Originally Posted by
nmduke2001
For over 30 years Metallica has used Morricone's "The Ecstasy of Gold" as the opening of all their concerts. If you're looking for a cool video, check youtube for "Metallica S&M Ecstasy of Gold"
Someone else pulled Ecstasy of Gold in a way I like much better, and I hear it talked about much less.
The seventh track on Jay-Z's Blueprint 2, eponymously titled, samples this music; Jay-Z uses its epic quality to introduce an odd stanza structure, indeed, an insanely epic verse. The first verse goes as it's supposed to--sixteen bars. Rap is brought to you by the number Four. But the second verse is 48 bars, thrice as long as it "ought" to be. I think it's Jay-Z's most impressive verse in a lot of ways.
(I don't use the song in class because he deploys the racial epithet about a dozen times, so be aware of that before you listen).
A movie is not about what it's about; it's about how it's about it.
---Roger Ebert
Some questions cannot be answered
Who’s gonna bury who
We need a love like Johnny, Johnny and June
---Over the Rhine