Movie soundtracks

[*Bob*]

I dunno.. did they?

[Otta]

The great artists would have teams of artists carving out sculptures for them and stuff like that apparently.

[*Bob*]

I suspect in The Olde Days the 'help' were mostly occupied by the physical requirements of writing out the scores neatly, making corrections and additions - and then making copies - not being given a topline and some chords - and being asked to fill-in the orchestra!

[BrandNewGuy]

Soundtracks:

Zabriskie Point

Withnail And I

Fear And Loathing...

Goodfellas

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Trainspotting has some Barry choons on it.

[red devil]

Death In Venice

Quadrophenia

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

Midnight Express

Once Upon A Time In The West

24 Hour Party People

[Parkdrive]

Across 110th Street

Mister T

Black Ceasar

Gimme Shelter

The Kids are alright

[Otta]

Almost Famous. (Cool film too)

[Kingy]

anything by CAN

[*Bob*]

CAN?

Which movie soundtracks were those?

[uncleglen]

La Vallee soundtrack by Pink Floyd.

[Kingy]

CAN - "She Brings the Rain", originally appearing in the 1969 film Bottom ? Ein gro?er, graublauer Vogel by Thomas Schamoni (brother to directors Ulrich Schamoni and Peter Schamoni), was later featured in Wim Wenders' 1994 film Lisbon Story, the 2000 Oskar Roehler film Die Unber?hrbare and Tran Anh Hung's film Norwegian Wood, released in 2010.

[Kingy]

Can's music has been used in edgier but more accessible movies ever since. Keyboardist Irmin Schmidt went on to produce scores of scores, including Wim Wenders's Alice in the Cities. Wenders used She Brings the Rain in Lisbon Story, as did Oskar Roehler in his 2000 film No Place to Go. And the band reunited to do a track for Wenders's Until the End of the World. There's also a lot of Can in Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar (the book was dedicated to bassist Holger Czukay), and their funky Vitamin C cropped up in Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces. Apparently Can's biggest earner, though, was the track Spoon, which was adopted by hit German TV cop show Das Messer.

The good news is that the best of those "lost" movies featuring music from Can Soundtracks is available for the first time. This is Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End. A teen drama set in a swimming baths at the end of Swinging London, it features the most legendary song on Can Soundtracks: Mother Sky, which plays as the hero trawls through sleazy Soho, steals a cardboard cut-out, makes the acquaintance of a prostitute with a broken leg and buys a hotdog from Burt Kwouk. Mother Sky is quintessential Can: a mighty 15-minute psychedelic wig-out with crazy screeching guitar, minimalist bassline, clockwork drumming and indecipherable Damo Suzuki chanting. It's garage punk with a longer attention span, math rock with a human soul, and prog without the self-indulgence. Nobody could get away with that now, not even Radiohead.

[*Bob*]

Isn't that 'one song that happens to be in a few films' rather than a movie soundtrack?

(I would have liked there to be a film with a CAN soundtrack though!)

[*Bob*]

Oh I see - CAN 'Soundtracks'.

[*Bob*]

As opposed to CAN soundtracks.

[Kingy]

[Huguenot]

What's the difference between a soundtrack and a score?

[red devil]

Apocalypse Now

Magical Mystery Tour

The Draughtsman's Contract

Shaft

North By North West (Fav film, so had to be there...)

[Otta]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> What's the difference between a soundtrack and a

> score?

Soundtrack = A collection of music / songs that were not written for the film. (Pulp Fiction / Forest Gump)

Score = Music written for the film. (Star Wars / Last of the mohicans)

[Jeremy]

I more or less agree with Otta. Although I think a soundtrack can have songs written specifically for the film (e.g Ghostbusters).

I would say that a soundtrack consists of "songs" which may or may not be specially commissioned.

A score is written for the film, and the music could be more accurately described as "pieces" than "songs".

[Kingy]

Dead Man - Neil Young

[Jah Lush]

David Holmes' soundtracks to Out of Sight and Ocean's 11 & 12.

[Jah Lush]

Oh and Isaac Hayes soundtrack to Shaft.

[Otta]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I more or less agree with Otta. Although I think a

> soundtrack can have songs written specifically for

> the film (e.g Ghostbusters).

>

> I would say that a soundtrack consists of "songs"

> which may or may not be specially commissioned.

>

> A score is written for the film, and the music

> could be more accurately described as "pieces"

> than "songs".

Yes, good point.