Interactive Poll Ate: Movie Soundtracks

jamesbaldwin wrote: Logan wrote: ^ If the collaboration. plus him solo, is not in PA, then I think it's fine. Heck, I won't complain if someone does a Phil Collins soundtrack except that I'd then be expected to listen to it. :lol: Cristi wrote: sad only non-prog is allowed, Goblin alone deserves attention, a lot of great soundtracks, even though some movies were tongue in cheek.  This is going to be the toughest round, toughest choice to nominate. So many great OST songs.  I was really tempted to open it up to ones in PA. Love Goblin and others. Vangelis and Oldfield,and Peter Gabriel?, would get votes if nominated, and I love Fabio Frizzi and Alian Goaraguer and others. Will I did leave that issue open to discussion, I do think it better to exclude those that are in PA. It still feels a shame to me. That said, we can always create prog polls on soundtracks in PA (I've done various ones in the past). There isn't as much soundtrack variety in PA, so it's easier to cover a lot of ground than with ones not in PA in a non-interactive way, or interactive in having an "other" option. It's important to respect the rule of NON-PROG SONGS here. We are not here to post Goblin, that everyone here in PA knows just for their soundtracks. The spirit of these Interactive polls is to share our fave non-prog music, especially if it is music less-known. So, it's the opposite than to post Goblin or Vangelis or Oldfield or Gabriel: they are very well-known prog artists and their music for films are famous. No interest in this. Instead, in the Prog Poll category it is possible to post the prog songs, if someone wants to open Interactive Survey there, and in that case, in my opinion, the rules were far too restrictive, because choosing only between albums with less than 50 reviews it seems to me excessive.  I would have excluded only the first 10 albums in each category and the first 200 albums in the general ranking.

While it seemed a shame in a way to me, I do agree that it is good for this to be non-PA material and will not change those criteria for the topic. A lot of those soundtracks in PA have been discussed and polled in the forum muchly already. I've done those, and others have. We've had long discussions on Vangelis. Well, we have on Morricone in the past too (one of those being when I tried to sneak Morricone into Prog Related through the back-door by trying to get an act he was in called The Feed-back included).

I liked the challenge of choosing ones with less than 50 ratings. What's good with these is if we mix them up a bit, do things a little differently each time as we have been. Hopefully each person who does one will bring some of their personality/individuality to the proceedings. And we're building on each others ideas as we proceed (obviously all based and built around your idea and formula as you got it started and figured out a way that worked amazingly well from the get-go). I knew it was a good idea, but I wouldn't have guessed how successful this series would have been.

EDIT:As for Goblin;s popularity, I did this poll back in October (Cristi was there :) http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=121244
And it got a grand total of 11 votes with I think eight unique user responses. Very good for one of my polls.

Edited by Logan - July 06 2020 at 13:31

jamesbaldwin wrote: moshkito wrote: Hi, Here is a small list ... no tracks named because in most of these there are more than one moment with different music, and soundtracks (FOR ME) are not about songs or jingles for radio! List is not in order at all ... impossible for me to do so! It's hard to not include things like Ken Russell's very special films on Elgar, Tchaikovsky and Mahler. I also could not identify a couple of the Chinese films that had some outstanding music in them ... at least two of them I wrote a review almost all around it. There also were a couple of Japanese films that I wanted to add, but I was not able to find good enough information ... for example "A Taxing Woman Returns" has a bunch of moments with a guitar going nuts and it is exceptional. One other film was about a story teller (or writer) and I can't remember which one it was yet. In general, it's strange to me that so many Japanese films I have seen, and so few of them have so little music to show for it ... and Ryuichi made his name in Europe, not Japan! Mogwai - KIN Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Jack Nitzsche - Performance  The Lover - Gabriel Yared Tous Les Matins du Monde - Sainte Colombe Popol Vuh - Aguirre, The Wrath of God Vangelis - Chariots of Fire Vangelis - Blade Runner Ryuichi Sakamoto - Little Buddha Ryuichi Sakamoto - The Sheltering Sky Glenn Gould - 32 Short Films About Glenn Gloud Anastasia (Macedonian Folk Group) - Before The Rain Terje Rypdal/Jan Garbarek/ECM - Journey of Hope (Oscar Winner) Zbiniew Preissner - The Double Life of Veronique Carmen (more of a new interpretation) - Carlos Saura Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman _ The Last of the Mohicans Ennio Morricone - The Mission Maurice Jarre - Doctor Zhivago Brian May - The Road Warrior (not the same BM from Queen) Bernard Herrmann - The Day the Earth Stood Still Bernard Herrmann - Jason and the Argonauts Goblin - Too many films to list Nino Rota - Too many films to list I'll add more as I find/remember them! Pedro, it's clear that the list would be a neverending list if we wanted to write all the titles of the beautiful soundtracks. But we are here to share some songs with the other members  don't you have some little-known soundtrack that you like and want to share with us?

micky wrote: will need to think about others.. but one immedately jumps to mind.. in fact surprised it hasn't been suggested already movie soundtrack songs...there really is only one...  from my alltime favorite movie that itches all kind of emotional scratches introducing the poll winner in advance.[QUOTE] Lara's Theme vids deleted for space:  Another classic one, absolutely gorgeous.

Edited by Snicolette - July 06 2020 at 13:29

Edited by Raff - July 06 2020 at 13:33

that is probably going to my selection... but a 2nd truly great one comes to mind.

Well Cristi, it's clear that Goblin are not famous as Vangelis.

Raff wrote: This will probably be my final pick: Howard Shore - Foundations of Stone - The Two Towers. The video shows the initial sequence from the movie, though the CD version is somewhat different.

  Vids deleted for space:  Definitely know these soundtracks forwards and probably backwards.  Son and I saw the films first run in theatres, then the extended versions, many many many too many to count times.  These are always in my top 10 of favourite films ever (even with the parts that don't follow the books), although I lump them as one film if doing a list and I love the soundtracks.  Books too, read and re-read numerous times.  

micky wrote: *reaches for Kleenex*

How the hell can you keep tissues when your always "spitting on your monitor"? Do you have a towel for that?

Shadowyzard wrote: So my 666th point comes with this evil theme. A Youtube commenter said: "Haunting, scary, daemonic, diabolic well done", with whom I agree. As I said, I'll not mention my other favourite movie OST's (this one is a free adaptation, from a D&D thing) until everybody nominates their songs. This is just for the self-glorification of my 666th point on PA. Can one of the admins add a "Disciple of Satan" title under my avatar and fix my points at 666? Pleaaaaaseeeeeeee... Oh, plea is for suckers. Instead, I command thee, in the name of Luciferrrrrrrrr... Edit: It is already 667 now, but for a good cause in a sincere R.I.P. mention.

Edited by micky - July 06 2020 at 14:54