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Kenny Loggins, in my opinion. If not, who else? | ||
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Lol we just discussed Kenny Loggins this evening as Footloose was on Pandora.   | |||
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Byron Adams “I'm fat because everytime I do your girlfriend, she gives me a cookie”. | |||
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"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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Loggins was pretty prolific, especially with title tracks. The 80's pushed movie soundtracks into popularity, Flashdance, Purple Rain, Pretty in Pink, Singles, Dirty Dancing; later on, Trainspotting, 8 Mile, Pulp Fiction, etc.. Stewart Copeland made a name for himself after The Police, by doing the music for a handful of movies: Rumble Fish, Wall Street, Talk Radio, etc.. Eric Clapton did the score for all the Lethal Weapon movies. Danny Elfman was more involved with television shows after his time with Oingo Bingo Lately, Nick Cave has been involved with a bunch of shows and movies, notably the title track of Peaky Blinders and on a few Taylor Sheridan projects. | |||
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If king means working a lot, probably Jerry Goldsmith or Dave Grusin. | |||
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Stan Bush! ♪You got the touch...♪ | |||
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Queen. They were killing it. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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Harold Faltermeyer! | |||
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John Williams | |||
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Well, yes. I'll hang the "Sorry We're Closed" sign. | |||
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Well, there's a difference between scores and soundtracks, right? Mr. Williams was responsible for scores, where Mr. Loggins was in soundtrack territory. I don't know the industry-accepted definition of soundtrack, but it seems as though the ones you can buy are often populated by popular music that was featured in the film. | |||
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I don't know about a king of soundtracks but I always loved the work of Vangelis and Tangerine Dream. "But, as luck would have it, he stood up. He caught that chunk of lead." Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock | |||
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Dis frikin guy...  | |||
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What'd I do?! Williams and Loggins just don't seem comparable, and therefore are not really "rankable" against one another. It seems the terms soundtrack and score are somewhat synonymous, but not completely. I maintain that someone who composes music to accompany an entire film is doing something different than a popular music star who may write original music to be used in a film, either in it's original form, or modified to accompany different scenes or moods.This message has been edited. Last edited by: KSGM, | |||
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Basil Poledouris. Score for Robocop (1987) among others. | |||
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Williams for all of the movies he did. Loggins only provided songs to two films in the decade, but they were wildly popular; hard to fault that choice either. But I believe the most influential movies of the 80s were those damn John Hughes teen angst films, so as type the soundtracks of those films and their New Wave songs were the real Kings of the 1980s. "don't you forget about me..." -MG | |||
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He had a song on the soundtrack of five movies in the '80s. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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Zamfir. Final answer. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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I had to look it up. Looks like we're both wrong: it was SIX movies according to the Google Fi. Embarrassing that I forgot about Caddyshack, and didn't know about his contribution to its sequel which I admit that I never saw. And just listening to his songs for 'Over the Top' and 'Rocky IV'...I guess I must've been too busy overdoing Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and the like at the time. I don't remember the songs at all, though that's probably no surprise since I'd never heard of 'Over the Top' until today (nauseatingly syrupy song) and didn't realize he had contributed anything to the soundtrack of the 'Rocky' film. After listening to the bits of the Rocky soundtrack just now on YT, his contribution seems completely forgettable while the songs I DO remember from that last film was the Survivor tune and James Brown's 'Living in America'. Yes his was a contribution for sure, but it feels like a kind of a gratuitous toss-in by the movie's producers ("See? We got Kenny Loggins. KENNY EFFIN LOGGINS! That'll sell tickets and soundtrack albums fer sure..."). So okay...I guess that does make him a legit candidate for King of the 80s Soundtracks.  -MG | |||
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