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Favourite songs intended for films (but never used)
Posted by DLM on 27 August 2010 - 6:34pm.
This may be prove to be a slim list, but do you have any favourite songs written or commissioned for a film, but never used as such?
I present, from the intended soundtrack for "Mike's Murder", something by Joe Jackson: as you'll see, the youtube images accompanying it have nothing whatsoever to do with the film.
Fresh from the success of "Night and Day" in the US, Joe Jackson was commissioned to write soundtrack music for the film. In the event, the total usage of what he produced amounted to just a few seconds of songs (or maybe just even one song) at distinctly background volume. Understandably, he was a bit miffed....
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Oedipus Rex
You may have heard about his odd complex...
As supplied by the wonderful Tom Lehrer:
I've got one
1984. I think Eurythmics were originally commissioned to do the soundtrack, but someone else was subsequently brought in, possibly because the producers didn't like what Dave & Annie came up with, maybe for other reasons. Some of their work did make the film, but I'm pretty sure this very fine song didn't. For The Love Of Big Brother.
As usual the answer is Adam and Joe...
Let's see
The Lalo Schifrin score for The Exorcist was interesting but I'm glad they went with The Bells. On the Fight Club DVD commentary they talk about asking Radiohead, fresh from OK Computer to write a 21st Century Graduate for the film. Again the Dust Brothers/Pixies did just fine. Speaking of which, Exit (Music From A Film) was written by Radiohead for the Romeo & Juliet score, but in the end Baz Luhrmann went for the sublime Talk Show Host.
Finally, David Lynch wanted This Mortal Coil's Song For The Siren for the scene in Blue Velvet where Jeffrey asks 'why are there people like Frank?'. He was knocked back and wrote Mysteries Of Love, a pretty blatant 'homage' with Julee Cruise doing the Liz Fraser warbles.
Oh and didn't Danny Boyle ask Godspeed You Black Emperor to score 28 Days Later?
Thanks
for that tale of Blue Velvet - despite being a bit of a Lynchophile I'd never heard that before, though a bit of cross-checking suggests that the inability to use "Song to the Siren" (original: Tim Buckley) was fortuitous as it brought Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti together, as he wrote the music from Lynch's words.
http://www.thecityofabsurdity.com/bluevelvet/bvsound.html
Pleasure
Twin Peaks without Badalamenti doesn't bare thinking about. And I don't think Lynch had even written a bad tune, from The Lady In The Radiator Song onwards. Did you ever hear the album he did with Jocelyn Montgomery of Hildegard Von Bingen tunes. Well worth the effort.
Andy Partidge
$ songs for 'James and the Giant Peach'
including this rather lovely one - 'All I dream of is a Friend'.. . It's on Fuzzy Warbles No. 4
Not a song,
but Coil were commissioned to do the soundtrack for 'Hellraiser' by Clive Barker. Legend has it that the music Coil produced was deemed to be far to unsettling to use, and the producers went with someone else.