For reasons I really ought to turn into a memoir, I maintain a deeply abiding and psychologically unhealthy passion for music and movies from 1979-80, my 10th year on this mostly blue marble.
Soundtracks On Vinyl
Soundtrack Sunday: Alice in Wonderland
I grew up between the two golden ages of Disney animation, when less-loved creations like ‘The Rescuers’ (’77) and ‘The Fox and the Hound’ (’81) portended a protracted slump from which the studio wouldn’t emerge until ‘The Little Mermaid’ leapt ashore at the end of ’89.
Soundtrack Sunday: The Age of Innocence
My #SoundtrackSunday timing with this one has proven fortuitous. Not long after I discovered Elmer Bernstein’s richly detailed classicist score finally had been pressed as a 2LP gatefold package — which I immediately acquired — I then realized Martin Scorsese’s sumptuous adaptation of Edith Wharton’s tragic romance is streaming until the end of this month on the Criterion Channel. (Gift idea for film friends: a yearlong subscription.)
Soundtrack Sunday: Against All Odds
Took a look at the trailer for this early Taylor Hackford thriller, as well as the oft-aired video for Phil Collins’s Oscar-nominated, Grammy-winning title ballad, to see if that might jar any memories of actually having seen this loose ‘n’ lusty remake of Jacques Tourneur’s film noir masterpiece ‘Out of the Past.’
Soundtrack Sunday: All About Eve
File this one under Soundtracks to Shows I’m Unlikely to Ever See alongside David Byrne’s backdrop for ‘The Catherine Wheel’ and his interludes dubbed ‘The Knee Plays’ and probably any quality productions of Sondheim’s ‘Pacific Overtures’ or ‘Chess,’ the musical composed by Tim Rice and the men of ABBA that gave the world ‘One Night in Bangkok.’
Soundtrack Sunday: Adventure Thru Inner Space
First: yes, I have decided aural replicas of long-demolished Disneyland attractions qualify for installments of #SoundtrackSunday.
Soundtrack Sunday: The Addams Family
Now that I’ve undertaken this #SoundtrackSunday project, do I wish I’d started my A-Z rundown of those we own a month earlier, so that this second installment could have appeared shortly before Halloween? Maybe a little.
Soundtrack Sunday: Absolute Beginners
I’ve long considered contributing cinematic wax to the weekly roundup that is #soundtracksunday, hosted by (who else?) @soundtracksunday.
Soundtrack Sunday: Amadeus
My parents and their peers had the CBS series ‘Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’ with legend Leonard Bernstein teaching them about dead European masters. My band-geek friends and I had ‘Amadeus.’