I’ll be watching Half-Nelson soon for the first time. It’s near the top of my Netflix queue, so whenever I’m in the right mood I’ll give it a go.
I’ve had this song stuck in my head for a day or so now and I was dissatisfied with the video selection on YouTube (either shit quality or a dumb video accompaniment), so I decided to upload my own. It’s a song called Waiting for You by Akira Yamaoka on the Silent Hill (2006) movie soundtrack. Not exactly “Great Score” material, but I like it a lot.
I soon realised the reason that Donnie Darko was my favourite film for so long was because of the music.
I’ve only ever bought 2 film soundtracks, 1 of which is the soundtrack to Donnie Darko. Though whilst the Michael Andrews stuff is superb, what really did it for me was the song heard when Donnie, Gretchen and Frank are in the cinema, “For Whom The Bells Toll” by Steve Baker & Carmen Daye:
The other film soundtrack I bought was for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, though mostly just because of the Yo-Yo Ma cello in what I guess you could call the theme music in the first two songs of the soundtrack:
Battle Royale looks like it’s worth a watch. Just added it to my Netflix queue. Ditto on the Champions League – although I don’t watch regularly I grew up playing soccer and I love the sport. I think it’s one of the most interesting to watch, too.
Silhouette,
Definitely. In addition to the score, DD has an awesome soundtrack:
"Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS – 3:04
"Head Over Heels" by Tears for Fears – 4:16
"Under the Milky Way" by The Church – 4:58
"Lucid Memory" by Sam Bauer and Gerard Bauer – 0:46
"Lucid Assembly" by Gerard Bauer and Mike Bauer – 0:52
"Ave Maria" by Vladimir Vavilov and Paul Pritchard – 2:57
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Steve Baker and Carmen Daye – 3:12
"Show Me (Part 1)" by Quito Colayco and Tony Hertz – 2:05
"Notorious" by Duran Duran – 4:00
"Stay" by Oingo Boingo – 3:38
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division – 3:23
"The Killing Moon" by Echo & the Bunnymen – 5:55
I like that second Shining Force song. I used to play my uncle’s Sega Genesis when I was a kid, but I don’t think he had Shining Force. We mostly played Sonic, Echo the Dolphin, and STREETS OF RAGE!!!
Yep. Just try them - easier said than done nowadays though.
Glad you liked the song. Well done for the Sega experience, it’s a crime that they died out as a console making company. That Streets of Rage song is pumpin’! I was more of a platformer man in my Sega days though. Sonic :
I really liked this thread. And what with trevor lamenting the lack of threadage here in The Arts forum, I think it’s appropriate to bring it to attention.
Anyhow, as I mentioned in the My Favorite Video Games Ever. thread (btw, trevor, another good thread that’s been wasting away under layers of dust in The Arts forum!), I’ve been playing through the Final Fantasy classics (I - VI) (working my way through V, now) and I think it’s not too early to say that the soundtracks for IV and V deserve recognition. Although I’m sure Silhouette will make some remark about Shining Force being 10x the game than any classic Final Fantasy, I’m still reveling in the afterglow of freshly played Final Fantasy and it seems that nothing can ruin it for me right now.
Final Fantasy IV [1991]:
My God, the first Final Fantasy to have a few semi-complex characters and a story worth playing through perhaps more than once! Of course, outside Japan everyone thought this was FFII because the real FF2, 3, & 4 were denied release to the rest of the world until more than a decade later. Compared to FFI through III, the music in this game really helped set the tone for a more involved plot with more developed characters.
Final Fantasy V [1992]:
Not as big a step music/story-wise as FFIV had been from I-III, but it still offers at least a few memorable tracks. (And the new Job System is amazing! But that’s a whole other story…)
True. 2001 is a great movie period. Incidentally, the opening piece that everyone identifies with it (here) was composed in 1896 by Richard Strauss and he called it Also Sprach Zarathustra, inspired by You Know What. It’s also interesting to note that Kubrick rejected the original score requested for his film and decided to go with all classical pieces instead.
I positively love the tracks made by Hans Zimmer to Gladiator, but especially the contribution of the singer Lisa Gerrard, she has an insanely deep and magnificent voice, I saw her live once, it is like seeing to God in which I dont believe or rather the Goddess… but anyway she has made some other inspiring film music mainly that I know of, for the Insider. Listen to this it will send chills up your spine (if you have one).
Never mind and pay no attention to the boring video they put to this song it is a waste to look at it.
What I didn’t know until recently is that Lisa Gerrard (singer who collaborated with Hans Zimmer on Gladiator) is also in a band called Dead Can Dance. Erik posted a couple of their songs in a thread awhile ago which was how I found out about them. Indus and Anabasis. These songs evoke a timeless trance and I feel connected to that which is ancient and mysterious in us and in nature.
Divinity: Original Sin [2014]
Kirill Pokrovsky was a prolific composer for the Divinity series, D:OS being the latest, crowdfunded addition that has been widely praised as an example of a modern classic-style role-playing game (CRPG). Pokrovsky breathes life into the world of Divinity with countless, beautiful airy themes of promise, intrigue, sadness, battle, and reflection. He passed away in June of 2015, but not before leaving behind an entire world in sound.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiR4g0A-83s[/youtube]
More than seven hours of music for the Divinity series alone.
Lord of the Rings [2001 - 2003]
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy was pretty much everything it should have been to do justice to J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy masterpiece. Cast, location, dialogue, faithfulness to the canon. Absolutely epic. Perhaps not perfect, but damn good. And the music of Howard Shore fits the bill. Two of my favorites serve as End Credit songs for The Fellowship and The Two Towers, respectively:
- easier said than done nowadays though.
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