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| Should "Apocalypse Now" be added to the playlist? |
| Yes, add both soundtracks! |
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| Add only the "Apocalypse Now" soundtrack |
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| Add only the "Apocalypse Now Redux" soundtrack |
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| Add just the musical tracks from the soundtracks |
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| Other (please post your opinion!) |
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 MissJubilee
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Joined: Sep 09, 2005
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Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject: Add: "Apocalypse Now" Soundtrack |
 
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Here's an album that's not in the playlist yet and might be a good one. Shall we add "Apocalypse Now"? There are two soundtracks. The plain "Apocalypse Now" album has more of the feel of the movie, according to reviewers, with jungle sounds and dialog along with the music. "Apocalypse Now Redux" is a more traditional soundtrack, mostly synthasized. I'm not completely sure they'd go well on here, and would like other people's opinions. Certainly it would be nice to have "Ride of the Valkyries!"
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There are plenty of samples on the respective Amazon pages.
The Amazon review of the AN:R soundtrack also talks about the AN album:
In the mid to late '70s, director Francis Ford Coppola put his career on the line to complete Apocalypse Now, his quixotic attempt to variously document, deconstruct, and mythologize America's military involvement in Vietnam. The end result was a troubling masterpiece and technical tour de force whose use of sound and music influenced films for decades. As originally released, the soundtrack album was equally groundbreaking: an intriguing, dreamlike collage of dialogue, sound effects, and music that both evoked the film's artistic sensibility and underscored the innovative, Academy Award®-winning efforts of sound designer Walter Murch.
Two decades later, Coppola revisited the project, adding nearly an hour of previously unseen footage and revamping its soundtrack release as well. But while the film may have taken on fresh new dimensions, the new soundtrack album seems stripped of virtually all of Murch's key contributions. What remains is primarily music--and a telling argument for the notion that the whole is considerably more than the sum of its parts. Inspired by synthesist Isao Tomita's '70s classical adaptations, Coppola hired father Carmine to write an orchestra score, and then set about synthesizing it. The Doors' "The End" remains an iconic touchstone, but removed from the context of the film (and its original album release), much of the Coppola music all too clearly reveals its inspirations (Tomita, Holst, Wagner, Stravinsky) and the technical limitations of the relatively primitive synth technology involved (mirrored in a pair of newly recorded tracks as well). --Jerry McCulley
One final note: A spotlight review on the Amazon "ANR" page mentions that "Jim Morrison's Oedipal vulgarities" are audible on that album in the first song.  Which is likely indicative of other such instances on the "AN" album's dialog tracks. Of course, we've got "More Music from Braveheart" on here... I seem to recall that has a few "vulgarities."
Happy listening! ~Miss J
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Cinder 
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Location: Washington state
 
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Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject: Works for me |
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Thanks Miss J. for your work.
If you have them to send to Jeric then cool. He is the one who gets to load them up and put them on here for us. I will take your input and vote.
thanks again.
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 SiriusCreations
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Joined: Aug 26, 2007
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Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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