# Music that just got thrown away **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2017, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-just-got-thrown-away/789746 "2017-06-24T12:10:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-just-got-thrown-away/789746/21 "2017-06-25T03:18:29Z")
Probably the opposite is the Karen O song from that Spike Jonze commercial that was so in-demand that they ended up putting it on iTunes. People were just [watching it for free](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wk7wYqfJn8) on Youtube anyway. Thanks, Internet. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-just-got-thrown-away/789746/22 "2017-06-25T15:59:26Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Did that have the song “where the hell is MEM-PHIS?” 'Cause I liked that song. Sure does. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-just-got-thrown-away/789746/23 "2017-06-25T16:22:12Z")
Every song ever recorded without the backing of a record label. You’re lucky to get a FEW thousand YouTube views for a song like that. There is so much music out there that hardly anybody will ever hear, it’ll make your head reel. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-just-got-thrown-away/789746/24 "2017-06-26T11:49:56Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Joe Jackson was signed to do the soundtrack for the movie _Mike’s Murder_. The studio hated everything about the movie, had it recut and stripped off most of Jackson’s songs in favor of a soundtrack by John Berry. They still hated it and barely released it in 1984. > > Jackson did release an album of the soundtrack in 1983, with five songs on side A and moody instrumental pieces on side B. A soundtrack of songs not in a movie not yet released did exactly as well as you would think. The album disappeared. No CD was ever released in America although some Russian firm put one out that costs three digits as a collectible. > > You can find it streaming and on YouTube. Look it up. It’s the great lost album of the 1980s. All five songs are some of Jackson’s best work. I love the moody instrumentals as well: play them on a system with lots of bass. Alex North, who did the music for Stanley Kubrick’s _Spartacus_, also did the music for Kubrick’s _2001: A Space Odyssey_. Kubrick liked the “placeholder” classical music he’d put over the film while cutting it better than North’s original score, so he went with that, and the rest is movie history. Except that North’s original score for 2001 has been re-recorded, at least twice. I finally got a copy a few months ago. It’s good, but I’ve been spoiled by the original score. There’s no way North’s intro fanfare can live up to _Also Sprach Zarathustra_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-just-got-thrown-away/789746.md?page=1)