This episode’s origin comes from my time recovering from gallbladder surgery last month. I was looking for something to watch when I saw Richard Donner’s TIMELINE on my Plex server. I hadn’t watched the film in over 20 years… 20 YEARS?!?!?!?!… and so I thought I’d put it on to see if it was as bad as I remembered. It wasn’t all that bad, but Brian Tyler’s score really irritated me. So, after watching the film, I listened to both Tyler’s replacement score and Jerry Goldsmith’s rejected score and decided to write some notes. Well, you know me; I ended up writing about 700 words. For a brief moment, I thought about resurrecting my blog, but I hate sharing my writing, so I decided to turn it into a podcast episode. As I continued to write, one thing led to another, and before I knew it, my script was 2814 words long.
In addition to writing about TIMELINE, I also wrote about action music, which led me to write about action cues that subverted the norm using two examples by Michael Giacchino (STAR TREK and MEDAL OF HONOR: FRONTLINE). Then I remembered an interview from the early 80s where Jerry Goldsmith talked about the function of film music and writing a specific action cue for the 1971 film, WILD ROVERS. So, I wrote about that. I then remembered to write about my experience at TriCon 2024 here in Kitchener last winter and discuss my newfound appreciation of Graham Revell’s THE CROW. I then concluded with a birthday shout-out to David Shire, who turned 87 on July 3rd, the day of this recording.
So, after finishing my FAVOURITE SCORES OF 2023 episodes, I recorded and edited this new episode, which I’m happy to share with you today. I really enjoyed the entire process of producing this episode. I liked having the opportunity to inform and educate by using specific examples instead of just doing what I’ve been doing over the past, however long it’s been. This type of show feels more like what I do on Randy Andrew’s THE ESSENTIAL SOUNDTRACKS (aka SOUNDTRACK ALLEY) than a traditional CSR episode.
Anyway, let me know what you think. Also, the name is temporary. I had no idea what to call what I was doing so I just called it SOUNDTRACK POTPOURRI, which is so NPR lame.
Enjoy!
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