A.O.S - "History (Repeats Itself)" - Does anyone have any info about this band?

[botley]

WOW, that's amazing sleuth work! I remember reading in a book about Oliver Stone how his music supervisor would make mixtapes for the early-morning car rides, when they were driving to set ups at the filming locations, and that's how certain pieces of existing music ended up being chosen for the movie. If you can imagine Stone driving through the desert like a crazy man at 7 o'clock in the morning yelling along with the lyrics to L7's "Shitlist" at full volume, you get the idea. I believe "Something I Can Never Have" was on one of those tapes (which is how Stone learned about NIN and eventually hooked up with Reznor), and probably this piece was as well.

[bberdan]

I just pulled up this song and again enjoyed it after 25 years or so.
I remember receiving Thomas Wilbrandt's submissions- I still have some of the files, I believe. I was one of the picture editors on the film, and I just want to clarify something: Reznor, a very talented guy, was hired to compile the music for the album. He did not have a hand in choosing the music for the film. That was a joint effort, mostly consisting of Oliver, Budd Carr, myself and the other picture editor, Hank Corwin.
Funny story- one day, one of the 'junior' producers on the film burst into the cutting rooms and asked, plaintively, "who do I have to f*** to get some decent music into this film!?" We didn't change anything- it's a great score.

[mqhanlon]

I just pulled up this song and again enjoyed it after 25 years or so.
I remember receiving Thomas Wilbrandt's submissions- I still have some of the files, I believe. I was one of the picture editors on the film, and I just want to clarify something: Reznor, a very talented guy, was hired to compile the music for the album. He did not have a hand in choosing the music for the film. That was a joint effort, mostly consisting of Oliver, Budd Carr, myself and the other picture editor, Hank Corwin.
Funny story- one day, one of the 'junior' producers on the film burst into the cutting rooms and asked, plaintively, "who do I have to f*** to get some decent music into this film!?" We didn't change anything- it's a great score.

Neat! What else could you tell us about Wilbrandt's submissions? Fay suggested that the rest had nothing to do with her, Buhlert or "AOS." Can you confirm that? Did anything else sound remotely similar, or was it mostly classical music done with synthesizers? Are any of his other submissions available elsewhere? I'm obsessed with this song, so I have lots of questions. Thanks for joining the conversation!

[botley]

I just pulled up this song and again enjoyed it after 25 years or so.
I remember receiving Thomas Wilbrandt's submissions- I still have some of the files, I believe. I was one of the picture editors on the film, and I just want to clarify something: Reznor, a very talented guy, was hired to compile the music for the album. He did not have a hand in choosing the music for the film. That was a joint effort, mostly consisting of Oliver, Budd Carr, myself and the other picture editor, Hank Corwin.
Funny story- one day, one of the 'junior' producers on the film burst into the cutting rooms and asked, plaintively, "who do I have to f*** to get some decent music into this film!?" We didn't change anything- it's a great score.

Brian, thanks so much for taking the time to chime in on this thread. I've always loved your "BB Tone" music on the soundtrack underneath Robert Downey Jr.'s Highway 666 monologue. Would you still have any other stuff from the scoring sessions which didn't make the soundtrack? Maybe you could put up a Bandcamp album of any unheard outtakes for us... I'm sure some of the completist fans here would really go for it!

[Jon]

Brian, thanks so much for taking the time to chime in on this thread. I've always loved your "BB Tone" music on the soundtrack underneath Robert Downey Jr.'s Highway 666 monologue. Would you still have any other stuff from the scoring sessions which didn't make the soundtrack? Maybe you could put up a Bandcamp album of any unheard outtakes for us... I'm sure some of the completist fans here would really go for it!

This isn't meant in any disrespect, sir:

I realize the credits say what they say, but I'm 99.9% sure that the piece playing under RDJr is tomandandy. There's 7 tracks listed on IMDB, only one of which I was able to find on YouTube ("Control Room"). One of the submissions is named "Interview".

[henryeatscereal]

I just pulled up this song and again enjoyed it after 25 years or so.
I remember receiving Thomas Wilbrandt's submissions- I still have some of the files, I believe. I was one of the picture editors on the film, and I just want to clarify something: Reznor, a very talented guy, was hired to compile the music for the album. He did not have a hand in choosing the music for the film. That was a joint effort, mostly consisting of Oliver, Budd Carr, myself and the other picture editor, Hank Corwin.
Funny story- one day, one of the 'junior' producers on the film burst into the cutting rooms and asked, plaintively, "who do I have to f*** to get some decent music into this film!?" We didn't change anything- it's a great score.

So you guys gave all your music to Trent and then he just created the "pro tools" collage that ended up being the main soundtrack?

Who suggested the mash-up of Janes Addiction with Diamanda Galas? was it Trent's or your idea?