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June 5, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1363
V/A, The Purple Rose of Cairo [OST] (1985) I was working in a video store way back – pre-DVD – and so it was a good time to go through all the Woody Allen films I hadn’t already seen (I started watching Woody Allen flicks when at high school, I just loved the ones from [...]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
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 3, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
West of Memphis: Voices For Justice (OST)
Various Artists West of Memphis: Voices For Justice Sony There’s every chance – I should think – that if you buy this album it’s because you’re supporting the cause rather than because of your strong belief that Natalie Maines of The Dixie Chicks covering Pink Floyd’s Mother and Marilyn Manson covering Carly Simon’s You’re So [...]Archive
January 28, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Rodriguez: Searching For Sugar Man (Soundtrack)
Rodriguez Searching For Sugar Man – Soundtrack Sony Sometimes an artist is best served by that one great album and though there is an obvious reason to see this movie soundtrack as a Greatest Hits compilation/companion – taking as it does (arguably) the best from Cold Fact and Coming From Reality – I’d argue that [...]Archive
November 13, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1481
V/A, The Big Lebowski [OST] (1998) I already had the soundtrack CD – and love the film but this impulse-buy (expensive too) has been a happy purchase. Some great songs on this soundtrack and I’ve rediscovered a lot of great music as a result – I’d filed the CD long ago and never really gone [...]Archive
March 23, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1566
John Williams/LSO, Star Wars (1977) I never quite became the full Star Wars geek – and if I was ever close (I certainly loved the original trilogy as a kid, went to the second and third – or fifth and sixth if you must – at the cinema; when they re-released them I made sure [...]Archive
March 19, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1572
Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony, The Hustle [Single] (1975) I just like it. So I was happy to get the single – a perfect DJ-trinket, a curio, whatever you want to call it. But I dig the song. I guess my interest in it picked up from hearing it on the Love Serenade [...]Archive
March 16, 2012 by Simon Sweetman