When John Carpenter performed live at the Fox Theater in Oakland, way back in 2016, a playlist of recordings from his various soundtracks was broadcast over the sound system while the crowd filed in and took their seats.
One of those selections just so happened to be The Coroner's Theme, from the Body Bags soundtrack. Although Carpenter and company did not play it live, I did appreciate that it got acknowledged before the band walked onto the stage.
Body Bags was the first of two score that John Carpenter would compose with Jim Lang. The other would be for In the Mouth of Madness, which is a subject for another post.
The music created to underplay the segments The Gas Station and Eye are solid, albeit unremarkable, offerings. The highlights, for me, are The Coroner's Theme, of course, and the tracks Brain Trouble and Long Beautiful Hair. The latter two being lighthearted jazz adjacent tunes that underplayed my favorite segment of the anthology, Hair.
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