Speaking of Marty’s musical abilities, what’s the musical term for what Marty did at the Prom when his guitar solo turned into basically raping the guitar?
Jimi Hendrix? 
It seemed more like Eddie Van Halen to me. Especially since Marty had a cassette with Eddie’s music earlier in the movie, so would be more likely to emulate him.
Thereby hangs a tale, Cochrane. I have a cousin who had lived with us for two years, some time before I saw the movie. He liked stuff by Van Halen, The Who, and Pink Floyd; I did not. I guess it’s more the style (heavy-metal, apparently, in this case) than the identity of the originator.
Thereby hangs what tale? That you don’t like Van Halen? That’s no a tale.
You make far too much drama of your dislikes, Dougie.
Desperate to be interesting?
-Joe
Good point. We all have dislikes. In fact some of us (I’m not mentioning any names, but… well, ok, it’s me) even HATE some kinds of music (and movies and food…).
But part of being human is to to hold those opinions lightly.
To recognize that everyone is equal, and to respect others’ opinions… and even learn from them.
What kind of dad would I be if I just yelled at my kids to “turn down that damn hippity-hoppity wrapping music”? Oh, yeah… I forgot, I DO. In fact, I paraphrase Divine from Hairspray: “You girls listening to that Negro Music again?” (said to my son and his friends)
But then I sit down and listen to it, and to my kids, and they’ve even told me WHY so-and-so wrote such-and-such. I remember one Atmosphere song that sounded like a breakup song with a girl, but the twist at the end was that it was the singer’s dad that had passed away. I was tearing up to rap music!
Now my daughter claims she can get me to appreciate country music, but I don’t know…
thinking about it… maybe 85’ martys parents KNOW by that point. 50s Marty hung out with doc Brown. 80s Marty hangs out with doc Brown. Future Biff put 2 and 2 together and had doc locked up for his crazy theories, why couldnt Martys folks have figured it out as well? That would also help explain his bitchin’ truck. i mean he DID set you up for success, right? make biff wash Martys truck, because he fixed thing for the better of the family by setting george up.
Country music is like cholesterol…there’s the good kind, too!
(Stolen shamelessly from someone on this board many years ago)
Apparently it was Quercus. Thanks, Quercus! You gave me words to live by! 
At the time I went to see the movie, we shared the household with my Mom’s sister and her son, “Jimmy.” He called himself a “born-again Christian” but he had no detectable Christian virtues. He fancied himself a musician–a drummer–and a number of times when I came home from yard work I had to stay in the car because he was pounding away on his drumset in the garage and that was the last thing I needed to hear! He decided my Mom’s good set of kitchen stools were useful as drumheads and ruined them. He even denuded the ends of the wiring on a table lamp and tried to stick the bare ends of the wires into the receptacle of an extension cord! He called what he played “progressive Christian rock.” With this fresh in my mind, and a long history of disdain for rock as well (though not a trace of criticism about what others do for themselves–the problem was that sound waves don’t stop at boundary lines), the sound of Huey Lewis in the movie was tantamount to a ball-peen hammer striking an abscessed tooth for me. I feel sorry for our neighbors at the time who had to put up with Jimmy. 
Thanks, Quercus and Alan (I’ve GOT to check and see if you have an imdb page,btw…).
I really like what I’d call “alt country”, or “Americana roots folk”. Gillian Welch, Alison Krause. The daughter calls it “O Brother Where Art Thou** music**”.
But I have grown to like her Kenny Chesney and Lady Antebellum. I’ll even listen to Alan Jackson on my own.
Except she also wants to infect me with “Girly Country”: Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert and ::shudder:: Taylor Swift.
Oh, GREAT. Just from typing her name I’ve got “She wears short shorts / I wear sneakers / She’s the cheer captain and I’m in the bleachers” running through my head. Arrrrrrgh!
Ah; “Old Timey” music…
I thought the music on Brother was kinda bluegrass. Obviously I don’t listen to it.
note to self. wait 10 years. find a gangly, tall, pretty but not too pretty girl, dress her in a marching band uniform, have her sing about how she and the quarterback deserve each other but a deranged bitch of a cheerleader as well as social stigmas are keeping them apart. make millions. wait 10 years. find a gangly, tall, pretty but not too pretty…
If the OP hates BttF and Arnold, then he’ll HATE this.
That’s awesome! 
One bit they overlooked was how the DeLorean was covered in ice (frozen oxygen?) when it went through time (though admittedly we only saw that during the one-minute demo hop - it was ignored for subsequent time jumps). If the T-1000 is riding the roof of the DeLorean during a time jump, it should freeze, then fall over and shatter.
Unless the flux capacitor is anti symmetrical in the Southern hemisphere due to the time travel continuum rotating in the opposite direction due to the opposition of the magnetic pole.
On Tuesdays.
In the morning.
Production-wise, I think that was only set up as a side effect so that when Marty ended up in Old Man Peabody’s barn, it resembled the arrival of a UFO.
Also, I’m willing to accept that the more time travelling you do, the less ice buildup you accrue.