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TheUlyssesian 2,477 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 I find your post confusing. Can you list the 22 he picked followed by the 25 that you picked? I am not able to follow who picked what. Taikomochi and Jurassic Shark 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewya 360 Posted September 13, 2018 Author Share Posted September 13, 2018 55 minutes ago, TheUlyssesian said: I find your post confusing. Can you list the 22 he picked followed by the 25 that you picked? I am not able to follow who picked what. I decided to just post just once instead of posting two lists since I agreed with him so much. Sorry, it was 23 tracks that he picked actually, I forgot that he picked two Morricone tracks. Sure, here are all of the top 23 tracks he picked for his CD (my list is very similiar except that I excluded the first three tracks, the fact that I added three more tracks to make it a top 25 and also limit myself to one track per composer): Ferdinand from Pierrot le Fou composed by Antoine Duhamel Today It's You from A Man and a Woman composed by Francis Lai Tema di Aziza from Arabian Nights composed by Ennio Morricone I Fill This Room With the Echo of Many Voices from Blue composed by Simon Fisher Turner Belle Reve from A Streetcar Named Desire composed by Alex North - This is his favourite track of all time, and I agree with him Jose Torres from Jose Torres composed by Toru Takemitsu - And this was his second favourite track of all time, and I also agreed with him on that Prelude from 49th Parallel composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams Les Ombres from Napoleon composed by Arthur Honegger Beauty and Avenant from Beauty and the Beast composed by Georges Auric East of Eden Main Title from East of Eden composed by Leonard Rosenman Olmo E Alfredo from 1900 composed by Ennio Morricone Train from Stalker composed by Eduard Artemyev American Beauty from American Beauty composed by Thomas Newman Maybe You're My Puppet from Solaris composed by Cliff Martinez Rochester from Jane Eyre composed by Bernard Herrmann Gelsomina from La Strada composed by Nino Rota Camille from Contempt composed by Georges Delerue Journal De Bord from Les Aventuriers composed by François de Roubaix Grey Waltz from Life Dances On composed by Maurice Jaubert Overture from The Alamo composed by Dimitri Tiomkin A Boat in the Fog from King Kong composed by Max Steiner Kings Row Main Title from Kings Row composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold The Best Years of Our Lives Main Title from The Best Years of Our Lives composed by Hugo Friedhofer 20 out of his 23 picks are on my own top 25 since I agreed with him so much. I excluded the first three tracks that he selected for his CD, and added the Eno, Williams, Goldsmith, Shostakovich and Prokofiev to make it a top 25. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 13, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted September 13, 2018 So he picks a lot of obscure shit no-one's heard. Taikomochi, Bilbo, gkgyver and 1 other 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 30 minutes ago, Cherry Pie That'll Kill Ya said: So he picks a lot of obscure shit no-one's heard. 4 hours ago, Lewya said: 20 out of his 23 picks are on my own top 25 since I agreed with him so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 42 minutes ago, Cherry Pie That'll Kill Ya said: So he picks a lot of obscure shit no-one's heard. With all the old shit you watch, you probably should know half of them, at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Would love that CD but it's 80 bucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,492 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 2 hours ago, Cherry Pie That'll Kill Ya said: So he picks a lot of obscure shit no-one's heard. Obscure? I've heard at least 90% of Sakamoto's selections. And great selections they are too! Cool shout-out to PIERROT LE FOU, my favourite Godard (even though Godard's tinkering with Duhamel's material left the composer baffled). I'm surprised he picked a cue from Artemiev's STALKER rather than SOLARIS (opting to include the Martinez SOLARIS instead), since he's such a big fan of Artemiev's work on Tarkovsky's space sci fi. But maybe it's first and foremost Artemiev's Bach variations he's fond of. He goes into this in some detail in the brilliant documentary CODA, which everyone should see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Tracklisting1 Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra by Adriano / Arthur Honegger: Napoléon (Original Version) - Les Ombres映画『ナポレオン』 (オリジナル・ヴァージョン)より - レゾンブル2 BBC Symphony Orchestra by Pierre Boulez / Arnold Schönberg: Accompaniment to A Cinematographic Scene, Op.34映画の一場面の伴奏音楽 作品343 Moscow Symphony Orchestra by William Stromberg / Max Steiner: King Kong - A Boat in the Fog映画『キング・コング』より - ア・ボート・イン・ザ・フォグ4 Maurice Jaubert / Un Carnet de Bal - Valse Grise映画『舞踏会の手帖』より - 灰色のワルツ5 RTE Concert Orchestra by Andrew Penny / Ralph Vaughan Williams: 49Th Parallel - Prelude映画『潜水艦轟沈す』より - プレリュード6 Warner Bros. Studio Orchestra by Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Kings Row - Main Title映画『嵐の青春』より - メイン・タイトル7 Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra by Adriano / Bernard Herrmann: Jane Eyre - Rochester映画『ジェーン・エア』より - ロチェスター8 Moscow Symphony Orchestra by Adriano / Georges Auric: La Belle et La Bête (Beauty and the Beast) - La Belle et Avenant (Beauty and Avenant)映画『美女と野獣』より - ビューティ・アンド・アヴナント9 London Philharmonic Orchestra by Franco Collura / Hugo Friedhofer: The Best Years of Our Lives - Main Title映画『我等の生涯の最良の年』より - メイン・タイトル10 London Symphony Orchestra by Eric Stern / Alex North: A Streetcar Named Desire - Belle Reve映画『欲望という名の電車』より - 美しき夢11 Carlo Savina (conductor) / Nino Rota: La Strada - Gelsomina映画『道』より - ジェルソミーナ12 London Sinfonietta by John Adams / Leonard Rosenman: East of Eden - Main Title映画『エデンの東』より - メイン・タイトル13 武満徹 / José Torres - José Torres映画『ホゼー・トレス』より - ホゼー・トレス14 Dimitri Tiomkin / The Alamo - Overture映画『アラモ』より - オーバーチュア(序曲)15 Georges Delerue / Le Mépris - Camille映画『軽蔑』より - カミーユ16 Antoine Duhamel / Pierrot le Fou - Ferdinand映画『気狂いピエロ』より - フェルディナン17 Francis Lai, Pierre Barouh, Baden Powell & Nicole Croisille / Francis Lai: Un Homme et Une Femme - Aujourd'hui C'est Toi映画『男と女』より - 今日、あなたが18 François de Roubaix / Les Aventuriers - Journal de Bord映画『冒険者たち』より - 航海日誌19 Ennio Morricone / Il Fiore delle Mille e Una Notte - Tema di Aziza映画『アラビアンナイト』より - テーマ・ディ・アジーザ20 Ennio Morricone / Novecento - Olmo e Alfredo映画『1900年』より - オルモとアルフレード21 Eduard Artemiev / Stalker - Train映画『ストーカー』より - トレイン22 Simon Fisher Turner / Blue - I Fill This Room with the Echo of Many Voices映画『ブルー』より - アイ・フィル・ディス・ルーム・ウィズ・ジ・エコー・オブ・メニー・ヴォイセス23 Thomas Newman / American Beauty - American Beauty映画『アメリカン・ビューティー』より - アメリカン・ビューティー24 Cliff Martinez / Solaris - Maybe You'Re My Puppet映画『ソラリス』より - メイビー・ユア・マイ・パペット I did just not find the Soundtrack for blue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locrius 97 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Your playlist is missing KINGS ROW. EDIT: I guess it's there, but not available to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewya 360 Posted September 14, 2018 Author Share Posted September 14, 2018 21 hours ago, Alexcremers said: Would love that CD but it's 80 bucks. Same! I am a pretty big fan of Sakamoto, and his async album was my favourite album last year. Anyway, this thing is way too expensive, and especially since I already owned most of the music before I discovered his list. I decided to just grab some of the tracks that he mentioned which I didn't have before and through someone I managed to access parts of the booklet that comes with the CD to read some of the comments on all the various tracks. I can't improve much on his list and think it is exceptional, I agree with the vast majority of it. I think only two of the tracks were previously unfamiliar for me, I hadn't heard the Lai track, but I agree that it is great, even if it doesn't make my personal top 25. Also the François de Roubaix track was news to me, another great track, maybe Roubaix at his best. Bespin - your Spotify list is not entirely correct, you have picked some of the wrong versions of the tracks he selected and not all of it is on Spotify. The specific Takemitsu track he selected for the CD is not the entire 5 minute suite thing, it is the 1 minute something track which I uploaded to YouTube above. I uploaded the track from Blue too, which I included among my top 5 tracks of all time. It is hard to think of more intimate film music, it is hard to think of ambient music done better than it in film, the only possible exception I can think of is Eno's For All Mankind, which inhabits a similiar kind of soundscape as this, but both are different. It is also hard to think of other film music were spoken word is used on this level. I accidentally deleted the booklet that comes with the CD that I partly got access to, but in it Sakamoto and a few critics/professors (I can't remember exactly) discuss all his picks. His picks are not discussed in great detail, but more like brief thoughts on his picks. It might be of interest to some of you reading this, here is one or two of the things I remember reading in it: Steiner in his film music was apparently superior to Korngold according to Sakamoto. He also said that Gone with the Wind was of high quality too, even if he prefered the moody track from King Kong - probably Steiner's best. He also said something about that Pierrot le Fou didn't impress him first, the music that is, but it is one of his favourite films and he seems to have grown to love the music too, despite his initial impression. The Tiomkin from The Alamo he included for selfish reasons, I think he said something that it was one of the first film scores he remembered and that he loved. At a later date, Sakamoto selected some of the best music movies - some of the movies that according to him have the best music, here is the list of the movies he selected for some events: A Streetcar Named Desire East of Eden Blue The Garden King Kong Jose Torres & Jose Torres part 2 Kwaidan Beauty and the Beast Solaris (the Tarkovsky film) Stalker Nostalghia The Sacrifice India Song Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert Elevator to the Gallows Pierrot le Fou Hiroshima Mon Amour The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Histoire(s) du cinéma Ugetsu Citizen Kane Ivan the Terrible The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari I wish more top film composers selected their favourite film music like this, even if I probably would disagree a whole lot with say what Zimmer, Giacchino etc might have selected. Sakamoto strikes me as the person with the best taste in music, not just going by his film music list, but also the fairly recent restaurant playlist which he made, this one: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2YY3rAwm9tldNhlBmuMqgY I will say that I don't love everything he included here, but at least it is an interesting list which is to me pretty rare. Most of it was new to me too - I made a few wonderful discoveries thanks to his restaurant playlist. I love this track for instance: Gotta love that minimalist influence - new-age at its best. So first North is the most underrated film composer of all time, followed by Rosenman and third would probably be Simon Fisher Turner as the third most underrated film composer of all time. I am not very familar with Fisher Turner, even if I have always loved Blue since I saw it years ago. I sampled The Garden on Spotify after I saw Sakamoto including it among his best music movies, but unlike Blue, I don't think I will love this one, but I will give it a try at a later date I suppose. A24 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,492 Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 His film list is good too. He's got impeccable taste! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 Anyway, that's a great list for more unknow (to me) things. Talking about the "Big Score" period, I prefer this BBC playlist. It ends better!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,513 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 I'm not sure that I trust anyone whose greatest contribution to Western culture, is the theme music to Top Of The Pops. Demondm810 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bilbo 3,709 Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 On 9/22/2018 at 3:01 PM, Richard said: I'm not sure that I trust anyone whose greatest contribution to Western culture, is the theme music to Top Of The Pops. Which theme was that? They changed it over the years and I can only think of Whole Lotta Love and Yellow Pearl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,513 Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 It was YELLOW PEARL. Oh, I also like his score for HAPPY NEW YEAR MR. CHRISTMAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 54 minutes ago, Richard said: It was YELLOW PEARL. Oh, I also like his score for HAPPY NEW YEAR MR. CHRISTMAS. Didnt Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy write that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,513 Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 Ok, I'll give you that one. File under "wtf?" I still like HAPPY NEW YEAR MR. CHRISTMAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 1 hour ago, Richard said: I still like HAPPY NEW YEAR MR. CHRISTMAS. Is this an inside joke? Why the hell do you keep calling the movie that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,513 Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 7 hours ago, Nick Parker said: Is this an inside joke? Why the hell do you keep calling the movie that? You need to watch a TV show called BRIAN PERN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 Can somebody tell me what version (Blu-ray? Maybe Criterion?) is used for The Last Emperor footage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,645 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Not a single Williams piece, but Thomas Newman. Alrighty. Worthless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Quote Always Returning from For All Mankind composed by Brian Eno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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