MAN! This soundtrack is the worst ever.. I bought the Anchor Bay's "Spaghetti Western Collection" and was really looking forward to seeing this movie. I recently "discovered" Franco Nero, and found him cool and tough etc etc.. But the soundtrack ruined the my viewing pleasure.. The movie was good and interesting in many ways, but while I sat there watching it, I had thoughts about both turning off the sound (during the squealing), and even changing the soundtrack on my computer by myself (altghugh this is a stupid idea, it was just to illustrate how much pain this soundtrack was causing me!). Western (Spaghetti's) soundtracks are often great, but not this one. The lyrics are also horrible.. They really rub in what is happening; "Keoma, you ride your horse with a girl on it, into town, Keoma, your mother and father is dead, you want revenge blah blah blah blah blah!!" We can see what's going on on the screen!
One thing that was suprising was that I saw an interview with Nero on the DVD after I saw the film, and he actually told the interviewer that he himself has played a big part when it came to deciding what kind of music they were to put in the movie.. :-(
Give me (at least give "Keoma") the great Ennio Morricone any day!
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zillion29
18 years ago
Whoah. I really wish I'd been prepared for the soundtrack when I rented this. If you listen to the commentary, Nero actually says something to the effect of, "Yeah . . .maybe this singer . . . maybe it's a bit too much." That's an understatement.
It's a shame, because this is such a tight spaghetti western that stays on point with its message. All of the cool camera angles, one-liners, facial expressions, gushing blood . . .all of it has to be forever tempered by that crappy freakin' warbling beyotch singing.
I guess we have to factor in that it was probably cooler in Italian. Also, it was 1975. This is a sort of crappy folky Joan Baez/Janis Joplin thing where *beep* singing accompanied by some perception of a "message" is what people want to hear.
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