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Filmscape

Jul 10, 2022 1:00 AM – 3:00 AM

With Esoterica

Filmscape #5!

Playing music inspired by films, used in films, and we may talk about music docs, too!

Filmscape
1:00 AM
Georges Delerue - The Return to the Church Theme
Georges Delerue The Return to the Church Theme Georges Delerue
Le Roi de Coeur 1966
1:04 AM
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1:05 AM
John Carpenter - Halloween Theme
John Carpenter Halloween Theme John Carpenter
Halloween (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Sacred Bones Records 2019
1:08 AM
Melvin Van Peebles - Sweetback's Theme
Melvin Van Peebles Sweetback's Theme Melvin Van Peebles
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (An Opera) [The Original Cast Soundtrack Album] Stax 2017
From 1971. My uncle is an uncredited biker in this film! Also worked production for Sweet Sweetback. The film's music was performed by the then-unknown group Earth, Wind & Fire, who were living in a single apartment with hardly any food at the time. Van Peebles' secretary was dating one of the bandmembers, and convinced him to contact them about performing the music for the film.
1:15 AM
Melvin Van Peebles - Love, That's America
Melvin Van Peebles Love, That's America Melvin Van Peebles
Watermelon Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Beverly Hills Records 1970
Watermelon Man is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Melvin Van Peebles and starring Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin, Kay Kimberley, Mantan Moreland, and Erin Moran.
1:21 AM
Gary Myrick & The Figures - She Talks In Stereo
Gary Myrick & The Figures She Talks In Stereo Gary Myrick & The Figures
Gary Myrick and the Figures (With Bonus Tracks) Legacy Recordings 2009
Featured in Valley Girl (1983)!
1:25 AM
Sparks - Eaten by the Monster of Love
Sparks Eaten by the Monster of Love Sparks
Angst In My Pants Lil' Beethoven 2008
Featured in Valley Girl (1983). Released 29 March 1982. Eleventh album by Sparks.
1:35 AM
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1:36 AM
Magnet - Willow's Song
Magnet Willow's Song Magnet
The Wicker Man (The Original Soundtrack Album) Silva Screen America 1973
1:38 AM
Showbread - Welcome to Plainfield Tobe Hooper
Showbread Welcome to Plainfield Tobe Hooper Showbread
No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical Tooth & Nail (TNN) 2004
1:43 AM
Colin Stetson - Sunflowers
Colin Stetson Sunflowers N
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) Milan 2022
New Netflix release.
1:44 AM
Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
Sex Pistols Pretty Vacant Sex Pistols
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols Rhino/Warner Records 1977
From Julien Temple's 2000 The Filth and the Fury.
1:51 AM
Dataman - Mondo Weirdo
Dataman Mondo Weirdo Dataman
Deleterious Methods - EP Preset Recordings 2021
1:51 AM
John Waters - Bored to Death
John Waters Bored to Death John Waters
Make Trouble Third Man Records 2017
1:52 AM
T.S.O.L. - Wash Away
T.S.O.L. Wash Away T.S.O.L.
Beneath the Shadows Nitro Records (Concord) 2001
Featured in Surburbia!
1:57 AM
Germs - No God
Germs No God
Yes L.A. EP Frontier 2015
2:04 AM
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2:05 AM
Irene Cara - Fame
Irene Cara Fame
Fame (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) 1980
2:09 AM
David Bowie - Magic Dance
David Bowie Magic Dance David Bowie
Labyrinth (From the Original Soundtrack of the Jim Henson Film) EMI Gold 2016
In this 1986 film directed by Jim Henson, Sixteen-year-old Sarah is given thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue her baby brother Toby when her wish for him to be taken away is granted by the Goblin King Jareth.
2:13 AM
Modern English - I Melt with You
Modern English I Melt with You Modern English
After the Snow Blixa Sounds 1982
Featured in Valley Girl (1983). Also there is a film called I Melt With You.
2:16 AM
Mambo All-Stars - Accidental Mambo
Mambo All-Stars Accidental Mambo Mambo All-Stars
The Mambo Kings - EP Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 2021
Assembled here is a selection of mambos, rumbas, boleros and cha cha chas performed by stellar artists of the Latin scene including Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Benny Moré, Johnny Pacheco and Arturo Sandoval mixed with well-known performers with roots in the form like Linda Ronstadt and Los Lobos. From the 1992 film The Mambo Kings, based on The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos.
2:20 AM
Buena Vista Social Club - El Cuarto de Tula
Buena Vista Social Club El Cuarto de Tula Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club World Circuit 1997
Buena Vista Social Club is a 1999 documentary film directed by Wim Wenders about the music of Cuba. It is named for a danzón that became the title piece of the album Buena Vista Social Club. The film is an international co-production of Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Cuba. Ry Cooder worked with Wim Wenders to get the musicians together.
2:25 AM
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2:30 AM
Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan
Buena Vista Social Club Chan Chan Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club World Circuit 1997
2:37 AM
Silvana Mangano - El Negro Zumbon (Original Soundtrack from "Anna")
Silvana Mangano El Negro Zumbon (Original Soundtrack from "Anna") Silvana Mangano
El Negro Zumbon (Original Soundtrack from "Anna") - Single JB Production CH 2012
2:38 AM
The Rutles - Ouch!
The Rutles Ouch! The Rutles
The Rutles Rhino/Warner Records 1978
Featured in Rutles film, mockumentary evoking The Beatles, All You Need Is Cash, starring Eric Idle.
2:39 AM
Cat Stevens - Trouble
Cat Stevens Trouble Cat Stevens
Mona Bone Jakon (2020 Remaster) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2020
Featured in Hal Ashby's 1971 film, Harold and Maude.
2:42 AM
Jimmy Cliff - I Can See Clearly Now
Jimmy Cliff I Can See Clearly Now Jimmy Cliff
We All Are One: The Best of Jimmy Cliff Columbia/Legacy 1969
Featured in Cool Runnings.
2:47 AM
The Plimsouls - Zero Hour (Live)
The Plimsouls Zero Hour (Live) The Plimsouls
Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal (October 31, 1981 Whisky A Go Go) Alive Naturalsound 2010
Song featured in Valley Girl. Going out to Jon!
2:50 AM
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2:52 AM
Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
Marilyn Monroe Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
Diamonds Revolver Records 2019
Featured in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 American musical comedy film based on the 1949 stage musical of the same name. It was directed by Howard Hawks.
2:55 AM
Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds & Donald O'Connor - Singin' in the Rain (From "Singin' in the Rain")
Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds & Donald O'Connor Singin' in the Rain (From "Singin' in the Rain") Gene Kelly
Musical Moments to Remember: Gene Kelly – This Man Got Rhythm (Remastered 2015) Jube Legends 2016
Released April 11, 1952. Directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly.