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When was the moment you realized that you were a true nerd? We don’t mean “nerd” in that semi-endearing Ben Gibbard kind of way–we mean in that lame, “I have very strong opinions about V: The Final Battle, and by the way, Dagobah is a system” sort of way. Could it possibly have been that moment in Boogie Nights when Mark Wahlberg and John C. Reilly are recording a terrible, terrible ’80s-rock anthem in the studio, and you stood up and went, “What the? That’s Stan Bush’s ‘The Touch,’ which originally appeared in 1986’s The Transformers: The Movie!“? Because that might have happened with one of your Idolators. Maybe. Probably. And speaking of Mr. Bush, he’s clearly busy writing his own Wiki entry, which explains this sad little closing sentence:
Presently Stan Bush is submitting a song to the producers of the live action Transformers movie in hopes that it will be included in the movie soundtrack.
C’mon, Michael Bay! You got the power!
Stan Bush – The Touch [MP3, link expired; via á la discotheque]
“Submitting a song to the producers of the Transformers movie…”
That is so sad. It’s sad like the time that Adam West went around raising a stink during production of that first Burton Batman movie.
Or that time when Paul McCartney sold his CDs thru Starbucks.
I had a serious nerd moment last night where I:
A) Caught myself watching Jeopardy for the third night in a row
B) Got incredibly excited when two of the categories were “Pop Music Lyrics” and some other one where it had a quote from Lord of the Rings and asked who was saying it
C) Caught the shame in my girlfriend’s eyes when I got all the answers from these two categories correct.
Not the peak of nerd-dom, no, but it was still there.
Nerdy: Recognizing “The Touch” while watching Boogie Nights.
Nerdier: Knowing in your heart that, while “The Touch” is great, the horribly underappreciated second Stan Bush song from the Transformers soundtrack, “Dare,” is actually superior.
wow, comedy gold. Nice *touch*.
@nerdlinger
I concur.
This song always sounded like a Jimi Jamison era Survivor B-side.
Guys, this mp3 is sadly not working. :(
Reed Rothchild: Okay, now you’re talking above my head. I don’t know all of this industry jargon, YP, MP. All I know is that I can’t get a record contract, we cannot get a record contract unless we take those tapes to the record company. And granted, the tapes themselves are a uh um oh, you own them, all right, but the magic that is on those tapes. That fucking heart and soul that we put onto those tapes, that is ours and you don’t own that. Now I need to take that magic and get it over the record company. And they’re waiting for us, we were supposed to be there a half hour ago. We look like assholes, man.
that was is still my favorite laugh out moment in boogie nights is the coked out bender in the recording studio.
I realized I was a nerd the first time I watched the Transformers movie on VHS and realized that they had removed the swear word I heard when I saw it in the theatre.
“The Touch” has long been an in-office, on-speakers favorite in the offices of a certain, large-ish music magazine. We always love a good montage tune. Or we have since “Team America,” anyway.
How could you mention the song without linking to the video. I mean, his guitar shoots frickin’ laser beams!
Also the use of Weird Al’s “Dare To Be Stupid” in the Transformers movie was, at one time, the most forced and awkward soundtracking moment in the history of cinema.
Zach Braff’s head-clubbing usage of the Shins in Garden State topped that moment, of course.
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Of Montreal and Jucifer almost joined forces a few years back for a band called Trophy. It never made it past the conceptual stages, I think, but I remember them talking like this song and the work of Survivor were major inspirations. Positive end-credits/montage sequence hard rock. Great idea. One of the lines that I remember from a potential song had to do with “You’re an eagle” and how you had to “fight for the finish” and “climb the mountain.”
“The Touch” really embodies that spirit with its “When all hell’s breaking loose you’ll be riding the eye of the storm!” Man, THAT’s rock and roll!