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Post Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:30 pm

Kim Wilde song called Blade Runner

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Thought that this might be of interest, but i found out that the singer Kim Wilde released an album back in 84 which includes a track called Blade Runner. On further investigation i found that it is actually based on the film. She went to see it and was so taken by it that she wrote a song with her Dad.
The album is called Teases and Dares, here are the lyrics.

("mother?")
("mother?")

Well as the city nights grow cold
The lights jump through the shutters
And a thousand echos fill the streets
And bounce along the dirty gutters

(out there)
I know that he's waiting for me
(somewhere)
I know that he's waiting there for me

I watched her falling to the ground
And saw the glass go flying
And inside her mind the fuse blew out
But deep inside a voice was crying

(out there)
I know that he's waiting for me
(somewhere)
I know that he's waiting there

Look out for the bladerunner
I thought i heard him calling you

And now a silence fills the room
I feel my heart start beating
'cos inside the shadows there he stands
He's waiting on our final meeting

(out there)
I know that he'd waited for me
(somewhere)
I know that he'd waited there for me

On another musical note, the track " if i didn't care" which was going to be used originally instead of One more Kiss, was used in the film and is on the soundtrack cd the Shawshank Redemtion.
Finally I have updated the items in my Blade Runner collection. They are coloured red.
Happy New Year
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Post Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:02 pm

Ooh - I'm a kid of the eighties and love the music - I bought a 'best of Kim Wilde' CD a few months ago (and I'm not ashamed to admit it :P) - never heard the track you're talking about but if you've got 'Keep Me Hangin' On' listen out for a sound effect that sounds remarkably like a spinner 'fly-by'.

And before THX1138 steps in - yeah, I need to get a life. :P

Gonna look for the Blade Runner track right now...
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Post Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:11 pm

I love the eighties too, i have some 7"vinyl of her earlier hits. Here is some more info about her CD Teases and Dares.
Teases & dares
Release date: November 1984
Produced by: Ricky Wilde

Track listing
The touch
Is it over
Suburbs of Moscow
Fit in
Rage to love
The second time
Bladerunner
Janine
Shangri-la
Thought it was goodbye
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Post Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:59 pm

Deckard BR26354 wrote:Ooh - I'm a kid of the eighties and love the music - I bought a 'best of Kim Wilde' CD a few months ago (and I'm not ashamed to admit it :P) - never heard the track you're talking about but if you've got 'Keep Me Hangin' On' listen out for a sound effect that sounds remarkably like a spinner 'fly-by'.

And before THX1138 steps in - yeah, I need to get a life. :P

Gonna look for the Blade Runner track right now...


lol. its when you start VK interviewing state officials that you need to "Get a life". i hope you're not doing that yet, are you? when you run around with your PKD and your trenchcoat and interview california candidates, then you need to get a life. until then, there's nothing wrong with a little collecting.
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Post Wed Jan 12, 2005 2:00 pm

Hi Deckard BR26354
Did you manage to find the track yet and listen to it?, my copy arrives tomorrow and the suspense is killing me
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Post Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:23 pm

Umm - no. Looks like you'll be the first with the 'review' :)
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Post Wed Jan 12, 2005 6:22 pm

Update - there are low-quality realmedia streams of all those tracks on www.kimwilde.org.

My rating of the Bladerunner track : 2 out of 5... :(

It's just too s-l-o-w ... might get better with repeated listening.

The low-quality doesn't help.

Nice album cover :wink:
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Post Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:13 pm

Would she be allowed to use blade runner in her song?
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Post Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:13 am

raymccoy wrote:Would she be allowed to use blade runner in her song?


Dunno - it's academic now, 'cos she did anyway.
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