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POLL: Pick the next Extended Play Lounge (Patreon)

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2025-03-01 04:24:36
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2026-06
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POLL: Pick the next Extended Play Lounge

  • Glass, Philip - Koyanisqaatsi (Movie Soundtrack) 46
  • Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds (La Vallée) Soundtdrack 70
  • Vangelis - Blade Runner Soundtrack 72
  • Various Artists - Heavy Metal (Movie Soundtrack) 32
  • Zimmer, Hans - Dune Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 27
  • 2025-03-01
  • —2025-03-04
  • 247 votes
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Content

For this next EPL, I think it will be fun to check out a movie soundtrack. All of these choices are from our Master List, and I'm eager to hear them all. But...which one first? Help me decide by picking your preferred option!

This poll will run through Monday.

Comments

doughelvering

...I'm curious...if this goes according to the original number of up-votes on Discord, Vangelis would win...and Heavy Metal would be 2nd.

Ken Robinson

This seems predictable so far, but I’m still really rooting for Philip Glass! That’s one of my favorite soundtracks of all time!

Stuart Moulder

I love portions of the Blade Runner soundtrack, but find much of it not nearly as strong as other works by Vangelis. To me, that soundtrack really works as part of the film and is almost a soundscape as much as a soundtrack. I love me some Pink Floyd and even managed to see the movie Obscured by Clouds. But this is a collection of mediocre songs. Sorry. Hans Zimmer's work here is fine, but like many of his soundtracks, they evoke the correct mood but don't stand on their own. I don't think the Heavy Metal soundtrack is all that either. If you're going to listen to a collection of songs that are trying to capture a moment in musical time, I'd point you to the Repo Man soundtrack (punk). So that leaves Koyanisqaatsi which I do very much enjoy. It came at a turning point in Glass's career where he was starting to bring his hard-core minimalism back into contact with more traditional ideas of compositional development. I personally prefer The Hours to this. But this is probably the more significant work, culturally. Seen as part of the film, this music is astonishing. Unlike Zimmer's work, I do think it stands on its own. But it is maybe still too hardcore minimalist for some folks.

Edward M Senkus

I saw Heavy Metal in the theater opening day. What I remember are the radio ads followed by the DJ's "Yes it's animation NO it is NOT a kid's movie. Love the first song with the corvette landing from space. When it came to TV the opening song was changed.

KellieE69

Heavy Metal is such a cheezy movie but great 🎶

Mats Lange

Crossing my fingers for Dune, but it doesn't look good.

Si

There's not enough Vangelis on the Daily Doug! That must change

Les Mable

To be honest, each of the Qatsi trilogy soundtracks deserves individual attention, since they're spread over many years with considerable diversity in compositional styles. (Incidentally, it's Koyaanisqatsi, not Koyanisqaatsi, but that's just my pedantry). So Glass gets my vote.

Great Scott

Yes, I know and can see that probably Vangelis would win. And Pink Floyd would probably be up there too, both almost by name recognition alone. So, let's do something completely different and go for a soundtrack where many different artists, with many different songs, were able to be collected together into a whole, to produce one sound track. Obviously I'm talking about Heavy Metal. The others are good, even great, but it's all just one artist per film. Think of how much extra work was involved with going thru the whole catalog of everyone's works, picking just the right song for that part of the film, and then the hard part, getting all of the licenses for all of them both for the film itself, and for collecting them into the soundtrack album. That's genius. So go ahead and pick a single artist soundtrack if you must, or be bold and choose variety and pick the "various artists" soundtrack instead.

Adie

IMO Koyaanisqatsi is the best album and can stand up outside the movie so easy enough to vote for it! However, I feel the need to articulate what aspect of the other choices undermines them for me. So: 1. Obscured By Clouds has its moments, but it's a transitional album whose value is in the insights into Pink Floyd's musical transformation not the quality of the album itself. 2. I was tempted by Bladerunner, and it is a breakthrough for Vangelis and the CS80 sound. But, even though there's a great deal of excellent music, it is context more than the music that makes it a tempting choice 3. Heavy Metal is an excellent compilation of early metal tracks, so I can understand why anyone would vote for it. However, as a compilation I don't see the argument for having it as an EPL. 4. The Dune soundtrack has beautiful sounds, but it is completely subserviant to the film narrative rather than making it's own musical statement. Of course, to vote for Koyaanisqatsi you have to have some enjoyment of minimalism, and I don't always go for minimilist works. However, this one is a fine example of the genre.

HeadStart

From what I understand Koyaanisquatsi was composed specifically to portray another dimension to what the film was attempting display, life out of balance.After witnessing the total package as a complete presentation it is very difficult to separate the elements as singularly independent.

HeadStart

And I feel that in order to do it justice Koyaanisquatsi needs to be presented and reviewed as the project was intended.

HeadStart

… I need to remember, "No composing in the comments box!"

Allen

Hey Doug. "Blade Runner" is one of the most analyzed films of cinema school. It is, IMHO, Ridley Scott's best film (editing, sound, the total package) and is up there with Stanley Kubrick's "2001" as a seminal sci-fi movie that features deep philosophical contemplation about the human condition (derived from Philip Dick's book, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"). It would be worth watching before you die. As for your question about whether you should watch the film before listening to the soundtrack, it's an interesting dilemma. My guess is (after your earlier preview of Vangelis's music) it won't matter too much. I still listen to this album 3-4 times a week (it's perfect for background study music). When I listen, I almost never see images from the movie forming in my head; his music seems to transcend the medium, inducing a different reaction depending on whether it's heard solo or in the context of the film. Now that I think about it, I would really like to hear your reactions absent the visual images associated with each track!

So Many Shiny Objects

I missed this poll, but I have to say, the Heavy Metal soundtrack is GOOD STUFF. "Lunatic Fringe" is killer and so relevant right now. I wasn't ready for that gratuitous nudity in the film when I saw it. It was ahead of its time.