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May 21, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Vangelis

Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou – better known to the music world as Vangelis –has died. He was 79. People know Vangelis as a soundtrack composer. And he reached influential heights in that department, but he was a pop star, a prog-rock legend, a shapeshifting jazz-fusion experimenter, synthesiser pioneer and so much more. I probably first knew […]
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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 16, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Where Have All The Kiwi Soundtracks Gone?

My fascination with film scores – listening to them, collecting them – began with a New Zealand movie. But you wouldn’t have such luck now. When I was a kid the Footrot Flats movie, A Dog’s Tail Tale, was a local blockbuster. It was at the cinemas, at a time when not every Kiwi film […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], Albums, Blog, Dave Dobbyn, Film, Jane Campion, Jonathan Crayford, Kiwi, Kiwi Soundtracks, Michael Nyman, NZ, NZTECHNO Magazine, NZTECHO, Reissue, Rhian Sheehan, Score, Soundtrack, The Piano, Vinyl, Where Have All The Kiwi Soundtracks Gone? ·

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May 11, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Daniel Pemberton: Slow Horses – Season 1 (ATV+ Original Series Soundtrack)

Daniel Pemberton Slow Horses: Season 1 (ATV+ Original Series Soundtrack) Apple Video Programming LLC/Jackson River Films Limited, Polydor/Universal I’m a big fan of the show Slow Horses – genius writing, casting, excellent source material, the look and feel of it is perfect too; a winner. And Daniel Pemberton’s score is instantly part of that magical, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Apple, Daniel Pemberton, Daniel Pemberton: Slow Horses - Season 1 (ATV+ Original Series Soundtrack), Gary Oldman, Mick Jagger, Score, Season 1, Slow Horses, Slow Horses: Season 1 (ATV+ Original Series Soundtrack), Soundtrack, Strange Game, 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, TV ·

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May 9, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #13: Under The Cherry Moon (aka “Parade”) by Prince

The soundtrack and score for the movie Under The Cherry Moon is actually an album called Parade by star of both the film and the soundtrack, Prince. This threw me when I was a kid. Soundtracks are title after the movie. But Prince got me thinking about how the soundtrack could really live on its […]
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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 […]
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April 29, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Nicholas Britell: Succession – Season 3 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack)

Nicholas Britell Succession: Season 3 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack) Home Box Office, Inc, under exclusive license to Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. Succession has stayed in my mind across the last four years – there was a long wait for season three (due to the pandemic halting filming) and as well as […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Album Review, Billy Joel, Cover, HBO, Honesty, Instrumental, Jeremy Strong, Kendall Roy, Nicholas Britell, Nicholas Britell: Succession - Season 3 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack), Piano, Score, Season 3, Soundtrack, Strings, Succession, Succession - Season 3 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack), 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, TV ·

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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 […]
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April 2, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #11: The Young & The Restless by Various

The music haunted me somewhat. In a way. I remember it so deeply from childhood. I wasn’t a fan of the show. But my mum was – it had started a few years before I was born, probably in perfect time for my older brother to start pre-school, I guess. And also, it was scheduled […]
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March 29, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Brian Tyler: Those Who Wish Me Dead (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Brian Tyler Those Who Wish Me Dead (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) WaterTower Music as licensee for Warner Bros. Entertainment I was so pleasantly surprised by the movie Those Who Wish Me Dead – a sort of throwback to mid-90s action-thrillers, with a big name attached but a fairly low-key entry in the scheme of things. […]
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March 5, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Aaron Lupton and Jeff Szpirglas: Blood On Black Wax – Horror Soundtracks on Vinyl

Blood On Black Wax: Horror Soundtracks on Vinyl Aaron Lupton and Jeff Szpirglas 1984 Publishing If you’re a fan of horror films at all that probably means you’re a fan of horror movie soundtracks. They are such a crucial element – the mood-maker, the world-builder, they are in fact a character in the film in […]
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March 1, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

OST: A Good Score Is One of The First Things I’ll Always Notice About A Film

The music is almost always the first thing I notice about a film. It wasn’t always this way, and I can’t quite remember when it changed – obviously there are so many iconic themes we instantly think of from Star Wars and Jaws to ET and anything by Ennio Morricone, everything Quentin Tarantino chooses – […]
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