Trying to finish my on/off tribute to Michel Legrand (I missed out on so much) and whatever is playing on SiriusXM "Classics on Film" program, which has delved into quite a few orchestra renditions of videogame music.
My usual variety, no particular theme, though today I am listening to the 10 discs of Autumn Thunder, lots of short, independent, lively upbeat tracks. Many are obviously inspired by well known film score themes (such as Magnificent 7, Great Escape, Guns of Navarone and so on). Tomorrow I may switch to heavy doses of Two Steps From Hell. And aren't we all?
I've been exploring the songs of Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra after hearing their "Sundown, Sundown" song somewhere. So I've been playing their 3 albums and enjoying the heck out of them.
I also made the dangerous move of playing that LP song "Lost On You" that took me months to remove from my head last year. It may be the antidote to get through these Twilight Zoney days.
Scorewise, I've listened to the 1st disc in that Howard the Duck release. It sounds like an alternate James Bond score and that has zapped my chromosomes back into order after my Pizza lunch.
Next I'll be getting re-hooked on that Creed theme that also took months to obliterate from my skull. The theme from The Omega Man is rocketing through me right now.
@ Mr. Jim Phelps: Never seen the flick, but that cover makes me want to. Gotta love the French language title of the movie: Coffy, la panthère noire de Harlem
@ Mr. Jim Phelps: Never seen the flick, but that cover makes me want to. Gotta love the French language title of the movie: Coffy, la panthère noire de Harlem
Don't expect great acting, dialogue, special effects, and story. Just enjoy it for its time and place, if you dig the early '70s, that is.
Roy Ayers' score is an excellent one; its theme is especially catchy.
I got all three Intrada Tinkerbell scores a few weeks back when they had that sale. And those are quite nicely therapeutic. Those are very nice scores, soothing somehow.
@ Mr. Jim Phelps: Never seen the flick, but that cover makes me want to. Gotta love the French language title of the movie: Coffy, la panthère noire de Harlem
Don't expect great acting, dialogue, special effects, and story. Just enjoy it for its time and place, if you dig the early '70s, that is.
Roy Ayers' score is an excellent one; its theme is especially catchy.
@ Mr. Phelps: Thanks. Fantastic music. However, and not to put too fine a point on it, it is Ms. Grier who clinched the deal.
This 1967 Japanese TV series was syndicated by AIP in America between 1969 & 1979. If you were a child growing up during the '70s, then you probably saw this as JOHNNY SOKKO AND HIS FLYING ROBOT. AIP's minimal end titles for this show never offered credits for its music. I was unaware who wrote this show's music for 45 years - until perusing through Ark Square's re-vamped website this past winter I discovered ROBO's soundtrack had been issued on VAP Records over 20 years ago and that it's composer was Takeo Yamashita! This man's idiosyncratic music had been ingrained in my head all this time and I was not consciously aware of its influence on me until recently. It sounds like Euro-Western music more than anything else and likely subconsciously prepped me for collecting Italian soundtracks decades later.
If any FSMer has fondness for this TV series, then I suggest hunting for this CD while it continues to be available!
@ Mr. Phelps: Thanks. Fantastic music. However, and not to put too fine a point on it, it is Ms. Grier who clinched the deal.
A Real Woman, indeed--a goddess, even. Pam Grier's performance in JACKIE BROWN is all the more impressive, especially after seeing her in her early '70s prime of popularity with the terrible dialogue she had, and even more impressive when she more than holds her own against the likes of Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, and Michael Keaton.
Hollywood likes to bray about diversity, but Pam Grier didn't even benefit from a spotlight role like Jackie Brown.
