Thursday 9 July 2020

Various Artists - "Plan 9 From Outer Space - The Original Music Underscore" (Retrosonic Records ‎– RR-1001) 1959/1996


Here we have DIY cinema at its very zenith on a lavish budget of precisely  Fuck all. (watch it HERE!)
Edward D. Wood Jr's anti-nuclear masterpiece, and Bela Lugosi's final nail in his coffin...literally.
Now you can recreate all that amazing dialogue with the backing music, which Ed got from some cheapo Hollywood music library. Quite a few bits of this soundtrack turn up elsewhere in the Hollywood dumpster.For example, the Plan 9 main theme pops up in that other schlocksploitation movie "The Wild Women Of Wongo".....another DIY movie of impressive incompetence.
The 'Main Theme' was written by ex-BBC employee, Trevor Duncan.Who left the BBC the year Daphne Oram arrived, to earn more money in Hollywood,but,in the process,become totally forgotten.
As Delia Derbyshire made the immortal "Dr Who Theme" at the BBC, at least Trev wrote the  Theme to 'Plan 9 From Outer Space'?.....apparently this fact was not engraved upon his tombstone,a glaring error on a not too unremarkable CV.


Tracklist:

1 Prelude
Composed By – Trevor Duncan 0:52
2 Main Title
Composed By – Trevor Duncan 2:09
3 The Shadows Of Grief
Composed By – Van Phillips 1:39
4 Gravediggers
Composed By – Bruce Campbell, Steve Race 0:57
5 Lost Roses Of Her Cheeks
Composed By – Bruce Campbell 1:10
6 Tragic!
Composed By – Bruce Campbell 0:39
7 Police Squad
Composed By – Van Phillips 0:30
8 I'm A Big Boy Now, Johnny
Composed By – Franz Mahl (2) 1:18
9 Piano Talk: Jeff & Paula
Composed By – John O'Notes 2:57
10 Clay Stalked And Killed
Composed By – James Stevens (9), Trevor Duncan 1:53
11 Plan 9 Interlude
Composed By – Trevor Duncan 0:58
12 The Bell Has Rung
Composed By – Van Phillips 1:22
13 Saucers Over Hollywood
Composed By – Trevor Duncan 2:20
14 Col. Edward's Big Decision
Composed By – Van Phillips 1:25
15 Saucer Fire
Composed By – Van Phillips 1:02
16 Your Pillow Beside Me
Composed By – Trevor Duncan 1:23
17 The Old Ghoul Walks
Composed By – Franz Mahl 0:42
18 Mac Calls Paula
Composed By – Franz Mahl 0:45
19 Cemetery Chase / Clay Rises
Composed By – Trevor Duncan, Van Phillips 3:56
20 The Old Ghoul Retreats
Composed By – Franz Mahl 1:06
21 Graveyard Marionettes
Composed By – Ward Sills 1:47
22 Kelton Lights A Match
Composed By – Franz Mahl 0:44
23 Drop Your Electrode Gun!
Composed By – Trevor Duncan 0:22
24 There's Something Out There
Composed By – Trevor Duncan 2:18
25 Clay Abducts Paula
Composed By – Steve Race 0:40
26 Eros, Do We Have To Kill Them?
Composed By – Wolfgang Droysen 1:22
27 Someday It'll All Be Gone
Composed By – Wolfgang Droysen* 2:18
28 Kelton & Larry Enter Ship
Composed By – James Stevens 0:46
29 Fight / Fire / Finale
Composed By – Van Phillips 3:10
30 God Help Us In The Future
Composed By – Gilbert Vinter, Trevor Duncan 2:15


DOWNLOAD plans 1-30 from outta cyber-space HERE!

11 comments:

Unknown said...

Mega = YUK or AWWW, FUCK!
nevertheless, thanks for all your efforts, JZ.

Jonny Zchivago said...

Sorry, but I'm running out of places to put all this stuff. I've had this mega account for about 7 years,and its got 50 gb's of free storage, so i's gonna use it.

Unknown said...

What's the issue with MEGA? Works fine for me.

rev.b said...

No probs w/MEGA here either. Use up the free. Maybe I should start using it. Does it let you see how many times a file is downloaded? That's one thing I like about Mediafire. l'm told G-drive used to, but not now.

Ian said...

Name another movie with a recurring cut to a trumpet, suspended by fishing line and gently rocking back and forth, blaring for no reason.

Jonny Zchivago said...

Mega very good,encrypted too, so no outside interference possible....but...No download stats.....I have three full Mediafire accounts,for the sole reason that they provide download stats.Even though they deleted me once before,I forgive them for that reason.

Jonny Zchivago said...

Is that a challenge Ian?...or are you suggesting that Plan 9 is even more unique than we first thought?

Anonymous said...

Mega will often boot you offline while trying to download. I don't know what it is that makes that happen, but I've heard and seen many other people say the same thing, so I know it's not just me.

On the upside, since you tend to not post FLAC stuff, the chance of it happening is smaller, since the files are smaller and they come down faster. But IMO, it's still pretty user-unfriendly on the DL side compared to most others.

Anyway - I have this theory that we're less than two years away from this entire "golden era" coming to a close. There was that brief slowdown/blip right after that big Mega bust in - whenever that was. But I think all these free options are going to hit the wall soon, and something new - maybe - will take over. It's been nice while it lasted, though. I have enough salted away at this point to - literally - last me the rest of my life, and probably still not get to it all. The worst of time, the best of times...

Ian said...

@Jonny Zchivago: Not a challenge. The uniqueness angle. With he-man doses of LSD.

Jonny Zchivago said...

Annoymous's theory: they can't stop it.Like uninventing the internet.Not possible...they learned their lesson back in 2012.

Anonymous said...

You seem to have misunderstood. I'm not talking about anybody "stopping" anything. I'm talking about providers deciding to do away with the free option. Frankly, I'm surprised they've kept it going as long as they have.