Rant!! WAS New Soundtracks
Jim Kerr (jkerr@pharoshealth.com)
Wed, 5 Aug 1998 10:08:58 -0400
I think I had a rant about this before.
I find movie soundtracks to be so disappointing on the whole these days.
Think of movies like Taxi Driver - original score by Elmer Bernstein the
main title sequence with DeNiro driving thru 3 am nyc streets. bleak and
haunting. wonderful cinema. In fact Scorcese has always been good with
using both original score and oldies. I rate him massive over Tarantino
in this respect - check the soundtrack for Mean Streets where the golden
oldies float thru the streets of Little Italy. Tarantinos hip picks
sometimes seem to be fighting with the fashionable dialogue and cult
stars to score "cool" points.
Now we just get intrusive snippets of clubby sounds. Hats off to Out of
Sight incidentally where David Holmes music seemed to go back to an old
school score but with a nice 90s twist.
Personally I hate that AJ/latin jazz/trip hop/dnb has become so much
rubbish movie and advertising fodder. Isnt this what Puff Daddy ws
invented for?!
As for this soundtrack for The Avengers it sounds like it was scored by
someone who last went out in 1993.
I say "yes" to original voices and music: the best soundtrack recently
to Gary Oldmans Nil By Mouth. I posted some time ago re some excellent
downtempo cuts on this by someone called Francis Ashman. some hard work
went into this I would think because I cannot find anything by her. Eric
Clapton also contributed some music to this movie - Oldman showed him
some rushes and he was so into it he wanted to be involved. Well
whatever you may think of Clapton I say respect to originality.
A big "no" to "I heard this awesome track down at the Coked Out of My
Head club on Sunset lets put it in Godzilla 3 the kids in Wichita are
starting to get drip-fed electronica by our mates over at MTV..."
what do yas think?
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> From: Erik Gaderlund [SMTP:erikg@macconnect.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 5:33 AM
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> Subject: New Soundtracks
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