Ennio Morricone is (was) the best movie sountrack composer ever.
>>217820366>cowboyslopgrow up
>>217820366What about Maurice Jarre
movie composer power rankingMorriconeWilliamsGoldsmithGoldenthalNewman (David)Newman (Thomas)-----Zimmer
>>217820459>no Vangelisnever go full pleb
>>217820459>no howard shore
>>217820497he only did two movies that anyone even remembers. his albums were better than his movie score anyway
>>217820397>grow upWesterns are serious films more often than not that dealt with the themes going on in society at the time.
>>217820459I like Zimmer but the soundtrack he made for Dragon Ball's anniversary was fucking shit
>>217820366most prolific =/= the best. He has some real bangers, and he has some cringe.The Academy tried it both ways, denying him an Oscar for his real achievements and throwing him one at the end of his career because they'd failed to recognize a heavyweight.
>>217820497>2025 and still no Blade Runner soundtrack with just the music
>>217820459I happen to like Alan Silvestri.
>>217820579this is why a lifetime achievement oscar is better.
I'm a Luis Bacalov kind of guy
>>217820459Bernard Hermann mogs them all
Don Davis never gets mentioned, so I'll mention him. His work on The Matrix elevated those movies, undeniably. Heavily underrated.Michael Giacchino is consistently excellent, now he's making that Marvel money. His work on that Abrams ST reboot was memorable.Zimmer has gotten a lot better over the years, at least he's not putting his name on Klaus Badelt's compositions anymore.
>>217820366True
>>217820667zimmer peaked with pirates of the caribbean and rango
>>217820459Where does Danny Elfman fall on your chart?
>>217820542Like Don Davis and Morricone, serious art music composers get overlooked. At least Shore won his Oscars deservedly, but the Academy would have looked like perfect fools if they snubbed him.
truthbomb : if Morricone was such a great composer he wouldnt have gone down the path of movie soundtracks.he went down this path because he had to
>>217820397>the bird with the crystal plumage>novecento>the untouchables>once upon a time in america>the thing>salo>battle of algiers>the missionto this day morricones music is still being played, quoted and re-used in movies. no other composer can say the same. the recent movie The Secret Agent reuses his music
>>217820366>lyrics:>dundundun dundunnnn>ho hee ho hey ho>dundundun dundun dundunnnn
>>217820814Quentin Tarantino had at least some hand in elevating Morricone in the American public consciousness.
>>217820835He's a composer, not a songwriter you nonce.
>>217820804>>217820804morricone was by most accounts both a genius and a cheap bastard. the reason he picked movies is because of two things: in italy, film scores have much higher standing than they do in much of the rest of the world ANDhe made more money doing music for movies and tv-shows.there's interviews of people begging him to do music for his movies - and the second phase was trying to get him to do original music, because he would often dig up some old demo he'd made for a game show or rejected score for this or that and say "you can have this one!"
>>217820366truth
>>217820852absolutely, tarantino is a cinephile of the highest order and film scoring doesn't get any more cinematic than morriconetarantino uses lots of tracks from old european cult movies in his films
>>217820397He essentially created the sound of the wild west as we know it and that's what people most often correlate with his name because they're normie retards who don't know anything about film, but Morricone had a storied career that spanned an extremely diverse spread of film genres. Maybe try getting off of tik tok and actually watch some fucking films?
>>217820942there was a burger king commercial in the 90's that used his theme from the good, the bad and the ugly. there's simply no other composer out there who's created as many iconic themes that have stuck in the public mind as he has - except maybe john williams
>>217820647recs? i only know il cielo cade
>>217820980John Williams has made way more iconic songs. I'm hearing Superman's theme right now btw.
>>217821025maybe, but you wouldn't use john williams star wars theme in a commercial, because that's just tied to star wars. but you could use morricones music to sell mexican chili because of "mexican vibe".that and you would never ever hear williams' music played in hotel lobbies, but you will hear morricones gabriel's oboe or deborahs theme.but for americans, yes maybe williams. outside, i'm not so sure.
>>217820790>Batman and Batman Returns>Spider-Man>Beetlejuice>Nightmare Before Christmas>Mission Impossible>Pee-Wee's Big Adventure>Edward Scissorhands
>>217821075Okay I agree, Harry Potter's theme is just Harry Potter's theme
>>217820988Always had a thing for Milano calibro 9.He also did the original Django by Corbucci
>>217821113i thought osanna did milano calibro 9?>>217820988quien sabe?djangola strega in amoreRiz Ortolani is also worth checking out.Mondo caneCannibal holocaustmany more
>>217820804>if Morricone was such a great composer he wouldnt have gone down the path of movie soundtracksThat's ridiculous. Composers out of the concert tradition have two viable career paths - go into academia and spend most of your time teaching while picking away at pieces a little bit in evenings (but really, primarily while on the occasional sabbatical), or go into scoring media. Academics can bullshit a body of work pretty well. There's a lot of god-awful contemporary academic music and I say that as someone who has no problem with "difficult" music. It's a world where a paper sometimes justifies why a piece of music didn't actually suck complete ass. I love some academic music, but there's a lot of pretentious bullshit. Film scores, on the other hand, either work or they don't. It doesn't matter what the intellectual intent behind a piece of music was, the music either helps tell the psychological and emotional component of the story, or it doesn't. Neither path is particularly easy, but it's telling that most of the people who pursue academia have never actually composed "in the field". They tend to go right from school into trying to finagle a position at a school. I'd argue that film scoring is more difficult because you actually need to put your skills to the test in a real-world environment. It's like martial arts - someone can do a beautiful kung fu demonstration, but it's just a dance until they can demonstrate that they can hold their own in an MMA fight.
>>217820876>he would often dig up some old demo he'd made for a game show or rejected score for this or that and say "you can have this oneAll composers do that. Some are more forthcoming about it than others.
>>217820835
For me it's Piero Piccionihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj9fh-2ORDg
>>217820790no i never liked Elfman. his best score was Pee-wee when he had no clue what he was doingby the time of say Mission Impossible when he was trying to be formal and "serious" then his stuff was even less appealing. to me at least. besides the Spiderman theme, which Christopher Young did better, has he written anything in the last 25 years that people thought was really impressive?
>>217820397since when was the thing a western?
>>217820980Yes, but melody aside he created nearly ALL of the tropes we associate with the wild west. Galloping rhythms, the use of non-standard instruments in an orchestral setting (electric guitar, electric bass, recorder ensembles, ocarina, shouts, extended singing techniques, vibraslap, slap stick, whips, jaw harp...) - This is all stuff that we think of as being "obvious" when we imagine western film scores, but before Morricone that sound didn't exist. Just watch old American westerns to see how they used to be scored. Morricone created a sound so iconically western that it seems like it always was.
>>217821025Songs have words and are sung. John Williams wrote scores, he wrote music, he wrote motifs, he wrote cues, he wrote "pieces". He didn't write songs.
>>217820366https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yao9ucvhhmYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX_ky2Q8a0A
>>217821542anon doesn't actually watch films
>>217821617i gleaned as much
>>217821589however quite possibly leone's worst film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDNDkQYx8l4
>>217820459>no Ifukube
>>217821959whomst?
Highway To the Danger ZonePush It To the LimitFlashdanceTake My Breath AwayCall Mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpW3C_k0WMYnot the 'best' composer but he defined an era
>>217821513I still think he peaked with Spiderman.
>>217821513I'm curious what you think of the music of Forbidden Zone and the theme song to Sledge Hammer! (I know it's not a movie).
