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Comment by Vaslo

7 years ago

This reminds me of the search for Q Lazzarus. She and her band are famous (or maybe some would say notorious) for writing the song played during Silence of the Lambs when Buffalo Bill does his infamous "dance" in front of the camera. For decades, folks couldn't find any information on her and weren't even sure that she was still alive. Jonathan Demme, the director of Silence of the Lambs happened to be in her cab one night and she played some of her music and he really liked it. He put it into several of his films. It's someone's dream to be discovered like that - and then to fall almost faster back into obscurity?

https://www.stereogum.com/2009727/mysterious-goodbye-horses-...

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kelseychapstick  7 years ago

Since I'm getting messages about this as the quoted source in the Stereogum article (they never contacted me for permission or to clarify btw, just took that Facebook post and ran with it), here is the fully researched article I wrote for Dazed after my experience. Hopefully it can give some more insight for anyone who's been trying to reach me to inquire more about it!

https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/43946/1/where-is-...

tosser0001  7 years ago

When I was a teenager in Massachusetts in 1982 I bought the album "Tragic Figures" by a band called Savage Republic on a lark, based solely on the hand-printed album cover. It turned out to be very strange post-punk industrial music. I almost fell out of my chair at the movie theater watching "Silence of the Lambs" when the song "Real Men" from that album came on.

joegahona  7 years ago

"Goodbye Horses" is such an interesting blend of styles and emotions. Parts of her singing sound influenced by The Smiths. The whole thing is in a major key yet manages to sound melancholy or even ominous. Maybe some of that is its association with "Silence of the Lambs" or the mystery around Q Lazzarus, but I've always enjoyed this song and it never gets old for me. There are many cover versions out there too.

lidHanteyk  7 years ago

The Bill & Ted films are similar. Some guitar sounds and solos are now credited to Stevie Salas (the first film) and Steve Vai (the second film), but many of the BGM clips on radios and PA systems are still unsourced and uncredited, lost forever in a sea of glam metal.

finnthehuman  7 years ago

>It's someone's dream to be discovered like that - and then to fall almost faster back into obscurity?

Obscurity can be nice. I'm a stay-backstage kind of person. Even when I do work in creative public-facing endeavors my goal to make the product enjoyable without needing any non-monetary benefit. I work for a company that purposefully makes sure our name is on very little. It's not the same, of course. We obviously have to be visible enough to get clients. But it's got a comfort that suits me. You've almost certainly used one of our products, but even if I could tell you what it is you'd never know it from the branding on it.

mirimir  7 years ago

There's a similar discovery by chance story (not that I remember what it is) about "East Hastings" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor in the film "28 Days Later".