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Watchmen (soundtrack)
''Watchmen (Music from the HBO Series)'' is the original score for the HBO superhero drama limited series ''Watchmen'', composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. The score was released in three volumes on vinyl and digital services over the course of the series' broadcast in 2019, with ''Volume 1'' on November 6, ''Volume 2'' on November 27, and ''Volume 3'' on December 18. ''Watchmen'' is Reznor and Ross' first collaborative soundtrack for scripted television following their work on a number of award-winning films (beginning with ''The Social Network'' in 2010), as well as the documentary series ''The Vietnam War'' in 2017. The score combines the duo's signature electronic and dark ambient sounds with jazz and blues compositions, a piano cover of David Bowie's "Life on Mars," and a number of interludes containing in-world content from the series' universe, including dialogue excerpts and fictional advertisements. The score was critically acclaimed, with many reviewers consi ...
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Trent Reznor
Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and composer. He serves as the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and principal songwriter of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, which he founded in 1988 and of which he was the sole official member until 2016. The first Nine Inch Nails album, '' Pretty Hate Machine'' (1989), was a commercial and critical success. Reznor has since released 11 more Nine Inch Nails studio albums. Reznor began his career in the mid-1980s as a member of synth-pop bands such as Option 30, The Innocent, and Exotic Birds. He has contributed to the albums of artists such as Marilyn Manson, whom he mentored, rapper Saul Williams and Halsey. Alongside his wife Mariqueen Maandig and long-time Nine Inch Nails collaborators Atticus Ross and Rob Sheridan, he formed the post-industrial group How to Destroy Angels in 2009.HitFix Staff (December 8, 2011)"Trent Reznor pegs early 2012 release d ...
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Life On Mars (song)
"Life on Mars?" is a song by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, first released on his 1971 album ''Hunky Dory''. In 1968, Bowie was commissioned to write English lyrics for the Claude François French song "Comme d'habitude". After his lyrics were rejected, songwriter Paul Anka rewrote it into "My Way", made famous by singer Frank Sinatra in 1969. Annoyed at the success of "My Way", Bowie used the song as a template and wrote "Life on Mars?" as a parody of Sinatra's recording. It was written primarily on piano and recorded on 6 August 1971, the final day of the ''Hunky Dory'' sessions. Co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott, the backing band consisted of guitarist Mick Ronson, bassist Trevor Bolder and drummer Mick Woodmansey; Ronson also composed the song's string arrangement. Piano was played by Strawbs member Rick Wakeman. Musically, "Life on Mars?" is described as a "soaring, cinematic ballad". Primarily glam rock, with elements of cabaret and art rock, the song ...
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Damon Lindelof
Damon Laurence Lindelof (born April 24, 1973) is an American screenwriter, comic book writer, and producer. Among his accolades, he received three Primetime Emmy Awards, from twelve nominations. In 2010, ''Time'' magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Lindelof is best known as the creator and showrunner of numerous critically acclaimed television series, such as the ABC science fiction drama series ''Lost'' (2004–2010), the HBO supernatural drama series '' The Leftovers'' (2014–2017), and the HBO superhero limited series ''Watchmen'' (2019). Lindelof was also a writer on the CBS crime drama series '' Nash Bridges'' (2000–2001) and the NBC crime drama series ''Crossing Jordan'' (2001–2004). He co-wrote the films ''Cowboys & Aliens'' (2011), ''Prometheus'' (2012), ''Star Trek Into Darkness'' (2013), ''World War Z'' (2013), and ''Tomorrowland'' (2015). Early life and education Lindelof was born in Englewood, New Jersey, the son of Susan ( ...
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Dave Gibbons
David Chester Gibbons (born 14 April 1949) is an English comics artist, writer and sometimes letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries ''Watchmen'' and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything". He was an artist for ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD'', for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977. Early life Gibbons was born on 14 April 1949, at Forest Gate Hospital in London, to Chester, a town planner, and Gladys, a secretary. He began reading comic books at the age of seven. A self-taught artist, he illustrated his own comic strips. Gibbons became a building Surveying, surveyor but eventually entered the British comics, UK comics industry as a letterer for IPC Media. He left his surveyor job to focus on his comics career. British comics work Gibbons's earliest published work was in British underground comix, underground comics, starting with ''The Trials of Nasty Tales'', including ...
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Alan Moore
Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books including ''Watchmen'', ''V for Vendetta'', ''The Ballad of Halo Jones'', ''Swamp Thing'', ''Batman:'' ''The Killing Joke'', and ''From Hell''. He is widely recognised among his peers and critics as one of the best comic book writers in the English language. Moore has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, Brilburn Logue, and Translucia Baboon; also, reprints of some of his work have been credited to The Original Writer when Moore requested that his name be removed. Moore started writing for British underground and alternative fanzines in the late 1970s before achieving success publishing comic strips in such magazines as '' 2000 AD'' and ''Warrior''. He was subsequently picked up by DC Comics as "the first comics writer living in Britain to do prominent work in America", where he worked on major characters such as Batman ('' Batman: The Killing Joke'') ...
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Watchmen
''Watchmen'' is an American comic book Limited series (comics), maxiseries by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins (comics), John Higgins. It was published monthly by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987 before being collected in a single-volume edition in 1987. ''Watchmen'' originated from a story proposal Moore submitted to DC featuring superhero characters that the company had acquired from Charlton Comics. As Moore's proposed story would have left many of the characters unusable for future stories, managing editor Dick Giordano convinced Moore to create original characters instead. Moore used the story as a means to reflect contemporary anxieties, to deconstruct and satirize the superhero concept and political commentary. ''Watchmen'' depicts an alternate history in which superheroes emerged in the 1940s and 1960s and their presence changed history so that the United States won the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal was neve ...
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The Vietnam War (score)
''The Vietnam War (Original Score)'' is an electronic soundtrack album by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's television documentary series '' The Vietnam War'' which first aired on PBS in September 2017. The album was released on vinyl, CD and digitally on September 15, 2017 by Universal Music Enterprises and Reznor's own label The Null Corporation. Additionally, the TV series reused tracks from ''The Social Network'' (2010), '' The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' (2011), together with snippets of ten tracks from Nine Inch Nails' 2008 album '' Ghosts I–IV'' and instrumental versions of "The Wretched" from 1999's ''The Fragile'' and "The Beginning of the End" from 2007's '' Year Zero''. Separately, music for the series was also composed by Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, David Cieri and Doug Wamble. Ma's work, which served as a score for the Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., ...
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Gone Girl (soundtrack)
''Gone Girl'' is the score album for David Fincher's 2014 film of the same name, composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. The album was released on September 30, 2014, through Columbia Records. It marks as third time that Reznor and Ross have collaborated with Fincher, following 2010's Oscar-winning ''The Social Network'' and 2011's ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo''. The soundtrack was nominated for the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, and also for the 2014 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Background and development On January 21, 2014, Trent Reznor announced that he and Atticus Ross would provide the score, marking their third collaboration with David Fincher, following ''The Social Network'' and ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo''. Reznor revealed that the tonal inspiration for ''Gone Girl'' came from an unsettling experience of Fincher at the chiropractor's place and the music heard was "inauthentically trying to make him f ...
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack)
''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' is the score album for David Fincher's 2011 film of the same name, composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. It was released on December 9, 2011, through The Null Corporation in the US and Mute Records outside North America. This is the second soundtrack that Reznor and Ross have worked on together, following the Oscar-winning ''The Social Network'', also for Fincher. The soundtrack is nearly three hours long, and includes covers of the Led Zeppelin track, "Immigrant Song", featuring Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and the Bryan Ferry song, "Is Your Love Strong Enough?", by Reznor and Ross' own band, How to Destroy Angels.Trent Reznor's How to Destroy Angels Cover Bryan Ferry for Dragon Ta ...
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The Social Network (soundtrack)
''The Social Network'' is the score album for David Fincher's 2010 film of the same name, composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. It was released on September 28, 2010, through The Null Corporation. On September 17, a five-track sampler was also made available for free. The score bears a similar sound to the previous Reznor/Ross 2008 collaboration, ''Ghosts I–IV'', and even features two slightly reworked tracks from ''Ghosts''; the track "Magnetic" (reworked from "14 Ghosts II") and "A Familiar Taste" (a remixed version of "35 Ghosts IV"). The soundtrack received positive reviews from critics, and widespread acclaim across the film industry. The score won nine major awards, including the 2010 Golden Globe award for Best Original Score – Motion Picture, and the Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 83rd Academy Awards. Background When Trent Reznor was originally asked by director David Fincher to score ''The Social Network'', he initially declined, partly due to ...
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David Fincher
David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director. His films, mostly psychological thrillers and biographical dramas, have received 40 nominations at the Academy Awards, including three for him as Best Director. Fincher was the co-founder of Propaganda Films, a film and music video production company. Born in Denver, Colorado, Fincher was interested in filmmaking at an early age. He directed numerous music videos, most notably Madonna's " Express Yourself" in 1989 and "Vogue" in 1990, both of which won him the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction. He made his feature film debut with ''Alien 3'' (1992), which garnered mixed reviews, followed by the thriller ''Seven'' (1995), which was better received. Fincher found success with '' The Game'' (1997) and greater success with ''Fight Club'' (1999), with the latter eventually becoming a cult classic. In 2002, he returned to prominence with the thriller ''Panic Room'' starring Jodie Foster. Fincher a ...
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Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN and stylized as NIИ, is an American industrial rock band formed in Cleveland in 1988. Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Trent Reznor was the only permanent member of the band until his frequent collaborator, Atticus Ross, joined in 2016. The band's debut album, ''Pretty Hate Machine'' (1989), was released via TVT Records. After disagreeing with TVT about how to promote the album, the band signed with Interscope Records and released the EP ''Broken'' (1992). The following albums, ''The Downward Spiral'' (1994) and ''The Fragile'' (1999), were released to critical acclaim and commercial success. Following a hiatus, Nine Inch Nails resumed touring in 2005 and released the album ''With Teeth'' (2005). Following the release of the album ''Year Zero'' (2007), the band left Interscope after a feud. Nine Inch Nails continued touring and independently released ''Ghosts I–IV'' (2008) and ''The Slip'' (2008) before a ...
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