comPOSERS: The Movie Score Podcast

It's Soundtrack Appreciation Month, part two! This time around, Krueger redeems his last pick with an absolute banger and arguably one of the best soundtracks ever produced. It's 2000's O Brother, Where Art Thou, with music produced and chosen by T Bone Burnett, and performed by various artists including the Fairfield Brothers, Harry McClintock and Alison Krauss.  And stick around til the end to h...

What is best in life? When a guest does your research for you! This week the boys welcome Brent Chittenden, host of the True North Nerds podcast and all-around pop culture guru to talk muscly men and uncomfortable sex scenes, all set to a score none of us were expecting. It's CONAN everybody, with music by the surprising Basil Poledouris !

It's surprise listener request week! We were lined up to cover James Newton Howard's score for the Devil's Advocate when we received a listener email with a list of requested films we really should be covering, one of which was of course the Avengers! In gratitude, we decided to shift our schedule and take it on, so please, please enjoy The Avengers , with music by Joel McNeely !

Prep the hyperdrive and prepare to make the jump to lightspeed! This week the boys visit the redheaded stepchild of the Star Wars film franchise, one of only two (so far) not to be scored, at least in full, by Saint John Williams. It's Solo: A Star Wars Story , with themes by the maestro and music by the man we think might be primed to replace him, the one and only John Powell. 

New year, new series, same old comPOSERS. Series 13 kicks off with a deep dive into a movie possessed of almost no score or  sanity, but a whole lot of heart. It's 1989's UHF , with music by John Du Prez (but don't bother looking for it) and a kick-ass soundtrack by the legendary "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Happy New Year, film dorks! On the final episode of the year, the boys indulge in a holiday classic: the 1987 made-for-TV special A Muppet Family Christmas , featuring every Christmas song you've ever heard, plus about eight seconds of underscoring by Eric Robertson. And since TV specials are pretty sparse fodder for conversation, we have some important Patreon news to share, not to mention some h...

On the final movie score episode of the season, we're taking a trip through Dickensian England to learn about greed and redemption with Michael Caine and a host of puppets! It's 1992's The Muppet Christmas Carol , with music by Miles Goodman and songs by Paul Williams .  Note to listeners: this is indeed the last regular episode of Series 12 and of 2022, but we'll be back the last Sunday of the mo...

Holiday month continues with another instalment of our unintentional series, "Movies For Whom We Are Not The Audience", with 2020's Godmothered. In true comPOSERS fashion, we chose this as our first-ever score by Oscar winner Rachel Portman , which we're sure she appreciates.

Deck the halls with stupid podcasts, because it's holiday season here on comPOSERS! For the month of December we'll be seeking out holiday-themed films to discuss, starting with a quintessentially bizarre Krueger pick: the British-teen-zombie-horror-comedy-Christmas-musical Anna and the Apocalypse , with pop accompaniment (and a little score) by Roddy Hart and Tommy Reilly. 

In our last pre-holiday-movie season episode, Aaron invites us to cry forever and ever and Jay questions why we're suddenly so sentimental. Come for the sad old man movie, stay for the weirdly extended conversation about FIFA and human rights violations (it's comPOSERS; what do you really expect from us?) It's Pixar's Up , featuring one of the best scores composed by the man who would be Williams,...

Life is like a hurricane and the last two weeks have been a duck-blur, but the comPOSERS are back with a movie none of us are completely sure we picked. Join the boys as we take a gander at 1990s DuckTales: The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, with music by David Newman !

On our final DEcomPOSERS episode of the year, we really burn shit down. This pick comes courtesy of our Halloween Santa Claus  Andy Sell of the  Ghoul School Podcast , who visits us around this time every year to lend credibility to our show. Tonight he joins us to talk 1980s followup to Suspiria: Inferno , with music by...Keith Emerson ? That Keith Emerson? Oh Dario Argento, never change.

What's that behind you? Why it's a supernatural sex pest of course! This week, Aaron's pick for DEcomPOSERS month takes us back to 2014 (sort of) where we read Dostoyevsky and use the word "bang" far more often than any of us is comfortable with. It's the indie horror with a message, if only we could determine what that is: It Follows, with music by Disasterpeace !

DEcomPOSERS month continues with a trip back to the dawn of horror films and one of the first to feature a score! This is a Krueger pick, and since he got married yesterday, we're covering James Whale's "Bride of Frankenstein", with music by Franz "Franky the Wax" Waxman ! 

Stew's on! This week, Jay's DEcomPOSERS pick takes us into the Sierra Nevada for culinary lessons with Robert Carlyle and Guy Pearce. It's 1999's Ravenous, with music by Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn !

Something  rotting this way comes! That's right, it's October once again, which means it's time for DEcomPOSERS: The Movie SCARE Podcast, where for this month of five  Sundays we'll be covering horror scores and the horror films they're in. This week we're starting with a classic group pick, and notably one of the few movies by this director not also scored by him: it's 1982's The Thing, with musi...

Ooooh did we ever feel bad about missing so many weeks of Series 11, so we've got a surprise for you. We promised it to the Patreon folks and we delivered. Welcome to POD OF BROTHERS , 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 . THIS WEEK: E01 CURRAHEE / E02 DAY OF DAYS Since th...

Series 11 rides off into the sunset this week as the boys gather for a rare in-person recording session in Aaron's backyard to chat with the Fifth Beatle Andrew Young about the music and impact of 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with seventeen whole minutes of music courtesy of Burt Bacharach!  And tune in next week, because it's October and you know what that means. Series 12 starts ou...

This week, the boys ponder what it must be like to have been successful once upon a time. It's 2014's Birdman, with music by comPOSERS first Antonio Sánchez !

Who knows what evil lurks at the heart of podcasting? comPOSERS knows! This week, Patreon follower Andy has requested 1994's The Shadow, starring Alec Baldwin in a silly nose and featuring an unnecessarily-good score by "King" Jerry Goldsmith! 

This week, the fellas are in a whole new world as we venture to Disney's surprise-it's-kinda-racist depiction of ancient Arabia to hang out with the ghost of Robin Williams and pointedly avoid talking about his and everyone else's songs because this is a score podcast, damn it. It's 1992's Aladdin, with music by the incomparable Alan Menken ! 

Soundtrack Appreciation Month comes to a close with the soundtrack that (arguably) started it all. If you're going to Scarborough Fair, don't forget to pack your parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, and for the love of God keep a weather eye out for Mrs. Robinson, because it's The Graduate, with music by Simon and Garfunkel , and a terrific accompanying score by Dave Grusin!

Despite the high risk to the elderly, Krueger did  not  die of COVID, so we're back with the second half of Soundtrack Appreciation Month...s. This week we travel back to 1994 — not that you'd know from the music — to rock out with Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi and Adam Sandler in the disastrous flop (that Krueger loves anyway)  Airheads , with music by Carter Burwell, Primus, The Ramones, Motörhe...

Soundtrack Appreciation Month continues with a rare but treasured opportunity to discuss an Edgar Wright movie! This week, Aaron brings us 2017's "Baby Driver" starring Ansel Elgort, with music by Steven Price and many, many amazing others. This is one hell of a soundtrack movie, so buckle up! 

Time to kick off your Sunday shoes as we kick off Soundtrack Appreciation Month with one of the great bangers of the 80s. It's Footloose, with music by Kenny Loggins and a whole lot more!