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The movie features a soundtrack of punk rock and New Wave music with a wide range of artists including the Ramones, The Cure, XTC, Lou Reed, Gary Numan, Talking Heads, Suzi Quatro, Roxy Music, Robin Gibb & Marcy Levy, Patti Smith and The Pretenders. The soundtrack also features original songs sung by the film's actors, "Damn Dog" by Johnson and "Your Daughter Is One" by Johnson and Alvarado. The soundtrack, as a compilation of some of the most important new wave and punk music from the era, achieved far more notoriety than the film did on its release. The soundtrack also became a collectors' item among fans of XTC, because it included the specially-written XTC track "Take This Town", which for many years was only available on this soundtrack.

Times Square is a 1980 film starring Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, and Tim Curry. The plot of the film is essentially a punk rock ethic - misunderstood youth forming a band and, through music, articulating their frustrations toward adult authority, personified in the film as parents, the medical establishment, and politicians.

Times Square was directed by Allan Moyle from a script written by Moyle and Jacob Brackman. The movie was inspired by a diary, found in a second-hand couch bought by Moyle, detailing the life on the streets of a young mentally disturbed woman.

The original script contained lesbian content which was mostly cut from the film, though the final version still has subtle lesbian overtones. Moyle revealed in the DVD audio commentary that the film's integrity was compromised by the removal of the more overt lesbian content, and the addition of several inappropriate songs to the film's soundtrack at the insistence of producer Robert Stigwood. Stigwood expected the film to be another Saturday Night Fever and insisted that the soundtrack be a double album to make the film more commercially viable. Moyle and Johnson remarked on the audio commentary that the loss of key scenes made the narrative disjointed and damaged the story's emotion and characterisations. They give as examples the film's focus jarringly changing from Pamela to Nicky and the increasingly outlandish and unrealistic story works against the movie's gritty, on-location documentary style. Moyle left production before the film was completed, and further scenes were shot under the supervision of others, mainly footage backed with the new soundtrack additions. The version of the film released to theatres was not Moyle's preferred cut; however, he still acknowledges the finished film's importance as it documents a Times Square that no longer exists. The film was shot on location and captured Times Square's seedy, grindhouse atmosphere before it was cleaned up in the mid 1990s.