I was delighted last night to see the Hollywood film Zodiac, about the west coast serial killer of the sixties and seventies who took the same name, turn up on late night television. It's a great film, long sure, but evocative, deeply creepy and stylish. It also has one of the best soundtracks ever put out there. Taken from an assortment of contemporary pop, rock and easy listening songs. The events that they soundtrack serve to make every song that you hear eerie and other worldly and sometimes downright creepy.
Like here for example by Three Dog Night, the first song you hear on the film as the first killing unfolds. From a band that was absolutely enormous in commercial terms in the States for years, straddling the rock and pop worlds as successfully as anybody and responsible for a whole series of great singles that possibly don't get the recognition they deserve, at least not in the UK. This sounds like the work of a black soul outfit. Cover specialists, this was originally from the soundtrack of Hair and was a Number 4 hit in the US in 1969.
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