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February 27, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #10: Taxi Driver by Bernard Herrmann

Bernard Herrmann’s score to Taxi Driver is one of the most important soundtracks in my life and in my collection – or at least in my ‘collecting’. I foolishly traded the vinyl picture disc I had of this amazing, evocative score. I will get a new vinyl copy one day. I still have it on […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], Bernard Herrmann, Blog, Film, Martin Scorsese, Movie, Robert DeNiro, Score, Soundtrack, Taxi Driver, What A Good Score!, What A Good Score! – #10, What A Good Score! – #10: Taxi Driver by Bernard Herrmann ·

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November 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

That Terrible George Harrison Doco

I watched the Martin Scorsese documentary about George Harrison – it’s called Living in the Material World. I don’t get the fuss. It’s nearly four hours long. I sat and took it in one sitting. It felt like work. So many people had told me that it was good but was at least 45 minutes too long. Isn’t that […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, Doc, Doco, Documentary, George Harrison, Living In The Material World, Martin Scorsese, That Terrible George Harrison Doco, The Beatles ·

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February 14, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Eagles Fly Alone

Bernard Herrmann didn’t want to be a composer. He wanted to be a conductor. He wrote the scores for so many great films but if he had only created the strings for Psycho that would have been enough. He also wrote music for many other Hitchcock films and worked with other directors. His score for […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard Herrmann, Cape Fear, Citizen Kane, Eagles Fly Alone, Elmer Bernstein, Martin Scorsese, Poem, Poem: Eagles Fly Alone, Psycho, Robert Ne Niro, Taxi Driver, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo ·

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February 15, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: VINYL (Music from the HBO Original Series, Vol. 1)

Various Artists: VINYL (Music from the HBO Original Series, Vol. 1) Atlantic Recording Corporation & Warner Bros. Records, Inc/WEA International Inc. The much-hyped Martin Scorsese/Mick Jagger-executive produced VINYL has debuted – bringing with it a first volume of soundtrack recordings. The plan – for a show called VINYL – is to have digital-only releases popping […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], 1970s, HBO, Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, Music Industry, New York, Record Business, Richard Hell, Series 1, Series One, Seventies, Soundtrack, Sturgill Simpson, Television, The New York Dolls, TV, TV Series, TV Show, V/A, Various Artists, Vinyl, VINYL (Music from the HBO Original Series, Vol. 1 ·

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January 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Elaine Shute

Elaine Shute is a volunteer programmer at WERU-FM, a community radio station in Downeast Maine. Her show ‘On the Wing’, a three-hour eclectic mix of music, airs on alternating Mondays, and can be streamed on demand. Here are five films that have stayed with her….  1 – Breaking Away:  I love a coming-of-age story, and – along […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged After Hours, Al Capone, Alice In Wonderland, America, Breaking Away, Brian De Palma, Daniel Sten, David Mamet, DJ, Elaine Shute, Film, Film Review, Five Film, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Elaine Shute, Griffin Dunne, Jonathan Demme, Julie Harris, Martin Scorsese, Movie Review, Movies, Radio, Rosanna Arquette, Shirley Jackson, Something Wild, Special Guest, The Feelies, The Haunting, The Shining, To Kill A Mockingbird, Untouchables, WERU-FM ·

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July 26, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: The Wolf of Wall Street [OST]

Various Artists The Wolf of Wall Street Virgin Records Martin Scorsese films typically rely on a pulsing, driving rock’n’roll soundtrack – hints of the jazz and blues that have informed classic rock’n’roll too of course. And though this isn’t quite as good as his classic film soundtracks it does come close, at times, to the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Blues, Casino, Compilation, Jazz, Martin Scorsese, Rock'n'Roll, Soundtrack, The Wolf of Wall Street, V/A, Various Artists ·

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December 31, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Wolf of Wall Street: Film

The Wolf of Wall Street Director: Martin Scorsese Red Granite Pictures Martin Scorsese’s new film, The Wolf of Wall Street, much hyped, reduced down to 180 minutes of screen time after the first cut that was handed in ran towards five hours, arrives at just the right time to call it the last great film […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Film Review, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street ·

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October 5, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1822

V/A, The King Of Comedy [OST] (1983) This was a nice find, picked this up recently. Bought it because I love the movie The King Of Comedy – I think it’s one of the very best pieces that the DeNiro/Scorsese pairing gave us. It would be churlish to call it the best but I do […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [OST], B.B. King, Between Trains, Bob James, King Of Comedy Theme, Martin Scorsese, Robbie Robertson, Robert DeNiro, Soundtrack, The Band, The King Of Comedy, The Other Eighties, The Pretenders, V/A, Van Morrison, Vinyl ·

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