Yeah, I watched The Thing because Tarantino said he was trying to achieve the same sort of paranoia in The Hateful Eight. The Hateful Eight is also supposed to be scored by Morricone, and it also has Kurt Russell to boot. Apparently Morricone only did the main theme for The Thing, then John Carpenter did the rest of the music. So there was a bunch of music that Morricone did for that film but was never used. He offered that music to Tarantino, but just ended up making an original score for the film.
Yeah, EW&F is a musical staple. I don't even think my parents really introduced them to me actually (aside from the song "Serpentine Fire"); their music was just always present in some fashion.
I think people often overlook Maurice as a vocalist, but he's basically right there with the best of them. There's probably never been a group out with two singers of the same caliber as Maurice and Philip Bailey. The only one that comes to mind that comes close is The Temptations when they had David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks, but they didn't work in the awesome tandem like Maurice and Philip did.
Thanks for complimenting my post on KTT. That post was brewing in me for a while, even before Maurice died, because I don't think a lot of people fully understand how major a talent, one might even go so far as to call him a genius, he was. I'm still blown away by how good many of the harmonies and arrangements are on his records.
Funnily enough, after I made that post, I came across an article which compares Michael Jackson to Maurice White, mostly the fact that they were both perfectionists with strong visions for how they wanted to be. It doesn't go too much into comparing their music, but when you think about it both of their music can be thought of as very exacting and polished. Here's the article, if you're interested: http://www.theatlantic.com...ource=SFTwitter
Yeah, and their horn sections sound especially alike. It would have been interesting to see what Mike and Maurice cooked up. I read something about executives wanting Maurice or Verdine to produce for Prince too when Prince was first starting out, but Prince wasn't having it. In the end, I'm kind of glad those collabs didn't happen though.
I just watched the documentary last night. Not bad, but very underwhelming with their track by track breakdowns.
I think people often overlook Maurice as a vocalist, but he's basically right there with the best of them. There's probably never been a group out with two singers of the same caliber as Maurice and Philip Bailey. The only one that comes to mind that comes close is The Temptations when they had David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks, but they didn't work in the awesome tandem like Maurice and Philip did.
Thanks for complimenting my post on KTT. That post was brewing in me for a while, even before Maurice died, because I don't think a lot of people fully understand how major a talent, one might even go so far as to call him a genius, he was. I'm still blown away by how good many of the harmonies and arrangements are on his records.
Funnily enough, after I made that post, I came across an article which compares Michael Jackson to Maurice White, mostly the fact that they were both perfectionists with strong visions for how they wanted to be. It doesn't go too much into comparing their music, but when you think about it both of their music can be thought of as very exacting and polished. Here's the article, if you're interested: http://www.theatlantic.com...ource=SFTwitter
Sorry for all the text, btw.
I just watched the documentary last night. Not bad, but very underwhelming with their track by track breakdowns.
Skeleton Tree is something else. The film even more-so.