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The incidental music in Rollerball

posted 11 years ago by doughazelrigg
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It's often amusing to look back from our vantage point and see how various Sci-fi movies imagined music to be 30, 40 years in the future. In this movie, the music that is piped in during the party is SO laughable -- it's a weird 70's Funk with an atonal synthesizer melody on top of it -- someone's idea of what music would sound like several decades down the road. Somebody should put out an album of similar hilarious cuts from various Sci-fi movies -- I'm told the Future Disco from Buck Rogers is equally amusing, for example

[–] nitrateprint 11 years ago

Andre Previn's "Executive Party" and "Executive Party Dance" are two of the best things about the movie. I wish he'd contributed more original compositions for the film.

The ponderous classical music is not well suited for the half-baked screenplay or shallow characters. A timeless, familiar symphony only clashes with the plethora of forgotten 70s fads that were extrapolated into the future world of Rollerball.

[–] will-780 10 years ago

I thought the party scene music was awesome as well and made me look up Andre Previn.

[–] lorrigirl 9 years ago

Are you crazy? Andre Previn's Executive Dance Party is vinyl gold! Any Dj or digger can vibe with it.

[–] bizidaho 9 years ago

I have to agree, this is a great soundtrack album and one of my favorites on the shelf