The last track sounded very like Pink Floyd doing Time
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TheCountDracula — 12 years ago(January 07, 2014 03:22 PM)
I could literally play the lead for Time and fit it into the long end track. It was too similar.
Anyone else notice it?
Intro - Jellyman, Offspring, Offspring, Jellyman. Gimme some fin, noggin, dude! -
morley962 — 11 years ago(January 23, 2015 08:07 AM)
I don't really know why people even describe it as an electronic/synth score, because there is a LOT of guitar work on it.
Those crashing chords during the opening Diamond Diary, the guitar solo on Beach Theme (yeah, it could be synth I guess, but it sounds like guitar), the guitar during Dr Destructo, and of course the final track by Craig Safan.
By the way, I also agree that the final track is very similar to Floyd's Comfortably Numb rather than Time. -
snowman-94299 — 10 years ago(August 23, 2015 10:43 PM)
The supplements on the Criterion BD state that Mann wanted it that way. In fact, Tangerine Dream couldn't (or wouldn't) do a good enough copy of Comfortably Numb, so he hired another composer to make a close copy of it. Apparently he tried to license the real song, but the rights were unavailable. It's possible Gilmour was suing Waters at the time for some credit on that song (and others) as the original release of The Wall gave sole writing credit for all songs to Waters.
Anyway, they were scoring the film in the Fall of '80 and Michael Mann was obsessed with The Wall and loved that song particularly. The title and theme of the song fit Frank's mindset at that point as he's gone back to his prison mindset, doesn't give a crap about anything and is "numb" to the world.