glitch25

Popular music for me is a funny thing. For as long as I can remember... as long as I've gotten to enjoy movies, popular music has taken an association to movie soundtracks. Music in movies is one of my favorite things, and it is no surprise that my favorite American composer scores movies. Along with scores are the tracks that get thrown in, either for ambiance, or effect, or sometimes there is a collaboration between artist and composer to write themes that make up a pop song but also lend to allusion and form of a score too.

One example I think of with that is Don Juan deMarco. Bryan Adams' "Have You Really Loved a Woman" gets torn apart and reconstituted into a really nifty score for the movie. It was written for the movie, and while the movie itself left a lot to be desired by many, I really enjoyed how the score developed.

http://youtu.be/hq2KgzKETBw

In general though, score and added music live together but separately in a movie. And I find that those songs/tunes stick with me in their association to movies. Too many examples to count, but typically when I hear a song on the radio, particularly something from the 60's, 70's, and 80's, since most music collaborations go for established music, I know the movie where I heard it. Sometimes, the movies lead me to the music itself, and getting to broaden my tastes and my collections is one of my fun past times.


For example:

The Breakfast Club - http://youtu.be/CdqoNKCCt7A

Playing By Heart - http://youtu.be/IJWlBfo5Oj0

Shawshank Redemption - http://youtu.be/CQ8ZHilxdm8

Scent of a Woman - http://youtu.be/A1oUeWzaLEE - though this one is in other movies too

Fast Times at Ridgemont High - http://youtu.be/M6pT_BDpnog

Road House - http://youtu.be/CszwkG0ilXI

Ferris Bueller's Day Off - http://youtu.be/0m_giioppT4


So so many more. But you get the idea. :-)