Is there an official Buckaroo Banzai soundtrack CD?
No, there is no officially released Buckaroo Banzai soundtrack CD. According to Director W. D. Richter in an interview from the December 1984 issue of Starlog, on page 21, “Several record labels wanted it, but the powers that be kept upping the ante….Then, it simply became too late. We lost a major source of publicity.” However, there are two places you can hear the music from the film legitimitely. The first was brought to my attention by Larry Hastings : “I have this one CD that Michael Boddicker appears on: an eponymous album by a group called “Joyride”. Joyride appears to be a loose smooth jazz collective, formed by a bunch of LA studio musicians. As far as I know they only released this one album: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00038YPKU I remembered that Mr. Boddicker composed and performed several of the tracks, and decided to give ’em a listen for the first time in years. Imagine my surprise when the first one I tried, “Reprise”, is note-for-note the same as “Motorcycle Ch
