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Apr 27, 2014 - 12:00 PM
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ToneRow
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Since Ennio Morricone was born in 1928, I think it's interesting to see what Morricone fans might list as their top 28 favorites.
Here's mine:
1. Tarantola Dal Ventre Nero, La (Black Belly Of The Tarantula)
2. Lucertola Con La Pelle Di Donna, Una (A Lizard In A Woman's Skin)
3. Addio Fratello Crudele ('Tis Pity She's A Whore)
4. The Stendhal Syndrome
5. Giustiziere, Il (The Human Factor)
6. Uccello Dalle Piume Di Cristallo, L' (The Bird With The Crystal Plumage)
7. Poliziotto Della Brigata Criminale, Il (Fear Over The City)
8. Giornata Nera Per L'Ariete (The Fifth Cord)
9. Macchie Solari (Autopsy)
10. Mose' (Moses The Lawgiver)
11. Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura (Cold Eyes Of Fear)
12. Tranquillo Posto Di Campagna, Un (A Quiet Place In The Country)
13. Disclosure
14. Wolf
15. The Thing
16. Guns For San Sebastian
17. The Island
18. Corta Notte Delle Bambole Di Vetro, La (Short Night Of Glass Dolls)
19. Two Mules For Sister Sara
20. Foto Proibite Di Una Signora Per Bene, Le (Forbidden Photos Of A Lady Above Suspicion)
21. Resa Dei Conti, La (The Big Gundown)
22. Barbablu (Bluebeard)
23. Fraulein Doktor
24. Navajo Joe
25. Chi L'Ha Vista Morire? (Who Saw Her Die?)
26. Figli Chiedono Perche', I
27. Gatto A Nove Code, Il (Cat O' Nine Tails)
28. Pugni In Tasca, I (Fists In The Pocket)
Does anybody have 28 favorites?
(if you've done a top 25 or top 30 on Morricone's titles, then most of the work is already done.  )
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All right, I'm game.
Shockingly, though I know a lot of Morricone's scores, I discovered recently that I don't own as many as I thought I did - something I'm slowly rectifying. Here then, is my "Top 28," though I must stress that, apart from perhaps the first five, the rest should be viewed as being in no particular order, other than the order in which they came to mind - and I'm sure it'd be a different list if I wrote it out tomorrow or yesterday. Looking at this list, I see it might skew more towards the lyrical and thematic, but I do really, really dig his more avant-garde material, too.
1. Giu la Testa (Duck, You Sucker) [Also my favorite Leone film]
2. Il Sorriso del Grande Tentatore (The Devil is a Woman) [I love, love, love this score]
3. Days of Heaven
4. White Dog
5. Cinema Paradiso
6. L'Umanoide (The Humanoid)
7. The Mission
8. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
9. Once Upon a Time in the West
10. Il Giustiziere (The Human Factor)
11. Frantic
12. Navajo Joe
13. Fatti di Gente Perbene
14. Once Upon a Time in America
15. La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalla Camelie
16. A Time of Destiny
17. The Five-Man Army
18. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
19. Guns for San Sebastian
20. Bluebeard
21. Mission to Mars
22. Drammi Gotici
23. Ogro
24. Macchie Solari (Autopsy)
25. Spasmo
26. The Thing
27. Exorcist II: The Heretic
28. The Untouchables (It may not his most inventive score, but I find it incredibly rousing stuff, and I find the low-piano "Strength of the Righteous" stuff constantly playing in my head - much in the same way Jacques Loussier's low-piano writing in "Dark of the Sun" gets stuck in the gaping chasm between my ears.)
That was fun!
Looking back at ToneRow's list, I see I left off "A Quiet Place in the Country," which I think is a really smashing score - some jawdroppingly brilliant material in it. So let's make that my unofficial 29th.
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Interesting to note how one top 28 can differ from another. Unavoidable I guess with a composer gifted with such style and range.
I could easily name fifty titles, but as most I would be hard pressed to place them in any other order than 'the very best of'.
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The Untouchables (It may not his most inventive score, but I find it incredibly rousing stuff, and I find the low-piano "Strength of the Righteous" stuff constantly playing in my head - much in the same way Jacques Loussier's low-piano writing in "Dark of the Sun" gets stuck in the gaping chasm between my ears.)
Agreed. These tunes have a way of imbedding themselves in our synapses.
Edit: off to listen to DARK OF THE SUN (one of my top five favorite FSM releases and for which I'm eternally grateful to Lukas).
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1. The Mission
2. Once Upon a Time in America
3. Cinema Paradiso
4. Days of Heaven
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
6. Giu la Testa
7. Once Upon a Time in the West
8. Uccellacci e Uccellini
9. Fateless
10. The Best Offer
11. Mission to Mars
12. For a Few Dollars More
13. Navajo Joe
14. For a Fistful of Dollars
15. Queimada
16. What Dreams May Come (rejected)
17. My Name is Nobody
18. Allosanfan
19. La Casa Bruciata
20. Five Man Army
21. The Great Silence
22. The Desert of the Tartars
23. Two Mules for Sister Sarah
24. The Big Gundown
25. Wolf
26. Casualties of War
27. Un Genio, Due Compadre, Un Pollo
28. Holocaust 2000
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Apr 27, 2014 - 7:41 PM
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dan the man
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Why 28? Off the top of my head here are some of my favorites-THE ISLAND, NANA, GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY, ORCA, THE RED TENT, TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS, GUNS FOR SAN SEBASTION, SAHARA, DUCK YOU SUCKER, BUTTERFLY,RED SONJA,CINEMA PARADISO,MALAMONDO,ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST,CAT O NINE TAILS,END OF THE GAME, ETC ETC.
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Apr 28, 2014 - 2:57 AM
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Ny
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i would love to be familiar with 28 Morricone scores that I liked, but as it stands I'm intimidated by the number of foreign releases he has, and with going through samples of each to find out which ones would suit me, which is specific enough to be awkward - i love the moodier tracks on Treasure of the Four Crowns, but dislike most fanfare themes and upbeat stuff, I really like L'Humanoide but I always start it at track three, etc etc..
top 3, and these would be in the running for my top ten of any artist of all time - The Thing, Lolita, Frantic - love those albums from start to finish, I'm sure there's a few others out there that belong in that group, but finding them is another matter.
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Apr 28, 2014 - 6:23 AM
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MusicMad
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Whilst I think about which titles to include/exclude, I've looked through those titles listed - 236 so far (incl. repeats) / 138 excl. repeats and am amused at some of the choices - as compared with my own choices. e.g. I could not include Queimada - it's just too repetitive for my liking, whilst a distinct favourite, Il Clan dei Siciliani, has only 3 votes to date.
The most popular titles, so far, are: C'era Una Volta Il West with 9 votes, followed by Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo and Giu' La Testa, each with 8 votes
As anyone who collects this Maestro's works knows, it's almost impossible to keep up with the releases and although I have a large-ish Morricone collection (340 scores dependent upon how one counts them) I find there are 6 titles mentioned which I don't have.  Oh well ...
Back to thinking of the 28 titles ...
I'm just glad he wasn't born in 1899 ...
Mitch
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A difficult list to put together. There's a Top 7 list in order followed by the rest of the 28 in alphabetical order.
1 - Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo
2 - Per Un Pugno di Dollari
3 - Per Qualche Dollaro In Più
4 - The Thing
5 - C’era Una Volta Il West
6 - ¡Vamos a Matar, Compañeros!
7 - Orca
Addio, Fratello Crudele
Da Uomo a Uomo
El Greco
Il Mio Nome è Nessuno
Il Ritorno di Ringo
Il Segreto
L'Assoluto Naturale
La Cosa Buffa
La Resa dei Conti
La Storia Vera della Signora delle Camelie
Mosè
Navajo Joe
Professione Figlio
Questa Specie D'amore
Red Sonja
Revolver
Sepolta Viva
The Untouchables
Una Pistola per Ringo
Windows
Wolf
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