Officially halfway through downloading the 44 gigs of Loveline shows...

Movie music quiz

I was bored tonight, so I took a few minutes and did this...
Below there are 8 clips of film music scores - try and guess which movie each is from. Some are pretty obvious, others are more obscure.

Some hints:

• The movies range from the years 1975-2001
• Four of the clips are John Williams scores (and three of those are Spielberg movies)

Click here to open the comment box in another window, so you can listen and answer at the same time.

Recently, I downloaded the Almost Famous soundtrack...
Like the Freaks and Geeks soundtrack, I took the route of downloading all of the music from the film, song by song, instead of the official soundtrack, which contains a minimal amount of music from the production. In both cases, it was well worth it.
What follows is a list of every song in the film, in order (based on Crowe's original screenplay - thus, that's why Stairway is on there, even though it's not in the film):

1. Brenton Wood - The Oogum Boogum Song
2. Simon and Garfunkel - America
3. The Who - Sparks
4. The Stooges - Search and Destroy
5. Todd Rundgren - It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
6. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
7. Jethro Tull - Teacher
8. Yes - I've Seen All Good People: Your Move
9. The Beach Boys - Feel Flows
10. Joni Mitchell - River
11. Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf
12. Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
13. Pete Droge - Small Time Blues
14. Thunderclap Newman - Something in the Air
15. Little Feat - Easy to Slip
16. The Raspberries - Go All The Way
17. The Seeds - Mr. Farmer
18. Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
19. The Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out (Live)
20. The Guess Who - Albert Flasher
21. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
22. Led Zeppelin - That's the Way
23. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
24. Fleetwood Mac - Future Games
25. Deep Purple - Burn
26. Blodwyn Pig - Dear Jill
27. Elton John - Tiny Dancer
28. MC5 - Looking At You
29. Steely Dan - Reeling In The Years
30. David Bowie - I'm Waiting For the Man (Live)
31. Cat Stevens - The Wind
32. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
33. Clarence Carter - Slip Away
34. Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop
35. Free - Wishing Well
36. Elton John - Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters
37. Chicago - Colour My World
38. Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour
39. Neil Young - Cortez The Killer
40. Led Zeppelin - Bron-Yr-Aur
41. Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
42. Led Zeppelin - Tangerine
43. The Beach Boys - Feel Flows

Great news today (well, for me at least)...
A few months ago, I was in the middle of downloading ALL of the Adam Carolla-era Loveline shows from this site. Unfortunately, it was shut down before I could finish downloading.
Today, a torrent was put up which contains ALL of the shows! For those interested, click here (At-work warning: the site, TorrentSpy, sometimes contains explicit ads).
It's going to be a big download (over 44 gigs of shows), but well worth it.

Just wanted to point out that we're not even into the summer movie season yet (which officially starts on Memorial Day weekend) and we've actually had some great films so far this year.
Usually the studios dump their crap into theaters between February and May, release their big blockbusters between June and August, lots of terrible horror movies are released between September and October, and then the awards season releases begin in November and end in January (where small films then open in wide release).
Well, we're in the middle of May, and so far this year we've had the unusual pleasure of seeing movies like Grindhouse, The Lookout, Zodiac (which is no less than a masterpiece), The Hoax, Waitress, and 28 Weeks Later. And even better, in the weeks ahead we have Knocked Up (Judd Apatow's new movie; June 1st), Fay Grim, Once, The Wendell Baker Story (all May 18th), The Golden Door, Ten Canoes (both May 25th), Rescue Dawn (July 4th), and many, many more smaller films. And that's just the next couple of months. Hopefully this means a good year for movies.

Saw The Wind That Shakes the Barley last night. Good film, and definitely deserving of its Palme d'Or win. One complaint, however. When are filmmakers going to realize that when a film features people talking with a thick, heavy accent, that presenting the film with subtitles would be extremely helpful! I was able to make out most of the dialogue in this film, but there are several passages in the movie - especially when people are whispering - where several minutes go by without a clue as to what people are saying. That said, things get much easier to understand as the film goes on and you get more used to the thick Irish accents. The situation is not nearly as bad as Ken Loach's previous film Sweet Sixteen, where it is utterly impossible to understand the dialogue through the amazingly thick Scottish accents of the actors. Hotel Rwanda is another example of a film that would have benefited immensely from subtitles. Keep in mind, the films mentioned have subtitles on their DVD releases, but were released in theaters without them. I know, it's real movie-geek stuff here, but even just on a basic level, it just baffles my mind that a director wouldn't want to make sure that all viewers were able to understand every line of dialogue. (A funny side-note: Without going into too much detail and giving anything away, the emotional impact of The Wind That Shakes the Barley's ending depends on you having correctly heard a dialogue exchange about halfway through the movie. I was able to discern it, but I'm not sure how many others did.)

Tonight I checked out (i.e., downloaded) the new Elliott Smith album, "New Moon", which is due out in stores tomorrow. It is a collection of rarities and unreleased material he recorded before his death.
A couple of gripes about this release: First of all, the album is being released on 2 CDs, but all of the material quite easily fits on one CD, with time to spare. The only reason I can see for this is to make some extra money by selling a 2-CD release, therefore upping the price tag, as most double-disc albums cost more. I know most of the money from this album is going to charity, but it still seems a little low to me. Second, there is still quite a bit of unreleased Smith material that is not on this album. I have most of it from bootlegs, but it still would be nice to have it in decent quality. Anyways, it's nice to now be able to hear "High Times" and "New Monkey" without it being all garbled and shit.