If You Could Read Your Mind by Clinic

covermount’s jam on 17 Sep ’15 (See all)

“@MOJOmagazine commemorated their April 2013 story on "The 100 Greatest Music Films Ever" by throwing together a shambles of a covermount alleging to contain "15 Cult Movie Classics." What you get is a motley assemblage of songs that just so happened to be in movies at one point or another. It's silly to call barely memorable tunes by Daniel Johnston or Arthur Russell "cult movie classics" because they played during documentaries about their performers. And sure, most folks learned of Rodriguez by the documentary about him...but does that make his songs "cult movie classics"? There is a smattering of material by the John Barry Orchestra, Ennio Morricone, and David Lynch that better meets the criteria, but then there's a handful of songs that weren't written for movies and were used that way later; that's why Clinic's excellent 2006 tune is here. It apparently got used in the 2007 film Hallam Foe. Come on, MOJO...you know better than this...”

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@MOJOmagazine commemorated their April 2013 story on "The 100 Greatest Music Films Ever" by throwing together a shambles of a covermount alleging to contain "15 Cult Movie Classics." What you get is a motley assemblage of songs that just so happened to be in movies at one point or another. It's silly to call barely memorable tunes by Daniel Johnston or Arthur Russell "cult movie classics" because they played during documentaries about their performers. And sure, most folks learned of Rodriguez by the documentary about him...but does that make his songs "cult movie classics"? There is a smattering of material by the John Barry Orchestra, Ennio Morricone, and David Lynch that better meets the criteria, but then there's a handful of songs that weren't written for movies and were used that way later; that's why Clinic's excellent 2006 tune is here. It apparently got used in the 2007 film Hallam Foe. Come on, MOJO...you know better than this...   2

covermount 17 Sep 2015

The best 'indie' record I've heard in years.   2

Farmeroak 29 Apr 2013

Or if I could. #telepathy

jennyleepenny 27 May 2014

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