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Dec 20, 2013 - 8:22 PM
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jkirkfsm
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It's a challenge, making a list of pre-80s soundtracks that stand on their own w/o knowing the film. But:
Barry - Body Heat, From Russia With Love
Tiomkin - Red River, Duel in the Sun
Waxman - Rebecca, Sunset Boulevard, Rear Window
Rozsa - Spellbound
Steiner - King Kong
Goldsmith - Omen, Planet of the Apes, Seconds, Alien
Morricone - Good, Bad, Ugly
Mayfield - Superfly
Herrmann - Taxi Driver, Day the Earth Stood Still, 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho
for starters, as well as so many of the others mentioned here.
There are so many great films out there, tho', that you must see. All of the Jimmy Stewart westerns by Anthony Mann. The films by tough old Don Seigel, anything by Mitchell Leisen, and any of Barbara Stanwyck's early stuff. The great "classics" like Gone With the Wind tend to be overblown and over-rated, I think. I like the lesser-known classics, like Double Indemnity and DOA. Give me Lee Marvin or Robert Mitchum over Spencer Tracy (except Fury) or Clark Gable any day. The great Cary Grant in Holiday or Bringing Up Baby or His Girl Friday.
There were more first rate films made in a single year in the "golden age" than there are in entire decades now. Even silent films from the 20s like The Wind or Sunrise have the power to knock your socks off.
I hope hearing some of the soundtracks will make you curious as to what they went with, and you'll expand your boundaries. Life is way too short not to see 9/10s of the best films ever made.
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Dec 20, 2013 - 9:08 PM
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Josh
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In this case, I'd concur with Ron Hardcastle's pet peeve about empty profiles, because in order to make specific suggestions for you that I think would be appropriate and useful, I would need to know what some of your favorite films scores are. I, too, began with Silver Age film music before discovering the riches of the Golden Age (which covers several decades and varies greatly in genres and styles), but without a guiding light, I'd find myself simply listing my own personal favorites (which also vary greatly in genres and styles).
And yes, it's not always necessary to watch a film in order to enjoy its score, but in my experience, especially with films from that era, doing so often increases my appreciation of the score immensely and provides that additional level of understanding and relationship to its source that gives film music that additional dimension that makes it unique and increases its emotional gravity.
P.S. I should note that I haven't updated the list of favorite scores in my own personal profile in several years, during the span of which I have discovered many Golden Age scores that would quality as such (thanks to the efforts of several of our beloved soundtrack specialty labels).
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