[Nicolai P. Zwar]

The album to close out the evening, with me last one up, a good Bourbon in my glass.

[Mark Burgess]

My mum bought this for me when it was released. Symptomatic of Barry’s latter years, and very popular on British ClassicFM radio. I either love it or loathe it, depending on my mood 🙂

[Malte Müller]

I either love it or loathe it,

That summarizes it for me, too.

[Sigbjørn]

Impressive score, one of the top 10 of 2013 for me (it was featured in the very first top 10 of the year podcast episode that I did). Only 33 minutes, and Reyes’ original piano concerto, which plays a central, diegetic part in the thriller, takes up 90% of it. I know it’s one of Sigbjørn’s favourites too – one of the rare times he speaks about a score that isn’t LADY JANE and STAR WARS!

Hey, I don’t speak that much about Star Wars. Roy Budd’s Phantom of the Opera on the other hand… and I’m still looking for a physical copy of Grand Piano if anyone has a spare copy.

This is a shout-out to Sigbjørn, who alerted me to this a few years ago. I think it’s his favourite score, because he keeps mentioning it over and over again.

I wouldn’t say it’s my favourite score, but it’s among my many favourites and I think more soundtrack fans would appreciate it if made aware of it – it’s still kinda under the radar despite the excellent Tadlow/Quartet release.

[Nicolai P. Zwar]

I either love it or loathe it, depending on my mood

Isn’t that true for all music?

[Malte Müller]

I either love it or loathe it, depending on my mood

Isn’t that true for all music?

Yes, my mistake actually as I misread it somehow as “I neither love it nor loathe it” 😉

[Mark Burgess]

Isn’t that true for all music?

I tend to love more than loathe. Certain things (like a harmonica) would make me loathe 🙂

[Mark Burgess]

I was in Canada when this was released, so it has a special place….

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Had to take a break from my John Williams walkthrough with some Zimmers. Love this gem from 1984, both the Myers and Zimmer, and the slick pop song “Never Will You Know”.

[Nicolai P. Zwar]

Ha, HISTORIE D’O NUMERO 2, I read that book and its predecessor over 30 years ago. Stanley Myers and Hans Zimmer, got that score in my collection. Not yet listened to though.

Currently listening to:

Also a first time listen of something in my collection.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Why does it have a photo of Senator Palpatine?

[Nicolai P. Zwar]

LOL, yes, you’re not the first to note the resemblance between Palpatine and Kempff, though I may just be the latest, as I noticed it only now because of you!

[Nicolai P. Zwar]

[GerateWohl]

Again and album where I which they had left out the dialogue parts. But at least the music itself is dialogue free.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

I find this Johnny Jewel album to be more of a season 3 TWIN PEAKS soundtrack than the actual season 3 TWIN PEAKS soundtrack (a few of the tracks here obviously also showed up in the series). Just gorgeous.

[Nicolai P. Zwar]

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[Thor Joachim Haga]

Is that, like, a cassette?

[Nicolai P. Zwar]

No, that’s just the way the cover looks like. There’s a white frame around it that invisibly blends with the forum background. It’s a square cover.

[Nicolai P. Zwar]

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Fine album, possibly my third favourite Eno.

[Nicolai P. Zwar]

Definitely a nice ambient album. I sometimes wish they would really play this Eno album at airports. Then again, would not be the same if I heard this every time I’m at an airport. It’s a calm down mood setting album.

Now playing:

[Nicolai P. Zwar]

[Nicolai P. Zwar]

LE PROFESSIONAL is probably the most famous of the Belmondo/Morricone collaborations.
LE MARGINAL was the next Belmondo film Morricone scored, and the music is a darker, edgier take within the same vocabulary of the former film.
I’ve always even preferred LE MARGINAL, it’s a more varied album, and the theme is just as great as Le Vent, Le Cri (or Chi Mai).
Yet the theme from LE MARGINAL is much rarer found on compilations, and when it is, it’s often just an abbreviated version.

The first 10 tracks of this Music Box release are the original soundtrack LP tracks, then there’s 15 tracks of additional music. Tonight, I put up my LP on display and listen to those LP tracks (with a good Bourbon, cheers).

[Gloin the Dark]

Schumann Symphony No. 4

[Nicolai P. Zwar]

Doesn’t really sound like a “horror score”, in fact, this could be a nice, dark-ambient album, were it not for the fact that some tracks just end very abruptly, that you wonder if they were cut off? That takes aways some of the listening experience.
This could have used the sort of re-working Hans Zimmer has successfully done on some of his albums were the tracks flow into each other, and it would be a relaxed moody listen.

[Jon Aanensen]

Brilliant 2007 vocal album. This track is among my alltime favourites:

[Gloin the Dark]

Hans Krása Symphonie

[Malte Müller]

I’ve always even preferred LE MARGINAL, it’s a more varied album, and the theme is just as great as Le Vent, Le Cri (or Chi Mai).
Yet the theme from LE MARGINAL is much rarer found on compilations, and when it is, it’s often just an abbreviated version.

It’s a great theme and I indeed had it on the Double LP best of. Both scores suffer a bit from Morricone’s general repetition habit the same theme with minor changes only (at least LE PROFESSIONAL does for sure)

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