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Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous
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IanB
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Edited Sep 23, 2010, 11:08
Re: Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous
Sep 23, 2010, 11:03
thesweetcheat wrote:
IanB wrote:
The minimalists are interesting because like the Serlialists some of their ideas have been adopted and turned into pablum by film score writers and house / chill out artists. Think of for example the American Beauty score which was then ripped by everyone in American tv all the way to the core of the mainstream - Desperate Housewives etc. So everyone gets a spoonful of Reich's Six Marimbas (for example) watered right down so it doesn't upset anyone. It's like sax players on rock records who dare to overblow for a few bars.


Yes, that's true. I suppose Glass (and Nyman) have been responsible for bringing minimalist film scores into popular acceptance.

I hate sax players on rock records, generally. Especially that 80s thing where "New Wave" groups seemed to think it was obligatory, e.g. the terrible re-recording of "Pretty In Pink" for the film of the same name.

Saxophone is far better used on ska records!


..... agreed and Motown of course. And maybe the first Dexy's album. The solo on "Baker Street" drives me crazy though I still like the cut-n-paste solo on Broooooce's "Jugleland". Sax in Punk Rock was always a strange one but I would have to make an exception for Gareth Sagar. The horns on the Graham Parker records are the big downside of his albums for me.
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