Episode 27: The Power of Don Corleone Compels You! - Film (31st August 2020)

‘The Podcast, or El Podcasterino, that’s not into the whole brevity thing.' 

As Jeremy takes his annual holiday to Summerisle, Vince and Neil stock-up on exorbitantly priced popcorn and drinks and sneak off to the movies to watch some old favourites.  Vince discusses the eee eee eee eees and tinkly tinkly tinkly tinkly tinks of late 70’s/early 80’s horror film synth scores, and reminisces about being tangentially involved in a pirate film smuggling operation from Amsterdam, and as Neil finds himself in the middle of a Dudester cult that drink White Russians and abstain from bowling on the Sabbath, he rhapsodizes over Michael Mann’s blue colour wash, and the music revolution ushered in by the Sony Walkman.

Then, both men try to rate Paul McCartney on an LSD Spectrometer, and take a juicy bite of Forbidden Fruit. 

The films we discuss: 

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 

The Big Lebowski 

The Exorcist 

Manhunter 

Magical Mystery Tour 

The artists we discuss and rate on this show are Burt Bacharach and BJ Thomas, The First Edition, Mike Oldfield and Iron Butterfly.  As always, The Beatles are our final topic of discussion. 

FULL TRACK LISTING 

Overrated Podcast Theme Tune – There It Is (Royalty Free) 

Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head  –  BJ Thomas (From Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969 

Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) – The First Edition (From The Big Lebowski, 1998) 

Tubular Bells (Excerpt from Side One) – Mike Oldfield (From The Exorcist, 1973) 

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida – Iron Butterfly (From Manhunter, 1986) 

Magical Mystery Tour – The Beatles (From Magical Mystery Tour, 1967) 

NEIL RECOMMENDS 

Tubular Bells / In Dulci Jubilo (from the London Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony) – Mike Oldfield 

VINCE RECOMMENDS 

Butch and Sundance: The Early Years (1979) 

The Exorcist (TV Series, 2016, Season 1 only)