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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Song-A-Day: Was It All In Vain


    "Was It All In Vain" by the Benjamin Franklin Group, from Lucio Fulci's Four of the Apocalypse, a super-weird, existentialist spaghetti western the Italian gore-meister directed in 1975. The movie is strange and violent and left me feeling more than a little dirty after watching it - there's also a revelation about a character towards the end that gives me the creeps to this day.

    Anyway, for some reason (probably the unforgettable theme to Django), it was popular amongst the spaghettis of this period to have folksy, somewhat bland songs playing on the soundtrack that pretty much describe the plot as it's happening (see Keoma for a particularly terrible/awesome example of this).


 

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