Interactive Poll Ate: Movie Soundtracks

My picks in order of what I liked best.

1. Bernard Herrmann - Dark and creepy with a brilliant arrangement. This is also one of the best movies of the bunch. The best movie? This is Spinal Tap of course. Lord of the Rings is also up there.

2. Ennio Morricone - Upbeat groove propels the song. Are the vocals singing da da da?

3. Nino Rota - Beautiful song, great melody. The classical guitar is weeping.

Runner up's.. Wim Mertens is excellent until the pianist (Wim?) sings. Clint Mansell, catchy hip hop beat.



Edited by Grumpyprogfan - July 09 2020 at 13:38

Grumpyprogfan wrote: Runner up's.. Wim Mertens is excellent until the pianist (Wim?) sings. C

jamesbaldwin wrote: TCat wrote: I want to do another prog interactive poll (that is if no one else was planning to do one soon).  Would anyone be interested in participating? I'm interested. Always songs with less than 50 reviews?

micky wrote: I was going to bring it up in the team thread who was next next week..  I know NIckie and Shadowy wanted to start polls themselves. They've been regulars since early on. UP to you all ... Lorenzo.. but think it best all the regulars get a chance if they want to before those that have done some again and yes.. Mike is and should be first up when we do start with repeat thread starters.

Thank you micky. 

In all honesty, being a poll creator or not doesn't matter for me much. I wrote like being extremely excited about this once, but it was intended to be humour. As long as I'm a part of this wonderful "noveau-tradition" (I made this saying up, haha), being a poll creator would virtually be tantamount to not being so. (Two beer or not two beer - William Shakesbeer)

Anyway,  I leave it to jamesbaldwin.

Edited by Shadowyzard - July 09 2020 at 15:19

Well, thanks man for choosing my nomination. BTW, I was gonna listen to and comment about your nomination already, but it didn't happen. I'll do it after (which is soon) I go to bed and wake up. I may place my votes tomorrow, too. Or the other day.

BrufordFreak wrote: Voted: 1. "Now We Are Free" (Gladiator) (love Lisa Gerrard--love her Whale Rider soundtrack)  2. "Farewell" (Crouching Tiger) (another movie that I always felt was greatly enhanced by its gorgeous music) 3. "Pi" (couldn't help myself--such an amazing soundtrack!)

Didn't know we could vote for our own choice.

Aside from it being a series rule, my feeling is that having already nominated it you've already given it a vote of approval. It's important that those who make the nominations listen to all the nominations (give them your attention), and I think if one allowed voting for your own, then that might encourage not really listening properly or thinking through all of the other choices.

I was thinking before that I would not discount the well-known for me this round, but I have found that discounting those is my inclination. That doesn't mean I can't ever not have heard it, but if I know it really well, that might be another matter. I have seen all but three of the films in the list, so to choose from the unknown would lead to no choice at all.

The ones I know best are the Preisner (that has long been a favourite of mine), the Williams, the one concerning the large buttocks, the Wim Mertens, and Tan Dun; however, on listening to various that had particularly appealed again, I find myself being really pulled to vote for one that I have known for a long time and have in my collection because it sounds as fresh to me as ever. And listening to it again in the context of listening to so many other videos in the thread (my silly write-up before of all the vids and listening took up a very good chunk of the day -- my wife was furious with me, haha)

So here are my three choices:

Tiberiu Olah - "Osanda" (main theme) - Osanda:

New to me methinks and I really loved that. It sounds and feels like one that is a neglectful omission in my own collection.

Bernard Herrmann - "Vertigo Theme" - Vertigo:

Yes, I have heard it in the film as I have watched Vertigo several times (including with a film studies class) but it still sounds fresh and it's not like if you asked me to hum it I would have remembered. By contrast, I could serenade one with all of the lyrics of Big Bottom, Stonehenge (my favourite Tap) and other Tap songs.

Zbigniew Preisner - "Van den Budenmayer..." - La Double Vie de Veronique.

The soundtrack is in my collection, as are the Three Colours ones (Blue, White and Red) ones by Preisner. This a long-time particular favourite of mine and I've seen the film multiple times. I'm a big fan of the composer and the director. Kieslowski I might say changed my perspective, my perception, and helped, along with discovering Zhang Yimou (Red Sorghum, Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern), to push me to pursue film studies. The film studies major plan didn't work out sadly, but that's not their fault. I can't bring myself to discount it due to abundant familiarity. It had been a long time I last listened to it and it felt so fresh still.

Unlike many, I very often in polls do favour the new to the familiar, it has to do with freshness and a sense of excitement. If I see a Prog poll with four choices and I knew three, I will search and listen to the fourth before I would consider voting. If it really interests me/ find it very enjoyable, then there is quite a good chance that it will be get my vote even if the other three have been long-time favourites. New discoveries hype me up and so they do tend to be the over-dog, but sometimes an old to you one, even if you know the music pretty much by heart, as I do with the Preisner, can still surprise you and -re-invigorate you. Re-discovery can be a wonderful thing, and sometimes hearing music in a different context, a different situation, can make the music special in a way that is not identical to how it has been special before.

So just one that is new to me is getting my vote this time. That said, I had heard most of the music in the poll before at some time since I have seen most of these films. In fact, the only one I haven't seen are Gone Girl, Osanda and Our Town (Our Town might have got my vote). I realise it is kind of sad the amount of music and film I've seen. Well, I was pursuing film studies. I've worked, I do work, I've studied, but I have devoted a lot of my life to watching film and listening to music. I have a family but am very much a loner and liked to pursue such things. And when I get into something I tend to go all in. So when I wanted to go into film studies, I made it a point to watch three films ever day for a long time. And I only sleep a few hours a night/day which does open up more time.

top 3 for me

Icarium wrote: I wonder if any prog musicians have lifted motivs from Maurice Jarres scores, they are quite appliable as an interprative part to a prog suite

Renaissance did it on "Can You Understand?".