Tom Cruise Soundtrack Classics | Get To The Hook

Welcome to Get to the Hook. I'm your co-host Charles Latibodiere. And I'm your co-host Eric Colley. And this week, just pick some old records off the shelf. I really don't like that song. You know, I don't either. Not to... I don't want to start on a negative note here, because I like to try and keep things positive here at Get to the Hook, because music is mostly positive. But we're talking this week, the hook is Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise, who has been everywhere for like the last two weeks, He's very heavily promoting his new movie, Digger, as Tom Cruise does when he has a movie coming out. You see him everywhere. He's been extra, extra out for this one, though. And really outgoing. It didn't help. It didn't help at all. Made $8 million over the weekend, $20 million worldwide, supposedly cost up to $180 million. That's not good. No, they are taking a bath on that one. But we'll see. Look, we're not going to do a movie review. Really, what we're going to talk about, although I do want to talk a little bit about the movie, But we're talking about Tom Cruise and the hit songs that come out of his movies. So whatever you think about Tom Cruise, Hollywood has clearly figured that there is a winning formula. And if you have Tom Cruise, his personality on camera, and you add some really good music, there's a chance you're going to actually make some money. Now, I don't think there's a soundtrack for Digger, so maybe that's the problem. I don't think so. See, they broke away from the formula. But that's the thing. I was thinking about this, about the music in his movies, because I associate music with everything. And Tom Cruise has so many songs. Tom Cruise got bangers, man. Of the songs we're going to talk about today, we've got a bunch of different kind of genres, from pop to country to metal we're going to bring up. Four number one singles, four Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song, two songs that have been ranked consistently as two of the worst songs ever made. But they are iconic. Whether you love them or hate them, they are iconic songs. Ooh, attached to a Tom Cruise movie. I mean, what you're saying basically... To the same movie, actually. Both songs are in the same movie. And both were number one hits. Now, did the movie do well? Yes. See? So it doesn't even matter. It doesn't even matter. It doesn't even matter. Tom Cruise is not a singer, except one time he was, and we're going to get into that, too. If you want to hear Tom Cruise sing, we're going to play you some of that. What we're saying is, when are they going to let this guy into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? I don't understand. I don't know about all that. But it is just interesting to think of this actor who's not really known as a singer at all. It's not like he has a side career. He's not. I mean, he sang in one movie. Like I said, we'll talk about it. And again, just because you sing doesn't make you a singer. That is true. As I often hear around my house. But music is definitely very associated with him. The more I thought about it, I was like, wait, there's this song, this song, this song. And then you start seeing just how what a massive collection of classic songs this is. So I thought, let's talk about it. Let's do it. And I'm going to cheat a little bit. When I said there was four number one hits, four Academy Award nominations, I'm kind of cheating on one of them. Do you know what Tom Cruise's very first on-screen appearance in a movie was? Is it the movie was, was it called Taps? Taps is the first one he was like a star in. Okay. And I gave you one. So it's the same year. What's it called? He had a small part in it. The book. No, it is the Brooke Shields movie, Endless Love. That was Tom Cruise's first on-screen appearance in a movie. Tom Cruise was in Endless Love? Yeah. He and James Spader both made their film debuts in Endless Love. I don't remember Tom Cruise. I don't either. But Tom Cruise, apparently his first movie was Endless Love. The title song, Lionel, Diana, number one for nine weeks, Academy Award nomination. That's the cheat. So you're cheating with Endless Love. It's not a Tom Cruise movie, but he is in it. He is in it, and it did have a huge hit theme song. Okay. All right. We got the cheating out of the way. Yeah, yeah. These other ones are all very, very legit. And also, I'm not really going to talk about old songs featured in movies. like You've Lost That Love and Feel and Top Gun or Free Fall and Jerry Maguire. We're talking about situations except one. I'm going to bring up one because it is very significant. Boy, Eric is just cheating a lot this week. No, this one's not a cheat because the song... I don't want to say... All right, go ahead. The song got re-released and recharted because of the movie and I think the song is best known for the movie now. It is. To that point, you referenced it at the beginning of this show. It's a song so very closely associated with Tom Cruise and his underwear. Bob Seger, we're talking about the song Old Time Rock and Roll and of course you remember that famous scene in Risky Business when Tom Cruise came sliding out in his tighty-whities. That song had actually come out four years before Risky Business, but it became popular all over again, and that scene in particular and that movie made Tom Cruise Tom Cruise. Yes. When he did the New Heights podcast with Travis and Jason Kelsey recently, they talked about that scene because it is still so iconic. It really is. I mean, it put him on the map and put that song more on the map than it deserves to be. I honestly think that song is played now at a lot of weddings weddings of a certain ilk that song is played all the time and I think it's because people attach it to that memory of someone sliding in in their underwear and doing the whole thing around them and lip syncing to it the song itself is okay but what I hate you and I both hate when people are like music was good when I was a kid and everything sucks since then that is the music version of that that is Bob Seger saying Don't play me any new songs I only want old stuff Nothing good is out now Don't take me to a disco Don't like anything I just want my old stuff He is Bob Seger's been a crotchety old man Since the 70s Wait a second Shit Have I become Bob Seger? I like I honestly I don't I dislike the song so much I never even really thought about What it was saying Until you just said that And I was like No but it's not a new song You don't like It's a song It's an old song you don't like But I didn't like it When it was new But you were like A small child No I was not a small Wait you talked about when it came out first or from Risky Business? From Risky Business. Okay. Yeah. Well, still, you were young. I probably hadn't, honestly, I hadn't heard that song until Risky Business. I think, yeah. And yes, the scene is iconic and I remember it, but I can't figure out if I don't like the song because I just don't like it or I dislike it because of how much it got played because of Risky Business. Yeah. It doesn't really matter. I just don't like it. But the point is, I think I actually am that person now. Well, we'll see because we are going to span from 1983 when Risky Business came out to the 2020s so we'll get to the newer songs and see what you think of them let's get on to the first really big iconic movie theme song from a tom cruise movie and this this movie talking about top gun and of course the soundtrack was massive number one for five weeks certified nine times platinum three maybe four big hits off that record it's debatable which one is the most famous i think probably the most famous not the biggest hit was this song from kenny logan's danger zone I think I did I just like guzzle a gallon of haterade before I walked in here to start this because I don't like that one either it is not my favorite from that soundtrack certainly and you know who else didn't like it a lot of other people so it was written by Tom Whitlock and Giorgio Moroder and Giorgio Moroder is one of the most successful producers in music history produced for Donna Summer produced Flashdance for Iron Cara Call Me for Blondie inspired Daft Punk Giorgio Moroder is a pioneer techno electronic music legend the two of them wrote that and they wrote it they offered it to a bunch of artists the people who turned it down before they got to kenny loggins were toto jefferson starship ario speedwagon brian adams cory hart and then it got to kenny loggins oh by the way all of those people are certainly are all right in the same lane yes they are all in the same lane you know what they were going for this is going to be great for you this is going to be great in that middle of the road pop rock kind of thing that's what they were going for kenny loggins took them up on it Although even in 2008, like decades later, Kenny Loggins said about the song that it doesn't represent him as an artist. I mean, I'm sure he's happy with the money he's made off of it. That's his way of crapping on it without crapping on it. But Kenny Loggins did actually get to write and record a song himself for the movie, and it was Playing with the Boys from the notorious shirtless volleyball scene on the beach. And in his memoir, Kenny Loggins said that he had discovered that that song had become a gay club anthem, which makes sense playing with the boys and the famous ripped shirtless dude scene but the thought that Kenny Loggins would accidentally write a gay club anthem I discovered it was a gay anthem yeah he just I think he was a little surprised that a gay club would be playing his music I mean seriously when he wrote the song did he write it did he write that on spec like did they say hey we've got a scene that we want to or did he write it and then they just put it on that scene. I think he probably wrote it for the movie specifically after he was... Maybe that's part of the deal is he did Danger Zone. And the reason a lot of those other artists turned it down is because they didn't want to do something they didn't write. And some people thought, I think Brian Adams thought it was pro-war and didn't like that. Or like pro-military kind of thing. Kenny Loggins was happy to record it and it worked out for him. The song went to number two. It was a huge hit. It was featured in the sequel. I mean, I'm just saying, if he saw the volleyball scene, how did he not know that's what it was going to turn into? I don't know if he saw that like the dailies of that scene and then wrote the song or if he wrote the song and then saw it maybe he wrote it off the storyboards yeah do you think he was in the theater singing it and was like oh my oh i think i just wrote a gay club anthem but that was not the biggest hit from that movie at the time there was a song that went to number one and went on to win the academy award for best original song it was the only tom cruise soundtrack song to win the oscar and again georgio marota as i said legendary career he said this next song is the one he is most proud of did he right this is this he wrote it he produced it this is berlin their only number one hit this take my breath away i do love that song i think it's a beautiful song i i i can ride with that more than danger zone yeah you know who did not care for that song this is one of my favorite song music anecdotes ever berlin's manager was not a fan of take my breath away he's like this song is not going to be a hit for you guys like this is stupid it's never going to take off it's never going to be a hit he told so many people in the industry that they were like going to ruin their career with this song he told people that if it went top five he would get a mohawk which for you know a middle-aged guy in the 80s that's a shocking thing yeah he told so many people this that mtv decided to film it if it happened uh-huh so the song did go top five berlin being generous waited until it made the top three and then he sat down in the chair to get his mohawk and i love this as he's in the chair getting his head buzzed for the song he didn't believe in they get a phone call take my breath away had gone to number one he probably had never take it all off yeah if i had never been so happy to be wrong ultimately though the rest of the band didn't love that song either because they didn't play on it they didn't write it and berlin was a self-contained band the other band members were kind of resentful of it they said it doesn't represent us like kenny logan said and it broke berlin up that's why you never heard them again after that really because it just caused so much friction within the group that they fell apart were they were they mad at Terry? I don't think so. She was obviously happy to do the song. She's the one who championed it because she thought it was a great song and she was right. Yeah. But yeah, I don't think they were mad at her personally. I don't know. They just thought, this is not who we are. And now we're trapped by this song that none of us like, except maybe her. And Giorgio Moroder. And it worked out for Terry Nunn. Actually, I saw Terry Nunn perform at a charity event probably, I don't know, 10, 12 years ago. And she performed that song and was, you know, more than happy to sing it. Got back together. she knows yeah but uh yeah i saw them three two or three years ago i saw berlin at the hollywood bowl opening for culture club oh really yeah and uh they did that song of course and they did get their other hits like no more words and the metro those songs were great but when she did take my breath away it just it's still a showstopper it's a great song take those old records off the shelf anyway yeah and also top gun another top 20 song from that soundtrack lover boy remember lover boy their song heaven in your eyes that was a top 20 hit for them so the top gun soundtrack was not to mention what it did it wasn't a new song written for it but what it did for um you've lost that love you lost that love and feeling right yeah the scene of them singing a whole other generation that only knows that song as a top gun song and when you hear it to this day you still kind of picture them in the bar singing that song and then they did it again in the sequel so it's very ingrained in the history of that soundtrack that moment in time so that that put the tom cruise soundtrack on the map in a big way two years later can we pour a little out for goose though yeah uh two years later another huge tom cruise soundtrack and this is where we get two number one singles and both of them have consistently been ranked as two of the worst songs ever made and i'm going to be honest up front i'm not a fan of i know one of them you'll be surprised i don't know the second one so talking about the movie cocktail which on its the premise of it just sounds so dumb that tom cruise is this instead of a jet pilot he's a bartender i felt like it worked i don't know i don't tell you i saw the movie it was it was it was a big hit and the soundtrack was a huge hit and they got the beach boys of course to come back and do a song for cocktails and the beach boys got their very first number one song in 22 years since 1966's good vibrations often considered one of the greatest songs of all time yes indeed they went back to number one in 1988 with what is considered one of the absolute worst songs of all time so that's that's pretty impressive that you had one number one that everyone thinks is the greatest song of all time and then your next number one they could give a ---- yeah but it was you know what it was an undeniable smash it really was this is oh god i hate playing it this is kokomo you know where you never hear that song played in jamaica oh i thought you'd say in my house yeah yeah john stamos in the video but it went to number one yeah huge was that the start of stamos being a member of the beach yeah it's like hey is that uncle jesse uh full house why is he in this beach boys video i saw the beach boys a couple years ago out here at a music festival and you know mike love is the only surviving member at this point but stamos is up front and everything and i just thought when they played that song does mike love go like why do i have to be the one who's still here singing kokomo because he's the one who wanted that song that's why a lot of people don't like it because brian wilson had nothing to do with kokomo he's not on that song at all yeah it's it's the brian wilson version of the beach boys and one of the going through some of the horrible reviews of it like from the time and to this day blender uh pop culture magazine's gone now blender said it basically sounded like a tribute to the beach boys that just happened to feature the beach boys like it It sounds like a tribute to what they did, like the watered-down corporate version of 80s nostalgia. Let's try to do like a modern-day 80s Beach Boys sound, and, you know, let's get the actual Beach Boys. Yeah, let's get them. You know, all right, well, Brian doesn't want to do it. Oh, all right, anybody else? Yeah, I mean, but again, the song was undeniably a massive hit, and once you get it in your head, it is hard to get out. It is a catchy song. Let's move on, then. Oh, you don't want to move on. Before it's implanted. Because we're moving on to something even worse. The other number one hit from Cocktail, a song that people forget is on that soundtrack, and it does hold a distinction. It is the only a cappella song ever to hit number one from 1988, Bobby McFerrin. This is Don't Worry, Be Happy. Here's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry. Be happy. Okay. Can I speak up? I'm like a baby shark if it's day. I'm going to stand up for Mr. McFerrin right now, right? If you lock me in a room and say, I've got to choose between Kokomo, Danger Zone, old-time rock and roll, and just be happy, I'm going happy. I'm definitely going to be happy. It's at least different. It's unique. He made a whole song just with his mouth. Yeah, there's no instruments at all. That's him just boop, boop, boop. Yeah, all those sounds. Look at Tony's face. He's like, what? All those sounds, that's just his mouth. yeah he's a jazz artist that's why Bobby McFerrin is a one-hit wonder but only in that strict sense but as a jazz artist he's very respected that's the whole percussion is just with his mouth that's it and finger snaps and beating his chest yeah there's nothing else to that song it's just layered vocals oh no yeah sorry Charles McFerrin over here and also the so I'll stand up for that song I get why people those trite greeting card lyrics and don't worry be happy it just so in 2011 the Village Voice 2011 again many many years after the fact the Village Voice declared it the worst song of all time it has made lots of worst song lists and just to give you a snapshot of what a weird moment in time it was when Don't Worry Be Happy went to number one oh also before it won the song and record of the year Grammys because of course it did when it went to number one do you know what it knocked out of number one some like great song the most polar opposite thing in the world from Don't Worry be happy sweet child of mine by guns and roses what see man the 80s were wild time man see that's what i'm talking about this is what we don't have now this is why the 80s all right i'm gonna be old man okay bob seeger pull my old records off the shelf because you could have that happen in the 80s where sweet child of mine is number one and then don't worry be happy is number one that doesn't happen now today all the music sounds the same i'm old man pull my old records off the shelf all right sorry okay we're heading into the early 90s here and it's weird after the back to back but we'll just move on okay you guys i just want to be able to check this out in the comments of those four songs which one would you pick if you had to listen to one of them is it old time rock and roll is it don't worry be happy kokomo i couldn't even bring myself to say it again or kokomo or wait what was the fourth one uh danger zone a danger zone everyone's gonna pick danger zone i know yeah they're gonna pick danger zone you guys suck but no no no no no that's fine i asked for your opinion i asked for your opinion i would like to i would like to see it listen tony don't you have a little tony has a little more respect for but now that she knows now that he knows that it was that bobby mcferrin was doing all of that himself that's it's impressive it's different but i just didn't want to hear it every 45 minutes oh that's three months uh after the back-to-back massive success of that then tom cruise kind of went on his i want to win an oscar run you had rain man you had uh then movie like the firm um a few good men you had those movies far away fourth of july born on the fourth of july which got him his first oscar nomination he's never won one i know but he did in 1990 what should have been a slam dunk tom cruise soundtrack hit fest days of thunder which they are now doing another sequel to the first sequel which i just think is crazy crazy to do a sequel to a movie almost 40 years later right but top gun that's exactly why they're doing that's exactly why they're doing it that soundtrack should have been a huge hit the biggest hit from it was elton john's ballad you gotta love someone which stalled out at number 43 chicago had a song that got to number 75 and that was it the days of thunder soundtrack was not cocktail it was not top gun like i said then he had that run of movies interview with a vampire those were not hit soundtrack movies until 1996 tom cruise released two movies that year both of them had big soundtracks and one of course became the franchise that maybe even more than Top Gun would define Tom Cruise for a lot of people. Mission Impossible. It's the top. He's a Mission Impossible star. There have been, what, eight of those now? At least. I think eight. But the very first one in 1996 took the old theme song from the TV show, because Mission Impossible was based on a 1960s TV show, and they had the two guys from U2 who are not Bono and the Edge. Right. The two less famous guys. And who would think the two other guys from U2, talking about Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr., bass player and the drummer did an instrumental cover of a 60s tv theme and it became a top 10 hit it was top 10 i mean i actually i loved it i i to this day i just think it's one of the few top 10 instrumental songs the last 30 years yeah i love the fact that it's the two guys who you don't who are least known from youtube but it's the rhythm section man it's always the rhythm section if you love a band even though you know the front man you know the guitarist like trust me it's the the rhythm section why you love that band and if you love U2 then you probably love this song this is their version of Mission Impossible always trust in the bottom the groove of that is really good who's holding down the foundation of that band that's who you love do you ever think the two of them sometimes when Bono and The Edge are just being super full of themselves and pretentious and go how many top 10 hits do you guys have outside of the band oh none oh that's right oh we do oh sorry that would be awesome if they did but they probably don't they probably don't I'm sure they don't that's how they've gotten along and stayed together for 40 years You know they loved in that moment, like, oh, yeah, we did that. Before I get to the other 1996 Tom Cruise movie, I've got to jump forward a little bit to 2000, to the second Mission Impossible movie. The soundtrack to that produced a song that would have huge ramifications for the music industry and how we consume music. And who would have thought? I honestly didn't realize it was this specific song. So Mission Impossible 2 comes out, 2000. The first one had been a gigantic hit. They knew the second was going to be a hit. The soundtrack was going to be a hit, so they got a huge act to do it. And they went to metal. they went for something that would be just high octane like the movie was they got metallica the biggest metal group you could get and metallica released this song is a theme to it this is i disappear and what is so significant to music history about i disappear is that metallica was getting the song done and mixed and it was about to be released and they heard it on the radio and they were like wait we haven't released this yet and that's not even the final version how are we hearing this on the radio so they got to the bottom of it and found out the station downloaded it from Napster. So Metallica said, what is Napster? I knew that Metallica obviously was on the forefront, on the front lines of that battle, but I didn't know it was this song in particular. It was that song when they heard it, because they were like, how did you even get this? How would you know? And then when they went on to Napster to investigate what this was, this file sharing service, they discovered their entire catalog was being passed around for free to everybody. Metallica sued Napster, they came after the fans, people clowned them. At the turn of the century, that Y2K and Metallica was such a joke because people were like, look at these millionaires coming after their fans. They don't want us to hear this music that we love. Why are these guys such jerks? They were villains for a long time. They were not wrong. Their stuff was being stolen. They were definitely not wrong. They were 100% right. What's weird to me is that's the same argument people who got then, what, seven, eight years later, no, more than that, got pissed off at U2 for forcing the music onto right look at these billionaires man who just uh who are forcing us to listen to i don't want your crappy music you too unless it's the mission impossible theme so what you're saying is you might not have a stream music streaming service today if not for tom cruise partly because that got the labels like involved in suing and fighting to shut down these free file shares and they fought it for a long time which it's sort of like the conversations we have about ai now is it already too late is it going to happen and that was sort of the case then it's like they fought the music's online which which prompted steve jobs to say all right here's a solution we charge you that we charge you for it comes out with the itunes store and people at the time thought why would we ever pay for it when we can get it for free but they did because the itunes store of course was a huge hit people bought downloads by the hundreds of millions and then when it went back to streaming people stopped buying downloads but now you pay usually for a subscription to right whatever your favorite streaming service is and even if you don't pay for it you get ads so they found a way to make money off of it yes they did i don't know if the artists did i think ultimately the artists all got ultimately the artists feel like they got screwed yeah that's a that's a different episode that's a whole different conversation okay going back to 1996 now it's weird in hindsight to think these movies came out at the same time after the big big hit of mission impossible tom cruise did another one of the most defining movies of his career jerry mcguire and sort of like the bob seger it was a song that had already come out it wasn't a new song but it was a recent song that had come out and kind of flopped and then it got a whole second wind from the jerry mcguire soundtrack i'm talking about bruce springsteen in this song secret garden but into the secret god don't play it feels like a lullaby and i'm not hating on the song again i'm done with my hater it's a nice it's it works in the movie it's a love it's it's a love story the movie is what it needed theme of the movie because it was the new song released on bruce springsteen's greatest hits album it came out in early 1995 and the song stalled at number 63 it was not a big hit because it was very sleepy yeah but then in the context of the movie people just love the love story of tom cruise and renee zellweger in that movie and radio stations started making their own edits where they put dialogue of the film over the instrumental breaks of the song you had me at oh we're gonna get to that right now too and this is a wild thing that connects in weird ways so a song that was not on the soundtrack had nothing to do with the movie came out three years after jerry mcguire was inspired by it because that movie was a quote machine a long time there was show me the money famously tom cruise yelling that to cuba gooding jr there was you complete me became a horrible awful trite thing people said to each other and the big scene at the end spoiler for a 30 year old movie when tom cruise comes back to profess his love for renee zellweger and he knocks on the door and says hello and then goes to this big long speech at the end of it you don't know if she's going to take him back or whatever I haven't seen it in a long time. Yeah, she goes back to the very first thing he said. You had me at hello. Right. Kenny Chesney, the country singer, who we just talked about recently, oddly, saw that and wrote a song, although he misquoted it when he wrote the song, but he called it You Had Me From Hello, and it became a number one country hit in 1999 for him. It did? Yes. And then even weirder than that, six years later, Kenny Chesney married Renee Zellweger, who spelled the line in the movie. Very briefly. They were married for four months, which is a less amount of time than that song was on the charts. that is true but what a weird life jerry mcguire had wow producing songs years later because people were just influenced by the dialogue yeah that's that's a tribute to tom cruise and cameron crow the right cameron crow of course who wrote it yes um some other big movies it's more oscar nominations 1999 a couple years after uh mission impossible and jerry mcguire remember magnolia big ensemble movie tom cruise was had a scene stealing performance in that got a another acting nomination for best supporting actor very bizarre did not win again yeah and the movie also got another best original song nomination for a tom cruise movie did not win but it was amy man who i am a big fan of i love her she was the lead singer of the 80s group till tuesday who did the song voices carry i think one of the best songs of the 80s of all time and then amy man had a kind of a resurgence as a solo artist because she got this oscar nomination all this attention for the magnolia soundtrack and for this song save me i love her voice I can see how people wouldn't be into it, but I think her voice is just so beautiful. And the video was really cool. They filmed it while they were making the movie, and it took a while, because as they were filming individual scenes with the actors, Amy Mann would be sitting in the background or beside them singing while they just kind of ignored she was there. So she had to come in and film a line from the song every time they filmed a scene in the movie. And they stitched it together, and it looked great. Fun fact, do you know who Amy Mann's brother-in-law is? Ooh, Amy Mann's brother-in-law. Her husband's brother. Husband's brother. I know this someone very similar to Tom Cruise an Oscar winning actor who's been around consistently since the 80s well actually Tom Cruise has never won an Oscar but right had a bunch of big hits A-list superstar Sean Penn because Sean Penn's brother Michael Penn who is a singer-songwriter oh he had a hit song in 1990 called No Myth the one about what if I was roaming in black jeans love that song Michael Penn and Amy Mann have been married since the 90s they've been a long long time couple so Sean Penn is amy man's brother-in-law you know i i and i obviously i knew there was some hollywood connection but i also got confused because i think if they i don't think michael and amy were married at the time but then madonna would have been amy man's ex-sister-in-law that is weird okay well my head just exploded yeah let's just move on from that uh i said one time tom cruise did sing do you remember this 2012 it was a it was a movie that did not do well kind of like digger do you remember the broadway play rock of ages which was this big musical based around hair metal they made a movie of it tom cruise was in it played a character named stacy jacks who was kind of a axl rose john bon jovi sort of character and tom cruise did his own singing in the movie i do recall this and tried to forget if you've never heard tom cruise singing you probably haven't because this movie did not do well this is tom cruise singing bon jovi's wanted dead or alive john bon jovi is very happy he sang that he's like now you people will appreciate me now you will yeah i mean it sounds it sounds like an actor doing a musical yeah it's not bad it's not like he embarrassed himself no he didn't embarrass himself it's just it's not he's never done he never sang before that and he hasn't sung since so maybe that was not his favorite experience i don't know man you kind of when you start looking at this you're like tom cruise takes some big shots he does you know what and sometimes he fails that's the thing with digger even you know it's almost certainly going to lose a lot of money but it was a big swing and it's causing such a strong reaction from people who see it even his failures are interesting yeah like hey let's have tom cruise in his hair metal i gotta say like i just for for digger i will say it's been a long time since i heard a movie that flopped so badly yet i actually want to see it and i'm not the only i've heard other people say no i want to see it and even my friend who saw it i said he was raving about it and i said but you were the only person in the theater right he said yes but um he said it's really really interesting i can't tell you anything about it because it would ruin the whole movie so now i'm intrigued and i actually want to see it now i have to see it but i don't think that's gonna they're not gonna make its budget back off me going no no i mean maybe it'll have better legs even still if it if it i mean if you open with 8 million and 20 million globally there's no making that money back in the theater maybe he sings in it and that's what they can't tell me i wish i had known that if that's true let's get to the last big big tom cruise soundtrack in the in 2022 so still in this decade still cranking out these iconic soundtracks by going back to the one that kind of launched it all for him top gun maverick which was supposed to come out i think in 2019 then there were a couple delays because of all the complex effects in the COVID. COVID. And then, do you remember there were all these offers to buy it and put it on streaming? And Tom Cruise, who is a staunch defender of the theater and the movie-going experience, said, absolutely not. This has to be in theaters. People thought that was a stupid idea. It wound up becoming the highest-grossing film of his career, over a billion dollars globally. At the time, it was the fifth-highest-grossing film ever in North America, and it's still in the top ten. So he was right on that one. Sometimes you get a Digger. Sometimes you get a Tom Cruise, a Top Gun Maverick. But the interesting thing to me on that is the soundtrack. Of course, there's some pressure on it because people still remember how big the original was. Danger Zone was featured in the new movie. And the big take my breath away Oscar winning song was supposed to be Hold My Hand by Lady Gaga, who was also coming off of her hot streak with A Star Is Born and her chromatic album and tour. So Hold My Hand, Lady Gaga is going to be the one. It did get an Oscar nomination. It did lose, but it only got to number 49. It was not a big hit. It kind of came and went. the sleeper hit that actually wound up making the top 10 was one republic who had not had a huge hit in a couple years at that point so it was sort of unexpected but they went back in the top 10 with this song i ain't worried not that ryan tedder of one republic needed the money because right he's written songs for for beyonce adele everybody everybody but so 2022 tom cruise i didn't really put songs in the top 10 wow yeah you know why because that was new music and as we said at the top I'm an old man you are Bob Seger I can't believe it I'm again if I didn't hate the song so much I would have realized that a long time ago but I got into I was listening to some Bob Seger not too long ago and I do love like Still the Same and Night Moves and some of those 70s songs Bob Seger has some great songs that just ain't one of them but if you listen to those songs they're about being nostalgic for his youth I was like God from the beginning this man has been a sad old man and that was 50 years ago apparently life just ended for him after the 50s or early 60s I guess I don't know. Yeah, well, he would have been how old at that point? Probably a teenager in his 20s. And he's built his entire career on being nostalgic for something that happened before he was famous. I went like 10 years beyond that before I shut things down. You got that far? You got into your 30s? Mm-hmm. All right. Although, you know, that's the thing. You can be like, oh, music now is not that good. It was so good back in the day. The music back in the day was Kokomo and Don't Worry, Be Happy and Dangerous. So I don't know what you're saying. Listen, as much as I loved the 80s and the 90s and I defended it, There was a lot of crap music that also came out back then. That's my point. There's always crap music. There's always crap music. There's always good music. There's good music now. There's good music now. It's just harder for me to access because we don't do radio the way we used to. Radio isn't the same. Well, if you did, you'd just hear Choose in Texas every five seconds. Right. Which I'd be fine with, by the way, okay? Put that in a Tom Cruise movie. I'm trying to think what that would be. Choose in Texas. That's what they should have put in Digger. Has he ever done a cowboy movie? he had no not far and away is not a cowboy movie no i think a full-on way he was in young guns but as a small small small yeah um no i guess he hasn't maybe the next frontier um and then he could get bon jovi come on and sing the young guns 2 theme dead or alive uh all right that is gonna do it for us this week go check out digger give tom cruise a bone if you want or don't just listen to some of the great music that Tom Cruise has brought us over the years. Like Kokomo. Not like Kokomo. Shout out to Bobby McFerrin, man. We'll see you next time when we get to that.