This group represents Randy's Hollyweird world as he takes Julie to the Sunset Strip bar where this band is playing. The Plimsouls are the band that save this collection from being a bit too candy-coated. Josie Cotton, (who?) is featured on this disc for a record three selections: "Johnny Are You Queer?" "He Could Be The One" & "School Is In" and Josie, (a veteran of the same club scene as the very popular band the Go Go's) all but out Go-Go's that band with her appearance here and in the film (at the prom while Tommy and Randy are fighting) and her perfomance of these pop music gems found here on this disc. What we do know is that: "Who Can It Be Now?" by Men At Work was a worldwide smash hit and "Love My Way" by Psychedelic Furs was playing on car stereos cruising the streets every night in that valley. We may never know what angst was in the pants of the teenagers of the valley in 1982. And Sparks may have reminded those kiddies of a creepy uncle that lurked behind bushes near the playground of Valley High School. Well, there's a little more to this CD than those two things mentioned above.Īs I cannot speak for the boys and girls of the valley, who can be sure just what they listened to? Frank Zappa, might have gagged them with a spoon. This CD is famous for two things:ġ.) The Plimsouls were introduced to the world with their appearance as the band in the Hollyweird club that Randy likes to hang out in. The movie is a whole 'nother matter as we are here to listen to the soundtrack CD of the music heard in this film. Jerry McCulleyĪ little film released in 1983 Entitled: 'Valley Girl" is famous for two reasons:ġ.) Nicolas Cage, stars as Randy in his first major screen role.Ģ.) Frank Zappa's song of the same name is nowhere to be found here. Rhino's unofficial soundtrack release captures much of the spunky essence of KROQ's playlist-three tracks by LA's great Plimsouls (including their biggest hit "A Million Miles Away"), some novelty hits (Josie Cotton's "Johnny Are You Queer, "Jukebox" by the flirts, Felony's "The Fanatic")-and fondly recalls an era when rock's fun quotient hadn't yet been tattooed and pierced into oblivion. Loosely based on the same themes as Romeo and Juliet, (with a young Nicolas Cage as a Hollywood homeboy Montague) Valley Girl's producers were also savvy enough to tap into LA radio outlet KROQ's pioneering "Rock of the 80s" format. Martha Coolidge's 1983 directorial debut-based loosely on the Frank (and Moon) Zappa (who weren't involved with the film) novelty hit of the previous year-carried a budget so low that it didn't even generate a soundtrack album when it was released. CD debut of the long-sought-after soundtrack! If you're not Valley material, the tracks below will tune you in!
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