No Filler Music Podcast - Sidetrack: The Music Of Suspiria (feat. Goblin & Thom Yorke)

Episode Date: November 5, 2018

The Self Brothers are recording on Halloween night and to help get into the spirit we dive into the music of Suspiria, the 1977 French horror film that just got a 2018 reboot featuring an original score by none other than Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke. We also listen to the original film's "theme song" by the italian prog rock group Goblin. For more info, check out our show notes: https://www.nofillerpodcast.com/episode/album-review-radiohead-ok-computer#sidetrack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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My name is Travis, and it's Halloween night. Do you got the lights turned down or what? What's going on? I have a candle burning, but it's such a pleasant aroma that I'm not spooked, man. What's the aroma? It's called mystery scent What? Mystery scents Yeah, mystery scent

I bought it when I was in Austin I didn't buy it, it was gifted to me You don't know what the smell's gonna be It smells, it smells like a Christmas tree So, yeah, I fucked up It's Halloween, I fucked up It's not Christmas, what the hell What do you like, you drink it from a goblin right now, dude?

You got your witch's hat on? Yeah, actually I do Uh, can I just apologize to our dear listener about my vocals last week. I like how you said listener. Singular. That's the ongoing joke, brother.

Yeah. Mitchell, I'm sorry, dude, I'm sorry about your ears because I'm sure that you heard those pops and all that shit from my recording last week. I don't know what the hell's wrong with my system or if it's my microphone or what.

but I keep having to jump between my MacBook and my Windows computer for recording these episodes and I just can't seem to figure out something that works. So I think I'm just going to buy a new microphone. But it seems to be working great tonight. I even did a few test recordings and it sounded fantastic. So hopefully that won't happen again. So this is our sidetrack episode for the week and we are recording this. on the great pumpkin day.

And we suck. So here's the deal. We would have had to fake it and record this on like a different day if we wanted to release this on Halloween. Right. So sorry. Apologies that this is obviously not going to be released until after Halloween. But I'm feeling it, dude. Especially up here, man.

The weather is just perfect Halloween weather, dude. It's like overcast. there's just a slight sprinkle. It's like 57 degrees. How's it down there in Texas? Is it all hot and shitty? No, it's actually lovely. It's like 60s.

I mean, it was raining. It's been raining, but luckily it just held up. I remember growing up in Texas in elementary school, we had like that classic fall, like Halloween. weather, you know. But then, like, something changed, like, halfway through elementary school. And then, like, Halloween night was all muggy and hot and gross. I mean, it depends, dude.

It's not, I mean, this has been a really wet October for Texas, or for Dallas at least. But, you know. But hey, man, let's get down to the fucking business here, dude. So I briefly mentioned last week on our OK computer. episode that Tom York composed the soundtrack for the Susperia remake that just came out. And so I figured, since it's Halloween and everything, let's do an episode on the music of Susperia. So not just his latest work, but the original score from the 1977 film by a band called Goblin.

and I love the name of that band, dude. Yeah, that's a great band name. I don't know anything about them. So here's a quick synopsis about these guys. Basically, they are sort of known for their soundtrack work, specifically with this guy, Dario Argento, who is the original director for Susperia. It's an Italian director, Italian band,

the film is obviously Italian, right? But really interesting film. It's kind of an artistic film. Very like, like, you know, it's got a very, like, it's obvious it was made. It was a 70s flick right when you watch it. But really cool stuff, really, really interesting camera angles and like iconic, iconic horror film, right? I would say if you're a fan of horror, it's got to be on your list of, of films to watch.

But again, it's a bit weird. It's one of those weird, like I said, kind of more artistic, you know, films. But anyway, it's a classic. So the remake of Suspira just came out probably last week. I haven't seen it, unfortunately. So I can't compare the two.

But I can say that, of course, Tom York's, music here is amazing. And what's cool about it is you know, we kind of briefly talked about this on one of our, I guess it was our last spoon sidetrack that we did, where we talked about the soundtrack for Stranger Than Fiction, right?

And how Britt Daniel sort of contributed to some of the scores, right? The actual like pieces for this, but I mean, other than that, it was mainly just spoon songs without the vocals in it or that one song in particular written in reverse right written in reverse no not written in reverse book i write book i write that's what it was called yeah but we were talking about how like wouldn't it be great to hear brit daniel actually sit down and compose a soundtrack for a film not not like write a spoon song for a film but britt daniel doing a score right well you get this with with uh with this asperio soundtrack because it's he did write or i mean i guess i should say

he released some singles off of this album that are um you know he's singing in them uh they feel more like you know like maybe a tom york solo song right but um a good portion of the soundtrack is sort of your traditional like movie score type music but with the tom york spin on it so really awesome soundtrack definitely give it a listen but here we go here's what we're going to do so the original suspirious score the theme song is just it's up there with you know the psycho uh theme song or like the Halloween um score or like the exorcism um theme song as far as like well-known horror movie theme songs right so we're going to play that first you actually heard like an alternate version of it the song that we played uh that played this

episode in um that's like i mean it's called the uh well it's called the suspiria theme um but it's just celesta and bells basically um so you heard the the theme but the actual sort of the one that plays the movie in is what we're going to play right now. So let's just go ahead and do that. So here we go. Again, this is the band Goblin, and this is the theme song to the 1977 horror film Suspirit. Man, that's a great movie intro, like title credit sequence song. Yeah, that melody that's kind of playing in the background of the song is used like over and over again the other song.

It's sort of, it's the theme, right? Yeah. But yeah, I just love that. I love all the things that they're doing in that, in that track, like the kind of vocals in the background, you know. Yeah, dude, like the growly whisper. Yeah, if we played the track long enough. Hang on, dude. Give me one second.

I just want to turn the lights off in this room real quick. Do it, man. I like where you're going. All right, they're off. I just got the glow of the candle. You know what's funny, dude? When we did the Black Sabbath episode, and I was hoping you'd turn the lights off,

you didn't do it. Well, that's because, you know what? So, here's a deal about living way up north. Right now, it's barely 6.30, and it's fucking dark outside, dude. But when we were recording that Black Sabbath episode, it was still bright as day. So I turned out the lights.

I didn't, I've only got blinds in here. And I could, you know, like it wasn't dark, man. So I'm feeling it now, dude. It is dark and gloomy. You could have put, you could have put a blanket over your window or something, you know? Yeah, that's what you said. That's what you said during, like, I asked if you wanted me to, to go grab a blanket. Like, we could just wait.

We could just put up one of those like, Yeah, exactly. But anyway, okay, well, you know what? I'm just, I'm glad that you're, you're getting into the spirit here. It's Halloween, dude. Yeah. Yeah. So the movie is about this kind of, I don't know, it's hard to describe.

It's kind of about this, let me just read the synopsis here. An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders. That's your synopsis. So, anyway, I just love what Goblin does with that score. You know, they use a lot of different kind of interesting instruments and stuff. Well, no, and it sounds like a ballet score. Yeah.

let's let's now so here here's what I it was hard to pick just one song off of Tom York's Susperia it's like 25 songs right because it's a soundtrack yeah and there's a lot of different vibes on the soundtrack too a lot of different you know he it's all over the map but I wanted to because the the goblin song is kind of the theme that's sort of the motif that plays a lot through the through the score there is a sort of there's sort of a theme i'm not going to play the actual like quote unquote theme song because i don't think there is one there is a song called suspicium which is probably like supposed to be the title track but uh i didn't want to play i didn't want to play one of the tracks with him singing in it

because we're going to be covering tom york singing for the next like three or four months you know and I wanted to play a Tom York score, you know what I mean? Like a song. Yeah, absolutely, dude. We're getting into a soundtrack. Exactly. All right, so this track is called Volk. V-O-L-K.

So what I like about this score, and you could tell from that song, like, you know, it sounds like it could be a score from one of those classic, horror films from the 70s, right? Like he does a good job sort of... Paying homage. Yeah, but you got to, yeah, and you got to listen to a good portion of the score to really know what I'm talking about.

But it fits right in there. Yeah, he did a really good job, man. Yeah, he did a great job. He did a great job. With his choice in like, you know, with the effects and, you know, the synthesizer approach and all that. Right. And there are some, I gotta say, there are some like just great songs that feature his vocals on it that came out as singles for this record.

I haven't heard any of them. One of them, you know what, dude, let's fucking play it one. Why the hell not? That's what we do on this spot. All right. This one's called Has Ended. I liked how, um, I liked how like a gut-wrenching and uneasy feeling the beginning of that song was. And then it kind of just, oh, yeah, morphed into just a song, like just a cool song. Yeah. Now, what I'm curious about is if, if these songs with his vocals appear throughout the movie, or if they were just sort of released like in companion to, because I mean, I assume that Sospirium,

which is the name of one of those scenes. singles is maybe the credits or maybe like the beginning of the film. Yeah. But anyway, I'm going to have to go see the movie, which is something I want to do anyway. But yeah. That's a great song, man. I loved it. Like, I like the idea of, you know, artists that I love getting into making

soundtracks because it always makes me think like, okay, after getting in this mindset, Like we kind of talked about this with our Stranger Than Fiction sidetrack for Spoon. Like how much of that, you know, getting into that mindset, how much of that will influence Tom York moving forward? You know, writing solo material for himself and getting back together with the radio head guys, you know, like, are we going to see some dark radiohead stuff moving forward after being in this mindset, this headspace? Here's the thing, man. I think Radiohead's music has always sort of tinkered with dark themes. You know what I mean? Absolutely.

Sort of, yeah. So, I mean, I don't think, that's why to me it wasn't a stretch at all to have Tom York do a horror movie soundtrack. I think it's a perfect fit. And I think, you know, their latest record, moon-shaped pool has some of these kind of sort of melancholy piano. darker themes, you know? I think it just, it's a perfect fit. Yeah. But here's something interesting.

So that track that we just played, there was some drums in that song, right? Right. Guess who the drummer was. Do I know the person? No. Oh. So I guess you won't be able to guess.

But it's, it's, uh, Noah York. As in his son. that's pretty cool. So anyway... That's great, man. That's really cool.

Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I checked to see if any other radiohead guys contributed to this and it was just him. But anyway, so there you go. That gives you an idea of what to expect from this record. I would say go see the movie. I've heard that it has gotten good reviews. And yeah, that's...

That's it. Well, happy Halloween, brother. Yeah, man. Let me go, I'm going to go, I don't know, turn into a bat or something. Fly away. Cool. So as always, you can check us out on our website, no filler podcast.com. We've got show notes on there, and you can stream all of our episodes directly from our website.

You can also stream us on any podcast app. I'm pretty sure we're on all of them. I wouldn't go that far, dude. Okay, we're not on Spotify, but I don't consider that a podcast streaming app. That's fair. Anyways, yeah, and we will shout at you next week when we cover Talking Heads. Until then, why don't you dive back and listen to some of our older episodes? We've got quite a few up now.

Lots of good material to listen to, lots of good albums that we dig into. So until next week, my name is Quentin. My name is Travis. Bye, bye. Let me just, let me just tee this up before we play it out here. This is, I'm just going to play another song from the Syspira soundtrack. This one is a perfect way to close out Halloween. And unfortunately, the listeners aren't going to be listening to this episode until

sometime in November. But, you know, whatever. Get back into the spirit, you know. Why not? So this song is called Sabbath incantation. Ooh. So there you go. My name is Travis.

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