They might be able to squeeze in a song or two during the credits, though. com for Murder.” Michael Stipe: Batman?There came a point when this wasn’t good enough blockbuster films aimed at teenagers, the very films likely to spawn a marketable soundtrack, would often demand having actual film scores rather than pop songs playing the background.
Robinson” and “Don’t You Forget about Me.” Such a soundtrack would be called, for example, “Music from the Motion Picture. Soundtracks would spawn hits, occasionally, when the movie contained a memorable song we all remember “Mrs. Many years ago, the soundtrack to a popular movie tended to sell on the basis that it contained the songs that were actually in the movie.
Believe me, if there were a better word for it, I would have used it. Movie soundtracks, as we’ve all noticed by now, are fucked. Within the world of the bad cover song, my all-seeing pop-music gaze has detected several distinct trends:ġ: The Soundtrack Cover Bear with me, because I can’t discuss this one without giving a little bit of background on soundtracks. In most cases, the cover has become a cheap novelty gimmick rather than a legitimate musical expression. There’s little wonder as to why this happens pop musicians are lazy, stupid, greedy, artless, and soulless. Who can forget Jeff Buckley’s haunting rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” or David Lee Roth’s masterful, harrowing re-imagining of “Just a Gigolo”? Unfortunately, the songs that always seem to get covered are the songs that need it least. In fact, I think mainstream music would be much more interesting if it happened more often there are plenty of good songs floating around out there that would benefit from modernization and reinterpretation. There’s nothing inherently wrong with a band covering another band’s song. In this edition, we shall traipse like pixies over the dew-bejeweled field of crappy cover songs! The incorrigible meanie will describe the various types of terrible cover songs and how they come to be, he will make fun of several bands who deserve it, and he will publicly advocate the disembowlment of false punks! David Thorpe as he gently guides you through yet another magical journey in the world of bad music.
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