Movie Music Archives #021: “The Black Angels”
Plot outline: Biker wars between black and white gangs. The Serpents, a gang of white bikers, discover that they have been infiltrated by a member of the Choppers (a real black motorcycle gang hired for the film) who is passing for white. An all-out war erupts between the two gangs.
This ultra-gritty and foolhardy biker flick has only a handful of interesting moments, and is full of the usual sub-genre cliches — BUT — randomly stuck in the middle of the film is a montage of one of the main characters riding his chopper through the streets of Los Angeles, set to the absolute lamest acoustic hippie ballad known to man. Upon seeing the film with former Cinefile owner Ed a number of years ago, we had to rewind the scene and play it over several times, just to make sure that the lyrics to the song was actually what we heard.