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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4      General Discussion: What score takes you back to being a kid again?    FIRST   PRIOR   2 3 4       Last Post   Posted:   Feb 19, 2015 - 2:44 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) The Magnificent Seven does take me back to being a kid again. But not because of the movie - instead, because of the awful Marlboro Man commercials....Sadly, that pinnacle of film music will probably always be spoiled for me because of this childhood association. This is getting freaky for that is another memory of my youth. It would be several decades before I actually saw the flick from whence the Marlboro theme came. Years later would come the sadness of yours in reverse: the thought that young people would forever associate Rhapsody in Blue with United Airlines.    Posted:   Feb 22, 2015 - 11:58 AM     By:   Graham Watt   (Member) Some of you have touched on something which I identify with - I don't get taken back to being a kid again by listening to my first LP purchase for the millionth time, because it has accompanied me throughout my life... The real thing which evokes an uncanny nostalgia is finding - on YouTube for example - films or TV series which I saw back then and had never seen or heard since. Too many examples to mention, but here are two - Ron Grainer's great themes for "Man in a Suitcase" and "The Baron". i could go on but i've stretched my fingers too much for one day and don't want to go back to those one-fingered ugly rabbits, tee hee, exclamation mark.    Posted:   Feb 22, 2015 - 12:02 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) The real thing which evokes an uncanny nostalgia is finding - on YouTube for example - films or TV series which I saw back then and had never seen or heard since. Too many examples to mention, but here are two - Ron Grainer's great themes for "Man in a Suitcase" and "The Baron". Funny you should mention that, because lately I've run into several TV commercial blocks from the late '70s and early '80s and despite my normal hatred of commercials, seeing those damn ads bring back childhood memories like you wouldn't believe.    Posted:   Feb 22, 2015 - 12:03 PM     By:   Francis   (Member) Some of you have touched on something which I identify with - I don't get taken back to being a kid again by listening to my first LP purchase for the millionth time, because it has accompanied me throughout my life... I get what you're saying and in that regard a score that took me back to being a kid was The Goonies, which didn't get released properly until 2010 and when I got to hear it, definitely had a huge nostalgia factor.    Posted:   Feb 22, 2015 - 4:12 PM     By:   Graham Watt   (Member) The real thing which evokes an uncanny nostalgia is finding - on YouTube for example - films or TV series which I saw back then and had never seen or heard since. Too many examples to mention, but here are two - Ron Grainer's great themes for "Man in a Suitcase" and "The Baron". Funny you should mention that, because lately I've run into several TV commercial blocks from the late '70s and early '80s and despite my normal hatred of commercials, seeing those damn ads bring back childhood memories like you wouldn't believe. Yes Jim, those TV adverts from whatever era sure do take me back. Not only the TV ones ("M...A...R...A...-T-H-O-N Marathon!!!"), but also the cinema ones ("Kia-Ora, from the sales girl or in the foyer"..., "It's time for icecream - or maybe some nuts".... "authentic Indian Tandoori - at your nearest Indian takeaway (!)"). The visuals are very much part of it in many cases. Back on track, I thought I was familiar with John Barry's (amazing, I've just realised) theme for "The Persuaders", but it wasn't until I saw the opening credits on YT the other day that I really felt transported back to how I was back then. And the music took on a whole new dimension too. And I get where you're coming from too, Francis. Your GOONIES example happened to me a few years ago, when Intrada released Les Baxter's HOUSE OF USHER. No previous release or anything, so I was immediately back to my mammie's hoose, 1973, BBC2... there may be an age difference there, but I imagine the effect was the same for us.    Posted:   Feb 22, 2015 - 8:16 PM     By:   JoshOz   (Member) The Goonies.... "It all starts here" or just about any other '80s score. Probably why I love '80s scores so much more than any other decade.    Posted:   Feb 22, 2015 - 8:20 PM     By:   Zoragoth   (Member) Golden Voyage of Sinbad Seventh Voyage of Sinbad Towering Inferno Obsession These were the scores that rocked my younger days, and got the ball rolling. And the two albums that started me on Herrmann in 1975: OBSESSION (and didn't see the film til after I was out of college! Just lived with that music and wondered what on earth it was underscoring!) and the first London album of his I purchased, which had bits from many of his rerecordings (a grisly Mrs Bates on the cover), including the unforgettable Memory Waltz.    Posted:   Feb 23, 2015 - 5:31 AM     By:   Graham Watt   (Member) Surprised you all let my deliberate mistake slip by - "The Baron" had a theme by Edwin Astley, not Ron Grainer. Another one I hadn't seen in absolutely donkey's years was "The Champions", with the Geneva backdrop and the Tony Hatch theme... at least I think it was Tony Hatch... No doubting my pre-pubescent crush on Alexandra Bastedo though... that really did take me back.    Posted:   Feb 24, 2015 - 9:35 AM     By:   jmarc   (Member) Don't think I have much to add. The first score I ever noticed was the SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN score. That was the first thing I could hum. That & probably the music from the first season of SUPER FRIENDS. The biggest movie scores would be STAR WARS & SUPERMAN:THE MOVIE. I hear the STAR WARS music & I can remember my beloved 2nd grade teacher holding a book with pictures from the movie & reading to us. SUPERMAN can just make me tear up. Such happy memories!    Posted:   Feb 24, 2015 - 12:07 PM     By:   Thor   (Member) This thread could easily be renamed "what scores did you grow up with?" or "what scores did you listen to in your formative years?", because that's basically what this boils down to. For me, it was a long list of stuff -- both from tv and film -- that I listened to then, but probably won't listen to now. Children's show tv tunes etc. Fun for nostalgia's sake, though. But those are very specific. JURASSIC PARK, for example, I've listened to so many times that it doesn't necessarily take me back to being a kid (or teenager) again, but rather is a part of me now -- both past, present and future. That's different. Some of you have already made this point, and it's a CRUCIAL distinction.    Posted:   Feb 24, 2015 - 1:58 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) The roots of a passion for really good film music run deeper than that, and I think that's the greater subtext to what is being expressed.     General Discussion: What score takes you back to being a kid again?    << < 2 3 4  >   Go to page:  1 2 3 4   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4

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