Allen Hinds. I actually lost a job to this guy once - on my friends' CD.
Honestly he did a better job than I could have at the time. And he has only gotten better in the 15 years since. Check it out - so much soul in so much kickassness.
31 January 2010
Allen Hinds
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Finally saw "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs." It absolutely owns. I had written it off as another POS constructed under the Poochie Paradigm, but after the 1M'th time I heard how great it was, I granted it 10 minutes' audience.
This animated kids' movie satirizes a lot of things that actually had it coming, from disaster movie cliches to mainstream news media. It even cannibalizes its own genre with touches like a sidekick animal that is a dumb animal.
It even kept getting better in the credits, which featured the following old school simple pop song. I think the one thing that stands out about the whole movie is that it is obviously guided by individual vision; it wasn't hashed out in a committee under the direction of Bad Taste Guy Who Signs the Checks. There are lots of gags that are just existentially funny that made it into the production, lots of touches that don't advance a rigidly formed three part dramatic plot or fit hackneyed joke guidelines - and this song is over the credits because someone liked it or commissioned it or whatever.
I suppose it is possible that this artist was channeled into the movie production as part of some entertainmedia superconglomero-vertintegrational-promosynergy stunt, but it still seems like a great complement to the movie - a real, old fashioned, sincere, goofy pop song.
