Oi Spartorialist – I’ve just thought of a glaring omission from the canon of Great Songs Recorded Especially For Movies: Camel Lips’ Gas Chamber from Serial Mom. There’s hundreds upon hundreds of Great Songs Recorded Especially For Movies, but precious few where the artist got to cameo their song with a live performance set-piece. Kathleen Turner lit Justin Whalin up like a Christmas tree, but he went out with Donita Sparks spilling a little liquor on his burning body. Death by Donita! A Grunge Grand Guignol.
If Gas Chamber is the G.O.A.T live performance scene featuring a Great Song Recorded Especially For A Movie, then the Beastie Boys performance of Desperado in Tougher Than Leather comes in in second place, closely followed by Stu Gardner’s performance of Mighty Good Times in Point Blank. Like my man KRS said R.I.P Ad-Rock.
Camel Lips were, of course, L7 with prosthetic vulvas down their leggings. Nowadays most regular folk know L7’s Shitlist as “that song from Natural Born Killers“, but between 1992 and 1994 Shitlist was known as “that song from Pet Semetary Two.” Edward Furlong was that movie’s star and it was him who suggested Shitlist for that particularly horrible scene. What a little sicko eh? Plot twist: John Connor was the real villain in Terminator 2. Come back, T-1000 – all is forgiven!
