Clint Mansell | Moon OST #1 - Welcome to Lunar Industries

Clint Mansell, the renowned music composer for acclaimed films like Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream, and The Fountain, also created the eerie, mysterious, and provocative soundtrack for an independent British film known as Moon.

The soundtrack for Moon will be presented by Mansell himself at the Largo at the Coronet in April 4 and 5, 2012. A sample of Mansell's mastery of music and art is posted below. (And, if you haven't already done so, please watch this fantastic movie known as Moon!)


Clint Mansell | Moon OST #1 - Welcome to Lunar Industries

Memoryhouse | Bonfire

Ambient. Soft. Summer. Sun rays. A lazy day in a hipster coffee shop.

I'm somewhat in an "easy listening" phase. Nothing too harsh or loud is perfect at the moment. Canadian band Memoryhouse has vocals resembling Zooey Deschanel (in my opinion) with melodies that are slow, but not quite melancholic. I would describe "Bonfire" as the title implies: warm, cozy, and hopeful.

Sub Pop Records is on a role with artists like The Album Leaf, Iron and Wine, CocoRosie, and of course Memoryhouse. Memoryhouse's album The Slideshow Effect, which includes "Bonfire", will be released February 28, 2012.

Memoryhouse | Bonfire

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross | Soft Trees Break the Fall

So... The Social Network soundtrack is quite catchy. I actually heard this song from a time lapse video of the Milky Way, and got hooked. Little did I know that it was from The Social Network. Now I want to hear the rest of the songs. ("Eventually We Find Our Way" is a good one, too. And I just picked that one at random.)

(I suppose there is a good reason why TSN won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in the 83rd Academy Awards.)

Here's a link to a playlist of the entire soundtrack, available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL10307F922959A2B9.


Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross | Soft Trees Break the Fall

Clint Mansell | Together We Will Live Forever

Pure, raw beauty in sound.


Clint Mansell | Together We Will Live Forever

Clint Mansell | Tree of Life

Normally I don't post movie soundtracks, but The Fountain is an exception. I watched the movie a month or two ago, but happened upon this video today. Listening to the soundtrack by itself allows me to realize just how beautiful of a film The Fountain is; the music, the emotion, the art, the dialogue.

The scene that this song is played in is actually quite dark and gruesome. Yet this song is upbeat and deceivingly positive.


Clint Mansell | Tree of Life

Moby: "Be the One"; "Mistake"

Amazing songs from the soundtrack of The Next Three Days starring Russel Crow. Great selections for this movie.


Moby - Be the One

Check out Moby's "Mistake" after the jump.

Julie Plug - Devoted

Julie Plug - Devoted

High School Sucks: The Musical - Intro Theme Song

High School Sucks: The Musical - Intro Theme Song

Grease - Summer Nights

Grease - Summer Nights

Jesse Chui

I refer specifically to the background music in this short film because while the dialogue is great, the music is just so enchanting and enamoring and perfect. The dialogue is unnecessary in my opinion. The imagery and the music are so much more - and reading the wong fu blog, the commentary (and the Youtube A-List I guess?) are only complementary. The music has that sense of longing, it has all of the personifying emotions. And I think, maybe, the song itself is kind of like the 6th one to fall.

Too much, too cheesy? Maybe.

http://www.songsforcinema.com for more from Jesse Chui

Cat Stevens - If You Want To Sing Out

Heard this in the movie "Harold and Maude"

Cat Stevens - If You Want To Sing Out

Glen Hansard - Fallen From the Sky

Glen Hansard - Fallen From the Sky

One of the songs that I adore from the movie Once. Pleeease watch this movie!