Who could do a great film score but hasn't?

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That soundtrack thread got me thinking about this...

Penty of musicians have tried, particularly in the last few years (Air, Jeff Tweedy, Dust Brothers, Badly Drawn Boy....)

Who could do it?

I think Godspeed and Mogwai are obvious.

Cinematic Orchestra (the name's a dead giveaway)

Amon Tobin would be my dream pick. I'd sit through a Bruckheimer flick if he'd score it.

― turkey (turkey), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/artd/amg/music/bio/477530_patton_200x200.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Lars Ulrich and Robert Smith...together again for the first time!
In "Freakoscope!"
You'll Laugh. You'll Cry. You'll Kiss $16.99+Tax goodbye...

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

BoC
Plaid

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

rjd2

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Just Blaze

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

telefon tel aviv!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

aphex twin!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

cinematic orchestra already did "man with a movie camera"
i'd like to see more toto sdtrks

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Patton hasn't scored any films yet, but he did score a comic book.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

mannie fresh should soundtrack a diznizzle film

― sean g, Tuesday, 22 July 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Patton scored a comic book? Tell me more...

Another addition: the Bad Plus (or Happy Apple)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i think it'd be interesting to see how sum41 or avril would be at doing a whole soundtrack score, not just a few rock and roll party moments, but instrumental moments.

i think it'd be cool to see someone unlikely and potentially incapable to compose a soundtrack. (do they write their own material?)

of course, it might suck hard.... but but but. and rule #1, the movie cannot ride on the band doing the music. none of this "AND SOUNDTRACK BY..." crap.

i bet you beck would do a decent job. as long as he didn't sing too much. that's the big challenge of giving the job to an artist who relies on vocals to a degree...
m.

― msp, Tuesday, 22 July 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Patton scored a comic book? Tell me more...

The band Fantomas' first album was entirely composed by Mike Patton as a score to a French comic book starring a character named, surprisingly, Fantomas. The album seemed totally over-the-top to the point of stupid, until I read the comic book while listening to it.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

im super excited about jonny greenwood's score of bodysong.
whether or not you like radiohead, he's apparently a big fan of both morricone and eno, and the man can make some truly beautiful sounds.

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Basement Jaxx, Super Furries, Dr Dre.

― Nick H, Tuesday, 22 July 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I wonder if Grant Morrison's New X-Men character Fantomex was a nod to that (he was French).

Marilyn Manson actually did a pretty decent job on the Resident Evil score.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I suspect the name is a pun on Phantom X. I doubt morrison is into Fantomas. He already admitted his fave record was "K" by Kula Shakur.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Tod Dockstader.
...oh wait.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

And FWIW that Fantomas comic is great; all black and white and spooky as all Hell!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Merzbow will score the next Harry Potter i think i heard

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Labradford, Stars of the Lid, Aphex Twin (SAW II-era), Tarentel

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

underworld

― Michael B, Tuesday, 22 July 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Roy Montgomery

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Sheila Chandra/ Steve Coe - have they ever scored a film?
Uri Caine (he hasn't, has he?)

Bill Wells
Krakatoa
Simon Ho
Matthew Shipp
Omar Sosa
(not too sure 'bout the last five either, whether they already have or haven't)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

future sound of london

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

seconding stars of the lid...

― disco stu (disco stu), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Kevin Shields, oh wait~!

I love life. I might actually pay money to see a movie this fall~!

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

sonic boom

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

David Axelrod

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Biosphere.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

wasn't Biosphere's music used in some film?
(...but that doesn't quite count here anyway, does it?)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

im super excited about jonny greenwood's score of bodysong.
whether or not you like radiohead, he's apparently a big fan of both morricone and eno, and the man can make some truly beautiful sounds.
The clips on the site are quite good... They're only 10 second loops, but they're interesting. They wear their inspirations (Messiaen, Miles Davis, Paul Lansky, etc.) on their sleeves, but they're still quite beautiful.
Someone (possibly me? haha) should bug him more about a release date for the score, as I think its release is dependent upon whether or not he wants it released...

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

wasn't Biosphere's music used in some film?

Yes. (Geir Jenssen = Biosphere.)

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Eno.
That way he can call the soundtrack
"Music for a Film. No, really. It's for a Film. Not kidding this time."

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

dirty three
sfa
timbaland
surgeon

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Eno's Apollo album was actually used as the score for the documentary For All Mankind in 1989. That album's "Ending (An Ascent)" was later used to marvelous effect in the closing scene of Soderbergh's Traffic.

― turkey (turkey), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Eno's work on "For All Mankind" was *stunning* in the context of the documentary.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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