The Ecstasy of Gold

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"The Ecstasy of Gold"
Song by Ennio Morricone
Album The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Released 1966
Length 3:22
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly track listing
The Death of a Soldier
(9)
"The Ecstasy of Gold"
(10)
The Trio" (main title)
(11)


"The Ecstasy of Gold"
Song by Metallica
Album Live Shit: Binge & Purge, S&M (album), We All Love Ennio Morricone, on the game Guitar Hero: Metallica
Released 1993, 1999, 2007, 2009
Recorded 1989 - 1993, 1999, 2007
Genre Heavy metal, Neo-classical metal
Length 4:21

4:48 Studio version

1:57 LS: B & P (Seattle) [1]

2:00 LS: B & P (San Diego) [2]


"The Ecstasy of Gold" is a musical composition by Ennio Morricone, part of his score for the Sergio Leone film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It is played while Tuco (Eli Wallach) is frantically searching a graveyard for the grave that holds $200,000 in gold coins.

[edit] Other uses

  • The Game uses the "Blueprint 2" beat at the end of his diss track "300 Bars and Runnin'".
  • Crooked I also uses "Blueprint 2" beat on the 21st edition of his Hip-Hop Weekly series entitled "Blueprint 2 Freestyle".
  • It is sampled for a Breez Evahflowin track featuring Immortal Technique titled "Land of the Gun" on the album Stronghold Mixtape Vol. 2
  • It is also heavily sampled for the western themed RPG Wild Arms as the world map theme.
  • At T in the Park 2007, Kasabian, headlining the NME Stage on Sunday night, used "The Ecstasy of Gold" as their walk-on music. It was also used when they played the Edinburgh Hogmanay "Concert in the Park" for 2007/8 New Year.
  • It was used by Independent professional wrestler Eddie Kingston as his entrance music early to mid 2007.
  • Used by the ICTV show DP Show as background music during a sketch while actor Jonathan Hirschberg shaved his beard after being tired of being typecast as bearded men.
  • One show at the The Fountains at Bellagio in front of the Bellagio Resort & Casino is set to the musical piece. The show starts out with water ran through a vaporizer before the fountains go off.
  • Three 6 Mafia samples this on a beat they produced for Bone Thugs N Harmony called "We Workin".
  • Used in the "Fate" television commercial directed by David Fincher for Nike Football (Leave Nothing) featuring San Diego Chargers player LaDainian Tomlinson and Pittsburgh Steelers player Troy Polamalu.
  • The soundtrack to the 1997 Lucasarts PC Game Outlaws includes a track titled "The Last Gunfight" that patterns itself as very stylized version of the song.
  • Football team Sparta Rotterdam plays a version of The Ecstasy of Gold at the start of every home match.
  • The WHL junior hockey team, the Calgary Hitmen played a version before the opening game of the 2008-2009 WHL season playoffs

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