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May 16, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Knowing The Score

Some time ago when I was 10 or 11 or maybe I was 5 or 6, music hit me and I’m glad it did.  I felt no pain, only joy, sorrow of course, when the music told me to feel that way – and thanks must go to Mark Knopfler for his soundtracks of Last […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], Bill Conti, Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, James Horner, John Barry, Knowing The Score, Mark Knopfler, Music, Poem, Poem: Knowing The Score, Randy Newman, Score, Soundtrack, Thomas Newman, Wendy Carlos ·

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May 7, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Danny Elfman’s Soul Music

This week I have gone all in on the music of Danny Elfman – and though I can’t say I’ve been all-in before, not in this way (devouring the scores, finding rarities, searching deep) I can tell you that I’ve been obsessed with Elfman’s music for about 30 years. It was probably the 1989 Batman […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], Blog, Danny Elfman, Danny Elfman’s Soul Music, Score, Soundtrack ·

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April 25, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Danny Elfman at Coachella (2022)

Every year I try to get excited about Coachella – and the ability to watch it live from all the way down here in little old New Zealand, and in the comfort of my own home. But then I find there’s not much I want to actually see. This year I was a bit more […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], 2022, Alice In Wonderland, April, Batman, Blog, Coachella, Composer, Danny Elfman, Danny Elfman at Coachella, Danny Elfman at Coachella (2022), Edward Scissorhands, Elfman, Film, Gig, Live Gig, Live Set, Oingo Boingo, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Score, Spiderman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Simpsons, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here ·

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July 25, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Cristobal Tapia de Veer: The White Lotus [Soundtrack from the HBO Original Limited Series)

Cristobal Tapia de Veer The White Lotus [Soundtrack from the HBO Original Limited Series) Water Tower Music as licensee for Home Box Office, Inc. I can’t quite get enough of the TV show White Lotus just yet – because it’s being drip-fed the old fashioned way as weekly episodic television. It’s a marvelous satire – […]
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June 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Movies of My Life # 18: Dead Presidents

I think about the movie Dead Presidents a lot – and I’ve seen it a few times too. It might not be many people’s idea of a true classic movie but it felt like a truly profound experience to me when I first saw it, I tried mentioning it to many others, tried introducing it […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Barry White, Curtis Mayfield, Danny Elfman, Dead Presidents, Funk, Heist, Hughes Brothers, James Brown, Jerry Butler, Movies of My Life, Movies of My Life # 18, Movies of My Life # 18: Dead Presidents, Movies of My Life started life as a series of posts on the Phantom Billstickers Facebook page, R'n'B, Racism, Requiem For A Dream, Soul, Soundtrack, The Spinners, Vietnam War ·

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April 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Radio on the TV: My Top 10 All-Time Favourite TV Themes

The other day I was listening to Carl Stalling for the first time in a while – his bonkers-brilliant cartoon music puts you right there. You no longer need the images. The same is true of any great soundtrack composer, for film or TV. I regularly give Danny Elfman’s Music For A Darkened Theatre a spin […]
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May 30, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1984

    Prince, Batman (1989) I’ll always name this as one of my favourite Prince albums. In fact it’s probably the Prince album I have listened to the most. And that’s because it was linked to the huge franchise that was Tim Burton’s Batman film, sure. I collected the bubblegum cards and I had this on […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Batman, Danny Elfman, Partyman, Prince, The Arms Of Orion, Tim Burton, Vinyl ·

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