@TheKrynoidMan and @Blenkinsopthebrave – In terms of The Thing score, had a very quick look at wikipedia and all music guide and it does seem that its a score with a lot of Carpenter’s influence. In fact Morricone may well have re-scored it as well after Carpenter asked for changes.

I’m not sure but it seems that John Carpenter did compose the…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan   Rhapsody in Blue and Ballroom Blitz. In one post. Are you trying to make me dizzy?   🙂  (That’s actually quite awesome.)

@FatManInABox   I love the John Cale Hallelujah as well!

And kudos to everyone else posting all the fabulous Morricone music!

@TheKrynoidMan

I have long wondered whether this a Morricone score at all, but instead a John Carpenter score with, perhaps, minor tweaking by Morricone. It does sound strangely similar to numerous other John Carpenter scores for movies he directed.

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Ha! Well, guilty pleasure, like beauty, is perhaps in the eye of the beholder.

Now, THIS is clearly one of the greatest films of all time. (Oh, all right, one of the greatest opening credit sequences of all time) With fabulous music, and, another Blenkinsop guilty pleasure.

@Whisht, @TheKrynoidMan

“Once Upon a Time in the West”. Ahh, what guilty pleasure that movie (no…experience) is! The music of Ennio Morricone and the visuals of Sergio Leone…does it get any better?

I totally agree with credits at the end of this clip.

@TheKrynoidMan    That arrangement of “Yesterday” is beautiful all on its own, but used as it is in that scene is particularly evocative. It relies on the assumption that the viewer will know the song, and our minds will fill in the missing lyrics. I think that it gets us into the mind of the character much more effectively that way!…[Read more]

@FaeGrl – Cash’s Hurt and Buckley’s Halleluah – well, that’s two of the best “interpretations that were better than the originals” from the last few years!

@TheKrynoidMan – absolutely brilliant film music!

Lalo Schirin – Hadn’t heard this (outside watching the film) before – the other-worldly singing and eerie screeching emoting the madness of…[Read more]

@everyone, you’ve been coming up with so many great covers. Really fun, and fascinating to see how different performers can channel the essence of a song in very different ways, or re-imagine a song into a completely different genre. Something like Senior Coconut’s “Beat It” should just be silly, but it isn’t, because it’s so tightly performed t…[Read more]

Ah @TheKrynoidMan – I love the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain!
Seen them a couple of times – the first time was years ago; the singer was standing and is a big guy (well over 6ft) which just made this version of an 80’s classic even better.

One more stab at getting caught up on this string of great music!

@purofilion, I just love the Byrds. Enough said there.

@TheKrynoidMan—  Geoffrey Burgon, yes! There’s an example of a composer who can be musically literate and still fully engage the emotions of the listener. (We’ve had this conversation before, I believe!) And thanks, @purofilio…[Read more]

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Many thanks for the Burgon links. I think you may have provided the soundtrack to my Bank Holiday. 😀

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The closing credit music on “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” by Geoffrey Burgon has to be one of the most perfect pieces of music for television ever.

And Burgon did the music for “The Terror of the Zygons” as well!

Methinks it is time to hop over to Amazon for a bit of shopping…

@TheKrynoidMan

Is the RTD2 reference a Star Wars one? Because he was the brave, realiable droid, and amazingly popular if you go by merchandising useage.

I’d got the impression you didn’t like Russell that much. 😉

@TheKrynoidMan

If you want to call Russell T Davies RTD2, can you tell me who’s RTD1?

Anyway, in answer to your comment – in my opinion, he’s a very good writer indeed. He has two noticeable ‘weaknesses’. The first, which we’ll get an opportunity to examine as we go through his stories, is that he has brilliant, creative ideas about dilemmas for…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan

Some more UNIT stories would be good. I notice that they reminded us, in The Day of The Doctor, that the Doctor technically still has a job with UNIT.

Hmmm… I dare say the Doctor will remember how to fly the TARDIS, but it might be fun if he was kinda-stuck on 21st Century Earth because he can’t. Was that pre-programmed return…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan Agreed. Definitely more Unit Stories. I hope that Kate Lethbridge-Stewart will be another recurring character. I think that the odd recurring character gives weight and depth to the story, provided of course that they are well developed characters. I also like the “other worldly” stories.

Cheers

Janette

@bluesqueakpip

It’s interesting that RTD’s original idea for Adam was that he’d have a decent motive for stealing this information. But they were right to drop it; it wouldn’t have worked. This early on, everyone would simply have expected the Doctor to cure Adam’s Dad.

I think you’ve just articulated why I think it would be problematic…[Read more]

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

@TheKrynoidMan – sure. If someone mutters they’re speaking in a low/quiet voice, and in the UK (for some reason I thought you were from the UK) it usually means they’re complaining.

If someone says something darkly, they’re saying something ominous.

So if you’re muttering darkly about the bad writing, it means I think you’re not only…[Read more]

@FatManInABox

Well remembered about the scene explaining Tosh covering for Owen in Torchwood. Can’t remember the exact episode, but it’s towards the end of Series 2 I think.

@Bluesqueakpip

I think you’re right in that the time element was the key. The BBC wanted a very small production team and pool of writers on the first series, and I think…[Read more]