Top 5: Day 5
Posted: February 4, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Alas, the number 1 top-played song of all time (of all my time anyway) IS *drumroll* a song from the composer Yann Tiersen called “Comptine d’un autre ete” (sans les accents ici, desole). Yann Tiersen is without a doubt my favorite contemporary film score composer, and this piece in particular is one of my most favorites from his score for “Amelie”. Much of the music in my “Top 5″ has been what I consider emotive music, and this song is perhaps the most of any of the songs I’ve listed. It’s strange because I don’t consider myself a particularly emotional person- there’s likely some long winded generalization I could make about my personality based on that, but we’ll save the unnecessary introspection for another day.
At the end of the day the lasting allure of this song is its simple beauty, and almost everything in Yann Tiersen’s catalog shares that characteristic. If you enjoy the song and haven’t seen the movie I hope that changes soon:) And if you really like the song you should watch another film that Tiersen did the score for called “Goodbye Lenin”; my single favorite movie moment is in that film compliments of another song of his.
On that note I’m out. Thanks so much for reading- my little blog is humble but has been something I’ve loved doing over the past year and hope to continue for another. Have a beautiful weekend, lots of love! Joe
