I've just been listening to Morricone's score for "Correspondence" and one track in particular has stuck in my head "Una luce spenta" the beautiful string arrangement is playing like a continuous tape loop in my somewhat diminished brain.......it's "embedded" ! Do other members have this strange experience with certain pieces of music or am I just losing the plot ?
Yes, this happens to me fairly often. Two songs that do it are Ring of Fire and The Girl From Ipanema. Another is Goldsmith's Main Title from Bandolero. (Great, now I've got all three of them rolling around up there.)
It is fairly common for this to happen. For me, it is mostly classic rock songs, particularly from the likes of Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones who perfected the art of infectious, repeated guitar riffs.
It’s a bad distraction only when it is something you don’t like!
Yes, this happens to me fairly often. Two songs that do it are Ring of Fire and The Girl From Ipanema. Another is Goldsmith's Main Title from Bandolero. (Great, now I've got all three of them rolling around up there.)
Now I've got The Amity Island High School Band version of The Girl From Ipanema in my head!!!
Do you mean you are a sad person? Or that you like to collect sad film music? Or both of them?
Joking aside, I just played again the dreamlike 'Una luce spenta' from LA CORRISPONDENZA and I hold it as a wonderful track too. When the E-guitar enters, I especially like the way the backing strings 'breathe'. Then, the strings lead a particularly romantic passage.
Do you mean you are a sad person? Or that you like to collect sad film music? Or both of them?
Joking aside, I just played again the dreamlike 'Una luce spenta' from LA CORRISPONDENZA and I hold it as a wonderful track too. When the E-guitar enters, I especially like the way the backing strings 'breathe'. Then, the strings lead a particularly romantic passage.
Bonjour Laurent, 'Una luce spenta' is a Masterpiece ! And I still can't get it out of my head.........it's those beautiful strings.
And yes, I love 'sad' film scores especially by Morricone.
Isn't this simply why everybody gets into soundtracks? We may get seduced by an ostinato, a fugue, some riff or whatever but a melody is the first thing that bypasses the brain and sticks emotionally.
Isn't this simply why everybody gets into soundtracks? We may get seduced by an ostinato, a fugue, some riff or whatever but a melody is the first thing that bypasses the brain and sticks emotionally.
Absolutely !
Here's another melody that has 'haunted' me for years....
Nice theme although it doesn't belong to my favourite tunes by the Maestro. By the way, Leo, did you know there exists a French tune from the very same period (1974) that shares an uncanny resemblance with PEYNET's love theme. It was composed by André Popp and is called 'Laura mia'. You can select it in the following track-listing:
There is first a nervous intro with piano, brass, etc, then the tempo slows down a bit and a different episode for synth and strings is introduced and the tune similar to PEYNET is played on oboe (from 1'05 on and repeated from 2'40 on). Mind it's just the first notes since the melody then segues into a quite different development. I believe we are dealing with a pure coincidence and that either Morricone or Popp plagiarized themselves.
Nice theme although it doesn't belong to my favourite tunes by the Maestro. By the way, Leo, did you know there exists a French tune from the very same period (1974) that shares an uncanny resemblance with PEYNET's love theme. It was composed by André Popp and is called 'Laura mia'. You can select it in the following track-listing:
There is first a nervous intro with piano, brass, etc, then the tempo slows down a bit and a different episode for synth and strings is introduced and the tune similar to PEYNET is played on oboe (from 1'05 on and repeated from 2'40 on). Mind it's just the first notes since the melody then segues into a quite different development. I believe we are dealing with a pure coincidence and that either Morricone or Popp plagiarized themselves.
Laurent, the link you sent doesn't appear to work, well not on my computer anyway ? I'd love to hear the song "Laura Mia" someday.
I, like most of you, am a big fan of Morricone, but I just don't have very many of his scores, mainly because of money. I happened upon this thread and opened it, and more than a few of you were prattling on about this 'Una luce spenta' from LA CORRISPONDENZA. I'd never heard of it and thought it was a very old movie. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!! This one piece of music ALONE DESERVES AN OSCAR!!!!! It just shows that age has absolutely NO BEARING on productivity!
Oh..... A few weeks ago I had "You're Sixteen"(One of my favorite songs) by Ringo running through my mind for several days, until I listened to it on youtube... and that cured it!
Sorry about the André Popp link, Leo. Yet I checked it on my computer before posting it and it was OK. It was really difficult to find it because this tune isn't well-known and I alas can't propose another one.
Jim, here's a Morricone tune that's been haunting me ever since I heard it:
That very slow tempo, the piano chords, Edda's magical voice, the solo German flute leading to that extraordinary romantic climax by the strings, I simply get goosebumps. Morricone is so good when he uses on purpose "limited" means (I mean few notes) like in that piece. Pure genius. I wish you a lot of interesting discoveries in the almost infinite universe of the Maestro.
