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Ladyhawke Music Lovers Anonymous.


(stands up). My name is The Ocelot, and I love the music in "Ladyhawke."

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I assume that a support group like Ladyhawke Music Lovers Anonymous, like other such groups, has the purpose of helping people get over a crippling disorder.

So any time you start liking that music, call your sponsor to talk you out of it, immediately.

Best of luck.

CB

Good Times, Noodle Salad

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Before IMDB silences the message boards for good, I am Sil and I love the music of Ladyhawke!

It also led me to discover the Alan Parsons Project. While initially unexpected and even jarring, you will realise before you know it that the music is an integral part of the film. Everything works, from the story to the casting to the score. You will believe in the cinematic magic of Ladyhawke.

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First, it’s okay to have terrible taste in music. We all have our drawbacks.

It’s NOT okay to tolerate terrible recordings. The soundtrack on this sounds like it was produced by Phil Spector using two tin cans and a string. It is tinny, harsh, grating and one-dimensional. Whatever happened to The Alan Parsons Project, as opposed to, say, Queen, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Journey? Hell, even Michael Oldfield (Tubular Bells)? Exactly. It is among the worst audio production designs that I’ve heard, and I work in audio. It had ZERO bass, leaving the nasaly, harsh, tinny high end completely unbalanced, and about as much mid-range as Elton John has had women lovers. The recording sounds like Fran Drescher with a bad head cold. Re-master the soundtrack. If you won’t countenance a complete redoing with a romantic operatic score (and not bubblegum disco track that you imprinted from puberty), then the-master it.

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