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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 […]

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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 […]