73: Heavy Metal Soundtrack

Heavy Metal Soundtrack at Amazon

Some people have Eraserhead. Others have The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And I think a couple of people in Denmark like Gigli. However, my favorite cult movie is Heavy Metal. I'm taken back to a time when my grandmother would take me to the grocery store with her and I would stay in the magazine isle reading Heavy Metal magazine and feeling like I was getting by with something. To be fair, this grocery store in North Little Rock, Arkansas also had Playboy out in the open too and I never once read any of the articles.

The Heavy Metal Soundtrack (1981) is the perfect soundtrack. The movie itself was nothing more than a random smattering of adolescent boy daydreams as if they jumped off the cardboard cover of a doodled spiral bound notebook. But the music tied it all together. The soundtrack from the Heavy Metal film is kick-ass arena rock and oh yeah, here are some aliens, violence, and naked warrior women to go with it.

I highly recommend driving in the middle of the night between Dallas and Little Rock with the windows down and trying to belt out Sammy Hagar's "Heavy Metal" or Nazereth's "Crazy". Not only will you stay awake, but your car will transform into a 1960 Corvette that can reenter the atmosphere.