Manufacturer: Imports
Sarah Michelle Gellar may be saving the world from vampires but her TV show is also helping a few worthy bands get some much needed exposure. Dayton, Ohio's ridiculously prolific Guided by Voices lead things off with the playful "Teenage FBI," a strong distillation of the band's knack for the irrepressible hook. The all-femme Hepburn protest in true "Maggie's Farm" fashion (as in "I ain't gonna ...
Manufacturer: Columbia
Following the critical success of Channel Four's Queer as Folk and the accompanying soundtrack, Russell T Watson, the writer and co-producer of the show, has returned with another controversial drama, this time for ITV1--Bob and Rose. Attempting to mirror the success of their previous partnership, ace hi-energy/pop remixers and producers Almighty have also put together a pumping ...
Manufacturer: Almighty
The Blue Planet, a BBC natural history series presented by David Attenborough, is accompanied by an appropriately sweeping score by George Fenton. After a bombastic main theme that fuses orchestra, electronics and synthesised choir into a 21st-century anthem, the remaining 15 tracks present an orchestral portrait of the world's oceans. Though folk-ethnic elements are incorporated into cues ...
Manufacturer: BBC
Manufacturer: Virgin
In the wake of Star Wars (1977) came many a space opera seeking box-office glory. Battlestar Galactica (1978) started life as a television series, though after the pilot episode swept the ratings in America a shortened version was released in cinemas overseas. Composer Stu Philips's score was issued on LP and recycled through the life of the series, and this album is effectively a ...
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
When Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks collaborated on the Academy Award-winning Saving Private Ryan, an abiding passion to further honour the young fighting soldiers of WWII was born in both men, resulting in Band of Brothers, an ambitious 10-part mini-series based on historian Stephen Ambrose's account of a 101st Airborne regiment as it fought its way across Europe. In scoring the ...
Manufacturer: Sony Classical
This standalone TV movie told a sub-Quatermass & the Pit story in suitable spooky fashion. A mysterious artefact is discovered and it does inexplicable things to the crew. That's the easy-as-pie plot. Creator Straczynski took an especially prominent role in the spotting of the music with series composer Christopher Franke. He came right out and insisted on the use of a theremin to convey ...
Manufacturer: Sonic Images
As the series drew to an end, this TV movie was slotted in to afford air time to an alien race not seen since the very beginning. The Soul Hunters could have been creator Straczynski's best method of detailing the overall story of the destiny of the human soul. Relegated to just this stand- alone they were rather wasted, but Christopher Franke clearly knew not to waste his opportunity. This ...
