A favorite of mine has long been Scorpioās View from Dirty Harry:
One that apparently Dr. Dre and DJ Yella were a fan of as well, as they heavily sampled it for the NWA song Approach to Danger:
tl;dr: he was old and had numerous health problems. Not sure why TMZ felt it necessary to leak this, itās hardly news. But, there you go.
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The basic plot is that good rogue cop āDirty Harryā Callahan (Eastwood) uncovers a group of bad cops who are taking justice into their own hands and acting as judge, jury, and literal executioners. I donāt know that I would describe it as anti-cop. I suspect it just furthers the āfew bad applesā narrative and denies that the institution itself is inherently corrupt.
okayfine. whatever. i feel as though iāve awakened an angry part of you and i didnāt mean to. started with just the music of one movie by a recently deceased music composer and has now devolved into whatever this is.
you wanna talk about violence in movies and what they mean vs the real lives of the movie makers and what they mean, fine - iām sure thereās a bloody thread for that. but it aināt here.
yes i hope you can keep on topic so iāll delete my contribution because it contributed to your contribution.
christ on a crutch.
Perhaps not one of his most original themes, but just because it is still one of my favourite films.
The OST for the film does have some very good tracks.
Perhaps more to this boardās taste as a movie:
Also much liked as a movie around these parts. I like it because itās disco and the album itās from is full of wtf! Quiet Village cover with the guitar from Fame by Bowie? Hell yeah. Sounds awful but I admire the ambition!
Another funky obscurity
I have that on some German compilation record which has a bunch of deep and groove cuts.
Did someone say hippy sounding folk mass? Well here you go:
A hard read.
Rest in power. Yāall are missed:
Youāve just sent me on a deeper dive ā I am not very familiar with Argentinian music, but that āChe!ā track has a specific beat that Iāve also heard on a Gato Barbieri record (here), and the āKyrieā from Ariel Ramirezās Misa Criolla. The sheet music for the latter (of which Iāve finally found someoneās upload) indicates a āVidala - Bagualaā style; neither term exists in English Wikipedia, but I found them in Spanish Wikipedia which suggests that the drum is a caja. The pictures I see suggest a smaller drum than Iāve seen in videos, but at least now I know more about this than I did (thanx!) (& more here which suggests the drumās a bombo)
I really need to get over my crowd and hotel anxiety because Iād love to get back to Toronto.
Iām really jealous of our daughter and her husband because theyāre taking the train to Toronto this weekend for a KPop concert. Itās the very first concert in a brand new 50,000 seat outdoor stadium.
Ah to be young with disposable income.
Iām nervous just thinking about it.
When we saw them, it was at a smaller show, maybe about 100 people over in Athens (which is about 60 miles east of ATL). It was an 80s themed show. Originally, it was supposed to be me and my friend, but she ended up being sick, and my husband went along with me. He ended up having a good time, despite being skeptical about it. It ended up being a mix of stand up and a sing-a-long. Nobu and Davud are quite fun.
Dealing with anxiety can be tough! Iām sorry that you have to deal with it!
Thank you so much! I am going to have to follow all of that up.
Of course Che was an Argentinian posh boy into rugby and tango and all that. Iām sure Lalo had a lot of thoughts about how to represent the interface between Argentina and decolonising iberoamerican culture that I wonāt understand.
On Schifrinās last work, which premiered two months ago:
Yes, that first one. Contractual obligation and/or pushed into latching on to the Jaws blockbuster buzz?
If I remember correctly1) the liner notes2) for Black Widow imply ever so subtly that the album was more or less completed when the record company suddenly waved contracts around and pushed for a disco version. Because disco versions were the future of music seemed more lucrative. Which is why the album was published later than originally scheduled.
To my ears it always sounds a bit like an outlier and that his heart wasnāt really in it, also ever so subtly. Itās good, no question about it,3) but there is something, and I canāt put my finger on it. Itās like when youāre cooking a dish youāve cooked before and you canāt decide whether thereās something missing or just a bit too much of something else.
1) And thereās every chance Iām confusing this with something else entirely.
2) I canāt check right now, all my CDs are in storage since Iāve ripped them.
3) How could it not be. Some artists reach a level of skill and experience that they couldnāt make something truly bad if they tried, and Schifrin was one of them. Which reminds me of something Toscanini said: āConduct? Any asino can conduct. But ah, making musicā¦ā