I've just been listening to the Rocky 4 Soundtrack today, more for nostaliga reasons.
Shocked to see when researching Vince DiCola that he received a Golden Raspberry award for his work on this soundtrack.
I think his work here is superb, especially the Training Montage track.
The world can sometimes be very odd. I'd rate his work here over some Oscar winners.
It's a great score. The razzies are just an attention seeking organisation. If they think DiCola's piece for this movie is bad, I wonder what they think of every single film score nowadays sounding exactly same (like that droning, electronic lame Hans Zimmer bull$hit you heard in POTC, now in every other film). The score for Rocky IV is fantastic.
The cheese is old and moldy. Where is the bathroom?
DiCola's work for this film was perfect. Training Montage and War are two amazing compositions. Screw the Razzies.
***What's a knockout like you doing in a computer-generated gin joint like this?***
Vince DiCola and Harol Faltermeyer are two of the _ABSOLUTE_BEST_ (not just 'one of the best ' - I HATE wishy-washy weasel-language like that) synth-style movie-scorers (if that makes sense).
I mean, when listening to the stupidly-named 'The Transformers: The Movie' soundtrack and then also listening to 'Fletch' soundtrack (especially what's ACTUALLY played in the movie - I hate how the soundtrack so often differs too much, so you can never hear the SAME music, you hear 'altered versions' or 'arranged versions' instead - just think about the 'Swamp of Sadness' scene, where the double-filtered filterswept fluctuating bass just sends chills to your spine, whereas that doesn't appear before melody in the actual 'soundtrack version', so it gets drowned out, sigh)..
..it's pretty darn hard to make up your mind which is more atmospheric and which oozes more atmosphere, as they are both stupendously brilliant in that (amidst other) regard(s).
Rocky IV 'Training Montage' is one of the most unique and best 'epic, atmospheric, energetic synth songs' I have EVER heard, and I can't praise its inspirational feel and nature enough! It's just brilliant and cosmically mysterious in not only its beauty and superb layering, but also its deeply soul-penetrating, explosive elevating effect that tells you something about the Universe, reality and existence that words have never been able to come close.
I hate how that was ALSO butchered in the soundtrack version - the movie version is the only really good one. I mean, it's ok, but it's NOT the same.. the movie version has the 'energy' that is so hard to explain; it's the 1980s magic at its best, that's all I can really describe it as.
Well, I guess I could describe it actually as about a thousand twenty four other things as well, but it would not help.
Ahhh, these people and their synths in the eighties. It really makes me wonder what I could create if I could go to the 1980s and BASK in that wonderful, excitingly bubbly and sparkly, inspirational 'super-energy' that seems to even cycle through colors within the feeling alone. It's as if you can hear colors or smell sound - very hard to explain, but it's a deep, lively experience of living in powerfully, cosmically elevating fluidum that just keeps pumping creativity into and through you.
My words shamefully fail to glorify enough these two masters, through which the Universe has blessed us with absolutely sublime, magically wonderous energies in the form of music and aural waves that forever radiate something modern people do not have a clue about..
I can't thank these people enough - meaningful music makes my mind melt...thanks to touch of these two totally tubular Transformers!
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I love this soundtrack! I actually bought in on vinyl when it first came out! (I've still got it somewhere in perfect condition)
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