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Post by dem bones on Nov 30, 2007 8:29:08 GMT
pulphack's post on the wonders of Basil Kirchin made me realise that a best and worst movie sountrack thread is possibly overdue (and if somebody wants to start a TV Themes equivalent, please do). As ever, it's the horror stuff we're primarily interested in, but as my particular fave raves include Trent Reznor's superlative Natural Born Killers mega-mix, Ennio Morricone's score for The Good, The Bad And The Ugly and Roy Budd's Get Carter it's not unlikely that it will strays off all over the shop if it doesn't die the death.
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Post by David A. Riley on Nov 30, 2007 9:02:06 GMT
How about the opening music from Death Line?
Was that amongst the worst or the best? Though I defy anyone to willingly listen to it by itself more than once at a time! Get that tune in your head and, cheesy though it is, it will linger.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 30, 2007 11:28:20 GMT
Ah, Death Line! I'll go for a 'best'. As to the film, you don't need me or anyone else to tell you how great that is. I've got Wil Malone's opening theme on a freebie soundtrack compilation, The Score given away with the June 2002 issue of bloody Mojo. It's not a bad CD either: Roy Budd's Get Carter intro, Morricone's A Fistful Of Dollars, Bernstein's Frankie Machine from The Man With The Golden Arm. Dwarfing even these, Peter Cooke & Dudley Moore - or rather ('Drimble Wedge and the Vegetations' glorious Bedazzled, pretty much a prototype for the punk anti-love songs of the following decade. The Score is also notable for the inclusion of the only Nick Cave recording even I can't stand: his straight (?) cover of that epic whinge Let It Be. He was on miles better form when he covered the aforementioned Bedazzled ("you make me sick", etc.) with Anita Lane. They do a mean J'Taime, too.
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Post by Calenture on Nov 30, 2007 11:50:08 GMT
You've already nabbed my favourite: almost anything by Morricone - who also did his own version of the brill Mission Impossible (was the original by Lalo Schiffrin?). Ashamed to admit that I can't remember the Get Carter theme . And I note David's warning and don't think I'll remind myself of the opening music for Death Line. I think The Italian Job is probably another contender for most likeably awful film score. They did lop out a scene of 'waltzing minis' which would have added The Blue Danube to it. The Incredible Shrinking Man has beautiful jazzy trumpet intro music!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 30, 2007 12:42:17 GMT
I'm just a sucker for 'the good the bad and the ugly'.
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Post by redbrain on Nov 30, 2007 14:23:45 GMT
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders has an excellent soundtrack (available on CD). The film is worth checking out, too. It's a Czech take on horror - very weird, and a bit fairy tale-ish. Not at all Hollywood. It's available as a DVD on the cheapo Redemption label. It doesn't seem very well reproduced (or was it always like that?) but will richly reward seeking and watching.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 30, 2007 16:11:27 GMT
dead obvious, but still ... Music From The Hammer Films (Silva Screen, 1989) Equally pleasant as background or foreground music, also comes in handy if unwelcome guests need further convincing that you really are the Addams family. Snazzy little picture booklet too (though far too much concentration on C. Lee for my liking). You get James Bernard's The Dracula Suite and Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, David Whitaker's prologue to Vampire Circus and a medley from Christopher Gunning's Hands Of The Ripper. Loses a bonus point for not having the wit to include a free flexi of the immortal Strange Love from Lust For A Vampire with first 5000 copies, but other than that you can't really moan.
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Post by redbrain on Nov 30, 2007 16:25:42 GMT
Here goes with my first attempt to post an image: <a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m285/Pet-J/Valerie.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a> It's the Valerie and Her Week of Wonders soundtrack CD.
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Post by redbrain on Nov 30, 2007 16:28:48 GMT
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Post by weirdmonger on Nov 30, 2007 16:31:02 GMT
You can delete and modify posts here, Red, if they need correcting. I think you just put the address between [/img] des
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Post by dem bones on Nov 30, 2007 16:53:37 GMT
I just edited it in for you, redbrain. Des is spot on about where to enter the address.
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Post by pulphack on Nov 30, 2007 18:07:35 GMT
sorry to backtrack (ha! used to be a great record shop called that in Ilford, but i digress), but Death Line - why there's so little music in that is beyond me, as Wil Malone is such a good composer and arranger. his work with the Wilson Malone Voiceband, Orange Bicycle, and The Smoke is great. there's a whole lot of things he did for the Morgan Bluetown label and for Monty Babson's Morgan studios that were then licensed out which are also great. A Melting Pot Of Hits is one: covers by Wil and Danny Malone (who also recorded as Pussy, and The Intergalactic Touring Band), with one Blue Mink tracks tagged on to sell it. the covers are sometimes better than the originals. ok, so he made a pigs ear of the first Iron Maiden album (too toppy), but otherwise was ok in the producers chair.
at one point in that film, the swinging couple who are the nominal leads (give me Pleasance and Rossington any day) put on an album in their apartment, and we hear 'Death May Be Your Santa Claus' by Secondhand, which is a rediscovered gm - like Arthur Brown singing over Zappa jamming with Stockhausen, whilst ingesting mushrooms. lovely. a personal fave at ph towers.
best soundtrack has already been mentioned though - 'Get Carter'. fits the feel of the film, and has great composition and arrangement. roy budd was THE MAN. i like morricone, but it's BUDD for me any day. his score for Fear Is The Key is also great, and much better than a mundane thriller movie (with that bloke who was Petrocelli - did he ever finish building that bloody house?).
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Post by sean on Nov 30, 2007 18:16:28 GMT
Best soundtrack - Eraserhead. Without a doubt.
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Post by weirdmonger on Dec 1, 2007 9:09:13 GMT
Best soundtrack - Eraserhead. Without a doubt. Yes, that, definitely. Another one I love for its music: 'Death in Venice'
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Post by franklinmarsh on Dec 1, 2007 10:17:12 GMT
My own particular taste would run to - John Barry's James Bond soundtracks (Goldfinger to Diamonds Are Forever), I've got a couple of Hammer samplers, Dem's already mentioned NBK collage, Joe Strummer's Walker, the inevitable A Clockwork Orange. I used to have Goblin's Suspiria on vinyl - spooky.
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