Wack, like the 'Bullworth' soundtrack
white_tea
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Man, I had no idea our man Morricone was responsible for scoring Bullworth. "Ghetto Superstar" was perhaps the best song of the 20th century but I'll have to go out and check the score too.
FACTBOX-Ennio Morricone - some key facts Feb 14 (Reuters) - Italian composer Ennio Morricone, famed for his soundtracks of spaghetti westerns such as "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", has composed the scores of more than 400 films, including "Cinema Paradiso" and "Mission". He will receive an honorary Oscar during the Academy Awards ceremony on February 25. Here are some key facts on the Italian composer: MUSICAL BEGINNINGS: * Born in 1928, Morricone was a child prodigy, and began composing music as a six-year-old. At 12, his parents enrolled him in a four-year harmony course at Rome's Accademia di Santa Cecilia. * He completed the course in record time and went on to perform as a trumpet player in Roman night clubs before composing and arranging scores for Italian state television RAI by the mid-1950s. SPAGHETTI WESTERNS: * Morricone became a studio arranger for the RCA record company from the late 1950s until the mid-1960s, arranging songs for Mario Lanza, Renato Rascel and Rita Pavone. He also provided incidental music for a number of plays, contributed songs to a revue and scored a ballet. Morricone started composing film scores with the 1961 film "Il Federale" ("The Fascist"). * Morricone began attracting international notice in his collaboration with film director Sergio Leone on "A Fistful of Dollars" in 1964. -- He amplified the film's plots and drama through the use of diverse arrangements and instrumentation. Jew's harps, dissonant harmonicas, dancing piccolos, bombastic church organs, eerie whistling, thundering trumpets and oddly sung gunfighter ballads were all in his armoury and became trademarks of the Morricone-Leone productions, and then of the spaghetti western genre as a whole. * In his 45-year long career, Morricone was nominated for an Oscar five times but never won. The nominations were for "Days of Heaven" (1978), "The Mission" (1986), "The Untouchables" (1987), "Bugsy" (1991) and "Malena" (2000). * Morricone's other credits include the scores for "Once upon a Time in America," "Cinema Paradiso," "Bulworth,"[/b] "In the Line of Fire," "La Cage aux Folles" and the 2008 release "Leningrad." Sources: Reuters/Billboard
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did the score for Never ending story
i saw that in the opening credits and almost flipped but...um..
the film is dope though
BAN
I do like the acapella w/ ODB singin'.
one of the better really pop rap songs of the last
decade ... ODB being down didn't hurt, either.
I think I may have just lost a modicum of respect for you.
This song is that bad.
Haha - wow.
I was trying to find a way to stress that
I recognized it's lack of sincerity and/or
quality, yet felt it still was catchy enough
to work as hot radio trash.
I'm not helping my case, am I?
Sigh.
Does it help if I admit my lust for Mya
may have been a big part of my willingness
to accept this song?
{i]I read the article in the magazine, how she loved gangsters, loved nasty things...[/i]
Oh, come on...I wouldn't ever call it "one of the best songs of the 20th century," but this is a damn catchy one-off. I'm not ashamed to give it a thumbs up, "street considerations" aside.