Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2026 February 09 • Monday

Dan Le Blanc's score for Behind the Green Door is the 895th Soundtrack of the Week.

The first track is called "Sisters" and is a gently swaying, dreamy sort of instrumental with just a few chords and more repeated piano figures than an actual melody.

"Classical Guitar/Anon" is indeed just solo classical guitar and very nice. The first part is "classical" in feel but the second part has more of a pop/rock sensibility.

Violin takes the melody for "Lova's Theme", a slow, solid, plaintive piece that's very pretty. This is followed by "Bucks' Theme", which is mostly steel-string acoustic guitar playing chords with a driving rhythm and adding a few melodic flourishes.

The same instrumentation and a similar piece as "Lova's Theme" follow at a slightly faster tempo follow in "Miner Violin".

The score gets mesmerizing and borderline droney with the hypnotic and spacious "Sweet Cheeks", again featuring violin and guitar. It's atmospheric and meditative.

And it's only now that things start to get a little funky and slinky, with the electric bass guitar sliding and grooving around, accompanied only by very minimal percussion, in "Bare Ass Naked/Asstray".

After that the whole band gets into kind of an interesting rock groove for "Johnny Keys' Theme", which has the violin in there making it sound pretty different from the standard rock instrumental, and distorted electric guitar taking some solos.

Spacey and unusual sounds, including the inside of the piano, create the sci-fi or dream sequence-sounding "Cum to Me Neil Murphy", which is immediately followed by the tender and sweet violin-driven "Diddling".

Cheesy keyboards doing a sort of gesture toward circus music begin "Trapeze/Quinn's Riff", but shifts to a full on synth/keyboard freak out at the end.

"Apres" starts out like solo ragtime piano but ends with a pastiche of hauntingly sad classical music, Chopin or Beethoven, that kind of mood.

Just the bass and drums make "Climax" a cool, groovy and intense track, simple but urgent, while keyboard joins them for "Ben Davidson's Theme" starting out like something Buddy Miles might have done but switching to a mostly solo ambient keyboard piece.

Then it's time for the guitars, bass and drums together for the energetic and tough "Trucking", with lots of distorted guitar soloing and a great foundation from the rhythm section.

Keyboard then joins me for "Funk Me", which starts out as a driving rock number before swerving into a sort of druggy country rock piece.

"Kidnapped" is another funk/rock bass and drums duo, and really cool, and then violin gets added for the pounding rock instrumental "Tender Under Foot".

It's a really good soundtrack and no doubt contributed substantially to the movie's success!