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August 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 31 – Sustained Creepy Moods…

I like movie soundtracks – score. I like ambient music. I like heavy metal. I particularly love when two or three of those things can come together to create a sinister, creeping – creepy – mood. A sustained sinister creeping – creepy – mood, even. So I wanted to explore that today via five favourites. Five Songs For Friday has […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged #31, A Warm Place, Assault on Precinct 13, Burzum, Careful With That Axe Eugene, Five Songs For A Friday, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday: 31, Five Songs For Friday: 31 – Sustained Creepy Moods..., Friday, Gummo, Heavy Metal, Horror, John Carpenter, Mike Oldfield, Movies, Natural Born Killers, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, Rundgang Um Die Transzendentale Saule Der Singularitat, Score, Soundtrack, Sustained Creepy Moods..., Theme, Trent Reznor, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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July 26, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 387

V/A, Natural Born Killers [OST] (1994) I liked the film – an Oliver Stone rewrite/trashing of a Quentin Tarantino script. Well, I reckon it works well, or worked – it’s been a while since I’ve seen it. But I’ve always loved the soundtrack. I still have my CD – still play it in the car, […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [OST], 1994, Cowboy Junkies, Film, Leonard Cohen, LP, Movie, Natural Born Killers, Nine Inch Nails, Oliver Stone, Patsy Clie, Quentin Tarantino, Record, Soundtrack, The Vinyl Countdown # 387, Trent Reznor, Vinyl ·

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February 28, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Scoring The Quentin Tarantino Movie Soundtracks: The Music That Characterises His Films, Plays Characters In His Films

Quentin Tarantino uses music to set the scene, he uses it to evoke, to create a mood, to pay tribute to other movies (often this is secondary to setting/mood) and to help motivate the characters in his films. He uses music as a character in his films; the soundtrack becomes a character – in the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Death Proof, Django Unchained, Film, Inglourious Basterds, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Moive, Movie, Natural Born Killers, Plays Characters In His Films, Pulp Fiction, QT, Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs, RZA, Score, Scoring The Quentin Tarantino Movie Soundtracks: The Music That Characterises His Films, Soundtrack, The Hateful Eight ·

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November 29, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: George Henderson

George Henderson was born in Scotland many years ago and has been creating music in New Zealand since the mid-1970s and releasing it fitfully since the mid-80s, mainly as The Puddle. In this our 21st Century he has taken a renewed interest in his so-called art and released a string of Puddle albums on his brother/drummer Ian’s […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Alice, Alice In Wonderland, Beat The Devil, Charles Manson, Citizen Kane, Death Watch, Film, Film Review, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me: George Henderson, George Henderson, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Inferno, Kill Bill, L'enfer, La Mano dello Straniero, Le Corbeau, Les Diaboliques, Macbeth, Movies, Natural Born Killers, Neco Alenky, Pirates, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Shakespeare, Special Guest, Sunset Boulevard, The Big Lebowski, The Naked Kiss, The Puddle, The Stranger's Hand, The Watchmen, Themroc, Wages of Fear, Watchmen ·

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January 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Inherent Vice [OST]

Various Artists Inherent Vice [OST] Nonesuch Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood is back – his third time working with/for Paul Thomas Anderson following brave and wonderful scores for There Will Be Blood and The Master. He’s on point here making the most of strings as he creates music that hints at Bernard Herrmann, has that same edge; […]
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