I'm on a weird sleep schedule this week due to the fact that I'm working whack ass hours. I'm picking up the slack for someone else. I'm the new guy. Am I going to say "no" to my boss when he asks me to help him out? Hence my blogging in the middle of the fucking night.
Big films usually have the various artist soundtracks with all the current hot shit artists. I generally use soundtrack and score interchangeably in reference to composers. As far as I know, the difference between the soundtrack and score is that a soundtrack is the music for the motion picture where various trending artists have their songs and a film score is when a composer creates pieces of music specifically for the film. I'll have to consult my musical expert for clarification. And yes, I have a legit music expert. I'm special.
The Great Gatsby comes out in a week. Whether or not Baz Luhrmann bastardizes the book or not, it looks like it'll be pretty good. Great Gatsby's soundtrack comes out on the 7th. From what I've heard so far it isn't half bad. What I'm really looking forward to is the score. Besides Australia, Craig Armstrong has done Baz Luhrmann's other films. Who the hell knows when the actually score will be released. His scores are always released a year after the release of the film.
Craig Armstrong hasn't done a lot of big name films but he is good nonetheless. He has released a couple of his own albums which are pretty damn good. So in anticipation for the release of Great Gatsby and that Craig Armstrong is doing the score, I am featuring some of the songs he did for the past Luhrmann films.
O Verona
O Verona (Reprise)
Balcony Scene
Mercutio's Death
I've never actually seen Moulin Rouge in its entirety. I'm not really one for musicals. In any case, I forget the circumstance but I was sitting through with the credits running in the background and this came on. I love it.
Bolero (specifically played in closing credits)
I couldn't play Craig Armstrong without playing the one song he is most famous for. It has been used in A LOT of things. It was one of the very first songs that got me hooked to film scores.
Escape
