stewart copeland - king of 80s prog soundtrack?

I had Copeland and Stan Ridgeway's "Don't Box Me In" from the Rumblefish soundtrack running through my head the other day. I wonder whatever happened to old Standard.

Richard Sinclair (ex Gryphon) has more taste, but less Moogs.

Pucked (2006)
Fish Eye (2005)
Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005) (TV)
"Dead Like Me" (9 episodes, 2003-2004)
- Haunted (2004) TV Episode
- Forget Me Not (2004) TV Episode
- Rites of Passage (2004) TV Episode
- In Escrow (2004) TV Episode
- Rest in Peace (2003) TV Episode
(4 more)
Amazon Forever (2004)
I Am David (2003)
"Breaking News" (2002) TV Series
Me and Daphne (2002)
Deuces Wild (2002)
Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly (2002) (VG)
On the Line (2001)
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (2001) (VG) (title song)
"Beyond the Glory" (2001) TV Series
Sunset Strip (2000)
Boys and Girls (2000)
Skipped Parts (2000)
... aka The Wonder of Sex (UK)
"Brutally Normal" (2000) TV Series
Spyro: Year of the Dragon (2000) (VG)
"The Amanda Show" (1999) TV Series (theme)
Simpatico (1999)
Made Men (1999)
She's All That (1999)
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (1999) (VG)
Legalese (1998) (TV)
Futuresport (1998) (TV)
Pecker (1998)
Very Bad Things (1998)
West Beyrouth (1998)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998) (TV)
Spyro the Dragon (1998) (VG)
Good Burger (1997)
Little Boy Blue (1997)
O Que É Isso, Companheiro? (1997)
Gridlock'd (1997)
The Leopard Son (1996)
The Assassination File (1996) (TV)
Boys (1996)
The Pallbearer (1996)
Tyson (1995) (TV)
Judgement (1995)
Silent Fall (1994)
Surviving the Game (1994)
Rapa Nui (1994)
Fresh (1994)
Decadence (1994)
Bank Robber (1993)
Airborne (1993)
Raining Stones (1993)
Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993) (TV)
Seconds Out (1993)
Horse Opera (1993) (TV)
Afterburn (1992) (TV)
Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
Hidden Agenda (1990)
Men at Work (1990)
Taking Care of Business (1990)
... aka Filofax
The First Power (1990)
... aka Pentagram
... aka Possessed by Evil (Philippines: English title: reissue title)
... aka Transit
Riff-Raff (1990)
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
"Shalom Salaam" (1989) (mini) TV Series
Talk Radio (1988)
"TV 101" (1988) TV Series (pilot episode)
She's Having a Baby (1988)
Wall Street (1987)
Out of Bounds (1986)
"The Equalizer" (1985) TV Series
The Rhythmatist (1985)
Rumble Fish (1983)

Jesus, that Rumblefish soundtrack. Amazing stuff.

There should be some sort of 80s movie soundtrack supergroup - I mean, imagine, Tangerine Dream, John Carpenter, Vangelis, Copeland, Oingo Boingo/Danny Elfman, Jan Hammer, and all the John Hughes soundtrack band stand-bys, getting together and Jammin some serious tunes! Yamaha and Korg would sell out their inventory!

I loved the music he did for the original Spyro the Dragon game. Might be some of my favorite video game music ever.

Would love to find some kind of bootleg of his score for Fresh. Fuck a bunch of "Music Inspired by the Film" Wu-Tang ass shit.

Yeah, same thing as the "Ghost Dog" syndrome. Fuck these rhymes, I want pure, unadulterated RZA!

Some of Copeland's are good, but too many suffer from the "hey, I got a Synclavier!" syndrome.

taking sides: the "Ghost Dog" syndrome vs. the "hey, I got a Synclavier!" syndrome

I used to love the Sypro games just because of the music. Had no idea it was the ex-Police drummer. Excellent

ha yeah him and mark mothersbaugh of devo dev ate off of video games in the 90s

I got the 'The Rhythmatist' LP at the 'world's largest garage sale' in Evanston, IL and just loved it. Still gets played often, and for some reason I respect his mining of African musical diaspora over many other musician's attempts.

Just picked this up and it is very very good:
http://www.discogs.com/Stewart-Copeland-The-Stewart-Copeland-Anthology/release/3275179
Only complaint is that it does not have "Our Mother is Alive" from the Rumble Fish s/t - probably my favorite of his solo pieces. Though it is incredibly wide-reaching - I hadn't heard a big portion of this before.

His 2005 "live" album Orchestralli (I put it in quotes b/c it seems very much overdubbed) is also really good. Definitely something I need to pull out more often.

really great interview(s):
http://www.thetrapset.net/077-stewart-copeland-the-police-klark-kent-animal-logic-oysterhead/

http://www.thetrapset.net/bns-stewart-copeland-answers-listener-questions/

thanks for sharing - this is good!

so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i08gE5EVKmM

Ooh I need to listen to those. SC's drumming makes me happy like few others. I read some drumming blog dissecting elements of his style last year which was super toothsome for my non-drummer self.

Mr. Copeland on his dad -- which, thanks to the excellence of the former ILXor's interview, draws out a little more than he might have wanted to say, maybe.

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/05/stewart-copeland-father-miles-cia-spy-the-police

Rumblefish is such a cool soundtrack, especially knowing that Copeland by his own admission had no clue what he was doing. so he just wrote it in his own style and figured out how to incorporate the orchestra on the fly. there isn't another soundtrack I can think of like it outside of Yukihiro Takahashi's Poisson d'Avril which came about in much similar circumstances. also I think Copeland is kind of a funny guy who always tries to incorporate humor into his songwriting, so hearing him try to be serious is pretty amusing