Resuming a 25 year old obssession with the music...

I listened to a radio programme recently where composer Dave Arnold was talking about the opening theme to The Untouchables. It prompted me to dig out an old cassette mix-tape of film music that I used to listen to when going to school that I suspected might have that track on it along with a lot of the classics (Star Wars, Jaws, The Omen, Psycho, Lawrence of Arabia etc)...

I found that not only was the theme to Untouchables the first track on ones side of the cassette, it was the last track on the other side. It all came flooding back. How many times must I have flipped that cassette to listent to that track over and over again (without using FFWD or RWD and draining the batteries).

I'm guessing that at the time I was enamoured with it becaue of the film it went with but also the currency of the four-four beat (House and Techno were becoming very popular at the time). 25 years later though, I can't think of another nominally orchestral score to use that time signature so explicitly. In fact the only 4/4 score that springs to mind at all (except for sourced music) is the Theme from Shaft. There's even a couple of little hi-hat moments that seem to refer to Shaft (maybe).

It really is a unique movie theme. I absolutely love it. Thankfully I just have to out my mp3 player on repeat these days and I don't get print-through, wow or flutter. Although I do miss the loudness of old cassettes.

And I've not even talked about the death theme.

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