Max and the Makeups

Photo from "The 41st Song" student

film set (1981) . Photographer unknown.

(L) Mike Alvarez, (R) Lisa Gamache.

In 1981, Max and the Makeups

"starred" in The University of

Texas film school project

"The 41st Song". The concept

of the film was that the Top 40

was evil and Max and the Makeups

played "The 41st Song" - the song

that would propel the peasants to

revolt against The Establishment.

The film also starred The Next's

Ty Gavin.

Alvarez recalls "The Makeups

fell into a 'film noir' category

in 1981. Every band had to fall in

to some category at that time -

punk, new romantic, new wave,

etc. We were very busy in film

and music videos mainly because

of the UT film school and that all

of us were UT students. Jon Howard

was a film student and he brought

a lot of the film community to the

group".

The Makeups would later (1982)

star in one of the earliest awful-

horror-film genre films"Future Kill",

where the band had the same role

and effect on the crowd in the audience

that it had in "The 41st Song" - when

the band played - the peasants would

revolt against The Establishment.

The 1982 recording of female fronted punk band from Austin Texas. This is the first time it's ever been released. Think of X meets Blondie.

Soundtracks for
Future-Kill (1985)

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"Danger Of Love"
Performed by Robert Renfrow



"Somebody Like Me"
Performed by The Lift



"Manipulation"
Performed by The Big Boys



"Happy Ending"
Performed by David Runnels



"The Make-up Song"
Performed by Max and the Makeups (as Max and the Make Ups)



"Xerox"
Performed by Max and the Makeups (as Max and the Make Ups)



"Sixty Minute Man"
Performed by Max and the Makeups (as Max and the Make Ups)






"Without mercy, a man is not a human being." Sansho the Bailiff, 1954