This song fills me with nostalgia... it reminds me of my days and friends from school, when I got up in the morning to watch the Saturday Morning cartoons on tv, my days when I listened to music on a Walkman... days that will never come back. ..I wish I had a time machine...I would go back to the 80s and never go back to this time of 2023...remember, it's dreaming!
Beautiful and touching. Loved it in 1987. Thirty years later it still gets to me. And everyone please cut the crap and release this film on blu ray!! With commentary by the Director and it's stars!
Oh my soul.....Thomas Newman......Beautiful and Amazing composer. What kind of heart does one possess to be able to create such a exceptionally profound and emotionally fulfilling music? Perhaps one not of this earth. 👌🏻☺️
This has been my most favorite song since I was 12. I’m 44 now and it is still just as beautiful as the first day I heard it. It still makes me tear up. 🥰
I am 45, saw this movie in the theaters and feel the same. When my library got the tape I checked it out and listened to it over and over as a kid. … was missing those days and googled the soundtrack just now as I make dinner- in a life so far from that day at the movies. Nice to know others share the same love for it.
You have to check out other Thomas Newman stuff! Fried Green Tomatoes, American Beauty, Shawshank Redemption and of course, Less than Zero. All breathtakingly beautiful scores!
10 лет назад
You are my God. I've been crying all my ex's on this track I had on a cassette Tape. This track and the Less Than Zero score are the best music ever made.
I saw this move in 1987 and was more impressed with "Elegy" the closing credits music, than anything else in the film. At the time (Google-less) I searched high and low for a recording of it. It's great that you've posted it here. I enjoyed it just as much this time as I did long ago. Thanks!
Haunting, deeply soulful, beautifully reflective & filled with this heavenly promise & hope, of what lies after, as I could float off to the otherworld accompanied by such ethereal sounds, such sounds of timeless love & grace, of heartfelt longing & solemn poignancy, such sounds that reverberate to the depths of my soul❤❤
Also check out Michel Colombier's Love Theme from Satisfaction (early Julia Roberts film). It's as beautiful as this and I feel the two tracks are subtly interconnected in that they share the same fate: Rock-themed film gets thoughtful electronic score, largely forgotten in all the noise. www.allmusic.com/album/satisfaction-original-soundtrack-mw0000195317
This isn't by Thomas Newman. It is written by him but the album credits this track by Rick Cox, Chas Smith, Jon C. Clark* & Michael Boddicker. I will send you the link on Discogs.
It IS by Thomas Newman, but those credited are the players on the song (you'll find Cox, Boddicker and Smith in the liner notes on many Newman scores). This composition sounds like Boddicker on synth (he did much of the synth on Less Than Zero) Cox on what appears to be the oboe, Clark on that piano bit in the last minute, and Smith on pedal steel (maybe crying steel?) which comes in just after the synth subsides at 1:12 ish and then again at 2:40 ish. Typically you'll find Newman on piano (while he dabbles in everything else at times, like baglama saz on American Beauty (that Turkish guitar sound).
