Songs for a Sunday: Morning Runner / The Inbetweeners / Closing Credits

2024 Writing Wrap-up Music Monday: In Memoriam

Songs for a Sunday: Morning Runner / The Inbetweeners / Closing Credits

It’s always a fun when you accidentally hear a song that catches your attention.

I happened to start watching a series called “The Inbetweeners”, about four l friends in their last year of high school. They are awkward, crude, horny, and striving to be, but thinking they are, the cool ones.

So yeah, high school kids.

During my teen years it was Porky’s, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Breakfast Club, and every other coming of age John Hughes film. So, if I was in my teens in 2008, this would be a must see.

The series ended rather abruptly after 3 seasons, but I discovered there was a movie released in 2011. True to form, it’s and entertaining and humorous but a very cringy, awkward watch. It was a good way to wrap up the show.

Let’s talk about closing credits.

I don’t know when filmmakers started adding extra content during the closing credits and at the end, but I do remember being the last in the theater usually because we were listening to the music, but eventually people stayed so as not to miss a usually humorous addition to the movie.

So, while watching the closing credits of The Inbetweeners Movie, I heard the song, Gone up in Flames, by the band, Morning Runner.

They remind me of the band Train, and only released one album before breaking up.

-Leon

Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.

My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/