# What's that techno song at the beginning of Blade II? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2002, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-techno-song-at-the-beginning-of-blade-ii/105387 "2002-04-24T16:47:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-techno-song-at-the-beginning-of-blade-ii/105387/1 "2002-04-24T16:47:22Z")
My friend has some techno song from the beginning of Blade II stuck in her head, and wants to know the title and artist so she can buy it. Apparently it’s not on the commercialy released soundtrack, and IMDB doesn’t have a soundtrack listing for the movie yet. I haven’t seen the movie, but she says it’s playing at the beginning during a scene in a dance club. Can anyone help? ---
**Author:** ![MachV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@MachV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MachV)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-techno-song-at-the-beginning-of-blade-ii/105387/2 "2002-04-24T17:19:14Z")
Haven’t seen the movie yet, but the song in the trailer is “Calling All Freaks” by Crystal Method. The album is “Tweekend”. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-techno-song-at-the-beginning-of-blade-ii/105387/3 "2002-04-24T23:00:58Z")
Actually the song is called “Name of the Game”. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-techno-song-at-the-beginning-of-blade-ii/105387/4 "2002-04-24T23:39:04Z")
That’s not the song at the beginning, though - they only play that one after Blade climbs out of the bloody koi pond, or whatever that thing is. ---
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-techno-song-at-the-beginning-of-blade-ii/105387/5 "2002-04-25T00:10:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alphagene \* > \*\*Actually the song is called “Name of the Game”. \*\* That’s the name of the song in the trailer, or in the beginning of the movie? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-techno-song-at-the-beginning-of-blade-ii/105387/6 "2002-04-25T00:54:44Z")
> [@](#): > > That’s the name of the song in the trailer, or in the beginning of the movie? “The Name of the Game” is the song that is played in the trailer, and towards the end of the movie. I don’t know the name of the song at the beginning, but I do know it isn’t that one. (“Name of the Game” was also in the movie _Zoolander_) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-techno-song-at-the-beginning-of-blade-ii/105387/7 "2002-04-25T01:02:57Z")
> [@](#): > > That’s the name of the song in the trailer, or in the beginning of the movie? “The Name of the Game” is the song that is played in the trailer, and towards the end of the movie. I don’t know the name of the song at the beginning, but I do know it isn’t that one. (“Name of the Game” was also in the movie _Zoolander_) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-techno-song-at-the-beginning-of-blade-ii/105387/8 "2002-04-25T01:20:16Z")
Wha—?? Sorry about the double-post. ---
**Author:** ![MachV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@MachV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MachV)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-techno-song-at-the-beginning-of-blade-ii/105387/9 "2002-04-25T15:23:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alphagene \* > \*\*Actually the song is called “Name of the Game”. \*\* Whoops! Sorry, I get my 2 Live Crew samples mixed up all too often… ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-techno-song-at-the-beginning-of-blade-ii/105387/10 "2002-04-25T16:34:25Z")
What I want to know is what the song is in the movie when they’re in the vampire version of Studio 54.