Studio Interruptus: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner & Legend

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Saturday, July 10, 2010 03:03
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IMNOTHERE

Friday, July 9, 2010 8:22 AM

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Well, I'm a Tangerine Dream fan

Please list their best stuff, if you will, sir!

The soundtrack to Firestarter is BIG with me....

I'd be here all week (Spotify is listing 81 albums... although that does include a lot of collections they've been pounding out music like stink since 1970 and are, to a certain extent, still going) and the style varies from early experimental (i.e. hard to listen to) stuff to more recent (elevator music from the economy-class heaven "well, I'm OK" people). The best stuff was in the transition between the two... (generally stuff from 1974-84 is good).

Soundtracks, if you liked Legend and Firestarter check out:

Thief
Risky Business
Sorcerer (never seen the film)
Flashpoint

Other albums - Semi-random pick would be:

Rubycon, Ricochet (if you like people jamming over a sequencer for 20 minutes)

Force Majeure (more rocky, with some air guitar moments)

Tangram

Hyperborea

Poland

Phaedra (pioneering electronica - maybe just the first and last tracks)

Of the slightly more recent stuff, maybe "Mars Polaris".

If you fancy famous poetry set to electronic music, "Tyger" or "Madcap's Flaming Duty".

Also, marginally off topic, there's always the Babylon 5 soundtrack - Chris Franke was a long-time member of TD and the first two compilation CDs (eponymous and "Messages from Earth") are excellent, as he took the trouble to remix the short soundtrack snippets into longer pieces).

Have they got round to launching Spotify in the US yet? There's a shedload of TD on there to browse.

STORYMARK

Friday, July 9, 2010 4:23 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

Blade Runner is another story for me. The international '82 cut is my favourite, period. The studio messed with Scott, and in THIS ONE INSTANCE, I agree. I love the voice-over, and I like the escape drive in North Canada at the end.

Okay.... I can give you the voiceover. I don't care for it, but I can understand why some do.

But that ending?? Inexcusable dude.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

CHRISISALL

Friday, July 9, 2010 7:26 PM

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Originally posted by Storymark:

But that ending?? Inexcusable dude.

And yet I quite fancy it.
But I also like 2010, so what do I know?

The laughing Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Friday, July 9, 2010 7:28 PM

@ ImNotHere: Thanks dude!

OPPYH

Saturday, July 10, 2010 12:04 AM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

"Ever heard the score for Miracle Mile?"

No!

Oh. Well, you should hear it. Among TD's better works.

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70's TV FOREVER

FOLLOWMAL

Saturday, July 10, 2010 1:37 AM

Way too complicated for me to remember all the reasons I like which one.

I'll be very succinct.

Legend - The Tangerine Dream themed one.

Blade Runner- the noir voice over. Nails it for me.

http://www.kidsneedtoread.org/

CHRISISALL

Saturday, July 10, 2010 2:01 AM

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Originally posted by FollowMal:

Legend - The Tangerine Dream themed one.

Blade Runner- the noir voice over. Nails it for me.

The laughing Chrisisall

FOLLOWMAL

Saturday, July 10, 2010 2:03 AM

http://www.kidsneedtoread.org/

KWICKO

Saturday, July 10, 2010 2:10 AM

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Originally posted by Storymark:

But that ending?? Inexcusable dude.

And yet I quite fancy it.
But I also like 2010, so what do I know?

Hey! Me too!

I have issues with it, but I still like it.

CHRISISALL

Saturday, July 10, 2010 2:24 AM

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Originally posted by Kwicko:

I have issues with it, but I still like it.

Umm, issues with 2010 or the ending of Blade Runner? Specify por favor.

The laughing Chrisisall

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