Here's another something we can share that Slicing Up Eyeballs expertly bought to our attention: a collection of demos from Scottish rock group The Waterboys. Considered the early forbearers of the "Big Music" sound - a style that would become synonymous with the band's first three albums and would describe other bands like Big Country, The Alarm and Simple Minds - The Waterboys, led by Mike Scott, achieved some of their greatest success with This is the Sea in 1985. Bolstered by the popular
Archives for March 17, 2011
Goldsmith, Horner and "Crusoe" Coming from FSM
As previously reported, Film Score Monthly's two newest titles are the premiere releases of three great scores: an underrated sci-fi epic and two TV-movies with music from legendary film composers. Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) is exactly what it sounds like: the Daniel Defoe classic on the surface of Mars. Paul Mantee is the marooned astronaut and Victor Lundin is "Friday," the Martian slave laborer who escapes and befriends him. (Also appearing as Mantee's doomed co-pilot was a pre-Batman
In Case You Missed It: Barclay James Harvest Revisited "Once Again"
Some four decades ago, Barclay James Harvest delivered one of their first great albums, and a towering achievement in the prog-rock genre. This past winter, EMI reissued the record in a manner quite befitting of its classic status. Once Again was the band's second album for Harvest Records, put out three years into their tenure with EMI. With notable tracks like "Song for Dying," "Galadriel" and "Mocking Bird" (the latter of which remains one of the band's most iconic songs), and the backing of
Back Into Battle with The Art of Noise
It's with great pleasure to find out that The Art of Noise's debut effort, Into Battle with The Art of Noise (1983), will be reissued as part of ZTT/Salvo's ongoing Element Series in April. And hardcore Art of Noise fans have a lot to be excited about this new release. The Art of Noise. Those four words signify a bizarre advent in '80s pop music - perhaps the ultimate marriage of music and technology (a staple of almost all popular art released that decade), a template upon which much of modern