comPOSERS: The Movie Score Podcast

Hey look, it's not a new episode! Again! We're sorry! Sort of! This is a really fun outdoor recording we did a couple of years ago during the height of the pandemic, previously a Patreon exclusive,  that's extra-long and extra-silly. Plus, Krueger has recorded a couple of minutes at the beginning to explain our absence and provide some important updates. Hope you enjoy it!

And we're back...sort of! This week, Aaron takes the boys deep into the wild world of math-based sports, which Krueger mostly understands. It's 2011's Moneyball , with music by Mychael Danna ! NOTE: We recorded this in May, before one of us came up with the idea of doing June Williams. That's why you will hear no mention of our extended absence. Come back on August 20th for our newest-recorded epi...

What the fuck is this, now? Why it's Patreon content, dear listeners, offered during our July hiatus for absolutely goddamned  free . If you like what you hear, three bucks a month gets you access to the rest of our back catalogue including a couple dozen more specials, a bunch of Kruegerecords, and a few other odds and ends we keep in there (Stereo Mix, Backstage Bonecon, and somewhat more ). And...

Remember when we said we were going on a break?  Krueger lied.  We're stoked to announce a new joint-venture show, created collaboratively with the Reverend Brent Chittenden of Darkside Radio and the True North Nerds podcast.  Each month, Krueger and Brent will dive into music you haven't heard that you should be listening to. Moving forward the episodes will appear exclusively on the True North N...

June Williams concludes in whip-cracking form as we tackle a famously-controversial adventure, before the three of us enjoy Saint John's final ride in theaters with the good Doctor Jones. Get ready to cheer for Short Round and Indy one more time, because it's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ! Tracks this week:  Short Round's Theme Slave Children's Crusade Full playlist And don't forget, folks...

June Williams can't be stopped — not even by us! Those of you waiting for the next movie will have to hang onto your hats (and whips) for one week more thanks to some scheduling issues, but thankfully we have one in the chamber — from behind the Tempaywall of Doom! Last year, the boys got together to record a tribute to St. John in honour of his 90th birthday, and we threw it on our Patreon for ou...

It's the podcast episode 65 million years in the making! To celebrate the 30th anniversary of objectively the best dinosaur movie  ever made (and yes, it's the exact anniversary TODAY) we're finally honouring the movie from which we shamelessly ripped off our logo. June Williams (aka John June) continues with 1993's immortal Jurassic Park and its score by the man himself .

Yousa better sit down, because this week we're kicking off JUNE WILLIAMS, a month of St. John scores in advance of the release of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. This week we're going back to 1999 to talk about that Star Wars movie. You know the one. With the stuff. It's The Phantom Menace , everybody, with music way better than this movie deserved .

Musical May comes to an end in the most comPOSERS way imaginable, and honestly, it nearly takes us with it. It's fucking Cats , everybody, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber .  *** KRUEGER NOTE : As I mentioned in the episode, musical superfan Caleb McRobb  sent me the two videos below. They're genuinely interesting and super informative if you want to learn more about this loopy goddamned movie, a...

Krueger's birthday coincided with Musical May, and as a professed musical non-fan, he's brought the most far-fetched interpretation of the genre for us to discuss. It's another movie-turned-musical for the sad bastards out there: 2007's Once , with music by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (with special guests Interference)!

Musical May continues with a movie musical based on a musical based on a movie, and also there are Nazis! It's the most recent incarnation of Mel Brooks' immortal "love" letter to the Third Reich, and more importantly, Jay's pick for the month: The Producers (2005) starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, with music by Mel Brooks and Glen Kelly !

Welcome to Musical May, wherein we discuss movies adapted from the stage — the kind where everybody sings and dances (much to Krueger's confusion, we'll learn). This week, we start the month off with a true banger — and unsurprisingly, Aaron's pick: 2002's Chicago , with music by John Kander and Fred Ebb !

When this podcast started, it featured three drunken out-of-shape dorks in a basement talking shit about movie scores. Two hundred (or so) episodes later, we are less drunk, still in a basement, and the shit we're talking has incrementally more credibility than it used to.  Just kidding; we're the same old assholes. Come celebrate two hundred (or so) episodes of comPOSERS: The Movie Score Podcast...

This week, the boys bid farewell to series 13 and stare down the barrel of two hundred God damned episodes by covering an uplifting film about prison! What we have here is a failure to quit while we're ahead: it's Cool Hand Luke (1967) with music by Lalo Schifrin ! 

We know you were expecting Leon the Professional, but after watching half of it and then showering eight or nine times, Krueger decided on something a little more "treasured childhood memory" and a little less "jail the director". It's 1963's The Sword in the Stone , with music by George Bruns and songs by the legendary Sherman Brothers. A RARE KRUEGER WARNING: We spend some time at the top talkin...

This week, we'll live to see you enjoy the score, but we hope you leave room for our podcast, because we're going to ram it into your earholes and break your goddamned brain! Okay, that was very aggressive, but can you blame us? It's The Running Man , with music by Harold Faltermeyer !

This week, the boys go hunting for a stolen nuclear weapon that we must insist you STOP SHOOTING AT. It's  Broken Arrow , with a classic 90s score by Uncle Hans Zimmer !

It's Jay's birthday, and that can mean only one thing: it's time to grab a satchel full of wildly-impratical gadgets and don your best leisure wear, because it's Live and Let Die , featuring music by George Martin and a Bond song courtesy of Paul and Linda McCartney!

Well, we all knew this was coming. Back in January we announced we'd be more-or-less retiring the Patreon and threading our specials back onto the main feed, and we're staying true to our word. Back in September 2019 we visited our favourite PC game music from our youths through to today, and this week we're jumping back in. Join us for an extended in-person chat about the music of the games we're...

Six months ago, Aaron and Krueger embarked on a great adventure: a limited series deep dive into the iconic miniseries  Band of Brothers , brought to you by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, with  music by Michael "The K-Man" Kamen .  Today, we continue that journey. Welcome to  POD OF BROTHERS , episode two!  THIS WEEK: E03 CARENTAN / E04 REPLACEMENTS

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, the boys venture back to the Emerald Isle with playwright-turned-director Martin McDonagh in his fourth-ever feature film, 2022's bleakly gorgeous The Banshees of Inisherin , featuring truly incredible performances by Colin Farrell's eyebrows and Brendan Gleeson's fingers, not to mention a  very unusual Oscar-nominated score by Carter Burwell. 

WE DON'T LOSE! WE WIN! THAT'S WHAT WE DO! This week on comPOSERS we ruminate on Milton, Faust, and most importantly: Pacino. It's The Devil's Advocate, with music by James Newton Howard !

This week, we bid farewell to another Soundtrack Appreciation Month with a nod to (arguably?) the most famous accordion player ever. It's Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) with music by the man himself and underscoring by Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson. 

Soundtrack month wouldn't be complete without Edgar Wright! This week, the boys cover the third and final installment of the Cornetto Trilogy while discussing the merits of pub crawls and thrill to a Madchester soundtrack , not to mention some great classic score elements from the one and only Steven Price. Get free, get loaded, and have a good time: it's the World's End! 

Soundtrack month continues with the best-selling soundtrack album of all time, brought to us by the musical clairvoyance of one — Kevin Costner? It's The Bodyguard, with music by Whitney Houston among others (and a wee bit of score courtesy of Alan Silvestri!)