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Come On (Let The Good Times Roll)

posted 10 years ago by PussyCrusher_Principal
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When Richie ad Carl take Richie's mother' s jeep - anybody find any significance in Jimi Hendrix music - and Carl referring to it as "old" when Richie tells him to put on some Rock N Roll - playing in the jeep/on soundtrack?

I know there's a Little Feat song, but it's not at all prominent...the rest I the music is either then-current, and very well chosen as far as what those kids might've listened to OR appropriate based on what is happening on screen (Ooh Child at the end).

Maybe it's nothing other than the fact it was an adult's jeep, and being her jeep, it was her music. But maybe somebody sees something I don't. I mean, why not Purple Haze or Foxey Lady.

Of course the Cars had a Good Times Roll (which is ironic insofar as the music of the song is concerned). That's NOT on the soundtrack (where Just What I Needed and My Best Friends Girl ARE) - it's a relatively obscure Hendrix Tune...

[–] tallkennj 9 years ago

I suspect it was just easier to clear an unknown Hendrix song than one of his hits. I've always been under the impression that Hendrix's estate was a bit of a mess after his death with different record companies dusting off various demos and outtakes and packaging them into "albums" with nobody willing or able to stop them on behalf of Hendrix's estate.

Ritchie's mom was young, presumably a liberal "cool" mom, and they show this by her choice of music and the fact that she has a "stash" in the car. If you parse things, he was, for all his typical teen angst, as level headed and honorable as any of the other kids proving that, perhaps, the conservative parenting style didn't necessarily mean you would raise a good kid.

[–] PussyCrusher_Principal 9 years ago

Good call on Richie being Honorable - the older I get the more I realize that Richie was definitely one the smarter kids, and his daring and seeming recklessness notwithstanding - the gun, taking the jeep and running from cops - very well thought out (his moderate attitude towards drugs and alcohol especially). He was definitely pre-judged based on looks alone (long hair, often has a sneer on his face, pot leaf belt buckle), he questioned everything and didn't take any crap off anybody, which infuriated the cops and other parents.

I find some irony in Carl's parents telling him to stay away from Richie - on Doberman's and others' advice most likely - while Dobeman was the sneak/irresponsible one. Richie is arguably the example other parents should have looked to when trying to raise their kids right, at least relative to how out-of-control some of the other kids are (like Mark Perry and his "gorilla"), but in the 70s, the way he looked and acted would have been anathema to most parents who grew up in the 50s.

They ruined lives to protect their swimming pools.