Film scores and Theme Tunes

[Mr Larrington]

Echo the praise for Michael Nyman's music. But the man himself...    I went to a concert by him a few years ago. In the best part of two hours he did not address a single word to the audience or even acknowledge it apart from a bow at the beginning and another at the end. 

You should try Godspeed You! Black Emperor.  Not only do they not acknowledge the audience, they keep the stage lighting so dim you can't even be sure how many people there are in the current lineup, never mind who they are.  Except Efrim Menuck, who can be pinpointed by the silhouette of his hair

[fimm]

Echo the praise for Michael Nyman's music. But the man himself...    I went to a concert by him a few years ago. In the best part of two hours he did not address a single word to the audience or even acknowledge it apart from a bow at the beginning and another at the end. 

This sounds like a normal classical music concert to me. I don't expect musicians to speak! Those that do are the exception...

[Ham]

The latest has to be Good Omens, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_q57nJwt4A

Nyman's The Piano music haunts my soul, though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo9G9C6KvCE achieving as it does a perfect balance between sadness and optimism to a background of the relentless crashing of time over your head.

[T42]

The latest has to be Good Omens, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_q57nJwt4A

The opening bar or two hint at a Harry Potter ancestry, but HP's spiritual daddy was The Witches of Eastwick: https://youtu.be/He6S6lNMUkU

[Redlight]

Echo the praise for Michael Nyman's music. But the man himself...    I went to a concert by him a few years ago. In the best part of two hours he did not address a single word to the audience or even acknowledge it apart from a bow at the beginning and another at the end. 

This sounds like a normal classical music concert to me. I don't expect musicians to speak! Those that do are the exception...

Yes, I appreciate that. I wasn't expecting Randy Newman-style repartee but I guess that as it was billed as "an evening with..." and he was solo, my expectation was that he might at least introduce the pieces.

I don't really think of his music as 'classical' either.

[hubner]

What no Ennio Morricone?!

Once Upon a Time in the West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLnW6IBGINI

[Von Broad]

Paris, Texas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd2EzQsZteA

Yeah, Ry Cooder, love that.

Just posting from an initial instinct after reading the tread title is is the film/film score of 'The Conversation' by Frances Ford Coppola and music by David Shire. Love it. One of my all time favourite films..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-DKn1PQJQ4

Mixed with the dialogue and the visual, music can be so, so powerful.

[hubner]

Bullitt.

Oh

and Mission Impossible.

Dirty Harry!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3IPLsDxMxQ

[Steph]

'The World at War', by Carl Davis, is incredibly powerful, and together with the slide show opening of each episode it is extremely effective.

Guilty pleasure: the sequence of Beethoven ripoffs that make up the score to "Where Eagles Dare'.

Even guiltier pleasure, following on from WED: 633 Squadron.

[Vince]

I don't think the work of Barry Gray has been surpassed.

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[Steph]

I don't think the work of Barry Gray has been surpassed.

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Well, anything can happen in the next half hour

[T42]

What no Ennio Morricone?!

Once Upon a Time in the West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLnW6IBGINI

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra have done some great covers of Morricone's western music, e.g.

For a Few Dollars More: https://youtu.be/DT1NJwEi6nw

Wonderful sight, all the blokes in black tie plonking away on Jews' harps. The conductor can't keep her face straight at the beginning.  I love the ocarina, too (though he hits at least one bum note).  I have a pipeclay on my father gave me when I was 9, but it sounds like a bronchitic whistling kettle.

Lots more where that came from.

[citoyen]

My favourite Ennio Morricone is For A Few Dollars More, mainly because of the way it integrates the music box theme - especially in the final duel. Totally awesome.

Of course, Once Upon A Time In The West uses the harmonica theme to similar effect, but now every time I hear that, I just immediately think "What were the skies like when you were young?"

One of the really great thing about those films is not just the music but the silences. The opening scene and final duel in OUATITW being prime cases in point.

[fuzzy]

Mrs F has a penchant for documentaries about Hollywood greats. Tonight we watched Hollywoods Brightest Bombshell off that BBC4, about Hedy Lamarr.

There was a haunting track over the end credits which Mrs F cut short by deleting the programme. It intrigued me enough to seek it out-

She by Alice Phobe Lou.
Well worth a listen- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPH9j0qVM3A

[Exit Stage Left]

'Shaft' is obviously the best known 'Blaxploitation' theme. But I do like 'Car Wash'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVH-wQY1HSI

[Torslanda]

'The Quiller Memorandum' and 'The Ipcress File'.

'Edge of Darkness' and 'The Usual Suspects'

Guilty pleasure is 'The Italian Job'.

I have hidden shallows...