Scores in My Head
Added 2024-04-08 02:00:02 +0000 UTCFor the last week or so, this piece has been playing in my head over and over, for a myriad of personal reasons. But this one really reflects my mind and heart at very specific points in time, I've recognized. What scores have you guys been listening to lately that speak to your heart and life, if any?
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I don't really listen to film scores the way y'all do but I might as well use this as an opportunity to point out that Curtis Mayfield's soundtrack for Superfly is one of the best soul/funk albums of all time. I've never seen the film and I'm not sure I really need to.
Patrick Aris
2024-04-10 00:15:51 +0000 UTCHaha...I love to listen to that one anytime I need to get pumped for something. I can't run to it because I get carried away and go too fast like I'm in a stampede towards battle
Deepfocuslens
2024-04-09 22:40:09 +0000 UTCDuuuude The Rescuers Down Under soundtrack is fire. That opening track with the drums, as the camera zooms in on the opening credits...so good. I love that movie. I have a great memory of it, because it was one of my grandfather's favorite movies. We would watch it together all the time, and he would light up. I am not a fan of Howard often, other than here and there. But I agree that The Village has such a melancholy mystical quality that is very sophisticated. And yes...Signs is fabulous. Brilliant chord set as the theme, and incredibly Hitchcockian. Shifts from major to minor so well, and it works all the way through.
Deepfocuslens
2024-04-09 22:39:26 +0000 UTCYes great one. And underrated as you say. But that makes sense because its understated. I cry too.
Deepfocuslens
2024-04-09 22:37:10 +0000 UTCFor me that one was easily the best score of the year.
Deepfocuslens
2024-04-09 22:36:41 +0000 UTCI'm so with you on Bladerunner in particular, and You Were Never Really Here. That one is a brilliantly underrated score by Greenwood.
Deepfocuslens
2024-04-09 22:36:22 +0000 UTCConan the barbarian score. The late great Basil Poledouris! Starting off with the anvil of crom which is truly a low brass slice of heaven then continuing on with some really great love themes and general slayer themes. This is a link to an arrangement that the composer did live before he died. https://youtu.be/BJFnwNVfud4?si=XcvzLMAdYHrRBbw7
Paul Robinson
2024-04-09 17:38:31 +0000 UTCI have been enjoying the Kronos Quartet score for Heat. It’s sleek but also alienating that really fits the characters. The opening piece with the train pulling into the station puts me in such a contemplative mood, reflecting about time. Time passed and time remaining. I am also glad that they put out Mica Levi’s score for The Zone of Interest. It feels ancient but futuristic in a way that gives voice to the dead. Like a chorus of pain that rings out knowing it was heard of deaf ears but maybe this time, we’ll hear it. The score is linked below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d6uY_-gAKc
Emerson B
2024-04-09 01:57:38 +0000 UTCWell, this song is just breathtaking 😍 Some personal favorites of mine is Bruce Broughton’s score for The Rescuers Down Under, a very underrated, very brassy and adventurous score for a very underrated animated movie. I also LOVE James Newton Howard’s scores for Signs and The Village. Honestly any time he’s collaborated with Shyamalan, magic was made lol
Donoharm
2024-04-08 22:18:28 +0000 UTCand this (the beginning is the end ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMNmL2B-rrw
Oskitello
2024-04-08 10:29:33 +0000 UTCRecently I was listening to these beauties from Picnic at Hanging Rock: Doina Sus Pe Culmea Dealului https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m-6bU4x7us The Ascent Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIkI8UONcb4 also some of these: Noon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm2dspBLZc8 Very Special Delivery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLfw_FBu5sA Austerlitz Kyrie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb-JLQI4Wt8 Carlos Rafael Rivera - The Queen's Gambit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYbMxFGXVTA&list=OLAK5uy_mY21tsC3EsixPMxPcl6jc2wx9DEYdbD2o&index=2 Blake Neely - Rain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ewV-QhgQs Blake Neely - Gift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT7NA858G8Y Unchained Melody (Orchestral Version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2ZWLK2R4x4 Can You Hear The Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JZ-o3iAJv4
Oskitello
2024-04-08 09:32:23 +0000 UTCI have two tracks on my mind: 1. David Julyan’s haunting ambient theme for the opening titles of Christopher Nolan’s Memento. I think he really gets at the existential angst that permeates through the movie as well as Leonard, the main character. https://youtu.be/3AXJ2TMohn8?si=G26bSLLeS746MArD 2. I recently watched Jonathan Glazer’s Birth, and while I found the movie to be an intriguing yet ultimately silly failure, Alexandré Desplat’s score stayed with me, particularly the at once wistful and ominous “Prologue”. It’s a great orchestral piece in of itself. https://youtu.be/4L-0zud1acU?si=3ay13EDEBoYfNobv
Bennett Oliver
2024-04-08 02:57:06 +0000 UTCTo name something other than La La Land for the umpteenth time, the score for Her by Arcade Fire absolutely resonates with me because of its overall melancholic nature. Rather than going for broad over the top emotion like most Hollywood scores, it's much quieter and more subtle which cuts to the raw emotion of the story much more effectively. That song We're All Leaving which plays during the final goodbye between Theodore and Samantha reminds me of the loved ones that I've lost during my adult life and has me literally on the verge of tears every time that scene plays out.
Wolfman Brandon
2024-04-08 02:39:22 +0000 UTCI’ve been listening to the Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind soundtrack on constant repeat for the past few days. Specifically the title track: https://youtu.be/L_dLAw5AN7g?si=JzXtv0gUlFWopcrI
Henri J. Mertens
2024-04-08 02:32:55 +0000 UTCThe entire Poor Things score is a marvel to me. I love every soundtrack (& the film of course) but the track “Wee”, whatever the comedic tones in that part of the film, I love the way composer Jerskin Fendrix incorporates gentle strums with unsettling plucks all in the same track. It really ties into the themes of the film. Apparently he was only 25 when he made that score. Amazing! I’m 25 and I couldn’t imagine making something like that lol
Shane Palamara
2024-04-08 02:26:08 +0000 UTCBlade Runner - I re-listen to Vangelis’s score for Blade Runner all the time. It’s easily my all time favorite and a big part of why the film itself is an all time favorite for me. It perfectly reinforces Deckard disillusion with living in a dystopian LA filled with secrets. I personally often feel this way in my own life. Oppenheimer - Ludwig Göransson’s score still has been sticking with me since the film came out last year. It perfectly reinforces the main character’s state of mind with the anticipation of the creation of the bomb contrasted with the deep feeling of regret that follows. Tracks like “Can You Hear the Music” and “Destroyer Of Worlds” are standouts. You Were Never Really Here - Another score I re-listen to all the time. For whatever reason it speaks to me beyond its intent in the movie. So much so that tracks like “Tree Synthesizers” and “Tree Strings” have inspired me to dabble in screenwriting. Great scores in general have this effect on me including Blade Runner but none more so than this one. The New World - Another all time favorite, Horner’s work here has stayed with me for nearly 20 years now (Jesus Christ I’m old). There’s a tranquil, transcendental feeling to it that continues to speak to me. First Man - Hurwitz’s score is very dreamlike in the best way possible as it underscores Armstrong’s desire, like many of Chazelle’s protagonists, to escape into his passions, not knowing how to handle everyday stresses of life or express his feelings to others. For me, like the film itself, its very underrated.
Stephen
2024-04-08 02:24:38 +0000 UTC
