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Reply #105 - Nov 24^th, 2014 at 12:46am

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Here's What the database came up with for the third film announced:

Title (Year)	Song	Artist	Source
This Island Earth
(1955)	Big Head	Ms. Jade
	Blister In the Sun	Violent Femmes
	Blister In the Sun	Nouvelle Vague	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb4HxM7kbM4
	Bo Meets the Monster	Bo Didley	http://vigorton2.tumblr.com/post/65608870812/bo-diddley-bo-meets-the-monster-195...
	Here Comes the Sun	Richie Havens
	Here Comes the Sun	Monty Python
	Here Comes the Sun	George Harrison
	I Can't Get Russell Johnson Off My Mind	Show Business Giants	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyDhxfs_jCA
	This Island Earth	They Nylons	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9FwolBqHbg
	The Cat Came Back	Macabre, Children's version	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw2PgypoAaE
	(I thought that Love was) Science Fiction	Divinyls
	Are You A Hypnotist?	The Flaming Lips
	Be My Head	The Flaming Lips
	Because the Night	Patti Smith
	Blinded Me With Science	Thomas Dolby
	Catch The Sun	Doves
	City Drops into the Night	Jim Caroll Band
	Day For Night	Matthew Sweet
	Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me	Elton John
	Ebony Eyes	Rick James
	Eveybody Wants to Rule the World	Tears for Fears
	Headwires	Foo Fighters
	I Believe	Bridgett Wishart	#https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPi1ScT6H80#
	I Dream of Wires	Robert Palmer
	I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet	Carol King
	It's Not Easy Being Green	Sesame Street
	I've Got The Power	Snap	http://www.last.fm/music/Snap!/_/I%27ve+Got+the+Power
	Looking At The Sun	Matthew Sweet
	Mister Science	Bob and Ray	#http://archive.org/details/BobAndRayClassicsCd3#
	On The Sunny Side of the Street	Ted Lewis Jazz Band
	Particle Man	They Might Be Giants	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNT8SMlqLJA
	Stay on Your Island	Alan Parsons Project
	The Big Boom	Jonathan Coulton
	The Brain	Roger Bart Ensemble
	Trans-mag-ni-fi-can-bam-dam-u-a-li-ty	Arthur Collins	#http://archive.org/details/ind-1062#
	Weird Science	Oingo Boingo	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDe5Ckt4joQ#

The Nylons "This Island Earth" was a naturally good selection: thanks for the find. I'm also inclined toward the Nouvelle Vague cover of "Blister in the Sun" and Show Business Giants musical homage to the late Russell Johnson. There are a lot of good choices for this sci-fi classic.

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Reply #106 - Nov 24^th, 2014 at 3:30am

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Yeah, yeah. Good or appropriate songs, but, how about Marathon Songs From Hell
!?

What would you pick to TORTURE folks with THE FLYING SAUCER or SLITHIS!?

http://sf.theboard.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1416699938

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Reply #107 - Nov 24^th, 2014 at 11:25pm

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I sense that I'm in the minority, but I rather enjoy hearing music from films, not just clever auditory puns.

Dinner break? What's a dinner break?

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Reply #108 - Nov 24^th, 2014 at 11:34pm

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Sort of with Caleb on this one. I've been programming the intermission music for the Columbus Horror Marathons for quite awhile, and it's always a fine balance on how to program each break. I tend to favor proper atmosphere first, sticking as close as I can to horror-related material that's relevant to the previous film. There are always exceptions (a reprise of Bruce's famed inclusion of Sinatra's "I've Got You Under My Skin" immediately following THEY CAME FROM WITHIN was warmly received), but at heart, keeping the mood as close to the Marathon's genre as possible is my prime motivator. Horror is sometimes easier, as dissonant or strange music that's not specifically horror-related can be connected with the air of transgression, fear, etc. Sci-fi can be a bit more difficult, but there's also enough futuristic music (especially in the rich field of early electronic music) to suffice.

That being said, this is Boston, not Columbus. And I really have no rooting interest in how the intermission music is constructed. But it's a fun topic to discuss.

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Reply #109 - Nov 25^th, 2014 at 10:17pm

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I really enjoy the intermission music, often times there's some laughs like High Hopes after Phase IV and also the occasional fun sing along like Its The End of The World As We Know It and The Martian Hop.

Plus the ending song letting me know I've made it through another one and have to say goodbye for another year.
I'm sentimental about the 'thon and shed a tear or two when I get to hear We'll Meet Again as the lights come up.

I can't complain but sometimes I still do. Life's been good to me so far.

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Reply #110 - Nov 25^th, 2014 at 11:37pm

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Quote:

Quote Evil LA:

Yeah, yeah. Good or appropriate songs, but, how about
Marathon Songs From Hell
!?

What would you pick to TORTURE folks with THE FLYING SAUCER or SLITHIS!?

Well, that's a good point. If the movies were boring, confusing, silly or just plain bad, The playlist could take the high road and poke fun at them the way "Lady Terminator" was dealt with a couple of marathons back:

Title (Year)	Song	Artist	Source
--	Why Must the Show Go On	Noel Coward	#http://archive.org/details/NoelCoward-21-23#
--	What's Going On	Marvin Gaye
--	What the F*** Was That	Evil Dead cast
--	Time Will Crawl	David Bowie	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMhMaNAmT-U
--	The Breakup Song (They Just Don't Write Em Like That Anymore)	Greg Khin Band	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ePSJ44Fiw#
--	How Silly Can you Get	Val Klmer
--	Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me	Oingo Boingo	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQy5vKAaTuA#
--	Mr Bad Eample	Warren Zevon	#http://archive.org/details/wz1994-03-06.flacf#
--	I Want to Be Bad	Annette Hanshaw	#http://archive.org/details/1925-29-annetteHanshaw-31-40#
--	I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)	Ella Fitzgerald
--	Good...Bad..I'm The Guy With The Gun	Ryan Ward, Renee Klapmeyer and Recording Cast
--	Fortunate Fool	Jack Johnson
--	Dirty Old Egg Suckin' Dog	Johnny Cash	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYNK8A_bXwA#
--	Dickhead*	Forever Slave	http://www.last.fm/music/Forever+Slave/Tales+for+bad+girls/Dickhead!
--	Dickhead*	Mad Child
--	Dickhead*	Robbie Williams
--	Dickhead*	Kate Nash
--	Born To Be Bad	George Thuorogood, The Runaways
--	Bad to the Bone	George Thuorogood
--	Bad Girls	M.I.A	http://www.last.fm/music/M.I.A./_/Bad+Girls
--	Bad Girls	Donna Summer	http://www.last.fm/music/Donna+Summer/Bad+Girls
--	Bad	Michael Jackson

*It gives me a special feeling knowing I live in a time and place where no fewer than four songs share that same title!

Then, of course, there's the low road. I plead guilty to playing the children's version of the Beatles' classic "Octopus' Garden" after the silent "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" but in my defense, it was a long break so that the live musician could pack up. I also once played William Shatner's version of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" after "Star Trek".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3uVARNhmM

It was not my proudest moment...Shatner's either. He does have a version of "Rocket Man" that I hope never to have to use...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I

Then there's this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5hae6PlPYA&list=PL3C5E4F6A695F8644

Wink

Wink

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Reply #111 - Nov 30^th, 2014 at 9:49pm

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2001: A Space Odyssey on the big screen in 70mm is not a movie. It's a major cultural event, one that may not be seen by many people in the generations to come as projectors themselves are phased out. Given this, I'm inclined to embrace Caleb's point of view. No audio puns here, but a gentle and dignified continuation of Strauss' elegant and timeless Blauen Donau Waltz after the conclusion.

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Did You Know?

J Strauss II made his American debut in Boston on June 17, 1872, conducting The Blue Danube for the World Peace Jubilee. For the occasion, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, an Irish bandmaster, assembled an orchestra of 2000 and a choir of 20,000.

Read more at http://www.classicfm.com/composers/strauss-ii/guides/story-behind-blue-danube/

Of course a marquee film of this nature is bound to be in Marathon prime time so that the musical interlude, if any, is likely to be brief and soon followed by a performance that rivals it in elegance and beauty...the Tinfoil Hat or Alien Mating Cry for example. Wink

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Reply #112 - Nov 30^th, 2014 at 10:52pm

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R_F_Fineman wrote on Nov 30^th, 2014 at 9:49pm:

2001: A Space Odyssey on the big screen in 70mm is not a movie. It's a major cultural event, one that may not be seen by many people in the generations to come as projectors themselves are phased out. Given this, I'm inclined to embrace Caleb's point of view. No audio puns here, but a gentle and dignified continuation of Strauss' elegant and timeless Blauen Donau Waltz after the conclusion.

Quote:

Did You Know?

J Strauss II made his American debut in Boston on June 17, 1872, conducting The Blue Danube for the World Peace Jubilee. For the occasion, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, an Irish bandmaster, assembled an orchestra of 2000 and a choir of 20,000.

Read more at http://www.classicfm.com/composers/strauss-ii/guides/story-behind-blue-danube/

Of course a marquee film of this nature is bound to be in Marathon prime time so that the musical interlude, if any, is likely to be brief and soon followed by a performance that rivals it in elegance and beauty...the Tinfoil Hat or Alien Mating Cry for example. Wink

Wink

Plus the projectionist will be converting things back to another format since this will likely be the only 70MM film shown.
The Blue Danube would be properly respectful and entertaining.

On the other hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWN0xM-i2I8 Grin

Grin

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Reply #113 - Nov 30^th, 2014 at 11:39pm

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I can't decide if this is one of those titles that would fit in LA's "Marathon from Hell" playlist or not.

Life on Mars - The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW0ACEOEq6w

It's just that they're so earnest and talented. They really hit the notes well and the arrangement is a real feat given the range of their instruments.

Want an encore? How about:

Smells like Teen Spirit - The Ukulele Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KZjnFZvCNc

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Reply #114 - Dec 7^th, 2014 at 10:50pm

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The Noah (1975) has been announced. Yep, another last-man-on-earth with a love interest story. The database has a stockpile of atomic titles for just this contingency:

Noah (1975)	Song	Artist	Source

	Eve of Destruction	Barry McGuire
	Fear The Future	sh!t Disco
	Glow in the Dark	Show Business Giants	http://www.last.fm/music/Show+Business+Giants/Will+There+Be+Corn/Glow+In+The+Dar...
	Have You Ever Seen a Dream Walking?	Annette Hanshaw	#http://archive.org/details/AnnetteHanshaw-ADreamWalking#
	I Hear You Knockin'	Dave Edmunds	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWktoG5DU_4
	If You Were the Only Girl in the World	Larry Douglas	#http://archive.org/details/LarryDouglas-IfYouWereTheOnlyGirlInTheWorld1946#
	I'll See You in My Dream	Cliff Edwards Jazz Band	http://archive.org/details/CliffEdwardsCollection1927-1933
	In Dreams	Roy Orbison
	It's All Over Now	Rolling Stones
	It's All Over Now	Bob Dylan
	It's the End of the World As We Know It	R.E.M.
	I've Got Dreams to Remember	Buddy Guy
	Radio	Elvis Costello
	We'll All Go Together When We Go	Tom Lehrer
	Your Picture In My Mind	DJ Davidouille
	Your Sweet Voice	Matthew Sweet
	(I thought that Love was) Science Fiction	Divinyls
	All We Have Is Now	The Flaming Lips
	Atom and Evil	Golden Gate Quartet	#http://www.atomicplatters.com/more.php?id=115_0_1_0_M#
	Atomic Cocktail	Slim Galliard	#http://www.atomicplatters.com/more.php?id=1_0_1_0_M#
	Back in the Good Old World	Tom Waits
	Brave New World	Jeff Wayne
	Eveybody Wants to Rule the World	Tears for Fears
	Fallout Shelter	Peter Scott Peters	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dJFtTh0wvOY#
	Four Horsemen	The Clash
	Hey St. Peter	Flash And The Pan
	I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire	Horace Heidt Orch, V=Donna Her Don Juans
	I'll Stop The World (and melt with you)	Psyhchedelic Furs
	Last Night of the World	Bruce Cockburn
	Momma Said	The Shirelles
	Moonage Daydream	David Bowie
	New York ain't New York Anymore	Dixie Stars	#http://archive.org/details/DixieStarsAlBernardwithRusselRobinson#
	Nothing Lasts	Matthew Sweet
	Nur Geträumt (only dreamed)	Nena	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Tk5b1CVzg#
	Radium Rain	Bruce Cockburn
	Starting All Over Again	Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
	The End of All Things	Pannic at the Disco
	The World Belongs to You	Jonathan Coulton	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDB8iL44qlg#
	The World is Too Crowded	Show Business Giants	http://www.last.fm/music/Show+Business+Giants/I+Thought+It+Was+A+Fig/This+World+...
	Until The End Of The World	U2
	Waiting for the End of the World	Elvis Costello
	Walking Around in a Dream	Ted Lewis Jazz Band
	Was it a Dream?	30 Seconds to Mars
	Your Picture In My Mind	DJ Davidouille

Honestly, given the hammy over-the-top comedy style of Robert Strauss, I thought this would be a late night schlock version of better films such as "The World the Flesh and The Devil" and "The Last Man on Earth", but it turns out the IMDb has some positive reviews. Maybe it will be all right and maybe even a "find".

R.E.M's "End of the World as We Know It" and Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" have been hits in the past as break songs and certainly pump up the audience after a slow, talky film. I'm for mixing it up with titles such as Show Business Giants' "(Looking for A Girl that) Glows in the Dark" and the Larry Douglas' depression era classic "If You Were the Only Girl in the World".

I've not seen the film so I don't know how much to make of the "dream" "voice" and "radio" elements. What do people who know more about it think?

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Reply #115 - Dec 7^th, 2014 at 11:36pm

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Right now, THE NOAH is Festival
only. Not Marathon.

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Reply #116 - Dec 23^rd, 2014 at 9:51pm

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Merry Christmas everyone...

Except the guy who came up with this album cover. -RF

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Reply #117 - Dec 24^th, 2014 at 12:55am

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Well Iron Giant is booked now so we're going to be searching for giant robot songs, or songs about friendship.

I can't complain but sometimes I still do. Life's been good to me so far.

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Reply #118 - Dec 25^th, 2014 at 10:51pm

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Stephen Colbert ended his show, saying goodbye in high style with help from his many friends. Guess which song he used....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gjdipvtkh0

An homage to Dr Strangelove or to the Sci-fi Marathon? Hmm, I wonder.

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Reply #119 - Dec 26^th, 2014 at 2:56pm

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Just hope we get to hear it at SF40.

BTW for Edge of Tomorrow, how about Billy Preston's "Will It Go Round In Circles"

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