Happy Holidays! If you’ve traveled through the seven levels of the candy cane forest looking for entertaining and informative musical insights, you’ve arrived at your destination!

Join hosts Wend and Will as they discuss the themes, leitmotifs, and peppermint-flavored instrumentation that make Elf one of their holiday favorites, all brought to us by the underrated musical genius – John Debney.

Hop into our sleigh as we expose fake Santas, tear Christmas-grams, and rip open the presents under the composer’s tree to reveal the memorable themes, the orchestration surprises, and all those swirly, twirly gumdrops that make this score so well-loved from pole to pole.

Timestamps

8:47 – 1. Papa Elf

12:14 – 2. Main Title

17:47 – 3. Buddy’s Journey

23:14 – 4. A Stroll With Buddy

26:52 – 5. Christmas Medley

30:59 – 6. Weird Wonderland

38:36 – 7. The Frozen Battlefield

42:09 – 8. Buddy’s Theme

46:00 – 9. Santa’s in Trouble

49:01 – 10. A Walk in the Park

52:06 – 11. Attack of the Little People

54:26 – 12. Central Park Rangers

59:42 – 13. Working With Dad

1:00:49 – 14. A Snowman’s Advice

1:03:45 – 15. Showdown in the Park

1:06:53 – 16. Buddy and Santa’s Flight

1:09:16 – 17. Spaghetti and Syrup

1:12:49 – Final Thoughts

Link

(Original Air Date – December 24th, 2017)

Join Will & Wend for their first Christmas Score Guide! In their final episode of 2017 they merrily explore a childhood classic, the 1990 comedy chrimbo movie, Home Alone, composed and conducted by masterful maestro, John Williams.

Your festive hosts shall be pulling back the composer’s christmassy curtain for you our loyal listener, to reveal themes, identify leitmotifs, and gush over instrumentation and all those sparkling musical moments that make this soundtrack so well-loved the world over.

Crowbars up, snow shovels at the ready, let’s feel that gingerbread feeling!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Release

Home Alone 25th Anniversary Limited Edition La-La Land Records (2015)

Timestamps

Intro Tag: Xander Stobbs

Disc One

6:15 – 1. Home Alone (Main Theme)

9.57 – 2. Go Pack Your Suitcase/Introducing Marley/In Good Hands

14:50 – 3. Banished to the Attic

16:44 – 4. We Slept In/Hard Count

18:43 – 5. Making the Plane

19:44 – 6. The Basement

23:35 – 7. Target Practise/Sledding on the Stairs

26:49 – 8. Lights On/Guess Who’s Home/Paris Arrival

30:47 – 9. The Man of the House/Police Check

32:44 – 10. The Bookshelf

34:48 – 11. Phone Machine/Drug Store/Escape Across the Ice

38:45 – 12. Follow That Kid! [Film Version]

41:47 – 13. Listening to Carson

42:41 – 14. Cleaning Clothes/Kitchen

44:10 – 15. Scammed by a Kindergartner [Film Version]

46:55 – 16. Somewhere in my Memory (Walking Home) [Film Version]

49:34 – 17. O Holy Night [Film Version]

52:19 – 18. Star of Bethlehem [Film Version]

54:05 – 19. Carol of the Bells

56:03 – 20. Setting the Trap

1:01:22 – 21. The Attack Begins

1:03:37 – 22. Marv Enters the Basement/A Hot Hand/Sore Head

1:04:09 – The Chess Game (Harry Potter and the INSERT NAME Stone)

1:05:14 – 23. Paint Cans

1:06:41 – 24. Clothesline Trapeze/Marley to the Rescue

1:09:06 – 25. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas [Film Version]

1:09:58 – 26. The Next Morning/Mom Returns/Finale

1:14:04 – 27. We Wish You a Merry Christmas/End Title [Film Version]

Links

Anthony O’Toole’s Transcription & Analysis of Setting the Trap

Welcome back to the Sideshow Theme Show! In the 7th installment of our newest show, Will and Lasse take a look at the Wings/Flying/Fairy Godmother theme from James Newton Howard’s criminally underrated score to 2014’s Maleficent, and gush over how incredible the man truly is. Join us!

Welcome to the second round of “Music for Middle-Earth”! Edmund Meinerts is back to talk about scores for Tolkien media NOT composed by Howard Shore. Once again, him and Lasse are spotlighting video game soundtracks, one a bit obscure, the other for a well-known big budget title. Join them and listen to some special tunes!
Also, check out the link below to read the article mentioned in this episode:
https://web.archive.org/web/20111109153501/https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2785/riffing_on_tolkien_the_.php?print=1

**Original Air Date** July 14, 2014

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Score Guide, we dug deep into the Sideshow vault to bring you our very first Score Guide ever, Independence Day. Released 10 years ago this week, this blast from our past comes from a time when the editing style and presentation of the show was quite different than it is today. What hasn’t changed is how great David Arnold’s 1996 masterpiece is.

**Original Shownotes**

Will and Wend discuss a film score they both share a love for – Independence Day. They’ll be identifying themes, exploring their favourite cues and having an absolute blast being your guides through composer David Arnold‘s masterpiece!

Link to buy the 2010 La-La Land Records expanded release of Independence Day

Release

Independence Day: Limited Edition La-La Land Records (2010)

Timestamps

Disc One

05:31 – 1. 1969: We Came In Peace

07:54 – 2. S.E.T.I. – Radio Signal

09:09 – 3. Mysto Bridge/Satellite Collision/Destroyers Disengage/Russell Casse – Pilot

10:29 – 5. The Darkest Day

14:31 – 7. Cancelled Leave

15:58 – 21. Wedding

19:04 – 9. Evacuation

21:39 – 10. Firestorm

22:20 – 11. Aftermath

22:45 – 12. Base Attack

25:40 – 13. Marilyn Found

26:09 – 18. The Death of Marilyn/Dad’s a Genius

29:31 – 20. International Code

30:29 – 22. The President’s Speech

Disc Two

33:12 – 2. The Launch Tunnel/Mutha Ship/Virus Uploaded

34:49 – 3. Hide!/Russell’s Packin’ (The Day We Fight Back)

36:11 – 5. Jolly Roger

38:14 – 6. Victory

38:50 – 7. End Credits

Welcome, sons of the Pharaohs, under the shadow of Anubis to our 42nd Score Guide! Will, Wend, and Claude return to 1999 once more to guide you around quicksand, past plagues and curses, through the action-adventure horror remake, cream of cinematic cheese, The Mummy, composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith.

Twenty-five years after its release, your podcast adventurers shall be deciphering the hieroglyphic inscriptions, pulling open the sarcophagus, and chiselling the sacred spells to reveal the memorable themes, the classic Goldsmith orchestration techniques, and all those masterful musical gems that make this score a chamber of treasures from here to the City of the Dead, in an informative and entertaining track-by-track camel ride through 15 tracks of one of the best action and tension scores of the nineties.

Don’t mess with the scarabs!

Timestamps

0:00 – Intro Tag: Erik Woods of Cinematic Sound Radio

8:26 – 1. Imhotep

20:14 – 2. The Sarcophagus

26:22 – 3. Tuareg Attack

31:01 – 4. Giza Port

37:16 – 5. Night Boarders

48:30 – 6. The Caravan

54:18 – 7. Camel Race

59:32 – 8. The Crypt

1:08:43 – 9. Mumia Attack

1:12:14 – 10. Discoveries

1:18:16 – 11. My Favorite Plague

1:23:01 – 12. Crowd Control

1:28:11 – 13. Rebirth

1:34:25 – Jerry Goldsmith Meets Spineshank

1:39:18 – 14. The Mummy

1:46:14 – 15. The Sand Volcano

1:55:10 – Final Thoughts

**Original Air Date – May 17, 2017**

As we continue our tribute to our friend Ian Crabb, please enjoy his favourite episode of IDO – Alien 3. This episode represented much of what Ian hoped IDO would be – a film that was much maligned being defended vigorously by those who loved it, and Ian LOVED Alien 3. It was also a thrill for him to podcast with Erik Woods of Cinematic Sound Radio fame, who absolutely brought it as well. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 7 years since this one, and we certainly hope you enjoy it.

ORIGINAL POST:

In the latest episode of In Defence Of, host Ian Crabb is joined by his band of inmates, the fearless leader, out of the airlock, Will ‘Ripley’ Dodson, the enigma of space, Andrew ‘Xenomorph’ Steele, the wild, unpredictable, Mr. Todd Horan, and the welcome return of the podfather himself, Erik Woods.

In episode 11 of IDO, the team defend the 1992 sequel Alien 3 and it’s incredible score by composer Elliot Goldenthal! Is it that bad? Does it deserve the vitriol? Is hindsight a friend to this film? Listen and find out!

Timestamps

9:42 – Film

44:32 – Music

1:15:23 – Gripe

1:31:43 – Defence

1:45:00 – Listener Feedback

*Original Air Date: September 12, 2016*

Longtime listeners will remember our show In Defence Of, created by Ian Crabb, Will Dodson, and Wendell Jones, and hosted by Ian from 2015 to 2017. A fan favorite podcast on our network, IDO was a concept thought up by Wend and Will, and offered to Ian after his appearance on Episode 11 of the main show. Ian then took the show and made it his own, crafting the format, segments, and making it the AMAAAAAZING podcast it was. We now present to you the episode that was easily the most popular among them all – Transformers. Ian despised this film, but in the interest of fair play he agreed to take part, resulting in so much hilarity that the episode could hardly contain it. Please enjoy this banger from the vault, as we remember Ian fondly, doing what he did best.

ORIGINAL POST:

In this week’s In Defence Of, your heroic host Ian Crabb is joined by fearless leader of the Sideshow bots, Will Dodson alias Willimus Prime, Andrew Steele aka Bumblesteel, and finally, waiting in the wings ready to go, the dark Harbinger, Mr. Rob Dodson!

In episode 8 of IDO, the brave defenders of the Matrix of Leadership discuss the 2007 sci-fi action film Transformers scored by longtime collaborator of director Michael Bay, composer Steve Jablonsky! Let’s light up the AllSpark, make some sexist jokes and point our cameras upskirt as we defend Transformers!

Timestamps

6:20 – Film

35:32 – Music

58:04 – Gripe

1:18:13 – Defence

1:29:36 – Listener Feedback

1:34:41 – ?

**Original Air date: December 16, 2014**

This week marks 3 years since our friend, producer, host, and collaborator Ian Crabb passed away. Since this is also his birthday week, we’ve decided to spend the next couple of weeks re-releasing some of our favorite episodes that he was a part of, starting with this episode, which was his first ever appearance on the network. In this episode, Ian joined Wendell and Will to discuss the first four scores in the X-Men franchise. Join us as we take a walk down memory lane and remember the AMAZING Ian Crabb.

Welcome back to The Sideshow Theme Show! In today’s episode, Will and Lasse return to Gotham City, this time exploring Michael Giacchino’s two chord SLEDGEHAMMER of a main theme to 2021’s The Batman. Riddle us this, dear listeners – what does Nirvana, The Empire, and triple forte have to do with the loudest main theme in modern cinema? Hit play and find out….

**This episode originally aired October 8th 2016**

Will and Wend are joined by host and producer of Cinematic Sound Radio, Erik Woods, to discuss their favourite score of this century in our Halloween Score Guide of 2016!

The trio discuss the 2002 sci-fi thriller Signs by James Newton Howard. Guiding you through this sensational, supernatural film score, track-by-track, in the most entertaining and informative way they can, they cut back the crops to explore themes, motifs, instrumentation, textures, and those marvellous musical moments that leave them giddy with excitement!

Don’t be afraid…it’s time to board up your windows, lock your pantry door, head down to the basement, and talk film music!

Release

Signs Hollywood Records (2002)

Timestamps

06:59 – 1. Main Titles

11:15 – Camille Saint–Saëns ‘Danse Macabre’

13:38 – 2. First Crop Circles

22:05 – 3. Roof Intruder

31:05 – 4. Brazilian Video

36:15 – 5. In the Cornfield

43:38 – 6. Baby Monitor

48:29 – 7. Recruiting Office

53:36 – 8. Throwing a Stone

59:38 – 9. Boarding Up the House

1:07:18 – 10. Into the Basement

1:12:52 – 11. Asthma Attack

1:18:28 – James Newton Howard on Creating the Score

1:19:42 – 12. The Hand of Fate (Part 1)

1:28:13 – 13. The Hand of Fate (Part 2)

1:45:59 – Listener Feedback

Links

Cinematic Sound Radio
Soundcast Stereo
Erik on Twitter