Songs "on" the RAD soundtrack

[JRootabega]

What songs have you picked out as having inspired the rad soundtrack? I'm not saying they were copied, just clear, loving inspiration.
Rio - Duran Duran
Beat It - Michael Jackson
Shock the Monkey - Peter Gabriel
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Take On Me - A Ha
Phil Collins- I Don't Care Anymore (yes, I am referring to the song "Phil Collins" by I Don't Care Anymore
Alan Parsons Project - Sirius
Flash - Queen (maybe)
Your Love - The Outfields (maybe). Or maybe this is Jump - Van Halen? (RIP Eddie)
Quarterflash - Harden My heart

[JRootabega]

Haven't heard any Rush or Police... (although maybe the opening screen music is a Tom Sawyer reference)

[Jackalope_908]

This would be a good playlist for those rare moments when not playing RAD. Y'know, to keep yourself in the zone.

[JRootabega]

It works well with the game. I started with mostly Phil Collins and I'm now on C&C Music Factory. Keep an open mind :D

[JRootabega]

Some game start flavor text - "It's early morning. The sun comes out." This is, as you will have noticed, a Scorpions "Rock You Like a Hurricane" reference. One might assume they had the gumption, but not the lawyers' fees, to include it in the soundtrack :)

[Jackalope_908]

Originally posted by JRootabega:

Some game start flavor text - "It's early morning. The sun comes out." This is, as you will have noticed, a Scorpions "Rock You Like a Hurricane" reference. One might assume they had the gumption, but not the lawyers' fees, to include it in the soundtrack :)

There's ways, and that's one. "Sound Alikes" and "Near Enoughs" are a lot more common than people realize, to skirt around legal pitfalls like licensing and other fees.

There was a cartoon in the 90's called Daria that made extensive use of music that was VERY popular on MTV at the time, and that completely screwed up the DVD releases and rebroadcasting, until they were able to make songs that sounded enough like the original music to not interrupt the flow of the story. They did a pretty good job, it only broke two jokes out of 40-odd episodes and two movies.

My point is, RAD has more than a few places where they drive up REAL CLOSE to the source material, without actually breaking any rules. Which I'm totally fine with.

[JRootabega]

I have meditated on it. And the main menu music is definitely a Tom Sawyer homage. And I just realized there's a Final Countdown tribute on the soundtrack as well.