“Guido the Killer Pimp” This is one of those obscure tracks from the A side of the soundtrack to Risky Business.

I can remember being in the Washington theater in Royal Oak MI with its gold painted ceiling, peeling and black with dust and the velvet curtains hanging from the walls that smelled like cigarettes and old popcorn. This was one of the last movies I would see there with my group of high school friends. I remember we all chuckled when the artist name came up. Tangerine Dream. What kind of band name was that? I thought. Journey and Prince had a song too on the album, but Tangerine Dream stood out for me later when I left the theater.

I didn’t admit it to my friends but that began a long relationship with the genre of electronic music. I owned the cassette from the movie and played it in my fathers car every time I drove. It became my soundtrack to the movie in my head and “Guido the Killer Pimp” was its theme song. While my father didn’t own a Porsche, his manual shift Toyota FX16 was sufficient for me. Timing the 6 speed shifter at the 2:44 minute mark in the song to coincide with the base and tempo up tick was a little game I played. Downshifting and then throwing it into 6th on the changeover. That was a fun car for a 16 year old driver and I loved it. I adopted the track as my de facto driving song. While I enjoyed other bands of that time, but that particular song was my go to for just chilling out by myself and getting in my head. And to this day it remains a favorite. There are others now that are very movable tracks but this one can take me back easily both figuratively and literally and still move me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnohlWUKOrA