Are there film score albums where you like just one track?
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As we recently talked about Desplat I remembered listening to Midnight Sky. I like the title track a lot, but found the album rather boring apart from that. Same I feel about Rombi’s Ricky. I love the title track of the main theme on the OST, but the rest didn’t catch my attention. It’s sometime like with albums of one hit wonders where the rest of the songs seems rather forgettable.
Somehow similar Dario Marianelli’s score for The Secret Garden. I really love the track “Healing”, but I don’t care much about the rest.Usually if I am interested in just one track on an album I don’t buy it, but just add the track to my one hit wonder playlist on Spotify (if it’s there).
Does anyone share that experience, too?
Do you know any soundtrack albums with just one great track?
That’s actually the only track, of the whole movie even 😉
Surprisingly a question I cannot answer right away right now…
I can’t think of an example either. I’m more of an album person, not a track person. So if there exists a score album with only a single track I like, I would not buy it, and it would probably not register on my radar at all. Of course, I do not count cases where there is only a single score track on a songtrack filled with rubbish songs.
Hmmm…..well, I do remember sampling The Newton Brothers’ FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2 last year, and only liking the funky synthwave opening theme, while the rest was meandering suspense stuff. But that’s about the only thing I can think of right now.
Super rare stuff, this. I don’t expect a score album to be ALL highlights. There needs to be some less interesting cues that “bridge” the highlights. That’s the nature of the beast when it comes to soundtracks. So the program is the thing, really — a well-curated album can live long and prosper without a plethora of great, invidual tracks. But even scores I consider so-so have at least a handful of worthwhile cues, in one form or another.
One score that comes is the DOCTOR NO soundtrack. While I can listen to it in general but really of note is certainly the Bond theme…
Michael Giacchino: Cloverfield
Which track is that?
“Roar!”
I was actually a smart-alecky response, as the complete and chronological film score has only this one cue.
Sure, many soundtracks have only one decent track, often tbe main theme. Some of those 30-minute Varese albuns from the 90s for instance.
And Michel Rubini’s NEMESIS.
There’s even one with just one track, period: Michael Stearn’s CHRONOS and its 42-minute single track. Great score. But yeah, not what Gerate had in mind, I think.
Years ago, I picked up Francis Lai’s Live for Life but then unloaded it in a record purge. Overall, it just didn’t really engage me.
But afterward, the track “Zoom” kept haunting me. It would appear as an earworm at the most inopportune times, as if mocking me for my stupidity. So I repurchased the album a few years later, to break the spell, just for that one track.
I also have Andre Previn’s Rollerball for his two originals, “Executive Party” and “Executive Party Dance.” Apparently, Previn couldn’t be bothered to write any more music for the film other than those two brilliant tracks, so they padded out the album with orchestral muzak by such has-beens as Bach, Tchaikovsky, and Shostakovich.
These days, if an album has only one good track, I’m much more likely to buy a lossless download of the track from Qobuz, rather than to add more clutter to the shelves.
Gosh, I love LIVE FOR LIFE! For me, it was love at first hearing. But good that you came back to it, at least.
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