{"id":481228,"date":"2019-01-23T08:45:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T15:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=783197"},"modified":"2019-01-23T08:45:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T15:45:20","slug":"hear-becks-moody-tarantula-recorded-for-roma-soundtrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-becks-moody-tarantula-recorded-for-roma-soundtrack\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Beck\u2019s Moody \u2018Tarantula,\u2019 Recorded for \u2018Roma\u2019 Soundtrack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beck<\/a> recorded an ornate cover of Colourbox\u2019s \u201cTarantula,\u201d a song later made famous by This Mortal Coil, for his contribution to a compilation of songs inspired by Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s Oscar-nominated film Roma<\/em>. The song is a slow build, as orchestral strings and piano provide a moody bed for Beck\u2019s reverb-saturated vocals; eventually, percussion joins in for a big outro. Leslie Feist and Alex Lilly contributed backing vocals to the recording.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s starkly different from the synth-driven version Colourbox first released<\/a> as the B side to their \u201cBreakdown\u201d single in 1982, owing much more of a debt to This Mortal Coil\u2019s dream-pop rendition<\/a> from 1986. Beck\u2019s recording features an arrangement he made with his father, David Campbell, that he recorded with a 24-piece ensemble.<\/p>\n

The track comes off the compilation, Music Inspired by the Film Roma<\/em>, which also features songs by Patti Smith, DJ Shadow, El-P and many others. After he made the film, Cuar\u00f3n and his music supervisor, Lynn Fanchtein, worked with their friend, Randall Poster, on contacting some of the filmmaker\u2019s favorite artists to see if they felt like contributing to a Roma<\/em> collection. They invited the artists to cover a song heard in the film or write a new song.<\/p>\n

Billie Eilish previously released her moody track, \u201cWhen I Was Older,\u201d<\/a> which features audio elements of Roma<\/em> with Eilish\u2019s dreamy lyrics about imagining herself as a sailor. Other contributors include Laura Marling, who covers Mary Hopkins\u2019 \u201cThose Were the Day,\u201d Ibeyi, who wrote a song about the film\u2019s protagonist Cleo and Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s daughter, Bu, who used a clip from Roma<\/em> to fashion an electro-pop song. Patti Smith re-recorded her own song \u201cWing\u201d for the compilation.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Roma<\/em> \u2013 Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s emotional meditation on a family living in a Mexico City suburb \u2013 was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film. Earlier this month, it won Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture \u2013 Foreign Language and Best Director.<\/p>\n

Music Inspired by the Film Roma<\/em> Track List<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. \u201cTepeji 21 (The Sounds of Roma<\/em>)\u201d \u2013 Ciudad de M\u00e9xico
2. \u201cWing\u201d \u2013 Patti Smith
3. \u201cTarantula\u201d \u2013 Beck
4. \u2018When I Was Older\u201d \u2013 Billie Eilish
5. \u201cPsycho\u201d \u2013 Bu Cuar\u00f3n
6. \u201cOn My Knees\u201d \u2013 UNKLE featuring Michael Kiwanaku
7. \u201cCon El Viento\u201d \u2013 Jessie Reyez
8. \u201cMarooned\u201d \u2013 El-P & Wilder Zoby
9. \u201cCumbia del Borras\u201d \u2013 Sonido Gallo Negro
10. \u201cLa Hora Exacta\u201d \u2013 Quique Rangel
11. \u201cCleo Who Takes Care of You\u201d \u2013 Ibeyi
12. \u201cWe Are Always Alone\u201d \u2013 DJ Shadow
13. \u201cBetween These Hands\u201d \u2013 Asaf Avidan
14. \u201cThose Were the Days\u201d \u2013 Laura Marling
15. \u201cRoma\u201d \u2013 T Bone Burnett
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via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beck recorded an ornate cover of Colourbox\u2019s \u201cTarantula,\u201d a song later made famous by This Mortal Coil, for his contribution to a compilation of songs inspired by Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s Oscar-nominated film Roma. The song is a slow build, as orchestral strings and piano provide a moody bed for Beck\u2019s reverb-saturated vocals; eventually, percussion joins in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 23:51:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}