Whaddya mean you don't know Galapagos Duck

Australian jazz crew Galapagos Duck originally came together a ski resort in 1969. Check out The Removalists OST from 1974.  

Of course Todd Haynes' Velvet Underground doc comes with a soundtrack album

The 2CD soundtrack for the new Velvet Underground doc – out October 15 – includes a few unexpected tracks. 

Here's the scoop...

Even before the complete track listing had been announced for the soundtrack of Todd Haynes' much-anticipated new Velvet Underground documentary, the debate amongst longtime fans of the group regarding what should and shouldn't be included had already begun. Whether the focus should be on the music recorded by the group's classic line-up with Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Moe Tucker and Nico or if there should be any post-Cale material at all. And what about Lou Reed's pre-Velvets studio forays on behalf of Pickwick? 

Well, the serious discussions are about to begin as the official track listing has been released by Republic Records/Universal Music for the selections made by director Todd Haynes with his music supervisor Randall Poster for the 2CD package entitled The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film By Todd Haynes – Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack set for release on October 15th, the same day the film premieres globally on Apple TV+.  

Along with the expected studio cuts of such Velvets classics as "I'm Waiting For The Man," "All Tomorrow's Parties," "Pale Blue Eyes," "Sweet Jane," "Venus In Furs," "Foggy Notion," "Ocean" and "Heroin" (mono), there are also live versions of "Sister Ray" and "After Hours." There's one Nico showcase "Chelsea Girls" and one pre-Velvets track "The Ostrich" cut by Reed using the studio alias of The Primitives circa 1964. 

The soundtrack also features a few tunes by artists which inspired the group. There's a live version of "Road Runner" by Bo Diddley, a Fortune label doo-wop gem "The Wind" by Nolan Strong & The Diabolos (credited to simply The Diablos") and perhaps most intriguing, a previously unreleased recording of a LaMonte Young composition "17 XII 63 NYC The Fire Is A Mirror (excerpt)" attributed to The Theatre of Eternal Music.  Check the full track listing following a few song clips from The Primitives, Nolan Strong & The Diablos and The Velvet Underground below. 

The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film By Todd Haynes – Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack

Disc 1

Venus In Furs - The Velvet Underground  5:12

The Wind - The Diablos  3:05

17 XII 63  NYC  The Fire Is A Mirror (excerpt) - The Theatre of Eternal Music  6:21

Heroin [mono] - The Velvet Underground  7:14

Road Runner (Live) - Bo Diddley  4:14

The Ostrich - The Primitives  2:25

I'm Waiting For The Man - The Velvet Underground  4:40

Chelsea Girls - Nico  7:27

Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground  2:56                

Disc 2             

Sister Ray (Live) - The Velvet Underground  19:03

Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground  5:40

Foggy Notion - The Velvet Underground  6:59

After Hours (Live) Version 1 - The Velvet Underground  2:56

Sweet Jane - The Velvet Underground  4:09

Ocean - The Velvet Underground  5:14

All Tomorrow's Parties - The Velvet Underground  5:53

The Dead Don't Die soundtrack feat. SQÜRL getting vinyl release

The creepy, synth-enhanced score created by Jim Jarmusch's band SQÜRL for his new zombie flick is being issued by Sacred Bones on Sept 13th.

The Dead Don’t Die is writer/director Jim Jarmusch’s unique, semi-comic take on the zombie apocalypse genre. As with his recent efforts Only Lovers Left Alive and Paterson, the film’s score was composed and performed by SQÜRL, the band Jarmusch and producer Carter Logan founded in 2009. Sacred Bones Records, the same label that released the band’s EP #260 in 2017, is releasing the LP edition of the score.

The score to the The Dead Don’t Die is a true expression of where SQÜRL stand at the center of a decade of sonic exploration. It is the culmination of their passion for analog synths, with guitar violence reverberating from the darker corners of Americana. It is at once a tribute to the classic sounds of horror and sci-fi, as well as a decapitation of traditional film scores. It is naturally supernatural.

From their arsenal of tools, Jarmusch and Logan pulled electric guitars and basses made by Rick Kelly and Cindy Hulej at Carmine Street Guitars, an acoustic resonator, Moog Minitaur and Theremini synthesizers, Fender Rhodes electric piano, an old Ludwig drum kit, cheap vintage Casio and Yamaha keyboards and new synths from Critter and Guitari — all sculpted through a collection of effects pedals, notably from Earthquaker Devices.

The inspiration for SQÜRL’s score for The Dead Don’t Die came from some of the most iconic soundtracks of the past half-century of genre cinema — Tangerine Dream’s Sorcerer, Bebe and Louis Barron’s Forbidden Planet, Ennio Morricone’s The Thing and Once Upon a Time in the West, Goblin’s Dawn of the Dead, and all things John Carpenter. The singular Theremin work of Samuel J. Hoffman on films like Spellbound and The Day the Earth Stood Still also made its way into Jarmusch and Logan’s consciousness. The result is a new horror soundtrack that stands shoulder to shoulder with the great works of its genre.

Watch The Dead Don't Die soundtrack teaser below. Pre-order a limited edition "Black Dust" splatter wax copy of the LP right here.



The Dead Don't Die – Original Motion Picture Score (Sacred Bones)

1. Dialogue 1 (Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Chloë Sevigny)
2. The Dead Just Don’t Wanna Die Today
3. Dialogue 2 (Larry Fessenden)
4. Replacement Sky
5. Dialogue 3 (Chloë Sevigny, Adam Driver)
6. This Is All Gonna End Badly
7. Dialogue 4 (Selena Gomez, Rosie Perez, Austin Butler, Luka Sabbat)
8. Malignant Wave Of Doom
9. Dialogue 5 (Caleb Landry Jones)
10 Toxic Moon
11 Dialogue 6 (Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray)
12 Pulsating Elevator Of Light
13 Dialogue 7 (Chloë Sevigny, Bill Murray, Adam Driver)
14 The Dead Don't Die
15 Dialogue 8 (Tom Waits)