A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – Ewok Celebration – 1983 (not available) Oh, the glory days are over. Just finished. This album is terrible. I mean, you expect that Meco is going to do an album based on Continue Reading
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Listening Post: Meco – Pop Goes the Movies
A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – Pop Goes the Movies – 1981 (not available) Oh, that’s too bad. I enjoyed Impressions of An American Werewolf in London so much that it just deepens my disappointment in Pop Goes Continue Reading
Listening Post: Meco – Impressions of An American Werewolf in London
A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – Impressions of an American Werewolf in London – 1981 (not available) Well, Meco’s left disco behind completely, and after Music from Star Trek/Music from The Black Hole, I couldn’t be happier. Meco Continue Reading
Listening Post: U2 – No Line on the Horizon
The very first Listening Post finally concludes with a new one from the band that started it all. U2 – No Line on the Horizon – 2009 (iTunes – Amazon) I started the Listening Post because I realized that, while I knew all of U2’s singles I didn’t really know Continue Reading
Listening Post: Meco – Music from Star Trek/Music from The Black Hole
A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – Music from Star Trek/Music from The Black Hole – 1980 (not available) And we’re back to disco versions of film themes. Coming after the exquisite album The Empire Strikes Back, this one Continue Reading
Listening Post: Meco – Christmas in the Stars
A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – Christmas in the Stars: The Star Wars Christmas Album – 1980 (re-released in 1996, but now discontinued and no longer commercially available) Well, here it is. The legend of this album grew Continue Reading
Listening Post: Meco – The Empire Strikes Back
A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – The Empire Strikes Back – 1980 (not available) It was as inevitable that Meco would return to Star Wars as it was that George Lucas would. But this time, Meco changed tactics. Continue Reading
Listening Post: Meco – Moondancer
A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – Moondancer – 1979 (not available) After four albums of disco versions of movie music, Meco finally decided to record an album of straight disco music. The sound is pretty different, partially because Continue Reading
Listening Post: Meco – Superman and Other Galactic Heroes
A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – Superman and Other Galactic Heroes – 1979 (not available) Meco returns to the same format as his first record, Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk, by taking a John Williams score and Continue Reading
Reflecting Pool: Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
Green Day gives us another Rock Opera. But is it any good? Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown – 2009 (iTunes – Amazon) “My generation is zero. I never made it as a working class hero.” It’s a great line. It follows a bit about being born into Nixon and Continue Reading