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05 Sep 2010, 10:08 am

Can anyone recommend the best Ennio Morricone songs for me to put on a CD for my dad? I said today that I'd try to make him a compilation. He's a big old western movie fan.

I only know of Ennio's songs that were in my favourite movie Kill Bill (And I like the songs and listen to them from time to time).

Soooo, help me come up with a good playlist? :)



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05 Sep 2010, 11:04 am

Ecstasy of Gold. That's the cemetery shootout one from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.


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05 Sep 2010, 10:16 pm

Ambivalence wrote:
Ecstasy of Gold. That's the cemetery shootout one from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.


Yes I have that song! :D

Others I have:

Silhouette of Doom
Death Rides A Horse
L Arena
Magnificent Seven theme
Navajo Joe/The Demise of Barbara and Return of Joe
Twin Peaks theme
The Godfather theme
Some others I cant think of right now

I need more!



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06 Sep 2010, 3:23 am

The Big Showdown - classic



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06 Sep 2010, 5:30 am

mjs82 wrote:
The Big Showdown - classic


Ok, I'm having trouble finding this one! (or I'm not familiar with the joke reference :P)



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06 Sep 2010, 7:15 am

Morricone is one of the very greatest.

Generally acclaimed the best or Morricone is his soundtrack for the mission.
Less well known is what he wrote for the Marco Polo miniseries but I personally like that a lot.


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07 Sep 2010, 4:26 am

blue_bean wrote:
mjs82 wrote:
The Big Showdown - classic


Ok, I'm having trouble finding this one! (or I'm not familiar with the joke reference :P)


Sorry The Big Gundown, brain must've been fried



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07 Sep 2010, 7:50 am

My favourites are L'Uomo Dell'armonica (Man With A Harmonica), Per Qualche Dollaro In Piu (For A Few Dollars More) and Il Tramonto (The Sunset).

I LOVE Morricone!



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09 Sep 2010, 7:14 am

Morricone is great!

Now, some of the scores I would recommend aren't from the Old Westerns.

Some of my favorites are:

Once Upon A Time In America
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Mission
The Legend of 1900
The Untouchables (Machine Gun Lullaby)
Cinema Paradiso
Il Papa Buono
Malena
Bugsy


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11 Sep 2010, 3:34 pm

blue_bean wrote:
Can anyone recommend the best Ennio Morricone songs for me to put on a CD for my dad? I said today that I'd try to make him a compilation. He's a big old western movie fan.

I only know of Ennio's songs that were in my favourite movie Kill Bill (And I like the songs and listen to them from time to time).



There's a load of Ennio Morricone's music on YouTube if you want to surf around and find what you like.

Of the music not already mentioned, I would recommend the themes to A Fistful of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpZjvbSC9_M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLXQltR7vUQ
And of course that other one from The Good, Bad and the Ugly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hYV-JSjpyU

If your dad is into old westerns generally, I would recommend the theme to The Magnificent Seven by John Williams. That piece always makes me think "old western", even though it's not much older than A Fistful of Dollars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA