XHM #639 - "Born to be a lion" (2023 March 06)

Exploding Head Movies

For Week 6 of our annual Oscars profile, this pre-recorded episode focuses on the nominees for Best Original Song. We'll hear songs from the films Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Tell It Like a Woman, Top Gun: Maverick, RRR and Everything Everywhere All at Once. We'll also hear some songs that missed the cut whilst gak celebrates some birthday or other from far away. 1. Cristobal Tapia de Veer: Happy Birthday (Smile OST, 2022) Paramount 2. Neil Young: Old Man [live] (Harvest: 50th Anniversary Edition, 1972) Reprise 3. Josefin Runsteen: Banyan, Scene V - Air (Hana: Three Bodies OST, 2021) Pacaya 4. tomandandy: Opening (47 Metres Down OST, 2017) Lakeshore 5. Marco Beltrami: 47 Comes a Knocking (Hitman: Agent 47 OST, 2015) La-La Land 6. Ilan Eshkeri: 47 Ronin (47 Ronin OST, 2013) Varèse Sarabande 7. Akira Ifukube: Main Title (47 Ronin OST, 1962) Toho 8. Joe Hahn & Alec Puro: Blade Prophecy (Blade of the 47 Ronin OST, 2022) Back Lot Music 9. Maarja Nuut & Ruum: We Get Older (World Inverted, 2020) Õunaviks 10. Virna Lindt: Young and Hip (Musik Music Musique 2.0: 1981! The Rise of Synth Pop, 2021) Cherry Red 11. Tess Parks: Happy Birthday Forever (And Those Who Were Seen Dancing, 2022) Fuzz Club/Hand Drawn Dracula 12. Asura: I Saw You in Vice [Anenon Birthday remix] (Asura, 2010) Non Projects/Moamoo/Art Union 13. No Joy: Ageless (Motherhood, 2020) Joyful Noise/Hand Drawn Dracula 14. Cassandra Jenkins: Michaelangelo (An Overview on Phenomenal Nature, 2021) Ba Da Bing! 15. Fumerolles: Sismographe (Nuit Jaune, 2023) Kinnta 16. Andy Shauf: Paradise Cinema (Norm, 2023) Anti- 17. Young Gun Silver Fox: Still Got It Going On (Ticket to Shangri-La, 2022) Légère 18. Light Blending In: Airy Nights (2022) self-released 19. Men I Trust: Ring of Past (2023) self-released 20. TOPS: Future Waits (Empty Seats EP, 2022) Musique TOPS 21. Rob Simonsen: Life Boat (The Whale OST, 2022) A24 22. Snotty Nose Rez Kids: I'm Good (I'm Good, HBU? 2022) Distorted Muse 23. Dumb: Fully Compromised (Pray 4 Tomorrow, 2022) Mint 24. Michel Legrand: Romantic Oscar (L'Intégrale/The Complete Edition, 2013) Universal France 25. Rahul Sipligunj & Kaala Bhairava: Naatu Naatu [w.MM Keeravani] (RRR OST, 2022) Super Cassette Industries/Lahari 26. Rihanna: Lift Me Up (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever OST, 2022) Hollywood/Roc Nation/Def Jam/Marvel 27. Ludwig Göransson: Imperius Rex (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever OST, 2022) Hollywood 28. Sofía Carson: Applause (Tell It Like a Woman OST, 2022) Iervolino/We Do It Together 29. Lady Gaga: Hold My Hand (Top Gun: Maverick OST, 2022) Interscope 30. Harold Faltermeyer, Lady Gaga, Hans Zimmer & Lorne Balfe: Top Gun Anthem (Top Gun: Maverick OST, 2022) Interscope 31. Kenny Loggins: Danger Zone (Top Gun: Maverick OST, 2022) Interscope 32. Son Lux: This is a Life [w.Mitski & David Byrne] (Everything Everywhere All at Once OST, 2022) A24 33. Mychael Danna: Out Yonder Where the Crawdads Sing (Where the Crawdads Sing OST, 2022) Decca/Republic 34. Taylor Swift: Carolina (Where the Crawdads Sing OST, 2022) Decca/Republic 35. Doja Cat: Vegas (Elvis OST, 2022) RCA 36. Aidan Baker & Matt Borghi: Sunken Cathedrals (Undercurrents, 2004) Zenapolæ/Broken Spine 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. LCD Soundsystem: New Body Rhumba (New Body Rhumba from the film White Noise single, 2022) DFA/Columbia I'm older than I've ever been and now, I'm even older. [e-mail] www.citr.ca/exploding-head-movies