I just watched World’s Greatest Dad a couple nights ago. If you haven’t seen it, you should check it out. It’s a twisted, dark comedy about a father who loses his son to a freak accident and decides to ghostwrite a suicide note to avoid embarrassment. There’s a scene in the movie with a shortened version of The Deadly Syndrome‘s “I Hope I Become A Ghost,” and since watching it I’ve had the song on repeat in my head. I had never heard of the band before, they’ve got a really catchy and intriguing sound. Hear the song on the movie’s soundtrack, or pick up a copy of their ’07 album The Ortolan.

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Artist: The Deadly Syndrome
Song: I Hope I Become A Ghost.mp3
Album: The Ortolan

I’ve been on a Spoon kick since their latest release Transference came out last month. So naturally I decided to watch “Stranger Than Fiction” to bask in the glory of its soundtrack, consisting mainly of Spoon songs. One song in particular always tickles my Spoon bone, and that’s “The Book I Write” that plays during end credits……….. Long live Spoon!

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Artist: Spoon
Song: The Book I Write.mp3
Album:Stranger Than Fiction Soundtrack

So my original plan was to do an elaborate post on Ken Andrews & Brian Reitzell‘s soundtrack to the film “Shrink“, but I could not for the life of me find the music to this film anywhere. Unfortunately I don’t think they are planning on releasing the soundtrack, which is a travesty. If anybody has in their musical possession any of the music composed for this fantastic film, please send it my way. But for now, here’s a track off the film that I was able to find, Darius Holbert‘s “Shiny Girl”.

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Artist: Darius Holbert
Song: Shiny Girl.mp3

The Adventures of Pete & Pete is a television show that brings back a lot of fond childhood memories for a good majority of the Newdust community. So I thought I’d pay a little tribute to the band that was responsible for the music behind all three seasons, the great Polaris. This is the only music that this band has ever produced, and after the show was over they had enough songs from the series to release their one and only CD, appropriately titled Music From The Adventures of Pete & Pete. The top left video is the opening credits to the show, the song titled “Hey Sandy“, and the top right video is a clip from the episode “Hard Day’s Pete”, the song titled “Summerbaby“. Oh what good times those were. The only thing missing from this jog down memory lane is some green slime.

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Artist: Polaris
Song: Recently.mp3
Album: Music From The Adventures of Pete & Pete

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Song: Saturnine.mp3