8. John BarryMidnight Cowboy OST
John Barry is probably my number one, I got him to play Meltdown when I did that. I was trying to get him to play more obscure stuff from his catalogue but he wasn’t into it at that point in his life. I like this album because you’ve got his soundtrack stuff and then you’ve got songs like ‘Old Man Willow’ that sound like Broadcast. Soundtracks don’t always work as albums because they tend to repeat the theme so much that they’re not that exciting to listen to, but this one doesn’t do that. I think there’s one song I’m not that bothered of, ‘He Quit Me’ at the end of side one, but it just works as an album. There was a record shop in Sheffield called Rare & Racey that only closed down a couple of years ago, you could get pretty cheap second hand records and I picked this up there and played it to death. It probably did have an influence on Pulp, I really liked the sound of it. It’s not so much on this record but he used a dulcimer on The Ipcress Files soundtrack, and that definitely influenced the Pulp song ‘I Spy’, there was a definite attempt to make it sound like that in the background.
