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The music almost makes you want to watch the film time and time again and is certainly true when it comes to movies like Star Wars. So what makes a good piece of film music and why? It would seem that it is becoming ever more important when it comes to the film industry with many of the songs powering the films themselves.

What Is It That Makes Movie Magic?

Effects How You See The Film

One of the other factors that come into it is if it effects you when you are watching the film, any emotion means the music has done the trick. Take the recent Avatar as an example, the music was perfect for the movie and is nominated for an Oscar this year which is hardly surprising. The music didn’t make the film it did bring life to it and this is especially true when watching it in 3D.

Emotions

Emotion is something that is always important when a composer is thinking about what to write. If you are listening to a piece of music and it has made you feel something then it has worked, there is no doubt that. Directors are always looking for music to do this to the audience as it further adds a bit of realism to the movie.

Instruments

You cannot have a wild set of Drum Kits playing during a romantic film, this would just not work at all. The key thing to remember when it comes to the music in a film is having the right instruments, it will then be up to the audience. A guitar solo in the middle of an action scene from an awesome Guitars player is going to get a reaction. If you put something like that into a very slow film it is going to get a negative reaction from the audience.

Make sure that when you are in the cinema that you listen out for the brilliant music that comes with the movie. Although you will not often hear DJ Equipment you will agree that without music a film would not be the same.

Tags: Film, guitars, instruments, Music
Posted in Music · February 7th, 2010 · Comments (0)

Review Of Beatles For Sale

Beatles For Sale is a frequently forgotten Beatles album (as overlooked as any Beatles album can be anyway.) I think that’s a real shame because while it’s definitely not among The Beatles greatest work, it does have it’s good qualities and I do believe it is worth taking a close listen to.

Particularly I think the 8 original Lennon/McCartney songs on the album are quite good (even if not quite as great as the originals on Help! and A Hard Day’s Night) What really stands out about these originals is that they’ve got a cool cohesive feeling with them. I think these songs would work wonderfully as an EP. In fact, I normally just skip all of the covers so that I listen to the album as if it were an 8 song EP.

The album really starts off good with John’s “No Reply,” “I’m A Loser,” & “Baby’s In Black.” These are 3 nice tunes and all of them have a dark introspective mood that ties them together well.

I am not a big fan of the covers on the album, unfortunately. Even more sadly is that they make up nearly half of the album (six of the fourteen songs are covers.) The sole covers that I have any patience for are “Words of Love” and “Rock and Roll Music” However even these are not as good as original Beatles songs.

The most famous of those Beatles originals on this album is “Eight Days A Week” which is a recording that both Lennon and McCartney said negative things about (they wrote it together) and the band never played it live, not even once. But despite that, it’s a good tune. No, it’s not among their greatest songs, but it’s catchy and the fade-in is quite cool.

All of the tracks on this album (both the originals and the covers) sound so much better on the 2009 digitally remastered CDs than they did on the previous CDs. I highly recommend that you get The Beatles Remastered Stereo Box Set and The Beatles Remastered Mono CD Box Set and give both the mono and stereo remastered versions of the album a good listen before you go about your day.

I am definitely not claiming that Remastered version of Beatles For Sale is destined to be your favorite Beatles album, but I do believe you’ll find that is far better than it’s reputation. I think it’s at least better than With The Beatles and Yellow Submarine.

I definitely listen to CDs like Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Let It Be a lot more often than early 60s albums like this one, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like listening to the earlier ones too. I believe there are interesting elements in almost all of their recordings. And I can barely wait to hear all of their records on remastered vinyl when The Beatles Remastered Vinyl Box Sets are released in 2010.

Tags: 1964, Beatles For Sale, Classic Rock, Music, The Beatles
Posted in Music · February 4th, 2010 · Comments (0)