Classics, new ones, all of your favorites. List them here.
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mine:
CarrieNosferatuValerie and Her Week of WondersBeyond the Valley of the Dolls (it counts!)Blood on Satan's ClawCarnival of SoulsCreepshow
for starters
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Listening to Nosferatu (Popul Vuh) right now and played Carrie (Donaggio) last night!
― mmmm, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wait Until DarkCreepshowPoltergeistThe Case of the Bloody IrisThe Fog
I really really dig all the needle-drop in George Romero movies, too.
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Su-su-suspiria, obviously. Too obvious to even really mention, I guess, but we might as well get it out of the way.
Not necessarily as a standalone soundtrack, but the Radiophonic sound-work on The Stone Tape is magnificent...
― emil.y, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Children of the Corn is classic and has Linda Hamilton singing on one track.House at the Edge of the Dark has a cool Gobliny vibe and is super fun to listen to when you're going for a walk through a sunny residential neighborhood.
I'm trying to list all of the best ones for people who have not yet discovered how wonderful they are, so we need to mention them ALL. Suspiria FOR SURE.
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
speaking of the obvious: halloween
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
texas chainsaw massacre
Shore, both The Brood and The Fly
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
That was definitely the Nosferatu I was referring to.
I've never heard The Brood! Gotta find that.
Rosemary's Baby obvs.
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
last house on dead end street is mostly library music but still v v effectiveshock waves
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Have there been any really great new ones? (Not reissues, but those are cool too)
I LOVE library music. I have a little KPM collection, but it's not significant by any means.
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
the thing
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
the exorcist
Jaye Barnes Luckett, who did the soundtrack for May, did a pretty nice job, I think.
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
xpost
the thing (morricone) the house by the cemetary fearless vampire killers dracula prince of darkness (perhaps the pinnacle of james bernard's orchestral thud and blunder)tenebrae deep red the wicker manpsychodressed to kill
― pat rice memorial barbecue (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh god
How could I have forgotten my favorite of them all?! THE WICKER MAN.
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh jesus christ!
goes w/o saying
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
i thought you were holding it back for a special occasion!
― pat rice memorial barbecue (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was going to hold it back until the good lord wed me, but I got caught up in the moment. Please excuse my indiscretion.
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Candyman (Glass) is pretty good too.
I was pretty disappointed in the music for The Wicker Tree, btw. The songs themselves were...ok, and the scoring was super syrupy and distracting. Could have been hammy, but in a different way.
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Wicker Man is up there with Suspiria for obviousness, but if this is comprehensive, then HELL YES, that soundtrack is so so great.
― emil.y, Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
My brain has completely blanked on non-obvious stuff, to be honest. I might have to skim through the record collection and see what else I've got.
(Oh, not one film specifically, but would recommend the Bollywood Bloodbath comp, which has tracks from Bollywood horrors.)
― emil.y, Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Seconded on the CANDYMAN score. Very creepy, and the movie itself was surprisingly effective.
Some great sound design in the first HELLRAISERS, but the score itself doesn't seem that memorable.
HALLOWEEN should get some ups, too.
― Matt M., Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks for the discussion about this in the poll thread, btw. I don't know why I've never really thought about procuring horror scores before (especially no-brainers like Creepshow, whose music I LOVE). But I guess I have a new thing to get all obsessive about now.
Badalamenti's Lynch scores (particularly Mulholland Dr.) are great, as is Eraserhead.
I know it's totally cheating, but Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age seems very much as if it were intended to sound like a horror score/soundtrack from the '60s/'70s. Very creepy and great and well worth checking out if you dig horror scores. But then I could probably spin off a whole other thread of stuff that fits that "soundalike" bill (Comus, Olivia Tremor Control side projects, Pomme Fritz).
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not horror, but I watched Master of the Flying Guillotine/One Armed Boxer 2 last night and was flipping out about the crazy proto sludge electro soundtrack which sounded amazing yet oddly familiat, and then looked it up on imdb and found out that it is literally Neu! songs slowed down to half or quarter speed.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Whoa that is so cool!
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Spasmo, The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, Four Flies On Grey Velvet, Cat o' Nine Tails (all by Morricone, I'm sure there are more good 'uns)KwaidanPhantasmPsychomaniaBlood On Satan's Claw
― A++++++ would deal with again (Matt #2), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Whoa, JJJ, okay, I have to catch that.
― emil.y, Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is the soundtrack to Psychomania available? The opening credits to that are so GREAT it makes me want to scream.
emil.y tell me if you find it!!
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
it isnt the whole thing, just several spots. its arguably one of the best insano kung fu movies of all time too, so you wouldnt be wasting your time either way. xpost
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Psychomania s/t came out on Trunk records, I guess it's still available
― A++++++ would deal with again (Matt #2), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
i would contribute some modern horror soundtracks i can get behind but my mind is drawing a complete blank
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Eh this thread is here when it comes back.
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
After this horror score discussion started, I realized that the flipside of the Blair Witch 2 (ugh) DVD is a CD of the Carter Burwell score I've never listened to. Will check it out and report back.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
xxxpost The only thing that's even coming to mind is Requiem for a Dream, but I'd be happy to never hear those four notes ever again thx.
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Huh. I like Carter Burwell -- sometimes a little too precious for me, but I like him.
I think this thread needs a little Vuh tbh
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Or if you prefer, Goblin
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Finders Keepers records doing a lot of work on making this stuff available:
http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com/
Not usually much bothered about soundtracks detached from celluloid, but these reissues look fabulous
― Soukesian, Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh yeah, I love Finders Keepers!
Also should mention La La Land Records itt -- they have good sales too!
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
My favorite score is by Carter Burwell (Millers Crossing fyi)
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yay I'm so glad you started this thread LL. I was already working on a post about my top 50 scores from the horror movie poll. It will take me another day or so though.
Yes, there have. From the last few years:
--Conrad Pope, The Presence, 2011. Elegant, sinuous, eerie, with amazing solo writing for bassoon. Tied with Tree Of Life for the best score of 2011 IMO. Pope is John Williams' orchestrator but he has his own voice and color pallete.
--Christopher Gordon, Daybreakers, 2009 (?). Huge, imposing, dark as hell, very original. Gordon has full, natural command of the post-WWII compositional toolbox. He manages here to use the BIG TAIKO DRUMS trope in a non-hackneyed way.
--Marco Beltrami, Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark, 2011. This is basically a deliberate and totally successful throwback to the great 70s horror scores of Goldsmith and the Italians.
--Christian Henson, Black Death, 2010. Period instruments, monastic vocalizing and dark-ambient techniques wickedly deployed to create thee doom score of the past decade. Henson seems really promising to me.
--Danny Elfman, The Wolf Man, 2010. Elfman takes the basic vibe of what Kilar did for Coppola's Dracula and boils it radically down to sheer, teeth-gritted, undiluted mid-tempo gypsy death tread.
--Christopher Young, Exorcism Of Emily Rose and Drag Me To Hell. Young is without doubt the horror score king of the post-Goldsmith/Morricone generation. He must have done at least 20 essential horror scores by now. These two sum up his strengths pretty comprehensively. Emily Rose veers between avant shriek-clouds and pellucid dread and passages of Bartokian head-banging and is incessantly inventive. Drag Me is the ultimate descendant of Young's Hellraiser massive slightly camp satanic liturgy style with really cool use of guttural vocalizations and solo violin.
--Michael Giacchino, Let Me In, 2010. Nothing else in Giacchino's generally upbeat, dynamic discography hints at this sound. Its closest kin is Shore's Silence of the Lambs music. He somehow manages to make over an hour of processional-tempo, relentlessly stygian music be engaging and arresting all the way through.
I also really liked the over-the-top assault of the music for Insidious, though I don't have the album. I'm sure I'm forgetting several things above.
xpost Carter Burwell's Blair Witch music is amazing.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Was just listening to bits of the original Texas Chainsaw score on youtube the other day. That and the followup, Eaten Alive, are some really disturbing clanking and banging; great work from Hooper and Wayne Bell. Eraserhead is very effective sound design as well.
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
i remember liking the Cabin Fever soundtrack quite a bit but never owned it so i cant vouch in full
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
this sounds so good
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Didn't much like the Insidious score.
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh, duh. Not NEW new, but the score for Ravenous is all-time.
The movie Insidious scared me so badly that I don't think I could handle the score. Something about that woman and the house, yikes almighty.
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Monday, 31 December 2012 18:24 (5 months ago) Permalink
Whereas House 2 made its way across the pond as Army Of Darkness 7
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Monday, 31 December 2012 18:25 (5 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, looks like I got them reversed – my memory is based off of some international posters I saw the convention a couple years ago.
"In Italy, The Evil Dead was released under the title La Casa ("The House") and Evil Dead II became La Casa II. These were followed by three unrelated movies: Umberto Lenzi's La Casa 3 (aka Ghosthouse) (1988), Fabrizio Laurenti's La Casa 4 (aka Witchery) (1988) and Claudio Fragasso's La Casa 5 (1990). This is similar to what has happened in George A. Romero's Living Dead series starting with Zombi 2. House II: The Second Story (1987) and The Horror Show (1989) were retitled La Casa 6 and La Casa 7 respectively in their Italian releases."
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Monday, 31 December 2012 18:27 (5 months ago) Permalink
(Horror conventions are populated by some weird people, by the way)
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Monday, 31 December 2012 18:31 (5 months ago) Permalink
That rules. I want to establish an obscure European nation and release my alltime top 20 horror films there retitled to all be in the same series!
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Monday, 31 December 2012 18:32 (5 months ago) Permalink
1) thanks! got your email, will listen ASAP!!2) Crazy things have always happened when Italian genre productions come to the US. TROLL 2 anyone?
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 31 December 2012 19:14 (5 months ago) Permalink
No thanks!
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Monday, 31 December 2012 19:20 (5 months ago) Permalink
Never again. I could sit through the first one one more time probz, for the cuet puppets.
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Monday, 31 December 2012 19:24 (5 months ago) Permalink
and Goldsmith ripoff music
I don't know, I could do Troll 2 again. First one is just kind of boring – and it's not like the second one is a thrill a minute, but the WTF moments are way more entertaining.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Monday, 31 December 2012 19:34 (5 months ago) Permalink
They each have their charms! I like the part in Troll where the dad is air guitaring to Blue Cheer and JL-D as a forest sprite (unless I'm misremembering?). I basically like everything about Troll 2.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 31 December 2012 19:50 (5 months ago) Permalink
god the air guitar scene is AMAZING
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Monday, 31 December 2012 20:35 (5 months ago) Permalink
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 January 2013 04:56 (5 months ago) Permalink
The burning Rick Wakeman.
The Waker-man. Set it alight.
― emil.y, Thursday, 17 January 2013 05:14 (5 months ago) Permalink
B-but what if I click on that and then I like a Rick Wakeman? Can I take that chance?
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:19 (5 months ago) Permalink
http://www.mondotees.com/The-Deadly-Spawn-Original-Soundtrack-LP_p_721.html
Sold out at source but sure to be hitting distros soon.
― Barnaby, Hardly, Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:27 (5 months ago) Permalink
I love the Emanuelle and the cannibals soundtrack, really sketchy sleazy stuff
― straightola, Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:31 (5 months ago) Permalink
Liking a Rick Wakeman is ok when there is a legend of terror involved. Look at the scissors!
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:45 (5 months ago) Permalink
Andy Votel's Hindi Horrorcore mix http://soundcloud.com/manners-1/andy-votel-hindi-horrorcore
― brio, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:29 (5 months ago) Permalink
Y'all need to listen to that Rick Wakeman suite. It gets so good near the end.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:38 (5 months ago) Permalink
OK that was pretty awesome and it only gets very Wakeman-y at the end and not in a bad way. Sounds like it was ripped from vinyl, was this music released commercially?
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 17 January 2013 23:08 (5 months ago) Permalink
it's on spotify!!
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 January 2013 23:14 (5 months ago) Permalink
sounds better on spotify too
WEAR ONE CAPE
― 1.5GB of audio-destroying fluff (los blue jeans), Saturday, 19 January 2013 00:28 (5 months ago) Permalink
just got caught in the crossfire of a teenage snowball fight while listening to the rosemary's baby soundtrackdramatic!
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 18:31 (3 months ago) Permalink
So this is back in print?
http://www.lalalandrecords.com/FuryThe.html
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 18:32 (3 months ago) Permalink
Yeah and apparently with drastically improved sound q, say trustworthy folks.
― multi instru mentat list (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 20:33 (3 months ago) Permalink
LL what track specifically? We need to know.
― multi instru mentat list (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 20:35 (3 months ago) Permalink
>(Horror conventions are populated by some weird nice, friendly and partially drunkpeople, by the way)
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 20:52 (3 months ago) Permalink
THE COVEN!!
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 21:08 (3 months ago) Permalink
and also some of "Moment Musical" because it was a really drawn-out snowball fight. i followed it for 2 blocks and then had to walk through it saying excuse me please excuse me please excuse me please.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 21:17 (3 months ago) Permalink
(on "Richard Band ripped Herrmanns' Psycho")an older Mikael Carlsson fanboyish review of the "flawed but unique" Re-Animator filmscore by Richard Band....being "one of the coolest musical in-jokes ever presented in a film score", plus some funny trivia like how difficult it was to work with the Rome Philharmonic.
oddly enough, as i'm listening right now to the Pit & The Pendulum (1991) score by Band...i have to admit it sounds like some generic carmina burana rip-off.
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 21:21 (3 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, Band is not the man to go to for startling originality. He can be pretty fun sometimes though.
― multi instru mentat list (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 March 2013 17:24 (3 months ago) Permalink
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Friday, 26 April 2013 03:23 (1 month ago) Permalink
WHOA
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 26 April 2013 03:28 (1 month ago) Permalink
yeahnoway
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Friday, 26 April 2013 03:31 (1 month ago) Permalink
!
― brad palsy (Jon Lewis), Friday, 26 April 2013 03:31 (1 month ago) Permalink
lol brad palsy
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Friday, 26 April 2013 03:32 (1 month ago) Permalink
October ___ ?
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 26 April 2013 03:38 (1 month ago) Permalink
weird, phil anselmo's apparently putting this thing together
Films confirmed to be shown throughout the three-day festival include, ‘The Evil Dead’ (plus horror/exploitation reel), ‘The Manson Family,’ ‘Maniac,’ ‘Zombie,’ ‘Cannibal Holocaust,’ ‘Scream Bloody Murder’ and many others. Former Mayhem vocalist Attila Csihar will also present fans with a truly unique experience, as the black metal veteran will perform a live soundtrack while the silent German expressionist classic ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’ is screened for a wide-eyed audience.
For true cult horror fans, Anselmo has yet another masterful treat to offer at the Housecore festival, as ‘Coffin Joe’ director and actor José Mojica Marins will introduce his Brazilian classic films, engage in a Q&A with fans, sign autographs and curate a museum-style exhibit of original artwork and posters never seen outside of Brazil.
Philip H. Anselmo’s Housecore Horror Film Festival will be held at Emo’s in Austin, Texas, from Oct. 25-27. Want to learn even more about the event? Check out the fest’s official website!
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Friday, 26 April 2013 03:43 (1 month ago) Permalink
yeah I know that kinda put me off but w/e
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Friday, 26 April 2013 03:44 (1 month ago) Permalink
omg coffin joe!!
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 26 April 2013 03:44 (1 month ago) Permalink
i'm never going to this event for a variety of reasons but it's ambitious, i'll say that
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 26 April 2013 03:45 (1 month ago) Permalink
i know, crazy!
would love to go, tbh, but it seems unlikely i'd be able to pull it off (consults actuarial tables)
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Friday, 26 April 2013 03:46 (1 month ago) Permalink
I think we are all doing the personal calculus on our odds of attending, if only briefly
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Friday, 26 April 2013 04:07 (1 month ago) Permalink
Remastered, expanded DRESSED TO KILL soundtrack (Pino Donnagio).
http://buysoundtrax.stores.yahoo.net/drtokiorsoby.html
― The Thnig, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 13:59 (1 month ago) Permalink
On a similar note, Kritzerland just encored their Carrie remaster, lopping off the second disc, which was iirc just the crap Ryko disc minus the sound clips?
http://www.kritzerland.com/carrie.htm
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 05:43 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
20% off sale at LaLaLand ends this morning at 11:50 pst. Lots of great horror stuff, of course. I would put in a word for Shirley Walker's Willard.
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 13:12 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
i like what death waltz is doing but tbqf i hate the cover art.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 14 June 2013 19:17 (6 days ago) Permalink
i mean, i don't hate the art itself. i just don't think it works for the albums. i guess it's just not in my visual aesthetics wheelhouse.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 14 June 2013 19:18 (6 days ago) Permalink