The Good, The Great, The Freaking Awesome

21 Comments on The Good, The Great, The Freaking Awesome

1. https://youtu.be/pLgJ7pk0X-s

2. Those Ennio Morricone pieces are the only movie scores I DO enjoy.

   To my ears most movie scores sound like movie scores… but Ennio Morricone could make a piece of music that soars above the general garbage.

   But this brings to mind the score by Neil Young of the film Dead Man… for the most part I can’t stand Young, but that work was excellent.

3. Dr. Tar, were you listening into my conversation with my sister today? We were doing some sewing (my roommate is teaching us to quilt) and I asked if they had seen the video of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” done by an orchestra. Then I played this for them.

   No kidding! Spooky!

4. Hell yeah! I’d drop some good coin to see performances like that instead of Hamilton or some other enlightened progressive garbage.

5. Love Ennio Morricone! So many great film scores, particularly the spaghetti westerns (including My Name is Nobody and Fistful of Dynamite), and The Mission.

6. Groucho….I was thinking about the Ukulele Orchestra’s version. I cannot believe the myriad arrangements of this one song, how people love it.
   ….Lady in Red

7. I have a Pandora station called Gustav Holst — but because some of Holst’s work was used in scores, Pandora would try to shove a bunch of trash out of my speakers. It got to the point that my wife was quite mystified by my ability to rout out movie scores with downward thumbs.

   “How can you tell?”

   “It sounds like a cheap “Titanic”, or Bernstein score, doesn’t it?”

   “They DO suck, but I can’t tell how you can tell they are scores and not simply pieces of music…”

   Well, you can discern the cheap emotive garbage they pour onto the work.

8. Anybody that doesn’t like “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” doesn’t like music!

9. Dr. Tar, my roommate in school was the niece of Ulf Schirmer, the conductor at the time of the Danish National Symphony. He invited us to visit him and his wife many times in Copenhagen during concert season for performances. It was one of the joys of my young life, and gave me appreciation of other music besides my dad’s world of Rock and Roll. Thank You for posting this. It brought back many good memories.

10. Up for debate. Which was more bad ass the music score for “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” or the Magnificient Seven?

11. I wrote my senior thesis while the sound track to The Good, Bad and ugly played in a loop. Incredible music.

12. One of my favs when the mood striks me right. Navajo Joe.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hN1bJqU50iA

13. I love Morricone’s work, but sometime I think he heard The Lonely One before he wrote the Spaghetti Western scores.

    Duane Eddy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-NzORAp9jk&index=56&list=PL0144494184DE8D7E

14. This too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT1NJwEi6nw

15. If I didn’t know any better I’d say those Danes were Clint Eastwood fans.

16. Awesome, should reimage movie poster with Trump , Clinton , Obama.

17. @Bull, Like the idea a lot, only problem I see, picking who is bad or ugly.

18. Thanks for posting this!
    Beautiful!

19. Stumbled on this video last week. The singer looks thoroughly bored and disengaged with her job.good chuckle

20. Suddenly, I’m hungry for spaghetti. Western-style.

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21. High Plains Drifter.
    #1 bar-none.