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Subject: Buckaroo Banzai Theme Music
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Date: Sat, 27-Apr-85 17:51:21 EDT
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From: jpa144@cit-vax (Jens Peter Alfke)

obrien@CSNET-SH writes:
> Someone some days back claimed off-handedly that the closing theme
> music to "Buckaroo Banzai" was from Dave Grusin's "Night-Lines"
> album . . . Well, no. . . the BB theme music is nowhere on it. Does
> anyone out there have better information on where the theme music
> may be found?

Having just [re]seen the movie last night (midnight show at the Rialto
in LA), I remember that Michael Boddicker was credited for the music.
I didn't notice any other music credits, and the end theme is certainly
similar to the other music in the film.  I've heard of Boddicer before;
a quick check reveals that he played synthesizer on Rickie Lee Jones'
first album.  If there really isn't a BB soundtrack album (I find this
hard to believe, although I haven't looked), I would suggest looking
in the Jazz or Electronic section of any finer record store . . .

					--Peter Alfke  [jpa144@cit-vax]

PS: Has anyone heard anything about a sequel?
PPS: A lesser-known Caltech tradition is that those cannon-shell-shaped
     metal cones sometimes found at the corners of buildings are really
     space aliens in a pupa state, and that they must be regularly
     kicked to disrupt the growth of the alien inside and prevent it
     from emerging to wreak havoc.  Well, in the Red Lectroids' nest
     the things were all over the place (albeit the entire cone, not
     just 3/4 of it).  I am severely freaked out.  Does anyone else
     know about this legend, or what the cones were doing in the nest?