At the Movies
| At the Movies | ||||
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| 📅 Released | 31 August 2018 | |||
| ⏳ Length | 70:20 | |||
| 🏷️ Label | Mint 400 Records | |||
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At the Movies is a compilation album released by the Mint 400 Records label. It is the label's tenth compilation, and features songs written for movie soundtracks or featured prominently in a feature film.
Content[edit]
The double disc twenty-one track album was released for free by Mint 400 Records, on 31 August 2018, and showcases aBIRD, Ancient Babies, the Bitter Chills, the Brixton Riot, C'est La Vie, CK Vibes, the Clydes, commacommaspacespace, Defend the Rhino, the Duke of Norfolk, etti/etta, the Extensions, Fairmont, Jim Testa and the Hoboken Dusters, the Limbos, Neil Sabatino, Of Love, Pixl-Visionary, Yawn Mower, Young Legs and Zach Uncles.[1] The compilation took nearly two years to complete, and features cross-pollination between artists.[2] The Aquarian Weekly columnist Bob Makin notes that At the Movies "harkens back to the days when labels got their rosters involved in fun, interesting projects to generate creative new visions of classic songs."[3] Journalist and musician Jim Testa appears on the compilation, performing "The Rainbow Connection" with The Hoboken Dusters.[3]
Reviews[edit]
Among Jersey Beat editor Paul Silver's favorite tracks on At the Movies are The Clydes' version of "Your Mother Should Know," which he describes as "nice and jangly, reasonably true to the original, though a bit faster and with more jangle[,] the organ breaks from the original become huge, dark synth parts, giving a nice contrast," and Pixl-Visionary's cover of "Exit Music (for a film)" which he notes as being "probably the most different from the original than anything on [At the Movies;] the cover is an up-tempo 80s dance-goth sort of thing." He summarizes the review with saying "most are calm and sedating, a few are boisterous[,] all quite enjoyable, and not very many clinkers."[1]
Track listing[edit]
| Disc one | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist | Length |
| 1. | "I Love You All" (from Frank) | Stephen Rennicks | Yawn Mower | 3:39 |
| 2. | "Bring on the Dancing Horses" (from Pretty in Pink) | Echo & the Bunnymen | The Brixton Riot | 3:57 |
| 3. | "Miss Misery" (from Good Will Hunting) | Elliott Smith | Young Legs | 2:34 |
| 4. | "Suicide Is Painless" (from MASH) | Johnny Mandel, Mike Altman | Fairmont | 3:08 |
| 5. | "Playground Love" (from The Virgin Suicides) | Jean-Benoît Dunckel, Nicolas Godin, Gordon Tracks | aBIRD feat. CK Vibes | 4:08 |
| 6. | "Your Mother Should Know" (from Magical Mystery Tour) | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Clydes | 2:46 |
| 7. | "Exit music (for a film)" (from Romeo + Juliet) | Radiohead | Pixl-Visionary | 3:08 |
| 8. | "Ghostbusters" (from Ghostbusters) | Ray Parker Jr. | The Limbos | 4:08 |
| 9. | "The Power of Love" (from Back to the Future) | Huey Lewis and the News | The Bitter Chills | 4:42 |
| 10. | "The Sound of Silence" (from The Graduate) | Simon & Garfunkel | The Duke of Norfolk, feat. Hanna Haas | 3:36 |
| Disc two | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist | Length |
| 11. | "Let's All Go to the Lobby" | commacommaspacespace | 0:42 | |
| 12. | "Threshold" (from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) | Beck | The Extensions | 2:10 |
| 13. | "Pure Imagination" (from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) | Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley | Of Love | 3:57 |
| 14. | "Theme song" (from Twin Peaks) | Julee Cruise | CK Vibes feat. commacommaspacespace | 4:56 |
| 15. | "Theme from Jurassic Park" (from Jurassic Park) | John Williams | Defend the Rhino | 2:58 |
| 16. | "Rainbow Connection" (from The Muppet Movie) | Paul Williams, Kenneth Ascher | Jim Testa and the Hoboken Dusters | 3:16 |
| 17. | "Need You Around" (from Clueless) | Smoking Popes | etti/etta | 3:31 |
| 18. | "I'll Try Anything Once" (from Somewhere) | The Strokes | Neil Sabatino | 3:16 |
| 19. | "If I Only Had a Brain" (from The Wizard of Oz) | Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg | C'est La Vie | 5:00 |
| 20. | "Theme song" (from Cool Hand Luke) | Lalo Schifrin | Zach Uncles | 2:18 |
| 21. | "My Heart Will Go On" (from Titanic) | James Horner, Will Jennings | Ancient Babies | 7:09 |
| Total length: | 70:20 | |||
References[edit]
- Citations
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Silver 2018.
- ↑ Pirate! Staff 2018.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Makin 2018.
- Bibliography
- Makin, Bob (19 July 2018), "Makin Waves Scene Report With Mint 400 Records, A Tribute To George Theiss, & Etherius", The Aquarian Weekly, retrieved 22 January 2019
- Pirate! Staff (2018), "At the Movies", Pirate!, retrieved 22 January 2019
- Silver, Paul (2018), "At the Movies", Jersey Beat, archived from the original on 15 December 2018
