Found this on the 365 Days website. A fucking amazing track by The Greek Fountains.
365 Days - Contributed by: Strictly Kev
All tracks on the first cd are by Hammer legend James Bernard who liked to incorporate the syllables of the movie title into his soundtracks, so the main theme to Dracula went Daaaa . . . Duh . . . Dahhh and the theme to Taste The Blood Of Dracula went Daaa . . . Daaa . . . well, you get the idea. This first cd includes soundtrack excerpts from five Dracula titles, Frankenstein Created Woman, The Devil Rides Out and Kiss Of The Vampire.
Best of the bunch are probably Dracula, Taste The Blood Of Dracula and The Devil Rides Out (renamed The Devil’s Bride in the
The second cd is by Bernard and a variety of others. It has tracks from One Million Years B.C., Hands Of The Ripper and She amongst others. I’d have liked more of the Quatermass II soundtrack, and The Abominable Snowman - only the one minute thirty second main theme is present.
It should be noted that these aren’t the original recordings (some of which are available but becoming hard to track down on cd) but new recordings by The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. For the most part they do a fine job and these new versions are almost indistinguishable from the originals. The Romance: The Young Lovers theme from Taste The Blood Of Dracula does sound quite different though and is not a patch on the original.
But that one small gripe aside, this is a great and readily available selection of Hammer’s best soundtracks and well worth a listen.
It took a couple of listens to get in to this one (so did the Grinderman album) but it’s growing on me.
However, there’s something about the 6th track - We Call Upon The Author that makes my skin crawl, I can’t explain it, it really does make me a bit nauseous.
But fuck it, it’s a new Nick Cave album, and even it was just an audio recording of him shitting into a trumpet, it’d still be better than 99% of the dross that gets released.
Equus - Original Soundtrack
Music by Richard Rodney Bennett/Conducted by Angela Morley.
Equus has always been one of my favourite films, and not just because Jenny Agutter gets her kit off in it and literally rolls around in the hay. She did get her kit off a lot, didn’t she, Walkabout - that naked swimming scene, Equus - frisky in the stable, An American Werewolf In London - the saucy shower scene, she even got her knickers off in The Railway Children, well, bloomers, but it still counts.
But I digress, back to the record. I picked this up on ebay about four years ago for a few dollars. This is a really fucking brilliant soundtrack, full of sweeping violins and cellos (which remind me of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes, in a fleeting, hard-to-pin-down kind of way).
Along with the main themes of the film it has six Richard Burton monologues in which he says things like . . .
“Afterwards, he says, they always embrace. The animal digs his sweaty brow into his cheek and they stand in the dark for an hour, like some necking couple. And of all nonsensical things, I keep thinking about the horse, not the boy, the horse, and what it might be trying to do.”
and . . .
“Then, with a surgical skill that amazes even me, I fit in the knife and slice elegantly down to the navel, just like a seamstress following a pattern. I part the flaps, sever the inner tubes, yank them out and throw them, hot and steaming, on the floor. The other two then study the patterns, as if they’re reading hieroglyphics. It’s obvious to me that I’m tops as chief priest.”
Burton + monologues = Fuck me that’s fantastic!
Don’t think it’s out on cd, but well worth tracking down on the old vinyl.