music concepts

Bobby Beausoleil - Lucifer Rising (Soundtrack)

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(From some random site: ) "It's incredibly difficult, nay perhaps impossible, to discuss Lucifer Rising without mentioning its "controversial" (to put it mildly) creator and his story. Bobby Beausoleil is currently incarcerated in California, serving time for his part in the murders committed by the infamous Manson Family. But his bizarre and horrific criminal record is not what's interesting about Beausoleil, or Lucifer Rising. Before his involvement with Manson, Beausoleil was active on the San Francisco hippy music scene, and was engaged to score Lucifer Rising, an intense occult meditation on film by Kenneth Anger (also known as the genius behind the films Scorpio Rising, Fireworks and the book Hollywood Babylon). Beausoleil and Anger had a falling out at Lucifer Rising's first screening, and did not speak to each other for many years. After Beausoleil's incarceration, Anger engaged him again to complete the score, after Led Zeppelin's Jimi Page failed to finish. Finally released in 2004, Beausoleil's score recorded entirely in prison is a classic of instrumental psychedelia, akin to some of the better early Pink Floyd tracks. Imagine the sun rising over the pyramids, because that's what you're gonna see in your mind when you play this. Heavy."
 
which reminds me.... while we are on soundtracks:

Paul Giovanni - The Wicker Man Original Soundtrack (Performed By Magnet)

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" This release is buried treasure. Against all odds, one of the most talked about soundtracks in movie history has finally risen to the surface. Believed for years to be lost, destroyed, or even buried deep beneath a motorway, this disc contains Paul Giovanni’s original music to The Wicker Man that has never previously materialised. Don’t confuse this with a prior release that relied on an inferior “sound and effects” tape dubbed off the shortest version of the picture; this is the genuine article from the master tapes recorded especially for the film.

It is impossible to overstate the importance of these historic recordings that up until now, have only been heard by a select few. This truly is the stuff that myths are made of, but then The Wicker Man has always courted mystery and controversy ever since it first saw the light of day in 1973. Once famously credited as the “Citizen Kane of horror movies”, the enduring enigma of the film has inspired eminent critics and a worldwide legion of fans to wax lyrical about the movie’s incredible power and engaging intrigue. Even today, nearly thirty years after the film’s release, the ball continues to roll; web-sites, fan clubs, documentaries and books, all pay homage to what is without doubt, one of the most innovative and provocative British films ever produced.
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So good that Nature And Organisation covered Willow's Song!

(Rose McDowall's singing is heavenly)

although the original Willow's Song is boner-popping as well.
 
Yes, it's true damnit. My degree is English, which means I have no authority to speak in regards to mathematical concepts, except for my high levels of pretentiousness.
 
The best concept album ever = King Diamond's Abigail.
Green Carnation's Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness comes in at a close second.
 
Necromunchkin said:
Yes, it's true damnit. My degree is English, which means I have no authority to speak in regards to mathematical concepts, except for my high levels of pretentiousness.

Actually, you probably have to know some math for Joyce or something crazy like that.


I AM JUST BEING A DIRTY PENISHEAD
 
I think you actually have to know extensive quantum mechanics for Joyce, at least when you get into "Finnegan's Wake." And your commentary on musical themes is excellent. But, you and Chromatose's audience are not likely to be appreciative, musically or thematically. So to this I say, VODKA! and gnomes.