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03-05-2008, 12:12 PM
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Lately, I've been more and more looking for a catchy melodic but franzied pace in my writing: steering away from complicated chord changes and harmony, but more looking at simple melodies that carry the song over. I'm in a rock band now and need to shed away some of that jazzy
I just love Ennico Morricone work, but it's hardly rock band material. What I would like though is something that could incoporate the wailing guitars (think Once upon a time in the West) and that has a good uptempo @ the same time.
I already know about Reverend Horton Heat, but I'm looking for approx the same vibe. |
03-05-2008, 12:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Yorkshire UK | | | Not much help I know, but you need to listen to the intro of an LP called 'Dawnrazor' by 90's UK band 'Fields of the Nephilim'. I'm pretty sure it's a cover of Morricone's 'Harmonica Man' done in a rock/goth stylee. |
03-05-2008, 12:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: New York City | | | Saturday 3/15 at Ottos in the East Village, we do several tunes that have the influence of spaghetti westerns, abeit played loud, hard and fast...Head Vs. Wall...
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03-05-2008, 04:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Quebec | | Do you have a myspace or soemthing to listen to the songs ? I'm sure as heck ain't driving to NYC  |
03-05-2008, 05:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Westfield, MA, USA | | | The Big Gundown - John Zorn doing arrangements of Ennio Morricone stuff. Good album, about a billion different moods and styles incorporating the Morricone thing. Mr. Bungle used to cover a bunch of Ennio Morricone, Disco Volante has some Morricone-esque stuff on it, and is a real good album in general. Also the second Fantomas album is all covers of film music, including Morricone's 'Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspician'. Cool band, that's the singer and bassist from Mr. Bungle with the drummer from Slayer and the guitarist from the Melvins. |
03-05-2008, 05:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Columbia, MO | | | Listen to Murder By Death!
If you want a specific song, they happen to have a song titled "Theme (for Ennio Morricone)" on their newest album which came out yesterday.
Their music in general though has that western feel, I HIGHLY recommend the album Who Will Survive, And What Will Be Left Of Them? to everyone. |
03-05-2008, 06:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Madison WI | | | This might be close....so ill sugest it Adam and the ants" Kings of the wild frontier", Over the Duel drummers you get Marco Paroni's some tome feed back guitar and other times very clean and Old style Italian western. Add to that Kevin Mooney's melodic bass and you have quite a cool sound. |
03-05-2008, 06:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Tasmania, Australia | | | Even the White Stripes do a 60's movie cover on EKCKYTHUMP which is very Morricone like- w/ vocals tho... can't think of name of it right now. Anyone......
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03-05-2008, 08:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Cincinnati OH | | My buddy Ed Wells has a real love for that sound, and there's enough baritone guitar on this record of his to make it qualfy - http://cdbaby.com/cd/ejwells
I played on a few tracks, but he did most of the bass.
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03-05-2008, 08:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Nibiru | | | My band does an electronic version of "Gringo Like Me" by Morricone. It's a lot of fun.
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03-05-2008, 08:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Boston, MA | | | Check out a band from Canada called The Sadies. Their "Favourite Colours" album has definitely got some "Spaghetti Western" inspired songs. A great band. They occasionally back up Neko Case, too.
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03-06-2008, 12:49 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: L.A. (the Valley) | | | Wall of Voodoo played around with that genre at times.
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03-06-2008, 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by jumbosilverette  Wall of Voodoo played around with that genre at times. | Beat me to it!
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03-06-2008, 09:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Staffs, UK | | | Even though i can't stand them didn't Metallica cover 'Ectasy of Gold'? |
03-06-2008, 09:25 AM
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03-06-2008, 10:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Oulu, Finland | | | Calexico comes to mind. Not hard rocking, but still worth checking.
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03-06-2008, 10:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Atlanta, GA | | | Great thread! I LOVE Ennio and I'm a huge fan of westerns. Look forward to listening to the suggested songs. |
03-06-2008, 11:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Hampshire, UK | | It may be worth having a listen to Earth's latest - "The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull"
Looking for a review to guide you I came across this http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/articl...he-lions-skull
"Dylan Carlson's return as the Ennio Morricone of metal..."
I think you'll like it.
And as Phe mentioned, Calexico is a good shout too!
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03-06-2008, 11:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Quebec | | | Yeah thanks for all the suggestions. Ennio is probably THE best scorewriter ever, even better than that Williams guy who wrote the music for that space movie.
It's gritty, dynamic, majestic and moving all at once. |
03-06-2008, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by BillyRay Yeah thanks for all the suggestions. Ennio is probably THE best scorewriter ever, even better than that Williams guy who wrote the music for that space movie.
It's gritty, dynamic, majestic and moving all at once. | Yes, he is way more interesting then that Williams guy. Their is a lot of good film music out there though, all these guys are worth checking out:
Nino Rota
Peter Thomas
Bernard Herrman
Jerry Goldsmith(some stuff more than others)
Miklos Rosza
and probably my favorite, Carl Stalling. That's kind of a whole other can of worms though. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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