In 1971, Peter Guralnick published Feel Like Going Home, which told the story of the blues through a series of revelatory profiles of Muddy Waters, Skip James, Howlin’ Wolf, and more. He ended the book with a goodbye: “I consider this chapter a swan song,” wrote Guralnick, who was 27 at the time. “Not only to the book but to my whole brief critical career. Next time you see me I hope I will be my younger, less self-conscious and critical self. It would be nice to just sit back and listen...
- 12/19/2020
- by Peter Guralnick
- Rollingstone.com
From Guardians Of The Galaxy to Godzilla, and Noah to Paddington, our pick of 2014's finest film soundtracks and scores.
After Gravity blew your eardrums out of the airlock in 2013 with its seamless mix of sound effects and music, it was hard to imagine a film wowing just as much the year after, but 2014 was a year in which movie soundtracks became, if anything, even more intricate, from films about the nature of being a musician to those that replicated the noise of human existence for alien senses.
Before 2014 becomes a distant ringing in the ears, here are the top 14 movie soundtracks of the year.
1. Under the Skin (Mica Levi)
Once you've heard Mica Levi's soundtrack to Under the Skin, everything else sounds both disappointing and even more exciting. I say 'soundtrack' because, like the best movies, Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi understands that sound and music are two halves of the same hastily-conceived metaphor.
After Gravity blew your eardrums out of the airlock in 2013 with its seamless mix of sound effects and music, it was hard to imagine a film wowing just as much the year after, but 2014 was a year in which movie soundtracks became, if anything, even more intricate, from films about the nature of being a musician to those that replicated the noise of human existence for alien senses.
Before 2014 becomes a distant ringing in the ears, here are the top 14 movie soundtracks of the year.
1. Under the Skin (Mica Levi)
Once you've heard Mica Levi's soundtrack to Under the Skin, everything else sounds both disappointing and even more exciting. I say 'soundtrack' because, like the best movies, Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi understands that sound and music are two halves of the same hastily-conceived metaphor.
- 1/7/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
A collection of original music, the game's score, and tracks featured in the game's radio stations make up the massive "Grand Theft Auto V" music collection, out now on iTunes.
Oh, I get it--69 tracks. Clever, Rockstar.
The three volumes are available now as either separate purchases at $9.99 each or as a single download for $24.99 via iTunes. The collection includes original music from artists like Twin Shadow and Neon Indian on "Vol. 1: Original Music," to the incidental music and score of "Vol. 2: The Score," and remixed and licensed songs on "Vol. 3: The Soundtrack."
The release of the soundtrack continues Rockstar's media domination following the billion dollar launch of "GTA V" last week for the PS3 and Xbox 360. It's also not the first time they've had a major launch for one of the game's soundtracks: fans of "Vice City" may recall the lavish soundtrack for that game which...
Oh, I get it--69 tracks. Clever, Rockstar.
The three volumes are available now as either separate purchases at $9.99 each or as a single download for $24.99 via iTunes. The collection includes original music from artists like Twin Shadow and Neon Indian on "Vol. 1: Original Music," to the incidental music and score of "Vol. 2: The Score," and remixed and licensed songs on "Vol. 3: The Soundtrack."
The release of the soundtrack continues Rockstar's media domination following the billion dollar launch of "GTA V" last week for the PS3 and Xbox 360. It's also not the first time they've had a major launch for one of the game's soundtracks: fans of "Vice City" may recall the lavish soundtrack for that game which...
- 9/24/2013
- by Charles Webb
- MTV Multiplayer
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans; My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done; The Horde (La Horde); Cherry Tree Lane; The Killer Inside Me; Ivul
Bavarian director Werner Herzog describes his "non-remake" of Abel Ferrara's incendiary Bad Lieutenant as being less about the "burden of guilt" than the "bliss of evil". In Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009, Lions Gate, 18) Nic Cage plays the increasingly addled detective for whom painkillers pave the way to narcotic addiction, launching him on a downward spiral into criminality and madness. Visions of iguanas and crazed monologues about the dancing dead ensue, with Herzog stopping occasionally to give us an alligator's eye view of a crumbling world – a trope you sense he was itching to use more liberally. It's a strange and ultimately slight movie; whereas Ferrara's visceral tract had a clearly tortured Catholic morality underlying its extreme cinema traits, Herzog's...
Bavarian director Werner Herzog describes his "non-remake" of Abel Ferrara's incendiary Bad Lieutenant as being less about the "burden of guilt" than the "bliss of evil". In Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009, Lions Gate, 18) Nic Cage plays the increasingly addled detective for whom painkillers pave the way to narcotic addiction, launching him on a downward spiral into criminality and madness. Visions of iguanas and crazed monologues about the dancing dead ensue, with Herzog stopping occasionally to give us an alligator's eye view of a crumbling world – a trope you sense he was itching to use more liberally. It's a strange and ultimately slight movie; whereas Ferrara's visceral tract had a clearly tortured Catholic morality underlying its extreme cinema traits, Herzog's...
- 9/25/2010
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
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