Incanus 5,713 Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Rambo III by Jerry Goldsmith: The new Intrada re-release of the score. My very first proper listen of the score surprised me as there was a lot more quieter emotional music on the soundtrack than I had anticipated but it is all great stuff. And to think all of this was written for a silly action film but then again Jerry found inspiration and challenge in the most unlikeliest of places. I'll be revisiting this a lot in the future I wager. Damnation Alley by Jerry Goldsmith: Another completely new Goldsmith score to my ears and again one that delivered beyond my expectations. A very short (clocking around 30 minutes) but highly effective work reminding me of Capricorn One in its tone. The newly performed synths fit the work like a glove (Leigh Phillips and Mike Matessino did a great job) and this is another work that feels like it doesn't have a wasted minute on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted March 19, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted March 19, 2018 Titanic It's better than everything. Holko, Bilbo and Unlucky Bastard 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted March 19, 2018 Share Posted March 19, 2018 THE WAV PROJECT I just bought new 32Gb micro SD cards for my mp3 player (that could also play WAV, I did not remember) and decided to re-encode some JW scores I own in WAV. Which ones to begin with? Well, those which sounds wonderfull and of course, those which are Future Proof* ! The Chosen ones.... 2017-The Post 2017-The Last Jedi 2017-CE3K LLL 2017-E.T. LLL 2017-Stanley & Iris/Pete 'n' Tillie Varèse Sarabande 2017-John Williams/Steven Spielberg: The Ultimate Collection 2016-The JW Jurassic Park Collection LLL 2015-The Force Awakens 2015-Home Alone 25th Anniversary LLL 2015-Jaws Intrada 2015-Jaws 2 Intrada 2015-Artificial Intelligence LLL 2014-Empire of the Sun LLL 2013-Rosewood LLL 2013-The Fury LLL 2012-Lincoln 2012-Home Alone 2 LLL 2011-Midway Varèse Sarabande 2011-1941 LLL 2010-Family Plot Varèse Sarabande 2010-Black Sunday FSM 2005-Memoirs of a Geisha 2002-Yo-Yo Ma Plays The Music Of John Williams 1997-Seven Years in Tibet * Future Proof = Mike Matessino (ok, I know, I don't own the Superman blue box!!!) Jurassic Shark and The Illustrious Jerry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 First Blood by Jerry Goldsmith The Sand Pebbles by Jerry Goldsmith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 The Pagemaster The Rocketeer Titanic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,343 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Bad Moon by Daniel Licht Don't Be Afraid of the Dark by Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Suite for Cello and Orchestra from Memoirs of a Geisha by John Williams: All in all pretty darn sublime. Music for Stage and Screen by Aaron Copland and John Williams & Boston Pops crocodile 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Judge Dredd by Alan Silvestri crocodile 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliburn 72 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 2 hours ago, Incanus said: Judge Dredd by Alan Silvestri Brass on a rampage on that one :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 46 minutes ago, Caliburn said: Brass on a rampage on that one :-) Muscular stuff to be sure. But curiously after listening to it for a while now it is one of those scores that I prefer in a shorter tighter listening experience. The full score has quite a bit of less than arresting underscore before we get to the meat of the music. The Wolfman by Danny Elfman: This is one of those Elfman scores that I tend to keep on steady rotation on my playlist. I adore the very moody Gothic horror vibe which is very intelligently handled by the composer while tying everything together with his simple yet effective Wojciech Kilar-esque main theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,340 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Rambo III Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 The Ninth Gate by Wojciech Kilar King Arthur by Hans Zimmer Balto by Don Davis The Matrix by Don Davis Kasey Kockroach 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,340 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 A Palace Upon The Ruins - Howard Shore Robin Hood: Legacy Collection - George Bruns et al Beauty and the Beast: Legacy Collection - Alan Menken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,178 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 7 hours ago, Incanus said: Muscular stuff to be sure. But curiously after listening to it for a while now it is one of those scores that I prefer in a shorter tighter listening experience. The full score has quite a bit of less than arresting underscore before we get to the meat of the music. There's some cool stuff on the expansion that I wouldn't like to miss. New Order Montage! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,343 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 The Grudge by Christopher Young Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 The Last Jedi (Complete) - John Williams I love this score way better than The Force Awakens in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Agreed! Maybe if I listened to the unreleased music of Force Awakens I'd feel differently, but I feel like The Last Jedi has deeper substance, and is a much fuller score where it counts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Apollo 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 That's top Horner. I'm listening to Star Trek: First Contact by Jerry Goldsmith. I love the cold, unsettlingly sexy stuff for the Borg Queen. Unlucky Bastard and Nick Parker 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Horner combining this big militaristic Americana stuff with a children's choir is so avant garde. Who else would have ever thought to do that and pulled it off with such skill and ease so you would never question it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 5 hours ago, Trent B said: The Last Jedi (Complete) - John Williams I love this score way better than The Force Awakens in my opinion. The complete score does paint a better picture of the score than the force theme heavy OST but in my opinion, it's not fit to lick the pants of TFA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,343 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 All Star Wars music stinks, I'm listening to Mickey Donald Goofy in The Three Musketeers by Bruce Broughton and no Star Wars score is fit to polish this one's boots! Seriously though, this score's a delight. If John Powell is this generation's Scott Bradley, then Bruce Broughton is this generation's Carl Stalling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 2 hours ago, TGP said: That's top Horner. I'm listening to Star Trek: First Contact by Jerry Goldsmith. I love the cold, unsettlingly sexy stuff for the Borg Queen. Indeed. The Borg music is very effective both the mechanical assimilation material and the whispering Borg Queen music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,343 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Jurassic World by that Italian dude...with some cues from the recording sessions thrown in (more or less making the score 24 tracks and 73 minutes)! ...well, okay, 23 tracks, 69 minutes...and then the Weird Al song as track 24. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,499 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 The Force Awakens (SonicAdventure's OST/FYC combo and remaster) Huh. Considerably less engaging than I remember. Maybe I just didn't pay enough attention to it, but at parts I forgot I was listening to it. Has a number of great sequences, but also a fair share of kinda bland underscore that goes nowhere. The Last Jedi (first listen of my OST/FYC/iso score/my deleted score rips combo, where the only part I removed is the tracking in the beginning of The Duel Begins) wow. wow. WOW. Holy shit. Buckle up for the next few months, because the only way I'll be able to talk about this is magnitudes. The new material is all likeable and amazing. How it handles the themes introduced in TFA is my new the golden standard of what you can do with the medium of leitmotivic score and how to progress motifs. The way it uses old SW material is mostly great, and even the Force Theme doesn't have as oppressive a presence in this longer format as the OST leads us to think. I love how Luke only gets his old theme back when he ascended into legend and the kids are telling stories of him. I struggled very hard to find a second of dead air or bland underscore, but I really couldn't. I feared the sneaking around the Supremacy/Poe's mutiny could be it, but that underlying tense tempo doesn't let your attention go. It's filled to the brim with bombastic, youthful energy. The action sequences are memorable and Star Wars-y, the callbacks are lovely, the fanfares can be both OT-y and Prequely, the legendary moments are scored appropriately... WE WERE GIVEN THE WHOLE ISOLATED SCORE! OK, I got it out of my system, I'll try to confine my enthusiasm to the Short Williams Moments thread now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Ben-Hur (Tadlow re-recording) by Miklós Rózsa: While I had some reservations about purchasing this as I already owned the FSM boxed set the reinterpretation with modern sound is excellent and the Prague orchestra is completely attuned to playing Rózsa. Almost needless to say that this is a classic in every sense of the word and one of the best of the Golden Age. Basic Instinct (Quartet Records release) by Jerry Goldsmith The Terminal by John Williams Naïve Old Fart and crocodile 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,507 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Agreed, Inky. In fact, I'd go so far to say that BEN-HUR is one of the top-ten greatest scores ever written, and is definitely the best of all the "sword and sandal" scores (although not my favourite ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,990 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Jupiter Ascending by Michael Giapoopoo. Somewhat unwieldy on it's long album but one of his finest works. If not the finest. Unlike most of his scores, this doesn't feel like an homage to anything. It has its own personality, for better or worse (not counting one John Barry-flavoured piece). And while the entire work might feel bit all over the place, the best material is Gia's finest hour as a feature film composer. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,343 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 4 hours ago, crocodile said: Jupiter Ascending by Michael Giapoopoo. Somewhat unwieldy on it's long album but one of his finest works. If not the finest. Unlike most of his scores, this doesn't feel like an homage to anything. It has its own personality, for better or worse (not counting one John Barry-flavoured piece). And while the entire work might feel bit all over the place, the best material is Gia's finest hour as a feature film composer. Karol Now if he could give great music to a GOOD movie, that'd be swell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,990 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 1 hour ago, kaseykockroach said: Now if he could give great music to a GOOD movie, that'd be swell. That's true. Every single "original" blockbuster score was attached to a movie that bombed. Wait, I thought he was supposed to be the next John Williams... Perhaps he's the next Goldsmith then? Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,343 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 He also gave us the worst Tom & Jerry score ever. Well, the worst T&J score that used an orchestra anyway. And The Karateguard hardly warranted a decent score anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,990 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Red Sparrow by JNH. The majority of it is quite delicious but why on Earth is it mixed so low? In any case, the best material on this album should impress even disillusioned @Incanus. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,343 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Tom & Jerry: The Movie by Henry Mancini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Casper, music by a dearly missed James Horner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 The Force Awakens The magic lives on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,343 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Honey I Blew Up the Kid by Bruce Brewtawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Yo-Yo Ma plays the music of Ennio Morricone. I love this album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 On 19-3-2018 at 10:26 PM, Bespin said: I just bought new 32Gb micro SD cards for my mp3 player (that could also play WAV, I did not remember) and decided to re-encode some JW scores I own in WAV. Why in WAV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 13 minutes ago, Stefancos said: Why in WAV? My mp3 player is old and can't play FLAC, but he refuse to die! The next one will play them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Discovering this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kasey Kockroach 2,343 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 The Haunting by Jerry Goldsmith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,233 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 18 hours ago, crocodile said: Red Sparrow by JNH. The majority of it is quite delicious but why on Earth is it mixed so low? In any case, the best material on this album should impress even disillusioned @Incanus. Karol I haven't gotten to this yet but these sound excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,507 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 59 minutes ago, Bespin said: Discovering this: Sounds interesting, Bes. Track listing, if you wouldn't mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 57 minutes ago, Richard said: Sounds interesting, Bes. Track listing, if you wouldn't mind. The Bond Suite A1a James Bond Theme Written-By – Monty Norman A1b Whisper Who Dares A1c Bond Meets Solitaire A1d Live And Let Die Written-By – Paul & Linda McCartney - A2 Air On The G String The Beatle Suite A3a Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band A3b Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds A3c A Day In The Life - B1 Theme One B2 Elizabeth And Essex Yellow Submarine Suite B3a Pepper Land B3b March Of The Meanies B3c Desolation B3d Voyage Through The Seas Of Time, Holes And Monsters B3e Yellow Submarine - B4 Prelude For Strings Source: Discogs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 What the heck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,990 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Scott of the Antarctic by Ralph Vaughan Williams Karol Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,507 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Thanks for the track listing, @Bespin, but...JAMES BOND THEME...by Monty Norman?! Bespin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Casper The Pagemaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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