Giorgio Moroder ROCKS
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fivefids — 15 years ago(July 23, 2010 06:01 AM)
I remember the first time I saw this picture in the theater and thinking "The Chase", great piece that it is, sounded much like a song by a local group here. There was an album, released in 1977, by a group called "Cain." The album was called "Stinger" and on that album there is a song called "Thanks A Lot Houston" about an out of control space capsule which is getting no help from "ground control." Anyway, "The Chase" sounds eerily like "Thanks A Lot Houston" and I always wondered if wasn't "Borrowed" from it.
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photonphon — 15 years ago(August 14, 2010 01:20 AM)
Let us not forget that the radio program "Coast 2 Coast AM" - a popular psuedo-science and paranormal radio station uses 'the Chase' nightly. Awesome and enlightening radio program if you haven't been initiated. "From the high desert" baby.
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YankeeDood — 14 years ago(January 30, 2012 10:18 PM)
I agree Moroder is an aweosme composer, but you are a trendy idiot for putting "ROCKS" in your title. Especially because it's not rock to begin with, it's synth. Ditto head.
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jztzt — 14 years ago(February 05, 2012 11:40 AM)
The score envelopes the film quite nicely. It's mellow and sad at times, and tense in other times. It fits nicely into the film's settings and atmosphere. It invokes pathos for Billy. Too bad the soundtrack release was a re-recording and not the actual film versions of the score. For instance, they modified the chase cue to made it more disco. The film cue had a faster pace and was more piercing.
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ChitoRaffferty — 13 years ago(May 04, 2012 06:57 PM)
to made it more disco."
Disco was just about to end. It left as quickly as it appeared, no more play lists. Moroder did some great work: a sound so identifiable with the times.
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JarJarRocks — 11 years ago(July 14, 2014 02:37 AM)
I think the soundtrack to Midnight Express sounds completely out of place, like it should have been in a sci fi robot film, and that is why I absolutely love it. They would never in a million years have done anything like that now, and it was also very, very unusual in 1978.
It takes what could have been a pretty dark and boring movie, and makes it fresh, exciting and entertaining. The music made me love the movie.
Giorgio was extremely ahead of his time with the music, especially Chase, and I also would like to applaud the film makers for having the cojones to put that kind of music it into a very serious movie like this.
My jaw kind of dropped when I heard Chase in the movie. I knew the movie was from 1978, but suddenly this awesome track appeared. A track that in my opinion sounded much more like an 80's track, and still sound amazing by today's standards.
I honestly thought for a second that the movie was a redux, with new music put into it. It sounds like the movie version had synth drums (which was more usual a few years later) while the album version had real drums. And that's probably why the movie version sound much more modern than the other. -
silver_snail14 — 11 years ago(November 17, 2014 12:54 PM)
The score was great! It really ramped up the tension in a lot of the scenes. The only place I didn't like it was in the shower scene between Billy and the other prisoner. The music was probably supposed to bring out the tenderness in the scene but it was way too overblown and bombastic in my opinion.
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savethefuture — 9 years ago(January 30, 2017 03:24 AM)
Won't deny Moroder's impact on music, but, having seen this film for the first time yesterday and being aware he won oscar for it, I found it too dated and distracting. Sure, I liked the main theme, but the whole synth score was not working that good for me. I can imagine a more classical approach would have worked a lot better at least for me.