Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s Movie-less Soundtrack ‘Rome’ Still Resonates 10 Years Later
Rome—a movie soundtrack without a movie—is an homage to Spaghetti Westerns that still echoes a decade after its release.
Rome
Parlophone / EMI / Lex / Third Man
16 May 2011
Around 1995, my dad brought home his first work computer. It was a green-screen laptop with huge, chunky keyboard buttons, a trackball in place of the now-ubiquitous mousepads, and exactly one feature that was of interest to me and my brother (one year my senior): a DOS program called “Ugly”. As a five-year-old, I had very little use for a laptop, let alone one with such rudimentary features as this. Yet, “Ugly” offered endless entertainment because it played a chiptune version of Ennio Morricone’s theme from Clint Eastwood’s