Here at The Dissolve, we don’t want to tell you how to live your life. You’re a dynamic, independent-minded person and you certainly don’t need some yet-to-exist movie website calling the shots.

However.

Back in September 2010, Derek “DJA” Allen and Dirty South Joe, operating under name Blood Bros, released the first of a trilogy of mixtapes inspired by ’80s action-movie soundtracks. It was called Blood Bros: First Blood. The trilogy continued with Blood Bros: Heaven2Hell and concluded with Blood Bros: Back In America. All told, the trilogy runs over two hours, a relentless nostalgia rush of sound clips, montage songs, Stan Bush originals, cuts from Rocky sequels, and American Top 40’s cheesiest anthems. In other words, the workout equivalent of snorting Tony Montana’s mountain of cocaine at the end of Scarface. And like that mountain of cocaine, it’s probably wise not to snort all three mixtapes at once, so best to start with First Blood and proceed from there. Behold that track list.

No retreat, no surrender. —Scott Tobias