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| This is a comments thread about FSM CD: The Friends of Eddie Coyle/Three Days of the Condor |
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Jim Phelps wrote:Is it just me, or does it seem like there are very few '70s film score fans left on this board?
Well I'm still here Jim and I love 60s and 70s scores. I really like 'Three Days Of The Condor', such a great expanded release by FSM.
I hear you, pal.  I know it sounded like I was complaining (again), but I actually like that the "Seventies Crowd"--as FSM poster Castile once called us--is a rather small contingent here. When a '60 or '70s release is announced I know right away who will chime in (Thomas, Simon Morris, chriss, et al) on those threads. Since the board has lately been dominated with a lot of posters I don't "know", the familiar names are a welcome sight, especially in regards to our shared interest.
Three's a crowd. 
Alright, we got Coyle, Brown and Scale. Enough for our Seventies robbery!
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I hear you, pal. I know it sounded like I was complaining (again), but I actually like that the "Seventies Crowd"--as FSM poster Castile once called us--is a rather small contingent here. When a '60 or '70s release is announced I know right away who will chime in (Thomas, Simon Morris, chriss, et al) on those threads. Since the board has lately been dominated with a lot of posters I don't "know", the familiar names are a welcome sight, especially in regards to our shared interest.
I think it was Lukas who said a while back that Silver Age scores now sell like Golden Age ones used to, and that Golden Age scores now hardly sold at all. That's a little worrying really.
It's the 'energy' that I like in '70's scores such as TFOEC/TDOTC. They seem to capture something of the time. I'd rather we went back to those smaller, jazz based scores of those times. It won't happen of course, but to me they're more memorable than nearly all the current '100 player plus' orchestral scores that make a lot of noise and fade from the memory like candy floss.
Like the last two Mission: Impossible scores for instance. Sorry, Giacchino fans. Just not for me.
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Yes, it's only in the last 2-3 years that I became acquainted with Italian cult film scores. They certainly had the funky 70's bit down to a fine art.
I'd add Franco Micalizzi to the list for sure. Of course, many of these were using American jazz 'n funk as templates for their music in the first place.....
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Far Left Activist Andrea:
"We understood you could get us some machine guns."
Gun Dealer Jackie Brown:
"Hey, look. You—You want to burn your fuckin' bra, all right… but what you're gonna do with a machine gun?"
Far Left Activist Andrea:
"We're gonna rob a fuckin' bank."
Gun Dealer Jackie Brown to the two activists:
"Look, I got two problems selling machine guns to people like you.
The first is selling machine guns. That's life in this state.
The second is selling to people like you. You're not honest.
You know where I'm gonna be and what time, I'm liable to lose my machine guns."
Far Left Activist Andrea:
"Give him a thousand dollars, Pete."
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Alright, we got Coyle, Brown and Scale. Enough for our Seventies robbery!
Can I be Foley?
Or better yet Dillon, who turns out to be the real badass of TFoEC:
"I heard a guy on television the other night, he was talking about pigeons. He called them flying rats. I thought that was pretty good. What he had in mind, he was gonna give 'em the flu or something to make them extinct. Now there was a guy that got shit on, probably got shit on again. Then he got mad. They ruined his suit or somethin'. So he's gonna spend the rest of his life getting even with pigeons cause they ruined a $400 suit. Now there's no percentage in that because there are probably 10 million pigeons in Boston alone all of them laying eggs every day which generally produce more pigeons all dropping tons and tons of shit every day, rain or shine. And this guy in New York, he's gonna...well... There just aren't gonna be any more of them in this world. Yeah, a man gets desperate. He does a few things, he knows it won't work. Pretty soon he quits, packs it all in, goes away someplace. It's the only way there is."
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At least there are some reasonably priced copies on Amazon.
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Especially when the heist guys look terrifying--almost as terrifying as that woman's Shag hairstyle, that is.
She was the inspiration for that Three Dog Night hit, "Momma's Gotta Shag."
I'm watching this tonight - for the occasion I've put on my bright pink/red turtleneck; Jackie Brown took one look at it and even he said, "Cripes, man, that's in bad taste."
I really should have picked up this FSM CD? Is it too late?
Have a nice day.
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