16 Rock Stars Turned Movie Composers, From Danny Elfman to

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John Williams is nice and all, however there aren’t a ton of his iconic movie scores that I’d really need to take heed to whereas figuring out. For that, it’s good to flip to the rock stars, the blokes who carry out to 20,000 screaming folks one evening after which collaborate with David Fincher the subsequent. They make the type of scores that increase the eyebrows of writers at Pitchfork and encourage bed room hipsters to exit and see an indie movie that may in any other case by no means get an viewers.

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Trent Reznor The Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor burst out onto the movie rating scene when he composed the icy, digitized beats for David Fincher’s “The Social Network” in 2010. He and his collaborator Atticus Ross gained the Oscar that yr, and he is since had a wave of creativity on different Fincher movies like “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and “Gone Girl.” More just lately he did the rating for “Waves,” the “Watchmen” collection and Pixar’s upcoming movie “Soul.”

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Danny Elfman Danny Elfman joined up with the band Oingo Boingo as a guitarist and vocalist as a part of his brother Richard Elfman’s cult movie “Forbidden Zone” from 1982, however the band took off for actual within the ’80s, and their bouncy, unusual and even cinematic New Wave sounds caught the eye of fan Tim Burton. Elfman would then work with Burton on a lot of his movies, beginning with “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure,” and he is now synonymous as a movie composer full 4 Oscar nominations.

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Hans Zimmer Hans Zimmer’s historical past with rock music dates again to his collaborations with The Buggles on their signature hit “Video Killed the Radio Star.” It wasn’t lengthy after that Zimmer turned some of the recognizable and prolific names in movie composition, first getting nominated on “Rain Man” in 1989 after which successful his Oscar for Disney’s “The Lion King.” More just lately, Zimmer made his return to rock and roll by acting at Coachella for a set in 2017.

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Jonny Greenwood Jonny Greenwood is likely to be the face of the rock star-turned-composer phenomenon, as his other-worldly, nightmarishly atmospheric sounds on “There Will Be Blood” represented a dramatic shift for the Radiohead guitarist, regardless of a lot of his classical, formal music coaching and background. Since then he is labored on every of Paul Thomas Anderson’s subsequent movies and eventually earned recognition with the Academy after being nominated for his work on “Phantom Thread.”

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Randy Newman There’s an entire technology of millennials who solely know Randy Newman because the man who sang “You’ve Got a Friend In Me” from the unique “Toy Story,” which is a disgrace for anybody even remotely aware of his sardonic songwriting. And although he is been a staple of Pixar and Disney movies together with scoring “Cars,” “A Bug’s Life,” “Monster’s Inc.” and extra, he only in the near past did the rating for Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story.”

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Mark Mothersbaugh The Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh turned extremely prolific in movie and TV after his post-punk rock days, having labored with Marvel on “Thor: Ragnarok,” on “Rugrats,” and with Wes Anderson on “The Royal Tenenbaums.” But he bought his begin composing for the unique “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” TV collection relationship again to 1986.

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