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New Forest Film Festival 2011: My Playlists

As a way of psyching myself up for all the volunteering and screening for this year's New Forest Film Festival, I did several playlists themed around some of the screenings, as virtual foyer music, completely for my own enjoyment. I suppose early on, I did half fancy suggesting to the organizers that they consider playing out some of this stuff as part of the ambience for some of the screenings, but a few of them are actual musicians, have their own tastes, etc., and I quickly realized that if I went so far as suggesting this sort of thing, I'd mark myself out as an annoying weirdo. I may have found other ways to do just that, unfortunately. Time will tell, and if any of them cross the street when they see me coming, I'll bravely take the hint.

But, for those of you who just enjoy lists, you might like a look at what I put together.

Musicalia
Just Go to the Movies	Cast	A Day in Hollywood, A Night in The Ukraine
As Time Goes By (complete vocal)	Max Steiner	Casablanca- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
They All Laughed	Fred Astaire	Fred Astaire Sings
Broadway Ballet	Gene Kelly	Singin' In The Rain
Manic Depressive Presents Lobby Number (Parts 1&2)	Danny Kaye	The Best Of Danny Kaye
If I Were a Bell	Holly Cole Trio	Blame It On My Youth
Pennies From Heaven	Arthur Tracy	Pennies From Heaven
Comedy Tonight	Stephen Sondheim	A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum [OBC]
Did You Ever See A Dream Walking	Bing Crosby	Pennies From Heaven
Make 'Em Laugh	Donald O'Connor	Singin' In The Rain-ST
Tchaikovsky And Other Russians	Danny Kaye	Entertainer Extraordinary
That's Entertainment	FAstaire NFabray JBuchanan IAdams	The Band Wagon
Too Darn Hot	Ann Miller	Kiss Me Kate Cole Porter
Doin' the Production Code	Cast	A Day in Hollywood, A Night in The Ukraine
Could I Leave You	Stephen Sondheim	Follies
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair	Mitzi Gaynor	South Pacific - Original Film Soundtrack Rogers & Hammerstein
On the Street Where You Live	Holly Cole Trio	Blame It On My Youth
I Love a Film Cliche	Cast	A Day in Hollywood, A Night in The Ukraine
UKnowFerKids
Life Could Not Better Be	Danny Kaye	The Court Jester
Little Boy Blue	Holly Cole Trio	Temptation
I Don't Want To Grow Up	Petra Haden & Bill Frisell	Petra Haden & Bill Frisell
I Won't Grow Up	Rickie Lee Jones	Pop Pop
I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)	Los Lobos	Stay Awake, Hal Wilner's Disney Tribute
If I Were King Of The Forest	Nathan Lane	The Wizard Of Oz In Concert: Dreams Come True
Stay Awake	Innocence Mission, The	Now The Day Is Over
Lili Hi Lili, Hi Lo	Leslie Caron	Lili
Super-Cali-Fragil-Istic-Expi-Ali-Docious	Supremes, The
Trust In Me	Siouxsie & the Banshees	Through The Looking Glass
The Merry Old Land Of Oz	Cast	Wizard Of Oz Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg
Stupidcarelessfictional-nonsensicalverboseness	Forbidden Broadway	Forbidden Hollywood
Selectie Mary Poppins	The Postelfonia's BmG 223	Eerste Bestelling (First Delivery)
Foreign Novelty Smash	The Credibility Gap	The Rhino Brothers Present The Worlds Worst Records Vol. 2
Siamese Cat Song	Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin	Up from the Dark
The Allosaurus Chorus	Evergreen Choir, The
Triplets	Fred Astaire w/NFabray JBuchanan	The Band Wagon Great MGM Stars
Mad Dogs And Englishmen	Danny Kaye	The Best Of Danny Kaye
Cinephile
Exit Music (For A Film)	Miranda Sex Garden	Anyone Can Play Radiohead
The Invisible Man	Elvis Costello &Attractions	Punch The Clock
I Love a Film Cliche	Cast	A Day in Hollywood, A Night in The Ukraine
Everyone's Gone to the Movies	Steely Dan	Citizen Steely Dan
If I Saw You In A Movie	Heather Nova	South
If You Were In My Movie	Suzanne Vega	Close Up-Love Songs
Movies Of Myself	Rufus Wainwright	Want One
Road Movie To Berlin	They Might Be Giants	Flood
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly	John Zorn	Filmworks 1986-1990
Kung Fu	Ash	1977
Lust In The Movies	Long Blondes, The	Someone To Drive You Home
Mysteries Of Love	Antony and the Johnsons	I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy
Calling You	Holly Cole Trio	Blame It On My Youth
When The Lights Go Out All Over Europe	Divine Comedy, The	Promenade
The Man With The Golden Gun	Emiliana Torrini	Crouie d'o l
Tomorrow Never Dies	Uwe Kröger	From Broadway to Hollywood
This Is Not America	Juliette Lewis	Hollywood, Mon Amour
B Movie	Elvis Costello &Attractions	Get Happy!!
Exit Music (for a film)	Brad Mehldau
Vehicle of Horror
Drive-In Movie	Commercial Recording Corporation	The Money Maker
Weird Nightmare	Elvis Costello & Bill Frisell	Deep Dead Blue - Live At Meltdown
Exquisite Dead Guy	They Might Be Giants	Factory Showroom
I Fell In Love With A Dead Boy	Antony and the Johnsons	I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy
Friend of the Devil	Lyle Lovett	Deadicated - A Tribute to Grateful Dead
Black Christmas	Trailer
My Wife and My Dead Wife	Robyn Hitchcock (& the Egyptians)	Catalog Sampler
Unsolved Child Murder	The Auteurs	Volume 17 (Disc 2)
Bela Lugosi's Dead (Bauhaus)	Nouvelle Vague	Bande A Part (UK Ltd. Edition)
Dinner With Leatherface	3D Invisibles	Jump Off the Screen
Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner	Warren Zevon	Excitable Boy
Tania	Camper Van Beethoven	Our Beloved Revolutionary Swee
6ix	Lemonheads, The	Car button cloth (all of these things sank)
Silent Night Bloody Night	Trailer
Beware of the Blob	Blob, The	The Golden Turkey Award Album-The Best Songs From The Worst Movies
The Thing That Only Eats Hippies	Dead Milkmen, The	Death Rides a Pale Cow
Silent Night Deadly Night II	Trailer
Human Fly (The Cramps)	Nouvelle Vague	Bande A Part (UK Ltd. Edition)
Death Cab For Cutie	Bonzo Dog Band	Gorilla
Down in the Ground Where the Deadmen Go	Pogues, the	Red Roses for Me
Robert E. Lee Broke His Musket on his Knee	2,000 Maniacs	The Golden Turkey Award Album- The Best Songs From The Worst Movies
The Legend of Guan Di	McCain Brothers, The	My name is Bruce ST
Where The Wild Roses Grow	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Murder Ballads
The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun	Julie Brown	Dr Demento 20th Anniversary Collection-Disc 2
Plan 9 from Outer Space	3D Invisibles	Jump Off the Screen

I hadn't done a list for the silent film screening, after all it had live musical accompaniment from the Dodge Brothers and film music genius Neil Brand (perhaps the 5th Dodge Brother). I presumed they'd play out recordings of their own stuff, or something similar. Mike Hammond of the Dodge Brothers (film historian at Southampton Uni, in his spare time), said in his intro that the film The Ghost That Never Returns was a perfect project for the Dodge Brothers as they shared the themes of Transportation and Homicide (now there's an album title, if I ever 'eard one). So, I've done this list in tribute, post facto. I may do a "Transportation" one, but every time I think of it, I never get past the excellent Laura Cantrell's EP Planes and Boats and Trains, featuring a great cover of the titular Bacharach song, along with other transportation themed tunes.

Homicide
A Sweet Little Bullet From a Pretty Blue Gun	Tom Waits	Blue Valentine
Murder	John Lee Hooker Miles Davis	The Hot Spot Soundtrack
But I Was Cool	Albert Collins	Don't Lose Your Cool
How Come My Dog Don't Bark (When You Come Round)	Dr. John	Goin' Back To New Orleans
Smoking Gun	Robert Cray	Strong Persuader
I'm The Man Who Murdered Love	XTC	Wasp Star (Apple Venus, Vol. 2)
Knoxville girl	Lemonheads, The	Car button cloth (all of these things sank)
Let Him Dangle	Elvis Costello	Spike
Gun	Siouxsie & the Banshees	Through The Looking Glass
Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Lennon)	Tori Amos	Strange Little Girls
Honey Gun	Nick Lowe	Party of One
Man With A Gun	Jerry Harrison	Something Wild
Murder, Tonight, In The Trailer Park	Cowboy Junkies	Black Eyed Man
Stagger Lee	Taj Mahal	Giant Step
Take Out Some Insurance On Me Baby	Jimmy Reed
Unworthy of Your Love	Stephen Sondheim	Assassins
Death And The Lady	John Renbourn	A Maid In Bedlam (John Renbourn Group)
St. Stephens Day Murders	Elvis Costello, Chieftains, the	The Bells of Dublin
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You	Dr. John	Goin' Back To New Orleans

Labels: Life Irritates Art, New Forest Film Festival

posted by Brian R Tarnoff @ 6:05 pm