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Re: music in film

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Worst music ever in a (really lame) film and probably got an academy award: soundtrack for "there will be blood" - done by someone from radiohead. The whole thing is 0 for 3 with me:

1.I HATED the music during the movie - it was so jarring and irritating and not fitting/ out of sync with the scenes in the movie.
2. i think the movie was lame too - it got awards too and the critics fawned and gushed - bleah!
3. I can think of 1 or 2 songs by radiohead that i DONT turn off. I bought one of their cs when they were new on the scene, forced myself to listen to each song - twice!! and returned it! im sure they are talented skilled musicians but their sound/style does nothing for me - not a thing.  After seeing the movie i heard the soundtrack was by one of the guys from radiohead and it really explained a lot to me.

Gonna have to disagree with you there i'm afraid. I watched the film for the first time a couple of nights ago, and you are right in saying that the music was jarring.....but that was the point wasn't it. It wasn't supposed to be a wholly pleasant viewing experience. I think it very accurately portrayed a very harsh and difficult period in American history, and the music, in my opinion, only added to the unpleasantness. The film was pretty much "The Daniel Day-Lewis Show" but still very good, and different, and deserved it's plaudits.

Just my opinion anyhoo....

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Re: music in film

some more of my favourites
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                                         led zep-song remains the same

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Got another one - I guess the guys will think that I should feel ashamed for that one and probably I will lose my "Bluesrock-credibility", but anyway - it´s DIRTY DANCING!
I like it. Those who are without sin shall cast the first stone. lol

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eva wrote:

Got another one - I guess the guys will think that I should feel ashamed for that one and probably I will lose my "Bluesrock-credibility", but anyway - it´s DIRTY DANCING!
I like it. Those who are without sin shall cast the first stone. lol

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if anyone has ever seen the movie dead man, neil young does the whole soundtrack.  it is all instrumnetal atmospheric type stuff but i was able to tell it was young from the first note.  pretty great.  i also really enjoy the theme from the movie usual suspects.  if you have the dvd it is played during the menus, otherwise it is played a few times throughout the movie one time i definitely remember is when the plane is landing.anyway it really sums up the whole movie just brilliant work.  i don't really compare scores to movies where they just get a bunch of classic rock and throw it together.  i think anyone can come up with a few songs to put to parts of a movie(i do it in my head a lot, weird huh?), i think it takes someone gifted to put the atmosphere and meaning of a movie into an instrumental.  so there is my opinion.

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Mindy wrote:
eva wrote:

Got another one - I guess the guys will think that I should feel ashamed for that one and probably I will lose my "Bluesrock-credibility", but anyway - it´s DIRTY DANCING!
I like it. Those who are without sin shall cast the first stone. lol

Eva

I love that one too, Eva wink

Me too.

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bigjeffjones wrote:
Mindy wrote:
eva wrote:

Got another one - I guess the guys will think that I should feel ashamed for that one and probably I will lose my "Bluesrock-credibility", but anyway - it´s DIRTY DANCING!
I like it. Those who are without sin shall cast the first stone. lol

Eva

I love that one too, Eva wink

Me too.

You´re sure you´re referring to the MOVIE Jeff ?! lol

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thought of some more
                                don,t look back-bob dylan
                                roadhouse-jeff healey RIP
                                the comittments
                                goodfellas

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Some really good ones already mentioned. Another great one is the 'Almost Famous' soundtrack. 5 Zeppelin songs, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath, The Allman Brothers, Free, Yes, The Who, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hendrix, Bloodwyn Pig, Elton John, Neil Young, plus some of the best original rock music written for a movie for the fictional band Stillwater. (Written in part by Peter Frampton, and Nancy Wilson of Heart). Excellent movie, excellent soundtrack.

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Re: music in film

Keith wrote:

Some really good ones already mentioned. Another great one is the 'Almost Famous' soundtrack. 5 Zeppelin songs, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath, The Allman Brothers, Free, Yes, The Who, Lynyrd Skynrd, Hendrix, Bloodwyn Pig, Elton John, Neil Young, plus some of the best original rock music written for a movie for the fictional band Stillwater. (Written in part by Peter Frampton, and Nancy Wilson of Heart). Excellent movie, excellent soundtrack.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rXecU2tLFgo

Keith,
I was just scrolling through and thinking about Almost Famous and wondering how I left it out and how nobody else had thought of it either...got to the last post (yours) and there it was! I love that soundtrack...one of my alltime favorites.

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I liked the soundtrack for the film 'Heavy Metal'....

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Re: music in film

One of my favorite movies is Rush, staring Jason Patrick and Jennifer Jason Leigh as early '70s undercover narcotics officers who get a bit too caught up in their work.  Besides being a good story, I love Eric Clapton's original soundtrack, plus there are lots of other good songs from the timeperiod throughout the film too.

A couple other movies that are favorites of mine due in part to their original soundtracks are The Princess Bride (Mark Knopfler) and Labyrinth (David Bowie).

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TieDyeVikki wrote:

One of my favorite movies is Rush, staring Jason Patrick and Jennifer Jason Leigh as early '70s undercover narcotics officers who get a bit too caught up in their work.  Besides being a good story, I love Eric Clapton's original soundtrack, plus there are lots of other good songs from the timeperiod throughout the film too.

A couple other movies that are favorites of mine due in part to their original soundtracks are The Princess Bride (Mark Knopfler) and Labyrinth (David Bowie).

--Vik cool

Excellent soundtrack Vikki, and I'm probably going to get crap for this, but one of the last times EC has actually put  raw emotion into his playing in my opinion. Somewhat atypical, but great nonetheless. I couldn't believe it when I first heard it, and it still impresses to this day.

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Just checked out Eddie Vedder's soundtrack for Into the Wild a couple weeks ago, and I've been giving it a bit of play here, even though I havent seen the movie yet. I really like it a lot.

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I liked the soundtrack for the film 'Heavy Metal'....

I forgot that one - it's been a while - great soundtrack!!

suhl wrote:

if anyone has ever seen the movie dead man, neil young does the whole soundtrack.  it is all instrumnetal atmospheric type stuff but i was able to tell it was young from the first note.  pretty great.  .....i think it takes someone gifted to put the atmosphere and meaning of a movie into an instrumental.  so there is my opinion.

Now I'll have to check that out.

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keytothehighway wrote:

Worst music ever in a (really lame) film and probably got an academy award: soundtrack for "there will be blood" - done by someone from radiohead. The whole thing is 0 for 3 with me:

1.I HATED the music during the movie - it was so jarring and irritating and not fitting/ out of sync with the scenes in the movie.
2. i think the movie was lame too - it got awards too and the critics fawned and gushed - bleah!
3. I can think of 1 or 2 songs by radiohead that i DONT turn off. I bought one of their cs when they were new on the scene, forced myself to listen to each song - twice!! and returned it! im sure they are talented skilled musicians but their sound/style does nothing for me - not a thing.  After seeing the movie i heard the soundtrack was by one of the guys from radiohead and it really explained a lot to me.

Gonna have to disagree with you there i'm afraid. I watched the film for the first time a couple of nights ago, and you are right in saying that the music was jarring.....but that was the point wasn't it. It wasn't supposed to be a wholly pleasant viewing experience. I think it very accurately portrayed a very harsh and difficult period in American history, and the music, in my opinion, only added to the unpleasantness. The film was pretty much "The Daniel Day-Lewis Show" but still very good, and different, and deserved it's plaudits.

Just my opinion anyhoo....

The film did do a great job of portraying that part of history, it was the way the story was acted that annoyed the crap out of me - if it had only been the daniel day lewis show, and none of the other annoyiing overacting or horrible acting, i might have had a higher regard for it. As for the music, jarring and disturbing during the jarring and disturbing parts, sure. But jarring and not in emotional sync with the scenes was a turnoff.  I didnt truly hate it till the really lame end - and it was soooo long! I guess we'll just disagree on this.

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Keith wrote:
TieDyeVikki wrote:

One of my favorite movies is Rush, staring Jason Patrick and Jennifer Jason Leigh as early '70s undercover narcotics officers who get a bit too caught up in their work.  Besides being a good story, I love Eric Clapton's original soundtrack, plus there are lots of other good songs from the timeperiod throughout the film too.

A couple other movies that are favorites of mine due in part to their original soundtracks are The Princess Bride (Mark Knopfler) and Labyrinth (David Bowie).

--Vik cool

Excellent soundtrack Vikki, and I'm probably going to get crap for this, but one of the last times EC has actually put  raw emotion into his playing in my opinion. Somewhat atypical, but great nonetheless. I couldn't believe it when I first heard it, and it still impresses to this day.

Hey you two!  Thanks for the reminder!  I'd forgotten that I own that!  It's on tape - that's why - never look at my tapes anymore.......

I'll check it out tomorrow.  I do remember it being pretty powerful - as was the storyline.

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"Edge of Darkness" 1986 a TV series(UK) with a music score featuring Eric Clapton. I still say if you didn't get clapton before.... you got it after this. I heard he walked in, listened to the score and played over it in a couple of takes. The result is Genius, sublime, a face melter. Even the god like Gilmore couldn't have produced anything more haunting.

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Felt the need to give this one a bump after I watched the movie "Friday Night Lights" over the weekend. Not only is it a great film (and a good TV series followed), but it had two songs in it, that I immediately recognised. They were the original versions of "Just got paid", and Seagull" during the end credits. I must admit, I would have preferred to hear Joe's covers of these great songs instead.......but that goes without saying.

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I have to agree and put Oh Brother, Where Art Thou high on the list being an avid fan of AKUS, Alison Kraus and Union Station. Emmylou, AKUS, and other artists from the sound track toured behind the release of the soundtrack and gave Bluegrass music a real shot in the arm. The Soggy Bottom Boys are Dan Tyminski and his bandmates from Union Station. Other soundtracks I have are Phenomenon, Quadrophenia (which I just watched last month for kicks, Sting the bellboy), She's The One (terrible movie, but all original soundtrack written and performed by Tom Petty), and last but not least Pulp Fiction. Whack surf music, Jungle Boogie, Lonesome Town (Ricky Nelson), Son of a Preacher Man, Flowers On The Wall, among others.

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