Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

Busy day today, and when I’m busy and don’t get to this feature until the evening, I tend to default to my easier choices. Which means…here’s John Williams! Huzzah! It’s the End Titles to Hook, a movie that takes a … Continue reading →

Late today, sorry! Sometimes you just need to return to the basics…so here’s a brief track from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, “A Far Green Country”. This plays when Gandalf is talking about death to … Continue reading →

A longer selection today: the Butterfly Lovers Concerto by Chen Gang and He Zhanhao. This piece of program music was written in 1959, but don’t let the date of composition fool you: this is pure lyric Romanticism, using several Chinese … Continue reading →

I’ve used this song before, but I like it, and it’s been a few years, so here’s John Denver and “Looking for Space”.

Here’s Adele, singing the title song for Skyfall. What do you think? I like it a little more each time I hear it, and I liked it a lot at first. It stands in the fine tradition of sultry Bond … Continue reading →

For obvious reasons pertaining to my reading of Stephen King’s 11-22-63, I’ve had the John Williams score from Oliver Stone’s JFK on my mind. Here are two selections: the Prelude and “Arlington”.

From the John Willaims score to Superman, here is “Leaving Home”. The eerie music at the beginning comes just after Pa Kent’s funeral, when young Clark Kent finds the remnants of his ship from Krypton hidden in the barn cellar; … Continue reading →

I feel like some Eurythmics today…so here they are! I love me some Annie Lennox, and I especially love how they always embraced the idea of music videos as a place to indulge their impulse for sheer WTF weirdness. Here’s … Continue reading →