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I never liked Rammstein. I found their sound too synthetic. Most of the sound is computer generated.
When it comes to rock music I look at it from the live performance angle. That is why I hold Pearl Jam in such high esteem. Watching them live at their first tour was a revealation.
Had never seen anything better.But in Germany we have a band named Knorkator which is pretty much a parody of Rammstein. Same sound, but super funny, very self ironic. They are playing with that Rammstein macho image.
I like them a lot. Not because of the music, but because the are funny.I always assumed on JWFan the draft posts are stored in the cookie. That is why I can revisit them even though I hadn’t submitted them.
It’s true many of your top favourites aren’t my cup of tea, but I DO enjoy some Joe Jackson and Divine Comedy.
And your honourable mentions have loads of great stuff. Obviously Supertramp, but also Bacharach, Sting, Howard Jones, Cocteau Twins, Bush, Beatles. I even rocked out to System of a Down once upon a time, when nu metal was hot. 😀
But overall, I think you were more in tune with your own time than I ever was.
That might be.
Interesting that you liked System of a Down. To me they were by far the best that came out of that whole Nu Metal movement.I didn’t reload the form. I switched to another app, when network was lost, then when switching to the browser again it automatically reloaded the form by himself. I miss the good old times when web pages weren’t that complicated and browsers didn’t permanently do stupid things automatically to “improve my internet experience”.
Anyway, here my list again (I already know, Thor is gonna hate it).
The Divine Comedy
The Cure
Pearl Jam
Radiohead
Joe Jackson
Kristin Hersh / Throwing Muses
PJ Harvey
Everything But The Girl
The Pixies
They Might Be GiantsHonorable Mentions: The Beatles, Supertramp, Kate Bush, System of a Down, The Smith, The La’s, The Kooks, Interpol, The Cocteau Twins, Hall & Oates, Burt Bacharach, Billy Talent, U2, Sting, Howard Jones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumkins.
This damn page. I was sitting in the underground, typing my top ten, was already in the honorable mention section as network connection got lost, came back, Page reloaded, everything gone.
Maybe later another try.
There was another knight movie which also used lots of rock songs. Can’t remember the name but that to me had a bit of a parody effect if I recall right.
I guess, you are referring to A Knight’s Tale with Heath Ledger, that already promoted the movie in the trailer with Queen’s We will Rock You.
In that context Highlander might be worth mentioning as well even though the rock songs are here reserved rather for the modern times scenes.I saw Ladyhawke in cinema when it came out. Never seen it since. But remember feeling the pop music being ou of place. But after this discussion here I want to watch it again. Maybe in the meantime it feels different. At that time as a relatively fresh film music fan I was of course looking out for something different. But maybe the movie was ahead of its time. I will re-evaluate.
Yeah, sorry. I am a John Williams fan. Cheap are the synth farts, the repetitions, short melody lines…
I recently had a look at my Goldsmith collection and tried to categorize them somehow like Western, Horror, Science Fiction, Action, Thriller, Historical Drama, Fantasy. But I found out quite quickly that this is easier said than done because he had so many hybrid projects.
Anyway, I would say, I have a special preference for his Western scores and Fantasy, if we count in Legend, The Mummy and Poltergeist, maybe The Omen.
The topic science fiction by Goldsmith is really a mixed bag.In a way to me it seemed often that a brillant musician spent a lot of technical effort to sound cheap (I only say “synth farts”).
Also often he seemed to give away his best themes for low profile projects.Anyway, somehow you don’t get around Goldsmith as a movie score fan, but when I look at him purely as a fan of orchestral music he is in the “weird” corner.
Not sure, if you are familiar with Babylon Berlin. But the score has a nice Golden 20s sound.
Good list, too.
I thought Goblin has quite a record of famous scores, e.g. the Euro cut of Dawn of the Dead.Tom Tykwer & co. – PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER
I find their score for Babylon Berlin quite good as well.
Many seem to claim Daft Punk’s Tron Legacy to be a great singular score effort.
I just checked it on Spotify. Calm and beautiful.
Thank you for the hint.
Sounds to me a little like the result if you filtered all the calmest parts of early Tori Amos songs into new ones.