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Nostalgia favourites
Further to the post suggesting we have too much 'name this track' and not enough actual
discussion I offer the following:
I have two particular scores that are favourites not because they're great (though they're not
bad either) but because they have special nostalgia value. The first score I ever bought -
Diamonds Are Forever. I hadn't seen the movie, I was too young but old enough to be
developing an interest in Bond and movie music (yes they were connected) but DAF was the
current Bond film in release. So it will always have a special place, even though there are
better Bond scores.
The second is Love and Let Die, the first Bond film I actually saw at the movies. Again, not
the best score in the Bond canon but it has a special place for me.
There are others but that's enough about me...over to you. Are there soundtracks that have
a special place in your collection even though they may not be knockout scores (may even be
pretty lousy scores)?
whyaduck, October 15, 2009; 6:45 PM
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I'll play. For me it would be The Blue Lagoon by Basil Poledouris. It was my first score purchase and I was enraptured by my first "classical music" purchase. I copied it to a cassette and I must have worn that tape out. Still have the LP somewhere. Still a personal fave.
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akwarner, October 16, 2009; 4:12 AM
When i heard the last 15 minutes of ET, back in 1989, i was totally hooked. The magic of that
piece has never been outdone.
DJ
dirk.j.jansen, October 16, 2009; 11:04 AM
It was I who suggested that there was too much 'name this track' so I am more than happy to participate. Two scores that particularly stand out for me as a child and probably always will was the balloon sequence in Mysterious Island and the score to Jason and the Argonauts. Although these scores were not available to me at the time as I wouldn't know where to start, I was content with just recording them from the tv with the sound effects and dialogue intact. Now I have these scores I still cannot stop listening to them. There are others but these two are special.
TheSaint.786, October 16, 2009; 6:53 PM
Saint, you take me back by talking about recording stuff from the television. Times, they do
change. A piece I recorded was the Ron Grainger theme for Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple
movies. Still transports me. Another is John Williams' music for Lost in Space. It instantly takes
me to a certain time and place.
whyaduck, October 17, 2009; 8:30 AM
Since we are on this particular bandwagon..
The first LP i ever fell in love with- The National Philharmonic Orchestra perform a suite on "Close Encounters of The Third Kind & Other Great Space Music". I was hooked. I played the thing to death. 1978. Damont Records.. happy memories.
DAMSLATTERY, October 20, 2009; 4:58 PM
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