Bullitt - Lalo Schifrin

[JHan]

One of cinema's great soundtracks.

Layers of goodness -

The entrance strings.
The brass and flute.
Brass stabs.
Bassline.
Drums.

[The Polack MSgt]

1. Soundtracks in the early 60s to mid 70s were solid musical compositions

Well, the good ones were anyway. They were thematic and consistent end to end.

Then in the mid 70s Saturday Night Fever's sound track broke the system.

Now most movie soundtracks are just a collection of songs.

No over arching themes - no build ups to climatic passages, no transitions to bridge the slow to the dramatic or the soft to the loud

Just tunes.

Henry Mancini may as well have been Boom Boom Mancini, and it kind of sucks

[JHan]

2. oh there's some good stuff out there still, I particularly liked the music in "moonlight"

a couple others I can think of.

Another giant was Bernard Herrmann.

[The Polack MSgt]

3. C'mon JHan - This is the internet I have to speak in absolutes

Because it 's all the best or the worst it's ever been.

I do like Mark Knopfler's soundtracks

[JHan]

4. :D