To add to the thousands and thousands of ringtones in circulation right now both from internet portals over the web or from community carriers, are movie original sound tracks transformed into mobile phone ringers. The resulting movie was an exhilarating fusion of the backstage musical and postmodern absurdism. They mime along to a prerecorded music, results and narration track that may sound as if it was lifted from a movie, or might sound as if it had been overly dramatized for impact.

Due to the funk-laden beats, wah-wah guitars and horns and brass, Lalo Schifrin’s score for Bruce Lee’s remaining film is definitely of its time. Much like the movie from which it hails, The Blues Brothers soundtrack is a riotous blues-infused romp. However, the style during which they soundtracked Rudyard Kipling’s evergreen story – imbued it with a way of child-like wonder and naiveté – cemented their status.

In comics, Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel Like a Velvet Glove Forged in Iron had an official soundtrack album. The contraction soundtrack came into public consciousness with the arrival of so-referred to as “soundtrack albums” in the late Forties. After his work on the movie – in particular his haunting and beautiful …