Rumble Fish (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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<i>Apocalypse Now</i> and <i>One from the Heart</i> may have derailed Francis Coppola’s ambitious plans for reinventing Hollywood, but nothing could quell his restless, creative spirit, as his stark, 1983 rendering of S.E. Hinton’s book/screenplay — and the highly unusual musical score it inspired — so ably attest. This rhythmic cocktail by Stewart Copeland allowed the Police drummer to vent a good deal of the creative sensibilities the band’s success had so often thwarted, yielding music that’s at once sparely oblique, quaintly charming and deftly jazzy. With a true percussionist’s sense of nervous invention, Copeland frequently stepped from behind his drum kit to forge the propulsive atmospherics of his score from piano, acoustic guitars, found objects, a typewriter and quite possibly even the kitchen sink. “Don’t Box Me In,” Copeland’s opening collaboration with former Wall of Voodoo singer Stan Ridgway, may have been a moderate new-wave chart success, yet sacrifices none of the stark, angular minimalism that the drummer brought to his score. “Unique” is an overused adjective in judging music; here it’s simply the one that fits best.

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