DJJD Volume 25

Created By:  Jonathan Dysart (DJJD)

Original Creation Year:  2007

Year of Re-master:  2010

Song Listing

Side A

1.    Grindhouse [Main Titles]:  Robert Rodriquez [Planet Terror]

2.    Dueling Banjos:  Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell [Deliverance]

3.    Main Theme:  Ennio Morricone [For a Few Dollars More]

4.    Main Theme:  Lalo Schifrin [Dirty Harry] 

5.    The Hot Gates:  Tyler Bates [300]

Side B

6.    Hymn to Red October:  Basil Poledouris [The Hunt for Red October]

7.    Main Theme:  Ennio Morricone [Once Upon a Time in the West] 

8.    The Searchers:  Paul Bateman [The Searchers] 

9.    Il Triello (Titoli Finali):  Ennio Morricone [The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly] 

Side C

10. Chase:  Giorgio Moroder [Midnight Express] 

11. Main Theme:  Shirley Walker [Batman:  Mask of the Phantasm]  

12. Antrozous:  Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard [Batman Begins]

13. Long, Long Time Ago:  Javier Navarrete [Pan’s Labyrinth]

Side D

14. Orchestral Suite:  Danny Elfman [The Nightmare Before Christmas]

15. Main Theme:  Danny Elfman [Nightbreed]

16. Main Theme:  Mark Ayres [The Shining]

17. End Title:  Jerry Goldsmith [Poltergeist] 

  

Origin of the Album

              I was in the middle of creating unique album covers for all of my existing CD albums since the base iTunes method of album covers was not to my liking.  After making two rock albums (DJJD Volume 22 and DJJD Volume 23) and the “Valentine” album (DJJD Volume 24), I was out of ideas – AGAIN!

            Around that time, I was creating the album cover for DJJD Volume 16 – which was basically an instrumental album.  Half of the tracks were instrumentals and the rest were movie and television soundtracks.  Plus, I was heavily listening to the nightly radio show “Coast to Coast AM”, and I wanted to find the opening soundtrack of the radio show.  Found out that it was the main theme of the movie Midnight Express. That got me into thinking about creating an album, containing strictly movie soundtracks.

Concept and Theme of the Album

              Around this time, I have been watching a lot of movies from the horror and western genres, like “The Shining” and “Once Upon a Time in the West”.  At this year of 2007, two movies came out that I really liked: “300” and “Grindhouse”.  From that reference point, I decided to create the first half of the album to contain soundtracks from mainly westerns, action and drama.  The second half of the album would contain soundtracks from horror and dark fantasy films.

           

Concept and the Album Cover

          I wanted a basic album cover where the perspective would be at the seats of a movie theater.  The first version of the album cover I liked at the time:  pretty much an album title, a film reel clip art, and a glare in the movie screen.  In a span of time, I grew dissatisfied with the design, trying to reform it.  The second one was better but still not up to par.  The third version was much better and satisfying.  Using a new online tool, I superimposed my original DJJD 1987 album cover onto the movie screen with a much better album title.  The same treatment went along with the back album cover, which I applied a much needed facelift.