Behold.....The "Hellion"

Big Problem Does Not Equal The Solution. The Solution=Let It Be

Now there is an ambiguous name for an album if ever there was one.I bet most of you didn't realize Crispin"Hellion"Glover ever put out a record. I sure as hell didn't until I noticed on my friend Matt's shelf last Friday night. Say what you want about the mans acting skills, but River's Edge is a classic and that movie probably sucks with anybody else filling that role.
Big Problem Does Not Equal The Solution.The Solution=Let It Be is a mish mash of readings from a few of Crispin's many books, a Charles Manson cover, a Lee Hazelwood cover, and a couple other surprises. Perhaps the most entertaining aspect of the whole package lies in the interactive attempt that's made with the back cover art. an excerpt from Crispin's Wikipedia page explains:
"The back cover of the album is a collage of figures relating to each track on the album, with a puzzle: "All words and lyrics point to THE BIG PROBLEM. The solution lay within the title; LET IT BE. Crispin Hellion Glover wants to know what you think these nine things all have in common." He included his home phone number with copies of the album, encouraging listeners to phone when they had "solved" his puzzle. Glover later commented that he was surprised how many people figured it out."
And almost as weird for the solitary fact that Slayer and the Wipers share the same stage for the soundtrack, I thought it would be a wonderful idea to include the music from River's Edge.

The movie, although ultimately fictitious,is loosely based on the murder of 14 year old girl Marcy Conrad. Marcy was strangled by Anthony Jacques Broussard in Milpitas, California on November 13th, 1981. It seems the 16 year old kid was a bit twisted and had made several attempts at his mother's life prior. The parallel lies in the fact that in both the movie and actuality, the killer shows the body to his friends who respond with callousness. In both cases, while killer's close friends help conceal the body and show genuine interest in their friends' deteriorating innocence, they at the same time went and boasted to others and treated the corpse like a museum. I don't really know why I went so far into this, so while I'm drawing a blank, just go ahead and check out the soundtrack:

River's Edge Soundtrack

For those of you that might be interested in pretty decent synopsis of the Crispin Glover album, here is a page I found that gives a little history on it's creation as well as a couple of his music videos....... here .................................Troy

Fuck you....you Fucking Stupid Rabbit !!!!

Fuck it's cold out!!!! I ain't gonna hem and haw much about today's post,the Gummo soundtrack. If you have seen it, you're probably pretty polarized about the damn thing and if you haven't seen it, you should. The film is set in Xenia, Ohio, a real life town that was ravaged by a tornado back in 1974. It follows the exploits of two boys named Solomon and Tummer as they make their way around town. The only way I can describe the movie perhaps is by lazily calling it schizophrenic. If you like to watch rednecks wrestling chairs, some guy whoring out his sister who has down syndrome, and a sub plot of feral cat poaching,among other things left to your very own discovery, dig on in.
Besides all this bullshit, the movie is worth watching alone for the music interludes alone. The cast of bands featured is pure fucking sickness. I mean,come on, this soundtrack was my introduction to bands like: Bethlehem,Absu,Bathory,Mystifier, and EyeHateGod . It also has Sleep, Mortician, Burzum, Spazz, Electric Hellfire Club,Nifelheim, and Brujeria. Quite enough said..................................Troy

Gummo Soundtrack

If any of you happen to have any good stories or thoughts on Gummo, leave a fucking comment or something!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Halloween Residuals.........................Take #1

Saturday night,the wonderful month of October is no more and we now enter the descent towards another New England winter. I hope everyone that had the good sense to check out that Roky Erickson album yesterday is still getting a kick out of it.
Due to time restraints I only posted that one album but I originally had grandiose plans to post a ton of great shit and a few oddities to celebrate the times. So the next few days you'll get all the Halloween related sounds you can stomach,'til I run out. Some of the shit I found on the great blog Digital Meltdown, and the rest I had laying around. Take a second to visit D.M.,it's a great blog that I visit regularly,tons of rare stuff and it is just an invaluable resource. These kids bust their ass on it and it shows.
Today,you get a trio of great film scores. You all know these movies, probably the three most famous sequel happy horror films of the last 30 years, A Nightmare on Elm Street,Friday the 13th,and Halloween. There are a ton of them out there, the later ones suck somewhat,but I grew up on the earlier ones and though I now find them far from my idea of horror,I love the fucking things,especially the first 3 or 4 in each series.
I start with the score to A Nightmare on Elm St. by composer Charles Bernstein. Famous for this along with creating the soundtracks to such films as: Cujo,The Covenant,Sybil,Sadat and Freddy Vs. Jason, the first Nightmare on Elm St. is where it's at. The tracks on here are some great pummeling,hypnotic synth songs. For anyone that is a fan of this movie or at least saw it when they were young,these songs are ingrained in your head. Listening to it the other day was a lot of fun,these melodies have stuck with me through the years.

A Nightmare on Elm St. O.S.T.

Second on the itinerary for the day deals with Friday the 13th. This is a compilation that someone painstakingly put together. It has bits and pieces of music and dialogue culled from the first eight movies in the lineage. Through out you get the classic tch,tch,tch,....hah,hah,hah rhythm that scared the shit out of us as kids. 21 songs here,and one hell of a listen!!!!!!

Friday the 13th clips

Lastly I give you one of the most memorable sounds there is. The eerie marching cacophony that is the Halloween theme. Brewed up by one of my absolute favorite's,Director/Composer John Carpenter. Now while Carpenter started doing the scores to his films most likely for monetary reasons,the man was fucking great at it either way. Along side this, he also did the music for all of his films except for a few,Escape From New York, being my the one I love the most. Halloween is great too, don't miss out.

Halloween O.S.T.

I have the Escape From New York soundtrack as well if anyone is interested, I would love to share it with you.

If anyone has any good Halloween stories,let's hear them.
Tomorrow I'll probably post Samhain for you.........Troy