XHM #345 - "Serialized star signs" (2017 January 09)

CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies

Expanding upon a score that appeared several years ago as part of a composer profile, we've got David Shire's music from 2007's Zodiac. Along with some of the songs from the actual soundtrack, we'll also touch upon the astrological zodiac and then tip our hat to George Michael and Debbie Reynolds. File under "crunchy". 1. The Johnny Mann Singers: The Sound of the City (Zodiac: Songs from the Motion Picture, 1955) Lakeshore 2. The Zodiac: Capricorn - The Uncapricious Climber (Cosmic Sounds, 1967) Elektra 3. Tim Hecker: Careless Whispers (Radio Amor, 2003) Mille Plateaux 4. Astrud Gilberto & George Michael: Desafinado [Off Key] (Red Hot + Rio, 1996) Antilles/Verve 5. Debbie Reynolds & the Universal-International Orchestra: Tammy (Tammy & the Bachelor OST, 1957) Coral 6. Four Tet: January V (LateNightTales: Four Tet, 2004) LateNightTales 7. The Avalanches: A Different Feeling (Since I Left You, 2000) Modular/XL 8. David Bowie: No Plan (Lazarus: Original Cast Recording, 2016) ISO/Columbia/RCA/Sony 9. Tonio Rubio: Bass in Action #1 (Rhythms, 1973) Tele Music 10. Parquet Courts: Berlin Got Blurry (Human Performance, 2016) Rough Trade 11. Woolworm: Very Well (Grown-Ups split 7", 2014) Debt Offensive 12. Pye Corner Audio: Stream Four (Run for the Shadows EP, 2016) Lapsus 13. Dream Whip: Hoosker Du (Dream Whip cassette, 2016) self-released 14. Softess: Minor Meltdown (Absolute Truth cassette, 2016) Thankless/Isolated Now Waves/Nite Prison 15. Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra: What We See (Follow My Lead, Lead Me to Follow, 2012) self-released 16. War Baby: Spin Forever (Death Sweats, 2015) Bummer SEVENTEEN White Lung: Narcoleptic (Paradise, 2016) Domino 18. Blank Banshee: Cyber Zodiac (Blank Banshee 0, 2012) Hologram Bay 19. Bernardino Femminielli: Gluantes Pornographies (Plaisirs Américains, 2016) self-released/Mind/Bethelem XXX TWENTY Vesuvio Solo: Tension (Don't Leave Me in the Dark, 2016) Banko Gotiti/Atelier Ciseaux 21. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross: Background Noise (Gone Girl OST, 2014) Columbia 22. Nine Inch Nails: Branches/Bones (Not the Actual Events EP, 2016) The Null Corporation 23. Mort Garson: I Know You Capricorn (Signs of the Zodiac: Capricorn, 1969) A&M 24. Gordon Staples & the String Thing: Sounds of the Zodiac (Mean Johnny Barrows OST, 1975) Atlas 25. Adrian Younge: Gloria [Zodiac Lovers] (Black Dynamite score, 2009) Wax Poetics/Linear Labs 26. Rasputina: Sign of the Zodiac (How We Quit the Forest, 1998) Columbia 27. Sonic Youth: La Cabane au Zodiac (Simon Werner a Disparu OST, 2011) SYR 28. Three Dog Night: Easy to Be Hard (Suitable for Framing, 1969) ABC/Dunhill 29. Donovan: Hurdy Gurdy Man [single version] (Hurdy Gurdy Man, 1968) Epic 30. John Dankworth: At the Dolls House/Hurdy Gurdy (Modesty Blaise OST, 1966) 20th Century Fox 31. David Shire & The Skywalker Symphony Orchestra: Law & Disorder (Zodiac OST, 2007) Varese Sarabande 32. David Shire & The Skywalker Symphony Orchestra: Trailer Park (Zodiac OST, 2007) Varese Sarabande 33. David Shire & The Skywalker Symphony Orchestra: Graysmith Obsessed (Zodiac OST, 2007) Varese Sarabande 34. David Shire & The Skywalker Symphony Orchestra: Are You Done? (Zodiac OST, 2007) Varese Sarabande 35. David Shire & The Skywalker Symphony Orchestra: Confrontation (Zodiac OST, 2007) Varese Sarabande 36. Louis Armstrong & His Band with Dave Brubeck, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: They Say I Look like God [album version] (The Real Ambassadors, 1962) Columbia Masterworks "Master the scale and you master the score." [e-mail] twitter.com/hundredaire www.citr.ca/exploding-head-movies