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January 3, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
What A Good Score! – #3: Battlestar Galactica Season 3 by Bear McCreary
Bear McCreary’s score for the TV show Battlestar Galactica (season 3) came to me in a rather weird way. It was the era of blank CDs, making copies, giving someone a ‘burn’ – I was always loaning CDs and making copies for people to hear music, making mixtapes sometimes too. And I was receiving music […]Archive
December 27, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
What A Good Score! – #2: The Piano by Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman’s score for the film The Piano was my introduction to the music of Michael Nyman – amazing composer. I had in fact, as is so often the way, actually heard some of his music previously (having seen some of the earlier films he’d scored – but I didn’t know that at the time). […]Archive
December 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
What A Good Score! – #1: Local Hero by Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler’s score for the film Local Hero was one of the first full instrumental scores I can remembering purchasing – and one of the first things I wrote about for my Vinyl Countdown. Because it was one of the things that sol me on listening to soundtracks away from the film; in fact I […]Archive
December 17, 2021 by Simon Sweetman