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Title: Various Artists - Streets Of Fire (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1984, Soundtrack, New Wave Film Soundtrack, United States 5/26
Matrix #: MCA-5492
Condition: VG+, sounds great, looks good, some light marks (CC) | Members: Various Artists (N/A)
Cultural Facts:
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Personal Struggle: The film’s commercial failure hit hard after heavy studio ambition, leaving the soundtrack tied to a cult object that took years to be understood.
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Studio Lore: Jim Steinman’s oversized songwriting helped give the record its operatic street-gang fantasy, closer to rock theater than normal soundtrack work.
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Media Narrative: Streets Of Fire became a cult artifact through style first: neon streets, leather, motorcycles, and 80s music-video logic turned into a movie world.
