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Jan 31, 2009 - 4:11 PM
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Jim Phelps
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While I think "Windmills of Your Mind" is one of the most beautiful film songs in history, I think we have yet to hear a proper vocal attached to it (I did not care for the "talkative" original, nor Sting's vocal masturbation in the remake). You must not have heard Dusty's version. It's definitive. Also, Jack Jones - don't laugh - made a great album of all Michel Legrand songs, with Michel arranging and conducting. It comes off almost like a lost Scott Walker record. I *just* discovered Scott Walker this very day!!! His song "stylings" have that same, world-weary, oh-so sad, 1968-73 feel, just like "The Windmills of Your Mind", which is just what I was looking for! Walker's lyrical imagery like rain-soaked streets, chilly winds, strong european cigarettes, women in "macs", and London, circa The Persuaders!
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Jan 31, 2009 - 4:27 PM
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OnyaBirri
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I *just* discovered Scott Walker this very day!!! His song "stylings" have that same, world-weary, oh-so sad, 1968-73 feel, just like "The Windmills of Your Mind", which is just what I was looking for! Walker's lyrical imagery like rain-soaked streets, chilly winds, strong european cigarettes, women in "macs", and London, circa The Persuaders! Yes, I can't get enough of Scott, and I need to spin him soon. I need to put on "Montague Terrace" at full volume right now! And hunt that that Jack Jones/Michel Legrand album - It's totally Scott!
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I don't know where my comment fits in the context of this thread, but I just wanted to chip in that this is, for me, one of those scores that not only makes the movie, but radically transforms the movie into something that would never be there without the musical commentary. Without the music, it's a charming and fluffy cat-and-mouse movie that cumulates with a mild smirk. With the music, it becomes a painfully bleak tragedy about two people who love each other and would be together were they not both too selfish to trust one another. Legrand hits the style and the sexiness to a tee, but he also captures an overwhelming sense of bleak despair and moral condemnation as the story twists to its close. I don't think it would even occur to me to think of the emotionally tragedy of the movie without Legrand's commentary, but the movie is so so so much richer for his score. Pedestrian Wolf
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Feb 2, 2009 - 7:09 AM
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Jim Phelps
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I don't know where my comment fits in the context of this thread, but I just wanted to chip in that this is, for me, one of those scores that not only makes the movie, but radically transforms the movie into something that would never be there without the musical commentary. Without the music, it's a charming and fluffy cat-and-mouse movie that cumulates with a mild smirk. With the music, it becomes a painfully bleak tragedy about two people who love each other and would be together were they not both too selfish to trust one another. Legrand hits the style and the sexiness to a tee, but he also captures an overwhelming sense of bleak despair and moral condemnation as the story twists to its close. I don't think it would even occur to me to think of the emotionally tragedy of the movie without Legrand's commentary, but the movie is so so so much richer for his score. I didn't get the emotional impact from the movie that you did, I love TCA's score all the same. Legrand captured an era better than even the visuals did, and the music moves the film right along. Maybe that's because I anticipate the score's placement in the film and use that as to pull everything together. I find myself listening for when the cues begin more than for any dialogue in the script. "The Windmills of Your Mind" is probably the last truly great Oscar-winning song, at least for my money. And now that I think about it, Scott Walker could have sung a great version of Windmills of Your Mind...
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