Goodfellas Full Of Good Tunes

Rating: 9/10 (18 September 2013)

Martin Scorsese has an uncanny ability, to use his impeccable taste in music, to choose the perfect song, to enhance a near perfect scene.
By adding this music in the background, as a soundtrack for the scene, the scene becomes perfect thanks to Marty.
A great example of this in Goodfellas, is a scene with Ray Liotta, in an around his house in Long Island.
The song is "Jump Into The Fire" by Harry Nilisson.
The detuned bass and syncopating drum beats, coupled with an alternating pitch between the two speaker channels, sounds totally chaotic.
This cacophony totally mirrors Ray Liotta's cocaine fueled, paranoid head space.
For me, 40-50%of my fondness for the film Goodfellas, lies directly in the soundtrack and score of the movie.
I gave the film a 9 out of 10, but I believe the soundtrack itself rates a perfect 10.