. D. Souther, Warren Zevon, Stevie Nicks, and also on Joe Walsh's solo recordings. These guest appearances showed what a versatile musician he was, as he could add a country twang to Fools Gold's 'Rain, Oh, Rain', a fiery rock guitar to David Blue's 'Com'n Back For More', or a refined solo to Terence Boylan's 'Going Home'. In 1983, Felder released his first solo album entitled 'Airborne', and the album's single 'Never Surrender' was a minor hit, having also appeared on the soundtrack to the teen comedy 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High', and although he'll always be primarily remembered for his work with The Eagles, this album shows what an under-rated guitarist he was. 

Track listing

01 Tattooed Man From Chelsea (from 'The Great Pretender' by Michael Dinner 1974)
02 Com'n Back For More (from 'Com'n Back For More' by David Blue 1975)
03 My Old Lady And Your Old Man (from 'A Rumor In His Own Time' by Jeffrey Comanor 1976)
04 Rain, Oh, Rain (from 'Fools Gold' by Fools Gold 1976)
05 I Can't Dance (from 'Glenda Griffith' by Glenda Griffith 1977)
06 I Go For You (from 'Shadow Dancing' by Andy Gibb 1978)
07 Ain't Got No Money (from 'Stranger In Town' by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 1978)
08 At The Station (from "But Seriously, Folks..." by Joe Walsh 1978)
09 If You Don't Want My Love (from 'You're Only Lonely' by J.D. Souther 1979)
10 Going Home (from 'Suzy' by Terence Boylan 1980)
11 A Certain Girl (from 'Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School' by Warren Zevon 1980)
12 I Don't Want To Talk About It (from 'Alive Alone' by Mickey Thomas 1981)
13 Man Gonna Love You (from 'Plantation Harbor' by Joe Vitale 1981)
14 The Highwayman (from 'Bella Donna' by Stevie Nicks 1981)

For MAC users

Press command+shift+period (to show hidden files) and a grayed out folder '...and on guitar" will appear and the mp3s will be inside. Either drag those to another folder OR rename the folder without any periods at the beginning. Press command+shift+period to once again hide the hidden files.

As the series is now back for a short run, I've gone back to some of the previous posts and improved the covers where the colours were a bit off. You can download them from here.

 

and I'd never been happy with the one for Gary Boyle, as there are so few pictures of him online that I had to use a screenshot from a Youtube video, and it wasn't that great quality. I think this one from the same video is a bit sharper, and captures him better.