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Does anyone know of any disco based instrumental scores. Something like For Your Eyes Only. I really love the sound of disco music and think that it works great in SOME films. NP: Out of Africa
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The end titles of MOONRAKER by John Barry provides a disco flavored version sung by Shirley Bassey. Also anything by Giorgio Moroder in the late Seventies and early Eighties i.e. MIDNIGHT EXPRESS and AMERICAN GIGOLO. The repetitive strains of Barry Devorzon's LOOKER, that Michael Crichton film which wasted Albert Finney's talents.
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The in my opinion horribly archaic score for Ladyhawke, which really stains an otherwise brilliant film comes to mind. (OK, Thor, bring it on)
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I have a compilation album of themes to Italian cop thrillers of the 70s, entitled "Beretta 70" (on the Crippled Dick Hot Wax label, I kid you not). Most of that has a disco feel to it. Armando Trovajoli's music for "Blazing Magnum" in particular is pure disco.
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Those orchestral cues sounded very good, especially the one were the hawke flies over the lake. But that pop stuff just drives me nuts. 80's pop-film music isn't really my thing, Axel F. excluded, off course.
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For the scene in TIME AFTER TIME that takes place in a disco, Miklos Rozsa had to be talked into conducting the "music," though the band had been given lead-sheets that allowed them to pretty much play it without being led by Rozsa, although it's hard to say whether he was more bewildered by disco than contemptuous of it. At one point during the session, the great Maestro did ask of the ensemble: "Could you make again that whoosh-whoosh sound?"
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How could I have forgotten Bond 77?
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How could I have forgotten Bond 77? ibid.
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You can be sure that Blofeld hasn't...
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I like the disco-flavored tracks in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME and FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, but there are places where disco does not work. The final track of ST III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK is bad disco. Does anyone know the story behind this out-of-place addition to the CD? It wasn't in the movie. Maybe it was filler to lengthen the CD without adding to the "re-use" fees we're always hearing about. And how about the disco bonus track at the end of the otherwise-stellar BATTLESTAR GALACTICA 25th Anniversary CD? I'm all for bonus tracks, but this one left me cold. (The "Casino on Carillon" cue is okay by me because it was composed for and included in the movie.) GALACTICA is a top-notch score overall, though, and worth getting.
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Didn`t "Thank God it`s friday" have some instrumental sort of score tracks ? And don`t forget the groovy instrumentals David Shire wrote for "Saturday Night Fever". I love his "Manhattan Skyline".
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