Get Offa His Tip, Luther
This entry was posted on 10/6/2008 7:58 PM and is filed under Music.
10/7/08 “Full Metal Jacket” (1987)We didn’t plan to farm out today’s entry. It’s just that first we had to hear R. Lee. Ermey’s 12” disco anthem sampled from the former Marine’s role as a drill instructor in Stanley Kubrick’s
Full Metal Jacket. Then we did a search for any good links, and found that the folks at Egg City Radio had (
again) provided
an easily downloadable MP3 of an important musical artifact.
That same Egg City Radio entry has MP3s on two of the most baffling end credit themes of the ’80s—specifically, from 1985’s
Murphy’s Law and 1986’s
Deadly Friend. The site aso notes that “Full Metal Jacket” is co-credited to Abigal Mead, which is a pseudonym for Stanley Kubrick’s daughter. All we would add is lots of praise for R. Lee Ermey as a Hollywood conservative, and probably a link to
his website. (Don’t skip the intro.)
To make up for this, Thursday’s entry will be another one of those yackfests that nobody ever bothers to finish reading.
Make it your own: Hey, we can also provide a link to buy your own copy of
the Full Metal Jacket soundtrack. As you’ll see by the comments there, many Kubrick fans are not amused by MC USMC Ermey—especially since the dance track kicks off the disc, and that song title doesn’t give anything away.
