Sax And Violence: Music From The Dark Side Of The Screen (Film Score Anthology) [Soundtrack]

Various Artists - Soundtracks (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 14, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B0000014VJ
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #403,079 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Taxi Driver

2. The Double Double: Body Double/Double Indemnity

3. Body Heat

4. The Grifters

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Overall, pleasing, November 20, 2003

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L. S. Slaughter "silvanus" (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sax And Violence: Music From The Dark Side Of The Screen (Film Score Anthology) (Audio CD)

I rarely ever like film score 'covers', but this one is a cut above, with the exception of this terrible deformation of Donaggio's great 1984 "Body Double" theme, wrongly married here to a arrangement of "Double Idemnity". A concept they should have lost. The only treatment of Donaggio's weird Eurodisco-Minnie Mouse-doing-a-striptease that COULD ever really work is Signore Donaggio's. I put that jam on a single CD and sometimes just let it play for hours until I am in an Italian trance state. One wishes Signore would do some more of that kind of modern music, as much as I enjoyed his more conventional scores like "Don't Look Now."

Good picks: 'Chinatown', Herrmann's great 'Taxi Driver', even Mike Small's hard to find 'Klute'... from that long gone decade when cinema was film, not moving wallpaper assembly-manufactured by a bunch of MBAs in goofy eyeglasses slumming in that California desert.

A pity no one covered John Williams and Yamash'tas strange "Images" from 1970... would have fot great in this series! But then, COlumbia went and lost the entire darn film negative!

5.0 out of 5 stars At last!, June 8, 2009

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This review is from: Sax And Violence: Music From The Dark Side Of The Screen (Film Score Anthology) (Audio CD)

For at least 10 years I heard "Goodbye My Lovely", a cut off this album, on a Saturday night radio show here in Seattle. In fact, sometimes I would make a point of tuning in at the top of the show just to hear the piece, which was the host's theme song. Once I called into the show (it wasn't a call-in show) to get the title of the piece and the album on which it appeared. The album was "Sax and Violence: Music from the Dark Side of the Screen."

When Cynthia Doyon, host of "The Swing Years and Beyond," died suddenly, the show was taken on by a new host who used a different theme song. I'd lost the slip of paper on which I wrote the album name and was afraid I'd forgotten how to find my song, forgotten the titles of album and song. In the intervening time I'd heard of other albums that used the "sax" double entendre, like the album "Sax All Night."Sax All Night Sax All Night Long So I was unsure which was my album title.

When I looked up "Sax and Violence" on Amazon and saw the list of cuts I was cautiously hopeful I'd found my album. The title "Goodbye My Lovely" was kind of familiar. I ordered a used copy, which arrived quickly.

I hooked up my little CD player, inserted the disk and couldn't figure out how to skip to the cut I thought I wanted to hear. As I listened I was relieved that not all the cuts feature saxophone, which isn't an instrument prominent in the piece I love. I remained hopeful that I might have found my song at last -- and I had! Without the rolling waves Cynthia had added to the beginning, the song wasn't introduced in the way I'd heard for years but that didn't matter. The lush harmonies and arrangement transported me as they had so many times before. Thank heaven I found it on Amazon!

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SOOTHING MUSIC - DON'T LET THE TITLE FOOL YOU, July 8, 2002

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This review is from: Sax And Violence: Music From The Dark Side Of The Screen (Film Score Anthology) (Audio CD)

I was given this CD to listen to and decided it was a must-have. On the second try to purchase, I did receive it and it is wonderful. Lots of music from the past, but done in an outstanding manner. I would recommend this to anyone who likes good jazz - not overpowering, just good music