You Know what The Motion Picture Needed? Brian Eno.

[Newspaper Taxi]

I've been thinking about this for awhile but finally decided to post it. I think the Motion Picture would have rocked if Brian Eno had done the musical score for it. He's done alot of experimental things with music in the past and I think his music would give a sense of scope and wonder to TMP; as well as make V'GER feel more organic.

Here's some material from the "Memory Wall" scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGRBY9a9ibY

You can feel free to look up your own The Motion Picture clips or footage. That one doesn't have any sound in it so you can substitute in some of these music samples:

"Golden Hours": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh9VdRQO2i4

"Little Fishes": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbB1cWMJrjA

"Another Green World": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp3y1mpxOY4

"Spirits Drifting": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_wdlztA_pA&feature=related


Also, imagine the main Star Trek refrain as played through Eno's "Warm Jet" distortion guitars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP-RFsuv-8Q


So...What do you think?

 

[Xerxes1979]

Don't forget Eno did the Prophecy theme from Dune.

 

[Too Much Fun]

The movie had a lot of problems, but the score was not one of them. The score is great just the way it is, brilliantly conceived by Jerry Goldsmith. There was a poll here not too long ago about which movie had the best score and "Star Trek:The Motion Picture" deservedly got a huge total in votes. I think its music was one of the few characteristics of the movie that was better than the equivalent in its immediate sequels of the Star Trek movie franchise.

 

[cardinal biggles]

A Brian Eno score would have been different, but I don't think it would have been better than what we got from Jerry Goldsmith.

On the other hand, I do know that The Motion Picture was in desperate need of more cowbell.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

Yeah, that's what it needed. A pretentious electronic score that would sound humorously dated in ten years. While we're at it, maybe George Lucas should have taken the studio's advice and given Star Wars a disco soundtrack.

 

[Maurice]

No no no.

 

[Bones2]

Replacing Goldsmith with Eno would be like replacing <insert metaphor for something good> with <insert metaphor for something comparatively bad>.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

This would make a pretty effective, obtuse and entirely unfunny Family Guy moment.

Peter: "Hey, remember that time they tried to have Brian Eno do the score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture?"

*Cut to perfectly recreated scene from TMP, but with Brian Eno music.*