April 24, 2009
Creative Loafing posted the latest interview with the Venture Bros. soundtrackatier JG Thirlwell if you're interested. It goes into composing music for the show as well as his solo work and inspiration and such. Enjoy!
April 10, 2009
LA
Weekly has a quick interview with JG
Thirlwell. It's mostly to do with the
soundtrack and his work scoring The Venture Bros.,
though there's bits about some upcoming non-
Venture work. It's a quick but worthwhile read.
April 2, 2009
Mysteriously a few days ago in the Season 3 DVD/Blu-Ray/Soundtrack discussion a mysterious commenter only known as 'nobody to do with the soundtrack' (which may be the truth, but could also be lies) posted this message which included a link to a zip file containing two tracks not on the CD (apparently cut from the final version). I didn't want to post this on April Fool's day (even though I didn't think of a gag this year, sorry) so I'm posting it now. They're much lighter tracks than most of what's on the soundtrack, but still worth having. Enjoy!
Also for those of you still on the fence about buying the full soundtrack, Adult Swim.com has a couple samples up that may sway your opinion.
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JG Thirlwell - 'G Show Theme' (?) 2:40
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JG Thirlwell - 'Instructional Video' (?) 1:23
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Also for those of you still on the fence about buying the full soundtrack, Adult Swim.com has a couple samples up that may sway your opinion.
March 24, 2009
... or a Blu-Ray. Jackson updated with some tidbits about the upcoming season and how it's coming in two parts. He also included a nifty new background painting for immediate consumption (do not take painting orally). Also he notes that you really should buy the season three DVD and/or Blu-Ray because that would make him happy, and when he's happy, you're happy. Capisce?
Discussion threads make a comeback in '09 for one night only! Well, until season four starts at least. At any rate, if you've got something to say about the just-released season three DVD and/or Blu-Ray or the soundtrack CD/vinyl then here's the place to say it! My copies are still in the mail, though I expect my DVD to show up today. As is the norm I will also eventually be running a season three giveaway with the usual bevy of ridiculous questions. So stay tuned for that!
Also since I forgot to mention it, there's a new poll up for your voting pleasure. It's in the sidebar or you can just go directly to it if that's your thing.
Update (5:55pm EST): Hey, guess what just showed up!
Also since I forgot to mention it, there's a new poll up for your voting pleasure. It's in the sidebar or you can just go directly to it if that's your thing.
Update (5:55pm EST): Hey, guess what just showed up!
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March 9, 2009
Reader and commenter The Mysterious 'H' was awesome enough to point out that you can now buy the soundtrack from Adult Swim/Williams Street. $12 for the CD version or $18 for vinyl (which has 16 tracks instead of the CD's 20). You can also buy a variety of other Venture Bros. stuff such as the upcoming season 3 DVD/Blu-Ray and some shirts and stuff.
February 26, 2009
Bundled with the upcoming Season 3 Blu-Ray release (and presumably sold separately) will be a much-lauded soundtrack, as you may know. A track list has finally surfaced (or maybe it surfaced a while ago, but it's the first I'm hearing of it) so you can lament that you don't yet own the damned thing and also maybe guess which tracks are which:
- Brock Graveside
- Tuff
- Tensssacts
- 13 BigMon / Boys as Transformers
- Node Wrestling
- Thunder-Bro
- Damion
- Assclamp!
- Mississippi Noir
- VB1 Spag
- Bolly
- Gawker
- Descension
- Warped Carousel
- Sexy Sultry
- In a spaceage Mood
- X1 Krashi / woozzy
- Warped Span
- Fumblestealth
- VB Theme
December 6, 2008
In spite of all the skepticism revolving around season three's probability of being released on Blu-Ray (even though it was produced in HD) it appears that it will in fact get an HD release along with the standard fare DVD set. IGN has a story along with two product-shot mockups showing off the old Atari game box style the sets will carry.
Arriving at retail as a two-disc box set on both platforms for the suggested retail prices of $29.98 and $44.98, respectively, The Venture Bros. Season 3 features all 13 uncensored episodes from the show's highly popular third season and bonus material including deleted scenes and commentary. Additionally, the Blu-ray disc box set will be packaged with an exclusive CD which includes 20 tracks that comprise the full musical score from the television series' third season.
So there you go! The site says the release date is March 24, 2009, so there's a while to wait, but Blu-Ray fans and Playstation 3 owners rejoice.Update: In celebration of this momentous event there's a new poll (or vote in the sidebar).
March 31, 2008
Popshifter has posted an interview with Venture Bros. music dude JG Thirwell. It's a lengthy interview, but it covers a bunch of Venture-related things as well as the non-animated series portion of Thirlwell's career.
What are you currently working on or with? Is 2008 shaping up to be as busy as the last two years?
I am preparing a Venture Bros. soundtrack album.
Also a Foetus album of archival minimal recordings made between 1980 and 1983 (some radically updated or redone where the quality of the original is bad or unfinished). This will be packaged as a digipack with a 48-page booklet of minimal artworks.
And also a new Foetus studio album for release in 2009.
I'm also working on the score of season three of The Venture Bros.