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I'm not even sure I remember the tracks independently from each other
I've always loved the movie with music and all, but on its own I find the soundtrack rather tame........................................................... yeah so shoot me why don't ya
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Posted: May 24 2013 at 03:59
richardh wrote:
EDIt - got my tracks mixed up , meant to vote for Tales Of The Future as that's the one with Rousos not Damask Rose
Hey, I tend to mix them up too ... to this day. Arguably my most favorite album ever, and I can't even tell the difference between the two! Shame on me.
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Posted: March 22 2013 at 20:51
Hi,
Roy's last lines ... is exactly how I feel about a lot of music that is not remembered and understood, or worse, ever heard!
It is my number one movie of all time, and the fact that it has Vangelis, and so beautifully integrated into the film is what it is all about for me. One of the best films ever made!
There is one other theme, that is personal to me, but only I can make sense of that for you folks. That film is an anti 1984 and an anti-establishment thing ... that is very important to me ... and not how they consider "their product" (the owl and the girl) the perfect result of their work ... whereas Roy and the rest ... were considered failures and not worthy ... and had to fight for their lives. That would suggest the society failed ... but they will never admit it! And neither would a populist board and place!
And Roy's last lines, are what we should fear the most about "progressive" and "prog" ... and then we can ask ourselves ... how much do we care? ... I will tell you a lot, and you know it in my responses! I already feel like crying, as I did with the ending of the film "Woodstock", because I knew one man was trying to elevate the music, and no one cared ... all you saw was ... trash! To me, that hurts even more ... that we dismiss out own spirit so easily ... and recklessly! For ideals that do not exist, on top of it, instead of reality!
Edited by moshkito - April 20 2013 at 16:24
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Posted: March 21 2013 at 11:45
Guldbamsen wrote:
Anyways - I think you should see the flick before checking out the soundtrack on its own.
I agree; I can't even imagine the one without the other. That perfect marriage between film and music (as was 2001: A Space Odyssey). Strange that I find the 80s to be a dreadful decade for film, yet one of my all-time favorites comes from this time. (Otherwise, give me the late 60s and 70s: Bunuel, Rivette, Chabrol...) (Or the 90s to the present, for genre films like horror and sci-fi.) Oh, another all-time 80s favorite: Diva. Great music in that one too!
^^^Beware, that's actually performed by Edgar Rothermich, who studied Vangelis' score and recorded what he and the label felt was a close replica of the score.
I have the 3CD version because I love this score and I concur, the 3rd disc of "new" music was disappointing. Not appalling, it's just not worth returning to after an initial listen. The other 2 CDs are worth the price of admission, however.
I have still never heard this soundtrack nor seen the movie. I should get on it soon.
Having been raised by a father who has been involved with film making ever since he was a wee lad, I may have been contaminated from the get-go, so reading a post like yours feels strangely perplexing... It's the same sort of thing I experienced talking to a newish friend of mine, who had never seen Indiana Jones (Again with the Harrison Ford...)
Anyways - I think you should see the flick before checking out the soundtrack on its own.
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Posted: March 21 2013 at 08:10
I could have gone with any number of these songs - Memories of Green, Blush Response, Wait for Me, Love Theme, and Blade Runner Blues (which I went with). The opening on the ROIO Esper Edition is just perfection itself (which is pretty much the opening of the film itself - I don't care for the official version's opening), and the ending on the official version is just as perfect, with the End Titles and Tears in Rain.
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richardh wrote:
... Yes, the latter.
