Movie theme songs

An nonsensical interesting thing about doing the new Lard Brothers is that we are researching as many things and music genres online as possible. Weiyuan's colleague who is the ex-bassist of 90's punk band The Dongs told him that "though he understands where we are coming from, we try too hard". Ah well. I thought that was quite funny.

We are trying even harder for the follow-up. During the past few months, there were some intense research on the following subjects: National Anthems of different countries, public rally speeches, TV commercials and movie soundtracks. I've always loved the idea of having a certain music motif tagged to a character in a movie or TV series. And I've always loved Italian film composer Ennio Morricone. His works for those spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood and his 'Cinema Paradiso' official soundtrack (OST) were nothing short of legendary.

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly theme (live)



Everyone knows this tune. This live performance is conducted by the man himself. But my favourite theme is from A Fistful Of Dollars. Metallica covered 'The Esctasy Of Gold' from the The Good, The Bad & The Ugly OST before.

Love Theme (live)



This one was written by his son but essentially a derivation from the main theme of the Cinema Paradiso theme song. I love it.

Superman March (live)



I'm skipping 'Star Wars'. Everyone knows that... way too well. But I really love John Williams's score for Superman. Especially when you watched it when you were 6 and listening to this, you will believe a man can fly.

Batman theme



This is a classic by Danny Elfman. I love it. The movie tune 'Batdance' by Prince was crap though. I used to have the OST somewhere around. Must dig for it.

Halloween theme



I've never even watched a single movie before, not even the Rob Zombie's rebooted franchise. But director John Carpenter of the first movie is cool. He writes most of his movies' soundtracks and records them as well. His style is very much synthesizers as opposed to the rest of the abovementioned guys whose styles are more epic orchestral. I guess it has something to do with the budget too. Heh.