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What manner of beasts were singing the songs?

posted 17 years ago by Kammurabi
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They should be given tranquilizers or a bullet in the brain to ease their misery.

Plus I couldn't understand what they were singing about.

But I like the movie, I gave it a 7

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[–] william-darren 16 years ago

Haha. I'm a big Nero / Django fan, and after having heard so much about the music in this film, finally got a chance to see it. I'm loving the music - it's like an early 80's new wave singer has stepped in to helm a cheese-folk act. It makes the movie way more entertaining in my opinion. So good in such a terrible way.

[–] PostmortemG 16 years ago

I forgot who performed the female vocals, but i believe Mr. Nero himself 'sang' his parts. =D

"Cain and Abel will go to Heaven... if they can make it through Hell!"
-Los Hijos Del Topo

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[–] slangislayer 16 years ago

To me it sounded like cheap Italian knock-off of Joan Baez & Leonard Cohen.
Than I watched the interview with Nero and he said he demanded a Cohen-like soundtrack. So the soundtrack succeeded in evokng the feeling, but failed because it was rather annoying and the lyrics just tell wath happens on the screen. Soetimes I thought it was a Tenacious D parody of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid stating the obviuos.
What a shame, the movie could have been much better without the singing.

It´s a strange world.
Let´s keep it that way.

[–] Squonkamatic 14 years ago

It does sound like Leonard Cohen. But from the Spaghetti Western Database:

Songs: “Keoma” sung by Susan Duncan Smith & Cesare De Natale (as Sybil & Guy), “In Front of My Desperation” sung by Cesare De Natale (as Guy)

[–] Mr__Underhill 14 years ago

They should have hired the guy that sung the soundtrack to the animated Hobbit movies....they used to bring tears to my eyes.

[–] Dragon_Eye_Morrison 13 years ago

Haters gonna hate, i love the soundtrack. If you dislike the vocal tracks so much there are instrumental versions of them.

[–] JarJarRocks 13 years ago

I thought a lot of the music was completely ridiculous. The way the weird, false vocals were desribing the scenes and probably what Keoma was thinking. But to be honest, it didn't bother me extremely much. It did not ruin the experience.

I think it would probably have been much better if the performances were better, and if it had been more like a background thing. Not a sharp, false voice with italian accent. But that being said, it had a truck load of old school charm. You would never find anything like that in modern movies. And there was some analogue synths there that I really liked.

[–] cookieman108 8 years ago

What manner of beasts were singing

My first thought was a clowder of cats trapped under the hood of a running automobile.

I thought the singing in the film The Hellbenders was bad but then I saw this film.