[gsoto]

Just sharing one of my favorite pieces of him:

"Memories of Green" (from the album "See You Later") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW9D6agp794

I think this piece shows the range of his musical expressiveness, apart from his virtuosity or synth programming skills. Just a piano passed through a flanger effect with some ambient sounds.

The electronic bleeps in that track are recorded from a handheld electronic game (Bambino UFO Master Blaster [1]). Talk about giving a whole new meaning to those sounds.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEOW8wAqG0

[ffhhj]

》"Memories of Green" (from the album "See You Later") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW9D6agp794

That title and that album cover: a woman wearing bikini and low-light glasses for snow, with the sun on the back and broken floating ice. A prediction of climate change from 1980?

[the_other]

If the myths hold truths, the oil companies knew this was an issue in the '70s. By the late 80s the predictions had reached artists and musicians in the UK (how I know this is too convoluted and flakey for this thread). I was taught about climate change (the "greenhouse effect") as a young teen, early 90s. It's been canon for me since then. I have no problem believing that forward looking adults were talking about it, making art and activism in 1980.

[badocr]

"Climate Change" was one of the topics discussed at "Rio Summit" in 92 [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Summit

[clcaev]

I recall an early 80's Justice League episode which centered global warming.

[the_af]

"Memories of Green" was also used to great effect in Blade Runner. I love how well it works there. It's so sad and evocative.

[jug]

Wow, I thought it was written for the film until now! How embarrassing… Not only for the song suiting, but the title too. As it’s a bleak post-ecological society.

[WesolyKubeczek]

There is a story about how Ridley Scott wanted to use this specific piece and a couple more by Vangelis in Blade Runner, and Vangelis told him: why reuse my old pieces, I can make a new score for this film specifically.

And so he did, in some short timeframe.

[MrVandemar]

I think Scott did this to Jerry Goldsmith for ALIEN as well, except Jerry wasn't happy about reusing music.

[WesolyKubeczek]

Don’t you have to ask the composer for permi$$ion anyway? Or do things work differently in Hollywood?

[MrVandemar]

In the end, it's whoever pays for the rights.

I think it was a piece of music from another film, also by 20th Century Fox, that they used as a temp track, and Scott liked it so much he made it happen. Goldsmith was not best pleased.

It'll probably be the music for the opening titles, because when I bought the album in the 80s I was suprised (disappointed actually) that piece wasn't on it, and leaving off the opening titles is a real omission in a movie soundtrack.

[minusf]

not if you are stanley kubrick ;) (2001)

[wcarss]

I couldn't play that video for some reason (says it's unavailable), so here's another link to (I think) the same song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1KfOMkyU_w

[fastball]

Here's a direct link to it on Spotify as well: https://open.spotify.com/track/0rHCW5eZ35QmQNVYyozAnZ?si=384...

[gsoto]

It is the same song. Thanks :)

[FpUser]

>"Memories of Green"

Memories of Green and his work on Blade Runner in general are on my list of best music. Beautiful work.