Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

(Ooops…didn’t publish. Ayup!) I have a weird relationship with country music. I actively dislike a good deal of it, and most of it makes no impression on me at all. But those songs that I like? Well, those I tend … Continue reading →

This movie seems rather forgotten nowadays, even though it won Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan. This is legendarily due to some serious politicking done by Miramix in this movie’s favor, but frankly, I’ve always liked it more than SPR, … Continue reading →

A selection from Trevor Jones’s score to the teevee movie Merlin. This was made when filmed fantasy was just starting to make its big comeback, a couple of years before The Lord of the Rings, and it’s actually not a … Continue reading →

I don’t remember if I’ve featured this before, but it’s just such a perfect piece of music that it’s worth revisiting now and again. Alexander Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia depicts the meeting of two trade caravans, on … Continue reading →

Sorry, folks, yesterday was a bit preoccupying, what with a nice visit from my old friends, the Car Repair Gods*. Here’s something fun. Pro tip: Looking for light, fun classical music to brighten your day? Listen to the overtures of … Continue reading →

My day started annoying and spiraled from there, so no music until now. Sorry. But here’s some cheesy movie music from what may be the cheesiest sci-fi movie of all time.

In the “Wow, that is a Weird Cover!” department, we have…and I have video proof below that I am not making this up…the depressing song “Leader of the Pack” (in which the bad boy from the wrong side of town … Continue reading →

I heard this delightfully, pompously British piece on the radio yesterday and promptly fell in love with it. Here’s the London Suite by Eric Coates, in a live performance. (Oddly, the applause at the end of the piece sounds tepid, … Continue reading →

When you’re writing a swashbuckler of a novel with young lads first learning to use a blade and pistol as your hero and dastardly men on black horses with eye-patches and a big red feather in their black hats as … Continue reading →

A small suite of film music today, from Ridley Scott’s underrated film Kingdom of Heaven. (The film is underrated because this is one of those films where the “Director’s Cut” is actually a vastly different, and distinctly superior, product to … Continue reading →