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Jul 2, 2010 - 5:04 AM
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ahem
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I think this is really quite interesting, in that the score and some songs were by Faltermeyer, half of the songs were produced/written by Moroder (including the Oscar winning Take My Breath Away), the rest by a few others (Peter Wolf, Loverboy, etc). The musical soundscape is interwoven especially with the Faltermeyer/Moroder songs, but I don't think Moroder's material is just aping Faltermeyer either- I think you can really hear two clearly distinct voices. Interesting also that Take My Breath Away, arguably the most memorable of all of the music in the film, is written/produced by Moroder/Whitlock yet integrates perfectly with Faltermeyer's score AND is really the film's original love theme. When it is heard in an instrumental version during the middle of the film I think it is very much from the same musical soundscape, but I have always thought that driving the song with a bass was a very bold, high concept idea that I think seems trademark Moroder. Moroder also manages to take the songs into a more latin pop arena for Teena Marie's Lead Me On and Miami Sound Machine's Hot Summer Nights, both integrating refreshing, real horn sections. The two Faltermeyer songs (excluding the Top Gun Anthem) sound to me more synth-centric. Mighty Wings particularly has become a fan favourite in instrumental form, although it's only in the movie that it's ever been heard as such. It really does demonstrate a pop song that can be mistaken as dramatic underscore without the vocals. Moroder's two big rockers, Danger Zone and Through the Fire I think have a different kind of guitar arrangement to the Faltermeyer songs/score tracks, sounding more distinct from the score than say Mighty Wings, but still manage to fit the overall musical pallette. To add to this there are also a few period songs from the early sixties (Otis Redding. Righteous Brothers) that are very much out of that soundscape, but are used to tell us about the main character's personalities. I think Top Gun was a very interesting compilation of score and songs, most of which were actually recorded for the movie, conscious of an overall musical identity. I think that in some ways, the songs not written by the main composer in instrumental form were as much dramatic music score as his instrumental score. I hope Thor chimes in on this.
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Well, I have to admit that I haven't even got the Top Gun soundtrack in my collection, but I have the score on a bootleg. It was always the score, and not the songs, which was important to me. Songs like Danger Zone, Mighty Wings, Playing With The Boys, Take My Breath Away, Through The Fire and Destination Unknown are pretty good though. And that are most of the songs. So it's a decent album.
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Double post.
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The TG disc is probably the best soundtrack of its kind. I find it really tough to skip any song when I'm in the mood for an 80s rush.
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bump
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I thought this might be a point of interest: There was an episode of "NOVA" titled "Top Gun Over Moscow", which has a score credited to Talmadge Pearsall, who is listed as keyboardist on the "Top Gun" film. I skimmed the episode; there doesn't appear to be much score, but it sounds Top Gun-ish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifbgyKcBHe4 I swear he used to have a website, but I can't find it.
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