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Fun music, and come on Jayne Mansfield.
Fun music, and come on Jayne Mansfield.
Your favourite music movie?
Just for fun.
Three movies spring to mind for myself when I think of what moves me here.
In no particular order.
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
So camp it is brilliant!
Tim Curry slays it!
Just way too much to begin to mention.
I can still get a blast from it now.
Let's do the Time warp again!
The Blues Brothers.
Ah, Jake and Ellwood.
Just for the record this was the second VHS tape I ever bought( first was Enter the Dragon)
Just so right....
Rock of Ages.
Now before you all run off gagging, it most certainly was not for Cruises wooden performance.
Catherine Zeta Jones was notable though.
No it was for the pair who stole the show.
Alec Baldwin and Russel Brandt.
Simply perfect for the movie.
Your thoughts on these and your nominations?
Three movies spring to mind for myself when I think of what moves me here.
In no particular order.
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
So camp it is brilliant!
Tim Curry slays it!
Just way too much to begin to mention.
I can still get a blast from it now.
Let's do the Time warp again!
The Blues Brothers.
Ah, Jake and Ellwood.
Just for the record this was the second VHS tape I ever bought( first was Enter the Dragon)
Just so right....
Rock of Ages.
Now before you all run off gagging, it most certainly was not for Cruises wooden performance.
Catherine Zeta Jones was notable though.
No it was for the pair who stole the show.
Alec Baldwin and Russel Brandt.
Simply perfect for the movie.
Your thoughts on these and your nominations?
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So how about
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
with an incredible line up of stars of the time but principally for the debut of "Singin' in the Rain" by Cliff Edwards. Cliff Edwards, or Ukulele Ike as he was known at the time went on to be both the voice of Jiminy Cricket and the singer of "When you wish upon a Star". It's quite a movie. |
I absolutely agree with Cabin in the Sky and Wizard of Oz. I do like many Morricone film scores as well. The music of Braveheart just don't seem as memorable but is a good film scores as well. Eraserhead and Good Night and Good Luck used already published music and the former had unique sounds, no Bernard Herrmann level composition for sure. Most younger people have not heard or seen the classic film scores of the 1930s to 1980s. I have among my large music collection, 400+ film soundtracks, mostly LPs. I have eliminated many more because I can sit through them as listening music only (I have about 300 more that I need to remove from my home). |
Cabin in the Sky. 1943 with Ethyl Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong and Busby Berkeley. Songs by Yip Harburg. Yip Harburg deserves special mention. He wrote all the songs for The Wizard of Oz including the number one movie musical song of all time, Over the Rainbow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yip_Harburg On another front, I can't believe nobody has mentioned 42nd Street. |
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Finally! Someone who knows something about film music. The overwhelming majority of responses to this thread sadly prove the movie executives correct in their move from professional movie composers to pop music. Alexander Nevsky is one of the best, absolutely entrancing without the film at all, provides complete accompaniment to the story. West Side Story doesn’t count as it began as a broadway musical, just like Porgy and Bess, another fantastic score but not composed specifically for film. |
Alexander Nevsky is one of the best, absolutely entrancing without the film at all, provides complete accompaniment to the story. West Side Story doesn’t count as it began as a broadway musical, just like Porgy and Bess, another fantastic score but not composed specifically for film. Mary Poppins was composed specifically for film (not at the level of Nevsky, just an example). I would pick Bernard Herrmann as the number one composer of film score music for the depth and breath of his compositions. My favorite composers of film scores include both Bernsteins, Steiner, Waxman, Korngold, Tiomkin, Goldsmith, Mancini, Rosza, Newman to name those who wrote many great scores. Even the little known Erich Zeisl wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice, a great score. How about Victor Young for the Wizard of Oz? Many great songs and score in that one. I forgot to mention all original movie scores and songs Gershwin wrote in Shall We Dance and Damsel in Distress (not broadway musicals). All those great Disney movie original scores and songs. 10 best is tough to pick, 200 best is more like it (Rocky Horror Picture show-also a musical not written for film). |
those were movies, these are Music DVDs. I have many, these are the ones I remember the sound being very good Allison Krauss + Union Station, Live (2 discs) Appalachian Journey, Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, several others Bob Dylan, MTV Unplugged, Sony Studios Nov. 1994 Capercallie Collection (1990-1996) Cesaria Evora, Portugese, West African Fairport Convention, Cropready (I think it was good sound, not really sure) ***Festival In the Desert (Mali, Africa, Toureg Annual Gathering)*** ***Nora Jones, Handsome Band, Nashville, TN, Live 2004*** Paul Simon, Graceland, African Concert ***Piano Blues*** Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese presents Queen, various Sade, various ***Sessions at West 54th (CBS/Sony Studio)*** ***Sophie Milman, Live in Montreal*** oh yeah! Standing in the Shadows of Motown, 2 discs, for the story mostly U2, Rattle and Hum |
others have mentioned some good ones, here are a few I enjoy. Apocalypse Now, REDUX Version (incredibly better movie than chopped up original) Black Hawk Down, powerful sound Bond movies Bourne movies Chicago Crank, powerful sound *****Domino**** Incredible Soundtrack throughout, Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, wow! Dreamgirls High Fidelity, the other John Cusack movie Jurasic Park, the reason for the subwoofer *****Metropolis, Giorgio Moroder Special Edition*****, amazing Moulin Rouge Pump up the Volume, Christian Slater Pulp Fiction ******Schlinder's List**** |
Let's not forget what the Library of Congress has designated one of the best Music & dance films ever - All That Jazz. From Wikipedia > "Upon release in 1979, director Stanley Kubrick, who is mentioned in the movie, reportedly called it "[the] best film I think I have ever seen". In 2001, All That Jazz was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. It was also preserved by the Academy Film Archive in the same year. In 2006, the film was ranked #14 by the American Film Institute on its list of the Greatest Movie Musicals. The film would be the last musical nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture until Disney's (animated) Beauty and the Beast in 1991, and was the last live-action musical to compete in the category until Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! was nominated over twenty years later" Who am I to argue with Stanley Kubrick? The 13 film musicals rated above it by AFI were certainly all less Avante Garde & much stodgier. Bob Fosse was quite literally the American Shakespeare of Dance & related music. If you haven't seen it you really have no idea whatsoever what you're missing (on as big a screen as possible). The transcendental ending actually rivals the ending of 2001 A Space Odyssey, in its way - hence (in part) Kubrick's praise. Just like 2001, no one's ever, even tried to copy it. It's that fabulously good & original. |
Speaking of Spinal Tap how about A Mighty Wind? See the movie on your iPad! https://youtu.be/F7hMbnNf404 |
2 by Alfred Hitchcock, with scores written by the great Bernard Hermann: VERTIGO & PSYCHO (it doesn't hurt that these are among the very best films I ever saw). More recently, 2 sci-fi films w/astounding, subtle, bleeding-edge soundtracks: ARRIVAL & UNDER THE SKIN. The latter soundtrack is quite unsettling & menacing, as is the film itself. |
I’m surprised that no one mentioned Amadeus. I guess that there are very few classical music fans in audiogon. @rhg88 Actually "Amadeus" was mentioned on 7-3-2019 by both 77Jovian and Skipskip. I had been thinking of mentioning it also, in my earlier post, but I chose to limit my response to a single favorite. In any event, it was certainly a marvelous film. Regarding classical music, if you haven't seen it check out this thread: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/classical-music-for-aficionados Best regards, -- Al |
I’m surprised that no one mentioned Amadeus. I guess that there are very few classical music fans in audiogon. Amadeus won 11 Oscars in 1985 including best picture, best director and best sound mixing. It did not win best sound track because, as Maurice Jarre stated when he received the award for scoring Passage to India, was fortunate that Mozart did not qualify for the award. |
