MovieMusic.com Message Boards: Scores to keep you awake

Message Boards

Movie Soundtracks

Scores to keep you awake

Archive of old forum. No more postings.

Please visit our new forum, The MovieMusic Lobby, to post new topics.

Author	Topic: Scores to keep you awake

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	It's 4:30 in the morning, and I'm still working because today's a deadline coming up. I'll have to stay awake for quite a while still, so if anybody could mention some music that prevents me from falling asleep, yet isn't so annoying that I can't work when playing it, I would be really grateful (at least when I'm finished and had some sleep ). NP: The OMD Singles
posted 10-19-2000 07:18 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Note my wide-awake smiley face. Any Zimmer stuff you like? BACKDRAFT is heavy and addictive, as is THE POWER OF ONE. Goldsmith's CAPRICORN ONE, or any of his RAMBO scores, particulary the second one. You've been playing his bouncy DAMIEN OMEN II often enough lately! Speaking of yet another score with "II" in its title, what about Christopher Young's THE FLY II? But your favorite composer is Williams, isn't it ... how 'bout any given Indy score? Something worth thinking about, since I'm on a deadline too ... (two of em actually ... oh hell, that II thing again)
posted 10-19-2000 07:29 PM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	Thanks, First Blood Part 2 it is for now (there's still a gap in my Goldsmith collection where the other Rambo scores should be). Fly 2 later, if I'm still not finished after this CD is over. I don't have much Zimmer; regarding the Indy scores, I find Williams action scores a bit too distracting while working lately, Goldsmith seems to work better as background music.
posted 10-19-2000 07:33 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	mmmmmmm.......let me see? maybe Lion In Winter Marian? ...kind of loud and gentle here and there! ...though I'm probably the wrong person to ask at this time (3.40 am here 'yawn') my 'Bond' CDR is is just finishing so I'm off to bed.....oh, and I don't have to work till Monday 'YIPPIE'! sleep tight Tim
posted 10-19-2000 07:36 PM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	How rude! Lion in Winter is a really good idea, maybe I'll still have time for it...
posted 10-19-2000 07:38 PM PT (US)

JJH Oscar® Winner	I would refer you to the horror score thread. NP -- Fourth Sonata for Orchestra, Colin Mathews
posted 10-19-2000 07:53 PM PT (US)

Will Oscar® Winner	Ironically, some cues from Sleepy Hollow might be quite suitable. Others: 1. The Rock 2. Armageddon 3. M:I-2 4. Any action scores you can think of! NP The Patriot *****
posted 10-20-2000 01:18 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	Well, here I am, back after 3 hours of sleep. A couple more hours to go until the deadline. I really don't care if I make it or not. Sure, there are people depending on me, but they gave me about twice the work to do that could reasonably be done in this time, so it really isn't my fault if I can't finish enough of it. Will, thanks for the list. Sleepy Hollow is indeed a good idea. The Rock and Armageddon aren't my cup of tea (granted, they would probably keep me awake ), and I've never heard MI2. NP: Nothing; I'm still feeling a bit dizzy from the short night, I think music would only distract me right now. Ah, when this is all over, I'll have a nice looong nap.
posted 10-20-2000 02:30 AM PT (US)

Mark Olivarez Oscar® Winner	Something LOUD!!!!!!!!!! Try: Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla 1993 Godzilla vs Destroyer The Mummy Seventh Voyage of Sinbad Jason and the Argonauts Rambo II The World is not Enough (hell just the level it is recorded at ought to keep you awake ) 1941 Air Force One
posted 10-20-2000 08:28 AM PT (US)

HAL 2000 Oscar® Winner	Marian, No suggestions here but I may need a few myself. I'm headed for a similar deadline grind myself and it's Friday! I'll be sitting in front of the MAC for many hours to come.
posted 10-20-2000 10:47 AM PT (US)

BMikeJ Oscar® Winner	To this day, I NEVER put on any of the Omen scores before I go to sleep. They scare the HECK out of me! Especially the first one... I will invariably doze off during the first couple of tracks and get woken up by the chorus during The Killer Storm. And then there's NO way I can get back to sleep!
posted 10-20-2000 11:57 AM PT (US)

John Dunham Oscar® Winner	Here are a few: Air Force One Jaws Cutthroat Island Flesh And Blood Outbreak (Complete Score) The World Is Not Enough Supergirl G.I. Jane Dinosaur Lionheart Conan I highly recommend Lionheart, Conan, and Flesh And Blood. Sheer orchestral power will keep your eyes open. NP: What Dreams May Come Rejected, Morricone
posted 10-20-2000 12:20 PM PT (US)

shrubber Oscar® Winner	JRocco, curiously enough (and perhaps rather perversely - but what can I say, I'm a child of the eighties) I always find that I sleep rather well after listening to First Blood II, though this is in no way a criticism of the score. Marian, try these: The Omen Capricorn One with the stereo cranked up all the way - to 11 Lord of the Rings Conan the Barbarian and, of course, our mutual friend: Alien Or, if all else fails, coffee.
posted 10-20-2000 02:12 PM PT (US)

shrubber Oscar® Winner	Oops, he did it again! Sorry, H Rocco it is.
posted 10-20-2000 02:14 PM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	Thanks for all the recommendations. The deadline is over, and obviously I did well enough, the project will go on. HAL, I won't mention anything new, there are so many good recommendations here already, and I hope that you don't need MORE than these! NP: Beethoven: Symphony #9 (Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein)
posted 10-20-2000 06:34 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	Shostakovitch No.7 will NOT allow ANYONE to go to sleep!....FACT!!!
posted 10-20-2000 07:01 PM PT (US)

JJH Oscar® Winner	I feel the same about his 4th, and 10th symphonies. NP - Heat, Goldenthal
posted 10-20-2000 07:25 PM PT (US)

Darth Fart Oscar® Winner	King Solomon's Mines by Goldsmith? Not too loud but should keep you amused or is that bemused? NP -King Solomon's mines
posted 10-21-2000 11:48 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	Well, as you've started listing Shostakovich; RVW's 4th symphony or Stravinsky's Rite of Spring certainly can keep you awake, too, but they may a bit too distracting when you have a deadline and must be really efficient at work. NP: Beethoven: Symphony #9 (Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein)
posted 10-21-2000 01:14 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	I haven't heard the 4th in some time now JJ, but the 10th is indeed a powerhouse....FACT!
posted 10-21-2000 07:17 PM PT (US)

JJH Oscar® Winner	something else comes to mind, as I was just listening to it: The Miraculous Mandarin by Bartok. For certian, I cannot sleep through that one! Not that it's frightening, but because of the perverse dance rhythms, and the brash opening. yeah baby! NP -- Sheherazade, Rimsky-Korsakov
posted 10-21-2000 07:55 PM PT (US)

Old Infopop Software by UBB