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 Posted:   Mar 25, 2017 - 10:53 AM   
 By:   OnyaBirri   (Member)

Here are some examples of music I never liked, but film music helped me appreciate them.

I always dismissed "White Bird" by It's a Beautiful Day as being the worst hippie drivel imaginable, but now when I hear it, I imagine the space hippies on the Star Trek episode "The Way to Eden," and I love it.

I always dismissed the Doors as being paint-by-numbers counterculture, but now when I hear them, they sound like a wonderful fake rock band that would be in an American International film about Sunset Strip and mid-60s youth culture.

I always hated a lot of 70s rock like Blue Oyster Cult, but now if I hear them, they sound like the soundtrack for a 1970s Italian polizia film. "Don't Fear the Reaper," if you can forget about Christopher Walken, would be perfect in a film like "Street Law." If the song comes on the radio, I see Franco Nero's piercing blue eyes.

Do you have any similar experiences?

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 25, 2017 - 11:35 AM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

For me, most of my interest in jazz has come from first discovering it in films (whatever type of jazz we're talking about). Was never a big fan in my formative years and early twenties (and I guess I'm still not a hardcore fan), but various film music opened my ears considerably.

Also, I guess, various forms of classical music, especially of the more programmatic kind.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 25, 2017 - 12:03 PM   
 By:   bobbengan   (Member)

Really good topic.

For me it encompasses everything from avant garde music, baroque all the way to disco - I love the big "symphonic disco" cues from Mike Batt's CARAVANS and Goldsmith's arrangement his Kay's Theme from CAPRICORN ONE, for example!

 
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