nightspore
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Posted: Aug. 04 2009, 09:24 |
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Quote (Ugo @ Aug. 04 2009, 08:23) | @ Nightspore: no, I've never seen the film (is it available on DVD?), although a PF-obsessed friend of mine told me that the music is much better than the film itself... just like The Killing Fields. I discovered the More soundtrack album through "Ibiza Bar", which, strangely enough, was featured in a commercial down here; then I listened to the rest of it and it became very quickly my second-favourite PF album (after Wish You Were Here, which I consider their masterpiece, but way before Dark Side, The Wall and all the others). I also love the other PF soundtrack, Obscured by Clouds, which, once again, I discovered through one song - namely, Gilmour's "Wot's... uh the Deal", one of the "oldies but goldies" he included in his recent DVD releases. I essentially bought the Oh, by the Way box just to have those two soundtrack albums, as I had already bought the earlier box (Shine On) and various single CDs before that. Is La Vallée any good? About Mike Oldfield's Islands: I was indeed tempted to include it, as "Islands" (the song) is my second-favourite song of all time, and "The Wind Chimes" is ab-fab... but I think the album as a whole is not as strong as the other two I included. |
Hi Ugo, More is a much better film than people will have you believe, and yes, it's available on DVD. The French DVD release has a different view of the psychedlic windmill that appears on the album cover. Ummagumma is my second favourite Floyd album; I'm not keen on the period from DSotM to The Wall, which I find too negative. I'm quite fond of The Division Bell, though, and about the only Floyd track I listen to regularly now is "Big Theme" - a terrific instrumental - from their car racing documentary La Carrera Panamericana (available as a video but not as a soundtrack album, although bootlegs exist, of course).
They also did soundtracks to Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, and The Committee; the latter was released as a DVD a couple of years ago. (The Wikipedia article confuses the film with another of the same title, though.) The film of La Vallée is also good (except for a terrible acting performance by an Australian towards the beginning); Schroeder is a good director, after all.
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