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June 21, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #16: The Shawshank Redemption by Thomas Newman

It’s that rare thing. I loved the film, and the music – and the book it was based on; well, the story. The trifecta. (Actually, I did love the book that the story was in, the whole thing, so there’s that too). The Shawshank Redemption is so good that it’s almost a cliché now – […]
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June 15, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #15: Baraka by Michael Stearns

I have no idea whether it was the film or the music that came first, for me, with Baraka – but I think, maybe, it was the music. I know I didn’t see the film until about a decade after it was released, and probably I saw it on the back of seeing a few […]
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June 1, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #14: Bird by Charlie Parker with Lennie Niehaus

The movie Bird was crucial for me – and so was its soundtrack – not technically ‘a score’ but I’d argue that it absolutely is, and that such a soundtrack is always the score when the film is a biopic of a musician. Bird tells (some of) the story of Charlie Parker and the music […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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April 24, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

John Williams / Berliner Philharmoniker: The Berlin Concert

John Williams / Berliner Philharmoniker The Berlin Concert Deutsche Gram France John Towner Williams is on a victory lap – and rightly. He’s just turned 90. His influence is everywhere in film scoring and his work continues. Here in celebration of some of his finest work, the Berliner Philharmoniker presents a towering program of highlights. […]
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April 15, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Christopher Nicholas Bangs: WeCrashed (Original Series Soundtrack)

Christopher Nicholas Bangs WeCrashed (Original Series Soundtrack) Apple Video Programming LLC, under exclusive license to Platoon Ltd WeCrashed is equal parts exhilarating and infuriating. As the WeWork company plummets to its inevitable crash WeWatch. WeSit. WeLoveIt. WeKnow that WeAre inherently better people. They are hideous on every level and it’s a unique strain of Stuff […]
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April 14, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #12: Eyes Wide Shut by Jocelyn Pook + Various

So many great soundtracks I’ve given away, lost, sold, traded, ditched. And one that springs to mind instantly, one I’ll be getting back a.s.a.f.p is Eyes Wide Shut’s soundtrack. Not a full score – it includes some songs too (but most of them are great) it’s a stunning set of music to a film that […]
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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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