John Carpenter & Spooky Movie Music

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🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It’s that time of year again…spooky season! Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot revisit their conversation with horror writer, director and composer John Carpenter. Then, they share their favorite spooky movie music.

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Featured Songs:

John Carpenter, "Halloween Theme - Main Title," Halloween (Original 1978 Motion Picture Soundtrack), Columbia, 1979

John Carpenter, "The Shape Stalks," Halloween (Original 1978 Motion Picture Soundtrack), Columbia, 1979

Bebe Barron and Louis Barron, "Forbidden Planet Soundtrack - a) Main Titles - Overture - b) Giant Footprints In The Sand," Forbidden Planet, Planet, 1976

Bernard Herrmann, Joel McNeely & Royal Scottish Orchestra, "Scotty Trails Madeline (Including: Madeline's First Appearance, Madeline's Car, The Flower Shop, The Alleyway, The Mission, Graveyard, and Tombstone)," Vertigo: Original Motion Picture Score, Varèse Sarabande, 1995

John Carpenter, "Dark Star," Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998, Rodeo Suplex, 2017

John Carpenter, "Skeleton," Lost Themes III: Life After Death, Sacred Bones, 2021

Dimitri Tiomkin, "High Noon - Theme," Movie Memories: Music from the Greatest Films, Colosseum, 1995

John Carpenter, "Dead Eyes," Lost Themes III: Life After Death, Sacred Bones, 2021

Frankie Valli, "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)," The 4 Seasons Present Frankie Valli Solo, Philips, 1967

Goblin, "Suspiria," Suspiria: The Complete Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Cinevox, 1977

Childish Gambino, "Redbone," "Awaken, My Love!", Glassnote, 2016

Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, N/A, 1974

Magnet, "Willow's Song," The Wicker Man, Trunk, 1998

David Lynch and Peter Ivers, "In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)," Eraserhead: Original Soundtrack, I.R.S., 1982

Luniz, "I Got 5 On It (feat. Michael Marshall)," Operation Stackola, C Note, 1995

Mike Oldfield, "Tubular Bells, Part One," Tubular Bells, Virgin, 1973

Tangerine Dream, "Rain In the Third House," Near Dark (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Varèse Sarabande, 1987

Colin Newman, "Alone," A-Z, Beggars Banquet, 1980

Krzysztof Komeda, "Main Title," Rosemary's Baby (Music from the Original Motion Picture Score), Dot, 1968

Bauhaus, "Bela Lugosi's Dead," Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape, Beggars Banquet, 1982

Philip Glass, "Helen's Theme," Candyman (Original 1992 Motion Picture Soundtrack), One Way Static, 2014

Pearl Jam, "Yellow Ledbetter," Lost Dogs, Epic, 2003

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0:00.0	Hey Sound Opinions listeners, if you support us on Patreon, you get to listen to our podcast
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0:36.5	You're listening to Sound Opinions and this week in honor of Spooky Season, we share some of our
0:42.2	favorite Spooky movie music. I'm Jim D. Wurgatis and I'm Greg Kod. But first, we revisit our
0:48.8	conversation with horror legend, director, and composer, John Carpenter.
1:00.7	That's a little bit of the theme from the classic horror film, Halloween.
1:05.2	Directed and co-written by our guest today, John Carpenter. In addition to being a great director
1:10.4	of movies like Halloween, Escape from New York, and they live, my favorite, Carpenter composed
1:15.7	the music to his films, and that music became iconic in its own right even when removed from
1:21.6	its original context. Carpenter recently released a new album, Lost Themes 3, and he's joining us
1:27.8	today to talk about that as well as his career as a composer and a filmmaker. What an honor.
1:34.2	John, welcome to Sound Opinions. Thank you very much. Nice to be here.
1:39.1	From the beginning of your career as a director, it's certainly an incredible list of films,
1:44.4	many of them that formed my life from Halloween and they live, assault on precinct 13,
1:50.4	et cetera, et cetera. You always did the music and I think I wasn't aware of that until the last
1:55.7	couple of years when you began giving interviews more about the music and touring my goodness.
2:01.5	From early on, what was the impetus to do your own soundtracks?
2:07.2	Originally, and I'll be really honest with you, originally it came out of necessity
2:13.8	because when you're making a low-budget film, when you have no money, you can't hire a composer
2:20.4	or an orchestra. So if you have to do it yourself, a synthesizer is the best way to go because you
2:28.4	can sound big. You can sound full with a synthesizer and so that's what that's the route I took.
2:45.6	Well, you grew up in a musical family and I hear it was violin originally thrust upon you.
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