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Trevor Jones — The Kiss
Album: The Last Of The Mohicans (OST)
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Released: 2012
Length: 2:43
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 margaret1 wrote:

This original piece was actually written by Dougie MacLean, the Scottish folk singer, musician and composer.  He sold it to Trevor Jones for the movie Last of the Mohicans.  Dougie originally called this song 'The Gael' and he still plays it powerfully on his fiddle in concert to this day.  Just so everyone knows.  


Thank you! 
 jmkate wrote:

Instant chills. In my version, Alice and Uncas live, dammit. 


Very sweet comment. 
 meleager wrote:

The rusty sound of this violin will haunt me till the day I die.




Perhaps me too
As I hear this piece of music, I see with my inner sight Hawkeye, Chingachgook and Uncas running up the beautiful mountain trail, killing every warrior on their path. They are running to save and help their loved ones. The ones, which worth to live, kill and die for.  Powerful. Inspiring. 
 jmkate wrote:

Instant chills. In my version, Alice and Uncas live, dammit. 


it’s the urgency of living and loving for NOW that gives the story true romance and power. 
This original piece was actually written by Dougie MacLean, the Scottish folk singer, musician and composer.  He sold it to Trevor Jones for the movie Last of the Mohicans.  Dougie originally called this song 'The Gael' and he still plays it powerfully on his fiddle in concert to this day.  Just so everyone knows.  

"Stay alive. I will find you." 

The rusty sound of this violin will haunt me till the day I die.


And now I know what I will be watching tonight. There is so much emotion in this piece. I have chills, again. 
What a piece! It created all feelings during that scene. Beautiful. 
I wanna watch the movie again now. 
Klasse Song, ich erinnere mich noch als er rausgekommen ist und ich in meinem Minirock und 80's Haarschnitt dazu getanzt habe.
 jmkate wrote:

Instant chills. In my version, Alice and Uncas live, dammit. 




Spoiler! 
 a_genuine_find wrote:

What a masterpiece of painting an image with music. Through my ears I am a Scot sailing into the New World whose majestic beauty overwhelms me as the shore approaches.



If we had any decency, it would have been approached with more dignity.
I did sound for a dance troupe that used this song for one of their routines. Even though I heard it SO MANY times it doesn't grow old.
What a masterpiece of painting an image with music. Through my ears I am a Scot sailing into the New World whose majestic beauty overwhelms me as the shore approaches.
NICE!!! I never heard this before. Thank You RP!
Hearing this makes me want to run across hill and dale. Wish we could rest between takes in real life.
 Ibnrudy wrote:
This movie is a masterpiece of entertaining and engaging historical fiction that rises above its somewhat hackneyed source material.  (Let's admit it, and I'm from JF Cooper's region of NY state.)   The performances, action, scenic grandeur (thanks, North Carolina) are just magnificent, and Jones' fantastic score just sucks you in even more.  Like almost everything Michael Man does, the music is becomes both inseparable and essential to the drama and impact.  Let's hope DD Lewis unretires someday!
 
It may be apocryphal, but I heard the Lewis limits the number of roles that he plays, due to the stress on him caused by "becoming" the character. His dedication shows in his work.
Heading west to CAN - TUCKEE.
Always brings tears to my eyes!
"Stay alive! I WILL find you!"
This movie is a masterpiece of entertaining and engaging historical fiction that rises above its somewhat hackneyed source material.  (Let's admit it, and I'm from JF Cooper's region of NY state.)   The performances, action, scenic grandeur (thanks, North Carolina) are just magnificent, and Jones' fantastic score just sucks you in even more.  Like almost everything Michael Man does, the music is becomes both inseparable and essential to the drama and impact.  Let's hope DD Lewis unretires someday!
 wtango wrote:
Not Uma, but still very pretty.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0562003/?ref_=tt_cl_t5
 



kcar wrote:

I'll take Madeline any day of the week, thanks. Uma was pretty hot too. 

Great action movie, although Wes Studi got to say "I will wipe your seed from the face of the earth" a few too many times.  

 



 

Jodhi May plays Queen Calanthe in the new Witcher series on Netflix. Kind of hard to believe the young waif from TLOTM as a warrior queen, but there you go.
this music dance in my heart  rate 8 for this masterpiece from Trevor Jones.
 KevinM wrote:
This piece is a re-working of Dougie MacLean's "The Gael"
 

Magnificent movie. Viva Scotland!
Look at the starry skies or listen to this. Equally beautiful  and soul satisfying. 
Gorgeous work of art!
soul stirring ... 10
 hayduke2 wrote:
Image result for russell means
Powerful music, so right for an amazing film (gorgeous landscapes, delectable lovers, and Russel Means wacks Wes Studi to the head just right!)
 

I knew that scene looked familar:
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igh5hG...
I believe Dougie MacLean's "The Gael" was the Theme Song for "Last of the Mohicans".Terrific pieces!!....both "The Kiss"& "The Gael"!!
Thought this was the Poldark theme for a moment there. Ross/Aidan's black hair and cloak blowing in the cold salt Cornwall sea air. Scything-while-nude. Come to think about it, you could pretty much sub Last of the Mohicans for Poldark or vice versa. As both are soft porn vehicles for Daniel Day-Lewis in his prime, and for Aidan Turner, now in his, respectively. And lucky us, Poldark and the Last of the Mohicans fans! 
 hayduke2 wrote:
Image result for russell means
Powerful music, so right for an amazing film (gorgeous landscapes, delectable lovers, and Russel Means wacks Wes Studi to the head just right!)

 
Actually, Chingachcook whacked Magua on the arm to disable him and then impaled his belly with that nasty pointy thing. Nice moves. Left him for scavenger food. 
 jmkate wrote:
Instant chills. In my version, Alice and Uncas live, dammit. 

 
ME TOO!!!
The movie would not have been EPIC without the soundtrack.  So in love with both.  {#Yes}
Instant chills. In my version, Alice and Uncas live, dammit. 
 Noé wrote:
Is it the story of indians who were kill by migrants ??  {#Beat}

 
touché
Image result for russell means
Powerful music, so right for an amazing film (gorgeous landscapes, delectable lovers, and Russel Means wacks Wes Studi to the head just right!)
I growed up deep in the  Appalachians.  This song takes me there.
Is it the story of indians who were kill by migrants ??  {#Beat}
 LowPhreak wrote:

I'm cool with that, when all politicians that start wars have their kids and family members drafted first.

woo hoo {#Clap}

  I'll second that.....


 hayduke2 wrote:
This kick-ass beautiful piece brings that Mann film alive in my heart and I'm running along side Hawkeye in those dark verdant paths of upstate wherever looking to bash or shoot the fuck out of whosoever dares to challenge our freedom and love and all that stuff man 
woo hoo 😜 
 
I'm cool with that, when all politicians that start wars have their kids and family members drafted first.

woo hoo {#Clap}
This kick-ass beautiful piece brings that Mann film alive in my heart and I'm running along side Hawkeye in those dark verdant paths of upstate wherever looking to bash or shoot the fuck out of whosoever dares to challenge our freedom and love and all that stuff man 
woo hoo 😜 
Such a cool flik 
This piece is a re-working of Dougie MacLean's "The Gael"
Death to Magua!
 
Schroon Mountain, Adirondacks
Date: 1838



For a great soundtrack: Out of Africa
 GarageDragon wrote:
kcar wrote:

Well put. The whole movie was in emotional overdrive and the soundtrack put it over the top. Had no idea it was a Michael Mann movie. He really knows how to drive a story without letup. "Heat" was brilliant that way: there was little or no lull in it. 

I don't know if anyone here has read Fenimore Cooper's book, but wow it was just bad, even by the standard of 19th century potboilers. 

 

Mark Twain read it.   :-)

https://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/rissetto/offense.html

 

I read that many years ago.  I remember being somewhat shocked that Twain could be so mercilessly critical of Cooper.  At that time Cooper was still firmly ensconced in the pantheon of American literature.  I suppose he still is, but I don't think people read him much any more.

Anyway,  I thought this was apropos in light of the criticism here of the fiddle player being flat;

"Cooper's word-sense was singularly dull. When a person has a poor ear for music he will flat and sharp right along without knowing it. He keeps near the tune, but is not the tune. When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he does not say it. This is Cooper. He was not a word-musician. His ear was satisfied with the approximate words."

So I guess the fiddle player was just keeping with the spirit of Cooper's literary style.


 nek wrote:
The fiddle player is so flat it's distracts from this great song.

 
I know what you mean, Couldn't resist looking at his left foot the whole movie.
 nek wrote:
The fiddle player is so flat it's distracts from this great song.

 
As flat as it would have been when played in Fort William Henry in 1758.
 nek wrote:
The fiddle player is so flat it's distracts from this great song.

 
Actually, that's the very thing that makes the rest of the supporting music genuine in my opinion.
The fiddle player is so flat it's distracts from this great song.
I reallly think this is sublime.  Makes you just stop what you're doing and listen, no matter what sort of music is before.  
Sunday afternoons sure are different around here from Friday and Saturday nights
 The Seven years war/French and Indian war is a fascinating period about which people have forgotten. Anything which 'brings it back to life' is welcome.
 GarageDragon wrote:
kcar wrote:

Well put. The whole movie was in emotional overdrive and the soundtrack put it over the top. Had no idea it was a Michael Mann movie. He really knows how to drive a story without letup. "Heat" was brilliant that way: there was little or no lull in it. 

I don't know if anyone here has read Fenimore Cooper's book, but wow it was just bad, even by the standard of 19th century potboilers. 

 
 
Yeah, but I read three of the five Leatherstocking Natty Bummpo, and this one was the most memorable. Turgid writing but a fine story that transcended the prose. When I was 9 or 10, and reading Mohicans, my parents took me to the reconstructed Fort Edwards in upstate NY. So the movie enthralled me.  It was a very fine two hours of brilliant cinematography and production design within the romance and violence of this history.  And in its way, the music was better than the movie.
My main thought when Natty Poe (renamed because Bummpo sounds dumb) and Ms. Monroe were so impassioned was: they've been walking running and sweating an awful lot in the summer woods, and presumably they have not bathed or brushed their teeth. How sexxy is that?  
Sounds like a hurdy gurdy, man.
kcar wrote:

Well put. The whole movie was in emotional overdrive and the soundtrack put it over the top. Had no idea it was a Michael Mann movie. He really knows how to drive a story without letup. "Heat" was brilliant that way: there was little or no lull in it. 

I don't know if anyone here has read Fenimore Cooper's book, but wow it was just bad, even by the standard of 19th century potboilers. 

 

Mark Twain read it.   :-)

https://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/rissetto/offense.html


 Force wrote:

Ha!  Same with my wife and I.  No matter what occurs... I will find you.  Hilarious.  
 
Kinda the opposite with my ex, "No matter what you do, I'm still outta here." {#Wave}

She didn't find it so humorous though. {#Lol}
 Webfoot wrote:
 
 {#Roflol} A running joke with my wife, especially at the grocery store. 

 
Ha!  Same with my wife and I.  No matter what occurs... I will find you.  Hilarious.  
 So true.

marty88210 wrote:
Never judge a book by its movie!!!!

 


Really admire this music, and so happens there is a great artist named Trevor Jones:

uploading
"Untitled"  72" x 52"
Large and dynamic torn and cut painted paper collage/painting on foam board by Trevor Jones, 1975  UK
I recently caught this on late night... the music is unforgettable and I don't think I have any of it. That needs to change!{#Boohoo}
Beautiful soundtrack and movie, but they lost me , dammit, when Uncas and Alice met their respective ends. I'm clearly not affected by that anymore, heh.
Still gives me chills almost every time I hear it, absolutely amazing. 
Never judge a book by its movie!!!!
 averybadcat wrote:

i agree completely.  i think it is his best. although i like historical stories, and well, daniel day-lewis, nuff said.
but i'll say a little more... {#Silenced}
if ever a soundtrack did its job, this one did—mood, pacing, dramatic effect...every scene tied into the music unbelievably.  the scene where duncan gave cora to le longue carbine at the huron council, and when uncas went over the cliff — oh my god.  i would watch the movie more often just for the music, if it was not so wrenching every time.
please play more. 
 
Well put. The whole movie was in emotional overdrive and the soundtrack put it over the top. Had no idea it was a Michael Mann movie. He really knows how to drive a story without letup. "Heat" was brilliant that way: there was little or no lull in it. 

I don't know if anyone here has read Fenimore Cooper's book, but wow it was just bad, even by the standard of 19th century potboilers. 
 kingart wrote:
A terrific film. Great action sequences. Fab cast.
But I ask anyone to identify Mr. Phelps. You can't or couldn't. Even though Madeline (Cora Munro) says his name in the scene of the confrontation with her father, we never meet this Mr. Phelps, never see his face. (Played by an actor named Malcolm Storry.) Colm Meaney is credited too; he was cut form the film entirely except for one brief shot.
That's because director Michael Mann shot so much film and did a lot of reshooting and was editing and re-editing for so long that eventually the exasperated studio head and/or producers or others took the final cut away from him and cut it themselves. Hence, the film is a bit rickety -- but still fabulous, helped immensely by this great music. 

 
maybe that explains the two endings i have seen, one with and one without "Great Spirit, a warrior flies to you..." (rough quote) ? i never really understood that, figured one was the longer theatrical version? do you know?

also i hardly blame michael mann from shooting so much given all the material he had to work with


 
 thediceareloaded wrote:
God, what a great soundtrack, and what a great movie. Maybe even Michael Mann's best though it might be a tie with heat. 
 
 
i agree completely.  i think it is his best. although i like historical stories, and well, daniel day-lewis, nuff said.
but i'll say a little more... {#Silenced}
if ever a soundtrack did its job, this one did--mood, pacing, dramatic effect...every scene tied into the music unbelievably.  the scene where duncan gave cora to le longue carbine at the huron council, and when uncas went over the cliff -- oh my god.  i would watch the movie more often just for the music, if it was not so wrenching every time.
please play more. 
God, what a great soundtrack, and what a great movie. Maybe even Michael Mann's best though it might be a tie with heat. 
 
 Alexandra wrote:
I will find you!

  
 {#Roflol} A running joke with my wife, especially at the grocery store. 
 IndyDoug wrote:
Nice Scots-Irish jig but the orchestration is misplaced.

 
Not in the context of the movie (for which this is part of the soundtrack). 
I will find you!
So good to hear this tonight!  Thank you Radio Paradise❀
The Kiss..... I love this movie. It's in my top 5 favs of all time. I don't even KNOW how many times I've seen it. What a nice way to start the day. Thanks Bill.
Nice Scots-Irish jig but the orchestration is misplaced.
Gorgeous, lovely and evocative
 Hasan wrote:

Eeeew -- you work in "human resources", don't you!



 
lol
Powerful music, so right for an amazing film (gorgeous landscapes, delectable lovers, and Russel Means wacks Studi to the head just right!)
Careful, that could get in your "permanent record".
 hugogdt wrote:
One of the soundtracks I frequently use as a background at work, nice to share the big emotions that it always produces this music with all RP listeners now!

 
Eeeew -- you work in "human resources", don't you!


One of the soundtracks I frequently use as a background at work, nice to share the big emotions that it always produces this music with all RP listeners now!
A terrific film. Great action sequences. Fab cast.
But I ask anyone to identify Mr. Phelps. You can't or couldn't. Even though Madeline (Cora Munro) says his name in the scene of the confrontation with her father, we never meet this Mr. Phelps, never see his face. (Played by an actor named Malcolm Storry.) Colm Meaney is credited too; he was cut form the film entirely except for one brief shot.
That's because director Michael Mann shot so much film and did a lot of reshooting and was editing and re-editing for so long that eventually the exasperated studio head and/or producers or others took the final cut away from him and cut it themselves. Hence, the film is a bit rickety -- but still fabulous, helped immensely by this great music. 
Not Uma, but still very pretty.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0562003/?ref_=tt_cl_t5
 



kcar wrote:

I'll take Madeline any day of the week, thanks. Uma was pretty hot too. 

Great action movie, although Wes Studi got to say "I will wipe your seed from the face of the earth" a few too many times.  

 



 Antigone wrote:
I could never decide who was more beautiful in that film, Day-Lewis or Stowe. {#Hearteyes}

 
I also couldn't decide whose hair was prettier.

I think I need to watch this again, maybe over the holiday.
 Just watched this one again last week. Still one of my top 10 favorites of all time ♥
..and agree regarding the comment about Mr. Sturdi...
kcar wrote:

I'll take Madeline any day of the week, thanks. Uma was pretty hot too. 

Great action movie, although Wes Studi got to say "I will wipe your seed from the face of the earth" a few too many times.  

 


 Antigone wrote:
I could never decide who was more beautiful in that film, Day-Lewis or Stowe. {#Hearteyes}

 
I'll take Madeline any day of the week, thanks. Uma was pretty hot too. 

Great action movie, although Wes Studi got to say "I will wipe your seed from the face of the earth" a few too many times.  
The film that got me through my doctoral exams. It was playing at the dollar theater on one of the last remaining silver screens in the area, and I went nearly every day as a study break.
Wow. Thanks for the memory Bill. Love it.
{#Yes} Antigone wrote:
I could never decide who was more beautiful in that film, Day-Lewis or Stowe. {#Hearteyes}

 

I'd go with Eric Schweig, the quiet and strong Uncas
Do we have to listen to this generic, top-40, R&B, least common denominator stuff? Can't RP be different from the rest?

{#Lol}
This is truly memorable movie music, that brings me back to the 1700's I read about in "Last of the Mohicans" after I saw the movie.  Every time.  Brings me back from miles away.
Radio Paradise!!
The beautiful music lives up to one of the most believable cinematic kisses ever. Thanks for playing!
Haunting tune, love it. reminds me of the gorgeous scenery in North Carolina Appalachians where Last Mochicans was filmed.
in awe and gratefulness!
I WILL find you!

Edit:  Ninja'd by Pigtail months ago...<sigh>
Wow!

Hey Bill, cudja follow that with "Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence"   ?

back2back another space another time nostalgia for vicarious memories


I don't believe this is playing... thank you. {#Notworthy}
 mrtuba9 wrote:
Instant 10, from an amazing scene in an amazing movie.  First time I've heard it here, Bill.  Thanks... {#Meditate}

 
I double that thought!
 forestcowboy wrote:
Terribly boring
 
Hmmm. It gives me goosebumps. Never saw the film, have no association with it, am hearing it for the first time. Certainly is romantic, but also more...
 jkhandy wrote:
 PixelPushers wrote:
One of the VERY few movie soundtracks that I own.

 



Same here :)
 
And here!
Instant 10, from an amazing scene in an amazing movie.  First time I've heard it here, Bill.  Thanks... {#Meditate}
Terribly boring
 PixelPushers wrote:
One of the VERY few movie soundtracks that I own.

 

Same here :)
One of the most romantic, passionate scenes of any movie
One of the VERY few movie soundtracks that I own.
I could never decide who was more beautiful in that film, Day-Lewis or Stowe. {#Hearteyes}
i still get chills when i hear this
Such a powerful scene, I only need to hear the music and it all comes back. 
I Have Listened for ages and have never heard you play anything like this Bill!! This is why I still listen and donate to radio Paradise.
And  " I do not call myself subject to much at all"
Nice to hear an occasional soundtrack being played on RP.  Thanks!

Oh, in keeping with the spirit of the thread:
"Someday, I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement. "
Awesome soundtrack. Awesome movie. 
Is it wrong to mention that Daniel Day Lewis was super hot in his loincloth in this movie?
"There is a war on.  How is it you are headed west?"
"Well, we kinda face to the north, and real subtle like, turn left." 
"I WILL FIND YOU!"