Happy Halloween, Ghosts and Ghouls and Sweet Transvestites from Transsexual Transylvania! The Rocky Horror Picture Show is, quite possibly, the most well-known cult film of all time, but the fact that the music is unbeatably amazing is why the soundtrack has ended up in my countdown. Granted, the fact that the movie encourages you to sing along with audience partici…. PATION is probably the reason these songs are embedded into my hippocampus. Naturally, much of the music is glued to images from the film so it can be difficult to separate the two, but so what? That’s part of the cult charm. It’s a wink to be in on the joke, to be able to lipsync along with the lips in the opening sequence during the opening number, Science Fiction Double Feature. Clearly not all the songs are favorites, but as a whole the movie soundtrack holds up to the task. My personal stand-outs are, of course, Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me, sung by the ingénue, a very young and innocent Susan Sarandon, and the songs that comprise the penultimate floor show, which happens to be a visual feast as well. I always know when I meet someone who is also into this movie and the songs from it, that I am going to be friends with that person.
From the historical writing archive. Original date: October 31, 2018. Recovered from local source material; editorial review is still in progress.
