VIII.
June 2002-June 2003
June
2, 2002: "Elfmania." Fistful's annual birthday salute
to Danny Elfman.
June
9, 2002: "The Crate Escape." Selections from soundtracks that
I recently stumbled upon while doing some half-assed crate diggin' at the record store.
June
16, 2002: "Every Good Hero Should Have Some." Heroic theme music.
(Originally aired: July 15, 2001)
June
23, 2002: "Up, Up and Away." Movie themes and musical numbers
related to flight. (Originally aired: July 22, 2001)
June
30, 2002: "Make Way for the Bad Guy." The fifth anniversary
show. Villainous movie music.
July
7, 2002: No show.
July
14, 2002: "I've Got Mail." Listener e-mail is read throughout
the show.
July
21, 2002: "Summer Overtures 2002." More movie music with a summertime
sound in this sequel to last July's "Summer Overtures" episode.
July
28, 2002: No show.
August
4, 2002: "International Music of Mystery 2002." Music from the
Austin Powers movies and other groovetastic movie tunes.
August
11, 2002: "I've Got Mail." Listener e-mail is read throughout
the show. (Originally aired: July 14, 2002)
August
18, 2002: "Conduct Yourself Accordingly." Featured throughout
this show are selections from albums like Cinema Concerto—Ennio
Morricone at Santa Cecilia and the recently reissued Goldsmith
Conducts Goldsmith, in which film composers conduct new concert hall
arrangements of their own tunes. Tune in next week for "Copy Yourself
Accordingly," a show about James Horner. (Originally aired: April
21, 2002)
August
25, 2002: "Crime Jazz." Gumshoe grooves and criminal cues from
the scores to such movies as The Man with the Golden Arm, Anatomy
of a Murder, I Want to Live! and Touch of Evil. (Originally
aired: September 24, 2000)
September
1, 2002: "Make Way for the Bad Guy." The fifth anniversary show.
Villainous movie music. (Originally aired: June 30, 2002)
September
8, 2002: "The Best Scores of 2001." Selections from last year's
best original scores, including In the Mood for Love, The Lord
of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Ocean's Eleven and
The Royal Tenenbaums. (Originally
aired: February 17, 2002)
September
15, 2002: "Back to School." Fistful marks the return
of—blah!—school with campus-related music
from films like Back to School, To Sir with Love, Rudy,
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, The Virgin Suicides,
School Daze and even those naughty Schoolgirl Report German
porno flicks. (Originally aired: September 30, 2001)
September
22, 2002: "Mountain Town (Part 1)." Paramount Pictures, the
fine makers of such Hollywood classics as Jonathan Livingston Seagull
and Mandingo, is celebrating its 90th anniversary, so we'll hear
favorite selections from soundtracks and scores to Paramount movies and
shows.
September
29, 2002: "Mountain Town (Part 2)." Paramount Pictures, the
fine makers of such Hollywood classics as Jonathan Livingston Seagull
and Mandingo, is celebrating its 90th anniversary, so we'll hear
favorite selections from soundtracks and scores to Paramount movies and
shows.
October
6, 2002: "Mondo Morricone 2002." Fistful's annual birthday
salute to Ennio Morricone.
October
13, 2002: "Something to Sing About." Featuring selections from
the Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Feeling soundtrack.
October
20, 2002: "Creature Features: A Fistful of Soundtracks Halloween
Special 2001." Music from the soundtracks to creature features like
Alien, Predator, Killer Klowns from Outer Space,
The Blob, Godzilla and Ghostbusters. Sketches include
"2001: A Spaz Odyssey," "Sexy Beast and the City,"
"Hannibal-bera," "Monster M*A*S*H" and "Roadkill
Rage." (Go here to read about the making of the special.) (Originally aired:
October 28, 2001)
October
27, 2002: "My Big Fat Fistful of Soundtracks Halloween Special."
The 2002 Fistful Halloween show: "The feel-bad Halloween special
of the year." Featuring music from the soundtracks to Vampyros
Lesbos, Suspiria, Red Dragon, Signs, Resident
Evil, Blacula and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With
Feeling. Sketches include "Curse of the Were-Hippie," "I
Want Candy," "The Ring," "My Big Fat Goblin Wedding"
and "Dr. Pill."
November
3, 2002: "I've Got Mail Again." Another peek into the Fistful
e-mailbag.
November
10, 2002: "007th Heaven" (a.k.a. "Your Bond Song Stays
on My Mind 2002") . The sequel to the June 2001 Fistful episode
"Your Bond Song Stays on My Mind." This salute to the 007 theme
song features all 17 official Bond opening title themes with vocals, including
the latest Bond song, Madonna's theme from Die Another Day.
November
17, 2002: "Son of I've Got Mail." Another peek into the Fistful
e-mailbag.
November
24, 2002: "Spybreak!" Espionage action themes. Featured are
cues from Die Another Day, On Her Majesty's Secret Service,
The Bourne Identity, The Avengers and Enter the Dragon.
December
1, 2002: No show.
December
8, 2002: "The 12 Soundtracks of Christmas." The 2002 Fistful
of Soundtracks Christmas Special. Music from Adam Sandler's Eight
Crazy Nights, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Mr. Hankey's
Christmas Classics. Sketches (from past Fistful Christmas Specials)
include "Connery Holiday Greeting," "The 12 Days of Christmas,"
"A Christmas Story Starring Charlton Heston," "Feliz
Navidad," "Schwarzenegger Holiday Greeting," "Christmas
Fear Factor," "The Morrissey Christmas Special" and "Santa
Brawl 2000."
December
15, 2002: "It's Like Christmas Every Other Day." The title of
this episode refers to something Fistful's mailbag girl Gracie
recently said during the "Son of I've Got Mail" episode, about
receiving soundtrack CDs in the mail almost every other day. Featured
are selections from new releases I recently received in the mail, including
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Feeling, Red Dragon,
The Bourne Identity, Die Another Day and Adam Sandler's
Eight Crazy Nights. Also: selections from the all-new scores to Star
Trek: Nemesis and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
December
22, 2002: "The 12 Soundtracks of Christmas." (Originally aired:
December 22, 2002)
December
29, 2002: No show.
January
5, 2003: "Time to Stick a Fork in It." The final broadcast of
A Fistful of Soundtracks on KZSC.
From
this point on, Fistful is an Internet-only
program.
The
week of January 13-19, 2003: "Return of I've Got Mail." The
Fistful listener e-mailbag is opened once again. (Production code:
WEB01)
The
week of February 3-9, 2003: "The Best Scores of 2002." Selections
from last year's best original scores and soundtracks, including About
a Boy, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Monsoon
Wedding. (Production
code: WEB02)
The
week of February 3-9, 2003: "Fistfizzle Soundtrizzle." Favorite
underappreciated theme songs and soundtrack cuts, fa' schizzle.
(Production code: WEB03)
The
week of February 10-16, 2003: "Bathroom Songs." Soundtrack selections
that last eight minutes or longer.
(Production code: WEB04)
The
week of March 3-9, 2003: "Woke Up This Morning." Fistful
host/producer Jimmy's favorite TV themes.
(Production code: WEB05)
The
week of March 10-16,
2003: "Revenge of I've Got Mail." The
fifth mailbag ep features listener requests for selections from the soundtracks
to movies like The Mask of Zorro, Moulin Rouge, Austin
Powers in Goldmember and Dr. Strangelove. (Production code:
WEB06)
The
week of March 17-23, 2003: "You're Entering a World of Twang."
A
Fistful salute to the twang guitar sound. (Production code: WEB07)
The
week of April 8-14, 2003: "The
Best Damn Scores Show, Period."
Unfortunately,
this "best damn show" doesn't have Lisa Guerrero, but it's got
the best damn themes from films like Anatomy of a Murder, Once
Upon a Time in the West, Enter the Dragon, Catch Me If You
Can and Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
(Production code: WEB08)
The
week of April 21-27, 2003: "Super
Groover Mama Dalai Lama."
Featured
throughout this ep are 10 odd, quirky and sometimes baffling choices for
original opening theme songs. As Tom Jones once famously asked, "What's
a Thunderball?" If Superfly's "Freddie's Dead" is
about "Freddie," then why is it used as a theme for Superfly
hero Priest during the main titles? What do the lyrics in Cowboy Bebop:
The Movie's opening theme, "Ask DNA," have to do with the
movie? (BTW, "Super groover mama Dalai Lama" is a verse from
"Ask DNA.") Also featured are selections from the soundtracks
to About a Boy, Monarch of the Glen, The Two Towers
and Superman: The Movie.
(Production code: WEB09)
The
week of April 28-May 4, 2003: "This
Is a Request, Mr. Radio Man."
The
Fistful listener mailbag is opened once again. Featured are listener
requests for selections from the soundtracks to movies like Chicago,
Frida, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie and To Live and Die in
L.A.
(Production code: WEB10)
The
week of May 26-June 1, 2003: "Kill
My Boss? Do I Dare Live Out the American Dream?"
Exciting
film music cues to help keep you awake during your boring job at the office.
(Production code: WEB11)
The
week of May 26-June 1, 2003: "The
Mailbox Reloaded."
The
Fistful listener mailbag is opened once again. Featured are listener
requests for selections from the soundtracks to movies like The Matrix
Reloaded, Mulholland Drive, Requiem for a Dream and Hedwig and
the Angry Inch. Note: The 100th Fistful of Soundtracks episode
that was recorded onto CD, "The Mailbox Reloaded" is also the
first hourlong Fistful ep. As
of this ep, the length of each ep was shortened from two hours to one
hour to speed up both the production process and the output of new eps,
as well as to cut production costs. (Production
code: WEB12)
The
week of June 2-8, 2003: "Then/Now."
An
old piece by a film composer is followed by a selection from one of his
or her more recent soundtracks. The featured composers include Yoko Kanno,
Danny Elfman and John Williams. (Production code: WEB13)
The
week of June 9-15, 2003: "Scope-ophilia."
Because
2003 marks the 50th anniversary of the introduction of CinemaScope,
this edition of Fistful features music from original scores to
films with great ultra-widescreen cinematography (Spartacus, Close
Encounters of the Third Kind, Rushmore, The Straight Story).
(Production code: WEB14)
The
week of June 16-22, 2003: "Which
One of You Bitches Is My Mother?"
Fistful
host/producer Jimmy plays forgotten movie and TV themes without revealing
until afterward who performed or wrote them. Note: The week this ep
was recorded was the same week Fistful began broadcasting six years
before, so this ep is the sixth anniversary show. (Production code:
WEB15)
The
week of June 30-July 6, 2003: "Recycle
Bin."
The
emphasis is on old, preexisting movie music that has been re-used for
the soundtracks of other movies. But instead of featuring the same old
examples, like the themes from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,
Peter Gunn, Rocky, Star Wars and Chariots of Fire,
this ep focuses on much less ubiquitous themes, such as the Across
110th Street theme (later recycled as the main title theme for Jackie
Brown) and the Navajo Joe theme (a.k.a. Reese Witherspoon's
"battle cry" music in Election). (Production code: WEB16)
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