Favorite Morricone Piece
TheMack
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this guy was just a genius. so many pieces i love, but the theme from Duck You Sucker is probably my favorite composition EVAR!what is your guys pick? 
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I guess some people will be turned off by Joan Baez over moody loops, but I love this song.
"svolta definitiva" (old hat i know, but still a great tune)
"pazuzu" (from 'Excorcist 2' OST -- mental!!)
"Guerra E Pace, Pollo E Brace" (even more mental!!)
there's another one that i like to play out alot from a Cinevox comp of his stuff for Dario Argento films - but i can't remember the name.
---and then chillax with his mighty theme to "my name is nobody", or maybe that track "deep down" he did with some bird named Christy from the 'Diabolik' OST - -lovely and only a littel bit mental.
for those who don't know much try pickign up (or d/ling) some of the better comps - "crime and dissonance" or "morricone high" or some of the others . .. there's quite a few comps of his rarer stuff about.
A little heavy on the string stuff and not enough psychotic delirium for my taste, but I feel damn lucky to have been there.
this is nice! Akon and Fat joe rippied it off though
the "sean, sean, sean" singy thing?
i saw this thread and was going to come in and post "ANYTHING BUT THAT SONG!" ugh, those voices are so annoying...
to each his own...
i gotta go w/ the theme from "a few dollars more" w/ the harmonica and the spooky guitar...
here is a strange interview that donald fagen did with the maestro in 1989:
http://donaldfagen.com/writing_items.php?itemID=23
the 0:50 mark has some of the biggest organs since john holmes took a dirt nap.
Massive co-sign on this one.... the whole album is actually stellar, and most songs are a variation on the theme heard in this clip...
I would also add "Adonai", from Il Giardino Delle Delizie
I saw Ennio rehearsing the Munich Radio Orchestra in 2005. Unfortunately he mainly played his western movie smash hits (What can you expect?) but still it was awesome to see and hear him directing a full-blown orchestra. Gave me the creeps.
That could be my favourite.
I'd have thought the Ipecac compilation of his psychedelic outings of the early 70's - 'Crime and Dissonance' would be the Strutter's choice.
I saw him in action once, a few years ago or so at the Albert Hall, on his 75th birthday. Quite an event is was too as you might expect. The programme booklet was stunning as well.
tempo infinito
Just today I have watched Vergogna schifosi, whose OST is easily one of the best work by the Italian maestro. Well, the interaction between pictures, structure of music and sung words is stunning, since the main theme develops when there's that scene of that rounded table with the people all around it (see the fron cover) and there's once more a contrast between music, choral passages repeating obsessively words as Matto (= Mad), Soldi (= Money), Giro girotondo (= Ring-a-ring-o'roses) and then the fabulous Edda Dell'Orso's sublime wordless vocals generate such an intense feeling.
I'm creating custom fansubs for this movie for a torrent community, that VHS rip is really awful and quality is very bad but I must translate lyrics of that song otherwise such a powerful moment will get lost for non Italian guys.
Morricone wrote also a lot of fantastic tunes for some supposedly pop Italian songs of 60s-70s, maybe if someone watched Mike Patton as Mondo Cane singing some of these songs in Italian language, might have recognized those dissonant contrasts into a seemingly serene music and even some cinematic themes probably taken from Spaghetti flicks.