Psycho: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture (1998 Version) [Soundtrack] [Import] [PR]
Bernard Herrmann （Geffen Records）CD
発売日：1998年12月1日(火)
≪関連『映画・ドラマ』タイトル≫
- バーナード・ハーマン
- 『サイコ』 (1998)
曲目リスト ※試聴はAmazonでどうぞ。
- Prelude (Film Score)
- Living Dead Girl
- Once Is Not Enough
- Psycho
- Screaming
- Psycho Future
- Honeymoon Suite
- The Murder (Film Score)
- Madhouse
- Psycho Killer
- All Of My Life
- Fly
- In The End
- The Finale (Film Score)
レビュー (Amazon)
One of the strangest remakes in a genre already verging on a sideshow of inbred congenital deformities, director Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot re-creation of Alfred Hitchcock's shocker Psycho begs the question: What if Kinko's ran Hollywood? Which probably isn't fair to Kinko's. Given Van Sant's virtual-film sensibility and typical record-label-niche-marketing obsessions (now, there's a psychological thriller), this album ends up being the project's most original facet by default, if only because it's a spawn of that dreaded new genre, "music from and inspired by the motion picture." "From" gets repped by three of master Bernard Herrmann's original Psycho cues, run through--make that over--by Danny Elfman at a tempo that only an antsy crankhead could appreciate. "Inspired by" is a decidedly mixed bag that runs the gamut from typical Rob Zombie hoodoo ("Living Dead Girl") to embarrassing alternative folk (James Hall's painful--and painfully obvious--cover of the Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer"). Even the occasional interesting track ("Madhouse" by Mono; Lamb's "Fly" ) often succumbs to the project's photocopier philosophy and ham-fisted thematics; four of the pop songs contain samples from Herrmann's score, including hapless Steve Earle being punctuated--if not punctured--by the piercing strains of the infamous shower scene. Where's Tom Bodett when you need him? Our advice for the next album that's a soundtrack to a remake of a classic film: check the toner. --Jerry McCulley
