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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 02/08/2007 : 01:12:18 AM
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Well, just for the record I really liked the first three Alan Parsons Project albums, but I thought they really dropped off quickly after that (although On Air was pretty good, it came much later.) And I think Andrew Powell (that's his name, right?? Going by memory) is an excellent composer and arranger. I just find the Ladyhawke music to be a little to generic and poppy and bland; it sort of typifies what I wasn't liking about that mid period APP music. I wouldn't put anyone down for digging it but it really rubs me the wrong way!
BTW we've had a whole thread dealing with cheesy synth scores and I've just realized no one has yet brought up the iconic Harold Faltermeyer (sp?) and his Beverly Hills Cop score.
"Meeting you makes me want to be a real noodle cook"
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Cannon Fodder
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Australia
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Posted - 02/09/2007 : 04:23:34 AM
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1126 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2007 : 10:43:35 AM
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Ah, I looked right at it and still missed it...
"Meeting you makes me want to be a real noodle cook"
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Ericb
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 02/09/2007 : 11:02:11 AM
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Some of the music in Gallipoliwas synthesizer based. Who the hell thought synthesizers would be appropriate for a World War One film? Stupid 80s.
"I reserve the right to look as well as be boring." - Robert Fripp |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 02/09/2007 : 11:54:01 AM
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| For the record, I thought the synth score for Terminator was ideal. Beverly Hills Cop did indeed have a Harold Faltemeyer (sp?) synth score, but that was balanced out by a bouncy soundtrack that included the Pointer Sisters, Glenn Frey, and the like. |
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RossM
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
427 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2007 : 4:56:31 PM
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In the movie about Beethoven called something like Imortal Beloved we see Beethoven playing a forte piano but we hear a concer grand, the kind of piano that wasn't invented until 70 years later. I know that this is nit picking but why are movie makers such cowards that they cannot get these details right. It detracts from everything.
One soundtrack that gets everything just right is "Restoration" with Robert Downey Jr. The music is almost all new but it is all composed in the style of the time (inspired by Henry Purcell) and played in the style of the time. Here it is the content of the movie that is out of time, especially the costumes. But that is all deliberate and done in fun.
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1126 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2007 : 6:30:32 PM
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I catch that all the time. It could of course be that no one involved with the production knew that a piano of that era sounded totally different from a modern one but more likely they were afraid that the audience would not understand why the piano sounded so "thin". It probably ties into the inevitable soundtrack album as well, where they will want to use brand new, well recorded realizations. Same thing with Amadeus and pretty much any classical music film. (Although IIRC Amadeus may have got the piano right in a scene where he is playing it at a party- it's been a while since I've seen it. The orchestras sound very modern though and that was Neville Mariner!)
Related is the "Eddie and the Cruisers Syndrome" where rock music of any era under even the worst performance conditions sounds like it was recorded in a state of the art modern studio. BTW in any movie I can think of they will usually get the vintage of guitars right but they NEVER get the drums right- they always have guys in the 50's and 60's playing kits with modern hardware!
"Meeting you makes me want to be a real noodle cook"
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Edited by - Sardu on 02/09/2007 6:33:38 PM |
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RossM
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
427 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2007 : 11:10:07 PM
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Chariots of Fire is set in 1924 but has a wholey modern score played on electronic instruments. Its strange but it works in that movie. Usually though a period piece should have period style music both on the score and within the story. A 1950s band should not be playign music that a 1950s audience would never and could never have listened to.
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 02/10/2007 : 03:10:47 AM
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Jeez, you want to talk musical anachronisms? How about classical music during the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey? They didn't have classical music back in the stone age. They didn't even have instruments.
They did, however, have the Way-Outs. |
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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 02/10/2007 : 11:40:04 AM
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The Last Temptation of Christ featured music by Peter Gabriel. The final credit music wasn't period; Gabriel decided to go ahead and rock out. And the score was the best thing about the film, by far.
Actually, Peter Gabriel did the same thing with Birdy and Rabbit-Proof Fence (both period movies, and his scores were more modern; for Birdy, much of the score was instrumental versions of some of Gabriels earlier songs). The scores worked pretty well for those movies.
Quest for Fire had a very lush and romantic score, and the film featured early Cro-Magnon people who didn't use instruments. |
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