RIP Morricone

[joestrummer]

Ennio Morricone, Italian composer most famous for Westerns, dies aged 91

Ennio Morricone, whose scores for movies such as "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", "The Mission" and "Cinema Paradiso" made him one of the world's most famous screen composers, has died, his lawyer said on Monday. Morricone, who won two Oscars and dozens of others awards including Golden Globes...

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He’s the GOAT in my book.

 

[Prairie Sage]

Probably the most famous western movie theme of all:

 

[Red Dead Redemption]

 

[BubbaGene]

One of the greats!

 

[Cyberbach]

I remember as a child when I had mastered the two handed hollow whistle to mimic the sound of the song... I was king for a day!

 

[Red Dead Redemption]

 

[Jud Crandall]

Thanks for the post . . . I was blasting Morricone through my portable speakers the whole time I was inside the Maryland stadium when we took that place over last fall . . . I always thought Dr. Tom looked a lot like Eastwood. No better soundtrack for Nebraska football.

 

[Jud Crandall]

@Red Dead Redemption : the person who tweeted that at the Washington Post should have his eyelids ripped out by Comanches and be left to die in the sun . . . and the rest of the editorial board should be horsewhipped. The man was twice as good as Beethoven, and ran circles around Bach.

 

[Red Dead Redemption]

@Red Dead Redemption : the person who tweeted that at the Washington Post should have his eyelids ripped out by Comanches and be left to die in the sun . . . and the rest of the editorial board should be horsewhipped. The man was twice as good as Beethoven, and ran circles around Bach.

Beethoven? Oh yeah, I've heard of him. He wrote that "bum-bum-bum-BUUUUMMMM" stuff, and he couldn't hear good, or something...