Ah a honmage to Ennio Morricone
And that lick at 00:58 is used by Royksopp in What else is there

My pleasure. I am currently iTunes-ing the complete album. Thanks for the turn-on.

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Thanks for the bump!

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Audiosifts get a bum rap. *promote.

Thanks for the bump!

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Audiosifts get a bum rap. *promote.

^It's not from A Fist Full of Dollars. It's the theme from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly composed by Ennio Morricone.

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Good-the-Bad-and-the-Ugly-Trailer

I assume they used it because it's a one of the most classic and famous original scores of all time and the theme to Dirty Harry is 70's style soundtrack garbage. ...and people associate the Good Bad Ugly soundtrack with Clint Eastwood.


We might as well call it "The Clint Eastwood Theme Song."




>> ^Fade:
Why is the music from a fist full of dollars? Surely dirty harry had a sound track too?

This is one of my favorite movies. The haunting Ennio Morricone theme is wonderful as well. I would like nothing better for the entire movie to be posted online.

You're not the only one, smile...
I'm Bev.

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1. Mr. Bungle - California
2. Radiohead - The Bends
3. Beck - Mellow Gold
4. Beatles - White Album
5. Bjork - Homogenic
6. Stereolab - Sound Dust
7. Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
8. Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Amen
9. Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
10. Stevie Wonder - Greatest Hits
11. EWF - Greatest Hits
12. Steve Reich - Sextet
13. Stravinsky - Rite of Spring
14. Portishead - Portishead
15. The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
16. Depeche Mode - Violator
17. Rufus Wainwright - Poses
18. Prince - Greatest Hits
19. Secret Chiefs - Book M
20. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
21. Brian Eno - Ambient 1
22. Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
23. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
24. Ennio Morricone - Once Upon A Time In The West
25. Arcade Fire - Funeral
26. Autolux - Future Perfect
27. Miles Davis/Gil Evans - Porgy and Bess
28. John Coltrane - Blue Train
29. Bob Marley - Legend
30. Chet Baker - Best of Chet Baker Sings
31. Mose Allison - Allison Wonderland
32. Failure - Fantastic Planet
33. MSI - You'll Rebel To Anything....
34. Faith No More - Angel Dust
35. Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
36. Fishbone - Truth and Soul
37. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
38. Foetus - Gash
39. Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
40. Nirvana - Nevermind
40.1. Frank Sinatra - Greatest Hits
40.2. Frank Zappa -
40.3. Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
40.4. M.I.A. - Kala
40.5. Me'Shell Ndegeocello - Cookie
40.6. Michael Brecker - Michael Brecker
40.7. Miles Davis - All Blues
40.8. Patsy Cline - Greatest Hits (token country)
40.9. Philip Glass - Glassworks
40.91. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
40.92. Bernard Herrmann - The Day The Earth Stood Still

In Soviet Russia, the ... Oh I got nothing. Upvote for Ennio Morricone tho!

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D'oh! Then who the hell am I thinking of? Must have confused him with Jim Morrison.

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Ennio is still alive.

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He died only recently, but his impact on motion picture soundtracks will be timeless.

Ennio is still alive.

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He died only recently, but his impact on motion picture soundtracks will be timeless.

Great song indeed, was just about to submit it, so heres the post I was preping:

The Orb

From the tracks Wiki:

"Little Fluffy Clouds" is centered around clips from an interview with Rickie Lee Jones in which she recalls to LeVar Burton picturesque images of her childhood. Critics and fans sometimes attribute the odd nasal tonality of Rickie Lee Jones' voice to drug use, though Jones later claimed that it was the result of a heavy cold. The sample comes from "A Conversation with Rickie Lee Jones", an interview featured on a promotional 2-CD edition of the Flying Cowboys album.

Burton: "What were the skies like when you were young?"

Jones: "They went on forever – They - When I w- We lived in Arizona, and the skies always had little fluffy clouds in 'em, and, uh... they were long... and clear and... there were lots of stars at night. And, uh, when it would rain, it would all turn - it- They were beautiful, the most beautiful skies as a matter of fact. Um, the sunsets were purple and red and yellow and on fire, and the clouds would catch the colors everywhere. That's uh, neat cause I used to look at them all the time, when I was little. You don't see that. You might still see them in the desert."

Jones was upset at the unauthorized use of her voice and pursued the issue in the legal system. Big Life chose to settle out of court for an undisclosed sum of money for use of her voice on The Orb's recording.

The song also uses a harmonica sample from Ennio Morricone's The Man With The Harmonica (from the film Once Upon a Time in the West) and parts of Electric Counterpoint ,a piece for multitracked guitars composed by Steve Reich and recorded by Pat Metheny. Reich, unlike Jones, was "genuinely flattered" by The Orb's use of his work and instructed his record company not to sue.Alex Paterson has also mentioned that fans would "die" if they discovered where the drums on "Little Fluffy Clouds" originated from.

If your interested in some of his best "western" stuff on a single CD you can't go wrong with "Ennio Morricone: The Legendary Italian Westerns".


Also check out these sifts to see the master at work.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Ennio-Morricone-The-Ecstasy-of-Gold-live
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ennio-Morricone-The-Good-the-Bad-and-the-Ugly-live

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Watch the video again. Moore got a spontaneous standing ovation! The "Hollywood Elite" (pretty much defined as "anyone with floor seats at the Oscars) gave his win a standing O. I checked this most recent Oscar telecast, and the only standing ovation was for Ennio Morricone, and that was a "Lifetime Achievement Award". People in the audience that night reported that the boos were not coming from around themselves.