crocodile 7,984 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 I don't like how he handles it in the concert suite. Sounds awkward. Prefer the album version. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 14 minutes ago, crocodile said: I don't like how he handles it in the concert suite. Sounds awkward. Prefer the album version. Karol Ditto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,496 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 On 24/06/2017 at 11:08 PM, crocodile said: Rabbit & Rogue by Danny Elfman in 5.1. sounds good. Karol How did you get hold of the 5.1 version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 5 minutes ago, Richard said: How did you get hold of the 5.1 version? There is a CD + DVD set. The 5.1 version can be found on the DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 5 minutes ago, Richard said: How did you get hold of the 5.1 version? On 6/23/2017 at 9:59 AM, Disco Stu said: Rabbit & Rogue - Danny Elfman A ballet score, not a film score but then again the thread title doesn't specify Over the past year or so, this has really cemented itself as one of my favorite things Elfman has ever done. It's that good. It's sooooooooo freakin' good. I just preordered the CD/DVD combo that's apparently releasing next week finally! https://www.amazon.com/Rabbit-Rogue-Original-Ballet-Score/dp/B06XKNDCNL/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498226352&sr=8-1&keywords=rabbit+rogue On 6/23/2017 at 10:27 AM, crocodile said: OMG I had no idea this was coming out! And it appears to be already out in the UK. EDIT: Turns out they have Rabbit & Rogue at my local HMV. Just bought it. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,496 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 3 minutes ago, BloodBoal said: There is a CD + DVD set. The 5.1 version can be found on the DVD. Thanks, Blood. I'll investigate, post-haste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonStar 57 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 Spider-Man 1 & 2 by Danny Elfman. I'm eagerly looking forward to his Justice League score and re-visiting a lot of my favourite albums by him. Although I like all the Spidey scores so far (MG's theme for the upcoming movie is alright too), for me Mr. Elfman's Main Titles music will always be at the top. Helps that I have a nostalgic attachment to these two movies as well. I remember my teacher in 8th class putting on some of the first movie in our computer lab during free hours, and I loved the Parade Attack music so much. This theme 1:43 into the main titles is just so gorgeous. I hope to see expanded releases in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 Looking for Richard by Howard Shore: Pretty terrific proto-LotR material here although it is perhaps on the whole a tad too solemnly gloomy for its own good. I tend to think of it as a spiritual sibling of Silence of the Lambs with epic chorus and organ mixed in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 350 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 The Black Cauldron - Elmer Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,496 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 Aww. That's a good score, from a much -maligned, but not-bad-actually film. Fancyarcher 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 Just when you thought Hollywood movies can't have any distinguishing features, idiomatically. Rejected, with honours, though. Corigliano is not just a stuffy concert guy, his music has, next to gruelling dissonances, emotional resonance and would have elevated the wasteful revenge flick. Naïve Old Fart and crocodile 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 While the replacement yielded Shore in always satisfying seething aleatory mode, it was insane for it to be rejected in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 Why was it rejected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,496 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 8 minutes ago, publicist said: Just when you thought Hollywood movies can't have any distinguishing features, idiomatically. Rejected, with honours, though. Corigliano is not just a stuffy concert guy, his music has, next to gruelling dissonances, emotional resonance and would have elevated the wasteful revenge flick. Hmm. That's good shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 1 minute ago, Stefancos said: Why was it rejected? The usual. Convulsive, indulgent changes to the film which rendered the existing score useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 Do you know for a fact the changes were indulgent, or are you speculating? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 I'm editorializing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 Bullshitting? Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 It was based on some slow 80's BBC miniseries with Bob Peck, also directed by Martin Campbell. When Warner Brothers saw the end result they requested hefty cuts and more action scenes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 58 minutes ago, Stefancos said: Bullshitting? No, a rare instance of actually knowing what I'm talking about! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 350 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 2 hours ago, Richard said: Aww. That's a good score, from a much -maligned, but not-bad-actually film. It's great fun, the ondnes martenot gets overused per-usual yes, but there are several great themes. Very letimotif heavy as well. I have a soft spot for the film too, since I grew-up with it and have a lot of nostalgia for it, flawed as it may be. The Horned King terrified me as a child. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,984 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 2 hours ago, TheGreyPilgrim said: While the replacement yielded Shore in always satisfying seething aleatory mode, it was insane for it to be rejected in the first place. I actually enjoy both. Corigliano is actually quite a strong melodist. Every score of his has at least one strong theme. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 Both are good scores, though Corigliano's effort is clearly the superior one, albeit one designed for a different kind of film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 I absolutely love The Pursuit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 55 minutes ago, crocodile said: I actually enjoy both. So do I. But if bean counters had any sense, they wouldn't add yet another snub to a composer of John's caliber. What life he would bring into Hollywood.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,984 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 Sin City by Greame Revell, John Debney and Robert Rodriguez. This is probably the only collaboration type of scores that is actually stronger because of its diversity. Every composer has a different take and it all still forms a perfectly enjoyable and coherent score. The Rodriguez's stuff is probably most bare-boned but somewhat effective for the most heroic section of the story. But Revell and Debney section is where the score truly shines. I love Revell's mostly synth score with some live elements. They perfectly illustrate's Marv's madness and rage: Debney's middle section is even better - orchestral, elegant and classy. It's actually the best things he's ever done in my opinion: Even better than anything else on the album is, of course, the concert piece Sensemaya by Silvestre Revueltas (which sounds like Mexican take on The Rite of Spring) Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Masters of the Universe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 350 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 The Hindenburg by David Shire crocodile and Naïve Old Fart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 It's slight, without question, but when things are still relaxed in Michelle Pfeiffer's world - before the unbecoming sequencer action takes over - Goldsmith takes a rear view into the better times of 'Lillies of the Field' and 'A Patch of Blue' (tracks 2, 3, 4) and the bluesy piano improvisations make the rather banal main theme shine. At key points f the movie, the filmmakers took a piano piece by another composer that is pretty but undistinct and threw the Jerry out. A first omen of times to come... Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Eastern Promises by Howard Shore: This score simply oozes Slavic moodiness exemplified by the elegant violin solos by Nicola Benedetti, jittery cimbalom and blue hued clarinet that give the score a strong and clear ethnic cast as the story is set in the Russian community in London. It is a quiet affair for the most part but potent as the composer wraps the listener slowly in a dark, sorrowful and subtly ominous musical world with quiet tragic beauty. While it could be described as monochromatic and single-minded in tone, the score contains well-thought out instrumental colours that give it added charm and variety. The violin is given the central voice that carries the fragile sorrow and hauntingly lyrical tones found in Cronenberg's story and Shore handles it all with panache and clear enthusiasm for the idiom as Benedetti's instrument sings out such graceful tragic soliloquies throughout the work. Here Shore also writes a very distinct almost bleak but lyrical main theme that continually appears through the fabric of the music and seems to encapsulate the film's mood perfectly, the repeated violin phrase midway a sigh and a plea for help. Always a master of the darker tones the composer alternates here between bleakness and beauty, achingly tragic and grimly brooding with ease and deftly both paints the aural tale in its own right on album while digging deep into the subtexts of the film with his music. This music belongs in the intervening years between Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit scores and sadly often go unnoticed and unmentioned and while the epics of Shore's later career are indeed grand (I guess they were actually the true surprise of his career) I have come to find that these smaller projects before and after offer wonderful glimpses to the versatility of the composer's musical voice. City Hall by Jerry Goldsmith Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Eastern Pormises and A History of Violence are two of my favourite Shore scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,984 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Is it one of those compilations performed by the renowned London Synth Orchestra? Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 No, it's Joel McNeely and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. They did 3 of these in the mid-90s for Varese (Hollywood '94, '95, and '96). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,984 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Ah yes, that cover art is very misleading. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Wonderful late Maurice Jarre score. His melodies tended to be dodgy but this one has the right swing between flowery lyricism and cozy south-of-the-border spirit - it's Jarre's 'Medicine Man'. For all the romantic nuts out there it's a sure bet. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,496 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 18 hours ago, Fancyarcher said: It's great fun, the ondnes martenot gets overused per-usual yes, but there are several great themes. Very letimotif heavy as well. I have a soft spot for the film too, since I grew-up with it and have a lot of nostalgia for it, flawed as it may be. The Horned King terrified me as a child. Nice. I wish I'd seen it in 70mm. 13 hours ago, Fancyarcher said: The Hindenburg by David Shire A great, great score, from an underrated film. Fancyarcher 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 350 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 3 hours ago, Richard said: Nice. I wish I'd seen it in 70mm. A great, great score, from an underrated film. Growing up I had a VHS copy of The Black Cauldron, so for years I had no idea for years that Disney was ashamed of the film, I just assumed it was them trying something different at the time. Yeah it's not a bad film, better then its reputation suggests, yes it's fictionalizing a disaster, but that's no better or worse then most true story films. It's got a great cast and it looks good as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,984 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Cutthroat Island Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,984 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 CAN'T HEAR YOU! CAN YOU SPEAK UP?!? Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Gruesome Son of a Bitch and crocodile 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,343 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 That's why Sponge Out of Water is better. It's that score's merits but with less exhaustion and more variety. Gnome in Plaid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Titanic Back to Titanic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,335 Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 3 hours ago, kaseykockroach said: That's why Sponge Out of Water is better. It's that score's merits but with less exhaustion and more variety. But maybe what about those who are interested in exhausting music? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Jurassic Park by John Williams The Lost World: Jurassic Park by John Williams The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration by John Williams Treesong by John Williams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Incanus 5,713 Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 The Five Sacred Trees by John Williams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Loert 2,510 Posted June 28, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2017 William Walton - Battle of Britain (rejected score) 13:49 - that's not something you hear every day... publicist, Sharkissimo and Naïve Old Fart 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 350 Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 The Last Flight of Noah's Ark By Maurice Jarre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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