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Composers have a huge responsibility when they're hired to write music for movies. They need to set the right tone for not only the scene itself, but for the whole arc of the movie's storyline. Submitters sent in their favorite choices for movie music that set the tone in this way, and now you get to vote for the best one!

Stand By Me is a 1986 coming-of-age film based on Stephen King's 1982 novella, The Body, which is about four middle-school aged boys who set out to find the body of their childhood friend, who had gone missing. They hope discovering the body will make them heroes in the eyes of the locals in their town. The film was directed by the late Rob Reiner, and the film score was composed by Jack Nitzsche.

三大怪獣 地球最大の決戦 (eng: Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster) is a 1964 Japanese kaiju film which is the fifth in the Godzilla franchise. After a meteor crashes to the Earth, a prophetess who claims to have ridden it from Venus is discovered, but the prophetess is found to be human. She predicts the coming of Ghidorah, a monster who destroyed her home on Venus. The music for this film was composed by Akira Ifukube.

Part 2 of the photos by Gered Mankowitz

RCA studio sessions , 1965

Album Review: Neil Young - Tonight’s the Night (50th Anniversary)

Retrofitted for 2025, Neil Young’s lo-fi, 1975 garage classic Tonight’s the Night is a bit cleaner and brighter in its 50th Anniversary presentation. And while purists might hear this as sacrilege, they can take comfort knowing Tonight remains as stoned and bleary-eyed as ever in remastered form and the gems Young excavted from his vault make this a golden anniversary-worthy celebration.

Young’s voice was roached - in a good way - giving the vocals a rough hew to go with the rough-hewn music, created by Young; guitarists Nils Lofgren and Danny Whitten; pedal steel man Ben Keith; keyboardist Jack Nitzsche; and the Crazy Horse rhythm section of Billy Talbot (bass) and Ralph Molina (drums) among other compatriots.

The extra tracks have the rare advantage of fitting seamlessly with the hazy county-blues, folk-rock of this second entry in Young’s so-called Ditch Trilogy. And in the case of “Lookout Joe,” Young simply replaced the album track with the long-shelved original recording - a splendid move.

Joni Mitchell makes an appearance on her own “Raised on Robbery,” and the band seems to tighten up ever so slightly in her presence. Talk about respect.

“Walk On,” which would appear on On the Beach, also gets the original-recording treatment. And “Wonderin’,” which was destined for the Shocking Pinks in 1983, appears in full cosmic-country glory.

Where unnecessary padding so often plagues expanded reissues, Tonight’s the Night (50th Anniversary) leaves the listener wanting more. Which is exactly as it should be.

Grade card: Neil Young - Tonight’s the Night (50th Anniversary) - A