This site was conceived as a side project by a "tekkie" friend of mine who suggested I use my journalistic experience to write about something I love. We bandied about some ideas before settling on this one - largely because I had collected movie soundtracks for much of my life and thought I could write about them. We wanted the site to be user friendly, well-written and reliable.
Over time, I hope to attract other writers keen to contribute to the site, who don't mind foregoing the financial benefits they may be used to in the short-term for something that may, or may not, be profitable further down the line.
The gradual demise of the cd format, re-emergence of vinyl, along with the expansion of blu-ray dvd and downloads translate to an ever-changing market place; despite this, most of us still buy cd's and dvd's and I hope that you will use the Amazon links on this site to buy online.
We have also included mini YouTube video links that accompany the reviews, so that you can listen to your favourite theme music while watching a related trailer or clip from the movie; because film is a visual medium, there seems no better way of presenting it.
Finally, a note on the type of soundtracks featured. Though purists generally view albums such as "Top Gun", "Flashdance" and others like them, as unworthy of coverage on a film soundtrack site, preferring instead to focus on orchestral scores, we have taken the view that these albums have earned their place based on their continued saleability and affection with a large section of cinema-goers. We wanted to reach as broad an audience as possible and have developed the site with this in mind, without forgetting those fans for whom composers such as Bernard Herrmann and Jerry Goldsmith, among many others, are considered on a par with the master composers. We hope you can find your best movie soundtracks on this site.
Based on Truman Capote’s ‘non-fiction novel’, Richard Brooks film was an overly long examination of events that led up to the murder of a quiet farming family in America’s Midwest during the 1950s. Following the trail of the two killers as they wind their way towards, and away from, the murder scene, the film was exceptional in its depiction of the two men with their juvenile dreams and disturbing backgrounds. Quincy Jones’ grimy jazz score is experimental and effective. While much of his later work tended towards the commercial, ‘In Cold Blood’ is not easy listening but remains one of his most intriguing pieces of work. Out of print and highly collectable, the original LP has yet to be released on CD but can be obtained through eBay or other specialist outlets. In Cold Blood Movie Soundtrack. Review: Tim Mowbray.
Track Listing:
1. In Cold Blood
2. Clutter Family Theme
3. Hangin’ Paper
4. Down Clutter’s Lane
5. Seduction
6. Perry’s Theme
7. Lonely Bottles
8. No Witnesses
9. I’ll Have To Kill You
10. Nina (Vocal by Gil Bernal)
11. Murder Scene
12. The Corner
Brian DePalma’s stylish conspiracy thriller (his homage to Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up) stars John Travolta as a b-movie sound man who accidentally captures an assassination on tape before becoming a target himself. Though relatively unsuccessful at the box office, the film has become a deserved cult hit with DePalma’s legion of fans, high on his heady mix of seedy sex, gruesome violence and glossed-up production values. The score, penned by DePalma favourite Pino Donaggio easily lives up to the demands of the film and much of the time goes that few steps further turning what could have been a straight forward thriller score into a multi-layered character study, primarily thanks to the main theme with its melodic, melancholic piano motif. Add to this Donaggio’s talent for high drama and strings and you have one of his lesser known, finest scores for DePalma. Expanded liner notes and a limited pressing of 2,500 also make this collectable. Blow Out Movie Soundtrack. Review: Tim Mowbray.
Track Listing:
1. Theme From ‘Blow Out’.
2. Jack Saves Sally.
3. Hospital To Motel.
4. Jack On The Move.
5. Jack Cuts Pictures.
6. Freddie And The Mobster.
7. Jack And Sally In Café #2/Burke Kills Redhead.
8. Jack Discovers Gunshot.
9. Jack Hides The Tape And Film.
10. Burke At Phone Booth/Burke And Manners/Evil Burke #1.
11. Sally Slugs Karp.
12. Evil Burke #2/Jack On Phone To Donahue/Burke Calls Sally.
13. Burke To Phones Booth/Burke Kills Hooker.
14. Sally To Station.
15. Burke Meets Sally/The Station.
16. Car Through Glass Window.
17. Burke Kills Sally.
18. Jack Kills Burke.
19. Good Scream/End Credits.
20. Jack And Sally In Café.
21. Coed Disco Frenzy.
This glossy thriller stars Margaux Hemingway as a model of lipstick who is attacked and raped by a rejected fan and then ‘raped again’ in court as her profession is put on the stand. Entertaining enough, Lipstick suffers from its overly flashy production values, looking like a TV movie with pretentions to be something far more political; both Clint Eastwood’s ‘Play Misty For Me’ (1971) and ‘The Accused’, (1988) starring Jodie Foster use the subject matter far more effectively. Michel Polnareff’s score is a brief (running at under thirty minutes) but spirited collection of disco inspired action cues. Side One, titled ‘Lipstick’ features two tracks, the Main Title (‘Lipstick’) and ‘Lipstick Montage’, which combines the major themes. Side Two, entitled ‘The Rapist’, presents the darker elements of the score in keeping with the subject matter. However, it is the lightweight disco material that wins out as there is little about this movie, or the soundtrack, that makes anything more than a superficial stab at a serious critique of how society deals with rape and the victims of it. Lipstick Movie Soundtrack. Review: Tim Mowbray.
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