Trout Mask Replica, by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band was inducted into the Library of Congress’ national recording registry in 2010 – nearly 40 years after it’s release. The album has been widely cited by artists of all kinds as a shining point of creativity and original thought – it also is very very hard to listen to. It’s the musical equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting. Its discordant rhythms and motifs sound made up on the spot by a child, but every sound and riff you hear on the album was arduously rehearsed over the course of a year by a group of young musicians who were remarkable in their own right.
Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, And Dana Carvey On Their Canceled Show
The Dana Carvey Show aired only seven of its planned 10 episodes. While the program was short-lived and featured controversial material, it has since been considered ahead of its time. The show is also recognized for providing early exposure to Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert, two comedians who would go on to have massive success many years later. In addition, The Dana Carvey Show served as a launchpad for Smigel’s series of TV Funhouse cartoons. But it still failed. In this video, 3 of the funniest people on earth reflect on their failed series.
Led Zeppelin Are Celebrating 50th Anniversary With Illustrated Book
Led Zeppelin are pleased to announce that Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones are collaborating with ReelArtPress to publish the official illustrated book celebrating 50 years since the formation of the group. Released in 2018, the band directed fans to the Reel Art Press website to look for updates as they happen.
Boy George Sings “Miss Me Blind” With A Young Fan At Australian Press Conference In 1984
Just three years after forming, Culture Club were one of the biggest bands on the planet in 1984. The Boy George-led group won Brit Awards for Best British Group, Best British Single (“Karma Chameleon”), and the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. They were nominated the same year for the Grammy Award for Pop Vocal by Group or Duo.
That same year, the group released their third album,sold up 2.8 million copies worldwide Waking Up with the House on Fire, and the tour took them to Sydney, Australia, where this delightful boy somehow managed to get into the press conference, and end up on the stage to sing.
The Cast Of “Hamilton” Mashup Their Favourite UK and Hamilton Songs
In celebration of the London opening of Hamilton, Lin Manuel Miranda and the cast perform a mashup of Hamilton songs and British pop songs.
Video: The Donna Summer Special From 1980
Soon after Donna Summer received four nominations for 1980 American Music Awards, and took home awards for Female Pop/Rock and Female Soul/R&B Artist; and well as Pop/Rock single for “Bad Girls”, Donna had her own nationally televised special, The Donna Summer Special, which aired on ABC network on January 27, 1980. Look for Robert Guillaume and Twiggy as performers, too.
Foo Fighters Cover Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” With A Fan On Lead Vocals
After performing a cover of Van Halen’s ‘Jump’, Dave Ghrohl of the Foo Fights talked to the 16,500-strong crowd at the State Farm Center saying: “Who knows how to sing ‘Tom Sawyer’? Somebody here knows ‘Tom Sawyer’. No bulls**t, who knows it? You? You’re pointing at yourself. Get up here mother***er. You’re going to do a Rush song.”
And so, that’s how Mike Carpenter, fan of The Foo Fighters got to sing a Rush song with the band.
75 Fictional Bands ‘Play’ Def Leppard’s ‘Pour Some Sugar On Me’
Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard from their 1987 album Hysteria reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and one of the grest songs of the 1980s. And despite this success, it’s rarely heard in the movies or listed on soundtracks. Unit now. Kinda. Video editor Robert Jones assembled a clip with 75 movie bands having one massive performance of “Pour Some Sugar on Me.”
Nonesuch Releases Jonny Greenwood’s Golden Globe–Nominated Score to Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread on January 12
Nonesuch will release Jonny Greenwood’s Golden Globe–nominated score to Paul Thomas Anderson’s new feature film, Phantom Thread, digitally on January 12, 2018; the CD will be available February 9 and the vinyl LP will be available on April 21 to correspond with Record Store Day. Phantom Thread is set in the glamour of 1950s post-war London, where renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants, and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.
With Phantom Thread, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson paints an illuminating portrait both of an artist on a creative journey and the women who keep his world running. Phantom Thread is Anderson’s eighth movie, and his second collaboration with Daniel Day-Lewis. The film’s soundtrack includes eighteen compositions by Greenwood. It was recorded in London with a sixty-member string orchestra conducted by Robert Ziegler and is featured more prominently in the film than any of Greenwood’s scores have been before. In addition to the Golden Globe nomination, the Phantom Thread soundtrack’s many other accolades to date include the Best Score prizes from film critics’ associations in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, and St. Louis. Phantom Thread is available to preorder from the Nonesuch Store, along with an instant download of the album track “House of Woodcock.”
The composer spoke to Variety about the process of creating a score that reflected the film’s romance and glamour: “We talked a lot about ’50s music, what was popularly heard then as well as what was being written and recorded. Nelson Riddle and Glenn Gould’s Bach recordings were the main references. I was interested in the kind of jazz records that toyed with incorporating big string sections; Ben Webster made some good ones.” Greenwood continues, “The smaller groups, and solo players, work like close-ups [and] not necessarily to accompany [a] visual, but rather, to focus your attention on and make you feel directly engaged with the characters. The bigger orchestral things often worked best for drawing you back to see the bigger situation.”
Anderson and Greenwood’s previous collaborations include the soundtrack for Academy Award–winning There Will Be Blood (2007), The Master (2012), and Inherent Vice (2014), all released by Nonesuch. Indiewire says of their collaboration: “Paul Thomas Anderson fans are well accustomed to how instrumental Jonny Greenwood’s music is to the auteur’s body of work. Whether it’s the foreboding strings in There Will Be Blood or the discordant percussion in The Master, Greenwood’s original scores expertly capture Anderson’s tones. This fact is especially true in Phantom Thread, which marks the fourth collaboration between Anderson and Greenwood.”
Widely known as the guitarist for Radiohead, Jonny Greenwood is also a highly respected composer. In addition to the Anderson film soundtracks, Nonesuch also released his score for Norwegian Wood, his collaboration with Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, and his performance of Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint. Most recently, the label released Junun—a collaboration between Greenwood, composer/musician Shye Ben Tzur, and a group of Indian musicians called the Rajasthan Express that was recorded in the fifteenth-century Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, India. Paul Thomas Anderson came along to document the sessions. The resulting impressionistic film, also entitled Junun, debuted at the New York Film Festival, before screening at several other international festivals.
Nonesuch also released the soundtrack for Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love—a smart pop score by composer/producer Jon Brion—in 2002. Anderson’s other previous films—all of which have been highly praised—include Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999).
Phantom Thread Track Listing
1. Phantom Thread I
2. The Hem
3. Sandalwood I
4. The Tailor of Fitzrovia
5. Alma
6. Boletus Felleus
7. Phantom Thread II
8. Catch Hold
9. Never Cursed
10. That’s as May Be
11. Phantom Thread III
12. I’ll Follow Tomorrow
13. House of Woodcock
14. Sandalwood II
15. Barbara Rose
16. Endless Superstition
17. Phantom Thread IV
18. For the Hungry Boy