CiTR -- Exploding Head Movies

Looking at the numbers, our profile is on François Truffaut's 1966 film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopic novel Fahrenheit 451. Keep the fires at bay! gak's back and the CITR Sports Desk comes up with breaking numbers at the end. 1. Hot Chip: Hungry Child (A Bath Full of Ecstasy, 2019) Domino 2. Majeure: Unimara (Union of Worlds, 2015) Constellation Tatsu 3. 2 Chainz: Threat 2 Society (Ra...

For your April Fools Day episode, instead of pulling the wool over your eyes, you'll just receive various manners of strange music. Tributes will be paid to singer Andre Williams (1936-2019), director Agnès Varda (1929-2019) and singer/producer Scott Walker (1943-2019). Guest host this week: GAK WOODERSON, after regular host gak said those mean things about hippies bathing last week. Not all right...

Last week's profile was on Valley of the Dolls so this all psychedelic episode is its spiritual sequel as we profile music from the 1970 satire Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (director: Russ Meyer! writer: Roger Ebert!). We also pay tribute to Monkee Peter Tork (1942-2019) in this show that harkens back to another old CITR show that ran from 2007 to 2014: Stereoscopic Redoubt. 1. Keith Mansfield:...

More eulogies for you as we pay tribute to the German-American composer André Previn (1929-2019) and his varied approach to music. We'll hear selections from his scores to the films Bad Day at Black Rock and Valley of the Dolls as we also mark the lives of Talk Talk's Mark Hollis, Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine & surf guitarist Dick Dale. 1. André Previn: Main Title (Cause for Alarm! OST, 1951)...

Award season and Fundrive are over, so it's catch-up time with the recently deceased. Primary profile is on the French composer Michel Legrand (1932-2019) and his music from the epic musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and his score from the recently completed Orson Welles' film The Other Side of the Wind. We also pay tribute to actor Luke Perry, drummer Sara Romweber & regular soul singer James In...

CITR Fundrive 2019 is on! We're celebrating over 80 years on air and we need your help to make new milestones for our double ruby jubilee. We'll profile Michael Giacchino's scores from The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel amongst other gems. Donate today or up until March 15! http://www.citr.ca/donate 1. Theresa Andersson: Ruby (Street Parade, 2012) Basin Street 2. Haruomi Hosono: Talking (Watering...

The 91st Academy Awards were handed out yesterday and plenty of surprise winners this time. Along with the winning score to Black Panther and the winning song from A Star is Born, expect some Queen in light of the success of Bohemian Rhapsody. Prepare also for some Don Shirley due to the contentious Best Picture win for Green Book and some of the period Mexican music from other big winner Roma. Al...

For your Family Day pleasure, our final look at the Oscar nominees leading up to next week's 91st Academy Awards focuses on Marc Shaiman's nominated music from Mary Poppins Returns. It's natural to dig up a few songs from the 1964 original in the spirit of things. We also pay tribute to voiceover artist Ken Nordine (1920-2019) and Vancouver musician Phil Western (1971-2019). 1. Richard M Sherman &...

Part 3 and 4 of our annual Academy Awards preview as we continue our listen to nominees for best original song and score. We'll dig back to the scores previously profiled: Isle of Dogs and Black Panther, the latter of which includes one of the nominated songs. We'll also have a song from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs along with non-nominated music from Dumplin', Annihilation, First Man, Eighth Grad...

We continue on with our annual Oscar profile as we dive into Nicholas Britell's nominated score to the Barry Jenkins' film adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk. We also have the highly-tipped original song from the latest version of A Star is Born and spurned music from Quincy: A Life Beyond Measure, Vice, The Death of Stalin and Crazy Rich Asians along with a Shindig finale preview and a spor...

With the nominees for the 91st Academy Awards announced last Tuesday, it's time for our annual profile on the nominated songs and scores. Kicking things off with Spike Lee's adaptation of the unbelieveable true story BlacKkKlansman, scored by long-time collaborator Terence Blanchard. We also have a nominated song off the RBG documentary, along with some music that should've been nominated from Sor...

The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards will be announced tomorrow but there's at least one winner that we're aware of already. Legendary Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin has received an honourary award for his contributions to film score, so we'll profile his music from the first two Dirty Harry films. 1. KH: Question (Question 12", 2017) Text 2. Larry Lake, Philippe Moenne-Loccoz, Bernard Donze...

On January 17, 1963, the Fluxist Robert Filliou declared that art was born a million years hence when a man dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Who was that man? It doesn't matter; he is dead but art is alive. Ancient life was all silence; we are all born into noise now. For your uneasy listening pleasure, CITR celebrates art's birthday every year with 24 Hours of Radio Art. Interspliced...

Marking eleven years to the day he debuted, gak lets the sunshine in with another weird little show. Along with profiles on actor/director Penny Marshall (1943-2018) and lyricist Norman Gimbel (1927-2018), we'll get all musical with selections from Broadway composer Galt MacDermot (1928-2018), particularly his famous work Hair. 1. The Chemical Brothers: MAH (MAH single, 2019) Virgin EMI/Astralwerk...

A new dawn awaits you, along with a new year. We touch upon some Blade Runner along with a tribute to the Buzzcocks' Pete Shelley (1955-2018). The main focus will be on David Byrne and his band Talking Heads as a complete version of the True Stories soundtrack came out before 2018 ended. We also have Byrne's Oscar-winning score with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su to 1987's The Last Emperor. 1. Vange...

In case you’ve never heard them before, relive some old holiday episodes in lieu of new material over the holidays. Like regifting but if it’s new to you, it’ll work. Original airdate & link to playlist: December 21 2009: https://www.citr.ca/radio/radio-free-gak/episode/20091221/ December 19 2011: https://www.citr.ca/radio/exploding-head-movies/episode/20111219/ Sound FX during new segues: soundbi...

For our final episode of 2018, it's time for the 11th annual renegade Yuletide show! Featuring all types of carols to counter what you've overheard elsewhere, plus music tied to The Grinch (old & new), the Rankin-Bass production of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Emmet Otter. We'll bang on tong-tinglers, blow our foo-flounders! We'll crash on jang-jinglers and bounce on boing-bounders! 1. The F...

With 2018 winding down, it's time to review the year that is about to close. We'll look back on some of the film scores profiled in the past twelve months, so don't expect a best-of, more a recap. 1. Parquet Courts: Wide Awake! (Wide Awake! 2018) Rough Trade 2. Laurel Halo: Nahbarkeit (Raw Silk Uncut Wood, 2018) Latency 3. Rolling Blackout Coastal Fever: Mainland (Hope Downs, 2018) Sub Pop 4. Snai...

As 2018 enters its final month, it's time to profile one of the best film scores of the year as we listen to Radiohead's Thom Yorke and his soundtrack to the remake of Suspiria. 1. Tolpamin: Just Deserts in Your Final ffflllaaassshhh (Ringtones 1, 2016) self-released 2. Emergency Broadcast Network: Behaviour Modification/We Will Rock You [Bipartisan mix] (Behaviour Modification single, 1992) TVT 3...

With the recent passing of the Marvel writer/editor/promoter Stan Lee (1922-2018), we delve into the world of superheroes, primarily tied to Spider-Man and the wild music from the 1960s animated TV series. 'Nuff said! 1. Paul Soles: Let's Get This Show on the Road Gang (Spider-Man from the KPM Vaults, 1968) Funky Frolic 2. Boba Fettucini: Radioactive Spider [w. Stan Lee, intro] (The Amazing Spider...

Two film composers died recently, so we'll pay tribute to some of their music: Italy's Stelvio Cipriani (1937-2018) & France's Francis Lai (1932-2018). We'll also honour the work of legendary author/screenwriter William Goldman (1931-2018) along with processing all manners of recent news. gak shoots for the stars and misses by a wide mark. 1. Beth Orton & The Chemical Brothers: I Never Ask...

In honour of Remembrance Day, marking the 100th anniversary of the Armistice Treaty that ended World War I, we'll go back 20 years to John Williams' score to Saving Private Ryan. 1. The Conet Project: Bugle (Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations, 1997) Irdial 2. Museum of Love: Marching Orders (Marching Orders single, 2018) self-released 3. NOFVNCITY: The Antidote (VNITY, 2018) WEATNU 4. Young...

gak finally remembers, remembers the 5th of November as we profile Dario Marianelli's score to the 2005 film adaptation of Alan Moore's V for Vendetta. 1. November Group: Volker (Work That Dream 12", 1985) A&M 2. Iceage: The Day the Music Dies (Beyondless, 2018) Escho 3. Daniel Avery: Diminuendo (Song for Alpha, 2018) Phantasy Sound 4. Odonis Odonis: Vision (No Pop, 2017) Telephone Explosion V. J...

Hallowe'en Horror Month concludes as we profile Jóhann Jóhannsson's final score: the gloriously insane Panos Cosmatos 2018 film Mandy. A certain man of the wolf breed interrupts the proceedings; throat lozenges are dispensed. 1. Soulwax: Essential One (Essential, 2018) Deewee/PIAS 2. Souns: Tree Falls [w. Hawah] (Smoke single, 2014) Panospria 3. Fred Schneider & The Shake Society: Monster (Fred Sc...

Le Matos score the 2018 horror mystery Summer of '84 for a prerecorded horror as Hallowe'en month continues. This episode was recorded at Exploding Global Headquarters, powered by the wonder that is gin. 1. Cherushii: Manic [w. Kara Marie, deep version] (Manic EP, 2016) self-released 2. Magic Touch: Strongbow & Spliffs [w. Roche] (2014) XLR8R 3. Wallgrin: O Harpy (Bird/Alien, 2018) Heavy Lark 4. C...