Up Yours, 2006!

Well the year is coming to a close. A little under 6 hours left until a whole new year gets underway. If I have any luck I won't be watching any of the celebration crap this year because television really fails to capture the magic of a very large well-lit ball slowly descending down a pole while people shout numbers at it. And the little celebration shows are just brutally awful. It's like a several hour long Super Bowl Half Time show. And like the Half Time Show, it just gets dumber every year. I swear to God I heard Regis call 50 Cent "Fiddy" last year. I'm sorry but a geriatric man talking like some dumb, poorly educated kid is where I draw the line.

Anyway, while I’ve discovered countless great music sharing sites and even started my own and have some very cool people stopping by to visit the site, on a personal level 2006 has been an all around shitty year for me. Just terrible. If 2006 was a man I would kick him in the nuts. Someone I truly cared about went away early in the year (she didn’t die or anything, we still talk even, she just left) and the bad things just piled on top of that, one after the other. But I don’t want to be one of those “bitch about my personal business to strangers on my site” type of guys so I’ll just say this whole year has been terrible for me. Again, apart from the site and the whole “community” we have going on with all these sites, that part has been great. I really hope 2007 is a little better. Please? Okay, that’s all the complaining I’ll do, I hope everyone who reads this has a great 2007 as well.

So to break it down;

Pros:
Lots of great music sharing sites sprang up.
Starting my own music sharing site and making a lot (not like a million “a lot”, but definitely more than a dozen) of people happy by sharing albums they’ve had trouble finding. It truly makes me feel good when I get a comment from someone who is genuinely excited about something I’ve posted.

Cons:
Everything Else. Arrested Development is officially cancelled, leading to the brilliant and hilarious Will Arnett being forced to star in Let's Go To Prison. Gwen Stefani is still alive. The Redskins still suck, like a lot. Flash The Cat died (my friend's cat, not a famous cat), poor little bugger. I could go on for days. You go to hell 2006, you go to hell and you die.

The list of the Famous Deceased was pretty sizable this year, I thought I would list off a few celebrities who passed on this year:

Aaron Spelling, Al Lewis, Chris Penn, Darren McGavin, Don Knotts, Gerald Ford, Gordon Parks, Jack Palance, Jack Warden, James Brown, Joe Barbera, Kirby Puckett, Mickey Hargitay, Paul Gleason, Peter Boyle, Red Buttons, Robert Altman, Robert McFerrin Sr, Steve Irwin, Syd Barrett, just to name a dozen or two. It would take me quite some time to list everyone, I assure you they will all be missed even if I didn’t include them in the list.

So, with that said, I hope everyone has a lot of fun in whatever their New Years venture happens to be tonight. Be happy and be safe.

Frank LaLoggia + David Spear - Fear No Evil

This should mark my last music share of the year. This is the score from the 1981 film Fear No Evil by Frank LaLoggia and David Spear. Fear No Evil was kind of a missed opportunity. In the film Stefan Arngrim is Andrew. Andrew as it turns out is Lucifer personified. For some reason he chose the body of some nerdy highschool kid for his visit to Earth. So, basically we have a Teenage Mephistopheles set lose in a highschool. Mayhem, homoerotic showering and eventually zombies, ensue.

LaLoggia's heart was in the right place with this one, but the film misses the mark in the long run. I think the film might've done better if they had gone with the working title, "Wussy Lucifer". I don't know, when I think of Lucifer and Hell, I think "Ultimate Evil and Unholy Darkness", you know, horned red guys torturing virgins, drinking the blood of virgins, and other evil activities involving virgins like depicted in all the 80's Metal album cover imagery that caused such a stir back then. When I see this guy I think "Man, if there were ever a guy who deserved a wedgie...."

This movie does feature a "death by ball" scene that predates the one in Deadly Friend by several years. Although this film uses a dodgeball and not a basketball. I think a dodgeball makes more sense though, I'm sure dozens of children over the years have met their fate at the business end of a dodgeball. Worst game, ever? Quite possibly. Speaking of that scene, how into it was that Gym teacher during the dodgeball game? "Get them!!! GET THEM!!! KILL HIM!!!!" I mean, I take dodgeball as seriously as the next guy, but come on, that was just ridiculous. Also, I dare you not to chuckle when our Lucifer exclaims "I am the life source! I shall be, like, the most high!". What? Like, the most high? Bill S. Preston Esquire as the profane incarnation of Lucifer. As goofy as the movie can get at times the music is actually rather well done, so while I can't really recommend the film I do recommend giving the music a shot.

1. EPILOGUE (06:00)
2. MAIN TITLE (02:14)
3. THE CHRISTENING (00:42)
4. EIGHTEEN YEARS (00:55)
5. BICYCLE/DAMON'S DEATH (03:13)
6. MIKHAIL'S PRAYER (00:47)
7. THE ISLAND (01:06)
8. MIKHAIL'S LAMENT (00:57)
9. BATTLE BALL/THE FUNERAL (02:36)
10. GABRIELLE'S VISION (02:05)
11. FOLLOW ME/IS HE THERE? (03:46)
12. RAISE THE DEAD (01:25)
13. PASSION PLAY (01:43)
14. TO THE BOAT (01:06)
15. KNOCKERS (01:10)
16. FINALE (07:06)

http://lix.in/4b1ad0

If anyone has the soundtrack with The Ramones, Talking Heads, etc., please let me know, I'd love to have that one as well.

Selections from Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout

This is another one of those completely retarded things that's very existence completely amazes me. The self-dubbed "scariest exercise video ever made", Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout. Although if we're choosing the scariest exercise video ever made I'd like to throw this little number out there as one I think just might take the cake for that title.

So I was bored and thought it'd be fun to rip the music from a few of the little routines, or whatever the hell you call workout numbers. I've been going back and forth on whether to post this or not. The copy I have was a DVD+R copy given to me by a friend. It was ripped from a VHS, which is surely the only incarnation of this thing we'll ever see, so the sound quality on these few tracks is not great. I tried to touch up the audio, I did some noise reduction, but I'm not an expert or anything, so it's not great. But it's not totally terrible. The music itself is cheesy as hell, kinda like Nintendo-ish music from 1988, but like Nintendo music that you can dance to or something. In fact the final track reminds me of the music from T&C Surf Design. The first track is actually very cool, but sadly Linnea is in the shower for the whole scene so you can hear water running the whole track. I mean, "Yay!" for the naked part, but the music suffers from it. I don't know, I just thought it would be kinda funny to post this. If at least one person gets a kick out of this, then I've done my job.

John Vulich is credited as the man responsible for the music. This is his only attempt at scoring, although he's done a lot of make-up work for films like Day of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead 1990, and Being John Malkovich. He most recently did effects work on Christopher Nolan's The Prestige.

The workout video is only an hour-long, 1/4 of which is just clips from Linnea's movies, then there are scenes between each routine so the "soundtrack" here is only about 25 minutes long.

1. Warning : The Most Gratuitous Shower Scene Since Sorority House Massacre II
2. The Killer Interupts Linnea's Warmup
3. Zombie Joggers Stalk Linnea
4. Final Workout Prior To The Slaughter

Download

As I mentioned yesterday I tried putting my compilation up as a Rate Your Music entry. Well, it looks like it was a success because here is the entry. I don't know if it will stay up there, but if you downloaded that one add it to your list and amaze your friends and let them know "I was there!" And speaking of people "who were here", one of my readers was kind enough to send me the link to an interview she conducted with Linnea. This is Kristy Langford on Linnea Quigley. Thanks Kristy! Linnea Quigley Interview

Jürgen Knieper - Tuvalu

Guess what? Even more random awesomeness from my main man over at Covered's Place. That's right, "main man". I tried for like 4 years to repopularize "jive turkey" as an expression but it just never really caught on outside of my ex-girlfriend who I actually caught using the phrase once or twice. I've given up on "jive turkey", but I'm fascinated by completely ridiculous and stupid slang expressions from decades ago, so "main man" is my new one. I figure if I, and the 20-30 people who actually read this total nonsense I write can refer to someone as their "main man" once a day for about 2 1/2 years, we should be good. It'll be a popular phrase once again.

I can get sidetracked, can't I? Covered's Place has the music from the German, more or less silent film Tuvalu. Check out the movie if you can, it's oddly beautiful, or grotesquely lovely, or fill in your own oxymoronic, yet positive decription. The link: http://lix.in/28dd5d

For anyone who uses RateYourMusic to track their music collections, thanks to me Graham Collins' music from Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter now has a listing. I'm going to try and submit my Morgue compilation as an "Unauthorized/Bootleg" version. If that actually gets accepted I'll let you all know, so anyone who downloaded that can add it as well.

Joe Hisaishi - When The Last Sword Is Drawn

Covered's Place has Joe Hisaishi's music from Mibu gishi den (When The Last Sword Is Drawn), so get over there and grab this one. I command you! No, but really it's Joe Hisaishi, sometimes referred to as Joe "Freakin'" Hisaishi, so you can't really go wrong.

http://lix.in/b2095b

This post feels really short, so how about some random banter? This will have nothing to do with anything, so feel free to skip ahead to the next post. This week I took up a job helping my friend's Dad paint his house. Let me tell you, painting is the suck. My back hurts, my hands are sore and I'm pretty sure I've got paint on the back of my hair but it's at just the right angle for it to be very hard to be certain. I've known my friend, let's call him David, I've known David since I was like 9 or 10, so a good 15-16 years, so I pretty much couldn't say no. He knew I had no paint experience, he's paying me, I'm getting a little home gym thing and probably a lot of old Vault of Horror-style comics, so what the hell. Ouch, though. A lot harder than I thought. So, in short, if someone asks you to help them paint their house, leave town. But, if I come across any good music to share hidden away over there, you guys will see it here.

One more thing, if you guys are using IE to look at the site, you're probably wondering what the gigantic text is about. My normal text looks tiny on Opera and Firefox and the like, so I had to use the second largest font size for my posts to make it look right on those browsers. Sadly with IE my site now looks like it contains the text from one of those Large Font books for really old women with really bad vision. Kinda ugly really. I just wanted to clear that up in case anyone missed my couple days of site tampering.

Kryst the Conqueror - Deliver Us From Evil

This is a pretty obscure, never officially released album I recently found. A band formed by Jerry Only and Doyle of The Misfits after their 83 break up. Here's the biography from the Kryst Fan Page, hope it's okay to quote it:

"In the aftermath of the Misfits break up in 1983, Jerry Only, then known as Mo The Great, and his brother Doyle formed Kryst The Conqueror in 1987. The band never had a lead singer and never toured. They hired Jeff Scott Soto (then of Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force) to do the vocals for their album. After Dr. Chud joined the band, Jerry and Doyle reformed The Misfits in 1995."

The album was never finished being produced so the sound quality isn't too great. But it's an interesting item for any Misfits fans to at least check out, or I guess anyone who likes Jeff Scott Soto's voice should check it out too. There's a petition on the fan site above to have this album produced and officially released, but judging by the interview with Jerry Only included with the songs, he doesn't really seem too worried about releasing it. I have found some reviews of the EP, but I have the whole LP here, no idea how hard this is to come across, but hopefully someone needs it still.

1. Kryst the Conqueror2. Thunder Thruster3. Wherever I Roam4. Valhalla5. Soldiers of Light6. Spellbound7. In God We Trust8. Night Raiders9. The Highlander10. In My Dreams11. March of the Mega-Mites12. Trial of the Soul13. Dr. Phibes Rises Again

http://lix.in/cca264

I've got a little request post going on here, I don't know how to make it stay at the top like I've seen on other sites. There's only a few posts on there, but if you've got anything you're looking for post a comment there and hopefully we can get the thing started up.

James Horner - Cocoon (Expanded)

This is James Horner's music from Ron Howard's Cocoon, starring Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley and Steve Guttenberg. I believe Cocoon was one of my first movies I ever watched that wasn't a cartoon, being that I was about 5 when it came out on video. That marked the first and last time I've ever seen Cocoon, so I can't remember anything at all about it. I'm still convinced Jack Lemmon was in it, even though I know for a fact he wasn't, that's how little I remember the movie. Maybe this is just me, but I've always wondered why, during the height of Steve Guttenberg's popularity way back in like 1987, Burger King or Wendy's, or whatever didn't make a hamburger called the "Guttenberger". I realize that joke is dumb as hell, so dumb in fact I'm straining to keep my pinky off the delete key right now, but I have seen alot of really bad pun-inspired products in my time, I can't believe noone ever did it for him, he was pretty popular back then. Don't worry Steve, if I ever own a restaurant the Guttenberger will be on the menu. And it will be delicious.

This is the expanded bootleg version of the soundtrack with 23 tracks. File is 127MB, so it's too big for Rapid or Filesend, so I had to go with Megaupload.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P7O0S9VJ

Goblin - Profondo Rosso

Okay, I'm more or less done with the new template. I highly recommend using Opera or Firefox when viewing the site for maximum viewing pleasure. IE seems to put a weird line down the middle of the page and puts my profile and links at the very bottom of the page. The page will still be viewable, but until I figure out the weird glitch it'll just look kinda ugly.

Anyway to celebrate the new layout and Jesus' Birthday simultaneously here is Goblin's music from Dario Argento's 1975 film Profondo Rosso or Deep Red as many will refer to it as. The film also went by the title Deep Red Hatchet Murders in a heavily edited American VHS release. Weird how the edited version has a much more trashy and violent sounding title. This is considered by many to be one of Argento's finest films and cannot argue with that. I think the people who designed that little silly-ass doll in the ridiculous Saw films should watch this to see how a creepy puppet/doll is supposed to look.

1. Mad Puppet's Laughs (Opening Intro) (Bonus Track) (00:16)
2. Profondo rosso (Album Version) (03:45)
Music composed and performed by Goblin
3. School At Night (Lullaby - Music Box Version) (02:48)
Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini
4. Death Dies (Album Version) (04:38)
Music composed and performed by Goblin
5. School At Night (00:52)
Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini
6. School At Night (Lullaby - Child Version) (02:15)
Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini
7. Mad Puppet (06:30)
Music composed and performed by Goblin and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini
8. School At Night (02:30)
Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini
9. School At Night (Lullaby - Instrumental Version) (02:15)
Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini
10. Death Dies (Film Version - Part 1) (02:40)
Music composed and performed by Goblin
11. Profondo rosso (01:00)
Music composed and performed by Goblin
12. Gianna (Alternate Version) (02:11)
Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini
13. Profondo rosso (00:38)
Music composed and performed by Goblin
14. School At Night (Lullaby - Celesta Version) (02:30)
Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini
15. Death Dies (Film Version - Part 2) (02:45)
Music composed and performed by Goblin
16. Profondo rosso (00:35)
Music composed and performed by Goblin
17. Wild Session (05:04)
Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini
18. Profondo rosso (00:48)
Music composed and performed by Goblin
19. Deep Shadows (Film Version - Part 1) (01:57)
Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini
20. Deep Shadows (Film Version - Part 2) (01:51)
Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini
21. Deep Shadows (Film Version - Part 3) (00:35)
Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini
22. Death Dies (Film Version - Part 3) (02:23)
Music composed and performed by Goblin
23. Gianna (Album Version) (01:47)
Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini
24. School At Night (Lullaby - Echo Version) (02:27)
Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini
25. Deep Shadows (Album Version) (05:45)
Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini
26. School At Night (Album Version) (02:05)
Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini
27. Profondo rosso (Remix Version) (Bonus Track) (05:10)
Music composed and performed by Goblin
28. Profondo rosso (Original Sound Effect) (Bonus Track) (03:58)
Music composed and performed by Goblin

Two links to choose from:
Rapidshare
Flesh Ripped clean to the Bone... And the Blood runs Red...

It's just malfeasance for malfeasance's sake....

Okay, things are moving along fairly smoothly on this process. However, I need a little help, I asked this last time I started messing with things, so sorry to ask again. I've checked the site using Opera and Firefox and the new layout looks perfect. However, pesky IE has all of my links and my profile way the hell at the bottom of the page and there is a large random white box all the way down the side of the post area. So I'd appreciate it if someone could let me know if they are seeing any kinda problems like that, because I am about to lose my freakin' mind. I cannot get the damn thing to work right. If someone out there knows a bit more HTML than I do could maybe give me a hint at what section that would even be a part of for me to try and fix it, that would be more awesome than anything that was ever awesome. I know, everyone will be on New Blogger soon so this is probably dumb, but I just don't want to do it yet. Plus I think it might change my site's link or something, then I gotta make everyone linking to me do work, and that's no fun.

So, I've changed the appearance and as you'll notice when you go to leave a comment I had to put up the "Security" function on the comments. You know, the little random wavy green or red letters you enter into a box when you leave a comment. I've always wondered how that reallys helps keep things secure, but we'll see. The reason being that in the first 10 minutes of fixing the site up I received 2 advertisment comments. It's getting ridiculous and I fart in the general direction of people who leave these comments. If I could I would personally have Vincent Gallo put a hex on each of their colons. So, like I mentioned a couple weeks back when I was considering the security function, I hope this doesn't stop people from leaving legitimate comments, because I rather enjoy the comment part of the site. Sorry to have to put that up, I'll try and lose it later, hopefully the comment attackers will go away.

Oh yeah, and Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, all that stuff. I hope everyone has a wicked good time whatever particular holiday they happen to celebrate. Here's a rejected banner I made for the Morgue. Made by me and ultimately rejected by me, but here it is anyway.

Manchester Morgue is under construction

Okay, nothing really to report here, I just got kinda bored looking at my old template, but I'm not quite ready to switch to the "New" Blogger yet. So the site is going to look messed up for a day or two, and be missing my "Morgue Approved" links, but it should be fixed very soon. Don't worry, everything on my posts should still be accesible.

Twisted Sister - Oh Come All Ye Faithful

To celebrate the holiday I thought I'd share one the all time greatest holiday songs being completely desecrated by Twisted Sister. Featuring what appears to be Bobcat's brother Fredcat Goldthwait on drums. I'd like to thank Mike Nelson for that joke I shamelessly stole from him.
Thanks Mike!

My question, how come the girl in the video keeps her shirt on the whole time? What the hell? That's the rule, a video for this kind of music, women are there to lose their clothes at some point and nothing else, I know the 80's
Sister wouldn't have stood for this crap. I'm totally kidding by the way, in case anyone takes offense to that. One more question, did this
video need to be like 7 minutes long?

Kenji Kawai - Avalon

I had a request for some more Kenji Kawai on the Dark Water post. I didn't have either of the two that were mentioned by name, but I did have this one, so here is Kawai's music from Mamoru Oshii's Avalon.

1. City 13 (05:03)
2. Log Off (02:31)
3. Voyage To Avalon (04:03)
4. Murphy's Ghost (02:43)
5. Bishop (00:39)
6. Nine Sisters (03:51)
7. Ruins C66 (02:59)
8. Gray Lady (Ash) (04:47)
9. Flak Tower 22 (01:26)
10. Ruins D99 (03:09)
11. The Ghost Hunting (03:18)
12. Voyage To Avalon (Orchestra Version) (10:15)
13. Tir Na Mban (02:25)
14. Log In (06:22)

http://hideurl.net/?r=7gd


I'll probably post before Christmas, probably on Christmas even, but in case I don't, I hope all of you have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday and all that good stuff. Of course I hope everyone who visits the site is having a good and happy day everyday (except those advertising comment bastards, of course) so I don't really know why the holidays would be any different. But it'd be kinda weird if I didn't at least mention Christmas one time before the actual day, wouldn't it?

Joseph LoDuca - Brotherhood of the Wolf

Here's another from my collaboration with Covereds Place, this is Joseph LoDuca's music from Le Pacte des loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf), the french Action Horror Martial Arts Creaure Run Amok in the 18th Century Epic film from Christopher Gans. Starring Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassell, and Monica Bellucci's cleavage. Oh, and also starring Marc Decascos, who is currently on Iron Chef America for no apparent reason. Very cool film. It does bite of a bit more than it can chew (wow, I could outpun the Cryptkeeper with that one) by mixing just too damn many different movies into one. However, it's still a movie that's very entertaining and well made and comes with the Phelpster's Seal of Approval. Although, keep in mind, Return of the Killer Tomatoes also comes with the same Seal of Approval, so I still don't know if that's a good thing.

01 - The Grey Wolf/Gevaudan 02 - Mani And The Gypsies 03 - The Hunt/Abbey Ruins/Pagan Image 04 - Lady Of Winter 05 - Le Tessier/Sylvia/The Sorceror/Succubus 06 - Beauterne Arrives 07 - Deduction/Desecration 08 - The Shepherdess/Back to Gevaudan/The Beastmaster 09 - Hunting The Beast 10 - Mani's Last Stand/Ignoble Death 11 - Dances With Knives 12 - The Den Of The Beast/Mani's Prayer 13 - The Death Of Fronsae 14 - Poison Milk 15 - Naming Names 16 - The Fantom 17 - Savage Duel 18 - Justice For Sardis 19 - Cleansing 20 - Epilogue 21 - Once

Here's the link to the post over at Covered's Place:
http://hideurl.net/?r=7f7

The Morgue Wants You.....to try and help me out with some requests.

Thought I'd try my luck and see if anyone happens to have a few things I'm looking for. Well, things I'm looking for, and things I've had requests for that I couldn't fulfill. If anyone has any of these let me know. If you upload it yourself I can make a post with it, or just send me in the direction of a site you find it on, if you do. Whatever works for you. Also, if you're here to make a request you can check on my links, my Rate Your Music list is there, so you can see if I have it first. So, here's the list, which as of this update is alphabetized.

Action Jackson
American Flyers
An American Werewolf In London, music by Elmer Bernstein - Got it!
Bare Knuckles
Brainscan - Got it!
Buio Omega (Beyond the Darkness)
Cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero: Dracula in Brianza, Il
La vergine di Norimberga by Riz Ortolani
C.H.U.D. or C.H.U.D. 2: Bud the CHUD
Children of Dune - Brian Tyler
Dead Presidents
Doctor Faustus by Mario Nascimbene
Doppia Faccia by Nora Orlandi
Dracula A.D. 1972 by Michael Vickers
Dracula Père Et Fils (1977) by Vladimir Cosma
Dune Miniseries - Graeme Revell
Elmer Bernstein - Stripes
Elmer Bernstein - Spies Like Us
The Eye (Pang Brothers)
Femme Fatale
Grand Canyon by James Newton Howard
Goblin - Contamination
Mama Dracula by Roy Budd
Major League
Miami Vice
Murder By Death
One Missed Call
Phenomena (Creepers) - I have the score, but Bill is looking for the one with Iron Maiden and Motorhead.
Polar Express
Private Eyes
Profeta, Il by Armando Trovajoli -
Profumo di donna by Armando Trovajoli
Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever
Roller Boogie
Slaughterhouse Rock - if a bootleg edition exists out there somewhere
Slugger's Wife
Spring Break - Got it!
Tender Mercies
Tokyo Decadence by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Twins
Twins of Evil by Harry Robertson

I'm adding to the list as I get comments, so if you're looking for something leave a comment. I'll try and help you find it. Or maybe someone else will be kind enough to share it.

Head over to Cineville where Curtis Mayfield meets Gladys Knight & The Pips for Claudine

Jörg, one of the readers of The Morgue contributed this Curtis Mayfield/Gladys Knight & The Pips soundtrack to the film Claudine. He also contributed it to the consistently awesome Cineville and they beat me to to the punch by posting it already. But since Jörg was kind enough to contribute it here as well, I wanted to at least mention it and point you in the right direction. So head on over to Cineville if you're interested in this one, they've got both Rapidshare and Megaupload links for your downloading pleasure. Plus there are many other very cool things to check out, a lot of Nino Rota and some Jerry Goldsmith among other things.

Kenji Kawai - Honogurai mizu no soko kara (Dark Water)

And one more over at Covered's Place, the music from the film Honogurai mizu no soko kara (Dark Water). This is from the Japanese original. It was of course later remade starring the lovely and talented Jennifer Connelly and the always cool Tim Roth. Despite having several awesome people (in addition to the two I mentioned above John C. Reilly is also in the remake) the remake was nothing to get excited over. Well, maybe the Jennifer Connelly part, you could probably get excited over that.

01 - From the Abyss
02 - Omen
03 - Small Human Figure
04 - Ideal
05 - In the Flowing Waters
06 - Crossroad
07 - Yellow Dream
08 - Ruins
09 - Yelling
10 - Call from the Water
11 - Prisoner
12 - Narcotic
13 - Blue Sky

New link supplied by the highly talented ColinR can be found here. And if you have trouble with that one a backup link can be found over on 52 Zombies & 1 Bullet. Thanks for helping me out guys!

He was Dracula's Soul Brother!

Another brought to you by Covered's Place in association with The Manchester Morgue, Gene Page's fantastic music from what is probably the best of the horror themed Blaxploitation films, Blacula. It's a well known fact that Blacula's bite was outta sight. Also, as it turns out, Dracula was a bit of a racist prick. Who knew? All kidding aside when you hear about Blacula before you have a chance to see it, it sounds like it'll be an absolute hoot, but it's actually a rather serious and pretty well made film, even fairly frightening at times. Unlike, say, Blackenstein. I'm still a little upset they never made "Black Creature From the Black Lagoon" before Blaxploitation Horror died out. If I ever get off my ass a do something with my life I just might give it a shot myself.

01 - Blacula (The Stalkwalk)
02 - Heavy Changes
03 - Run, Tina, Run!
04 - There He Is Again
05 - Movin'
06 - Main Chance
07 - Good To The Last Drop
08 - Blacula Strikes!
09 - What The Word Knows
10 - I'm Gonna Catch You
11 - The Call
12 - Firebombs
13 - Finding Love, Losing Love
14 - Wakeeli (Swahili Farewell)

http://hideurl.net/?r=7d2

George A. Romero's Day of the Dead vs. Vanilla Ice is 'Cool As Ice'

Okay, this is kind of a collaboration I have going with the newly founded Covered's Place. These few were soundtracks I had requested for him to put up and he said it was cool to just use his links to them, so I'll put them up here unless he changes his mind on that. Be sure to swing by and check out the site, plenty more stuff to check out, I'm just putting the stuff I requested up. There's usually a few new things added a day.

This is the music from my personal favorite of Romero's Dead Trilogy. Well, I guess it's a "Quadrilogy" at this point, isn't it? Still my favorite.

I don't know, I just really like the film. The effects are just outstanding, Dr. Tongue immediately comes to mind, and Joe Pilato is a great bad guy. I think it's an all around great film, though I understand why Dawn would be the more popular of the trilogy. Random trivia, the actor who played everyone's favorite zombie, Bub actually appeared as Elaine's "Fat Starving Artist" on the Junior Mint episode of Seinfeld. Let's go watch them slice this fat bastard up.

1. The Dead Suite (19:39)
2. Breakdown (03:50)
3. Escape Invasion (03:56)
4. The Dead Walk (04:51)
5. If Tomorrow Comes (03:37)
6. The World Inside Your Eyes (02:29)
BONUS MUSIC AND EFFECTS TRACKS:
7. Deadly Beginnings (07:25)
8. Diner of the Living Dead (01:39)
9. Dead Calm (01:53)
10. Bub's 9th (00:36)
11. Dead End (21:39)
The Dead have waited. The day has come:
Fuck You Sir!


I'm saving the best for last here, Vanilla Ice's feature film debut, the current holder of the #23 spot on the IMDB's Bottom 100, a reliable source if there ever was one, Cool As Ice. Directed by the man who brought us Inspector Gadget and a shitload of Playboy videos. My question, how in the hell is Sinbad not in this movie? Also, didn't they rip off that motorcycle/horse scene from Top Gun? While I'm on roll with the questions, didn't Adaptation also rip that off for the "technology vs. horse" bit? What happened to Ice's "metal" image he created for himself years after the kibosh was put on his rap career? So many questions, so little actual concern regarding the answers.

01 - Cool as Ice
02 - Gonna Catch You
03 - You've Got to Look Up
04 - Luve 2 Love U
05 - People's Choice
06 - Never Wanna Be Without You
07 - Forever
08 - Faith
09 - Drop That Zero
10 - Get Wit' It

When a girl has a heart of stone, there's only one way to melt it. Just add Ice:
http://hideurl.net/?r=7d0

Thanks again to Covered's Place for letting me post these, be sure to click the link above and give his site a visit, like I said, a lot of great stuff you will want to check out.

Norman Orenstein - American Psycho 2

This is Norman Orenstein's music from the uh, film American Psycho 2. One of the greatest all-time "cash-in with nothing at all to do with the original" sequels. Okay, the movie is more or less a complete shit-pickle, so by "greatest", I mean worst offender. The movie stars Mila Kunis and William "The Shat" Shatner, and was directed by Morgan Freeman! Okay, Morgan J. Freeman, not the actor. It's a shame though, the other Morgan would've been far more interesting. In the film Mila Kunis is Rachel. When Rachel was 9 years old her babysitter took her with her on a date with Patrick Bateman. Who brings the kid they're babysitting on a date? Seems like "Don't take her with you on a date" would be like number 2 in the "Things Not to do While Babysitting" Handbook, right behind "Don't let the kid die". Anyway, Patrick kills the babysitter and while he's not paying attention Rachel in turn, kills him. This prologue scene is like 34 seconds long and was totally tacked on after the film was finished to sell a few more copies.

As a sequel to the great American Psycho, it's completely shameful. However, by itself it's a fairly entertaining lite-slasher film. Mila Kunis gives a pretty fun performance and she's damn cute in a tiny little chick kinda way. Plus you also get The Shat hamming it up, both with his acting performance and with his physical appearance. Yep, I just made a fat joke at a 75-year old man's expense. I've just bought myself a ticket straight to hell.

The music is very fun actually. It's got a light-hearted feel that really reminds me a lot of Beetlejuice at times. Not on the same quality level, but it just sounds kinda similar on some of the tracks. I'm not familiar with Norman Orenstein's work, in fact his listing on Rate Your Music didn't even exist until I added it, but this one is pretty entertaining.

1. All American Girl (02:10)2. Rachael & Starkman (01:31)3. Get Gerty (00:43)4. Press Release (01:22)5. Killing Brian (01:54)6. Dr. Daniels 1 (02:02)7. Dr. Daniels 2 (01:48)8. Faster Women (02:53)composed by Norman Orenstein 9. Cassandra & Rachael (00:45)10. Rachael & Dr. Daniels (02:32)11. Stalking Keith (01:08)12. Starkman Investigates (03:25)13. Flashback (04:21)14. Security Guard (00:44)15. That Really Intense Girl (01:03)16. Daniels Phone (00:37)17. In The Bedroom (00:45)18. Rachael & Daniels Encounter (01:21)19. Stark Jazz (02:25)20. Daniels Investigates (01:33)21. Police Investigate (08:00)22. Quantico (00:21)23. Elizabeth McGuire (01:56)24. That´s The Story (00:58)25. Stuck With You (03:34)performed and written by Kelly Slattry

Ribbed, for her pleasure.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Episode 610: The Violent Years

Okay, as promised, here is MST3K Episode 610: The Violent Years. A film written by Ed Wood and directed by the guy who edited Tarantula, so you know you're in good hands. The Violent Years is a film about some rich girl who is spoiled with money and gifts from her parents when all she wants is some affection from them. So her and her gang go around robbing and eventually killing people. Makes sense. Oddly the gang in the movie didn't seem to have a name. That's the best part of starting up a gang. I bet a good 80% of all gangs were started just because someone thought of a really good gang name that they didn't want to see go to waste.

I apologize for this not being up until now, I had it ready to post at about 3 this afternoon, which is the very time my internet inexplicably stopped working. Amazingly, shaking my fist violently in anger at the computer and calling it names like "Dickweed" failed to help the situation. 5 hours later it finally sprung back into action. It started working again as inexplicably as it stopped hours earlier.

So I had a chance to watch this one during the internet downtime. It is, in fact, a great episode. There is a short before the film, some weird ass sitcom-like electricity advertisement called Young Man's Fancy (which sounds like the name of some kind of spanking fetish magazine from the 40s). This short was absolutely hilarious, one of the all-time best in my opinion. Several lines made me have to stop the episode because I was laughing so hard. We then move on to the 1956 film The Violent Years, or "Penthouse Forum: The Movie" as it's referenced as at the start of some weird sweater theft/4 women on 1 man reverse rape scene. Hard to explain, but Mike, Tom and Crow are just on the whole time during this odd scene making it one of the funniest of the episode. The host segments were great too, minus one with Tom in a wig screaming for 3 minutes. Tom Servo's theme song he makes himself is funny as hell and Mike and Crow do a brilliant reenactment of the robbery scene from the movie. So, great short, great movie choice, and great host segments. I highly recommend this one.

As I said before, if you try TMPGEnc or Nerovision Express you can make a decent DVD out of the file. Not great quality, but very watchable. I don't have a cover for this episode, if anyone has a decent quality poster image or a DVD cover they can scan with art from The Violent Years I would appreciate it and I could make one. I just can't find any art of decent enough quality to use.

Three parts, you need all three to view the episode:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HVI7G6RV
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8M4PYZLM
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KO9PRJYO

On a side note does anyone recommend or having anything negative to say about switching from "Old" Blogger to the Beta version? I was okay with sticking with the old version out of fear that switching would mess up the site somehow. But I saw Beta has some "Drag and Drop" editing feature that sounds like it might be cool. It's a bitch for me to fix stuff like the small dot in my banner, and the actual banner itself. Any comments on that would be appreciated.

Next time on....Manchester Morgue

Just wanted to make a quick post to mention that because it's been a while since the last MST3K episode tomorrow's post will be the next installment. The episode I'm putting up was second in the poll I put up last time, Episode 610 - The Violent Years. A film written by Edward D. Wood Jr. According to The MST3K Review this one is among the best episodes of the series. I still haven't even had a chance to watch it, but I'm making a DVD of it tonight and I look forward to checking it out. So check back for that tomorrow.

James Newton Howard - Primal Fear

James Newton Howard's music from the film Primal Fear. Not to be confused with the power metal band of the same name. Not that anyone would confuse the two, just Primal Fear is kinda awesome and I felt they could use some recognition there. Primal Fear starred Richard Gere, Edward Norton (in his first role) and far more importantly, The Stepfather himself, Terry O' Quinn.

1. Introitus: Cibavit Eos (from the Mass for Four Voices) (03:36)
composed by William Byrd, performed by: the Christ Church Cathedral Choir
2. Martin Meets Aaron (01:17)
3. Molly's Intervieuw (01:02)
4. The Murder Scene (02:40)
5. Courtroom Montage (02:15)
6. Chasing Alex (02:38)
7. Got An Asparin? (01:07)
8. Cançao Do Mar (05:19)
composed by: Frederico de Brito & Ferrer Trindade, performed by Dulce Pontes
9. Aaron On Stand (01:12)
10. Roy Appaers (01:35)
11. Under The Tracks (01:10)
12. Janet Finds Video (01:05)
13. Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go) (04:17)
composed by: Chuck Willis, performed by: Johnny Otis
14. Dinner With Shaughnessy (01:02)
15. Don't Smile (01:21)
16. I'm Arrogant (01:25)
17. Martin Reviews Crime Scene (01:52)
18. Switching Videos (02:18)
19. What Did You Say? (01:54)
20. Roy's Freeze Frame (01:02)
21. Love Hurts (01:33)
22. Lacrimosa (from Requiem) (03:16)
composed by: W.A.Mozart, performed by: Wiener Sängerknaben

Presented at 320 kbps:
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The Wicker Man vs. The Wicker Man - A Retrospective

I felt it was review time. As with all my previous reviews (all both of them) keep in mind I have no real review writing experience so this might not be the most professional review ever. It also might be a bit on the rambling side, like 92% of my posts end up being. I did try and avoid sounding like a random 14-year old girl written IMDB user review. Also despite the title this is pretty much mostly discussing the remake, but I do discuss the original some too.

I just took in a viewing of the Neil LaBute directed remake of The Wicker Man starring Nicolas Cage. Yeah. I watched the uncut version which is slightly more graphic than the one released in theaters. I also loses a tremendously tacky coda that was seemingly trying to setup a sequel. I hadn’t seen the Edward Woodward one in a few years so I just watched that one to refresh my memory.

I could make this very brief.

Wicker Man 1973 - Good. A classic film. Wicker Man 2006 - Uhh, not so good. I could stop there, but that would be a cheap, half-assed review. I think I’d like to use at least 2/3rds of my ass on this assignment I’ve given myself.

The Wicker Man 1973. Apart from the barely tolerable music in the original , it’s a great movie. The music does drag it down a bit for me because, frankly, it gives me a headache. I'm not talking score-wise, I mean the numerous musical numbers. The opening song feels so much like Foldgers’ “Best part of waking up….” jingle it’s not even funny. The film itself is mysterious and creepy. It’s slow moving, but in the good “suck you in” kinda way. The ending, even though I’d heard about it before seeing, was very powerful and you really felt for the character who was just trying to do a good thing. The film also had Christopher Lee and featured an odd scene of the very non-ugly Britt Eckland completely bare assed naked singing and dancing around. At one point even slapping her own ass mid-dance. It’s a tough act to follow. As I found out while watching the remake, it’s a very, very tough act to follow.

The Wicker Man 2006. I hate doing the plot description part, so I’ll be brief. Nicolas Cage is Edward Malus. Edward is an overacting sheriff who goes to a small island called Summersisle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. Ellen Burstyn is Sister Summersisle, who is, I don’t know, like the mayor of the island, or queen, or cult leader, who seems to have some sort of virgin girl posse with her at all times. But they’re usually like 50 feet away from her, like they have a restraining order or something. Not sure what that was all about. Anyway there’s more to the plot than that, but it’d take another paragraph to explain it all, and it just doesn’t really matter. Plus further explaining it would probably include a lot of spoilers. This new version, while it looks like they were trying, is just not suspenseful, creepy or all that interesting. In addition the film is littered with pointless flashbacks to things we already saw in the very film we are watching. I believe it was Thomas Servo who said “You know you’re in trouble when a movie starts showing you parts of itself.” I was more intrigued by the fact that Sister Summersisle shows up at the finale wearing some Braveheart make-up for no apparent reason than the rest of the plot. Would’ve like the back story on that. Maybe they could’ve replaced the 4th and 5th flashback to the opening car crash with someone explaining the William Wallace face paint.


Wicker Man 2006, like most remakes these days, is not an outright terrible film. It’s unnecessarily ridiculous at times, but it’s not awful. Okay, it’s pretty awful, but not completely unwatchable. It all just seems kind of pointless. It just moves along, it ends and you go do something else. You don’t really think about it after it’s over. It isn’t very suspenseful or anything. Kinda boring, really. You find yourself striking up full conversations at random throughout the movie and the person you’re talking to doesn’t seem to mind the interruption. And afterwards you can jump right back into the movie and not have missed anything. It really makes you question the purpose of this particular remake. People who like the original, like the original and think it‘s good the way it is. People who hate the original won’t be interested in seeing another version of it. And people who haven’t seen or heard of the original, most Americans for example, won’t even know what the hell The Wicker Man is, so it’s not like they really even get the built-in name recognition of something like, say, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Whatever happened to just blatantly ripping off a movie and calling it something different? Hell, it seems like much of the entire Italian film industry was based on this idea throughout the 70s and 80s. How many Italian Mad Max ripoffs were there?

While Wicker Man 2006 lacks in suspense or quality it more than makes up for it with several scenes of accidental gut-busting hilarity. Towards the end of the movie it seemingly turns into to one of those Lifetime Original battered women films. Edward just starts beating the hell out of all the women on the island, and screaming “Bitches!” repeatedly at them. Now, I don’t condone violence, especially against women, so that is not what I find hilarious. It’s just so bizarrely handled, the way it all goes down is very funny. After a little disagreement with the Kathy Bates-esque Sister Beech he draws back and punches her in the face. Afterwards Leelee Sobieski’s Sister Honey character ambushes Edward and jumps on his back. He judo chops her, then karate kicks her in the face, sending her flying into a wall like he’s goddamn Chuck Norris fighting off a gang of evil hooligans. What the hell? After my friend and I wiped the tears of laughter from our eyes we went back on the DVD, just to make sure we weren’t hallucinating. Then we went back 2 or 3 more times because it kept getting funnier every time we saw it. One of the most random things I’ve ever seen in my life. Who kicks a non-ninja girl in the face? I’m amazed he didn’t let out a hearty “Hi-ya!” mid-kick. Poor Leelee. First, her parents name her Leelee, then she has to act along side Chris Klein, now Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew kicks her in the freakin’ head.

Now on to Nick. The movie suffers from one of Nick’s “off” performances. Nicolas Cage, I think, is great in his more offbeat roles. For example, H.I. McDunnough in Raising Arizona, Charlie and Donald Kaufman in Adaptation, stuff like that, he’s great. But I find when he does the standard Action or dramatic roles he can be very off at times. There’s an awful scene in this movie where he loses it while holding a burnt doll, and he starts screaming “How Did It Burn! How Did It Burn?” My friend and I were literally on the ground, in a hysterical fit of laughter for several minutes. Not just regular laughter either, this was like power laughter. You know, when you laugh so hard it actually hurts? Where your stomach starts to feel sore from the amount of laughter you’re experiencing and you start to have trouble breathing? We laughed until we choked. It was that funny. It was just such a poor line delivery. There are probably countless outtakes of the actress he’s screaming at struggling not to break into a fit of laughter, similar to what I went through. He seems to really have trouble acting in the presence of a child’s toy. Just look at the whole “bun-ney!!” fiasco in Con-Air. I don’t even want to get started on his performance in Con-Air.

Anyway, back to the Wicker Man. The ending, while not as powerful as in the original, isn’t too poorly handled. It’s appropriately downbeat, although it’s hard to feel for a guy who just got all pissy and beat the hell out of like 6 or 7 different women. My friend who had never seen the original didn’t seem to see it coming so I guess they didn‘t totally botch that part. But still, the bad outweighs the good here. I would suggest those of you who can find humor in bad filmmaking decisions at least blow a free rental coupon on it because there are some genuinely funny scenes to behold if you’re willing to wade through a whole bunch of shit to find them. I’m directing that statement mostly to the MST3K fans who visit the site, because everyone who watches that show will eventually end up poorly riffing what they watch themselves and this is a great one to do so with. I'm not funny at all, but even I had some good zingers. But if you’ve seen neither version, just go out and check out the 1973 version. Or just go outside and do something else. I hear hiking is fun.

I give Neil LaBute's Wicker Man a 5.7 out of 10. The real Wicker Man I would say 8.4 out of 10.

Riz Ortolani - Cannibal Holocaust

Riz Ortolani's music from Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust. The famous image of the woman impaled on a post like some kind of human kebob remains one of the most frightening and disturbing images in all of cinema in my opinion. They did a bang-up job on that effect. It was so realistic Ruggero had to go to court and prove it was not an actual corpse. They apparently just had her sit on a bicycle seat with a piece of wood resting in her mouth. While the humans in the movie made it out with a pulse, the animals killed onscreen were really killed. I know, animals are killed and eaten all the time, and I read that the "cannibals" in the film ate the animals they killed. But still, watching it happen will depress the hell out of you. That poor turtle. I know they kille other animals too, but that one sticks out the most.

It can be hard to watch at times, what with the rape, cannibalism, animal slaughter, and all around gruesome mayhem and negative tone, but dammit all, it's a great film. If you haven't seen it and have the stomach for it I highly recommend giving it a look. Might want to rent it prior to purchasing, you will feel a touch nauseous and depressed afterwards.

1. Cannibal Holocaust (Main Theme) (02:57)
2. Adulteress' Punishment (03:21)
3. Cameramen's Recreation (03:16)
4. Massacre Of The Troupe (03:53)
5. Love With Fun (02:55)
6. Crucified Woman (02:20)
7. Relaxing In The Savana (03:06)
8. Savage Rite (03:41)
9. Drinking Coco (03:23)
10. Cannibal Holocaust (End Titles) (03:54)

Here we are at the edge of the world of human history

The Thing With Two Heads!

Today's music comes from Lee Frost's classic film starring Ray Milland and Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier ( and possibly maybe even slightly inspiring How to Get Ahead in Advertising, at least a little bit, perhaps? ), The Thing With Two Heads! Okay, I know, that exclamation point isn't a part of the title like Airplane! or something, but I can't type that without throwing one at the end. It's really a title that's better yelled than spoken. Try it next time you talk about it. Scares the hell out of people. By the way, I want to apologize for the really weird spacing up there, it's kinda hard to read, but I can't fix it properly.

The Thing With Two Heads! is of course the light hearted romp where some doctors "transplant a white bigot's head on a soul brother's body", as the tagline goes. Hilarity, as you might imagine, ensues. It's a fairly entertaining movie, but it's not the most highly regarded film ever made. Probably not the most highly regarded film made that week, even. It is notable for featuring the first credited work by the most handsome man in make-up effects and 6-time Academy Award winner, Rick Baker.


And now, your tracklist, featuring the incomparable Sammy Davis, Jr.!
1. A Prayer (03:12)
Peformed By Jerry Butler
2. Dip, Dip I Got My Hands Full (03:55)
Performed By Billy Butler & Infinity
3. Bongolia (02:14)
Performed By The Incredible Bongo Band
4. Here I Am Again (03:08)
Performed By Ollie Nightingale
5. Fool's Paradise (02:23)
Performed By The Sylvers
6. May The Best Man Win (03:21)
Performed By Ollie Nightingale
7. I'm Truly Happy (02:45)
Performed By The Sylvers
8. Bongo Rock (02:36)
Performed By The Incredible Bongo Band
9. Take My Hand (04:23)
Performed By Sammy Davis, Jr.
10. Oh Happy Day (02:30)
Performed By The Mike Curb Congregation

Philip, get me another body.

Children of Bodom - Tokyo Warhearts

Gonna mix it up a bit, this is Children of Bodom's live album Tokyo Warhearts - Live in Japan 1999. I got this a few years ago for like $8 at a pawn shop. It came in a very awesome box with some great Kaiju inspired artwork with a kinda K-mart looking Godzilla on the front and I guess, what appears to be Mechagodzilla on the back. Not that you can see the back in the picture, just take my word for it. The set is laid out on my apparently goth couch from some company called Bauhaus. That's right, Bauhaus - the first name in couches. Seriously though, good couch, try one out today.

As far as live albums go I think this is one of the better out there. The songs are all played pretty flawlessly, while still sounding "live" and the sound quality is very good. And you can tell the band was having a good time by the Alexi's several fun-filled moments of unnecessarily shouting out expletives between songs.

1 Intro 1:26
2 Silent Night, Bodom Night 3:23
3 Lake Bodom 4:08
4 Warheart 4:07
5 Bed of Razors 4:35
6 War of Razors 2:11
7 Deadnight Warrior 3:32
8 Hatebreeder 4:30
9 Touch Like Angel of Death 5:53
10 Downfall 4:48
11 Towards Dead End 6:11

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Howard Shore - Crash

This is Howard Shore's music from David Cronenberg's Crash. Not to be confused with the heavy-handed, yet Oscar winning 2004 film of the same name. I thought it'd be nice to have a little consistency on the site for once, so this is my second Howard Shore score in a row, and it's also the second to a film starring Deborah Unger in a row as well. In addition Crash also featured the always cool James Spader and Holly Hunter. Also with some very unfortunately named actress, Alice Poon, in a small role.

1. Crash (03:36)
2. CineTerra (01:04)
3. Mechanism of Occupant Ejection (02:05)
4. Mirror Image (03:24)
5. Where's the Car? (02:39)
6. Sexual Logic (04:07)
7. Road Research Laboratory (02:12)
8. Mansfield Crash (03:37)
9. Chromium Bower (03:38)
10. A Benevolent Psychopathology (02:23)
11. Two Semi-Metallic Human Beings (02:22)
12. Triton (02:45)
13. Accident...Accident... (02:59)
14. A Crushed Convertible (01:55)
15. Prophecy is Dirty and Ragged (05:48)

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Howard Shore - The Game

Howard Shore's score from the David Fincher film The Game. The movie starred Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger (who I think just went by Deborah Unger, no Kara, back then) and featured Baba Yaga herself, Carroll Baker. I've seen the film but I honestly don't remember anything about it. I know I rented it, I know I watched it, and I know I thought it was pretty good, but dammit all I can't really remember anything about it. So sadly you will not hear my usual "witty" comments and/or film analysis. A tragedy. Instead, anyone been on the IMDB lately? It's awful, I'm getting one of those "between page" ads everytime I go to a new page. It used to be once every 10 pages or so, you'd get an ad, and it was fine. Pain in the ass, but not a huge deal. Today, I've gone to about 6 pages, 6 ads. I decide to go on the good old IMDB to look up The Game, to try and think of something to talk about, and it took me over 2 minutes just to go to the site, type The Game, click on the link and then click on External Reviews. IMDB, please, settle down a bit with the ads between pages. That is all. And now, Howard Shore's The Game:

1. Happy Birthday, Nicholas (03:03)
2. Consumer Recreation Services (03:09)
3. Harlequin Clown (04:28)
4. House Of Pain (05:07)
5. Van Orton Mansion (01:59)
6. Congratulations On Choosing C.R.S. (05:56)
7. Room 277 (03:35)
8. Illegal Surveillance (02:59)
9. Reckless Endangerment (06:47)
10. Attempted Murder (05:55)
11. Mausoleum (03:55)
12. Tung Hoy (04:34)
13. Pulling Back The Curtain (04:42)
14. White Rabbit (02:49)
Performed by Jefferson Airplane

I'm a goddam human piñata!

Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills! The people it kills get up and kill!

The other night while watching Ken Foree run around in his skivvies while covered in goo in Stuart Gordon's From Beyond I thought, "Man, I should watch Dawn of the Dead!" But it was like 3 in the morning, and Dawn is like 2 hours long, so sadly I had no time to watch it. However, I think tonight is the night, so wish me luck. Anyway, this post marks my 200th post since I started The Morgue back on August 12th, and while being reminded of Dawn of the Dead I thought Goblin's soundtrack from that very film, one of the greatest of all zombie films (or horror films in general for that matter) would be a good share for my 200th post. It's also the site's 4-month birthday as well. Well actually yesterday was, but I totally forgot, so let's just say it's today. So here you go, hope you guys have been enjoying the site the past 4 months, I look forward to many, many more months of posting, hopefully with all of you still stopping by to visit the site. Now that I'm done making some kinda speech like a won an award or something, here's your music.

1. L’alba Dei Morti Viventi (06:04)
2. Zombi (04:21)
3. Safari (02:10)
4. Torte In Faccia (01:56)
5. Ai Margini Della Follia (01:32)
6. Zaratozom (03:36)
7. La Caccia (03:58)
8. Tirassegno (02:50)
9. Oblio (05:13)
10. Risveglio (01:04)
11. L’alba Dei Morti Viventi (05:19)
12. Ai Margini Della Follia (01:42)
13. Zombi (02:20)
14. Ai Margini Della Follia (03:37)
15. Zombi (03:13)
16. L’alba Dei Morti Viventi (00:45)
17. Zombi (The Living Dead’s Voices !) (02:12)


We got this, man! We got this by the ass!

Actor Peter Boyle Dies at 71

I have no music to post right now (probably later on today though) but I just found out Peter Boyle died last night. I'm very saddened by the news, he was always entertaining no matter what he was doing. In addition to being a great actor he was also one of the all-time great Television Franks (up there with Frank Costanza and TV's Frank from MST3K) and he will be missed. Everyone should honor him today by watching Young Frankenstein or Taxi Driver, or any of the numerous things he appeared in. You could even catch a Raymond repeat on one of the several channels it comes on.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/13/boyle.obit.ap/index.html

Michel Legrand - Une Femme Est Une Femme

Here's the score from Jean-Luc Godard's 1961 sophomore directorial effort Une Femme Est Une Femme. Well second feature length directorial effort, he had done some short films prior.

The tracklist for this one kinda resembles what you'd find on a Regurgitate album or something. It's not a bunch of hilarious and disgustingly titled grindcore songs, obviously, I mean there's a whole bunch of tracks, but some of them are only 30 seconds to a minute long. In fact the whole file is only about 20MB. I'm sure there's probably a better example I could've used, but what the hell, you don't get a chance to mention Godard and grind in the same breath very often.

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Halloween III: Season of the Witch

Here's the soundtrack from Halloween III: Season of the Witch. The non-Michael Myers Halloween film. While it lacks Michael and the very, very talkative Dr. Loomis, it does have Tom "Thrill Me" Atkins, who later starred in one of my absolute favorite movies, Night of the Creeps. I remember there being a ton of hatred for this movie, seemingly only because it tried to do something other than just having Michael ice people, while Loomis talked alot while trying to stop him. But movie fans seem to have started warming up to it recently. 20 years after directing Halloween III, Tommy Lee Wallace went on to direct another film in a series John Carpenter started, the Bon Jovian film Vampires: Los Muertos.

I personally blame the movie's overall lack of success on that godforsaken Silver Shamrock music. Hearing that highpitched "8 more days till Halloween, Halloween, Halloween" jingle is enough to drive someone batshit insane. My finger was on the fast forward button the whole time just in case that song started up. Which it did, many, many times. I swear, if there was just one more day till Halloween in the movie I would've gotten up and run headfirst into the TV, killing the TV, probably myself, and most importantly, stopping that goddamn jingle. Check out track 7 of the soundtrack, you'll feel the same way.

Fortunately, that is a small part of the soundtrack. The rest of the music by Alan Howarth, and JC himself (John Carpenter, not Jesus) is appropriately spooky and eerie, and does not make you want to kill yourself.

1. Main Title (02:55)
2. Chariots of Pumpkins (03:24)
3. Drive to Santa Mira (02:29)
4. Starker and Marge (01:53)
5. First Chase (03:09)
6. Robots at the Factory (02:00)
7. Halloween Montage (01:38)
Last track of side 1 of LP. Announcer: Tommy Lee Wallace
8. Hello Grandma (04:53)
9. The Rock (03:25)
10. Challis Escapes (03:30)
11. South Corridor (02:58)
12. Goodbye Ellie (04:09)

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Jang Young-gyu - A Bittersweet Life (Dalkomhan insaeng)

Here is the soundtrack from the film A Bittersweet Life (Dalkomhan insaeng). The film was directed by Ji-woon Kim who also directed the underrated The Quiet Family and A Tale of Two Sisters (soundtrack for that one is available here). Bittersweet is often compared to Oldboy, or it's at least usually mentioned in the same breath as Oldboy, which is a film I honestly did not care for. Blasphemy, I know. To this day I am the only person I know of who didn't like Oldboy. Seriously, check out the reviews on the Movie Review Query Engine, it's like 95% 3/4 or higher. Popular film.

Now, that I've thrown all my credibility out the window with my anti-Oldboy sentiments we can move onto the music for A Bittersweet Life. It's a very classy score, you could probably throw it on during a dinner party or something if you were so inclined. Although track 10 gets kinda action-packed towards the end, so be careful. Don't quote me on this tracklist here, I'm not 100% on it. The titles were in Korean so I had to hunt the tracklist down off of some random site. If anyone catches any mistakes, let me know.

01 Dialogue #1
02 My Sad Night
03 Irreversible Time
04 Dialogue #2
05 Romance (Composed By Yuhki Kuramoto)
06 Red Lounge
07 Long Journey
08 Red Ice-rink
09 A Bittersweet Life II
10 A Bittersweet Life
11 Escape
12 Fearness
13 Dark Room
14 Follow
15 Etude In E Minor (Composed By Francisco Tarrega)
16 Dialogue #3
17 Sky Lounge
18 Irrevisible Time (Quartet)
19 A Bittersweet Life III
20 A Honeyed Question

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Massive Attack - Danny the Dog (Unleashed)

This is Massive Attack's music from the film about "the asskicker with a heart of gold" Danny the Dog, or Unleashed as it was called here in the states. I finally got around to watching this, like a year and a half after it came out. I actually quite liked it (although remind me not to hire those jewelry guys to do a hit on anyone) so here's the music. Also included is the music from the end credits, so that's a little bonus.

1. Opening Title (01:10)
Massive Attack
2. Atta Boy (01:29)
Massive Attack
3. P Is For Piano (01:57)
Massive Attack
4. Simple Rules (01:20)
Massive Attack
5. Polaroid Girl (02:59)
Massive Attack
6. Sam (03:08)
Massive Attack
7. One Thought At A Time (04:23)
Massive Attack
8. Confused Images (01:59)
Massive Attack
9. Red Light Means Go (02:04)
Massive Attack
10. Collar Stays On (01:51)
Massive Attack
11. You've Never Had A Dream (02:46)
Massive Attack
12. Right Way To Hold A Spoon (03:19)
Massive Attack
13. Everybody's Got A Family (01:29)
Massive Attack
14. Two Rocks And A Cup Of Water (02:32)
Massive Attack
15. Sweet Is Good (01:33)
Massive Attack
16. Montage (01:54)
Massive Attack
17. Everything About You Is New (02:25)
Massive Attack
18. The Dog Obeys (02:20)
Massive Attack
19. Danny The Dog (05:53)
Massive Attack
20. I Am Home (04:14)
Massive Attack
21. The Academy (01:45)
Massive Attack

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Pop Will Eat Itself - Dos Dedos Mis Amigos

This is the final album of the band Pop Will Eat Itself. Not a soundtrack, obviously, but it is kinda soundtrack related as Clint Mansell did the vocals for PWEI. Clint Mansell is probably more well known for his work composing the music to the Darren Aronofsky film Requiem for a Dream, and more recently (and again for Aronofsky) The Fountain, which you can see in theaters right now. So you know, check that out if you can.

I first heard of the band when the video for Ich Bin Ein Auslander appeared on a Beavis and Butthead episode years ago. I've posted that video right below this one, so if you don't know the band you can hear them before you download the album.

1 Ich Bin Ein Auslander 3:59
2 Kick to Kill 3:24
3 Familius Horribilus 4:03
4 Underbelly 3:58
5 Fatman 3:17
6 Home 3:36
7 Cape Connection 4:59
8 Me No Fear the Reaper 6:27
9 Everything's Cool 4:17
10 R.S.V.P. 3:32
11 Babylon 5:03

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Pop Will Eat Itself - Ich Bin Ein Auslander

I thought I'd post this in addition to the album, this is the video I mentioned from the Beavis and Butthead episode. I wasn't able to find the actual clip from the show so I can't remember if they enjoyed it or gave it a "this sucks, change it."

Dennis Coffey and Luchi De Jesús - Black Belt Jones

Here is the soundtrack from the 1974 action film Black Belt Jones, starring Jim Kelly, former owner of one of the all-time greatest afros. The film was directed by Robert Clouse who one year earlier directed Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee, John Saxon (!) and Mr. Black Belt Jones himself, Jim Kelly. For some unholy reason there is not a legitimate DVD release of the film. What the hell is that about? And where the hell is a DVD release for the 1974 blaxploitation zombie classic Sugar Hill while I'm on the subject?

If you think the music to a film called Black Belt Jones would be completely funktacular, then you'd be correct.

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Body by Jake - Yes, there was a soundtrack.

Okay, this is probably the dumbest thing I've posted here to date. This one might even beat out Freddy's Greatest Hits. This is the soundtrack from Body by Jake, the 80's workout show featuring Jake Steinfeld, Chairman of Body By Jake Enterprises and one-time PCP ingesting movie maniac.

This is a collection of tacky pop/rock music that I guess a 100-pound, 40-year old woman clad in leopard print spandex, brandishing 5-lb plastic weights in either hand would've worked out to in 1988. My personal favorite is track 7, "Hard as a Rock", which has some hilarious accidentally porngraphic sounding lyrics. Enjoy?

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Alejandro Amenábar - Abre Los Ojos

This is Alejandro Amenábar's score to his own film, Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes). A film that was later remade as Vanilla Sky, starring a pre-deranged Tom Cruise. I still haven't seen Abre Los Ojos for some reason, it's one of those movies that I always mean to see but something else beats it out when it comes time to watch something. Usually something starring zombies or vampires, or some other form of undead evil-doers. But I still intend on seeing it. But lucky for you I do have the score, so here you go. The cover art I used is from a 2-disc soundtrack/score release. I only have the score, not the other disc with the songs by Sneaker Pimps, Massive Attack, and the like, sorry about that. If I locate the soundtrack I will post that as well.

1. Abre los ojos (02:28)
2. Sofía (01:12)
3. Soñar es una mierda (01:04)
4. La operación (01:33)
5. ¿Dónde está Sofía? (00:54)
6. El parque (03:08)
7. Hipnosis (02:20)
8. Quítate la careta (02:56)
9. Eres mi mejor amigo (02:41)
10. La única explicación (02:05)
11. Quiero verte (06:38)
12. Esa sonrisa (00:53)
13. Deja vu (01:51)
14. Excarcelación (04:28)
15. La vida (01:46)
16. La azotea (05:21)
17. Créditos finales (03:31)

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Thanks to a loyal reader of The Morgue (whose name I will glady give credit to if he wants) I bring you the soundtrack from the 1980 film Caddyshack. The soundtrack has several songs from Kenny Loggins, who kinda looks like 70's Jesus on that little circle he's hiding out in on the upper left hand corner there.

Back during my grim, terror-filled Blockbuster employment days I rented this from my store. According to the Blockbuster case Caddyshack featured "Bill Murray,Chevy Chase, and Johnny Dangerfield". Silly bastards, can't even list the right names on their coverboxes. Even more hilarious, the case from our copy of Roots started with the line "Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.....", then proceeds to list the synopsis from Terminator 3. Oops!

Thanks again to the reader who supplied the link to the soundtrack. Here you go:

1. I'm Alright (03:45)
2. Lead The Way (04:32)
3. Make The Move (03:45)
4. Mr. Night (03:21)
5. Any Way You Want It (03:09)
6. There She Goes (02:41)
7. Divine Intervention (01:46)
8. Marina (03:21)
9. Something On Your Mind (02:42)
10. The Big Bang (02:03)

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Just One of the Guys

Someone requested this one recently and I just got it, so here it is. This is the soundtrack from the highly entertaining 1985 film Just One of the Guys. This one had a great cast. Joyce Hyser was good as Terry the girl, but just wonderful as Terry in guy form. Very fun watching her try to adapt to acting like she has testicles. Also two people from one of my favorite horror films, April Fools Day show up, Clayton Rohner as Rick Morehouse, and Deborah Goodman as Deborah. The movie also starred the highly attractive Sherilyn Fenn, Leigh McCloskey of Hamburger: The Motion Picture "fame", and William Zabka, who had the "80's bullying asshole" character down right from the start of his career.

I've always wondered how Terry was able hide a certain part of her body so well. When she flashes Rick Morehouse at the end of the film it turns out that Terry is, uh, quite....bossomy, for lack of a better word. Seems like that would've shown a little more in her guy get-up. Okay, I didn't wonder too hard, I'm sure she just wore a sports bra. And she's in a bikini early in the movie so you know what's going on there already. But still, you get so used to her being a boy when that part comes up and Bam!! It's a little startling. And being 7 or so when I first saw this, it was the coolest thing in the history of the world for that 2 seconds while it lasted. So here you go, enjoy. I'm off to watch the movie now, talking about it has me wanting to see it again.

1. Just One of the Guys
Performed by Shalamar
2. Girls Got Something Boys Ain't Got
Performed by Midnight Star
3. Tonight You're Mine
Performed by Ronnie Spector
4. Prove It To You
Performed by Dwight Twilley
5. Jealous
Performed by Berlin
6. Way Down
Performed by Billy Burnette
7. Burning
Performed by Brock/Davis
8. Thrills
Performed by Greg French
9. Hard Way
Performed by Brock/Davis
10. Guy Talk
Performed by Tom Scott

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