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Post by MartinT on Jan 13, 2024 10:41:26 GMT
I still haven't seen 2001. Pathetic. Need to rectify that promptly. You must! But not on a phone. |
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Post by rfan8312 on Jan 13, 2024 12:32:23 GMT
Maybe I can see it before years end. My goal has been to get a large screen of some kind to stop watching everything hand held.
Unless they replay it at an AMC theater before then.
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Post by Slinger on Jan 13, 2024 14:39:32 GMT
This gorgeous song was written, in 1957, by Ewan MacColl (Kirsty McColl's father, via his 2nd marriage) for Peggy Seeger, who later became his wife.
Clint Eastwood, star of the film and its director, asked (the pretty much unknown) Roberta Flack if he could use her version for the film, and she agreed, but wanted to re-record it, as she thought it was too slow. Clint, I'm happy to say, persuaded her to leave it as it was. The phone call, or at least a part of it, went like this according to Roberta Flack...
You can't fault Clint's musical taste, and of course, he's a pretty good jazz pianist himself.
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Post by MartinT on Jan 13, 2024 17:51:03 GMT
It is a gorgeous song when sung by Roberta Flack. Nils Lofgren's version is also superb.
EDIT: nice Jag, too.
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Post by rfan8312 on Jan 14, 2024 16:06:46 GMT
God that is beautiful. And it makes me so nostalgic for those times in the 80's when I'd see stuff like this on TV.
I find it interesting, if I understand correctly, that singers were their own songwriters back then. While nowadays a voice is matched up, quite often, with a professional songwriter to concoct a radio hit in a lab.
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 10, 2024 16:52:10 GMT
Never was that keen on Huey Lewis
but
I have always been very keen on Back to the future
Eventually splashed out on Huey Lewis Best of just to get
Back in time
The power of love
Ended up becoming a Huey Lewis fan
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Post by rfan8312 on Jul 21, 2024 22:40:26 GMT
I just saw Despicable Me 4 and towards the end they play "Everybody Wants To Rule The World' by Tears For Fears.
It's still bizarre to me how a song I've heard 1000 times suddenly in a movie sounds far better than I've ever heard it. It can't be just because I'm in a theater. The bassline is tweaked and more prominent, the song sounds alive, it's like hearing it for the first time.
If I could get a full version of that song from the film, I'd be listening to it often. Instead, I'm stuck listening to the version created with 1980's recording equipment that sounds like listening through a telephone held up to a walkie-talkie speaker. Same with "Nowhere to Run" by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.
I've always been fascinated by this and curious: for these films, is an entire version of the song recreated, or just the part we hear in the final edit of the film? And if it is a full version, what happens to that recording?
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Post by MartinT on Jul 22, 2024 3:57:37 GMT
Usually it goes on the film soundtrack, if one is released.
A good example is Extreme Ways by Moby. The film version is different from the version on the album 18.
Superb track, either way.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 22, 2024 7:15:16 GMT
Done right it can make the track better as all the others above
The opposite can also be true.
A song so utterly wrong for the scene
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Post by Slinger on Jul 22, 2024 13:45:05 GMT
I just saw Despicable Me 4 and towards the end they play "Everybody Wants To Rule The World' by Tears For Fears. It's still bizarre to me how a song I've heard 1000 times suddenly in a movie sounds far better than I've ever heard it. It can't be just because I'm in a theater. The bassline is tweaked and more prominent, the song sounds alive, it's like hearing it for the first time. If I could get a full version of that song from the film, I'd be listening to it often. Instead, I'm stuck listening to the version created with 1980's recording equipment that sounds like listening through a telephone held up to a walkie-talkie speaker. Same with "Nowhere to Run" by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. I've always been fascinated by this and curious: for these films, is an entire version of the song recreated, or just the part we hear in the final edit of the film? And if it is a full version, what happens to that recording?  |
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Post by rfan8312 on Jul 23, 2024 2:23:32 GMT
Thanks guys. I could have swore that there was far more instrumental happening before Gru came in, in the film.
Movie was good enough to see again so I'll be sure to listen closely. Thanks again.
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