In terms of punk, and this is just my personal criticism and curiosity coming through: What IS IT that attracts punk fans to punk rock? I mean, seriously - I get a headache when exposed to this sort of "musical form," if you can call it that.

What's up with that?

Danny Elfman could also fit that description, again, if by 'punk', you mean the aesthetic definition and not hair color and/or piercings.

Joe Strummer - did a wonderful score for Alex Cox's WALKER that was released by Virgin Records... Strummer also did music for PERMANENT VACATION, and several other films... speaking of Alex Cox, there's REPO MAN - incidental music by Tito Larrivita of the L.A. group The Plugz and The Cruzados.

TRUE STORIES, directed by David Byrne - mainly known for the songs by the Talking Heads, but was also 'underscored' by a variety of artists such as Meredith Monk... SOUNDS OF TRUE STORIES was a companion album worth looking for (it's not as well known as the Heads album).

Should have known LRob would come up with those ones above. Sweet!

What is it about non-punk music that gives me a headache and makes me want to smash things in their nauseating conformity to brain-deleting cow feed?

Favorite punk soundtracks

Repo Man-- and Pablo picasso was never called an ass hole!

Natural Born Killers

Joe Strummer's Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, Walker, and even his more placid stylings behalf Permanent Record and Grosse Point Blank

Robocop - Duh Duh DUH, DUHH DUHH DUHHH- DUHH DUHH DUHH DUUHHHH-- sounds like punk to me

Planet of the Apes, Total Recall-- there's a music war for you!

Question, since I never saw it, did Cruising actually have songs by GERMS in it? The compilation album MIA cites Lion's Share and a couple of others as being specially written for Friedkin.

Hands down THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD.

Classic stuff...

Runner Up:

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2

Then you need to define Punk.. since David Byrne's Talking Heads was considered New Wave and not punk. For Punk, you should think more along the lines of The Ramones, The Cramps and The Sex Pistols. I heard Johnny Rotten wants to get into doing some film music... or at least on his short lived VH-1 series he mentioned similarly. And Elfman.. definitely not Punk... Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo would kind of count in this category! Booji-Boy lives!

Good thread tho!

David

Graeme Revell was a member of SPK, so I guess he would fall under the umbrella. Probably Cliff Martinez as well, since he came out of SoCal hardcore bands.

Most movies with punk tend to be documentaries, i.e. Penelope Spheriss' DECLINE series... there's also Julien Temple's Sex Pistols double shot THE GREAT ROCK & ROLL SWINDLE and THE FILTH AND THE FURY; D.O.A. which followed the Sex Pistols on their U.S.A. tour and also featured other U.K. artists (Generation X, X-Ray Spex, Sham 69, among others) along with the infamous 'Sid and Nancy Show' footage [Sid nodding off as Nancy whines]. Another great doc is X-THE UNHEARD MUSIC, which features everything you want to know about the group X.

Narratives - Penelope Spheeris again leads the pack with SURBUBIA, DUDES and I'd even include THE BOYS NEXT DOOR (with a good script by Morgan & Wong of X-FILES/MILLENIUM) - There's also Lou Adler's LADIES & GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS with Paul Jones & Steve Cook [Sex Pistols] and Paul Simonson [The Clash] as "The Professionals"; RUDE BOY with The Clash (very slow, but the performance footage is good).

You could triple or quadruple the list by counting underground films (Richard Kern/Beth B./Nick Zedd), but that's a whole other area.

Roomie, my local authority on punk (he is looming right behind me), says that the Peppers started out as a punk band, but incorporate significant aspects of funk. "They've done enough HEROIN to be punk," he says, but his standards for punk are pretty strict, and he doesn't consider them a punk band today.

Dead on about Morricone... and honorary "punks" in the soundtrack world (in my view) would be Herrmann, Goldsmith, Chris Young (for THE VAGRANT and INVADERS FROM MARS), Goldenthal, Nyman... I'm leaving out lots of people who've dabbled like J. Williams (IMAGES).

It goes to what I said originally - that list looks pretty absurd if you count 'punk' as "loud, hard, fast RULES!!" and as music made by pierced, loud-mouthed yobs with strange hair and limited musical expression... granted that is one aspect, and probably the most widely seen.

'Punk' as an asethetic allows for a much more wider range of artist and expression. And with the boundries between genres getting very blurry, it's going to be very pointless to attempt to pigeonhole people and music... more cause for celebration (although it makes for big headaches trying to describe things).