Teasing the Korean

The obvious answers will be pop stars' soundtracks to forgotten films. Several blaxploitation films would fall into this category. If we expand to television, there are "soundtrack" albums that enjoyed a certain degree of popularity beyond the shows. Peter Gunn remained in print well into the digital era. Of course, that is not really a soundtrack album, but a conventional Mancini album packaged as a soundtrack to move units. There are many, many film scores that are better than the films they supported, but the scores are not particularly well known. And there are dozens if not hundreds of pop standards that originated in forgotten films.

I drove a motorcycle once, in summer 1991, in a rural area. Once was enough for me.

They should have devoted 27 pages to it, one page for each chorus.

Did you pick up the LP or CD of Great Pumpkin released in 2022? There was a substandard release about 5 years ago, in which they had taken the music from mono music track of the film. Then last year, they re-issued it from better sources that had been located in the interim. If you don't have it, be sure to get the version with 24 tracks released in 2022. It was many years before I learned that the vocalist on this track is Vince himself!

That is more along the lines of my thoughts of what modernism is. The word "modern" can be misused to mean anything recent or contemporary, whereas modernism was distinct style, or a range of styles (ranging from Mies van der Rohe minimalism to more over-the-top Morris Lapidus stuff, and all points between the two).

Brutalist structures can look really interesting if they are placed in the middle of nowhere, but that seems to be the exception rather than the rule.

On deck for today: A whole bunch of French EPs from the 1960s, with picture sleeves.

That is too funny.

Our home decor is mid-century moderne, but we have a few pieces in the early brutalist style that go with what we have, including my parents' swag lamp that was in our family room when I was a kid.

I think of brutalism generally as distinct from modernism, although early brutalism still seems to have a moderne/primitive aspect about it. I have mixed feelings about brutalist architecture, but my negative opinion of it is colored in part by Boston's disastrous West End Redevelopment Project of the 1960s, which destroyed an entire neighborhood in the name of "urban renewal." The neighborhood was leveled and replaced by high-rise condos and two massive, imposing, austere brutalist government structures. One of these has appeared in a number of films. It was designed by Paul Rudolph, who earlier had built a number of amazing modern homes in Sarasota, FL. Was never there, but based on photos, I would agree.

Yes, but some scary stuff too.

Bumping for @Stonewall15

While I'm not an architecture expert, that building appears to lean more into brutalist territory than modernism, unless brutalism is considered to be a sub-category of modernism. Thoughts?

Yeah, I kind of checked out around then, too. Not sure why. One album I need is Blue Valentine. I love that tune "Kentucky Avenue."

I'm revisiting his 70s albums, at least the ones that we own. I'm most familiar with the 80s Frank trilogy on Island.

Tom Waits - Small Change (Asylum)

Given what's going on in the US and Europe, we need the spirit of modernism now more then ever, IMHO.

Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night (Asylum)

As a devotee of modernism, I heartily disagree.

As if we didn't have enough proof that the world is going to hell, some Scandinavians want to ruin things even more. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-01/a-scandinavian-uprising-against-modern-architecture

We just watched the luau episode of Pee Wee's Playhouse, and it was scored by Todd Rundgren!

Vera Brasil (Revelation, mono) 70s reissue of older Brazilian recordings.

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is coming to LP and CD! In stereo, from the multi-track masters. Including music that didn't make it to the TV special. https://mvdshop.com/search?type=product&options[prefix]=last&q=charlie%2Bbrown%2Bthanksgiving

In Paul's honor, we watched Pee-Wee's Big Adventure last night. It was the first time I'd seen it since the 1980s. Composer Danny Elfman channels a number of film composers in various places, most notably Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann.

Thank you!