Stream ad-free or purchase CDs and MP3s now on. It wasn't like an existing song that was included in the film like ones people had already listed. But like Bryan Addams, Celine Dion and Aerosmith's songs, that song was written especially for the film. Many RR regulars also congregate at the ’Spill blog. Check out The Best Songs from Great Spy and Espionage Movies by TMC Movie Starz on Amazon Music. The only one i can recall of recent time would be Adele's Skyfall.It also tells you the meaning of “zedded”, “donds” and other strange words used by RR regulars. John Barry single-handedly created the spy genre. There’s a wealth of data on RR, including the songs that are “zedded”, at the Marconium. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to learn, understand, and incorporate the musical characteristics found in countless spy-film soundtracks. Very few composers can be said to have created a new style of film music, says David Arnold.If you have a good theme idea, or if you’d like to volunteer to compile a playlist from readers’ suggestions and write a blog about it, please email or add it here via GuardianWitness.Here’s a reminder of some of the guidelines for RR: Next week’s playlist will be compiled by a reader who posts in the comments as chippiparai. You have until 11pm on Monday 9 May to make nominations. The theme for next week’s playlist will be announced at 8pm (UK time) on Thursday 5 May. Just as well I’m using invisible ink! New theme I can see the smoke swirling on the platform as I write, a man in a dark homburg peering over my shoulder. I’m catching a Night Train to Munich in the company of one of music’s greatest storytellers, Al Stewart. I’m never really sure with Kenny’s lyrics.Īnd now I’m out of here. King Creosote’s Spystick deals with “inappropriate internetting” according to Shoegazer’s nomination.

It was a nice slice of 1990s indie from Down Under that stood out for me this week.Īnd where would spies be without their gadgets? Hidden under the dashboard Bauhaus have found the unseen mechanised eye, the Spy in the Cab. But he’s happy: home alone is the way he likes it. A cold, lonely snowbound existence seems to await them behind the iron curtain.Īnother one on his own is the Superjesus’s Secret Agent Man. Loneliness is also central to the narrative of Lori and the Chameleons’ Lonely Spy. Another real-life spy, James Jesus Angleton, is the subject of the Fatima Mansions’ Brunceling’s Song: a retired CIA spymaster reduced to selling sunlamps door-to-door and ranting drunkenly at his driver, the song’s narrator.

One whose cover wasn’t blown until a lot of damage had been done was Rory Gallagher’s Philby, who we’re told little of except that he’s an alcoholic loner who seems to fit a pattern that has been repeated over the years.

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