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Re: World album of the day (#342): Once Upon A Time In America

Anonymous — Tue, 6 Aug 2013 11:29:16 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/06/2013 15:29

Something isn't doing it for me with this one. 🤔

Re: World album of the day (#342): Once Upon A Time In America

meccalecca — Tue, 6 Aug 2013 11:21:43 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 08/06/2013 15:21

Morricone really deserves far more love on BEA than he gets.

Re: World album of the day (#342): Once Upon A Time In America

Anonymous — Tue, 6 Aug 2013 10:32:12 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/06/2013 14:32

One of my favourite soundtrack albums of all-time. 'Deborah's Theme' is beautiful, especially when the choir comes in. 'Poverty' is majestic, but I particularly enjoy 'Childhood Poverty', which has a far more classic Morricone sound. The first four notes of 'Amapola' get me every time. I think this is actually my favourite Morricone album, though I sometimes wish the swing numbers weren't here ('Friends', and particularly 'Speakeasy' often have me reaching for the skip button), but other times I feel they're necessary to break up the heavy orchestral tone of much of the rest of the album. That said, 'Prohibition Dirge' might be my favourite song on the whole album, and that's a swing song, so maybe I'm just too picky. I've considered adding this to my chart a few times over the past few months, but always decide against it. It's probably deserving of a place. I feel this album and Carter Burwell's soundtrack to Miller's Crossing are like two peas in a pod, both so evocative of a certain time and style. I also think Burwell was hugely influenced by this album when putting together that score. Listening to the aforementioned 'Deborah's Theme', or 'Friendship and Love' (another personal favourite of mine, probably my favourite of the orchestral numbers actually), you can really see where he got those ideas from. Morricone was an absolute genius, and though this probably isn't the best introduction to his music, nor is it really at all indicative of his most famous work, everybody should listen to this album. It's just wonderful.

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World album of the day (#342): Once Upon A Time In America

albummaster — Tue, 6 Aug 2013 10:00:18 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 08/06/2013 14:00

Today's world album of the day

Once Upon A Time In America by Ennio Morricone (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1984.
Country:
Overall rank: 4,588
Average rating: 78/100 (from 17 votes).

Tracks:
1. Once Upon A Time In America
2. Poverty
3. Deborah's Theme
4. Childhood Memories
5. Amapola
6. Friends
7. Prohibition Dirge
8. Cockeye's Song
9. Amapola Part Ii
10. Childhood Poverty
11. Photographic Memories
12. Friends
13. Friendship And Love
14. Speakeasy
15. Deborah's Theme-Amapola

About world album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com world album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours, but not including albums from Australia, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom or United States. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of world album of the day can be viewed here.