I've loved this movie since 1983, it's my annual New Year's movie. Love what Lori Eastside did in the movie - perfect casting. This song, though, is called "I'm Not Going to Take it No More", as listed in the movie's credits. "You Can't Make Me", is the song that plays while the Nada band (Lori's band) arrives in the old car.
Seriously? No comments on this after a year and a half? Dang. This was a great moment in an admittedly bad movie that I loved. I haven’t heard this song in more than 30 years, and I can honestly say...it hasn’t gotten worse. Headed off to look for Lou Reed’s song now...
By the way, Terry, you can easily find Lou Reed's song here: th-cam.com/video/exr90v_FraA/w-d-xo.html but you can also BUY it. He has it on the album: Lou Reed - Between Thought And Expression CD3 (it is actually titled Little Sister, but it is the SAME SONG-I thought it was My Baby Sister and IMBD lists it as My Baby Sister but the LP album lists it as Little Sister) Exactly same performance. I found it on this site, which you have to register to use. (for free) It is a British site and you can find some really rare albums (alas, no Get Crazy...yet) www.mp3million.com/download/Lou%20Reed/Between%20Thought%20And%20Expression%20CD3
I found it about thirty seconds after I wrote this, last week...but thanks. I do own the soundtrack album on vinyl. I bought it around the same time this movie first showed up on HBO, but my vinyl collection has mostly been dormant for more than a decade,
"Admittedly a bad movie" Um...no. Actually it's a cult favorite. And when it came out, several critics (like David Sheehan) found it enjoyable. The writing is actually quite sharp for an Airplane! like parody and it gets the atmosphere right. Which is something most commercial movies with similar goals did not accomplish. Not to mention, one of the best performances by Malcolm McDowell. The main reason the movie was not a hit was not because it was a bad movie. It was because the producers were crooked. They wanted the movie to fail so they could write it off as a tax loss and make more money. They did everything in their power not to promote the movie, and bury the LP album (they spent as little money on the album as possible, not even putting all the songs in that were in the movie-less songs to get copyright clearances for) The director was furious and tried to get the original film stock and musical recordings when the producers got indited for tax fraud. He found that in all the shuffling around by various federal agencies, the stock and recordings had vanished. The only copies were whatever VHS copies got in the stores and whatever they sent to cable stations. This is why it has never been on DVD and why CDs of the soundtrack do not exist. Recently directors Edgar Wright and Eli Roth showed the film to a packed house. Roth raving about how great it was. Personally I don't care for Roth's work. I find it sadistic. But, I have to admit he knows how to direct. I just don't like his subject matter usually. Now, as to comments from others. Well, maybe it's because this song isn't even labeled correctly. The song that is here (which is from the movie) is: I'm Not Going to Take It No More Written by Lenny Ferrari Performed by Lori Eastside You Can't Make Me Words and Music by Sue Shifrin and Sue Pomerantz Additional lyrical material by Lori Eastside Performed by Lori Eastside is only used as background music in an introduction to the characters. It only appears in full on the album. Which means, it is REALLY hard to get unless you managed to have a copy of the album. It's possible that there have been no comments because people (like me) were looking for the other song. Saw that this wasn't it and moved along. Just my guess...
Sorry, but you lost me at “one of the best performances by Malcolm McDowell.” 🤣 I guess if you only saw this, and Star Trek: Generations. You couldn’t put this character next to his portrayal of Mick Travis spanning three separate movies over 14 years, not to mention Alex DeLarge. I’m sure he put this one out of his mind an hour after his last paycheck cleared. This was a fun movie, and I liked it, but it’s still not very good, unless you are comparing it to the slew of “Airplane”-style movies of that era. “Cult favorite” doesn’t mean it’s good, and believe me... there are a lot of cult favorite movies that I really like watching, but I also know they’re not very good. Besides “cult favorites,” I have a few dozen movies that don’t even attain “favorite” status, I sought them out because they’re reviled for their bad acting, or bad writing, or disastrous production values, or all of those together and more.
Skimming the rest of your reply, I see you helpfully included the track list. Thanks, but I have the album in my living room cabinet to look at anytime. If I get bored enough this season, I might drag my turntable out and listen to it along with a few other albums.
@@TerryAllenSwartos well we will have to agree to disagree. Get Crazy may be silly but I think acting is pitch perfect by all the cast. It is a parody so yes, the acting is going to be bigger than life. That said, the acting is believable, especially by main characters, or over the top funny (Ed Begly Jr.) Lou Reed is hilarious as a Bob Dylan like recluse and yes, McDowell pulls off a very funny, yet believable performance. Specifically, I said one of his best. Drama is much easier to do then comedy. And yes, I saw If... and a host of other McDowell movies including the excellent, underrated, Time After Time in which he plays HG Wells and David Warner plays Jack The Ripper. Both McDowell and Daniel Stern are in Blue Thunder AND Get Crazy. There is a sly reference to Blue Thunder, just before McDowell takes the stage, he turns and says "Catch you later!" A catchphrase he used to bate Roy Schieder's character in Blue Thunder. I love stuff like that. Not every movie has to be Citizen Kane or even The Great Dictator. Get Crazy is filmed well, has a great, eclectic, soundtrack, the jokes "land", and the film is consistently entertaining. None of the performances grate like, say, in Americathon, Slapstick Of Another Kind, Hardly Working, Cracking Up or any Pauly Shore or Rosanne Barr film. The film achieves it's goal, minor as it may be, it is 90 minutes of pleasant entertainment. Pleasant entertainment is not bad. As Roger Ebert once noted in his review of If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. (another entertaining little movie with a great soundtrack) Get Crazy is not a great movie. But it is a good one. In any case, you were wondering why no one had commented. So I did. Maybe this will open it up for others to comment too...
I've loved this movie since 1983, it's my annual New Year's movie. Love what Lori Eastside did in the movie - perfect casting. This song, though, is called "I'm Not Going to Take it No More", as listed in the movie's credits. "You Can't Make Me", is the song that plays while the Nada band (Lori's band) arrives in the old car.
Great companion film to Rock n' Roll High School.
rocknroll !!
Lori had her own Cococnuts.
Seriously? No comments on this after a year and a half? Dang. This was a great moment in an admittedly bad movie that I loved. I haven’t heard this song in more than 30 years, and I can honestly say...it hasn’t gotten worse. Headed off to look for Lou Reed’s song now...
By the way, Terry, you can easily find Lou Reed's song here: th-cam.com/video/exr90v_FraA/w-d-xo.html but you can also BUY it. He has it on the album: Lou Reed - Between Thought And Expression CD3 (it is actually titled Little Sister, but it is the SAME SONG-I thought it was My Baby Sister and IMBD lists it as My Baby Sister but the LP album lists it as Little Sister) Exactly same performance. I found it on this site, which you have to register to use. (for free) It is a British site and you can find some really rare albums (alas, no Get Crazy...yet) www.mp3million.com/download/Lou%20Reed/Between%20Thought%20And%20Expression%20CD3
I found it about thirty seconds after I wrote this, last week...but thanks. I do own the soundtrack album on vinyl. I bought it around the same time this movie first showed up on HBO, but my vinyl collection has mostly been dormant for more than a decade,
Go ahead and say it this movie kicks ass
"Admittedly a bad movie" Um...no. Actually it's a cult favorite. And when it came out, several critics (like David Sheehan) found it enjoyable. The writing is actually quite sharp for an Airplane! like parody and it gets the atmosphere right. Which is something most commercial movies with similar goals did not accomplish. Not to mention, one of the best performances by Malcolm McDowell. The main reason the movie was not a hit was not because it was a bad movie. It was because the producers were crooked. They wanted the movie to fail so they could write it off as a tax loss and make more money. They did everything in their power not to promote the movie, and bury the LP album (they spent as little money on the album as possible, not even putting all the songs in that were in the movie-less songs to get copyright clearances for) The director was furious and tried to get the original film stock and musical recordings when the producers got indited for tax fraud. He found that in all the shuffling around by various federal agencies, the stock and recordings had vanished. The only copies were whatever VHS copies got in the stores and whatever they sent to cable stations. This is why it has never been on DVD and why CDs of the soundtrack do not exist. Recently directors Edgar Wright and Eli Roth showed the film to a packed house. Roth raving about how great it was. Personally I don't care for Roth's work. I find it sadistic. But, I have to admit he knows how to direct. I just don't like his subject matter usually. Now, as to comments from others. Well, maybe it's because this song isn't even labeled correctly. The song that is here (which is from the movie) is:
I'm Not Going to Take It No More
Written by Lenny Ferrari
Performed by Lori Eastside
You Can't Make Me
Words and Music by Sue Shifrin and Sue Pomerantz
Additional lyrical material by Lori Eastside
Performed by Lori Eastside is only used as background music in an introduction to the characters. It only appears in full on the album. Which means, it is REALLY hard to get unless you managed to have a copy of the album.
It's possible that there have been no comments because people (like me) were looking for the other song. Saw that this wasn't it and moved along. Just my guess...
Sorry, but you lost me at “one of the best performances by Malcolm McDowell.” 🤣 I guess if you only saw this, and Star Trek: Generations. You couldn’t put this character next to his portrayal of Mick Travis spanning three separate movies over 14 years, not to mention Alex DeLarge. I’m sure he put this one out of his mind an hour after his last paycheck cleared.
This was a fun movie, and I liked it, but it’s still not very good, unless you are comparing it to the slew of “Airplane”-style movies of that era. “Cult favorite” doesn’t mean it’s good, and believe me... there are a lot of cult favorite movies that I really like watching, but I also know they’re not very good. Besides “cult favorites,” I have a few dozen movies that don’t even attain “favorite” status, I sought them out because they’re reviled for their bad acting, or bad writing, or disastrous production values, or all of those together and more.
Skimming the rest of your reply, I see you helpfully included the track list. Thanks, but I have the album in my living room cabinet to look at anytime. If I get bored enough this season, I might drag my turntable out and listen to it along with a few other albums.
@@TerryAllenSwartos well we will have to agree to disagree. Get Crazy may be silly but I think acting is pitch perfect by all the cast. It is a parody so yes, the acting is going to be bigger than life. That said, the acting is believable, especially by main characters, or over the top funny (Ed Begly Jr.) Lou Reed is hilarious as a Bob Dylan like recluse and yes, McDowell pulls off a very funny, yet believable performance. Specifically, I said one of his best. Drama is much easier to do then comedy. And yes, I saw If... and a host of other McDowell movies including the excellent, underrated, Time After Time in which he plays HG Wells and David Warner plays Jack The Ripper. Both McDowell and Daniel Stern are in Blue Thunder AND Get Crazy. There is a sly reference to Blue Thunder, just before McDowell takes the stage, he turns and says "Catch you later!" A catchphrase he used to bate Roy Schieder's character in Blue Thunder. I love stuff like that.
Not every movie has to be Citizen Kane or even The Great Dictator. Get Crazy is filmed well, has a great, eclectic, soundtrack, the jokes "land", and the film is consistently entertaining. None of the performances grate like, say, in Americathon, Slapstick Of Another Kind, Hardly Working, Cracking Up or any Pauly Shore or Rosanne Barr film. The film achieves it's goal, minor as it may be, it is 90 minutes of pleasant entertainment. Pleasant entertainment is not bad. As Roger Ebert once noted in his review of If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. (another entertaining little movie with a great soundtrack) Get Crazy is not a great movie. But it is a good one. In any case, you were wondering why no one had commented. So I did. Maybe this will open it up for others to comment too...
Satanic?