If you came to vote for "I Feel Free," just make note of it in the thread and we'll see how many votes it gets.
VOTE. Funny that for a band so identified with instrumental virtuosity, my favourite moment on my favourite song is acapella.
― the_ecuador_three, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 13:31 (seven years ago) link
Ρεμπετολογια: I like both "Come on Down to My Boat" and "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight"...which doesn't negate your point about how amazing and different "Somebody to Love" would have sounded on the radio in 1967.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 13:50 (seven years ago) link
Give me Boyce & Hart over Cream and Jefferson Airplane any day of the week.
― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 14:48 (seven years ago) link
Kael wrote that Goodfellas' soundtrack didn't connect to its characters' lives the way Mean Streets' soundtrack did. She's right--can't see Jimmy or Tommy settling back with Disraeli Gears and a pair of headphones--and also, I think, completely missing how perfectly matched something like "Sunshine of Your Love" is to De Niro's expression at 0:41.
I think Kael's missing the point. Soundtracks don't have to be so literal; when Karen says, "Who do you think you are, Frankie Valli or some kind of big shot?" was Kael disappointed that the soundtrack didn't play "Walk Like A Man" (or maybe play it when Henry beat up Karen's neighbor)?
Like "Sunshine" in this scene, the seemingly out-of-place "Atlantis" works because it works, not because it spells out something for us about the action or the characters (although as Scorsese later revealed, "though gods they were" did in fact relate to the characters, but not in the sense that Tommy and Henry would sit around grooving to Donovan).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 15:22 (seven years ago) link
Totally agree. I find pop music used imaginatively as counterpoint to be every bit as effective (and often more so) than when used literally.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 16:25 (seven years ago) link
Badge, all the way.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 16:30 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Huh Badge!? Had no idea it was that popular. Interesting choice.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 06:26 (seven years ago) link
Had I known noone would vote for Anyone for Tennis I'd voted for that instead. I loved when my dad played that one when I was like 6.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 06:30 (seven years ago) link
I said I'd note "I Feel Free" votes: two for sure, and the person who noticed its absence might have been a third. (And maybe there would have been a couple more if it had been on the list.)
Thought I'd be the only "Deserted Cities of the Heart" vote; excellent drone.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 12:27 (seven years ago) link
I had a feeling 'Badge' was gonna take this about 10 posts into the thread. It's a great song - classic.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link