Interactive Poll XLVI

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.

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

God I love Pedro .

mathman0806 wrote: moshkito wrote: ... 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 Speaking for myself, I love cartoons. I probably learned about classical music and opera through Bugs Bunny. "Kill the wabbit!" ...

I love lots of anime. Death Note may be my very favourite animated TV series (nah, it is my favourite, I have only watched it in Japanese with English subs). I love that show. This could have been my choice (so many I love that I didn't want to mention them all). It has a Tubular Bells-like theme:



And this:



The whole soundtrack and show I love!   

By the way, there is so much great TV of the last 20 years. With streaming there's more variety out there than ever. I like my big-screen, I like having various streaming subscription services, and there is so much to watch just off your Laptop or iPad. And one can get a wide variety from around the world. I don;t think of TV as a lesser art form to feature cinema. And TV/ streaming shows attracts great writers and directors. I think those who would poo poo it are generally very ignorant. Like with film, like with music, like with novels, there is huge variety for different tastes from around the world of different quality and qualities. Like with other media forms, some is more commercial and will have a wider mainstream appeal than others.

P.S. I thought the Netflix movie version of Death Note sucked.

Edited by Logan - July 18 2020 at 13:52

Hi dear friends...

Edited by jamesbaldwin - July 18 2020 at 14:51

micky wrote: you rocked your suggestions MIke.. .good luck chosing one.. but any of the 3 is in play for a top 3 vote

jamesbaldwin wrote: TCat wrote: jamesbaldwin - Was hoping for some Italian themes here.  But these are definately iconic theme songs, two of my favorites back in the day with The Jeffersons and Happy Days.  I took Monk a bit more serious though, even though the humor there was always spot on yet a little more tongue-in-cheek.  I'm a fan of Randy Newman's music and would have to pick that one for the best of the three.   Ok, here I go. My nomination is Randy Newman's theme for Monk: It's a jungle out there, extended version: Thanks to Mike.

Logan wrote: 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

I'll kick off the voting .. was pretty obvious from my comments which 3 rang my bell and though I really liked some others these 3 really stood out

My three votes went:
1) Boardwalk Empire
2) La Piovra
3) Cowboy Bebop