Listen To The City

Listen To The City
Directed by Ron Mann
Produced by Ron Mann
Screenplay by Bill Schroder
Starring
Music by Gordon Deppe
Cinematography Rene Ohashi
Edited by Elaine Foreman
Release dates
1984
Running time
78 minutes
Country Canada
Language English

Listen To The City is a 1984 dramatic film directed by Ron Mann. Normally a documentary filmmaker, this is Mann's only fictional feature. The film stars P.J. Soles, Jim Carroll, Sandy Horne and Michael Glassbourg. Featured in small or cameo roles are such notable Canadian counter-culture figures as poets bp nichol and Barry Callaghan, politician Jack Layton, playwright Sky Gilbert and radio broadcaster Geets Romo.

The movie's score was by Gordon Deppe of the Canadian band Spoons, of which the film's co-star Sandy Horne was also a member. Two Spoons songs included on the film's soundtrack -- "Tell No Lies" and "Romantic Traffic"—would become substantial hits in Canada.

Plot

Hupar (Jim Carroll) wakes up from a 20-year coma. Disoriented, he soon meets Arete, a young poet (Sandy Horne) and Sophis, a TV newswoman (P.J. Soles). Together, the three team up to expose corporate crime in a crumbling cityscape of the very near future.

Cast

Soundtrack

Listen To The City
Soundtrack album by Gordon Deppe; Spoons
Released 1984
Genre Score, New wave, synthpop
Label Ready Records / LR-053
Producer Gordon Deppe,
Nile Rodgers
Spoons chronology
Talkback
(1983)
Listen to the City
(1984)
Bridges Over Borders
(1986)

The Listen To The City soundtrack album consists of the primarily instrumental score for the film, and was written, produced and performed by Gordon Deppe of the band Spoons. On two tracks, Deppe is joined by Sandy Horne as co-performer and co-composer; Horne co-starred in the film and was also a member of Spoons. Rob Preuss, also of Spoons, assists on these two tracks.

The album's final two tracks are actually performed by (and credited to) the Spoons as a whole. These songs, "Tell No Lies" and "Romantic Traffic", were both issued as singles in Canada. Both charted and are among the band's most well-known hits in that country.

The Listen To The City soundtrack was issued only on LP and cassette and has never been reissued in any format. However, the two Spoons tracks from this album were made available on various "best of" albums, as well as being included as bonus tracks on a CD reissue of the band's 1983 album Talkback.

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s)Performer(s) Length
1. "Theme For A City (Opening Credits)"  DeppeGordon Deppe 2:46
2. "Something Not Quite Right"  DeppeGordon Deppe 4:10
3. "Sundown"  Deppe, HorneGordon Deppe, Sandy Horne 3:57
4. "Then As Now"  DeppeGordon Deppe 1:12
5. "A New World"  DeppeGordon Deppe 1:30
6. "Take Me Walking"  Deppe, HorneGordon Deppe, Sandy Horne 3:46
7. "Walk Into The Wind"  DeppeGordon Deppe 2:08
8. "Until Tomorrow (Closing Credits)"  DeppeGordon Deppe 2:02
9. "Romantic Traffic"  Deppe, PreussSpoons 3:29
10. "Tell No Lies"  DeppeSpoons 3:42

Personnel

Tracks 1-8

Production personnel, tracks 1-8

Tracks 9-10

Production personnel, tracks 9-10

References

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