Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood is perfect for 17 or 18 reasons. Daniel Day-Lewis and arguments utilizing milkshake analogies are two of these reasons. Jonny Greenwood’s (the real genius behind Radiohead) intensely unsettling soundtrack is a third. Dissonant string compositions and violent dynamics (along with the fact that the soundtrack is an integral part of the film, not just background noise) will help cement these scores right up there with Nino Rota’s music for the Godfather films and any of John William’s work. If you don’t remember the music, you either didn’t see the movie or were too busy trying to touch Jenny’s inner thigh. Anyway: Excerpts from Greenwood’s BBC award winning piece “Popcorn Superhet Receiver” can be heard, and fit perfectly. Pick it up and give some paranoid classical music a try. Personal suggestion: Don’t listen while trying to get to sleep. It just makes things ugly.

–Billy Yost