Showing posts with label Western. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Western. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Dead Man - A Film By Jim Jarmusch - music by Neil Young

 


Dead Man is a 1995 American acid Western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton, Iggy Pop, Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Michael Wincott, Lance Henriksen, Gabriel Byrne, Mili Avital, and Robert Mitchum in his final film performance. The movie, set in the late 19th century, follows William Blake, a meek accountant on the run after killing a man. He has a chance encounter with enigmatic Native American spirit-guide "Nobody", who believes Blake is the reincarnation of the visionary English poet William Blake.

Described by Jarmusch as a "Psychedelic Western", the film is shot entirely in monochrome. Neil Young composed the guitar-dominated soundtrack with portions he improvised while watching the movie footage. Many have considered it a premier postmodern Western. It has been compared to Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian.


1 Guitar Solo, No. 1 5:17

2 The Round Stones Beneath The Earth... 3:31

3 Guitar Solo, No. 2 2:03

4 Why Does Thou Hide Thyself, Clouds... 2:24

5 Organ Solo 1:33

6 Do You Know How To Use This Weapon? [Poetry Reading] – Johnny Depp 4:22

7 Guitar Solo, No. 3 4:31

8 Nobody's Story 6:35

9 Guitar Solo, No. 4 4:22

10 Stupid White Men... 8:45

11 Guitar Solo, No. 5 14:40

12 Time For You To Leave, William Blake... 0:51

13 Guitar Solo, No. 6 3:22

Dead Man


Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Elmer Bernstein – The Magnificent Seven (Original Motion Picture Score)

 


The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges. The screenplay by William Roberts is a remake – in an Old West–style – of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai (initially released in the United States as The Magnificent Seven). The ensemble cast includes Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn, and Horst Buchholz as a group of seven gunfighters, and Eli Wallach as their main antagonist. The seven title characters are hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a group of marauding bandits, led by Wallach.

The film's score is by Elmer Bernstein. Along with the readily recognized main theme and effective support of the story line, the score also contains allusions to twentieth-century symphonic works, such as the reference to Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, second movement, in the tense quiet scene just before the shoot out. The original soundtrack was not released at the time until re-used and re-recorded by Bernstein for the soundtrack of Return of the Seven. Electric guitar cover versions by Al Caiola in the U.S. and John Barry in the U.K. were successful on the popular charts. At the 33rd Academy Awards, the score was nominated for Best Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.

Bernstein's score has frequently been quoted in the media and popular culture. Starting in 1963, the theme was used in commercials in the U.S. for Marlboro cigarettes for many years. A similar-sounding (but different) tune was used for Victoria Bitter beer in Australia. The theme was included in a scene of the James Bond film Moonraker.

1 Main Title And Calvera

2 Council

3 Quest

4 Strange Funeral / After The Brawl

5 Vin's Luck

6 And Then There Were Two

7 Fiesta

8 Stalking

9 Worst Shot

10 The Journey

11 Toro

12 Training

13 Calvera's Return

14 Calvera Routed

15 Ambush

16 Petra's Declaration

17 Bernardo

18 Surprise

19 Defeat

20 Crossroads

21 Harry's Mistake

22 Calvera Killed

23 Finale


The Magnificent Seven

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

A Fistful Of Dollars & For A Few Dollars More....music from the original soundtracks..composed and conducted by Ennio Morricone

 

Tracklist
        A Fistful Of Dollars    
A1        A Fistful Of Dollars
A2        Almost Dead
A3        The Chase
A4        The Result
A5        Without Pity
A6        Titoli
        For A Few Dollars More    
B1        Sixty Seconds To What?
B2        The Watcher Watched
B3        Vice Of Killing
B4        The Showdown
B5        Goodbye Colonel
B6        For A Few Dollars More


 Fistful and Few

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Thursday, November 14, 2019

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly...original motion picture soundtrack...music by Ennio Morricone


One of the all-time great Western scores, restored to its original length-that means an additional 10 tracks! A spaghetti-flavored treat for soundtrack collectors!

The concluding chapter of director Sergio Leone's epochal Man With No Name trilogy ushered film scorer Ennio Morricone into the pop mainstream courtesy of a hit cover of its main title by American Hugo Montenegro. More importantly, it both showcased the composer's spectacularly inventive range and set him up for even greater triumphs to come with Leone and others. But aficionados of il Maestro Morricone's G,B&U soundtrack knew its original editions contained but the main thematic/musical elements of the spaghetti western epic -- until now. 

The addition of ten previously unissued cues on this newly remastered edition render the landmark score in its full glory, nearly doubling its running time in the bargain. While some of these new elements are but spare, haunting reworkings of familiar motifs (including Allessandro Allessandroni's trademark guitar riffs and the chilling vocal shrieks the composer used to evoke the howling of coyotes) that help expand its emotional dynamic, others like "Sentenza," "La Missione San Antonio" (a haunting instrumental version of "A Soldier's Story" that effectively presages his elegiac Once Upon A Time in The West and "Il Bandito Monco" significantly add to its expansive scope, firmly restating its claim as Morricone's first true classic. -- Jerry McCulley (Amazon.com)