Horrible Music

Ah, where to begin?

When I see someone throw out a word like admonishment it seems to be a way to appear intelligent.

Being that a lot of readers and/or users of this site are barely literate, the use of such a word serves 2 functions: (1) to make the user appear intelligent; (2) to confuse and distract or make people who don't know what it means feel stupid or inferior. For those who don't know, it is an unnecessary euphemism(thinly veiled lie) to hide behind. The dictionary defines admonishment as: "to reprove (voice or convey disapproval of), gently but earnestly", and "to counsel (another) against something to be avoided; caution".

THAT WAS MY EXACT INTENT.

Bravo for knowing a four syllable word.

Saying my post has "a stench of admonishment" confuses me. Voicing my disapproval honestly comes with a stench? Your whole post(in itself an admonishment, or rebuke) is as pretentious as Been's music in Light Sleeper. Not everyone wants the inner world of the characters spelled out for them in such an obvious and embarrassing way.

You mention, "The hodge-podge placement of music was created well-past post-production and the over-dubbed 'score' is to say the least, poorly concieved.<sp>(i before e , friend.) Does the fact that it's hodge-podge(Jesus, is this the 1950s?) placement of the music excuse its embarrassing transparent qualities?

Next, we have this gem from you. "Yet, one can't blame the brilliant and truly unique/talent of Micheal Been for what should have otherwise been characterized as "A Pigeonhole'd Score"!
One can't blame Been for what you called "A Pigeonhole'd Score" ? There are so many things wrong with this reference, it's not worth pointing them all out.
I CAN, and DID.
Let me add that brilliant and/or genius, are by far the most overused words in the language.

Last, but definitely not least, I've heard of, but not heard,The Call. After Light Sleeper, I'm in no rush to check them out.

Lastly, having a catalog of 18 years means nothing. There are hundreds of musicians with larger catalogs who are equally worthless. As for said catalog being more worthy than an Imdb rant, no shi t! Anything is more important.

Steve,

Here you go.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002MPS/ref=m_art_li_1/102-3031666-6774503?v=glance&s=music

Michael Been was the lead singer for The Call. To the best of my knowledge they didn't release a soundtrack for Light Sleeper but here's a link for the tracks you're after. The album is called Love is Everywhere.

http://www.blindrecords.com/the_call.htm

I own Light Sleeper on DVD and find the soundtrack to be one of it's strong points. Haven't listened to much of their stuff so...I don't know. Try their greatest hits maybe.

Somehow I missed the film the first time around, and saw the end credits ONLY, one night in a hotel room somewhere. I knew I had to see it, and for me it did not disappoint. It is one of a very few films where I was really conscious of the music as a part of the film (interesting in light of the "post-post-production" comment) and for me, it all worked together.

The soundtrack only came out in Europe. The number is 9031-77210-1, someone said it was on Warner Bros. (Been's solo label) I may be disremembering that it was on A&M. The is also one in France on the Red Rooster label. They show up on Ebay occasionally, but go for big $$$ ($40-50) There were 16 tracks, but mostly "World on Fire" and "To Feel This Way". I "fummydiddled" around with burning my own cd from the film itself, but was never quite happy with the results.

Damn, I wish I'd known about the Region 2 version with commentary. I only recently bought the Region 1 with bugger-all extras. I hate that.

I agree that the movie hasn't aged particularly well. And I don't like the soundtrack as much as I did when I first heard it in my teens. But I still think it suits the mood. And I love one lyric in particular:

"How different would I be today/If only knowledge courted me, instead of fear and shame?"

- Michael Been

I don't understand the question, and I won't respond to it.

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I'm a musician myself, and often feel that music can be the strong or weak point in a movie.
For me, the music was ever-present and blaring, sending me running for my remote to continually turn down the volume. As soon as the next speaking scene came up, I had to turn the volume up to get the gist of the dialog.
Unfortunately, though the lyrics may have been apropos and the sax playing soulful, the music over all was not well-suited to this movie.

This time I'm trying to pretend it's a Greek chorus.

Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.