4 posts tagged “philip glass”

I read about this free Philip Glass album at LifeHacker. I really like the music of Philip Glass so this is a treat. The free album is called "The Orange Mountain Music Philip Glass Sampler, vol. 1".

Here is the article about it on LifeHacker ...

http://digg.com/d318UnK or http://lifehacker.com/5391842/download-a-free-philip-glass-mp3-album-from-amazon

and here is the page on Amazon.com ...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002QZ53OK/ref=dm_ty_alb

Not bad!

One of my favorite horror movies (even though I don't find it particularly scary anymore) is Candyman, and I have posted about it before. I think of the movie as a love story now, or you could look at is as a story about a woman who gets revenge on her cheating man. Anyway, I watched the movie again recently, and I really like the song "Floating Candyman". All of the songs were done by the amazing Philip Glass, of course. I would post the image of the painting of Helen at the end of the movie if I could find it.

05 Candyman (1992) Suite_ Floating Candyman

Philip Glass

OK, there are three songs on Portishead's new album, Third, that make me think of others songs.

The first song is "Hunter", which makes me think of a song from the 1992 horror movie, Candyman, by Philip Glass called "Face to Razor".

Here are the two songs ...

02 Hunter

Portishead

04 Candyman (1992) Suite: Face To Razor

Philip Glass

The next song on Third is "The Rip", which makes me think of the Pink Floyd song, "On The Run", from Dark Side of the Moon. You have to listen to all of "The Rip" to hear the similar sound. Here are those two songs ...

04 The Rip

Portishead

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03 On The Run

Pink Floyd

(If you play Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of Oz, "On The Run" plays a little bit after the above scene.)

The next song from the Third album that reminds me of another song is "Deep Water", which reminds me of the Ink Spots' "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire". Again, you have to listen to the Portishead song for a while to see the similarity. Here are the two songs ...

07 Deep Water

Portishead

I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire

Ink Spots

OK, now here are three songs that I listened to or thought of recently that use the expression "lights go down" or "when the lights go down" in them.

John Stewart - Gold

Gold

John Stewart

Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) - The Lights Go Down

09 The Lights Go Down

Electric Light Orchestra

and finally Madonna's Heartbeat (from Hard Candy) ...

04 Heartbeat

Madonna

I just realized that it is Madonna's song "Give It 2 Me" that says "when the lights go down", but "Heartbeat" does have the phrase "that the light shines on" so it is a little topical. OK, I am done now. This post is way too random.

I love Philip Glass' score for one of my favorite horror movies, Candyman, with Virginia Madsen playing the unstoppable "Helen" who gets herself into trouble when she goes looking for Candyman(played very well by Tony Todd).

I think Philip Glass' music is sometimes described as minimalist, but it still conveys a lot of emotion, especially in this movie.

Here are three songs from the soundtrack that I really love(the "music box" one is on a Candyman/Philip Glass CD, but I don't think it is in any of the movies).