Somehow Precious + Luminous + Close Encounters

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Somehow Precious + Luminous + Close Encounters

Post by Polaris » Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:42 pm

Since along time that I wanted to make this topic:

Have you ever noticed that in the end of the song Somehow Precious (5:29) plays the notes from the music of Close Encounters movie?
& the song Luminous also it seems that was based on this movie too!
Are the Stratoguys fans of this movie? Probably Jens!? :)
Anyway Close Encounters of the third kind is one of the best alien movies ever made! :)

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Re: Somehow Precious + Luminous + Close Encounters

Post by browneyedgirl » Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:32 pm

Now that you mention it, it does sound like that. But, who wrote those songs?

I like Sci-Fi movies, and I have watched Close Encounters a few times. I liked it, too! :) Its a classic.

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Re: Somehow Precious + Luminous + Close Encounters

Post by HinatAArcticA » Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:55 am

Well, I think that all musicians have inspirations, and sometimes they throw in some passages that are very simmilar to the ones they admire.
Take Sonata Arctica's new album for example. Sounds very much like Danny Elfman, and Tony is a Danny Elfman fan hehe :D
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Re: Somehow Precious + Luminous + Close Encounters

Post by Polaris » Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:21 pm

Probably a joke that Jens likes to do! :)
At the end of the music Before the winter he also plays a few notes of a song from Star Wars movie! :D

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Re: Somehow Precious + Luminous + Close Encounters

Post by NeverendingAbyss » Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:03 pm

:lol: I have never seen the movie Close Encounters, so I can't really assimilate those songs. :twisted:

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Re: Somehow Precious + Luminous + Close Encounters

Post by Aldaron » Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:19 am

browneyedgirl wrote:Now that you mention it, it does sound like that. But, who wrote those songs?
John Williams, very famous composer.

He's also done the music for Star Wars and the Indiana Jones movies, E.T., Superman, some of the Harry Potter films, Jurassic Park, Jaws and so on.
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Re: Somehow Precious + Luminous + Close Encounters

Post by StratoFabio » Fri Feb 12, 2010 3:22 pm

Polaris wrote:Since along time that I wanted to make this topic:

Have you ever noticed that in the end of the song Somehow Precious (5:29) plays the notes from the music of Close Encounters movie?
& the song Luminous also it seems that was based on this movie too!
Are the Stratoguys fans of this movie? Probably Jens!? :)
Anyway Close Encounters of the third kind is one of the best alien movies ever made! :)
I noticed that with Luminous but not with Somehow Precious.... do you mean the same song from the movie or another one?
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Re: Somehow Precious + Luminous + Close Encounters

Post by Polaris » Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:32 pm

StratoFabio wrote: I noticed that with Luminous but not with Somehow Precious.... do you mean the same song from the movie or another one?
Is in the end of the song (5:29) you can listen those notes from the music of Close Encounters movie, you have to turn the sound up to hear well because it is low.

For people who don't know Close Encounters movie, here is a video with the song:
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