Music Meme - Part 1 b (Continuation of Movie Scores, Television Scores, and Broadway Musicals)

[shadowkat]

Music Meme

Name the music genres that you like, list five performers in it that you like and songs or albums by them.

[Like I said, if you have wildly eclectic taste - this could take forever.]

Television, Film, and Musical Scores and Songs

I don't know if anyone else does this? But I buy the albums to movies, television shows and Broadway Musicals.

Movie Albums

1. Almost Famous Soundtrack - Cameron Crow and Danny Branson (music producer). Songs included :

"1. “America” – Simon & Garfunkel
2. “Sparks” – The Who
3. “It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference” – Todd Rundgren
4. “I’ve Seen All Good People: Your Move” – Yes
5. “Feel Flows” – The Beach Boys
6. “Fever Dog” – Stillwater
7. “Every Picture Tells A Story” – Rod Stewart
8. “Mr. Farmer” – The Seeds
9. “One Way Out” – The Allman Brothers Band
10. “Simple Man” Lynyrd Skynyrd
11. “That’s The Way” – Led Zeppelin
12. “Tiny Dancer” – Elton John
13. “Lucky Trumble” – Nancy Wilson
14. “I’m Waiting For The Man” – David Bowie
15. “The Wind” – Cat Stevens
16. “Slip Away” – Clarence Carter
17. “Something In The Air” – Thunderclap Newman


Apparently...

Crowe and Bramson scored a major coup in securing a Led Zeppelin recording “That’s The Way” for the movie and soundtrack album. Robert Plant and Jimmy Page have never licensed one of their performances to a soundtrack; virtually all of the material they’ve recorded has been issued on their own Swan Song/Atlantic label. Crowe and Bramson flew to London in May to screen Almost Famous for Plant and Page, who were so moved by the film that they not only granted use of “That’s The Way” for the soundtrack, but also gave their blessing for Crowe to use four other songs in the movie: “The Rain Song,” “Misty Mountain Hop,” “Tangerine” and “Bron-Yr-Aur.”
VH1 aired a special version of Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” music video which featured the tour-bus scene lifted straight from the film, complete with scripted dialogue included the vocal of actors Billy Crudup, Noah Taylor, and Kate Hudson. “Cameron made an amazing movie that is just sweet and tender and fun,” says Wayne Isaak, VH1’s executive VP of talent and music programming. “When “Tiny Dancer” comes on in the movie it’s pretty touching, and Elton is still a relevant artist to us, so we broke it out and we’re playing it a lot.”

2. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from Fame included Fame, Hot Lunch, Out Here on My Own (Bonus Track), I Sing the Body Electric. (This was an original soundtrack - most of the songs, if not all were written for the movie.)

3. Pretty in Pink Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - possibly among my favorites. It includes, Left of Center, If you Leave, Shellshock, Try a Little Tenderness, Pretty in Pink...

4. The Mission Original Score - it is a breathtakingly beautiful score. After my family saw the film in theaters - we rushed out to get the album.

5. Gross Point Blank's Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - includes Blister in the Song, Guns & Roses version of Live & Let Die, Mirror in the Bathroom, Under Pressure (David Bowie and Queen)...

It was hard to limit this list. I love Movie Soundtracks.

Note there's also scores. But I don't tend to collect scores as much.

Television Soundtracks or Albums

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Album - there's two, actually three if you include the musical, but this is by far my favorite. It includes : Nerf Herder's Buffy Theme Song, Virgin State of Mind, Transylvania Concubine, Teenage FBI, Lucky, I quit, Pain, Keep Myself Awake..

2. True Blood Original Soundtrack it has several albums too - this one has Bad Things, Lake Charles, Burn...(I have the one with She's Not There - but don't see it on this list.)

3. Justified - Music from the Original Television Series Best by far is Harlan County Line.

4. Sopranoes - Music from the Television Series

5. The Wire - Original Soundtrack - All Five Seasons

Broadway Musical Albums

1. Original Cast Recording of Les Miseralbes

2. Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim - Original Cast Recording

3. Original Cast Recording of Hamilton

4. Original Cast Recording of Pippin has bonus tracks of Morning Glory by Michael Jackson, and I Guess I'll Miss the Man by the Supremes.

5. Original Cast Recording of Evita

James Bond Theme Songs

[I can't use Live and Let Die again.]

1. Skyfall by Adele Skyfall

2. No Time to Die - Billie English No Time to Die.

3. Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey Goldfinger

4. Nobody Does it Better - Carly Simon Spy who Loved Me.

5. Writing on the Wall - Sam Smith - Spectre

Top Five Buffy Soundtrack Songs

1. Pavlov's Bell by Aimee Man - Buffy S7 Sleeper

2. Lucky by Biff Naked - Buffy S4 - Harsh Light of Day

3. Translyvania Concubine by Rasputin - Buffy S2 - Surprise

4. Virgin State of Mind by K's Choice - Buffy S3 - Dopplegangland

5. Full of Grace by Sarah McLachlan Buffy S2 - Becoming Part II

Also..Buffy Theme Song by Nerf Herder.

Comments

[lizzybuffy2008]

Fun fact: I actually sort of know the lead singer of K's Choice (Sara now Sam, since gender re-assignment.) A friend who is a yoga teacher in our small city taught classes out of their house back in the mid 00's Sam and his wife have since relocated to California. Small world sometimes.

[shadowkat]

That is a fun fact. I adore that song.

[mefisto]

I'm shocked you don't have I'll Remember You in your Buffy top 5. :)

[shadowkat]

It's not really my top 5, I'm known to change my mind on a whim. Truth is I don't remember it, and I don't own it. I also thought it was an episode title not a song? I guess it is a song...now that I think about it...

[mefisto]

It's both a song and an episode title: the song is by Sophie Zelmani at the end of the episode Angel, and the title is AtS S1 I Will Remember You. The song is good, the episode is not.

[shadowkat]

I thought it was S2 Buffy - the episode right after Passion, where they inhabit the ghosts?

Didn't realize there was a song associated with the Angel S1 I Will Remember You episode - aka the episode that the writers used to kill Bangle. (OR they attempted to - some people are stubborn and not very good at story analysis. But most folks got it.)

It ended that ship for me - pretty much permanently. Also, I think I stopped watching Angel for a bit after it - I came back for the Faith arc but gave up until the Fanged Four arc in s2. Then Dochawk sent me tapes of Angel S2-S3, to get me caught up - so I'd write analysis on Angel on the board.
So I did, and I liked the series better - after I'd given up on Bangle and moved on to Briley then to Spuffy. I tend to go with the story thread in regards to shipping, mainly because I'm not that masochistic.

[mefisto]

The one you're thinking of was I Only Have Eyes For You. That was the name of both the song and the episode. Sophie Zelmani's song played over the scene of Buffy and Angel saying "this can't ever work" in the Bronze at the end of the episode Angel. They then used the song title for the AtS episode I Will Remember You.

Even today there are viewers who think that AtS episode somehow solidified Bangel forever. That drives me nuts, which is why I say the episode wasn't very good -- too many people didn't get it.

[shadowkat]

Oh god, I know. I had an interesting discussion with my niece about it - at around midnight at her house. She was 15. (And takes after my brother - I take no responsibility for this.)

Niece: But Angel and Buffy were so romantic..
ME: I was a Buffy/Angel fan until S1 Angel, which I was watching at the same time - specifically, until the episode - I Will Always Remember You -
Niece: Oh that was so sad, and so romantic -
Me: He gave her no choices, made all of them, and was patronizing...
Niece: But it was romantic...

Niece is otherwise quite brilliant. This is clearly her parents stupidity showing through. ;-)

I enjoyed mocking Bangle fans after a certain point. The writers had kind of made it clear by the end of S4 Buffy that the ship was over, but they liked to tease the Bangle fans, and then snatch the carrot . I figured out they were playing tease, snatch - basically Bangle fans were Charlie Brown, and the writers were Lucy, and Bangle was the football - in Angel S1 and Buffy S4. I'd hope until IWARY. (I Wary...hello!) If you think about it - they played tease snatch with Bangle pretty much all the way through the series, did the same thing with Spuffy, but to a lesser extent - actually Spuffy fans got rewarded, making it fairly clear where the evil writers preference was. (The writers were Spuffy shippers, while the actors were Bangle shippers. It was hilarious actually.)

Gellar: So, Buffy and Angel will be together.
Writers: Maybe
Gellar: why are Spike and Buffy boinking
Writers: It's fun.
Gellar: Where's Bangle in all this..
Writers: you get a kiss coming up
Gellar: And a cookie dough speech, really?

Then comics came - and the writers basically destroyed Bangle - the actors had even less say in the comics. It is no more. Any doubt I had in my mind about where the writers stood in regards to that ship was gone by the time I finished reading the Buffy comics.

[mefisto]

That's a good summary. I'll cut your niece some slack since she was only 15. :)

[shadowkat]

Also, it should be noted that her parents were Bangle fans, and disliked Spike and Spuffy. I know I had a brief discussion with them concerning it when it originally aired. My niece watched it with them.

But my brother's favorite films are Titantic and Ang Lee's Incredible Hulk, so...there's that.

[mefisto]

You're right that your brother is unredeemable. :)

[cjlasky7]

With most great Broadway shows, you have one or two immortal songs and a slew of "book" songs that tend to slide down the memory hole. These five are stacked, end to end, with irresistible tunes.

My five favorite Broadway musicals:

1. Cabaret (Kander/Ebb)

With Kander and Ebb, it's a toss up between this and Chicago, but the chilling "If You Could See Her" is the tiebreaker.

2. West Side Story (Bernstein/Sondheim)

I could do a top five with Sondheim alone, but the combination of Sondheim and Bernstein has its own special magic.

3. Fiddler on the Roof (Bock/Harnick)

My father's world. When I was a child, my parents took me to see Fiddler, with Zero Mostel as Tevye. One of my most cherished childhood memories.

4. The Sound of Music (Rodgers/Hammerstein)

My mother's world. She would sing "Edelweiss" and it would take her back home.

5. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Frank Loesser)

When talking Loesser musicals, you automatically think Guys and Dolls. But this is his masterpiece. Simultaneously warm hearted and completely cynical, it still sums up the business world better than a dozen Wall Street analysts.

[lizzybuffy2008]

I definitely agree with Cabaret, Chicago and Fiddler on the Roof. I have never seen the other 3 on stage and except for WSS, not in movie form either.

For me, I would add Jesus Christ Superstar and 1776.

[shadowkat]

Why 1776? Interesting choice.

Totally understand Jesus Christ Superstar.

You've not seen Sound of Music? I didn't think that was possible. It plagued our television set growing up until well recently, showing every single Christmas, Easter, and various times in between.

[lizzybuffy2008]

I like "Sit Down John," "Molasses to Rum," and "Momma Look Sharp." I have only seen it live once (in DC) when it had the revival with Brent Spiner, but we had the cast album and listened to it when commuting.

I have seen snippets of SoM, but never the whole thing.

[shadowkat]

I do like Sit Down John and Momma Look Sharp.

Oh, they are doing a revival right now - in which the entire cast is female, and they've redone some of the songs and music.

[shadowkat]

1. Agreed on Cabaret. While Chicago has a few interesting songs, they aren't really memorable. Let's face it - Bob Fosse made Chicago work with the dance numbers. Cabaret, however, has some excellent songs in there - Mein Herr (is a favorite of mine), Life is a Cabaret, and oh so many others. (I actually saw it on stage in NYC in the early 00s with Wales. And I read the play adapted from Christopher Isherwood's memoir "I Am the Camera".) In college, I had to sing and dance to the song Cabaret on stage, and a friend did the choreaography to Fosse's Mein Herr for the college stage (I did not dance to that one).

2. Sondheim.

Hmmm. Bernstein's music is beautiful. And I adore West Side Story. (I did get burned out on it finally though.)

However, go listen to this song... Children will Listen from Into to the Woods...which is haunting.

I can't choose between Sondheim's, it goes with my mood. There are a few I don't like, but I like a few of the songs from each. I adore Somewhere from West Side Story, Cool, and the score. Into the Woods. Sweeny Todd. A Little Night Music has Send in the Clowns.

3. Fiddler on the Roof - yeah I have the album on my phone. I had to get rid of it on my phone finally, because I had it memorized.

There's some lovely songs from it. My mother's favorite is Sunrise, Sunset.

4. Sound of Music is just pure nostalgia. We loved it as kids. Was your mother from Austria?

[cjlasky7]

Bavaria. Right across the border.

[cjlasky7]

Movie Soundtracks (songs):

Purple Rain
A Hard Day's Night
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Harder they Come
Moana

Honorable Mentions:

Reality Bites
Rock and Roll High School


Movie Soundtracks (score):

Doctor Zhivago (Maurice Jarre)
The Godfather (Nino Rota)
Gone with the Wind (Max Steiner)
The Third Man (Anton Karas)
The Natural (Randy Newman)

[shadowkat]

Love Purple Rain.

Reality Bites had a soundtrack? I can't remember it at all. I saw it, but no memory of it.

Maurice Jarre was brilliant the sweeping score, he also did Lawrence of Arabia.

Randy Newman did The Natural? Am I confusing him with the guy who did the music to Toy Story?

The Godfather and Gone with the Wind - have two of the most memorable and beautiful scores on record.

[cjlasky7]

Reality Bites (1994) had a slew of late 80s and 90s pop acts, like Crowded House, World Party and Lenny Kravitz. It also had Lisa Loeb's "Stay"; Loeb was the first artist to ever hit #1 without a record contract!

Toy Story. The Natural. I Love L.A. and Short People. Yes, it is all the same Randy Newman. But Randy wasn't even the first member of his family to do motion picture scores! His uncles, Alfred and Lionel Newman were Hollywood legends. Alfred scored Wuthering Heights; Lionel won an Oscar for Hello Dolly!