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cabba2203

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Those went out years ago. The Cure did create Burn for the Crow soundtrack though.

 

It seems to be so...BTW' date=' I was NOT singling your post out Jeff-7, mine just happened to save after yours.

I was just ranting in general. [cool

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Gilliangirl

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Rattle and Hum (does that count?)

 

Pulp Fiction

 

American Graffiti (love the scene when they're going to race and Booker T and the MG's is playing Green Onions.... YEAH!)

 

Crazy Heart

 

Wizard of Oz (can't help it, it's my favourite movie of all time)

 

I can't find the name of the other one I wanted to list.... it starred Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra and it was a biker movie. Peter Fonda was 'Blue'. This is an old old OLD movie. I'll keep looking for it. Anyway, we loved it in the 60's.

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What happened to real soundtrack music?

Original scores that were meant for the movie or songs writen just for the movie about **** that went on in the movie?

Soundtracks today are nothing more than "mix tapes" of someone's play list' date=' some of which weren't even in the movie but in the end credits and had nothing to do with the movie at all.

 

Sorry, it's a pet peave of mine. Not meaning to rant.[/quote']

 

Ok Cabba, how about Sling Blade? There's some amazing "real soundtrack music".

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Gilliangirl

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The Commitments.

Oh yeah! I forgot about that one. Loved it!

 

 

The other one I couldn't remember was the biker movie 'The Wild Angels'. I guess the soundtrack was done by a band called Davie Allan and the Arrows:

 

Biography

Providing the soundtrack to numerous biker and teen exploitation movies in the mid- and late '60s' date=' Davie Allan & the Arrows bridged the surf and psychedelic eras. Their driving, basic instrumentals featured loads and loads of fuzz guitar, as well as generous dollops of tremolo bar waggling and wah-wah.

 

 

Anyway, if anyone's still reading this, here's the link.....

Wild Angels

p.s. don't go there unless you're really a fan of obscure 60's music

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Showing my age, but for me the following films had the most memorable soundtracks:

 

2001 - A Space Odyssey and I'm just about to have a really good listen to Ligeti

 

Death in Venice - Wikipedia reminds me that the main theme music is Mahler's Adagietto from his Fifth Symphony (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_Venice_(film))

 

Elvira Madigan - Wikipedia again reminds me that the soundtrack features the Andante from Piano Concerto No. 21 in C (K 467) by Mozart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvira_Madigan_(film))

 

I also dug Ry Cooder's slide playing in Paris, Texas.

 

RN

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dROK83

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What happened to real soundtrack music?

Original scores that were meant for the movie or songs writen just for the movie about **** that went on in the movie?

Soundtracks today are nothing more than "mix tapes" of someone's play list' date=' some of which weren't even in the movie but in the end credits and had nothing to do with the movie at all.

 

Sorry, it's a pet peave of mine. Not meaning to rant.[/quote']

 

That can be true on a lot of movie soundtracks. But there are some writers/directors that incorporate a lot of really good music into their movies. Again, Quentin Tarantino comes to mind. In fact, some of the music in his movies becomes synonymous with the scenes in which they are played.

 

But I can agree with you in a way, not everyone has the keen ear for picking music for movies and they try anyway with poor results. Soundtracks for Wes Anderson movies usually have a good mix of the two, so there can be a happy medium

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Hmmm....

 

I'd say for me "Heavy Metal" gets the ever-so-slight nudge over "FM".

 

Heavy Metal

1."Heavy Metal" (Original Version) (Sammy Hagar) (3:50)

2."Heartbeat" (Riggs) (4:20)

3."Working in the Coal Mine" (Devo) (2:48)

4."Veteran of the Psychic Wars" (Blue Öyster Cult) (4:48)

5."Reach Out" (Cheap Trick) (3:35)

6."Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)" (Don Felder) (5:00)

7."True Companion" (Donald Fagen) (5:02)

8."Crazy (A Suitable Case for Treatment)" (Nazareth) (3:24)

9."Radar Rider" (Riggs) (2:40)

10."Open Arms" (Journey) (3:20)

11."Queen Bee" (Grand Funk Railroad) (3:11)

12."I Must Be Dreamin'" (Cheap Trick) (5:37)

13."The Mob Rules" (alternate version) (Black Sabbath) (2:43)

14."All of You" (Don Felder) (4:18)

15."Prefabricated" (Trust) (2:59)

16."Blue Lamp" (Stevie Nicks) (3:48)

 

 

FM

1."FM (No Static At All)" - Steely Dan – 4:52

2."Night Moves" - Bob Seger – 3:27

3."Fly Like an Eagle" - Steve Miller – 3:04

4."Cold as Ice" - Foreigner – 3:20

5."Breakdown" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – 2:44

6."Bad Man" - Randy Meisner – 2:38

7."Life in the Fast Lane" - Eagles – 4:46

8."Do It Again" - Steely Dan – 5:54

9."Lido Shuffle" - Boz Scaggs – 3:42

10."More Than a Feeling" - Boston – 4:45

11."Tumbling Dice" - Linda Ronstadt – 4:51

12."Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" - Linda Ronstadt – 4:15

13."Livingston Saturday Night" - Jimmy Buffett – 3:10

14."There's a Place in the World for a Gambler" - Dan Fogelberg – 5:41

15."Just the Way You Are" - Billy Joel – 4:49

16."It Keeps You Runnin'" - The Doobie Brothers – 4:13

17."Your Smiling Face" - James Taylor – 2:43

18."Life's Been Good" - Joe Walsh – 8:05

19."We Will Rock You" - Queen – 2:04

20."FM (Reprise)" - Steely Dan – 2:54

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cabba2203

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That can be true on a lot of movie soundtracks. But there are some writers/directors that incorporate a lot of really good music into their movies. Again' date=' Quentin Tarantino comes to mind. In fact, some of the music in his movies becomes synonymous with the scenes in which they are played.

 

But I can agree with you in a way, not everyone has the keen ear for picking music for movies and they try anyway with poor results. Soundtracks for Wes Anderson movies usually have a good mix of the two, so there can be a happy medium[/quote']

 

I see your point about Quentin Tarantino and his use of music in his films.

I chalk a lot of that up to him using a specific song to drive a scene. IMO, even though it's using unscored music, his use of it is incorporated into the film in a way an actor or a prop would be, if you catch what I'm saying. So it is essential to the film.

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What happened to real soundtrack music?

Original scores that were meant for the movie or songs writen just for the movie about **** that went on in the movie?

Soundtracks today are nothing more than "mix tapes" of someone's play list' date=' some of which weren't even in the movie but in the end credits and had nothing to do with the movie at all.

 

Sorry, it's a pet peave of mine. Not meaning to rant.[/quote']

 

Check out the soundtrack from "The Fifth Element".

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Hmmm....

 

I'd say for me "Heavy Metal" gets the ever-so-slight nudge over "FM".

 

Heavy Metal

1."Heavy Metal" (Original Version) (Sammy Hagar) (3:50)

2."Heartbeat" (Riggs) (4:20)

3."Working in the Coal Mine" (Devo) (2:48)

4."Veteran of the Psychic Wars" (Blue Öyster Cult) (4:48)

5."Reach Out" (Cheap Trick) (3:35)

6."Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)" (Don Felder) (5:00)

7."True Companion" (Donald Fagen) (5:02)

8."Crazy (A Suitable Case for Treatment)" (Nazareth) (3:24)

9."Radar Rider" (Riggs) (2:40)

10."Open Arms" (Journey) (3:20)

11."Queen Bee" (Grand Funk Railroad) (3:11)

12."I Must Be Dreamin'" (Cheap Trick) (5:37)

13."The Mob Rules" (alternate version) (Black Sabbath) (2:43)

14."All of You" (Don Felder) (4:18)

15."Prefabricated" (Trust) (2:59)

16."Blue Lamp" (Stevie Nicks) (3:48)

 

 

FM

1."FM (No Static At All)" - Steely Dan – 4:52

2."Night Moves" - Bob Seger – 3:27

3."Fly Like an Eagle" - Steve Miller – 3:04

4."Cold as Ice" - Foreigner – 3:20

5."Breakdown" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – 2:44

6."Bad Man" - Randy Meisner – 2:38

7."Life in the Fast Lane" - Eagles – 4:46

8."Do It Again" - Steely Dan – 5:54

9."Lido Shuffle" - Boz Scaggs – 3:42

10."More Than a Feeling" - Boston – 4:45

11."Tumbling Dice" - Linda Ronstadt – 4:51

12."Poor' date=' Poor Pitiful Me" - Linda Ronstadt – 4:15

13."Livingston Saturday Night" - Jimmy Buffett – 3:10

14."There's a Place in the World for a Gambler" - Dan Fogelberg – 5:41

15."Just the Way You Are" - Billy Joel – 4:49

16."It Keeps You Runnin'" - The Doobie Brothers – 4:13

17."Your Smiling Face" - James Taylor – 2:43

18."Life's Been Good" - Joe Walsh – 8:05

19."We Will Rock You" - Queen – 2:04

20."FM (Reprise)" - Steely Dan – 2:54[/quote']

 

I love both of those. I used to have FM on 8-track

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What happened to real soundtrack music?

Original scores that were meant for the movie or songs writen just for the movie about **** that went on in the movie?

Soundtracks today are nothing more than "mix tapes" of someone's play list' date=' some of which weren't even in the movie but in the end credits and had nothing to do with the movie at all.

 

Sorry, it's a pet peave of mine. Not meaning to rant.[/quote']

 

They just don't make 'em like Max Steiner anymore. Treasure of the Sierra Madre has always been one of my Favorite movies and Soundtracks.

 

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There are so many movies that have a great soundtrack, that are really just a playlist of classic songs.

 

I think more of original scores, like Star Wars for example. Smokey and the Bandit actually had a good soundtrack.

 

I remember as a kid, my parents had the 8 Track of Earthquake soundtrack. It had some really pretty music, and I think some of the pieces were also used in Superman The Movie.

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