What original movie soundtracks do you think are essential for prog fans?
What original movie soundtracks do you think are essential for prog fans?
To be or not to be? That is the point. - Harry Nilsson.
The more common ones by Goblin, Fabio Frizzi's soundtracks for Lucio Fulci (lots of Mellotron) New Trolls' Concerto Grosso (La Vittima Designata)
HuGo"Very, very nice," said a man in the crowd,
When the golden voice appeared.
She was gold alright, but then so is rust.
"Such a shame about the beard."
Vangelis - Bladerunner
Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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The Pink Floyd ones
Fred Frith-Step Across The Border
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Alain Goraguer's soundtrack to the early 70's animated film La Planete Sauvage (released Stateside as Fantastic Planet) is a favorite of mine. How they came to program the tracks on the CD (where the opening credits music is something like the fifth track, while there's several tracks after the closing credits music) I'll never know, but it's well worth hearing.
Of course there's A Clockwork Orange, though in that case, it's not so much the actual soundtrack album that Warner Brothers put out, but the album Wendy Carlos issued on CBS (reissued on CD on East Side Digital in the late 90's). The Warner Brothers album has a lot of pointless stuff on it, just because it was in the movie, and Timesteps is reduced to something like 5 minutes. And I seem to recall Wendy saying on her website that the Warner Brothers record was taken from tapes that had been mixed for the film soundtrack, and therefore had really poor quality.
The Carlos album was issued something like 6 months after the Warner Brothers record, and it was originally titled Walter Carlos' A Clockwork Orange. It includes the full 12 minute version of Timesteps, and several other pieces that didn't actually make it into the movie.
The CD edition is called Wendy Carlos' A Clockwork Orange, has a different cover (more of a homage to the movie poster, versus the somewhat amateur hour looking cover used for the LP) and has a couple bonus tracks that weren't on the LP. If you can find either LP or CD at a reasonable price, snap it up.
Klaus Schulze's double album X was the soundtrack to a B movie called Barracuda, so that goes in there (and before you suggest that the director simply took stuff that had already been recorded and stuck it in his movie, Klaus says in the liner notes of the deluxe CD reissue that the reason he was able to use the orchestra on some of the tracks was because he had a bigger recording budget than usual because it was a film soundtrack).
Peter Gabriel's "That'll Do, Pig"
August Rush
Maybe not essential, but interesting is the soundtrack with the songs from Children Of Men.
I have the score by John Tavener, which is beautiful, but the songs that are heard in the movie form a rather exciting combination.
My favorite though is still Colin Towns' (ex-Gillan) "Full Circle" (a.k.a. "The Hunting Of Julia").
A documentary that I've never seen narrated by George Kennedy, about how the world is going to end in 2000, I guess'
Great album by Synergy, though.
Steve - I HIGHLY HIGHLY suggest that you get 'yer ass over to the Ennio Morricone thread that I started a few weeks ago and start listening to the stuff that has been posted there. I'm not sure if all of it will scratch your itch, but I would like to think that even some if it might blow you away, especially since you are quite open-minded and have pretty stellar taste in music.
All this talk of soundtracks has gotten me listening to my small handful again. However, outside of Profondo Rosso I can't say any of them are prog.
The Ennio Morricone thread did prompt me to order The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly soundtrack, though. And I just got in the Big Trouble in Little China soundtrack, inspired by the John Carpenter - Lost Themes thread.
I have the expanded Zabriskie Point, 2 disc set. The first disc has things from the film, the second disc has different scene takes from Jerry Garcia and Pink Floyd. There is nothing essential going on by any means, but it's a pretty cool psychedelic backwater.
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HuGo"Very, very nice," said a man in the crowd,
When the golden voice appeared.
She was gold alright, but then so is rust.
"Such a shame about the beard."
The Ennio Moricone soundtracks are possibly the top all-time soundtrack examples
Kooyaniqatsi and Powaqatsi are build apon Philipp Glass minimalism... The former is better, but both are ansolutely awesome
Bobby Beausoleil's Lucifer Rising soundtrack is fabulous
The two Shroeder/Floyd soundtracks, but also I'll include The wall
The two 70's Tangerine Dreams (Exorcist and Sorcerer) and to a lesser extent Risky Business
Haven't seen the porn flick, but Schulze Body Love soundtrack
Peter Gabriel - Passion
Gong - Continental Circus
I'd say more like the Lindsey Cooper soundtracksOriginally Posted by walt
Indeed, but there are a few "hippie films" of those times , whose soundtracks are worthy
Zabriskie, Blow Up, Model Shop (Jacques Demi and Spirit), Easy Rider, etc...
Can't remember if The Trip had an interesting soundtrack, though
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I'm still looking for a movie's name where the ending in the Niagara gorges/canyon whose soundtrack always stuck to me. (It's not the Scheider film, though)
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
One movie maker that is always building his movies with the music composed for it is Claude Lellouch.... Not saying that this is prog, but the marriage of music and imlages is sometimes amazing
Le Belle Histoire or Il Y A Des Jours et Des Lunes are the best examples
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
It's a TV soundtrack rather than a movie, but I'd say that Bear McCreary's soundtracks for Battlestar Galactica are essential. He didn't do the mini-series, and I haven't heard that disc so I can't vouch for it, but all four regular seasons, plus the "movie" soundtrack disc for Razor and The Plan, are outstanding. Mixes genres nicely, pulse-pounding drums, some use of exotic instruments and singing.
I think the subtext is rapidly becoming text.
Cosmos, Antarctica, Cat People, Clockwork Orange.
Anything by Goblin or Tangerine Dream.
All of the Popol Vuh soundtrack music for the Werner Herzog films.
Banco - Garofano Rosso
Stomu Yamashta - one by one - contributions to The man who fell to earth ...
Pat Metheny Group – The Falcon And The Snowman
Satin Whale - Die Faust in der tasche
Rick Wakeman - The burning ( the variations on the film music is amazing - one side of the LP)
Phantasm soundtrack-very Fulci/Goblin like.
Picnic at Hanging Rock-don't know if this was ever released as a soundtrack but there is quite a bit of eerie mellotron choir in it.
Is it just me or does anyone else think that the PV music on the OST albums doesn't have that much in common with what's on the Herzog movies?
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Mike Oldfield-The Killing Fields
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