Simon McBride 113 Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Prisoner of Askaban Dang good Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 34 minutes ago, publicist said: As far as hasidic dances go, this one is pretty much unbeatable. It's Cosma's 'Masada' I remember that film! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Secret Weapons Over Normandy by Michael Giacchino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,516 Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Malcolm Clarke's THE SEA DEVILS. It's the IMAGES of Doctor Who: completely unlistenable, and utterly brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Images is NOT unlistenable! Gnome in Plaid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,516 Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 No, but it is utterly brilliant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Thirteen Days by Trevor Jones Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kühni 485 Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 . Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 2 hours ago, Kühni said: Imma spend all day today to listen to Faleel's 14.5-hours "as-close-to-complete-as-it-is-ever-going-to-get" edits of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I keep discovering things in there that I never even imagined could exist. Nice that you have found time for that. And those scores do keep giving after all these years. Always some detail, small or large that somehow gets illuminated when you listen to this music. Journey by Austin Wintory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Alan Silvestri - Who Framed Roger Rabbit Always have fun listening to this! publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 350 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Rabbit & Rogue - Danny Elfman - Pretty fantastic ballet from Elfman. Chaotic but also beautiful at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,006 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Watership Down by Angela Morley Karol Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BloodBoal 7,538 Posted June 15, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted June 15, 2017 Kasey Kockroach, Dixon Hill and Loert 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Stalling Around by John Williams Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundlefly 2,385 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 "Inchon" by Jerry Goldsmith It is like a mixture of Patton, Ennio Morricone, Hellraiser and the Klingon Theme. Pretty underestimated - do you know it? The music seems to be the only noteworthy thing of the film (IMDb rating: 2,7). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,516 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 4 hours ago, crocodile said: Watership Down by Angela Morley Karol Aah. A lovely score, from a lovely film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John 2,032 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Inception - a solid, tense, and entertaining score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,006 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 And a very nicely put together Zimmer album. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,346 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 King Solomon's Mines The Shadow - Jerry Goldsmith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,346 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Rambo: First Blood Part II Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 350 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 10 hours ago, Brundlefly said: "Inchon" by Jerry Goldsmith It is like a mixture of Patton, Ennio Morricone, Hellraiser and the Klingon Theme. Pretty underestimated - do you know it? The music seems to be the only noteworthy thing of the film (IMDb rating: 2,7). Inchon was years before Hellraiser so that wouldn't it technically be the other way around. Anyway good score, very different from Patton, the recording is of course infamously bad, but that didn't bother me as much as I expected it to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon McBride 113 Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 The Lost World This is fun. The Hobbit (2002 video game) I really like this score. Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 The Book of Henry - Michael Giacchino While the main theme and its harmonic usage is certainly more inspired than Giacchino's blockbuster noodlings (more pianistic Michel Legrand than half-assed pretending with 110 musicians), over its whole (agreeable) length it runs into the common Giacchino problem of increasing banality (it's the not-too-flipped coin side of 'Inside Out'). You perk up when a cue like 'Christina's Dance' suddenly, outrageously, makes something resembling a dramatic musical statement after eternal minutes of insubstantial chord-mongering and dithering piano tinkling (worst: 'Susan for Justice'). So you're left with 10 minutes of niceness - cue tracks 1,2,3,12,16 - but slim pickens are the norm so why not take those. Let's wait for Desplat to enliven this filmmusical summer with 'Valerian'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundlefly 2,385 Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 13 hours ago, Hawmy said: The Lost World This is fun. MCA or LLL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon McBride 113 Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 3 hours ago, Brundlefly said: MCA or LLL? Whichever one is on spotify Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,006 Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 The Happening Starship Troopers The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 45 minutes ago, Hawmy said: Whichever one is on spotify Horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 I'm not sure how many of you listened to this score (I haven't), but I just read that Conrad Pope did this particular cue. It is pretty great. Apparently it, and E.T., are similar to Howard Hanson's second symphony, which I then checked out. Terrific symphony! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,346 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Fellowship of the Ring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 5 hours ago, Bespin said: Horrible. Why are so many people here so prejudiced against OSTs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 It really doesn't make any sense. It seems intended listening experiences arranged by composers are shunned by a bunch of OCD completists that want the music to follow the narrative of the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 And it's possible to like both presentations without the simplistic "one is great, the other is horrible" mentality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Yeah, I mean. The OST vs. complete debates are really shocking and few people seem to be on the side of the OSTs. It's like tuning into some sort of JWFan equivalent of MSNBC where OSTs are a bunch of Trumps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Both sides have their extremists. Thor being the one who gets trapped by his own ideology where in most cases he just can't bring himself to admit there's good music that was left off the OST. But there are so many on the other side who can't understand why a composer's intended track order is its own (usually good) experience that's isolated from the constrictions of the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 They usually have superior sound with dynamic range, but everyone these days prefers everything louder AKA remastered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Music for the mobile generation unfortunately has to be bright, loud and compressed to contend with traffic, railway and pedestrian noise. People have forgotten the proper way to listen to music. DemonStar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Which is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 The way James Horner CDs were mastered in the 90s where the soft parts would be really soft and you'd have to really crank up the hi-fi to hear it, but then it would get loud and the speakers would blow. DemonStar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,346 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 What does music not sounding muffled have to do with hearing it over a subway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 The labels are scared that people will complain that they can't hear the quiet bits over all the railway noise. So they alienate hi-fi enthusiasts like myself to pander to those who persist in listening to music "on the go". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonStar 57 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Compressed and brickwalled music sounds dreadful to me even on smartphones and iPods, the systems for which it apparently was mastered for. I never liked the loudness of the Jurassic Park 20th anniversary release on home speakers or headphones alike, while the La-La Land release sounds so pleasant and soothing. Sadly there's hardly any new score release these days with proper dynamic range, with rare exceptions like Theodore Shapiro's Captain Underpants album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 And Thomas Newman's Bond scores are nice and dynamic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Small Soldiers - Jerry Goldsmith Comfortably anchored in Goldsmith's favoured boisterous-if-familiar late style, this penultimate Joe Dante collaboration score offers some eclectic joys á la 'Gremlins' that rise it two notches above the blunt action whoppers the composer churned out with abandon in the mid-90's. Pushed along by producer Steven Spielberg, the vaguely satirical project concerns itself with toys brought to life, carelessly outfitted with high tech chips by unscrupulous capitalists - though the movie is defeated by the same pragmatism it denounces, with a shallow script paying lip service to apple pie values and white doves while lovingly lingering on the ensuing chaos and destruction caused by a marauding band of commando toys (a particularly wasted element being the handling of the corporation bigwigs). Along with some on-target performances as Phil Hartman's harebrained satellite-dish-crazy neighbour ('I think World War II might be my favourite war!') the music provides one of the few bright spots of the project. Called upon delivering another variation on 'When Johnny comes marching home', Goldsmith infuses his title tune with just the right amount of brawny hyperbole via his patented gung-ho horn fifths. All the expected jaunty suburbianisms from earlier Dante movies take their bow - neutered of more idiosyncratic orchestrations - and the onslaught of pop cultural references allows the composer too stray his creativity beyond piling up dead-serious action and suspense cues. At worst there are straight re-recordings of clichés like 'Ride of the Valkyries' or 'Zarathustra' but in some delightful but sadly often too short moments there are little nods to old horror movies, a great Elfman impersonation (academically altered, so to speak) and a bright Rózaesque fanfare for the heroic derring-do's of a bunch of the good toy brigade. The abundance of thematic writing throughout makes it a breezy and entertaining affair - maybe with a slight regret how few of those elements are unique to this score, or in any way original in Goldsmith's oeuvre but then, that's hardly JG's fault considering what he was working with. These days only John Powell seems a likely candidate to approach such venture with the same successful results. The score's release was one of those pitiful misfires when the high fees of the AFM coupled with Goldsmith's reluctance to release the most cool pieces (why putting out a long finale when you have a lots of mousy cues from lame bonding scenes?) brought us frankly bad product (though Botnick's recorded sound is great). It's really the last big omission of his later scores waiting for the Deluxe treatment. A good 3 out of 5, if you desperately need silly rating systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brundlefly 2,385 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 10 hours ago, Sally Spectra said: Both sides have their extremists. Thor being the one who gets trapped by his own ideology where in most cases he just can't bring himself to admit there's good music that was left off the OST. But there are so many on the other side who can't understand why a composer's intended track order is its own (usually good) experience that's isolated from the constrictions of the film. It is really a matter of taste, but of course there are some OSTs that are weirdly compiled (JFK, The Lost World) or lack a certain aspect of the music (Air Force One, The Prisoner of Azkaban), whereas there are some complete scores that tend to be redundant (Powder, Deep Rising) or often interrupt the flow of the music, because of short cues (The 'Burbs, Jurassic Park). However, claiming that one's usual preference is always better, just because, is ignorant. Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Believing one's musical presentation to be perfect is often the sign of a delusional mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Small words... from a small being, trying to attack what he doesn't understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Can it count as a score? Anyway, that's a perfect score for a hot summer night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Sommersby - Danny Elfman Another one worth revisiting: they still made 'regular' movies back in 1993 - you wouldn't need a magnifying glass to find a good old drama like this playing in theatres. It was the first Elfman score i really liked, together with the zany 'Batman Returns' and it has stayed up there since then. It's very straight-forward, Horner-ish in its theme-driven melodramatics though Elfman of course manages to insert more idiosyncratic folksy elements that are clearly his own (foreshading the likewise excellent 'Big Fish'). The theme, a simple question/answer phrase with a memorable triad at its center is up there with Newman's 'Shawshank Redemption' as one of those defining early-to-mid 90's sound (before 'Braveheart' and 'Titanic' came along). nightscape94 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Young Sherlock Holmes by Bruce Broughton Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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