Author of the international best selling books, Excelsior, and Ever Upward, George Sirius shares about how Steve Jablonsky’s score to the 2011 Michael Bay film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon has directly inspired scenes in the Excelsior Journey series. While George is a fan of the majority of Jablonsky’s work…
Award winning composer and host of the Piecing It Together Podcast, David Rosen is our guest for this episode. Ryan and David talk about the score to the 2014 Alex Garland film, Ex-Machina. They discuss how Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury’s score has influenced David’s own score work as well…
Ryan and Nicole break down the 5 nominees for the 2022 Best Original Song Oscar. They talk about how the category has had as few as 2 nominees (2011) in the past and they question whether this year should've had 5 nominees or not. They discuss Diane Warren's winless streak…
Ryan, Brandice and Nicole talk about the soundtrack to the 2006 Marc Forster film, Stranger than Fiction. The soundtrack was originally promoted as a Britt Daniel score, but it turns out that Brian Reitzell co-scored the film with Daniel as well as helming the role of soundtrack supervisor. They chat…
Brian Colburn of the Playlist Wars podcast stops by to talk about his favorite movie, Tom Hanks' 1996 film, That Thing You Do. The film boasts the infectious award nominated hit single, "That Thing You Do", written by the late Fountains of Wayne / Ivy / Tinted Windows bassist, Adam…
The Vern from the Cinema Recall podcast joins us this week to talk about the 2001 Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont film, Josie and the Pussycats, a film that has slowly transformed from box office bomb to cult classic. We chat about the loaded soundtrack featuring the songwriting of Dave…
We’ve reached Episode 50, and to celebrate this milestone, we're covering the blockbuster 8 Mile Soundtrack with MJ from the Menage with the MariJayne Maven Podcast! This multiplatinum soundtrack is the companion piece to the 2002 Curtis Hanson film, 8 Mile, which stars Eminem. Eminem is also the star of…
Trigger Warning: There is brief mention of sexual assault in this episode since it is central to the plot of The Crow.Colin Jackson-Brown from the podcasts, Free with This Months's Issue and We Dig Music, talks with Brandice and Ryan about the 1994 Alex Proyas film, The Crow. The film…
Matt Latham from the Pick a Disc podcast, joins Ryan and Brandice, all the way from the UK to talk about the soundtrack to the TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This 1999 soundtrack and TV show has had a profound impact on Matt's life, and Matt shares the Pick…
This week's guest is Lance Ingram of the Yesterday's Concert Podcast and he picked the rock and roll film, Penelope Spheeris' Wayne's World (1992). From the iconic, "Bohemian Rhapsody" to Wayne and Garth bowing and screaming "We're not worthy!" to Alice Cooper, Ryan and Lance talk about all the classic…
David Ballantyne of The Vinyl Score returns to make his 2nd appearance of the year to talk about the 1999 Jem Cohen documentary, Instrument, which captures a 10 year snapshot of the band, Fugazi, between 1987 and 1996. Even though the film has live footage, and footage of the band…
Tara Giancaspro aka Sweaty Lamarr is our guest for this Phil Collins-centric episode on the 1999 Kevin Lima and Chris Buck directed animated film, Tarzan. She also just released her album, A Little Bit Cuntry, A Little Bit Rock and Roll. (link to her Bandcamp below)Phil Collins wrote all the…
Composer of the web series/podcast, DarkTyme: Stories From The Future, and business manager of the Black Corporation, Bob Rogue, chose the soundtrack to the 1978 film, Midnight Express, with it’s Oscar winning Giorgio Moroder score. Bob became familiar with the soundtrack before even seeing the movie and he shares a…
Andres from The Latin Jukebox Podcast was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia, and he's on the podcast to discuss the Oscar winning animated film Encanto (2021), which takes place in a fictional version Columbia. By growing up in the country and understanding the culture, he has a unique perspective…
Jesse Jackson of the Setlisting Bruce Podcast joins the podcast to talk to Ryan about the soundtrack to the 2019 Gurinder Chadha film, Blinded by the Lights, a film that is centered around a character's discovery of the music of Bruce Springsteen. Naturally, Jesse is the perfect guest to talk…
Jon Reilly from the Life's But a Song Podcast stops by to talk about Richard Linklater's 2003 film, School of Rock. A movie that has since become a musical on Broadway. There was enough discussion about School of Rock to fill this episode as well as an episode on Life's…
To celebrate 2 years of Soundtrack Your Life, we present to you a very special guest: Craig Wedren, the former Shudder to Think front man, and current TV/Film composer. Craig fronted the highly influential rock band, Shudder to Think in the late 80s/early 90s before the band turned to soundtrack…
Indie Rock Legend, Lou Barlow, is our guest this week and it was truly an honor to interview him. He created the music for the 1995 cult classic Kids with John Davis aka the band Folk Implosion. We covered this soundtrack for our very first episode. The movie also features…
Ryan and Nicole welcome Scott Interrante from the This is the Greatest Song I've Ever Heard In My Entire Life Podcast to talk about the soundtrack to the 2007 Marc Lawrence film, Music and Lyrics. The soundtrack contains a ton of original music, mostly from Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne,…
Branden Palomo from the Better Band Podcast, Danny Prokup, and Mike Boroski (regular guests on the Music Rewind Podcast) join Ryan to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Cameron Crowe's love letter to Seattle, the 1992 film, Singles. The film and the soundtrack are both fondly remembered by our guests and…
As we approach the end of 2022, we look back at some of our favorite conversations that we had to cut out of our regular episodes. We'd like to thank all of our guests in 2022! This should would not be the same without you.In this episode: • Ryan talks…
Michael Lockwood (guitarist for Lions and Ghosts, Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, Carly Simon, among others) somehow has found some time in his crazy busy schedule to talk about his score for the 2022 film As the Village Sleeps, which was just released digitally. His label, Sparkle Plenty, has also just…
Our guest for this week is Tyler, host of I Turn My Podcast On, the best Spoon podcast out there. He joins Ryan and Nicole to talk about the blockbuster soundtrack to the blockbuster 1995 Joel Schumacher film, Batman Forever. From U2 to The Flaming Lips, we bounce around between…
Happy Holidays!Scott Interrante (of This is the Greatest Song I've Ever Heard In My Entire Life) returns to talk about Jon Favreau's most famous Christmas film, Elf (2003)! From Louis Prima to Zooey Deschanel singing "Baby, It's Cold Outside", we cover the Gold certified soundtrack for this Christmas classic.We also…