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Soundtrack music from the first silent forward. If it was written for the moving image, we'll play it. Library music included; popcorn optional.
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May 31, 2016: Akira Ifukube Birthday Tribute
Morricone Island pays tribute to Japanese self-taught classical music and film composer Akira Ifukube (1914-2006) on what would have been his 102nd birthday. Ifukube's incredible body of work includes over 250 film soundtracks, most notably Ishiro Honda's 1954 Toho classic "Godzilla" as well as the title character's trademark roar and footsteps, respectively produced by rubbing a resin-covered leather glove over loosened strings of a double bass and by striking an amplified box.
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![]() good eve devon and all |
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![]() godzirra!!!! |
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![]() a double bass! i always wondered. |
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![]() love your description of the how the roar and footsteps were made. |
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![]() ゴジラ Gojira!! |
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![]() i hope we hear some wacky whimsy from 'son of godzilla' |
Tue. 5/31/16 7:11pm
Listener Mike W:
I've been looking forward to this week's show!! Big fan of his Godzilla scores | |
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![]() costume? what costume? |
Tue. 5/31/16 7:14pm
Listener Mike Wood:
My favorite score of his was "Godzilla vs Biollanté", for which Ifukube-san patiently recorded the sounds of various plants growing over a period of ten years, and then sped them up x1000 to use as Biollanté's various screams and attack-sounds | |
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![]() dunno, dale. i think it's a conspiracy theory. |
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![]() YAY ! : ) ...yerknow - as a kid in the 1970s, ya taped movies w/ yer cassette player. I taped 'Monster Zero' - & - most people wouldn't look twice @ this flick - but - I think it just - *sounded* really neat - yaknow ??... |
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![]() seriously mike wood? that's crazy! |
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![]() ...I'm plain Kaiju Krazy...Godzilla & I both Nov. 3rd babies... |
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![]() God this is great! Also, “King Kong vs. Godzilla” is great! The scientists just constantly get King Kong drunk and airlift him to different places to fight Godzilla. Best plot ever! |
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![]() Devon, this music is great. I feel like fighting some big lizards. |
Tue. 5/31/16 7:23pm
Listener Mike Wood:
Rabbit -- I did the same!! (But in the 80s) | |
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![]() KK vs. G makes so little sense it goes straight over to Surreal DreamLogic. Speilberg advised the Muricans *not* to try to remake Godzilla - on the grounds that it was already so *convincing* as done in Japan. That's interesting from him, because that's not what *most* would say about these flicks... |
Tue. 5/31/16 7:25pm
Listener Mike Wood:
I love when the atmosphere of a movie or show can still be fully re-enjoyed off its audio track alone | |
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![]() Here is Godzilla with a lady friend. files.tofugu.com... |
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![]() Here he is enjoying a stroll on a sunny day. img.myconfinedspace.com... |
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![]() ( wouldn't want to ruin the skin by tanning! ) |
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![]() SO....what happened to the brian cranston godzilla? tons of hype and like it never even was released. |
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![]() ...unlike The Monkees, attempts to create his own music for his features were...best forgotten... : s78.photobucket.com... |
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![]() This is fun. |
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![]() this is go go groovy! |
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![]() @dale - it wasn't bad, but it also wasn't good. Another attempt to cash in on a known brand without really giving people what they really love about the brand. |
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![]() make a campy low budget forced perspective guyinasuit version and maybe that'd be something |
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![]() That 2014 Godzilla had such a tiny little head. It looked weird. (Only saw the trailer; didn't watch the actual movie). |
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![]() Shin Gojira coming out of Japan this year: Reportedly a Fukushima type theme - w/ a Gojira like the original post-Hiroshima Noir 1954 one - but all dried up & red w/ shriveled arms & a real mean look...Angry Red Godzilla for 2016... |
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![]() The American Godzilla films have no fun or joy to them. It’s all dour and serious nonsense. |
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![]() pbs.twimg.com... |
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![]() Godzilla vs. Trump - Someone should make that. |
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![]() re: the mysterians - why do aliens ALWAYS want the fainted girl with pointy boobs? |
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![]() Muricans' have neither the proper sort of nuke terror - nor the kawaii...just nevermind - leave it to the Japanese. |
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![]() ...also the Japanese understanding of earthquakes & tsunamis...they're Natural forces - like Dragons...Mothra for example represents Mother Earth in a sense. It's heavy stuff, man! & also pure childhood escapism in remarkable toys... |
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![]() Instant request for Dale! |
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![]() The Japanese understanding of gigantic lizard monsters who destroy cities also surpasses ours. |
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![]() Thank you ALL! |
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![]() Truly Jake. Thx Mr. DJ ! |
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Tue. 8/15/17 10:40am
Number Six:
How the hell did I never find your show before? |
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