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Re: Soundtracks you love
« Reply #30 on: January 26, 2007, 09:31:48 pm »
I love James Horner! One of my favorites.
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Re: Soundtracks you love
« Reply #31 on: January 26, 2007, 09:55:16 pm »
"The Color Purple"

Did anyone mention it yet? I love the music from that movie!  :)
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Re: Soundtracks you love
« Reply #32 on: January 26, 2007, 10:32:37 pm »
My favourite soundtrack album -
and I had this on vinyl way back in the 1970s
 is Bob Dylan's  music for Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
    (Dylan acted in the movie, too.)

The soundtrack that gave us the cllassic song
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door"

Lots of guitars and Bob sounds OK too.
Now I have the CD.

I saw Breaking Away listed as a soundtrack, but I've never heard it.
Must be perfect with all that "Italian" music.
Better look that one up.

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Shawshank Redemption and The Motorcycle Diaries too.



I was listening to "Knockin on Heaven's Door" on the way home tonite. It belongs right up there with "Streets of Laredo (Cowboy's Lament)" and "He was a Friend of Mine."
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Re: Soundtracks you love
« Reply #33 on: February 10, 2007, 02:42:52 pm »
A recommendation for some romantic Valentine music:

Yo-Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone, a collection of film scores from Cinema Paradiso, The Mission, Once Upon a Time in America, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The Untouchables and more.

I've been listening to it for several days and am all mellowed out and ready for Valentine's Day!

February is also Morricone month in New York with showings of these films, and (the only thing I'll miss seeing on Feb 25) he'll receive an honorary Oscar.

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Re: Soundtracks you love
« Reply #34 on: February 11, 2007, 01:03:51 pm »
A recommendation for some romantic Valentine music:

Yo-Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone, a collection of film scores from Cinema Paradiso, The Mission, Once Upon a Time in America, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The Untouchables and more.

I've been listening to it for several days and am all mellowed out and ready for Valentine's Day!

February is also Morricone month in New York with showings of these films, and (the only thing I'll miss seeing on Feb 25) he'll receive an honorary Oscar.


Good to see that good old Ennio still goes strong and this month will be "his" American month. He's been one of the most prolific soundtrack composers, and only now the Academy "remembers" to award him, after five nominations that went nowhere...
I'm just so glad because I love his music, almost all of it, and it's very difficult for me to select a specific soundtrack, but agree with you Lee, his romantic and mystic themes are probably the best.
I remember when I was at high school one of my schoolmates - Federica; I remember I had a remarkable crush on her! - whose mother was a music teacher, had known Ennio Morricone as they went to the same school in Rome. It's such a small world...   
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Re: Soundtracks you love
« Reply #35 on: February 11, 2007, 01:47:53 pm »
Why am I not surprised that you are a fan of Ennio Morricone, luigi? There is a picture of him on the CD, he looks like an accountant, LOL!

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Re: Soundtracks you love
« Reply #36 on: February 11, 2007, 04:19:32 pm »
Why am I not surprised that you are a fan of Ennio Morricone, luigi? There is a picture of him on the CD, he looks like an accountant, LOL!


My goodness Lee, yes Ennio Morricone may look like an accountant, but his music certainly doesn't sound as if it was written by one. Now I'll go back counting my beans...LMAO
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Re: Soundtracks you love
« Reply #37 on: February 28, 2007, 04:48:24 pm »
I would like to add:
music and score from ER by James Newton Howard, It's so beautiful
Philadelphia esp. the track Mamma Morta by Maria Callas
also some very moving tracks on Miss Saigon [ saw it on Broadway NY]

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Re: Soundtracks you love
« Reply #38 on: February 28, 2007, 04:50:45 pm »
I would like to add:
music and score from ER by James Newton Howard, It's so beautiful
Philadelphia esp. the track Mamma Morta by Maria Callas
also some very moving tracks on Miss Saigon [ saw it on Broadway NY]

Great choices Juliette! I love "Miss Saigon" too.  :)
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Re: Soundtracks you love
« Reply #39 on: February 28, 2007, 05:07:41 pm »
A few soundtracks I've bought over the years:

Lost Highway
The Fifth Element
Return To Paradise
Existenz
Muholland Drive
Red Planet
Bandits
Moulin Rouge 1 & 2

a few others, and of course BBM