Prog rock in movies?
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Topic: Prog rock in movies?
Posted By: moonlitbay
Subject: Prog rock in movies?
Date Posted: December 04 2005 at 07:29
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Hi everybody! Anyone of you know something about prog rock being used in soundtracks? What I know about is Peter Gabriel "Birdy", and Pink Floyd "More".... Anything else????? ------------- A reunion.......it will never happen in my lifetime!! |
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Posted By: Kingkay
Date Posted: December 04 2005 at 07:59
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Peter Gabriel also made the ost for rabbit proof fence and floyd made the ost for La Vallée vangelis made some osts too, but i can't remember which ones |
Posted By: rushaholic
Date Posted: December 04 2005 at 08:04
| Explosions in the Sky (one of my favorite new bands) did most of the soundtrack for Friday Night Lights. |
Posted By: shyman
Date Posted: December 04 2005 at 08:07
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Vangelis has made several OSTs, including "Chariots of Fire", "Blade Runner" and "Alexander" as well for some series like "Cosmos" As well, The Church included "Under the milky way" in "Donnie Darko" 's soundtrack. I'm pretty sure there are more examples, but I don't remember them now. |
Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: December 04 2005 at 09:02
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PINK FLOYD in "Zabriskie Point". R. WATERS performs the song "Lost Boys Calling" in "The Legend of 1990" ("La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano") by Giuseppe Tornatore. R. WATERS and RON GEESIN "Music from The Body" (documentary soundtrack). P. GABRIEL's "Passion" is a soundtrack of "The Last Temptation of Christ". BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO "Garofano rosso". OSANNNA "Milano calibro 9". FLAVIO PREMOLI, PFM keyboardist, composed music to several movies (soundtracks released as his solo albums). Most GOBLIN albums are sountracks to horror movies. KEITH EMERSON also wrote music to movies. JOHN WETTON "Chasing The Deer". ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: December 04 2005 at 09:38
| Don't forget "La marge"! |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 04 2005 at 11:04
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Jan Hammer - Miami Vice theme If you class it as prog. I like the soundtrack used in Barbarella. It's not prog, it's more late '60s psychedelia, but it's interesting. Was it Pink Floyd that did the "Delicate Sounds Of Thunder" theme? I cannot think of anymore. I think a lot of soundtracks that are prog are done by less well known musicians and writers. -------------   
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Posted By: darren
Date Posted: December 05 2005 at 06:25
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He wrote the score for "Nighthawks", an early Stallone movie. He does a cover of "I'm A Man" by Steve Winwood. I think he even sang it. I got it on vinyl somewhere in my collection.
Tangerine Dream has done more soundtracks than pretty much anyone. Thief, Risky Business, Legend, Firestarter etc. Philip Glass has done many as well but he's not so much prog but classical. I mention him only because anyone I know who likes prog likes his music.
------------- "they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world. the fools they locked up the wrong man." - Leonard Cohen |
NotAProghead wrote:Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: December 05 2005 at 07:36
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The Snowman & The Falcon: Pat Metheny + collaboration with David Bowie on a single tune. Emmanuelle: plaguarism of King Crimson music.
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Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: December 05 2005 at 07:49
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I've heard many times this type of question concerning prog rock & soundtrack, I think that I will write soon an article about it! for great or classic prog rock soundtracks:
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Posted By: tremulant
Date Posted: December 05 2005 at 20:41
I got out an old Charley Chaplin video from one of the video shops in
my town. When I put it on at home, this really cheesy, annoying, sinthy
psychedelia began to play and ran throughout the entire movie. I didn't
end up watching the whole movie - the music was just so bad!  Cheesy psychedelic music and Charley Chaplin DO NOT mix! I found that it was also ruining the humour  ------------- My solo music: http://www.myspace.com/anthropiate - ANTHROPIATE |
Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: December 05 2005 at 23:15
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Tom Sawyer by Rush is in several movies, Waterboy for one. Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel is also movie friendly, it was in a basketball movie that came out a few months ago. ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: December 05 2005 at 23:25
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Some of the best usage I can think of was in the Vincent Gallo/Christina Ricci movie Buffalo 66 ... Gallo, who directed it, is a big prog fan and he used Yes' Heart Of The Sunrise and King Crimson's Moonchild to perfection. ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 05 2005 at 23:34
| Trevor Rabin does all kinds of movie scores! But seriously, there are probably Pink Floyd songs in all kinds of movies (not just the ones they did soundtracks for). |
Posted By: doylebrunson
Date Posted: December 05 2005 at 23:41
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mike oldfield-tubular bells was in the exorcist figure most of you know this, just fillin in the gaps |
Posted By: Rael72
Date Posted: December 06 2005 at 00:43
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Vincent Gallo's "Buffalo '66", which is my favorite indie movie,
features Heart Of The Sunrise and Sweetness by Yes, and Moonchild by
King Crimson.
------------- My grip must be flipping Cos his handshake keeps slipping My hopes keep on dipping And his lips keep on smiling all the time |
Posted By: AngleofRepose
Date Posted: December 06 2005 at 02:00
| Almost Famous: I've Seen All Your Good People (Your Move) |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 06 2005 at 07:42
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IMDB comes up with this: Names (Exact Matches) (Displaying 10 Results)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0226923/" onclick="set_args'tt0226923',13,1 - La Carrera Panamericana with Music by Pink Floyd (1992) Peter Hammill was the composer of Take Me Away which was used in the film Apparently he also acted in a television series called Jackson's Wharf (1999) and played Shayne Bellamy, I doubt anybody has seen this series! Is this him? It's made in New Zealand. Peter Gabriel:
Composer - filmography
Composer - filmography ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397895/#composer2000 - 2000s ) ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397895/#composer1990 - 1990s )
Composer - filmography ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0026963/#composer2000 - 2000s ) ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0026963/#composer1990 - 1990s )
Marillion made a film called Brave apparently in 1994. -------------
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Posted By: bucka001
Date Posted: December 07 2005 at 11:08
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Van der Graaf Generator did the soundtrack for the 1970 movie Sudden Terror (aka Eyewitness), which starred Susan George, Mark Lester, and Lionel Jeffries. Jonathan Demme (later to direct Silence of the Lambs, Machurian Candidate, etc) got them the gig - he was a big VdGG fan at the time. ------------- jc |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 07 2005 at 13:48
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Jim, I thought the final version of this film had only brief moments of
Jaxon's sax? They replaced the music with some other band I
believe. Is this correct? Peter Hammill lived with Susan George, hence the lines about Mike and Susie in "Refugees". I forget who Mike was off the top of my head though. -------------
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Posted By: bucka001
Date Posted: December 07 2005 at 14:03
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Fairfield Parlour was the other band who contributed. There was a bit more of VdGG's weird music included than just the Jaxon bit, but most of what they came up with was considered too sinister. PH actually lived with a British actress named Susan Penhaligon (she of Refugees fame). Mike was a guy named Mike Mclean (don't know who he is). ------------- jc |
Posted By: zabriskiepoint
Date Posted: December 07 2005 at 14:05
| Zabriskie Point, has a partly floyd OST, and La valle has a floyd soundtrack. |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: December 07 2005 at 14:07
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Ah yes, that's the lass, I knew it was Susan somebody, there are far too many... Susan Hampshire being another. Do you know if any of the original music for this film is in the vaults? It would be great to hear it. Thanks for the confirmation Jim. -------------
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Posted By: kenmeyerjr
Date Posted: December 07 2005 at 14:26
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Damn, Trotsky, I thought I was gonna be the only one who knew about Gallo and his love of Yes! ------------- If you like art of musicians, check my site (the music section) and tell me what you think! http://www.kenmeyerjr.com |
Posted By: John Gargo
Date Posted: December 07 2005 at 15:14
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Styx's RENEGADE makes an appearance in Billy Madison. Kansas' Carry On Wayward Son shows up in Anchorman and Dust in the Wind is featured prominantly in Old School. |