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Sep 20, 2020 - 4:25 AM
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Makooti
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This is just a question I like to ask folks, and since I'm new around here I figured it was as good a time as any to ask you guys as well: when/what was the first time you really started to notice the score of a movie (or show or game, etc.). The first time the music stopped being colorful background noise and you really started to mentally acknowledge it. The melody, the instrumentation, the specific ways it complements its respective scene, anything like that, you get the idea.
Could be a theme, could be a specific cue, whatever works.
Given how I'm pretty sure most of you guys have a good decade or so on me, mine will probably come off as on the more recent side, so...I dunno, cut me some slack here.
For me, I can narrow it down to about five cues from the same time period. Would've been around five or six years old. The first couple were from A.I: Artificial Intelligence (a long-running dad-and-I classic), one being the 3:07 mark of The Mecha World, when the upper brass crescendos into a bold ostinato of strings as we're greeted with the rising visage of a copper lion statue gushing water from its eyes and mouth.
https://youtu.be/DDqacyd9OWw?t=187
The other being the opening minutes of Stored Memories, when a haunting choir sings over the beginning of the film's epilogue, a eulogic hymn for a frozen, lifeless earth thousands of years in the future.
https://youtu.be/kMc64i1X5VQ
Number 3 and 4 are from the original Star Wars. Obviously the main theme was a massive earworm, but that feels like cheating. The actual pieces would be the Binary Sunset cue and the cue that plays over Luke discovering his crispy-cooked family that I wouldn't recognize as Dies Irae for another good 10-15 years. I doubt either need an introduction.
Lastly, and I've got no shame for this goddammit...1:16.
https://youtu.be/VeM4PTfZC5Q?t=76
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Sep 20, 2020 - 4:40 AM
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Thor
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This is a topic that comes up once in a while.
Honestly, I can't remember. I'm terrible at remembering specifics about 'firsts' in general.
I must probably have noticed some of the music in the films I saw as a kid in the 80s, but beyond kiddie television themes and such, it was nothing that 'ignited' an interest in film music per se. I tend to credit my fandom to three scores - first was TWIN PEAKS, which I copied from a friend's CD to a cassette, ca. 1990. Then it's THE ABYSS (I remember lying on the floor and listening to the end credits on a TV-to-VHS-copy, ca. 1992, thinking maybe this kind of music worked as a concept album as well; muck akin to the progressive rock and electronic music I was listening to at the time). Then came JURASSIC PARK, which cemented my interest once and for all. So TWIN PEAKS for 'initial spark', THE ABYSS for 'discovery' and JURASSIC PARK for 'cementation. All over the course of 2-3 years in the early 90s. Something like that, I guess.
Unlike most others, my interest in soundtrack albums mostly comes from other musical genres, not from noticing and fawning over it inside the film itself.
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Probably Miami Vice around 1987.
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The first time I really noticed it was as a child, watching various Gerry Anderson series, which all had very impressive scores by Barry Gray (some of Gray's scores are still favorites of mine).
Then I started watching Star Trek, which also had great scores. Later, seeing / hearing the Bond movies, and Planet of the Apes really solidified my interest in film music.
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I think my *earliest* memory of noticing the importance of the score in the movie is Close Encounters. But, the score that made the biggest impression on me was Superman. It's what prompted me to buy a John Williams Boston Pops CD and, well, it's been a ride ever since.
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Sergio Leone's westerns, can't remember which though.
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I think it was when I saw CHARADE in 1963. I was already aware of Henry Mancini's movie music on his re-recorded albums, but not in situ. Shortly thereafter I began to record a few shows and movies off the TV on a reel-to-reel tape recorder that I could listen to later. (I would mostly ignore the dialogue.) That's how I got hooked on THE MAGNIFICENT 7. I also really enjoyed THE WACKIEST SHIP IN THE ARMY (which deserves a release, but will probably never have one due to lost masters).
And then THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., where I learned about individual composers having different styles within the same series. And on it went.
Good times!
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My first encounter with film and TV music was TV themes I heard in the seventies, whether it be the library music used for sports shows, British sitcoms and sci-fi shows and US cops shows.
Geoff Love's BIG TERROR MOVIE THEMES was an early influencer too.
Hearing Morricone's spaghetti western music when the movies aired on TV is a vivid memory but I can't recall when that was.
Williams' STAR WARS was definitely the milestone score for me. I may have had the soundtrack before seeing the film but the sequence of events is lost in the mists of time.
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I think I really began to notice film scores was the first time I saw Vertigo.
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I grew up in a household with music. My first recollection of orchestral music was listening to Les Preludes (von Karajan cond.) and loving its majesty. Then it was Star Wars. And Jaws. And Star Trek The Motion Picture. Rocky. etc etc.
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