Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

Wow, Jerry Goldsmith really did score a lot of bad movies, including The Haunting. Nevertheless, his music is always worth a listen. Here’s the final scary music selection of the month!

Continuing with scary music! Or music for scary movies. Or…you get the idea. Here is a suite from Wojcech Kilar’s wonderful score to the rather uneven film Bram Stoker’s DRACULA. While the film is uneven, the score is a classic … Continue reading →

(Oops…as often happens, saved as draft and forgot to actually publish.) Continuing our month of spooky, scary music…here is a suite from Bernard Herrmann’s seminal filmscore, Psycho. No intro needed other than that!

For the month of scares, here’s one of John Williams’s rare forays into the world of horror: a suite from his score to the movie Dracula.

You can’t go wrong with Whose Line Is It Anyway.

This is weird. I never knew this song existed until the other day when I heard it as part of the soundtrack to one of The Daughter’s video games. It’s a peppy, zippy pop song from the 1950s…singing the praises … Continue reading →

Think Pink! Why this? Well, I noticed a couple of years ago that my wardrobe is heavily representative of dark colors. Not all black, mind you, although I did have my all-black phase in high school like everybody (and black … Continue reading →

This is probably the Platonic ideal for the love theme from a sad melodrama:

I had a number of friends in college (still friends, but this is about the time in college) who were big fans of the “new age” music group Mannheim Steamroller. I was never as big a fan of Mannheim as … Continue reading →