Movie Soundtracks We Enjoy

[Pauli]

Tune: Rocky Mountains
Movie: The Shining

 

[Herbert]

Not exactly entertaining, but it left a lasting impression on me as a child: although VHS and Betamax were just coming onto the scene, I loved recording the audio from TV programmes on my portable cassette recorder and imagining the images as I listened. That proved helpful later on in my career as an editor and filmmaker. I remember a very short clip from *Space:1999* that left a lasting impression on me. It foreshadowed Arvo Pärt’s *Alina*, so to speak, and has stayed with me ever since...
I always thought it was a classical piano piece, but it was actually taken from a music archive. These are pieces of music that were recorded previously with no connection to the film or series in question and are used for a small fee. Six (!) composers are credited for these six minutes in which ‘my’ short piano piece appears. It begins at 4:48:

The soundtrack to *Space:1999* is, to put it mildly, mediocre; it already sounded dated as early as 1976. The Italian co-producers commissioned Ennio Morricone to compose a new soundtrack for the Italian version, whilst the German broadcaster ZDF used Jean-Michel Jarre’s *Oxygène* for the opening credits. Apart from the set and costume designs, which depict everyday life on the lunar base, the series hasn’t aged well either. The aliens, in particular, all look rather ridiculous. Not to mention the fact that, as was usually the case with science fiction on TV, a Babelfish was never needed.

 

[Sal1950]

Not exactly entertaining, but it left a lasting impression on me as a child:

I still find it amazing and funny how far the folks in the 1970s thought we would have come by 1999.
Sad the US space program went to crap for so many years.

 

[Herbert]

There are enough problems to be solved on earth. And satellites and space probes can‘t get cancer.

 

[Sal1950]

There are enough problems to be solved on earth. And satellites and space probes can‘t get cancer.

Your choice, I'm more than pleased to see a portion of my taxes spent on a space program..

 

[Sal1950]

Not exactly entertaining, but it left a lasting impression on me as a child: although VHS and Betamax were just coming onto the scene, I loved recording the audio from TV programmes on my portable cassette recorder and imagining the images as I listened.

I've watched a few episodes now, not bad at all, specially for a TV series done in 1975-77. They starred a couple of American actors hoping a US network might pick it up. To watch it, you'd never guess it was a UK production. Too bad it never happened, might have been an early Next Generation with a little more money.

 

[Bob from Florida]

I've watched a few episodes now, not bad at all, specially for a TV series done in 1975-77. They starred a couple of American actors hoping a US network might pick it up. To watch it, you'd never guess it was a UK production. Too bad it never happened, might have been an early Next Generation with a little more money.

My American Literature teacher in High School was a fan of Space 1999. She had us write reports on more than one episode.

 

[Sal1950]

My American Literature teacher in High School was a fan of Space 1999. She had us write reports on more than one episode.

Was it broadcast very widely in the US?
I had never heard of it till this thread.

 

[Bob from Florida]

Was it broadcast very widely in the US?
I had never heard of it till this thread.

I think it was on NBC in 1976. Being Star Trek fans, we pretty much took whatever sci-fi we could get. The corniest one I can remember was another BBC production - UFO.

 

[Sal1950]

I think it was on NBC in 1976. Being Star Trek fans, we pretty much took whatever sci-fi we could get.

Same big sci-fi fan here, but the 70 & 80s+ were a few decades I lost to the bars and the party.
Rarely came home except to sleep then Schitt, Shower, and-Shave. LOL
I missed a lot back then.

 

[Herbert]

Same big sci-fi fan here, but the 70 & 80s+ were a few decades I lost to the bars and the party.
Rarely came home except to sleep then Schitt, Shower, and-Shave. LOL
I missed a lot back then.

In the eighties, West-German TV did show Science Fiction Movies late Saturday evening, most of them B-Movies.Before every movie they played a trailer using Donna Summers I feel love.

 

[J. Lohmann]

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[Herbert]

Unfortunately, neither the documentary nor the soundtrack had been re - released after 1973:

AFAIK the documentary was never released in West Germany, but the soundtrack sold well in the early eighties as a „Nice Price“ record.

 

[J. Lohmann]

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[J. Lohmann]

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[EERecordist]

Avalon (2001) is a dystopian science fiction film in which the main character jacks into an illegal war game.

The director is Mamoru Oshii, famous for Angel's Egg and Ghost in the Shell.

The score is by Kenji Kawai, working with the director on the above films, Ringu, and with many other movie and TV credits.

There are a lot of battle scenes not my interest. The score is lush with the Warsaw Symphony and Choir.

Excerpt:

Live performance of one of the pieces:

Soundtrack:

 

[analogonly]

The Magnificent Seven 1960 Elmer Bernstein.
Casino Royale 1967 Burt Bacharach, especially Dusty Springfield "The Look of Love".

 

[Osvaldo de Garay]

When child, I enjoyed watching The Three Stooges very much, in black and white. I laugh paricularly with Curly and Shemp faces expressions. Still now I from to time watch them, but I really disagree the "coloration" of their shorts. And still I remember the opening song, I ignore who composed it and who are the players. But it is between my more remote memories.

 

[El_Duderino]

 

[Herbert]

Talking about Japanese films: