Movie Soundtracks That Deserved Their Own Billing There are movie soundtracks. And then there are soundtracks that make you forget you're supposed to be watching a movie. You know the ones. The opening chords hit and suddenly you're transported back to a particular year, a particular pair of headphones, a particular version of yourself. Sometimes the music perfectly captures the film. Sometimes it completely overwhelms it. And occasionally, the soundtrack becomes so good that the movie itself feels like little more than an extended music video. At HiddenGems, we're naturally drawn to the latter. Because buried among the blockbuster soundtracks and the obvious greatest hits are some wonderfully strange, beautifully curated collections of music. Some were groundbreaking. Some were time capsules. Some introduced people to artists they might otherwise never have heard. And some were simply bloody brilliant. So let's dig through the crate. 1. Judgment Night — 1993 The vibe...
Prost to Rocktoberfest I opened the crate and look what I found. Germany. Not exactly the first place you might expect to find a dusty crate overflowing with rock 'n' roll. But then again, this isn't a crate of oompah bands, beer hall singalongs and someone shouting Ein Prosit every thirty seconds. This is the B-Side Man's crate. And somewhere underneath the familiar names, the obvious hits and the records everybody already knows, there is an entirely different German rock story waiting to be discovered. So grab your stein, turn the lights down, and let's go digging. The ones you thought you knew Let's start with the obvious. Scorpions. You probably know the songs: Rock You Like a Hurricane, Still Loving You, Wind of Change. But go back a little further and the band sounds like something else entirely. Before the stadiums, the power ballads and the MTV years, there was a darker, stranger Scorpions; a band capable of stretching hard rock into psychedelic territ...