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Ken S Standard Userer	As an enthusiastic collector of childlike, bright and energetic movie music I nearly always wear out my favorite melodies by listening to them too much repeatedly. But now I have found out that there's one single composition among my favorites that simply WON'T wear out, no matter how many times it is repeated. Drum roll - it's Jerry Goldsmith's "End Credits" music from BABY: SECRET OF THE LOST LEGEND. I have played it over and over again now half a year, especially when driving in my car - and today, as driving to the city, I truly noticed that the darned music sounds better and better every single time it is repeated !! --And thus I started thinking what exactly makes this specific Goldsmith-composition so durable, and I came to the conclusion that it's simply terrific: A simple melody, and yet underneath it a playful march rhythm, a most perfect orchestration with distinct roles for each instrument - and ah! all those lush strings with that magical 80's sound in them !! ...Which gave me an idea of asking that if you have one or two movie music themes you can't get enough of (no matter how many times you repeat them), what / which are they - and WHY ? KEN NP. "di-du-di-du-dii-deee-de-di-deeee-de-deeee" (...can't get enough of it...)
posted 07-08-2003 02:45 PM PT (US)

JoeInSanDiego Standard Userer	Funny how things work out...I was ust lsitening to that score this afternoon!! For the first time in months. It is rather infectious, isn't it? Joe NP: Flim Flam Man (Goldsmith)
posted 07-08-2003 04:01 PM PT (US)

jonathan_little Standard Userer	I dunno what it is about the music, but there are about 30 minutes of The Omega Man that I can repeat over and over without wearing the music out. Almost everything I've heard from Herrmann has great replay value as well. I find myself enjoying many of his scores, Vertigo and The Day the Earth Stood Still are great examples, much more now that I've listened to them many times. I feel pretty much the same about a lot of Franz Waxman's work, too. My favorite Goldsmith "repeatables" are Patton's "German March," "QB VII Main Title," The March from "Masada," The Russia House, just about any of his western themes, and some of the action music from Total Recall. And then finally, of course, possibly the best and most repeatable piece of score ever composed: Morricone's "Ecstasy of Gold." NP: Taxi Driver [Message edited by jonathan_little on 07-08-2003]
posted 07-08-2003 04:15 PM PT (US)

DavidOC Non-Standard Userer	Some of my favourite, most-repeated pieces of music are: The Snowy Death (The Claim) - Nyman La Noyee (Amelie) - Tiersen Theme from Lonesome Dove - Poledouris Main Title (Tora, Tora, Tora!) - Goldsmith The Droid (Alien) - Goldsmith For the Love of a Princess (Braveheart) - Horner Sail On (The Shipping News) - Young Eclipse (Dolores Claiborne) - Elfman Main Titles (Beetlejuice) - Elfman..... plus a few hundred others.... Also, virtually any main theme from a Rachel Portman score - she is such an amazing composer of melodies, I could listen to them for hours, particularly those from The Joy Luck Club, Cider House Rules, The Legend of Bagger Vance and most recently the wonderful 'Final Salute'-the opening track from Hart's War. Two entire scores that I haven't been able to get enough of recently are About Schmidt by Rolfe Kent which has so many wonderful moments and Angelo Badalamenti's incredibly moving The Straight Story which I've probably listened to more times than most other scores over the past 2 or 3 years. [Message edited by DavidOC on 07-08-2003]
posted 07-08-2003 10:55 PM PT (US)

rkeaveney Standard Userer	Strangly enough, Basil's main titles for FOR LOVE OF THE GAME. What a theme! Ryan
posted 07-08-2003 11:18 PM PT (US)

James Standard Userer	Main Title from A Patch of Blue (Jerry Goldsmith) You are the Pan from Hook (John Williams) Invitation to a Suicide from Invitation to a Suicide (John Zorn) Cody's Flight from The Rescuers Down Under (Bruce Broughton) Main Title from The Alchemist (Richard Band) Main Title from To Kill a Mockingbird (Elmer Bernstein) The Grand Finale from Edward Scissorhands (Danny Elfman) The Creation from Incognito (John Ottman) I've only barely scratched the outer-most paper-thin surface here..... Kirk
posted 07-09-2003 12:05 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Standard Userer	I usually listen to whole CDs and not just specific tracks, but sometimes there's a track I still keep playing over and over and over again. Two that come to my mind are: Child - The Legend of 1900 (Morricone) Children's Story - Star Trek: Insurrection (Goldsmith) I wonder if the title similarity has any significance. NP: The Matrix (Don Davis)
posted 07-10-2003 08:35 AM PT (US)

JJH Standard Userer	pretty much all of Howard Shore's LOTR work has high replay value to me. Great stuff. Jonathan mentioned Waxman. Fine compsoer, of course, but I get a little bored with some of his stuff, sometimes. Not sure why. I obviously need MORE CDs. as far as certain tracks from individual scores goes, I've been playing the main title to Rozsa's Tribute to a Bad Man every day for the last two weeks. There's just something about it. And the score as a whole has this affect on me; I like the gentle laid back nature of the western sound. But I'm from Texas, and therefore my IQ is next to nothing, so this may explain why I love it. NP -- Spartacus, North
posted 07-10-2003 01:58 PM PT (US)

Graham Watt Standard Userer	Oh, there are many, but for a sustained twelve minutes of awesomeness I always return to the music Jerry Goldsmith wrote for the documentary which preceded the original cinema showing of THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY. That's absolutely beautiful, and really gets the hairs on the back of my neck on end. Another piece I put on time and time again is the finale by David Raksin for FOREVER AMBER. I can't get enough of that, in fact, although I love Varese's full release of the original soundtrack, the 25 minute Raksin-conducted suite on the RCA Victor label is so great and concise and heartbreaking that I often put it on three or four times in a row (I mean one after another, not when I'm in a boat nor fighting with my family).
posted 07-10-2003 03:34 PM PT (US)

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