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JJH Oscar® Winner	a wholly unoriginal thread: The weather in Lubbock, TX today is what one could politely describe as "cruddy," or "inspired by the Brits." no offense.... any way, I put on THE LAST RUN while I was in my car coming home from school, and the music seems so appropriate to the day. Now I have to go put Erik Satie's Gymnopedies. NP -- Cosmic Voyage, yet again, David Michael Frank
posted 03-31-2000 09:19 AM PT (US)

Luscious Lazlo Oscar® Winner	I can recommend a tune called "Well All Right" by Buttock-native Buddy Holly. But being as you live in Buttock, you've probably had Buddy out of wazoo. I like Satie's "Gnossienne #3". (I think it's #3. I'm not sure. It's a semi-creepy tune.)
posted 03-31-2000 09:44 AM PT (US)

dantoris Oscar® Winner	How about Hard Rain.
posted 03-31-2000 09:55 AM PT (US)

Cole Oscar® Winner	I love my rainy day music. psycho is always great for druving around in the rain. LA Confidential, Bone Collector, prettymuch anything by Herrmann or Elfman (so I wont bother listing all those possibilities, Dracula (Williams, Kilar and Glass versions) Poledouris' Les Miserables, Angela's Ashes is great rainy music, A Perfect Murder, Shawshank, Goldenthal can be realy good rain music if you like his stuff and are feeling a little angry when it rains, GATTACA, OH - I love to listen to Ryuichi Sakamoto's Snake Eyes when it rains (especially the main theme and that track with the crazy saxaphone in it - that creepy string melody that follows the sax is so cool)of course you shouldn't forget Hard Rain or any other chris Young scores, and I like Wolf - the dream and the dear is an excellent track for driving in the rain. and then of course is Beethoven's 7th - wow hehe like I said, I love my rain music - I do have some dark and somewhat morbid tendencies - I am the king of the dreadfully macabre. woe is me Cole NP - Rocheteer
posted 03-31-2000 10:06 AM PT (US)

Audacity Oscar® Winner	JJH, It looks like the same storm that is giving you rain is giving us in Colorado snow, and a lot of it. What are some good scores to listen to on Snowy days also? Audacity
posted 03-31-2000 10:22 AM PT (US)

dantoris Oscar® Winner	Audacity - Lucky you. I haven't been in snow since I was about 6 years old, and I'm 21 now.
posted 03-31-2000 11:38 AM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	One day in college I played the opening from Horner's LAND BEFORE TIME as it was snowing outside ... it just hit me the right way, somehow. Rain ... depends on the kind of rain, doesn't it. Great big thunderstorms knock me out so much just on their own, I don't tend to need accompaniment. Soft and quiet rain ... I guess MILLER'S CROSSING or FARGO by Carter Burwell would hit the spot. Perhaps Christopher Young's HAUNTED SUMMER or Jerry Goldsmith's ISLANDS IN THE STREAM. Or for a slightly more menacing timbre, John Williams' THE FURY.
posted 03-31-2000 12:43 PM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	Also Beethoven's "Pastoral" symphony, of course. If it's a thunderstorm, I'd recommend Jerry's "Omen". I did this during a thunderstorm last summer, it was cool! NP: Anton Bruckner: Symphony #7 (Günter Wand/Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester; wonderful)
posted 03-31-2000 01:12 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	Hey JJ, No offence taken, But I think you'll find a usual British responce for rain described as 'It's ****ing down'! Audacity, Check out Vaughan Williams Symphony Antartica for an authentic psuedo feeling of being in the middle of the Arctic with no hope of coming back! Seriously It's brilliant!, I would put this on immiediately if it was snowing outside now!!
posted 03-31-2000 06:06 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	Ugh!....that wasn't rude! It's just a 'P' with an 'I' and a double 'S'.....I think you get the idea.......
posted 03-31-2000 06:09 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	I think certain **** words are just pre-encoded to be cut ... I don't find that one particularly rude either, but I didn't make the rules. Never Mind, Lord 'Ster, I'm sure we all got the point. NP: PAPILLON (not quite rainy music, but compulsively watery ... how many of these cues revolve around the sea? Most of em, is the answer, chum.)
posted 04-01-2000 12:36 AM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Oscar® Winner	Hey, I was born in Lubbock (the Methodist Hospital on 13th st., I believe) but got out before it was too late. I love moody string quartets (Shostakovich) on gray rainy ones. Some Delerue is perfect to play in the rain. NP: Damn The Defiant! (Clifton Parker)
posted 04-01-2000 02:47 AM PT (US)

Will Oscar® Winner	During heavy rains, I would play something loud, such as Crimson Tide and The Rock, especially the main titles, which is also a rain scene. When driving, Burn Around the Moon/ Shuttle Crash from Armageddon if it is really heavy. If it is just a light rain, then perhaps Rain Ride from Kindergarten Cop.
posted 04-01-2000 08:24 AM PT (US)

Luscious Lazlo Oscar® Winner	MEMO TO TIMMER: I've only heard Adrian Boult's version of Sinfonia Anarctica. Have you heard Leonard Slatkin's version with the Philharmonia? How does it compare with the Boult version? My favorite motif is that bleak brass fanfare. I like the hypnotic repetition of it. (I'm referring to the motif that also gets played by the loud organ in the "Landscape" section.)
posted 04-01-2000 03:20 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	That's a hard one Luscious, I have the Boult version on L.P.,I have 3 other versions on C.D. by Andrew Davis, Andre Previn and Vernon Handley, Of these the Hanley one is my favorite,But they all have something better in certain sections than the others. The definative version's are all by Boult,Who conducted the premiers of most of RVW's works in the great man's presence. I haven't heard Slatkin's interpretation? I guess it comes down to personal taste eh?!! NP : Mission to Mars - played this 3 times today already!!
posted 04-01-2000 05:23 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	p.s., Re: 'Landscape',I defy ANYONE to find a more Magnificent 'Organ' piece in a dramatic section of music as is played in RVW's 'Antartica'!!!
posted 04-01-2000 05:30 PM PT (US)

S Smith unregistered	Well, I have a jazz CD called "Jazz for a Rainy Afternoon." Or how about Bernstein's "Rainmaker." I think in the film score genre, I'd probably go for "Snow Falling on Cedars," "Braveheart," "Schindler's List," "To Kill a Mockingbird," and...oh...let's say "Godfather" - just to name a few. NP: Elmer Bernstein: "Bringing Out the Dead" Academy Promo (throw this one on the list too).
posted 04-01-2000 09:16 PM PT (US)

BMUSTANG Oscar® Winner	I don't care what kind of rain it is, I wish we could get some. No, we are not in a drought or anything, but I LOVE rain! Especially a big huge thunder storm with spectacular lightning, loud thunder, and high winds! I hope we have one soon! so I wouldn't be listening to music during a thunderstorm anyway, I would be to busy listening to the thunder!
posted 04-01-2000 10:02 PM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Oscar® Winner	Timmer--I have a few versions of the Sinfonia myself. My all time favorite is conducted by John Barbirolli. EMI issued this as a special CD a couple of years ago but it is already out of print. I have an LP of it from the 70s, the actual recording is from the 50s. NP: The Four Musketeers (Lalo Schifrin)
posted 04-01-2000 11:49 PM PT (US)

sabbey Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by BMUSTANG: I don't care what kind of rain it is, I wish we could get some. No, we are not in a drought or anything, but I LOVE rain! Especially a big huge thunder storm with spectacular lightning, loud thunder, and high winds! I hope we have one soon! so I wouldn't be listening to music during a thunderstorm anyway, I would be to busy listening to the thunder! Really? And I thought I was the only person who actually likes these so-called Bad Weather days. Just skip tornados and hurricanes and I am an happy camper. NP: Heavy Gear (PC Game Score) ***** Regards, Sean Robert Abbey [This message has been edited by sabbey (edited 02 April 2000).]
posted 04-02-2000 12:55 AM PT (US)

pietari Oscar® Winner	The best score for rain IMHO is Ottman`s Incognito
posted 04-02-2000 10:55 AM PT (US)

Dan Brecher Oscar® Winner	Rainy day? Magnolia... Dan (UK)
posted 04-02-2000 12:03 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Hmmm, rain, MAGNOLIA ... do you get many frogs in your neighborhood, Mr. Brecher? (Frankly I'd welcome such a spectacle for the sheer holy hell of it.) NP: nothing as yet, should pick out something ... it's not raining here, though... okay, into the pile ... it comes up (fingers go in) -- THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD by Jerry Goldsmith. I'm not sure I want to play this one, it is too damned creepy for the moment. Best just to sign off.
posted 04-02-2000 05:00 PM PT (US)

Dan Brecher Oscar® Winner	laughs Yikes, the whole frog thin HONESTLY did not even come into my mind when I optioned the score for Rainy Day music. Heheh, that puts a whole new comic perspective on it now, eh? I think it works though. I mean, it was raining here this afternoon and as I sat on my pc then spinning the score I found it worked a treat as I looked out onto the world from my window, especially track 8, "so now then"... Dan (again) NP: Magnolia (***/***)
posted 04-02-2000 05:21 PM PT (US)

Valere Oscar® Winner	Rainy day music? I'd love some...Usually classical,but sometimes a little blues...or the usual,mostly Hanson. or RVW,or Holst.and sometimes the quiet themes of Goldsmith,Williams,Newman,Freidhofer...and the list goes on and on.... NP amn the Defiant! Clifton Parker ***/** :-)
posted 04-02-2000 07:22 PM PT (US)

Thor Oscar® Winner	It's april 3, and big snow flakes are thumping down outside. That's sooo typical Norway. I long for rain.
posted 04-03-2000 08:23 AM PT (US)

BMUSTANG Oscar® Winner	Hey, come on! No tornadoes? Ha, just kidding. some people think I'm crazy, but I don't think they understand what I am trying to say. I want to SEE a tornado, not BE in one!
posted 04-03-2000 08:04 PM PT (US)

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