What are you listening to now?
- Dette emnet har 297 svar, 12 deltakere, og ble sist oppdatert 21 timer, 32 minutter siden av
.
-
Innlegg
-
Tucker – Joe Jackson
The topic Joe Jackson, one of my personal Pop Titans, and movie soundtracks isn’t probably one of the luckiest.
There was his rejected score for Mike’s Murder, that at least got an album release, that suffered a little from the second rate song material. Then there was his score for Three Of Hearts which never got any type of realease.
His work for the Coppola movie Tucker can probably seen as Jackson’s most successful excursion into the movie industry. The music is mostly solid 30s big band jazz and it is objectively good. But I am not that much of a big band jazz fan.
Every time I listen to this, I think it’s good. But it doesn’t make me love it.Oh yes, lots of different ethnic modes in his work, for Egoyan, Ang Lee and beyond. ARARAT and NATIVITY STORY are among my favs too. Others include EXOTICA (one of my favourite films as well!), THE ICE STORM, THE SWEET HEREAFTER, LIFE OF PI, ALIAS GRACE and WATER, which he did with A.R. Rahman.
Yeah, not to forget his (only?) western score for Ang Lee’s RIDE WITH THE DEVIL.
I remember I got this as a digital promo years ago. I liked quite a few of the tracks, others not so much, but as you say, it was overwhelmingly long. And I never set aside time to create a whittled playlist. Be sure to let us know if you come up with one.
We’ll see, once I ripped it maybe 😉 I actually rarely do playlists of scores.
Unfortunately, Jon, Amazon disallowed hotlinking (ie linking to their photos other places) years ago, that’s why your picture doesn’t show. I usually use Spotify or Discogs instead.
Fixed it for ya. You have to open the image in a new window, so you get the .jpg or .jpeg ending.
Cool album. Was any of the Michael Gore score ever released?
LOL, I’m too old for this, but thanks.
I don’t think any of the score was ever released.
I am writing an article about the 2026 40th anniversary of this album for Blitzed Magazine, so I have to dive into it.
Unfortunately, Jon, Amazon disallowed hotlinking (ie linking to their photos other places) years ago, that’s why your picture doesn’t show. I usually use Spotify or Discogs instead.
Just to add that most sites don’t allow hotlinking because it eats the server bandwidth and may cause costs. Not that amazon would have to care about that 😉
Many sites provide embedding mechanism like Youtube or Spotify so just pasting the URL on a separate link should be tried first. Amazon does not though it seems…
Two gorgeous scores in a row there, Nick (well, MIDNIGHT EXPRESS also has some harrowing, dissonant passages, but the rest is to die for).
What’s up with that STRAIGHT STORY cover, though, and its Microsoft Paintbrush-style font? Is it a reissue of some kind?
Yes, it’s a re-issue. That’s not the cover of the CD I have, but it’s the cover of the Intrada reissue of the score (both CD and digital release).
- Du må være innlogget for å svare på dette emnet.