Drumroll please: indy mike's pick ONE tune per hour tune of the week: movie music

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by indy mike, Feb 17, 2003.

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  1. Jimbo

    Jimbo Forum Hall Of Fame

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    When I hear tuneless rock songs from current movies, like "Hero" from Spiderman, I long for fun 80s flick chart-toppers like "Ghostbusters" and "Let's Hear It For the Boy." This hour's pick:

    Call Me--Blondie (from American Gigolo)
     
  2. Craig

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    Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas
     
  3. Ed Bishop

    Ed Bishop Incredibly, I'm still here

    An excellent choice! Can't go wrong with Cooder, anytime...

    My pick for now is at the opposite end of the musical spectrum:

    PHILIP GLASS: KOYAANISQATSI

    Glass covers an entire range of emotions here, but most of all the enervating, fast-paced jittery nature of urban life, and the endless carousel of everyday living without slowdown. The film exaggerates the facts, yes, and it does have an agenda, but Glass' music, in a way, not only informs that agenda, but subverts it as well. Combined with the music, some images intended to look alien and intrusive instead become beautiful, even friendly.

    Despite being truncated, I prefer the original Lp/CD edition to the later rerecording, which was expanded to include the balance of the essential passages. The DVD-Audio edition is the rerecording, and is still mesmerizing. But the original soundtrack is itself a remix and specially edited, and while somewhat true to the movie, has a special feel of its own.

    ED:cool:
     
  4. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    Crossroads-The Original Movie Soundtrack..not the Cee Dee.
     
  5. indy mike

    indy mike Forum Pest Thread Starter

    The Michigan Rag - One Froggy Evening - Chuck Jones and his Warner's crew at the top of their game - "Hello my baby, hello my honey..."
     
  6. Steve Hoffman

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    Truly haunting!
     
  7. Ed Bishop

    Ed Bishop Incredibly, I'm still here

    JOHN BARRY: GOLDFINGER (Soundtrack)

    Most memorable and lively of the Bond soundtracks, not least because it has the greatest of theme songs, sung by Shirley Bassey. Barry at his absolute apex.

    ED:cool:
     
  8. indy mike

    indy mike Forum Pest Thread Starter

    The whole soundtrack to The Rabbit of Seville (Marriage of Figaro???) In my book, beats What's Opera Doc hands down (I think they thunk tooooo much for WOD)...
     
  9. Wow! Was it the recent Italian DVD or was it the Japanese DVD? The Italian has the original Spanish languauge soundtrack with optional English and Italian subtitles. The Japanese DVD has the English overdubbed version of the movie with Japanese subtitles.
     
  10. Bob.

    One of my DVD players is all-region. :D It handles everything smoothly including the PAL/NTSC thing. The Italian El Topo DVD is PAL Region 0.
     
  11. CM Wolff

    CM Wolff Senior Member

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    All great choices so far, but the best movie music moment ever, BAR NONE, is from Barry (Jack Black) in High Fidelity, when at the climactic record release party, when John Cusack's character is expecting Jack and his band to play some godawful punk tune, he busts out a killer rendition of Let's Get It On. Let me tell you, that scene tore the heart out of me and rung it until the tears flowed from my eyes. Jack even acquitted himself well as a soul man.

    By the way, if you do not see at least a little bit of yourself in the obsessive-record collector that John Cusack plays in High Fidelity, you should not be posting here. :)
     

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  12. Chris M

    Chris M Senior Member In Memoriam

    Midnight, the Stars and You from Kubrick's The Shining. Used to great effect at the end of the film when the camera zooms in on the photo of Jack at the Overlook Hotel in 1929. Anyone know more about this recording??

    Chris
     
  13. Monsieur Gadbois

    Monsieur Gadbois Senior Member

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    My selections of the day:

    1. Pink Floyd - the wall(still got video)
    2. Queen- Flash Gordon
    3. Somewhere in time - John Barry
    4. When Harry met Sally - Harry Connic Jr.
    5. Casino Royale - Herb Albert and the Titania Brass, Dusty Springfield.
     
  14. -=Rudy=-

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    10:00-hour pick: B.J. Thomas, 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head". Struck gold for B.J., Bacharach and A&M. It captured a fun moment in the film. If you have the soundtrack album, there is a second version of this song that opens "On A Bicycle Built for Joy". B.J.'s voice is very rough--he was quite sick with a nasty cold when he cut that track originally. He later re-recorded it for the hit version.
     
  15. Monsieur Gadbois

    Monsieur Gadbois Senior Member

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    I guess being rain-on the head for a while, one could easily catch nasty cold :D
     
  16. chip-hp

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    Body Heat - John Barry
     
  17. John B

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    The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
     
  18. indy mike

    indy mike Forum Pest Thread Starter

    Do the words "FOOD FIGHT!" make you think of a certain tune???? I think we should add Chris Montez & his immortal Let's Dance to the list - Animal House has a ton of memory triggering tunes - I betcha I know one that's gonna show up sooner than later...
     
  19. John B

    John B Once Blue Gort,<br>now just blue.

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    I gotta follow the rules and wait one whole hour before I name the song by Otis Day and the Knights or was it the other way round?.....
     
  20. chip-hp

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    I assume that you are referring to Charade ... we both seem to like Mancini's music ... but I don't think that we are alone ... :)
     
  21. -=Rudy=-

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    Charade it is. :) And no, we're not alone!

    I'm making one last soundtrack song pick before I go to bed. This time, "Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation." It was more of a one-off song Mancini did for the movie--there was no soundtrack album. (The song appears on Our Man in Hollywood.)

    And if you watch this Jimmy Stewart movie closely during a dance band sequence, check out the trumpet player. It is a *very* young Herb Alpert! (A few years before "Lonely Bull.")
     
  22. chip-hp

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    Chinatown - Jerry Goldsmith :) ... great film noir mood music ...
     
  23. -=Rudy=-

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    8:00am pick--"Manha de Carnaval" (Morning of the Carnival), from Black Orpheus. A film full of great music. Hard to choose just one song from it.
     
  24. chip-hp

    chip-hp Cool Cat

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    Two For The Road - Henry Mancini
     
  25. DLD

    DLD Senior Member

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    Something slow and easy to start the new day,

    First time Ever I Saw Your face by Roberta Flack off Play Misty For Me.
    Snuggled up against a coed (A Katherine Ross clone) I was crazy about, watching that fine romantic thriller, brings back a lot of warm and fuzzies.....
     
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