„The Wall“ ist sicherlich neben „Dark Side of the Moon“ das populärste Album von Pink Floyd, sprich, auch Menschen, die keine Fans der Band sind, kennen die Titel und wahrscheinlich sogar das Artwork. Das Album erschien Ende 1979 und verkaufte sich bis heute über 33 Millionen Mal, was es zum kommerziell erfolgreichsten Doppel-Album aller Zeiten macht. Follow the Worms!
Neun Jahre nach „On An Island“ veröffentlichte Pink-Floyd-Gitarrist David Gilmour nun sein neues Solo-Album „Rattle That Lock“. Kurioserweise lagen die Solo-Karrieren der einzelnen Floyd-Mitglieder zur Hochzeit der Band Pink Floyd in den 70ern und frühen 80ern ziemlich brach. David Gilmour veröffentlichte bereits 1978 und 1984 je ein Solo-Album, beiden war aber kein besonders großer kommerzieller Erfolg vergönnt gewesen. Rattle that Lock, loose those chains!
Ich finde „The Division Bell“ zu unrecht verrissen, ein wundervolles Album, voller Melancholie, die über allem liegt. Nie klang Gilmours Gitarre wehmütiger als auf diesem Album, das krasse Gegenteil des harschen Vorgängeralbums „A Momentary Lapse of Reason“. Besonders erstaunt bin ich immer wieder darüber, wie viele „Echos“ alter Zeiten auf dem Album vertreten sind, seien es Anspielungen im Text, in der Musik, den Geräuschen oder im Booklet. Did you know?
It’s been seventeen years since The X-Files hit the big screen. Shot at a production budget of around 60 million dollars, the movie did cost 58 million dollars more than an average episode of the show. The movie did well in movie theatres around the world, although it wasn’t THE blockbuster one could have been expected after the show became a cultural phenomenon in the mid-1990’s. Tied in between season five and six, the movie continues the story arc about the planned colonialisation through an alien force. X-Files re-opened
September 10, 2013, marked the twentieth anniversary of The X-Files’ launch as a television show. So, what better date to release the second volume of The X-Files music by Mark Snow? The first volume, released in May 2011, gained high interest within The X-Files’ fan base but also with soundtrack collectors that aren’t huge fans of the show per se. The pressing was limited to 3,000 copies, and the set finally sold out in 2012. Since then, people who missed it were looking around the internet to find a copy of the set. Sometimes it shows up again on Ebay or the Amazon Marketplace, but unfortunately most of time for unreasonable prices. TrustNo1
„The Wait is over.“ This tagline from Chris Carter’s show, Millennium, fits the now-released X-Files box set very well. Nine years after the end of the show and eighteen years since its first appearance on the TV screen the fans finally get their hands on a massive compilation with music from the show. And it was no easy task. The Erlenmeyer Flask
Talking about The X-Files means talking about Mark Snow. Without his musical input, his haunting themes, and his capability of creating a dark and moody atmosphere, the show would lack one of its most important features. Rectal Palpation
With the increasing popularity of The X-Files as a tv-show, more merchandising products became available. So it was only a matter of time, until finally a CD with the score by Mark Snow would be released. In March 1996, The X-Files theme was released as an EP and became a huge success in Europe, even reaching Number 1 in the French single charts. In September of that same year, the album X-Files: The Truth and the Light followed. The Truth is out there!
„Darf ich Ihnen unsere Karte geben?“
Kaum zu glauben, aber die drei Detektive ermitteln schon seit 1979 als Hörspielserie in mysteriösen Fällen aller Art. Ihre Geschichte geht allerdings noch weiter zurück. 1964 erschien in den USA der erste Roman mit den Junior-Detektiven, 1968 erfolgte dann die erste Veröffentlichung in Deutschland. Die Drei ??? und der weitergehende Text