Who the fuck doesnae love a bath?
Hell, I may not (or may) have a Judge Dredd and Terminator figure that I take in with me sometimes to recreate scenes from The Abyss. Ever since I was a wee lad, I always loved listening to music in the bath. It always heightened that sense of lonely. Like your own soak in a temple where all you needed was darkness, some Simply Red Van Halen and a swirling myriad of relaxxation. So light a candle, lock the door, take yer skegs aff and pray to Anuket, Goddess of the Nile: its bath time baby!
5. A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 4 - V/A
What a start right? Look, ANOES4's soundtrack isnt a whale sounds/pan pipes melody to soothe yourself into a trance. Its a honking heavy metal/power pop compilation of practically nobodies from the 80's but its a creamer. Listening to this in the bath makes you feel like you're getting ready for the most impossibly RaD As HeLL 80's house party where half the party-goers will end up getting skinned alive by some death-deity appearing from a toilet cistern or through the fabrics of their parents mattress where you should definitely *not* be having sex.
4. Paris, Texas - Ry Cooder
Summer night's bath deep-soak heavy-lidded heaven. BUT DONT FALL ASLEEP. Ry Cooder's soundtracks are always so delicious you could almost eat them, but Paris, Texas is another level. Shut your eyes and you swear you're floating in a bathtub atop a dusted red rock desert, where the only shade is a dry-knotted tree, swaying for its 100th birthday.
3. To Live and Die in L.A. - Wang Chung
I cant guarantee that there wont be water sloshing around the bath when this is on but maaaaaaaaaan this is so energizing. That cover says it all. A searing city sunrise and you're singing and dancing while floating like a kicked in Bigmouth Billy Bass. Another getting-ready-to-go-out style bathe but less "house party" and more "night club in the flashes of headlights". Let that bassline clean any dirty you ever had on ye. Its going to be okay, baby!
2. The Crow - Graeme Revell
Right, naw, YOU wait a minute. Im not talking about the big honkin' Industrial metal youre-a-friend-for-life-if-you-like-it soundtrack (although i fuckin could). Im talking about Graeme Revell's incredible score. Im not joking. This score has soaring angelic singing, ethereal strings, sneaky underlying tribal drums, chain shaking percussion and, just sometimes, Eric Dravens big guitar wails. That, plus its filtered through the films themes of death, revival, revenge and love so its the ultimate goth bath. I mean, after all, You Cant Bathe All The Time.
1. Exotica - Mychael Danna
The ultimate. Mychael Danna's Exotica soundtrack plays with eroticism, exoticism and luxury. It can be bombastic when it needs to be and it can be petal-delicate when it needs to be. Everything about it is so enrapturing and absorbing its like being able to smell spices with your ears. It experiments with slow cool strings, voice oscillations, eastern instruments, electronic drums and rain heavy themes of rebirth. Perfect for when you want to feel like you're in a giant lotus flower in the scud.
So aye, have a nice wee bath, read a book, have a bath beer, put on maybe one of these and let us know if you liked it!
-Findlay
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