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May 1, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1379
Pino Donaggio, The Howling [OST] (1981) The music from The Howling has long been one of my favourites; it does what I want from a horror-film soundtrack – chiefly: scares the shit out of me. The film was one of a handful I was profoundly affected by as a youngster. I was traumatised by a [...]Archive
April 21, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Max Richter: Recomposed, Vivaldi – The Four Seasons
Max Richter Recomposed by Max Richter – Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Deutsche Grammophon Max Richter has made a name for himself as something of a genre-hopping composer, providing straight treatments for soundtracks, dabbling in neo-classical and ambient, plunging into experimental waters and here reworking classical musical, rediscovering one of the most played-out pieces thanks to [...]Archive
April 18, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1385
Johnny Mandel, M*A*S*H [OST] (1973) We used to sing Suicide Is Painless at primary school. That’s pretty fucked up when I think about it now. This is worth having for the Ahmad Jamal version of the theme – where he got all Bob James Taxi about a half-decade before Bob James got all Taxi. I [...]Archive
April 4, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1393
V/A, Tour of Duty II [OST] (1988) I probably loved this more than the first volume because this one was mine; that first album is the best – it’s the favourite for the music, but this was about ownership, something we’re not always concerned with when it comes to music these days. It meant a [...]Archive
March 16, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1403
Michael Nyman, The Kiss and Other Movements (1985) My (knowing) introduction to Michael Nyman was the score from The Piano but in finding out the name attached to the music I realised I’d heard his music before; having seen a few Peter Greenaway films – head-fuck that they were to a young teen. And I [...]Archive
March 14, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: Essential 20th Century Classics
Various Essential 20th Century Classics EMI Certain classical compilations get a hard time – they’re clearly designed for a “mainstream” audience; not the purists. I learned about classical by inheriting a bunch of records from my grandfather that had swimsuit models sunbathing by rocks. I wasn’t concerned so much with reading the liners as listening [...]Archive
March 13, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Broadcast: Berberian Sound Studio
Broadcast Berberian Sound Studio (Original Soundtrack) Warp It would not have been planned as a swansong, but Broadcast’s first foray into full-length film soundtracks is, in a strange, beguiling, sad and somehow perfect way the ultimate end/end-piece for this band. Singer Trish Keenan passed away in 2011. This album was underway at the time – [...]Archive
February 24, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Girls – Volume 1 Soundtrack: Various Artists
Various Artists Girls – Volume 1: Music From The HBO Original Series Fuelled By Ramen Lena Dunham’s cult-TV hit, Girls, has become a new favourite show for me – I’m just catching up. It’s funny, sometimes brutal, frank, quirky – the acting is more than decent but the writing is brilliant. And occasionally music serves [...]Archive
February 23, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1415
The Blues Brothers, The Best Of The Blues Brothers (1981) When my dad won a CD player in a sales competition he scored a coupon allowing him to choose five CDs for free also. We loved free stuff! So he thought he was getting the soundtrack to the movie but this album arrived instead when [...]Archive
February 20, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
AC/DC: Live At River Plate
AC/DC Live At River Plate Sony Another twenty-year gap, another live album, this is the tour-souvenir for anyone who went to the Black Ice World Tour. I caught the show, doesn’t make me want to listen to the album. You can’t say it’s terrible – but it’s certainly by rote. The previous live album arrived [...]Archive
February 17, 2013 by Simon Sweetman