I imagine when Mean Streets was in theatres it was a killer soundtrack, but for me now in 2010, it sounds corny, cliched, stale, and filled with the most overplayed songs ever.
I do realize maybe part of the reason these songs became film cliches is Martin Scorsese used them in films like Mean Streets!
But what about you...love it or hate it?
LOVE! It's part of what makes the movie so great.
"Why don't we just get them a nice piece of fish?" -Larry David
I made a mistake and thought this was the Taxi Driver board.
The score by Bernard Herrmann is excellent in Taxi Driver, and the song by Jackson Browne that's
played on American Bandstand as Travis is watching is very evocative, and provides a portal into
his mind. Scorsese always makes good use of music in his films.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yFH7oCxsOI
This song is one of the great songs in Mean Streets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT_eOiTwtoQ&feature=PlayList&p= 05EC8AEC8F6128E2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=18
I can't wait for Obama's health-care bill to pass, and be buried with an Obama t-shirt on.
I liked the Johnny Ace song too...thanks for the youtube post
shareIt worked then, but set a bad example.
Poets are made by fools like me, but only God can make STD.
>It worked then, but set a bad example.
good point!
The songs Scorsese uses in his films are evocative of the time period of the story, and
give the characters an added dimension. Some directors today use songs in their films
simply because they're contemporary hits and in the consciousness of today's youth, but
there's always an artistic intention behind Scorsese's use of music.
I can't wait for Obama's health-care bill to pass, and be buried with an Obama t-shirt on.
Scorsese's use of pop music is unique. It brings tension to the duality of his characters ("Be My Baby" by The Ronettes or "Is That All There Is" by Peggy Lee in "After Hours"), preludes ("Come Rain Or Come Shine by Ray Charles in "King Of Comedy" or "He's Sure The Boy I Love" by The Crystals in "Goodfellas") it expresses ironically their thoughts ("T.B. Sheets" by Van Morrison in "Bringing Out The Dead" or "Late For The Sky" by Jackson Browne In "Taxi Driver") or even is totally out of image and gives an almost surreal feeling ("Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes or "I Can't Get Started" by Bunny Berigan in "The Big Shave". No matter what, music in his movies is an individual character, an narrator sort of speaking.
Now, this is a BOOTLEG soundtrack of Scorsese’s “Mean Streets” (all 27 tracks in order of appearance, including CD packaging). And hey, no copyright-harm intended for anyone! ;-) All the mooks interested can download it (free of course) here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/310633077/Mean_Streets_OST__1973_.zip
I think the music is very good
shareI think it's fabulous. The Italian songs seep the movie in the heritage of its inhabitants, and the pop songs just kick ass. The first two (Be My Baby and Jumpin' Jack Flash) combine to produce one of the most brilliantly audacious openings to a movie ever.
http://tinyurl.com/yhuy5fu
great songs in this movie
shareThe character of Johnny is funny, sure. Charming, perhaps. Friends since childhood. Ok. But he is a great liability to the organisation as a whole and I struggle to see why Charlie is so faithful to him. Johnny seems to have little respect for Charlie’s authority and Charlie seems to get very angry with Johnny on a regular basis. Either Charlie was never a leader in the first place, or the script is slightly weak – or worse still...de niro over acted.
Why on earth would Charlie risk his own future for a man who has no care for Charlie in that way? Charlie could have lost his life due the smart-ass antics of Johnny, and Charlie made this clear to him. Yet he still continued to act like a wild cowboy.
I understand that he bought him to the Fat man’s place to sort things out. Johnny went wild and things kicked off. That should be one lesson learnt.
Why did he let him talk such disrespect to important people when he knew there would be serious ramifications? Why did Charlie allow Johnny to get away with shooting his gun on the roof knowing it can attract wrong attention? Why did he let Johnny grapple with him causing the serious injury to his girlfriend? Why did Johnny get away with then screaming at him and telling him not to touch him when he had just caused the near-death of his girlfriend? And why did he stand aside as Johnny insulted and pointed a gun at a made guy? Why did he not intervene, why instead did he just shout at him after it was said and done? Why did he allow Johnny to then push him away when he was about to give Johnny a good telling off?
These situations are so much and so strong that it causes me to wonder about the authenticity of that part of storyline.