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Soundtracks for things that don't exist yet..

18:10 / 30.08.02

So I’ve kind of been forming/developing this idea for a movie(as if!) / comic / story (medium yet to be finalised) – a Teen-Horror thing. Basically, because I love Teen movies and love Horror movies, but find Teen-Horror movies, almost without exception, to be fucking awful. Hence mine, which is going to be a good one!
It’s going to be completely immature and mildly psychotic and is going to have loads of Lovecraftian ghastliness, New England fishing villages, teen rebellion, excessive violence, black magick, hallucinogenic drugs, impenetrable woods, crusty old deans, rock n’ roll, general obscenity, looming cliffs with graveyards on them, flick-knives, goo, wisecracks and, well, blah, blah, you get the idea..

Now an essential part of any Teen-Horror movie is a really lame “songs from and inspired by” album featuring a load of generic alterna-goth-rock from no-mark MTV punk bands and fading pop stars.. sooo, (probably to avoid writing the damn thing), I’VE MADE ONE! Except of course, mine’s a REALLY GOOD ONE, perfectly capturing the atmosphere of the whole thing, mixing the sweetest pop with the filthiest, evil noise (often in the same song) to great effect. (Anyone wants a copy, let me know).

Chances are, this story will never actually be finished in any meaningful form, but hey, it’s got a soundtrack!

Anyone else out there ever been rendered sad enough to make soundtracks for things that don’t actually exist? Details please!

18:26 / 30.08.02

Yes, and I going to start my own thread on the subject, you thieving bastard...

I just put together a compilation CD inspired by the cover image for Dave Gibbons' upcoming graphic novel THE ORIGINALS, and its Mod/Swinging London vibe: it's a mix of mid-60s British Invasion tunes, some Mod Revival stuff, a dollop of backwards-looking New Wave and Britpop, early 80s ska/two-tone, early psychedelia, a couple of American ringers, period pop (as opposed to rock'n'roll), and a couple of other things that seemed thematically appropriate.

And I'm incredibly pleased with it--the disparate elements hang together really well, I think, within the framework of the overall conceit. A friend of mine looked over the track listing and said, "So it's sort of Ready Steady Go! in Hell, then." Yeah, pretty much.

I made a FILTH soundtrack last month, too, although the book's still in its early stages yet.

Comics covers are getting more and more like album covers: these images, taken out of context, constitute as good a reason as any to compile a shedload of MP3s and burn a disc or two.

18:28 / 30.08.02

have made tapes strictly for atmosphere while i am writing. it helps with imagery. for the most recent work i've used:
blue oyster cult
add n to x
lou reed
mad capsule markets
company flow.
the story is about rouge journalism and guerrila healthcare...
so far the imagery works real well and seems to flow with the writing.

18:50 / 30.08.02

Riz, of course I want one, but I'm already in your debt....

19:33 / 30.08.02

Here's a soundtrack to the non-existent movie of Fallen (Tezcatlipoca's novel). It's a sombre First World War period piece, in which a group of soldiers are sent to investigate a an uncanny mist that has obscured a two-mile stretch of the lines in which the allied troops were massacred. Tensions rise throughout the search as they encounter rumours that angels have been seen within the mist. Gradually they have to face the growing realisation that nothing in their mission is what it seems, and that the attempted murder of a madman might claim their very souls.

Pyramid Song - Radiohead

Piano and String Quartet - Morton Feldman

Thirteen Angels Standing Guard Around the Edge of My Bed - A Silver Mount Zion

Oraison - Olivier Messiaen

My Father, My King - Mogwai

Wuste - Einsturzende Neubauten

Black Angels - George Crumb (Yeah, I know it's about a different war)

at the scarwash

21:55 / 30.08.02

My roomate is doing incedental music for this Southern Gothic performance art magic realist opera we haven't finished plotting yet. Great stuff, electronic-Spoon influenced-Led Zeppy (somehow) with harmonica and jewharp.

10:37 / 02.09.02

In case anyone's interested, here's the final tracklisting to the soundtrack to KILL SURF CITY:

1.Summer Girl - Jan & Dean
2.Kill Surf City - The Jesus & Mary Chain
3.Be Young, Be Foolish, be Happy - The Tams
4.No Tomorrow Girls - the Black Halos
5.Deep in the Woods - the Birthday Party
6.New England - Jonathan Richman
7.In This Town - the Murder City Devils
8.Protect Me You - Sonic Youth
9.Rebel Girl - Bikini Kill
10.Now They'll Sleep - Belly

11.Nite Train - the Von Bondies
12.Side-Walking - the Jesus & Mary Chain
13.The Closet - Teenage Jesus & the Jerks
14.Drive Thru My Heart - The Donnas
15.Vainly Clutching At Phantom Limbs - Elf Power
16.Ghoulie Family - the Groovie Ghoulies
17.Your Religion is Me - Angelica
18.Why is it always This Way? - the Ramones
19.No grave But the Sea - Murder City Devils
20.Surfin' USA - the Jesus & Mary Chain

and some fine songs which didn't quite make the final cut:

Hand of Doom - Black Sabbath
Here Comes Sickness - Mudhoney
Halloween - Sonic Youth