Interactive Poll XLVI

moshkito wrote: Logan wrote: ^ This poll/topic is intended for TV soundtracks. Zorba the Greek would have been better mentioned in my movie soundtracks. What is the KIN Mogwai soundtrack -- looked it up, see it's a film. I mentioned Mogwai's Les revenants (one of my favorite modern TV series) soundtrack in my original post. Would have been my number two choice. Hi, I do NOT, and can NOT, differentiate between the two, specially when so many of the musicians involved are also doing so many other things ... heck, I might as well mention a very famous cartoon that had music by a guy that had a band that did a lot of things ... but folks here hate cartoons, and the progressive-ness and inventive-ness of the whole thing, which helped make "modern music" better received since the wild goings on, many times, were making fun of orchestra movements and music in general. TV and movies ... if you are a composer, and care for what you do, it won't matter the medium ... it could even be your album! Please stop "separating" music into this and that ... in the end it is all MUSIC! PS: Now le me see if I can score some of that invisible dope people use to find differences in MUSIC that you or I as a composer, would NEVER EVER FOREVER make! PS2: Btw, I haven't had a TV in my place for 20+ years, and I do not miss it ... so anything that is supposedly just TV related doesn't really exist in my life. It's my way of dealing with the commerciality of it all.

Edited by The Dark Elf - July 18 2020 at 12:52

Snicolette wrote: micky wrote: did change mine to Land of the Lost... Sid and Marty deserve a slot.. my mind is pretty well set on my top 3.. going to hold off voting till Lorenzo speaks up.. I'll give him till tomorrow before voting out of courtesy. Land of the Lost. OMG, forgot this one.  So bad, it’s good.  Banjos also made me think of another banjo-centric theme song on TV, The Beverly Hillbillies.

rushfan4 wrote: As I sit here thinking, this has always been the absolute best TV theme song:

Another soundtrack is for The Bridge - aka Bron/ Broen (another great modern show:




I thought someone might mention that as I know that I am not the only one who has admired that show in the forum. All my family got into that show independently, but maybe the poppiness would be off-putting to some.

Edited by Logan - July 18 2020 at 10:45

micky wrote: did change mine to Land of the Lost... Sid and Marty deserve a slot.. my mind is pretty well set on my top 3.. going to hold off voting till Lorenzo speaks up.. I'll give him till tomorrow before voting out of courtesy.

Land of the Lost. OMG, forgot this one.  So bad, it’s good.  Banjos also made me think of another banjo-centric theme song on TV, The Beverly Hillbillies.  

^ This poll/topic is intended for TV soundtracks. Zorba the Greek would have been better mentioned in my movie soundtracks. What is the KIN Mogwai soundtrack -- looked it up, see it's a film. I mentioned Mogwai's Les revenants (one of my favourite modern TV series) soundtrack in my original post. Would have been my number two choice.

Edited by Logan - July 18 2020 at 10:22

I love TV so I love this poll, not just for the music. I wanted to be a TV show writer, mostly in black comedy -- something that obviously didn't work out. It's not easy breaking in if you don't know someone, but I don't think Canada is very good when it comes to TV and I didn't go about things right. I got thrown twice and didn't persevere. Maybe I just lacked the talent, but being a very anxious person did not help.

Logan wrote: Micky, I was going to post that Land of the Lost clip, even had prepared my post but then didn't as at the time I was worried about overwhelming the thread. That is a favourite of mine and I loved the show as a kid and have re-watched it all as an adult. I tried to watch the 2000s film version with Will Ferrell, but couldn't get through it. It lacked the sense of deep mystery and wonder that the series had, and they went a screwball comedy parody route. Yeah the original is fairly kitsch, but it genuinely meant a great deal to me as a child and continues to do so. Land of the Lost is part of my DNA, and is the first show I can remember loving. Filmmakers have gone that route with a number of remakes. With the Land of the Lost movie, it alienated me as one who loved the original as it was just a very loose parody, and I doubt it would have appealed much to those (who would be most to see it I would think) who hadn;t seen the original. Weird one to remake. HBO could do a good job of remaking the show, I think. Speaking of HBO, this is one of my absolute favourite pieces of music and I don;t know why I didn't think to post this before(sometimes I just gotta do down the ramble hole to start associating). I am kind of tempted to change to this, but I won't cause I like how unusual my Utopia pick is amongst the others. Westworld, season one especially, is one of my favourites (now that's a great one that had had an earlier visual made of it-- Fargo too). Great soundtrack in Westworld, and in how they adapted popular music for it such as The Rolling Stones Paint It Black: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ljiTS-3Xlk Hardly original music for the show, but I got chills with Penderecki's "Threnody for Hiroshima" as used for the the, I think excellent, season three of 2017's Twin Peaks (that was an awesome way to continue a series/ and the 90s film, imo). Very trippy, that episode was a masterpiece. Brought Eraserhead to mind. For fans of Twin Peaks back in the day, you're missing out if you didn't catch the 25 years later show. And for those that missed Twin Peaks, pretty good chance you've missed out (could be a bit dark for some tastes). Loving this series, by the way, as I am a big TV buff. That said, it's hard for me to get into most anything new these days -- my tastes definitely lean to the quirky unusual. I really feel the need to discover a new-to-me series that will totally engage me. Really getting into Twin Peaks recently was fantastic, and as I have said, better late than never. I am glad I went back to the beginning to give it all the proper attention it deserved as I hadn't really got into it originally as I had only caught it on and off. Binging is my preferred way to watch series when I can find the time.

mathman0806 wrote: Here's a playlist for the selections. I put in Happy Days for Lorenzo. Will update if that changes. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-zzvl_w6Fx61giIDWDUonUPPTvkZ2_zU

Micky, I was going to post that Land of the Lost clip, even had prepared my post but then didn't as at the time I was worried about overwhelming the thread. That is a favourite of mine and I loved the show as a kid and have re-watched it all as an adult. I tried to watch the 2000s film version with Will Ferrell, but couldn't get through it. It lacked the sense of deep mystery and wonder that the series had, and they went a screwball comedy parody route. Yeah the original is fairly kitsch, but it genuinely meant a great deal to me as a child and continues to do so. Land of the Lost is part of my DNA, and is the first show I can remember loving. Filmmakers have gone that route with a number of remakes. With the Land of the Lost movie, it alienated me as one who loved the original as it was just a very loose parody, and I doubt it would have appealed much to those (who would be most to see it I would think) who hadn;t seen the original. Weird one to remake. HBO could do a good job of remaking the show, I think.

Speaking of HBO, this is one of my absolute favourite pieces of music and I don;t know why I didn't think to post this before(sometimes I just gotta do down the ramble hole to start associating). I am kind of tempted to change to this, but I won't cause I like how unusual my Utopia pick is amongst the others.



Westworld, season one especially, is one of my favourites (now that's a great one that had had an earlier visual made of it-- Fargo too). Great soundtrack in Westworld, and in how they adapted popular music for it such as The Rolling Stones Paint It Black: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ljiTS-3Xlk

Hardly original music for the show, but I got chills with Penderecki's "Threnody for Hiroshima" as used for the the, I think excellent, season three of 2017's Twin Peaks (that was an awesome way to continue a series/ and the 90s film, imo).



Very trippy, that episode was a masterpiece. Brought Eraserhead to mind.

For fans of Twin Peaks back in the day, you're missing out if you didn't catch the 25 years later show. And for those that missed Twin Peaks, pretty good chance you've missed out (could be a bit dark for some tastes).

Loving this series, by the way, as I am a big TV buff. That said, it's hard for me to get into most anything new these days -- my tastes definitely lean to the quirky unusual. I really feel the need to discover a new-to-me series that will totally engage me. Really getting into Twin Peaks recently was fantastic, and as I have said, better late than never. I am glad I went back to the beginning to give it all the proper attention it deserved as I hadn't really got into it originally as I had only caught it on and off. Binging is my preferred way to watch series when I can find the time.