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| This is a comments thread about FSM CD: Where Eagles Dare/Operation Crossbow |
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There is a sense of catching up and of time running out as we don't know how long many of these cds are going to be around.
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One of the best cd's FSM ever produced, excellent sound, amazing music, what more could you ask for?
Lieutenant, in the next 15 minutes we have to create enough confusion to get out of here alive.
Major, right now you got me about as confused as I ever hope to be.
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Great score, but I much prefer the LP presentation from a listening perspective. Very rarely listen to the FSM cd. Guess thats just me though. Goodwin's themes are great, but his suspense/incidental music is pretty boring. Dave
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Hi Miguel
What's your problem, please explain. I do not recall any dialogue on the WHERE EAGLES DARE lp..?
All I am saying is that from a listening perspective I love the sequencing on the LP, the CD runs too long (am I turning into Thor?).
Dave
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Great score, but I much prefer the LP presentation from a listening perspective. Very rarely listen to the FSM cd. Guess thats just me though. Goodwin's themes are great, but his suspense/incidental music is pretty boring. Dave
Everyone to their own......but "boring" is not a word that I'd use to describe Ron Goodwin's suspense/incidental music.
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That's right Chris, just expressing my opinion. I have pretty much all of Goodwin's scores and IMHO he does write great themes, but his scores are not always satisfactory to listen to as a whole. Music has a functional purpose in movies right, so this is not a criticism of his scores, just talking from a listening point of view.
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Sep 16, 2011 - 12:22 PM
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Miguel Rojo
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Hi Miguel
What's your problem, please explain. I do not recall any dialogue on the WHERE EAGLES DARE lp..?
All I am saying is that from a listening perspective I love the sequencing on the LP, the CD runs too long (am I turning into Thor?).
Dave
No, There isnt any dialogue on the LP.
Me mild and chris were quoting from the film - and I was making the comment that we have so many to choose from in one film we could go on for days (and probably will now!).
And I also added that there is such lousy crap utterly forgettable dialogue in so many films of the last 20 years - but that 60s and 70s classics were regularly brimful with great lines (not Tarantino copied shit, but proper great dialogue). Some films had dozens and dozens of memorable lines (W Bunch, Cool Hand Luke, Magnificent seven, dirty dozen, Battle of Britain, Patton, Spartacus, GBU, Professionals, Zulu, Orrence, OUATITW, Wild Geese, Emperor of the North, Charley Varrick, etc etc, just a handful off the top of my head). It was something that clearly film-makers took a little more time over back then.
I was just saying What???? to your comment that Goodwin's suspense music in WED is boring.
Because I couldnt believe anyone could have that view.
Possibly of one or two of his other scores like the Caan submarine one but not of Where Eagles dare - it lives and breathes, well, like a living and breathing thing and there isnt a wasted note in the whole score!
Each to their own, Dave. You use boring. I say brilliant.
Tommy Cooper never had to explain his gags did he????
"...I seem to remember zat ze cathedral voss on ze ozzer side of ze square...??!!"
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I agree WED has some cracking good dialogue in.
One more for good luck;
Look, Major, this is primarily a British operation. I'm an American. I don't even know why the hell I'm here.
Lieutenant, you're here because you're an American.
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Thanks for explaining Miguel, just did'nt get your sense of humur there! Anyhow, I think it's just the case that like quite a few 'expanded' scores, I still prefer the sequencing of the LP's from a listening point of view. The FSM 'WED' just goes on a little too long, and I'm waiting for that fantastic theme to appear again, and the suspense music just meanders along without going anywhere. Of cause there is some other great action music on there, but it does'nt hold my attention for the whole cd.
Anywhere after this discussion I'm putting the FSM cd on again tonight!
PS Did you get Fidenco's PER IL GUSTO DI UCCIDERE on GDM, it's a superb Italian western score.
Dave
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Well Miguel I'm gonna have to give this cd a good listen again tonight! It's a long cd as far as I recall, I have'nt gone into individual tracks, but I did say in my comments there's some other great music on there as well as the fantastic theme. The LP is around 40 minutes long so there's a lot of music on this I love.
I'll try and post my comments tomorrow, great convo anyway.
Dave
PS I think it's 'Lanky Fellow'.
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