Muruch’s Classic Albums Appreciation Club: Week 25
Last week’s selection, Duran Duran: Rio, has held up surprisingly well. Despite the album’s undeniable 1980s style and imagery (the cover art alone is integrally linked with childhood memories of my...
View ArticleMuruch’s Classic Albums Appreciation Club: Week 26
Last week’s selection, Les Miserables: Original Broadway Cast Recording, is my favorite musical soundtrack. Well, the songs are anyway…apparently the version I had on cassette in the 1990s was not the...
View ArticleMuruch’s Classic Albums Appreciation Club: Week 29
Granted, Van Halen’s 1984 has more nostalgic value than timeless artistic merit as the band’s heavy use of synths keeps the music firmly dated in the early 1980s. Yet despite all the electro-80s...
View ArticleMuruch’s Classic Albums Appreciation Club: Week 30
Oops, I think I missed last week. Oh well. Our previous selection, the Footloose Soundtrack, remains one of my favorite albums of all time. Yes, it is pure 1980s pop – mostly of the over-the-top,...
View ArticleSoundtrack: Titanic Anniversary Edition
Guest Post By: Brendan The 1997 soundtrack to James Cameron’s Titanic became the highest-selling primarily orchestral soundtrack ever. A remastered “Anniversary Edition” of the soundtrack has been...
View ArticleSoundtrack: Skyfall
Guest Post By: Brendan Thomas Newman is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Sam Mendes – I noticed his American Beauty score featured heavily in the recent documentary Inventing David...
View ArticleSoundtrack: Hitchcock
The soundtrack to the new Anthony Hopkins biopic, Hitchcock, is pretty much what you would expect from composer Danny Elfman. His Hitchcock film score is effectively evocative of Bernard Herrmann’s...
View ArticleHear the Oblivion Movie Theme by M83 & Susanne Sundfor!
I haven’t seen the new Tom Cruise sci-fi blockbuster, Oblivion, yet, but I have heard and love its soaring theme by M83. The song features vocals by Norwegian singer, Susanne Sundfør. You can stream...
View ArticleMan of Steel Trailer Music
By: Brendan If you are among the millions who have seen the Man of Steel trailer, you may have been impressed by the music used in it. The first song featured is “Elegy” by Lisa Gerrard (of Dead Can...
View ArticleGravity Soundtrack Preview
By: Brendan One of my favorite things about the new Sandra Bullock space movie Gravity was its music. I was surprised to see an unfamiliar name credited. The man responsible is Steven Price, who has...
View ArticleMiguel: New Song
Though I fear he may soon suffer from Pitbull-like guest vocal overexposure, I love Miguel’s voice. His new song “Simple Things” is featured on the Girls Vol 2 soundtrack, which will be released tomorrow.
View ArticleEdward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros: Solo Music by Alexander Ebert
By: Brendan I was impressed to learn that Alexander Ebert, frontman of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, is responsible for the gorgeous score for All is Lost. J.C. Chandor directs Robert Redford...
View ArticlePharrell: GIRL
Like most of the human population, we in the Muruch household love Pharrell’s cheery smash “Happy” from the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack. The irrepressibly upbeat, Oscar-nominated tune is also featured...
View ArticleIdina Menzel: If/Then
By: Brn Frozen‘s Idina Menzel reunites with her Rent co-star Anthony Rapp in the currently running Broadway production If/Then. While not entirely successful, the musical features some wonderful songs...
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