Ladies and Gentlemen, our Corporate Anthem

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11 жыл бұрын

Simon Preston masterfully creates and performs the corporation's anthem for Houston, Energy City in the future. From Rollerball, 1975.

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@zambimaru 10 жыл бұрын

This song always gives me chills.

@stillayl9943 5 жыл бұрын

This is quite pretty. Somebody can get away with it for a bridal procession!

@Philip02K 5 жыл бұрын

zambimaru if we are not careful we will be hearing a corporate anthem and even gladiator type stuff

@user-he3yt1zn2l 2 жыл бұрын

The melody and structure is similar to German national anthem. Check it out if you have a time.

@Koppenholle1 10 ай бұрын

The reason why this movie is still very good after so many years is because (almost) everything you see in the movie is real. Some of the actors got really hurt and they had to be careful that nobody got hit by a motorcycle.

@Sextus70 9 жыл бұрын

Definitely a very underrated movie. Even by today standards it is a very enjoyable experience (I dare to say that a lot better than many current films): the visuals, the action scenes, the surprisingly deep plot (for a movie of this genre), the dialogues, the acting and the few but very fitting, great and atmospheric pieces of the soundtrack (such as this anthem), everything is excellent. The only thing I feel that could've been a bit more developed was the story's world background, there are a few interesting scenes regarding it, but many questions are left unanswered. Also, I think that the final game was rushed for a final sequence, it should've switched places with the Tokyo one (which was the most intense and epic of all the movie).

@TheAerovons 5 жыл бұрын

Loved the film, saw it the first day it came out back then. I just felt it moved way too slowly, and the overdramatic and unrealistic ending (entire stadium is DEAD QUIET.....nah...) kind of was a let down. Nevertheless, named my youngest son Jonathan over it lol

@Zer0Skateboard 4 жыл бұрын

Dude the movie was a gimmicky shitshow honestly. It was funny and had some interesting aspects similar to modern times. But anyone who looks too deep into this is giving the film way too much credit.

@Koppenholle1 10 ай бұрын

@@Zer0Skateboard ?

@alonenjersey 10 жыл бұрын

I have the soundtrack on audio cassette. After all these years I still don't know why any of the corporate anthems are not on the soundtrack.

@DomoKunFPGA 5 жыл бұрын

I agree.

@joshuaerickson1969 Жыл бұрын

They should have been as both are good pieces a long with classic music in the movie .

@ashb7782 4 ай бұрын

Tried to contact Simon Preston the organist but when I did, was told he was in a care home, and has since passed away. 😞😞😞

@rhyshughes6374 Жыл бұрын

A totally underrated film. Those who concentrate on the games miss the point

@alonenjersey 4 ай бұрын

You are oh so right. This film shows the viewer a taste of the future that MIGHT be avoided.

@Ken_Weber_organist 8 жыл бұрын

The organ is at Royal Albert Hall in UK. If that were me playing it, I would have drawn every single 32 ft stop on the last two measures.

@michaelbauers8800 8 жыл бұрын

32ft stops, wow. Not too many of those in world. Of course these days, people's typical playback system is earbuds, laptop speakers, some crap named beatz or PC speakers. None of them are going to do justice to 32ft stops :)

@DomoKunFPGA 8 жыл бұрын

True. I use Sony Prof MDR-7506 phones, and they aren't built just for rattling bass. I like good bass, but the sound needs to be even across the spectrum to be enjoyable.

@hazelbrown1235 4 жыл бұрын

Watched the clips last week and it reminded me it was a great movie so I managed to get it in cex last week and watched it three times. It's original, Innovative, ground breaking, classy, outstanding story, great actors and the best choice of music. You can't beat the classics

@bobgomez9481 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to your world, 2021.

@Dunes 11 жыл бұрын

Ah-ha,so that's where Devo got the idea for their corporate anthem song. Thanks for placing this up,you've definitely got me interested in getting this particular film.

@davidstevens6705 5 жыл бұрын

Yep, and Mystery Science Theater 3000 got the Idea of the End Credits theme from Devo, and I hear some parallels with this and MST3K Credits!

@ltahoe7195 Жыл бұрын

Love this song.... gives me chills. takes me back to my childhood when I saw this I was only 9.

@stillayl9943 4 жыл бұрын

Best sound track ever!

@nicktheknife3443 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome song !!!! Love the film, especially the music throughout the film.

@Limeaid33 Жыл бұрын

Excellent !! nice job !! My favorite part of the movie was this anthem. You nailed it !!

@bulgogi1212 11 жыл бұрын

One of the most underated sci-fi/ action films of the 70s. I was thinking the other day how the film Gladiator kind of follows a similar characted arc of the lone warrior, superior to any before him, keeps being fed into impossible odds by the powerful senate ( Corporate ) and yet overcomes. I really wish they hadn't F***ked up the leagcy with that horrible remake they did years ago.

@LeaVibes63 6 жыл бұрын

The entire soundtrack is fantastic, as well. Andre Previn truly brought the entirety of his talents to the task of composing the jazzy synthesizer pieces, & arranging/conducting the orchestral music for this incomparable film. The final track (excerpt from Shostakovich's 5th Symphony) is simply masterful. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

@Oldbmwr100rs 4 жыл бұрын

I found it on LP years back at a thrift store, basically played maybe a couple times. In near mint condition.

@Charliecomet82 2 жыл бұрын

A moment of silence for Jonathan E.

@johnleinen7167 Жыл бұрын

We need the game now!

@ashb7782 4 ай бұрын

There was a game for Commodore 64 called Rocketball. 40 years ago 😮 had it.. played it.. and played it.....

@chippledon1 4 жыл бұрын

This is actually a good song!

@ericsantana1184 Жыл бұрын

The original Rollerball movie inspires me to make a scene in my book for DC comics where Kamandi and the Legends are placed in an arena to fight to the death against a team from an Earth not located on the Multiverse map. Strange coincidence the team is lead by the Sportsmaster.

@letsfixthis 8 жыл бұрын

I wish we could hear the Japan one, that one was awesome

@nelsonwalker7105 8 жыл бұрын

Yes I wish I had the sheet music for the Tokyo Corporate Anthem - that was a terrific composition

@ashb7782 4 ай бұрын

It's on KZfaq 👍👍

@ashb7782 4 ай бұрын

Simon Preston. 🎹 RIP.

@RueMontagu 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent editing! Well done!

@davidstevens6705 5 жыл бұрын

I kinda think that the Empire's Anthem at Sporting Events in Star Wars would sound something this!

@DomoKunFPGA 5 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree. Remember in the era this movie was released, this type of juxtaposition of sport and "horror" - which looks fairly tame now that we are desensitized to it, was considered groundbreaking. The use of the organ was supposed to connect the viewer with vintage scary movies, setting the stage for this shockingly brutal sport. And worse (and supposed to be more scary than the game), the absolute control the corporations exerted over every facet of people's lives.

@holiday8847 3 жыл бұрын

This may be coming soon.

@mralmnthwyfemnin5783 7 ай бұрын

"Play ball" !

@jeffreywright2294 2 жыл бұрын

Epic !

@gachalou2220 5 жыл бұрын

Great music.....

@ideniseb 10 жыл бұрын

At our corporation we make money the old fashioned way....we STEAL it! This movie was way ahead of its time!

@chippledon1 4 жыл бұрын

ideniseb: Corporations stealing? Only the corporations that are in kahoots w/the government. "Crony capitalism". Just like everything else, capitalism is imperfect. But it's the best thing going.

@stevesalzano942 4 жыл бұрын

I used to imitate John Hausseman in that Smith-Barney commercial to my best friend when I moved to Long Island, and you should know that I'm the man responsible for the Islanders winning 4 stanley cups in a row. Hey, they never won until I moved there!

@larrydreiling3951 4 ай бұрын

Reminds me a bit of the Olympic Hymn.

@greggfitchett3993 2 жыл бұрын

jonathan, jonathan, jonathan, JONATHAN, JONATHAN, JONATHAN, JONATHAN, JONATHAN!!!

@BUBIKINS 2 жыл бұрын

RIP James Caan.

@heatherporterfield7343 Жыл бұрын

This looks like our future. 😕🙄

@Charliecomet82 6 жыл бұрын

"Play Ball!"

@xalm8761 11 ай бұрын

Kind of sounds similar to the Holy Roman Empire anthem

@netsurferx1 10 жыл бұрын

Any chance he'll do the Tokyo (Luxury Corporation) Corporate Hymn?

@DomoKunFPGA 10 жыл бұрын

I thought about it, but it kind of sucked. Maybe I'll go back and get it later.

@TerryMarineBMF 2 жыл бұрын

Here is the Tokyo anthem: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q92WademydPeeqc.html

@russedav5 8 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know the actual title of this neat little ditty wonderful Simon Preston carries out with his usual delightful, stellar aplomb?

@russedav5 8 жыл бұрын

I've surfed the web a bit and can't find out what it really is despite that Daily Kos and it's agenda stupidly falsely claims it's Bach's BWV 565 Toccata in d minor (that it of course invincibly ignorantly wrongly calls the popular "Toccata and Fugue" error, refuted by the Schmieder BWV catalog), a ludicrous fallacy even a beginning music student knows is in error.

@DomoKunFPGA 8 жыл бұрын

+Russ Davis Good question. You seem to have better access to that sort of info than I do. I imagine he was tasked to create these during production, they're probably inside an organ seat somewhere along with a ton of other valuable musings.

@russedav5 8 жыл бұрын

What was I thinking (not). I was stupidly forgetting Preston's world class stature as one of the greatest organists for whom tossing off a stupid little ditty like this would likely take all of a minute at most. Wonderful.

@DomoKunFPGA 8 жыл бұрын

+Russ Davis First it's "neat", now it's "stupid". This is far from "a stupid little ditty". I happen to think Mr. Preston is pretty amazing. His performances of other organ pieces are really great, too.

@russedav5 8 жыл бұрын

+Joel Owens (온조엘) You failed to read/consider my whole piece: "I was stupidly forgetting Preston's WORLD CLASS stature as one of the GREATEST ORGANISTS for whom tossing off a stupid little ditty like this would likely take all of a minute at most. Wonderful." You absurdly took my piece calling Preston one of the greatest organists as a negative! Of course COMPARED TO his countless inestimably great and huge OTHER musical accomplishments this little 90 second blurb for a sci-fi flick is a "stupid little ditty," though it's still neat and listen to it frequently (after cutting off the announcer and the applause and converting it to an mp3. How can anyone deny the comparison?!