Are People's Pop roundups the most reliable thing I'll post? Who's to say.
Anyway, the last one on the bird site has started - of Soundtracks. I completely missed noms day, but it's good to see some great faves have already turned up (like M2M's fab 'Don't say you love me' from the Pokemon The First Movie OST and Miles Davis' incredible Générique from Ascenceur Pour L'Echefaud (1958). Also good to see Ryuichi Sakamoto have a showing, although unfortunately it's the Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence theme with David Sylvian - Forbidden Colours - which I prefer somewhat less than the pared down piano instrumental).
Tunes new(ish) to me:
Qualifiers (Matches 1-32)
- Ennio Morricone - Chi Mai (Maddalena - 1971)
- Leftfield - Shallow Grave (Shallow Grave - 1994)
- Michael Nyman - An Eye For Optical Theory (The Draughtsman's Contract - 1982)
- Mychael Danna - Something Hidden (Exotica - 1994)
- The Dudley Moore Trio ft Peter Cook - Bedazzled (Bedazzled - 1967)
- R D Burman - Mehbooba Mehbooba (Sholay - 1975)
- Sunitha Sarathy, Lucky Ali & Karthik - Khuda Hafiz-Anjaani Anjaana (Yuva - 2004)
- Ano -「ちゅ、多様性。」 (Chainsaw Man - 2022)
- Mohammed Rafi - Jaan Pehchan Ho (Gumnaam - 1965) (not new, but such a joy)
- Curtis Mayfield - Give Me Your Love (Superfly - 1972) (it's been a while but it's great)
- Gladys Knight & The Pips - On And On (Claudine - 1974)
- Tangerine Dream - Love on a real train (Risky Business - 1983)
- Claudio Simonetti, Massimo Morante, Fabio Pignatelli - Tenebre (Tenebre - 1982)
- Salma Agha - Come Closer (Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki - 1984)
- Georgia Aguirre - Paran Pan Pan (Chico & Rita - 2010)
- David Bowie - Absolute Beginners (Absolute Beginners - 1986) (I know this song well, but I've not seen the video for it and I'm a sucker for black and white wandering along the South Bank following a woman dressed in zebra print interspersed with colour shots of an 80s film)
- Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed (Wonder Boys - 2000)
- D'Angelo - Unshaken (Red Dead Redemption 2 - 2018)
- Jimmy Sommerville - Coming (Orlando - 1992) (it's been so long since I've watched that film, this song's great - Jimmy doing what he does best, like some kind of ethereal Albion fae
Going to post this now and collate the next batch over the next week or so as the qualifiers continue. It's definitely got me thinking about some of the great OST I love - as well as how many media forms have such differing but effective soundscapes/music, which I definitely want to think about and go on about at some point.