The Conversation Soundtrack

[FetaCheese222]

Good thinking music.

[PacitoPC]

Depressing but still fkkng good.

[yesTHATironingboard]

haunting.

[redtsar1990]

Francis Ford Coppola films always have some beautiful yet haunting soundtracks which sticks to your heads LONG after you've watched the movie. This and Godfather Waltz are 2 tracks which have been ENGRAVED in back of my mind.

[ThePumalives]

one of the best wedding movie-soundtrack ever

[strepsil08]

Does anybody know where I can get this in sheet music?

[FetaCheese222]

@strepsil08 Just Google "the conversation theme sheet music". It's the first result.

[cybuster4]

mk ultra

[zormangroink]

Possibly one of the best ever soundtracks.

[MyNameIsKojak]

beautiful song

[Shoegal2011]

another great movie..there are a lot of movies from the 1970's that are nothing less than perfection..if you think about it, Klute, The French Connection, All the Presidents Men and so forth..sometimes, even though the movies now a days are better with special effects..those movies had to deal with pure acting. You watched and saw the acting..not the continual special effects of the movies now a days that really hold no interest to me...

[wotan20]

@Shoegal2011 I could hardly agree more. I was lucky that I saw the movie at its release as a young man, but I could understand it only partially and vaguely, yet or because of that it intrigued me like no other, not even its artistic soulmate, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup. About those old movies you are absolutely right. The best of them are incredibly subtle in comparison to the stuff out there nowadays.

[Dementiatari1200]

How in the fuck did this not receive a Best Original Score nomination at the Oscars???

[brianallancobb]

I watched The Conversation with a girl with whom I was head-over-heels stupid in love with, She wanted to get up and get refreshments during the part where Gene Hackman is riding the bus, to the accompaniment of this score.

"Sit down."

And I was stupid in love with this girl, And I mean stupid. I gave up everything - everything -- for this girl. But that's how good this movie (and this score) is.

[NiceNsmoothATYuToob]

Love this music and this film...very atmospheric!

[fookleyur]

Loved everything about this movie... wasn't the music at the end have a sax? Or maybe I'm thinking of the music that played in his appartment? @fookleyur

[MegaNealo]

@fookleyur There is a version on the CD soundtrack of the main theme but played in an ensemble with the sax playing the melody. I think that was at the end of the film.

[Sublime99skill]

Haunting stuff

Rip John Cazale

[olimpass]

I bought the soundtrack on Amazon. Beautiful timeless and haunting work by David Shire.

[djangledoobledangus]

I wish it were possible to make more 1970's movies starring Gene Hackman.

[belisafinotar]

it's great ! thanks!

[mattstone12]

Great film great music, David Shire is just outstanding huh? How does he capture that moment of tension so well??

Areal inspiration to me.

[ELGROOVER]

A superb film with a score to match. ~ "We'll be listening to you" ~ ;-j

[brianallancobb]

An example of what limits on art can fruit.

Just think had Ruebens or Rembrandt had known, yes, I can show their gaping, open, pink pussies.

Like Hustler or Penthouse, those children of the free press.

[brianallancobb]

WHO would have been my third child.

[brianallancobb]

Better than Bernard Herrmann (Vertigo, Psycho), the only composer to whom Mr. Shire compares.

I heard only this piece in my mind during the weeks after what would have been my third child was aborted.

[animegalc4]

this is beautiful! it fitted perfectly with the film

[iccreath]

I love Gene Hackman in this movie. Talk about OCD at the end of the movie. Got to find that bug.

[jeffbebe123]

It;s a crime how amazing movies like this are forgotten through time. Thank you Turner Classic Movies!

[stoker10]

simply a move masterpiece...and the shire soundtrack is stunning to capture that spooky and romantic mood

[DrFunkLove]

This movie is fucking amazing!

[misternonconformist]

fuckin a! are you curious in reading a review i wrote about it?

[DrFunkLove]

Sure why not mate link?

[choppedlogic]

A movie which slowly builds itself through lonely, spare scenes. Coppola's lens is dispassionate, we have to learn who his characters are, they don't tell us everything. And this spiraling, sinister tune is half of that magic.

[junenine]

ok i have the sheet music for it! who wants it?

[utu496]

@junenine, can you post a link? Could not find it anywhere. Thanks.

[CanadianKnex]

@junenine I do! Do you still have it?

[verdaccio]

beauty

[jeffbebe123]

An incredible piece that fits the movie so perfectly... so incredibly eerie and haunting. If you havent seen this movie...rent it right now. One of Coppola's masterpieces that was overshadowed by the success of the Godfather

[julianborabora]

Try also the "Taxi driver" soundtrack by Bernard Hermann

[ELECTRONICTORTELLINI]

lovely tinkling on the ivory there..sublime soundtrack....dreaming of better days.lovely sir

[4Topwood]

Love this piece. It's like smoke drifting upward. You can touch it but you cannot grasp its essence. Always the same, always different. Just like the conversation.

[estukaamiaftadai]

I think that this piece may be a metaphor for the movie: themes keep repeating, but they seem to change depending on the context (the accompaniment), like the meaning of the conversation in the movie changes. Maybe it's just me, though.

I've also tried unsuccessfully to find the sheet music. I'm going to try and write it up myself. I will post a link if/when I'm successful. The melody is easy, but parts of the accompaniment have been hard to figure out.

[l3kei]

I would agree with you here, the piece definitey works as a metaphor for movie. That does not mean that the composer actually had this in mind when he wrote the piece, but that's true

[estukaamiaftadai]

I would like to think that he did :p

[junenine]

i got it...u want it?

[estukaamiaftadai]

Absolutely! Do you have a link to it? If not, I can give you my e-mail address.

[junenine]

send me ur email and i'll send it right over!

[mysteriousnyc]

i missed my chance to own this and im upset

[MrJackFigures]

This is my favorite, if anyone is able to find the sheet music contact me as well please. Thanks.

[kelmeister01]

This music is the sound of the outsider, it positively vibrates with insolation and solitude and arches a weary eyebrow at the rest of humanity

[mysteriousnyc]

I do feel as if im looking out of a window when i listen to it.

[sentoevita]

ashflix123: You are right, and I think it make the song more beautiful. No prostitution of this master piece.

[ashflix123]

Possibly one of the most beautiful songs ever written and practically no one had heard it - apart from in the movie. Hard to believe.

[aceofspades7778]

Does anyone have the full soundtrack?

[lens2optic]

this is the only track i have from this soundtrack...sorry m8.

[ajrpictures]

had to order it from california.....cost me $25...was worth it though

[Dalek1230]

@aceofspades7778 spotify

[brianallancobb]

@aceofspades7778

I think with this post, you have the full soundtrack. Watch the movie. It's been in my top four (Chinatown, Godfather, Raise The Red Lantern), since I first saw it, lamentably, not until 1995.

To my mind, this is the best score ever written.

Silver, bronze, and honorable mention go to Bernard Herrman: Vertigo, Psycho, Taxi Driver.

All right, also Jerry Goldsmith for Chinatown.

Love,

Brian

[DonMadman900]

@aceofspades7778 Mediafire code = ?m3wnxzwzuq4

[Joeplork]

Kind of a long shot here, but anybody by any chance have the sheet music for the theme song? I'd love to have it and I can't find it anywhere!!

[lens2optic]

sorry m8...no idea where you would find that.

[Joeplork]

Yeah, I thought as much. Thanks anyway.

[MegaNealo]

@lens2optic There is a guy called Richard Hair who has a website with a transcription of the music available as pdf. If you do a websearch he should pop up.

[ajrpictures]

i have looked and looked for it.....no luck, need a good teacher to write it down.

[Joeplork]

Wow, yeah. If either of us ever somehow manages to come across it, we should alert the other!

[junenine]

hey, i got the sheet music for theme...u want it?

[Joeplork]

Yes! That would be awesome!

I will send you my e-mail. Thanks! I really appreciate it!

[466750]

Indescriptible. Excelente.

excellent!

very very very thanks

you are god?

[ColtonMP]

captures the isolation of caul so well

[VamptasticVamp]

It's fantastic.

[dfsparks2000]

great song, I would love to get my hands on the sheet music

[scorpiosview]

beautiful choice..eerie, sinister and yet oddly relaxing...lovely stuff

[rachimbaskin]

That's pretty goddam astute, m'man.

Quite a feat Shire pulled off, and so fits the film.