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It was the first connection I had when I encountered their music; here’s a song from the follow up album which I think cements that analogy even more. 🙂
Very nice track list:
Leftfield– Snakeblood 5:39
All Saints– Pure Shores 4:24
Moby– Porcelain 3:59
Dario G Featuring Vanessa Quinones*– Voices 5:18
Underworld– 8 Ball 8:51
Sugar Ray (2)– Spinning Away 4:24
Asian Dub Foundation Featuring Harry Beckett and Simon De Souza– Return Of Django 3:34
Blur– On Your Own (Crouch End Broadway Mix) 3:32
Mory Kante*– Yeke Yeke (Hard Floor Mix) 3:54
Faithless– Woozy 7:52
Barry Adamson– Richard, It’s Business As Usual 4:17
New Order– Brutal 4:48
UNKLE Featuring Richard Ashcroft– Lonely Soul 8:54
Orbital and Angelo Badalamenti– Beached 6:47
This is a peculiar 1991 compilation from World Wildlife Fund:
1 David Hasselhoff– Keep The Jungle Alive 5:54
2 Clannad– Ancient Forest 3:00
3 Mr. Mister– Broken Wings 5:30
4 Tangerine Dream– Peacock Island 3:29
5 Anita Meyer– Bright Eyes 3:47
6 The Alan Parsons Project– The Eagle Will Rise Again 4:22
7 John Farnham– That’s Freedom 4:17
8 Jonathan Butler– Afrika 5:13
9 Fairground Attraction– The Wind Knows My Name 4:09
10 Modern Talking– Riding On A White Swan 3:52
11 Blue System– Silent Water 3:28
12 Mancini*– The Thorn Birds 3:04
13 Paul Anka– Puppy Love 2:46
14 Tokens*– The Lion Sleeps Tonight 2:38
Remember samplers? I guess they have become unimportant, or better, they have become today’s suggestion playlists.
I always loved these Varèse Sarabande Anniversary Albums. They provided a really nifty overview over what’s out on the label and the tracks were somewhat losely grouped thematically, to provide good listening flow. I never sought them out but picked them up along the way when I found them cheap at some point and by now I think I have all of them.
I have the 30th one! So many great cues, and a great gateway into the scores proper.
I always felt there was an artform to compilations like that, how they were curated and organized as listening experiences despite being from wildly different scores; kinda sad to see them dwindle (there are still several re-recorded compilations, but that’s kind of a different beast altogether).
No points for the lame title, but quite a few nice tracks.
1 Ray Lynch– Celestial Soda Pop
Written-By – Ray Lynch
4:38
2 Vangelis– To The Unknown Man
Written-By – Vangelis
9:01
3 Suzanne Ciani– Hotel Luna
Written-By – Suzanne Ciani
4:10
4 Synthesizer Orchestra– Camilla
Written-By – Dudley*, Langang*, Jeczalic*
4:38
5 Alan Parsons Project*– Lucifer
Written-By – Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson
4:07
6 Tangerine Dream– Midnight In Bear City
Written-By – Edgar Froese, Paul Haslinger
4:25
7 Patrick O’Hearn– Down Hill Racer
Written-By – Patrick O’Hearn
5:13
8 Synthesizer Orchestra– Theme From The Rainman
Written-By – Zimmer*
3:25
9 Ray Lynch– The Oh Of Pleasure
Written-By – Lynch*, Canning*
5:17
10 Synthesizer Orchestra– Madame Curie
Written-By – Ruseler*
4:33
11 Patrick O’Hearn– Homeward Bound
Written-By – Patrick O’Hearn
4:16
12 Tangerine Dream– Peacock Island
Written-By – Edgar Froese, Paul Hasling*
3:28
13 Suzanne Ciani– Ondine
Written-By – Suzanne Ciani
3:52
14 Alan Parsons Project*– Mammagamma
Written-By – Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson
3:34
15 Vangelis– Pulstar
Written-By – VangelisThat looks like a good synth sampler, some nice tracks indeed.
As the last piece tonight, I chose Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade for Solo Violin, Strings, Harp and Percussion in a terrific recording by Hillary Hahn, David Zinman and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Wander has done some decent work for Roland Emmerich, but this one, from 2023, was a gem. In that lovely east-meets-west style, with regional colours. Quite lean opposed to some of those ‘fatter’ sound for the German director.
I just listened to this score from Vladimir Cosma.
That’s right up my alley. Not necessarily super memorable, but beautiful and stylistically diverse with waltzes, ragtime and menuette style music. A nice feel good score.
Cosma has always fascinated me! So consistently versatile, doing electronic music, jazz, rock, pop, orchestral etc. with equal ease. I have a track from LE CHATEAU DE MA MÈRE on the LES PLUS GRANDS SUCCES DE VLADIMIR COSMA 2CD compilation from 1990. One of these days, I need to set aside time to explore his massive catalogue properly.
I also have only remotely expored Cosma. He did so much. I have only have and know a few scores only but L’HOMME DE SUEZ was always a favorite of mine. I saw that mini series in the 80s and of course only much later learned about Cosma. Later had to get the LP 2nd hand as it was a bit rare quite a while.
Yes, and most Norwegians my age have a very nostalgic relationship to the LES MONDES ENGLOUTIS animated series, which was shown on ‘breakfast tv’ in the 80s. As such, I was exposed to Cosma long before I even knew what film music “was”.
Not quite as good as the nu-disco deliciousness of IT’S ALBUM TIME, but a pretty good album/EP nonetheless. It’s weird why Todd Terje hasn’t released more studio albums.
1 Enigma– Return To Innocence 4:08
2 Julee Cruise– Twin Peaks Theme 5:03
3 The Art Of Noise– Moments In Love 4:30
4 Jan Hammer– Crockett’s Theme 3:30
5 The Alan Parsons Project– Pipeline 3:57
6 Harold Faltermeyer– Axel F. 3:00
7 Vangelis– Chariots Of Fire 3:26
8 Propaganda– La Carne, La Morte E Il Diavolo 5:47
9 Kitaro– Light Of The Spirit 7:27
10 Roxy Music– Tara 1:31
11 Kenny G (2)– Songbird 5:00
12 Enigma– Sadeness 4:13
13 Clannad– Theme From Harry’s Game 2:28
14 Yanni (2)– Swept Away 5:03
15 Ennio Morricone– Chi Mai 5:04
16 Jon & Vangelis– Garden Of Senses 6:20
17 David A. Stewart– Lily Was Here
4:17
18 Michael Nyman– Theme From The Piano 3:10Went several days without listening to any music at all, until today I listened to Christopher Young’s VIRTUOSITY while driving home.
David Hentschel’s EDUCATING RITA is a nice 80s synth poprock score. I remember somehow we watched that movie in school and I liked the end credits track back then already. Although it was a bit before my real dive into film scores. I read he was quite an active producer and even scored more films but I never heard anything else by him so far.
I’ve heard of the film, but never saw it or heard the score. That is indeed quite nice. Somewhat reminiscent of the library music from the time, the April Orchestra stuff. A splash of JMJ, perhaps.
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