Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Thomas Bangalter
Irreversible
(Thrive, 2003)
You've not seen the film? Don't. There's horror enough on the CD.
As the MOJO soundtracks reviewer I'm often asked (well, I have been asked) why I would want to listen to a piece of music once it's been severed from its companion film. Well, there's a bunch of reasons, of course: sometimes a soundtrack is an excuse for a composer or musician to experiment with a new style that works strangely well when removed from its betrothed; sometimes I like the nostalgic Proustian rush brought on by an old piece of film music; sometimes, as in this instance, the soundtrack is as close as I ever want to get to the film itself. Call me a meek Arnold Ridley stay-at-home but I don't want to watch Gaspar Noe's Irreversible, maybe the Wikipedia plot description will help to explain why. Why, even without the benefit of such an 'uncompromising' narrative, the film's soundtrack, by Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter, possesses a lurching dystopian unhealthiness, the swirling electronic sickburp of clubland going wrong, teeth grinding on a cheap cocktail of silver filings and Nazi crank, and three of everything morphing together on the ever-moving mirrored ceiling: a kind of cross between this and this. UK editions added the sobbing, sobering adagio from Mahler's 9th and an excerpt from Beethoven's 7th but the soundtrack works best when you can hear it straight through, from the leaden sci-fi dirge of the title track to the nuclear wind of digital noise that is the end, via the bad-drugs filth rush of Outrage. The chances of getting me out to a club these days - unless it looks like this - are very slim and Bangalter's soundtrack has effectively become the vivid aural maggot that worms in my head every time the ludicrous suggestion arises.
Andrew Male
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 19/03/2009
Further Listening
Daft Punk – Homework (Virgin, 1997)
Various – Dead Man’s Shoes OST (Warp, 2004)
Ennio Morricone – Exorcist II: The Heretic OST (Warner, 2001)
Previous Disc of the day
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Earl Brutus - Larky
Last salvo of Ginsters Pasty-Warholism from Britpop ramraiders.
12:04 PM GMT 08/06/2011
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Loudon Wainwright - T-Shirt
An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
6:00 AM GMT 03/06/2011
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Landscape - From The Tea-rooms Of Mars… To The Hell-holes Of Uranus
Dry computer club Futurists, upon hitting implausible chart paydirt.
6:00 AM GMT 17/05/2011
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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This was an awesome album. Shame you didn't get it though.
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Eh? But I think it's great! What didn't I get?
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