Even considering the James Bond scores, my 2 favorite Barry scores are The Black Hole and King Kong.
Even considering the James Bond scores, my 2 favorite Barry scores are The Black Hole and King Kong.
I can't watch that gif and not hear "SCHWING!!" in my mind when that "deadly" blade pops out
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Oh yeah, another score that would probably be on my desert island selection would be the score to the remake of Solaris (2002) by Cliff Martinez. Haunting and beautiful in all the right/best ways to my ears.
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Even though I was impressed by this film when I was quite young, I have to agree with Just Eric. The film looks impressive and has a decent cast, but is stodgy and confused about its intended audience. The music is far superior, even if there is some confusion between the demand for the new John Williams stereotype of space opera themes and a more sombre orchestral approach. And that's the point, as far as the soundtrack goes: The Black Hole does not rock. It waltzes.
To me the most haunting scene in the film is the one just before the schwing-wruum-chaka-chaka-chaka scene in the gif.
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Memories are extra persistant, because I once subtitled The Black Hole for a television screening and hence had to watch the whole thing through multiple times, as I worked out how to translate that brilliant dialogue (there might have been an Einstein-Rosenberg bridge to consider, you know) into Finnish. Vincent's smart-arse quotes do not easily transform themselves into maximum 30-character lines readable and digestible in two seconds, I can tell you that.
These days, I prefer watching the soundtrack album. It's also interesting that Barry found time for two other entries into the post-Star Wars space opera craze in that same year with Starcrash and Moonraker. Both of which have some similarities and differences to The Black Hole score, mirroring the differences between the films.
Great haul today, Mandy by Johann Johannsson, The Black Hole LP ($1.95), The Fantasy Film World of Bernard Herrmann - Journey to the Centre of the Earth, The Day the Earth Stood Still, 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Fahrenheit 451, How the West Was Won - Alfred Newman, and Batman, Exclusive Original Television Soundtrack Album, conducted by Nelson Riddle
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Last movie score I listened to was Jerry Goldsmith's Our Man Flint the other day while working. Repetative but I really like it. Original Planet of The Apes is excellent also. Movie scores are in my listening rotation.
Don't have that one. I only have his 2 Retrospective boxes, which contain several soundtracks. I might need to get some more Jóhann Jóhannsson, when I feel like it.
I like the soundtrack Klaus Doldinger did for Das Boot.
I'm also very fond of the theme-music from The Persuaders by John Barry.
Great '80s electronic score by Jerry Goldsmith.
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I really liked the soundtrack to "Arrival", and how vocal samples were used in this film, where language plays such an important role.
One thing is for sure, the sheep is not a creature of the air.
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One thing is for sure, the sheep is not a creature of the air.
https://sproingg.bandcamp.com/
I am tediously entering each album in my collection into Discogs and just finished the D's. I pass the tedium by randomly sampling through the letter I am working on. Tonight's big winner...
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Very interesting, synth-driven and quite psychedelic music theme from the Yugoslav film "The Scent of Field Flowers" from 1978, which soundtrack was awarded Le Prix de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival that year, is one of my all time favourites regarding the film music.
^Beautiful!
I just picked up a bucket list CD, thanks Varese Saraband for re-releasing this gem, Matrtix - The Complete Edition.
https://www.varesesarabande.com/prod...e-score-2-sacd
Avant-garde Postmodern music at it's best.
Also grabbed John William's score for Dracula, one of those great soundtracks to "meh" movies.
https://www.varesesarabande.com/prod...a&_ss=e&_v=1.0
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