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My package from the sale arrived today - Thanks, Lukas! (& Creature Features for handling the mailing - everything well packed and undamaged.)
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If you're going to revisit Lost in Space for a week, Lukas found a pretty good way to do it. Those first seven episodes, through "My Friend, Mr. Nobody", are the best stories, and they have all the best music.
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I have a formative memory of watching Star Trek and hearing (what we now call) "Dr. Bartender" tracked into "Balance of Terror." And I wanted to remember that sad melody. The fact that it was so ephemeral, quickly passing into thin air, made it seem all the more precious. I wanted to preserve it somehow and couldn't. But I knew it was intrinsically good, even apart from the context of the show.
So I think there's a push-pull effect: sometimes a show makes the music seem better, but more often the music makes a show seem better.
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Why do we like film music?
Coz it's like classical music. It can achieve a similar effect in 5 minutes ( or less) and not an hour. Sort of.
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Feb 12, 2023 - 1:04 PM
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Thor
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Way back near the turn of the century a poll was conducted by FSM and like 80% claimed to come to film music as the result of watching the film. That was no surprise. The surprise was that it felt like a sizeable majority that posted here was of the remaining 20%.
Can't remember the poll you speak of, but I would be among those 20%. I began listening to soundtrack albums as an extension of my interest in instrumental electronic music, prog rock etc. In other words as concept albums. Not saying there was absolutely zero connection to the films (the music had to come from somewhere, I was well aware of that), but it did not have any bearing on my soundtrack listening enjoyment. I never used the film as a frame of reference, and never will.
I do, however, agree with Lukas' point about 'emotional content' of a scene, as that is something that translates to all of us, whatever pathway into soundtrack albums we first had. I often say it's music that needs to get the emotional core quicker than other forms of absolute music, because it's dictated by strict time & space parameters. I've always found attraction in that.
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Farewell to Gerald Fried, a film composing legend and absolute sweetheart.
https://www.lukaskendall.com/post/remembering-gerald-fried
Very nice tribute, Lukas. But I had to look up "weed whacker" (!) Saddened to read of Mr Fried's death; enjoyed a lot of his music over the years. One Potato, Two Potato; Mystic Warrior, Too Late the Hero.
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From the Variety review:
Controversy later erupted when Fried publicly objected to Jones’ album of “music from and inspired by” the series, which he felt was a deliberate attempt to supplant an actual “original soundtrack” which would have featured Fried’s much longer, more developed score.
Upon seeing Roots in 1977, I recognized Gerald Fried's name from Star Trek. But when I saw that Quincy Jones album in the record store— with no mention of Fried— I knew it wasn't the real thing and did not buy it.
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Hello Universe: I have always been fascinated by the 1976 LOGAN’S RUN film, so as a weird hobby, I wrote a new TV PILOT version of it.
DISCLAIMER: This is fan fiction! I do not own this property! I tried to do the smart “Andor version,” if that makes sense. Thanks!
https://www.lukaskendall.com/post/i-wrote-a-logan-s-run-tv-pilot
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