tunequest

All the recent Radiohead hoopla reminded me about the band's other driving creative force: Johnny Greenwood. He's the lead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist responsible for a lot of those awesome riffs that Radiohead fans love oh-so-much (he tied with fellow band member Ed O'Brien as Rolling Stones' 59th and 60th greatest guitar players of all time). Besides his work in a rock band, Greenwood also composes music ...

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The other day, I was perusing the ol' server logs, doing my periodic behind-the-scenes examination of this site. Mostly it was the usual stuff: popular URLs, a couple image hot-linkers and an ungodly amount of Googlebot crawls. But then something caught my eye: a new and intriguing referring site. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Shadows_of_the_Empire_(soundtrack) I checked it out, trying to find the connection to here, and discovered a lengthy and detailed encyclopedia ...

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This past weekend, I saw The Simpsons Movie and must declare that I thoroughly enjoyed it. I know it's become a bit of pastime to bemoan the show's decline, but honestly, you won't find much cynicism coming from me with regards to the movie. The plot is straightforward, but fittingly expansive and engrossing for a motion picture. The jokes are actually rather good, largely avoiding the ...

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Released in 2002, John Powell's music for The Bourne Identity is a smooth contemporary action score that is an exception to the typical generic compositions that accompany such films. It draws upon the standard spy-thriller ethos and echos the work of David Arnold for the James Bond franchise, particularly with its use of lush strings, blending of electronic percussion and sprinkling of jazz and rock elements. ...

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Several degrees of Air. Or, what's it take to get Air to remix a Beck song? Air gets Beck to remix Sexy Boy and provide vocals on Don't Be Light and the Vagabond. Beck dated and is married to Marissa Ribisi. Marissa Ribisi has a twin brother: Giovanni. Giovanni co-stars in Lost in Translation. Lost In Translation is directed by Sofia Coppola. Sofia Coppola also directed The Virgin Suicides. The Virgin Suicides' score ...

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Paramount Pictures closed its legendary Stage M this past August. The stage opened in 1932 and since then, many famous and notable film scores have been recorded on it, including The Ten Commandments, Out of Africa, as well as a great portion of Star Trek's music. More recently, Danny Elfman's score for Nacho Libre was laid down there. try this Google search to see some more examples ...

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Well, for some reason, almost all of my Star Trek music got pushed toward the end of the tunequest, and believe me, I have nearly all of the Star Trek music except for the unreleased promo soundtrack to the Starfleet Academy video game. If anyone can point towards that, I'll send you a digital high five or something, so the waters around here will be thick ...

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As geeky as this sounds, there was once a point in time when I could recite the accompanying dialogue and sound effects in sequence with this composition. It's music from The Wrath of Khan, the scene where the Enterprise has been crippled by Khan's surprise attack and Captain Kirk must stall for time in an attempt to deliver a retaliatory blow to the Reliant (the ship ...

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French composer Francis Lai is perhaps best known for his breakthrough song Un homme et une femme from the 1966 film of the same name. Lesser known, however, at least in the States, is the film from the next year called Vivre pour Vivre (Live For Life). It was the second collaboration between Lai and Un homme et une femme director Claude Lelouch. This film is incredibly hard ...

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