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Ed Harris Will Never Leave My Heart

Entertainment Weekly's blog has an interview with Ed Harris and a stream of his song "You'll Never Leave My Heart," which will run over the closing credits of the Harris-directed, Viggo Mortensen-starring oater Appaloosa. I like Westerns, and I like Ed Harris. And as a future bald man (it's going quick, people!), I'm hoping that my baldness trends more towards that sported by the virile Ed Harris than the type atop the head of the homunculus Wallace Shawn. More »

9:15 AM on Fri Sep 19 2008
By Lucas Jensen
591 views, 2 comments

Latest by Lucas Jensen: @tim_loves_cats: Listen, I know plenty of ladies who like him! more »

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"Variety" Goes Behind The Music (In The Movie Trailer)

Variety launched a package called Music for Screens yesterday, and it's full of pieces that are apparently designed to appeal to people who like music, but prefer it in 45-second clips—you know, when it airs during movie trailers or crucial scenes on Gossip Girl. I was particularly interested in the trade pub's look at people who compose music for movie trailers. More »

1:30 PM on Fri Aug 22 2008
By Kate Richardson
294 views, 2 comments

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Re-Entering "The Forbidden Zone"

Recently, a friend invited me over to watch a movie I'd heard a little about but had never seen: The Forbidden Zone (1980), a movie starring HervĂ© Villechaize and made by the Elfman family. Richard directed and wrote, Marie-Pascale plays Susan B. "Frenchy" Hercules (that's what IMDB says), and Danny portrays Satan and provides music with his group, then known as the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. As an early Danny Elfman soundtrack, the movie would be fascinating enough, but The Forbidden Zone is an eerie attempt to recreate an especially outrĂ© Max Fleischer cartoon, albeit one featuring an actress whose entire performance is done wearing only big white grandma underwear. It is one of the most consistently omg-wtf-lol things you will ever see in your life. After the jump, some YouTubed evidence (which, as the above description should let on, is not necessarily safe for work): More »

11:10 AM on Thu Jul 26 2007
By mmatos
637 views, 13 comments

Latest by BAUMFATHER: The thing that struck me about The Forbidden Zone, is its parallels, stylistically, to The Blues Brothers. It goes a good bit beyond the inclusion of "Minnie the Moocher." There are two sunglassed men in the school room scene who more »

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"Transformers" Singer Has Still Got The Touch

Remember Stan Bush, the man responsible for The Transformers: The Movie's ra-ra anthem "The Touch"? An update just landed in our inbox: More »

4:59 PM on Thu Jun 28 2007
By Brian Raftery
1,658 views, 2 comments

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Stuck On Repeat: A Different Kind Of White Zombie Song

Over the weekend, one of your Idolators finally saw 28 Weeks Later—a.k.a. Begbie Goes Bananas—which was much better than we could have possibly ever imagined, and which featured a appropriately brooding post-rock score from John Murphy. Alas, a proper soundtrack has yet to be released, so we had to reach back to the 2003 original for this main title theme, which might be the best zombie-movie song since the mall Muzak in the original Dawn Of The Dead: More »

2:15 PM on Mon Jun 11 2007
By Brian Raftery
1,155 views, 4 comments

Latest by StopKillingMe: Kudos for posting this incredible song. I actually went and downloaded this particular track from iTunes the day after I saw "28 Weeks Later." I didn't really mind that they recycled it so much throughout the film, just because every more »

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Speaking Of "Transformers": Have You Got "The Touch"?

When was the moment you realized that you were a true nerd? We don't mean "nerd" in that semi-endearing Ben Gibbard kind of way—we mean in that lame, "I have very strong opinions about V: The Final Battle, and by the way, Dagobah is a system" sort of way. Could it possibly have been that moment in Boogie Nights when Mark Wahlberg and John C. Reilly are recording a terrible, terrible '80s-rock anthem in the studio, and you stood up and went, "What the? That's Stan Bush's 'The Touch,' which originally appeared in 1986's The Transformers: The Movie!"? Because that might have happened with one of your Idolators. Maybe. Probably. And speaking of Mr. Bush, he's clearly busy writing his own Wiki entry, which explains this sad little closing sentence: More »

4:55 PM on Thu Jun 7 2007
By Brian Raftery
2,563 views, 15 comments

Latest by Trackback: Eat Sleep Drink Music hosts an Album Cover Quiz (with prizes!); Lost in the ’80s relives some full-length terror, Dale Bozzio style, then looks back at Chris & Cosey; AM, Then FM asks: Do you know your Pops?, then shows more »

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The Soundtrack Of Our Lives: Dipping Into "The Fountain"

Over the weekend, one of your Idolators happened to catch The Fountain, Darren Aronofsky's 2006 film about...well, we're not exactly sure. Time-travel? Man's futile quest to achieve immortality? The future of bathrobes? One thing we know for certain is that the soundtrack—composed by former Pop Will Eat Itself member Clint Mansell, and featuring Mogwai and the Kronos Quartet—is the sort of orchestral space-rock for which many an apple bong was carved: More »

3:35 PM on Tue May 22 2007
By Brian Raftery
1,132 views, 12 comments

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The Fred Durst Movie Might Not Be As Awful As We Feared/Hoped

Can you believe it's been almost ten years since we all started making fun of Fred Durst? He was the gimp that kept on giving: There was the late-'80s demo tape, the sex tape, and, most offensive of all, the video for "Behind Blue Eyes." So when we heard he was making a movie, we immediately laughed it off, thinking that it would be yet another entry in Durst's embarrassing CV. But now, less than a week after The Education Of Charlie Banks premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, we have to ask: Could this movie actually not be terrible, after all? More »

3:35 PM on Tue May 8 2007
By Brian Raftery
1,295 views, 4 comments

Latest by Wasp vs Stryper: Lets face it. This movie could be worse. It could have been directed by freak-n-geek Wes Borland. more »

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Listening Station: Drew Barrymore Is Cold As Ice

A few months after crooning alongside Hugh Grant in Music & Lyrics, Drew Barrymore now has a single of her own: "Cold Hard Truth," a just-released song from the long-delayed soundtrack to Lucky You (easily the Chinese Democracy of Curtis Hanson gambling dramas). Barrymore plays a struggling singer in the movie, and her performance here isn't too bad; you can hear a little bit of Aimee Mann, and a whole lot of vocal coaching: More »

2:40 PM on Thu Apr 26 2007
By Brian Raftery
8,725 views, 14 comments

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Stuck On Repeat: Making 'Peace With "Hot Fuzz"

One of the many pleasures of Hot Fuzz—and there are many, though the movie doesn't have quite as many smartly executed comic call-backs as Shaun Of The Dead—is in the inclusion of "Slipper Rock 70s," the great glam-pop instrumental from long-running British outfit Stavely Makepeace (more info on the band here). We first encountered the band on the seminal Velvet Tinmine comp from a few years ago, and we're guessing the Fuzz cameo will fatten the group's royalty checks even more: More »

11:10 AM on Mon Apr 23 2007
By Brian Raftery
349 views, Comment

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The Most Dangerous Shell Game Of All: Are The "Ninja Turtles" Soundtracks Cursed?

Sure, everyone's talking about the "cool" new record releases this week—your Modest Mouses, your Ted Leos, etc. But there's one album that everyone's forgetting about, and it may prove to be the most important of the year: The soundtrack for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. And why does this under-the-radar release deserve more attention? Because if the history has taught us just one thing—and it probably has—it's that every rapper, singer, and breakdancer associated with the Turtles franchise is forever doomed.
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2:00 PM on Wed Mar 21 2007
By Brian Raftery
2,853 views, 10 comments

Latest by deusdiabolus: Just imagine how terrified you'd be if Arcade Fire or My Chemical Romance were on the new soundtrack. Calm down...take deep breaths. I said if. more »

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Bono, The Edge Throw Some D's

At a screening during yesterday's ShoWest convention—it's the movie-industry's yearly hypefest, with more trumped-up awards than the AMAs—audience members got to see a few minutes of U2 3D, the 90-minute concert film that was shot last year in South America. Its producers claim that the movie is the first to be shot and exhibited entirely in 3-D, and they promise that Adam Clayton's never-changing smirk will be in your lap the whole time. But U2 3D poses a problem for die-hard audiophiles: More »

11:34 AM on Fri Mar 16 2007
By Brian Raftery
190 views, 1 comment

Latest by iDrew: Rock and Roll movies need more bass? Ohhhh. All this time, I was just rooting for more cowbell. more »

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"Children Of Men" Soundtrack Spawns Numerous MP3-Post Possibilities

Yesterday, we featured a King Crimson track from the fantastic Children Of Men soundtrack, and because the movie clearly has a lot of fans—and because today has so few news items—we're going to follow it up with John Lennon's "Bring On The Lucie (Freda Peeple)," which is featured when [redacted] goes [redacted], a moment that made us [redacted] More »

2:23 PM on Wed Jan 24 2007
By Brian Raftery
1,750 views, 10 comments

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The Oscar Music Nominees: Some Sexy, Sexy Penguins Are Going To Be Disappointed This Morning

That's right: Prince's little purple telephone didn't ring this morning, as his Golden Globe-winning song from Happy Feet wasn't nominated for an Oscar. More »

9:18 AM on Tue Jan 23 2007
By Brian Raftery
226 views, 6 comments

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"Children Of Men" Proves That Prog-Rock Will Outlive Us All

We wouldn't be so cruel as to give away any of the surprises in Children Of Men—we'll leave that to the dickards at New York magazine, who revealed one of the movie's plot twists without warning a few issues ago.* But we do want to highlight the movie's excellent soundtrack, including that one great moment where [character redacted] is seen [verb redcated] while in the [location redacted], all set to King Crimson's "The Court Of The Crimson King": More »

8:45 AM on Tue Jan 23 2007
By Brian Raftery
637 views, 11 comments

Latest by Deadly Tango: Slightly off-topic -- I've always though "Court of the Crimson King" was about 11 minutes long, but I only have it on vinyl. Is the CD mastered to break up the sub-parts into separate tracks? I kinda miss more »

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Videodrone: Let "The Apple" Set Your Soul On Fire

The above glimpse of hell is from the Z-movie The Apple, a 1980 flick that's part musical, part vision of the future, part morality tale, and all crazy; it centers around a songwriting couple who, after winning the 1994 edition of a Eurovision-like contest, get sucked into a record deal more devilish than anything Steve Albini ever dreamed up. The Apple was reissued on DVD last year, and if you haven't seen it, we'd recommend you do so—from the suspiciously airport-esque "future" exteriors to the stickers everyone's wearing on their faces, this movie is a riot all the way through. Not to mention that the song below, which comes from The Apple's out-of-print soundtrack, is accompanied by a cheap-glitter visual that makes us wonder if the film's masterminds inadvertently invented electroclash. More »

3:03 PM on Wed Dec 27 2006
By mjohnston
185 views, 9 comments

Latest by jambajim: i can't believe nobody has mentioned the extended seduction/sex scene which features the disco song "coming." lyrics below. "i'm coming, coming for you. now i'm coming, coming for you. let me tempt you and tease you and hold you and squeeze you and feel every inch more »

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Let's All Just Pray That Diane Warren Doesn't Want To Remake "Last Nite"

As with just about everything Michael Bay touches—The Island, Bad Boys II, Michael Bay—we have big doubts about the Transformers movie. But the trailer's fleeting wardrobe reference to the Strokes gives us hope that at least the movie won't end with Aerosmith singing some drippy closing-credits anthem called "I Was Colder Than A Robot (But Now My Engine Runs Hot With Love)." More »

3:30 PM on Wed Dec 20 2006
By Brian Raftery
410 views, 1 comment

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Idolator Presents: The Worst James Bond Themes Of All Time!

When Chris Cornell released his sink-like-a-stone theme song for the new James Bond movie this week, it proved what we've been saying for years: Duran Duran, we never know how good we had it with you. Ever since the early '80s, the 007 franchise has been trotting out one unmemorable opening-credits number after another, prompting us to compile this YouTube-assisted list of the most egregious offenders. It will leave you shaken, stirred, and pining for the glory days of Shirley Bassey. More »

12:02 PM on Fri Nov 3 2006
By Brian Raftery
2,759 views, 45 comments

Latest by jcar: After reading the existing comments, I have to say your readers have about as much taste as a garlic and shit sandwich, they would'nt their ass from a hole in the ground, probably think submarines come equipped with screen doors. Rather more »