Lewya

Having a long listening session of what seems to be some of the best electronic music of the year so far:

Let me know if you find the piece, i'd too like to hear it.

That looks much more correct even if I personally would give Williams the edge over Goldsmith. But from an objective standpoint I can understand the reasoning behind ranking Goldsmith above Williams though. Goldsmith was more progressive and inventive than both Williams and certainly Horner. And had chops beyond Horner craft-wise. Add to that that Horner was a hack.

Nah, he is perfectly rated as one of the best ever (top 10 at least, top 5 is debatable) I think. Chinatown remains his best work, is on par with Williams's finest work and one of the top 25 film scores of all time.

Also a good pick, probably the same as me on Born. What about a top 10?

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1. Most of his stuff, like with most composers and artists, isn't good enough to make me want to listen to again (the thing can be said about Williams too). This doesn't mean it is bad - much of it isn't bad, it is just that it isn't good enough for me to want to listen to again, simple as that. Despite this I consider myself a pretty big Goldsmith fan - he will always be in my top 10 film composers of all time. 2. There aren't that many Goldsmith scores I care for as a whole aside from Chinatown. Chinatown I find unquestionably his best and one of the top 25 film scores of all time. It may in fact be the only Goldsmith score I kept as a whole. Even with one of his better scores like Star Trek: The Motion Picture, I only find myself returning to a few cues like The Cloud etc. 3. I prefer The Mummy over First Knight which doesn't do much for me at all. The Mummy is in fact one of the best scores of the 90s. 4. I don't think that highly of his 90s and early 00s work - Mulan, The Mummy and The Edge were the top 3 Goldsmiths of the 90s and the few exceptions.

Alien 3 - Elliot Goldenthal One of the top 25 film scores ever written.

Gladiator - Hans Zimmer One of the man's finest scores. I really dig the lighter material - it is some of his best material, but a big fan of the action music.

Ops, I meant as a single body of work.

Contemporary EDM... hmm, I see there's a Above & Beyond track on one of my playlists among the latest ones - I liked their song Sun & Moon from their Group Therapy album which was like 7 years ago, but that's about it. So I am probably not a big fan of the new stuff being done today, it tends to be too commercial for me, although I am sure there are some exceptions out there, I haven't just come across them. The new and newer things I listen to is not really EDM, more ambient, noise or glitch things - not really danceable.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Close Encounters of the Third Kind I would say are his two greatest scores. It is quite hard to pick between them. Right now I would probably say Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but it depends on the mood I am in which one I prefer I think.

Under the Volcano - by the guy on my profile picture This is just very good and imaginative stuff, North rarely disappoints. Inception - Hans Zimmer Also very good, a contender for his best score even I say - one of the top 10 film scores of the 21st century so far, at least if we limit ourselves to one film per composer. I miss Zimmer at his best like this, that is my biggest problem with Zimmer is that he is so rarely at his best. At his best, I am a pretty big fan of him, I can't say that for most Zimmer though.

Bird because of The Incredibles and Ratatouille two of the most "fun" ones he has ever done and even two of the best ones, the runner up being Docter. I can't say I care about any Giacchino music though even if I like little of it.

Mythodea is pretty weak, it is among Vangelis's weakest works - it can't be compared to great works like Blade Runner or 1492. The Bounty is a good one.

Debussy wins for me. It is probably impossible to beat La Mer.

Samsara - Michael Stearns Baraka - Michael Stearns Chronos - Michael Stearns I am a pretty big fan of Stearns, listening to all three of his major scores in order to decide how I would rank them. Probably 1. Samsara 2. Chronos 3. Baraka

The Steiner is the best and probably even his finest score. The brief A Boat in the Fog cue is not only the best King Kong track of all time, but also some of the finest film music of all time. Nothing from the other King Kong scores reaches such all-time greatness.

I only prefer The Adventures of Han from Solo over the first track from The Last Jedi, all the others tracks from the Last Jedi are superior, most often far superior too. Powell's score is mostly mediocre stuff, not a fan. The Last Jedi may be my least favourite Star Wars score by Williams, but it is still a very good score.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence - John Williams One of his absolute finest scores, a contender for his best ever I say, even if Close Encounters of the Third Kind might beat it. I am also really fond of Memoirs of a Geisha. Damn, I could mention a few more contenders for his best. I was never a big fan of some of the big ones like say Harry Potter (the third one is by far the best though), Jaws (it may be a great film score, but it isn't at all the best music Williams has written), Superman etc even if it is still respectable film music. American Beauty - Thomas Newman Another top notch score and a top 5 Newman score. At its best, this is some of the best film music of all time. American Beauty is the best track from this score.

Oscar and Lucinda - Thomas Newman One of his very best scores - top 10 Newman material for sure. At its best, this is some of the finest film music of all time - it is quite hard to beat a track like The Church of Glass, not too many tracks in film music history are superior. Angels in America remains the first Newman score I would recommend to anyone not familiar with Newman's work, but Oscar and Lucinda wouldn't be that far behind.

Angela's Ashes - John Williams This has grown on me, it is top 30 Williams material. Back to America is one of his finest Americana tracks.

You are probably right. I don't care about any Marvel score at all either. I am probably only interested if they tap a competent composer like say Goldenthal. I do think Doyle's Thor contain some of my favourite Marvel material though even if it's hardly great music. Black Panther was decent and one of the better ones yes, but still nothing I would listen to again.