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1. driouxcipher
   January 20th, 2010 | 5:06 pm

   I’m starting to get really tired of pop/rock musicians scoring films. They write good music and stuff, but there are a lot of us who want to be doing nothing but that. Starts to feel like a bit of presumption on their parts to assume that they can just do it because they write good songs.
   In the case of people like Danny Elfman who started in pop and now does exclusively film and concert stuff, I tend to make an exception (and in this case, it looks like this will just be featuring songs on the soundtrack, as opposed to an original score by LCD).
   As in the early 70′s, it’s become really popular to put pop songs into film soundtracks (I think Mann/Anderson started the re-trend in Magnolia), but to assume that pop songs, and pop songwriters, can do just a good of a job scoring as film as people who have been trained and/or dedicated their lives to it, rubs me a bit the wrong way.
   Here endeth the rant.

2. ryan
   January 21st, 2010 | 7:45 pm

   Furthermore, Big Ideas was written for the movie 21 and this is just a remix. But I don’t agree with the rant above. Pop music and traditional film scoring can be used very effectively together and there are very few films that use one or the other exclusively.

   Glad the commenter above can “make an exception” for one of the most popular film composers of the past 20 years. How about the case of Jonny Greenwood, whom though better known for his work with Radiohead expanded an orchestral piece of his own to form the incredible score for There Will Be Blood? Or Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine (the band, not the movie) who wrote an incredible score for Lost In Translation (the movie, not the band) – the soundtrack for which also contained a song written for the film by the French electronic duo Air (“Lost In Kyoto”).

3. ryan
   January 21st, 2010 | 10:38 pm

   Ha. I didn’t even watch the trailer. I guess “Big Ideas” isn’t being used here. But a film “featuring music by” isn’t the same as “being scored by”. You sluts better be careful with your terminology or you might set off temperamental film composers. :-)

4. m
   January 21st, 2010 | 10:47 pm

   ha, the press release promises NEW LCD MUSIC and refers to it as a ‘score’! MISLEADING!

5. driouxcipher
   January 25th, 2010 | 1:40 pm

   @ryan: Excellent points!

   Jonny Greenwood’s score to There Will Be Blood is almost entirely music by Penderecki and Pärt that he repurposed. There are only a handful of original cues, which are excellent. He is a classically trained composer, but I though the score to that film wildly missed the mark. I know I’m in a minority on that, but it just didn’t work for me.
   I think the marriage of good pop music and a good score can work beautifully, and I concede all of your other points.
   Thanks for the debate!
   :)

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