Posted on 07/09/2012 7:06:18 AM PDT by C19fan
Before I list these painful scores, let me clarify what I mean by “painful.” What I mean is “excruciating.” Bad scores are a dime a dozen, especially since the advent of the pop music score, which quite often replaced an orchestral score, thereby substituting a “composer” who had hardly studied the craft for someone who actually knew how to read an orchestral score. Usually the composers of a bygone era knew the craft of composition; how to develop a theme, how to evoke different emotion through the colors of the orchestral palette and the shifting harmonies underlying them, how to modulate from one key to another without the wrenching shift of the neophyte or the same chords repeated ad infinitum.
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While I agree it was a terrible match for the film, Alan Parsons Project was not disco.
I believe there were some disco tracks made of some of their songs, but APP is considered synthesized rock.
I can’t believe this list doesn’t include Ladyhawke. This is a Medieval period fantasy movie with Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer. The music was by the Alan Parsons Project and is 80’s techno pop disaster. Great movie with all time worst music score ever. Should be at the top of this list.
Yes, I was fortunate to snag that Criterion Blu-ray during a Barnes and Noble Criterion half price sale before it went out of print.
Jazz can be so ugly - I listened to a little of The Pawnbroker’s soundtrack just now. It is ugly and frightening and crazy. Perhaps it fits, I don’t know. I saw The Pawnbroker and The Third Man years ago. Remembered The PB as quite dark and disturbing, though as much from NY as anything in his past.
I like The Princess Bride/Storybook Love so much, I put a link to it on my FR profile page.
“Jazz can be so ugly.”
Jazz isn’t music. It’s the “musical” equivalent of crap put through a blender. A lot of free-for-all mish-mosh with no form. There’s a corner in Hell where you must listen to the inane tripe for all eternity. (But I don’t mean any of that in a BAD way — of course.)
wow - loved the movie and the score.
Hated Kelly’s Heroes the movie and the score - hated them!
Recently watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which I remembered fondly from when it first came out, but hadn’t seen since.
I don’t usually pay much attention to the score in a movie, but this was obtrusive and atrocious. Ruined the movie, IMO.
Despite it having won an Oscar for best score. LOL
Hell is where they play "Kenny G's Greatest Hits" in an endless loop.
themes from the early James Bond movies
Sorry for late reply...
I should have differentiated between older forms of jazz (Big Band, Swing), and the “newer,” more free-form jazz (such as Fusion and whatever Quincy Jones is).
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