Morricone is the only good thing about Mission to Mars.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 01:03 (sixteen years ago) link
makes me crazy that i still can't get a decent Danger: Diabolik soundtrack
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 06:41 (twelve years ago) link
I'm having a 'Vergogna Schifosi' moment--playing it with all the windows open, for the birds in the garden to listen to. I forgot how gorgeous this record is, especially on a spring day like this.
― geeta, Thursday, 26 May 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
Mildly bemused that Ennio Morricone got to #1 in the NZ album charts recently via (classical crossover/pop-soprano) Hayley Westenra!
― etc, Friday, 27 May 2011 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
Without really intending it, it's Morricone day at my work desk.
L'Avventuriero (a kind of big sky homage to Vivaldi)Il Prato (one of his most achingly beautiful melodic inventions but with interludes of hyperactive baroque danserye)La Resa Dei Conti aka The Big Gundown (has to be one of the all-time top 5 Morricones. Some of the extended CDs of his scores just have too many reprises of a core of three or four themes to support a straight-through listening, but this one you just can't put down)Death Rides A Horse (Da Uomo A Uomo) (every Amon Duul II fan should hear this main title with its stomping strumming fury and flutes of madness)The Return Of Ringo title song (an astonishing manifestation of Itlish enunciation)
― my other pug is a stillsuit (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 29 November 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
Was listening to these last night - excellent, especially those flutes - but his facility in handling the shriek and then go to melody is mind-boggling.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 December 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
in Death Rides A Horse, right? Yeah I wonder who that player is.
― my other pug is a stillsuit (Jon Lewis), Monday, 3 December 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, tbf they could have been improvised, and Morricone would have known a few people around that scene who could play that range on request.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 December 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
If I had to guess I would say improvised; the core of musicians he had around him in that era came largely from a 60s free music/new music ensemble iirc?
― my other pug is a stillsuit (Jon Lewis), Monday, 3 December 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah he played trumpet Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza with Rzewski (and a couple of other composers that did some ok things). I have the LP somewhere.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 December 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
The 90 secs of Come Una Sentenza. The guitars are spiky, truly menacing.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 10:53 (eleven years ago) link
The whole "Maddalena" soundtrack is staggering. "La Cosa Buffa" also. Harpsichords for days.
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah he has so many great baroque pop-psych tracks. That style tends to lend itself well to compilations, which is convenient.
― my other pug is a stillsuit (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
Back on a Morricone kick at the moment. I think my tastes differ from a lot of other Morricone nuts. For instance, I don't like the loungey stuff he did in the early 70s all that much, I find that wordless sort of scatting that Edda Dell'Orso does on a lot of that material both silly and intensely annoying. Some of the giallo scores can be samey and I don't remember liking the work he did for Argento, tho I haven't listened to it in a while. Couple of good giallo scores are "La Tarantola dal Ventre Nero" and "Mio Caro Assassino" - there are more of course and there ARE good loungey scores! And I don't care what any Morricone snob says, the western scores are generally great.
― Le petit chat est mort (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 12:39 (eleven years ago) link
I mostly agree with you insofar as I prefer my lounge/psych morricone a la carte, in compilation form. His avant/giallo style as well. The best albums qua albums come from his western, crime/suspense, drama, SFF, and romantic modes IMO.
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
Love this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmc4vhaI8-I
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
I was just listening to that! The vocal version of "A Fistful of Dollars" is pure Scott Walker.
― Le petit chat est mort (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 February 2013 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
Death Rides A Horse (Da Uomo A Uomo) (every Amon Duul II fan should hear this main title with its stomping strumming fury and flutes of madness)
And every Residents fan should hear the track "Mistico e severo" from the same soundtrack
― Le petit chat est mort (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 February 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/5013929371309.jpg
http://thequietus.com/articles/11406-ennio-morricone-in-colour-review
― millmeister, Saturday, 16 February 2013 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
Ah I see that album has music from "Anche Se Volessi Lavorare, Che Faccio?", I love that soundtrack. The film itself looks stupid mind you.
― .... the rest look like Dudley Sutton (Tom D.), Friday, 1 March 2013 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
And I don't care what any Morricone snob says, the western scores are generally great.
Biggest problem w/Crime and Dissonance is that it seems to play up to this anti-Western attitude. otoh it is great and tries to keep a distinctive mood which a track like Death Rides A Horse might disrupt (too much of a tune! but those are abrasive flutes too!) but it shouldn't be forgotten the same guy made it.
His tastes for the avant-garde AND corny tunes AND 'lounge' AND his incredible ability to achieve the effects of all three - while somehow keeping it balanced and frankly listenable at all, never mind addictive - is the thing. Would be great to see a comp that encapsulates all tendencies and worked as a record. Bet one of the throaway, cheaper ones do it...
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 3 March 2013 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
Also how good would this guy be as a starting point for a history of 20th century music? Amazed someone somewhere has not attempted this yet.
Everything apart from hip-hop is in there although so many of his tracks have this 'sample' like attitude, not sure it sticks though.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 3 March 2013 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't heard his score for Bulworth, but he may address hip-hop there...
― multi instru mentat list (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 3 March 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
The 'suite' I'm hearing wasn't good enough for the soundtrack album
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 March 2013 06:51 (eleven years ago) link
Robert Hampson has said that Be Here Now from A Gilded Eternity was influenced by the gunfight at the end of The Good, The Bad & the Ugly. Not sure if that's more to do with Leone or whatever s/trk is on that scene.
― Stevolende, Monday, 4 March 2013 07:09 (eleven years ago) link
Still overdosing on Morricone at the moment. Couple of recent finds are "Oceano" and "Trel Nel Mille", two scores that fit together somehow because they're sort of minimalist with a lot of acoustic instruments and folk elements but like folk music from some unknown country (I love that sort of thing).
― .... the rest look like Dudley Sutton (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 11:56 (eleven years ago) link
Greatly enjoyed Nostromo yesterday, a later Morricone gem.
― multi instru mentat list (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't know Morricone did sound collage/musique concrete-ish stuff too. Awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2b-H0wVpnc
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 13 February 2015 00:43 (nine years ago) link
He did just about everything. So many incredible surprises and innovations tucked away in his scores. I've been starting to think he is the most encyclopedic composer. (Been listening to shot tons of morricone the last couple weeks as it happens)
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Friday, 13 February 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link
Xposts lol I have now heard Oceano myself it is amaaazing avant exotica
He gave an interview in one of the papers as he stopped over to do one of his classical gigs. A bit sad really.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 February 2015 12:23 (nine years ago) link
"Sacco and Vanzetti" is musically so good but, sweet Jesus, Joan Baez, talk about nails down a blackboard, her voice is possibly my least favourite sound in the history of music.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 13:16 (three years ago) link
There should be threads no one should be allowed to revive for fear of scaring the shit out of everyone.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 13:28 (three years ago) link
Oops, yes, should have realized!
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link
One time someone suggested that before bumping the Old Dogs thread one should bump the Note: Old Dogs Are OK thread
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 00:51 (three years ago) link
oh shit i was so scared that morricone had died i peed my pants haha false alarm sheesh zomg
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link