Now THIS is a great music video.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

If you've never gotten into Tangerine Dream, this may do the trick- if nothing else then for the fantastic animation. Reminds me a lot of Pink Floyd's The Wall (in style).

Caution: Long video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om_-W_bRJoA

[Elidor]

1. fantastic!

favorited!

[kentauros]

2. I love Tangerine Dream

and while that is a good pairing of the evolution segment of Allegro non Troppo, the action of the characters is best viewed with the original Bolero soundtrack.

And if you haven't seen that movie, go out and rent it now! :D

I notice from time to time elements of Tangerine Dream that remind me of other works they've done. Such as in Stratosphere, near the beginning, it was sounding something like the title theme to the movie Sorcerer (an excellent remake of the French movie "Wages of Fear".) I seem to recall Friedkin saying that if he had only known about Tangerine Dream when he did The Exorcist, he would have used them instead of Mike Oldfield. In many ways, I'm glad he didn't since that's another musician I love :)

I do have to wonder if The Exorcist would have been scarier with Tangerine Dream for the soundtrack. They did do at least one horror movie, The Keep, so it may have worked well.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. When I posted the link to the video I didn't realize Allegro was

a work on its own merit. Thanks for pointing it out- I must now look for it. If the whole work is like this excerpt it'll be a major find, thanks to you!

I have most of the TD collection, and although a great deal of it is inventive and original, Edgar Froese does tend to repeat ideas from time to time. That's okay- as prolific as he is, it's a minor point.

Mike Oldfield has repeated ideas from time to time also, but he's still one of the greats. Tubular Bells is still one of my favorites of all time.

[kentauros]

9. It is a brilliant film

and the "breaks" between animation sequences are like a parody of Fantasia.

Another one to look for is "La Planète sauvage" (The Fantastic Planet). The soundtrack is on the weird side or acid-trip type, but this is a movie from the early 1970s and with an even weirder plot ;)

I had downloaded a torrent of it from a site that had put in in the public domain, but I don't see it on that site anymore (Public Domain Torrents). It could be interesting to drop the soundtrack somehow and substitute it for Tangerine Dream :)

By the way, what did you think of the composer that was used on the B5 spinoff, Crusade ? (Since Christopher Franke did all of the B5 music before it.) I liked it, but then again, I like discordant music, like that of the classic Forbidden Planet

[Forkboy]

6. Sorcerer is one of the best unknown movies ever made.

I love that movie.

[kentauros]

10. I think it's one of Roy Scheider's best

other than all the others he was great in ;)

Have you ever seen the original "Wages of Fear" ? TCM played it a couple of years back and I thought it just as brilliant as Sorcerer. They should have shown the two back to back. I don't recall now if the original had a "rotting wooden suspension bridge" scene or not, but there is one stretch of road where it would be too bumpy for them to drive at a speed less than something like 50mph, so that's kind of harrowing, too :o

[Forkboy]

11. I've never seen the original but would love to.

My father said it's excellent as well.

And Roy Scheider was a great actor. He did a movie called The Last War where he played a commander of an Italian POW camp in Texas right after WW2 ends. It's another great but little known movie, and worth checking out if you can find it.

Me and my best friend were truly bummed out when he died. The 7 Ups is one of my all time favorites and I was a fan ever since then. Jaws just cemented that feeling.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Prisoner_Number_Six!

Wow, that's something else!

I love it...

I'll bet it would be especially interesting with mind-altering drugs or alcohol on board!

Thank you...

:hug:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

5. Hmmmmm.. now THAT'S something I hadn't thought of....

:evilgrin:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. You hadn't??? Really?

Ah, you surprise me!

:evilgrin:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. Well, actually...

Perhaps it did momentarily cross my mind... :rofl: